Posted on September 13, 2008 by Rosie
Dans ma maison, il y a… un chat – a cat!! I love cats and immediately decided to make a House with a cat (or three!) I managed to incorporate my fave techniques (Saturday’s Workout) and used a lot of scraps that were on my desk too! (Step outside your box Saturday). The only thing I [...]
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Posted on September 6, 2008 by Rosie
Theme Thursday gave us a choice this week: Halloween or autumn and I have a couple of ATCs I made a while ago with some new stamps I bought from Tanda. I thought they were really cute – yes I know I don’t ‘do’ cute, but I wanted these just because! I was in ‘bandana [...]
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Posted on July 18, 2008 by Rosie
Trish Bee challenged us to create Faux leather backgrounds using tissue paper and I had prepared a few pieces a few nights ago. Basically, you crumple tissue paper and uncrumple it; then you cover some card with PVA glue and adhere the tissue paper to it – don’t smooth it out, just lay it down [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Rosie
Trish has provided us with an excellent sheet of ‘digital stamps’ to use in this challenge. Click HERE to download and play yourself. I have made this scalloped Circle Tag and will be using it as my entry into our first Art Lottery on Next Generation Stampers.
The idea is that those of us taking part [...]
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Posted on June 7, 2008 by Rosie
Time for a bash at the latest Crusade challenge this month over at GPP Street Team. Michelle has shown us how to make resist backgrounds using wax crayons and acrylic paint. It’s a lot of fun and extremely messy (woohoo!) I used texture plates that I have had laying around for ages (unused, unwanted, unloved, [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2008 by Rosie
Okay, I seem to have posted 4 times today – what the heck!! I have no idea how long this creative wave will last, but I’m so enjoying the ride!
Over at 4×4 Friday this week, the theme is “Music” and here’s what I came up with. I so enjoy these challenges as they’re making me use [...]
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