Ale for Alleycats!

TGIF 101 – “Funny animals”… brought out the ‘boozy cat’ stamp from Third Coast RS. I’ve been making ATCs this week for a swap called “The Stamp Moves”. We are 4 per group, making 4 ATCs with each stamp and then sending the stamps to each other in a chain. Once we have made all [...]

Your Big Day!

Art Creations Friday have a lovely image from Swan Lake to use and TGIF is celebrating 100 challenges posted (Congratulations Sandy!).  Where did those weeks go???
I have used a small texture painting as a background and digitally added a few embellies and the ballet dancers… just a bit of fun today, as the weather’s good and [...]

Fairies live here…

TGIF – Make a banner… so I did, using a watercolour+salt background, some recycled bits n bobs and the lovely “Fairy Houses” stamps from Home Impressions – funky and doodly!!

The mesh is plastic (from the Scrapstore); the fairy charm is one of a job lot I bought from Kathy on Etsy; the paisley is Fiskars [...]

Using Words

That’s this week’s challenge from TGIF – and Glenda has created a really inspirational Layout as guest host. I’m sharing another Layer painting project with you, inspired in part by Ria’s Toadstools stamp sheet and an idea I had of fairies emerging from a forest and dancing round in swirling circles. They’re there, but not quite… [...]

TGIF – A Piece of Heaven

It’s been blowing a gale and we’ve had torrential rain here today, so I amused myself earlier by finishing a couple of small projects and started to alter a large spoon to create my “piece of heaven” for TGIF. If I had been more patient (and used less polymer gel medium!), you’d see the original [...]

Just Peachy!

TGIF this week – Sandy’s challenge was very unusual (for me!) and involves “apples, pears and/or peaches”. As I had some website maintenance to get done, I stayed in digi-mode and created this collage, using 20 different layers. I know, that’s a whole lot of layers, even for me!! I also cut images from one [...]

Sweet Marie!

Here’s a Gothic Arch I created this morning, fitting the GA challenge “Wings” this week and also TGIF – “alphabet”. The central image (Duchess Doll) is from sheets created by Lisa Vollrath at Ten Two Studios, originally designed for the creation of Ribbon Fairies, which are totally charming. Here’s a link to the complete tutorial on [...]

Ssshhh…!

Art Creations Friday gave us another pretty background to use this week and I also used the lady with pink roses from one of their previous weeks in this piece. I gave her lots of pretty brushes and a cherub to play with and it’s a “secret” (for TGIF), that she prefers white roses. Just [...]

Thank God it’s Friday!

“Pin-ups” is this week’s theme (at TGIF) and I chose these beautiful ‘Deco’ ladies to adorn the bamoboo dominos on this cuff. I saw some cuffs earlier this year (I’ll post the link when I can find it again!), and I thought they were gorgeous. I do enjoy working with textiles and mixing it up, [...]

TGIF and MIM!

Make It Mondays challenged us to use words of wisdom about art… and TGIF this week challenged us to make Gothic Arch ATCs, so I’ve combined the 2 here in a Gothic Diptych. I love the movement in Van Gogh’s work and he’s always been one of my all-time favourite artists, so it’s only to [...]