The Heart of the Matter

Mixed Media Monday – “Pink”  Another page of art journalling in my altered book…

I used paint I had left on my palette from the canvas I’ve been working on to create this simple journal page. I think I’m getting better at letting go and going with the flow. This phrase was in my head today [...]

Inchy by Inch

Fiona has chosen ‘keys’ as the theme for inchies this week… so here’s the ‘key’ to my heart!

I used a scrap of gesso resist metallic background for the inchy, added a heart brad, coloured a small diary key and wired it to the inchy. Thanks Fi, as always, you made me think!!
Here’s a small diamond-fold [...]

ATCs – Man and Bandanas!

Theme Thursday this week is all about ATCs featuring Man/Men! Kelly has set the bar high with her Edgar Allan Poe ATCs… I have made this one, using a vintage advert  which I sprayed with Walnut gold glimmer mist, then tore up! It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek with him looking over a (mesh) fence! The background [...]

Earth Day – Going green, etc.

Had a very busy day yesterday at the Scrapstore and at home, so I didn’t actually get anything ‘arty’ done till 11pm last night when I sat playing with a Daisy-maker, given to me by a very good friend who has insufficient attention span to complete a round, never mind a daisy – the downside [...]

Doodles galore this week!

Well, despite the doodled DD inkblot, I’m still at it! The Artygirlz challenge this week is hosted by my friend Jane – Doodles & Scraps of Me – and it’s ‘Doodling’! A while ago, Trish challenged us to have a go at creating Zentangles and it was before Christmas – I was in the throes [...]

Swirls for TGIF

This week’s theme at TGIF is ’swirls’… here’s an ATC I made from my latest Background Noise challenge (textured gesso):

As always, with Trish’s background challenges, I end up with something rare and, in this case, rather beautiful – and by accident rather than design! Here’s a pic of the sheet which really doesn’t do the [...]

Artygirlz challenge #24

Julie  and Crissi have chosen “Spring” as this week’s theme. Here’s some coaster art from me:

I painted 4 coasters with green acrylic paint. Once dry, I sponged yellow acrylic paint through punchinella. I then used my cropadile to make matching holes in the coasters. I used coordinating yellow chipboard flowers and their surrounds, pressed yellow [...]

Start your day…

… with an experiment! Well the reason being, SOYBS challenged us to use ‘alternative methods’ of colouring our artwork this week! Her blog post was entitled “Start your day with coffee” and of course, it’s not unknown to colour tags, etc. with tea/coffee is it? Well I chose to use turmeric and mashed daffodil leaves! [...]

TGIF – Backgrounds!

Oh yes!! Backgrounds that you create yourself are the theme this week at Thank God It’s Friday. Well, thanks to Trish I’ve got backgrounds aplenty and this one is no exception.

The strips (which do look a little like railway sleepers), behind the stamp-n-doodle, are from a scraped paint background made with leftover muddy red+green acrylic [...]

Artygirlz #21

Crissi & Julie have made some gorgeous examples using the Paperartsy stamps sheets that are this week’s prize on Artygirlz and all we have to do is use stamping on our artwork, so here’s a little ATC and holder that I made for Auntys Forum’s 2nd birthday competition:

Stamps are Cherry Pie and I’ve used handmade [...]