Artygirlz farewell…

This is the last Artygirlz challenge for the forseeable future. It’s very sad, but as my pals Julie and Crissi have said, they’ve been setting challenges since September 2007 – I never realised it had been so long…
So, I continue my love affair/obsession/addiction to altering puzzle pieces and in line with their theme, “Stamping”, I [...]

Bookmarks…

Rosie & Linda (Awfully Big Art Adventure) had bookmarks as their challenge this week and their examples are gorgeous. Created by Hand asked for blue and green combos and Artygirlz wanted us to “Smile”, so I’ve combined these three into a bookmark with an Italian flavour!

I used Italian text pages and images from The Little [...]

Old Postage Stamps…

They’re so useful in backgrounds, aren’t they? I’ve covered several themes in this collage (which came together unbelievably quickly!) – Make It Mondays – Postage Stamps; Created by Hand – Stripes; and Artygirlz – Butterflies.

The original cardstock is maroon, although you wouldn’t know it now! I used torn text pages for the base, then postage [...]

Behind closed doors…

You never know what’s behind a door, do you? Well, despite the creepy exterior of this wired tag, there’s a beautiful lady…

Isn’t she pretty? I used 2 sections of one of the little  Row House Books sent to me by Lisa,  (which you can buy here), cut a door in the lower half of one [...]

A Festive Mousemat!

I very much like simple shapes and the Created by Hand challenge this week struck a chord with me today when I saw the triangular Christmas trees we are asked to use in our artwork. I designed and made a lot of cards last year and quite a few of them used simple triangles for [...]

Happy Birthday Artygirlz!!

Woohoo! Artygirlz is a year old today!! I can’t believe I have been blogging and doing Crissi and Julie’s challenges for a whole year! So we naturally enough have to celebrate the birthday, don’t we? I have had a free card kit in my stash for a long time. I don’t like them – there [...]

Artygirlz challenge #15

My mates Crissi & Julie, over at Artygirlz have set an embossing challenge this week! So last night I sat messing about with a piece of paper that I had embossed with the cuttlebug stylised flowers folder and here’s what happened (eventually)!!

I backed the paper with a stiff piece of card, sanded the raised areas [...]

Arty Girlz challenge #12

Crissi and Julie at artygirlz have picked Christmas as their challenge this week!! Here’s my altered lamp/candle holder which I made for last month’s Design Team project over at Aunty’s Forum, where, like them, I’m a DT member!!

A bit prettier than the Pike innit?!! Thanks for looking…

ArtyGirlz Challenge #9 – Hearts!

Julie & Crissi (Artygirlz) have set this week’s theme… This week’s challenge is ‘Hearts’ so as usual feel free to interpret our theme as you like and it’s entirely up to you whether you make a card, an atc…bake a cake etc.

So I used a scrap of embossed card (Cuttlebug hearts folder) and the lovely [...]

Arty Girlz Challenge #8

Bling!! Over at the Artygirlz Blog: This week’s challenge is ‘Bling’ so we’d like to see anything sparkly or shiny on your project – so you could use glitter, gems, metal, anything at all as long as it shines That’s what they say, so here’s my take on the challenge… a “Fallen [...]