Time is of the essence…

The Three Muses challenge theme this week is simply “Time” – something we could all do with more of I think. For me, there are never enough hours in the day, but I was feeling time passing more as seasons when I created this page. I definitely had the autumn vibe with my colour palette…

The [...]

“I’m blue”

For the Created by Hand challenge this week, here are 3 little ACEOs that I made using shades of blue paint on kitchen towels, with shimmers, vellum, stamping and some Japanese images.
The group:

One by one:

I have a feeling the vellum came from Annie in Finland…

The art stamp is from Robin at MaVinci.

Just have to go [...]

Distressed Perfect Pearls

Sandy showed us a video of Tim Holtz’s technique and asked us to use it in this week’s SaWo challenge artwork. I found out a lot trying this out… my cardstock base is a bit dark; choosing Rust doesn’t show through too well; the cardstock was too smooth and the spritzed water became a waterfall! [...]

Tell me a story…

That’s what Diane asked for at Mixed Media Monday this week. She has painted a gorgeous canvas as an example and I have altered another giant puzzle piece!! The background is simply layers of glazes, using up leftover paint, and then I added a stamped image on text and a light wash with some gold [...]

Emboss/resist?

Emboss/resist was the brief this week at SaWo… so I followed the link to Agnes the Red’s page on embossing techniques and tried the acrylic paint version on one of my scrap pages for my altered book! It didn’t quite work the way I expected it to, but the “E” for Ermmmm…. page is the [...]

Numbers

That’s the theme Patty chose for this week at Mixed Media Monday. I love the series “Numbers” – probably because Charlie Epps is really cute! (You gotta love a gorgeous geek!) I couldn’t make my mind up what I wanted to do with this piece till I decided to alter a coaster. Then I didn’t [...]

Monochromatic…

Okay, all one colour for Tag, You’re It! I usually do something black and white for this sort of theme, but today I challenged myself to use shades of brown. Given my recent obsession with Halloween, I nearly used orange, but I have to draw the line somewhere!! Besides, I picked up the pic of [...]

A stitch in time…

Tag, You’re It! ‘Needle & thread’ is this week’s theme. Add some stitching to your tag art. Not a problem, but I couldn’t be bothered to get my machine out and I wanted to use some vibrantly painted corrugated cardboard for my tag, so it was all done by hand!

Had a busy day and a [...]

Half an ATC!

I thought I’d finished with tiny stuff by making Inchies, but seeing as I enjoy the two-part challenges we’ve been set recently on CBH, I decided to make half an ATC – a Moo – in blue. This is very simple, just a scrap of painted blue background Cardstock and an Art quote stamped in [...]

Orange and yellow!

That’s this week’s theme at 4×4 Friday. I made 2 freestanding plaques because I was playing with the textured cuttlebug background technique I’ve seen Adrienne, Carol and Annette showing on their blogs. I didn’t have time for the complete process with tissue paper, gesso and paints, so this is the abbreviated version which has worked [...]