This Sunday’s Gothic Arch theme, set by Nancy. I had cut my arch from chipboard and used the off-cuts to decorate the arch!! The lady is from an old Majica Trading card and I cut a metal flower in half to make a crown for her…
I rather like her! Little face stamp from Third Coast [...]
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It’s been a really hectic, but thoroughly enjoyable day today… took my Halloween artwork to the gallery this morning and had a long chat with Martyn, who had immense trouble trying to price and ‘categorise’ what I do. We both agreed that there’s no “box” I fit into… imagine that?!
Came home and started making some [...]
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I have so much to share… Okay, so it’s been a phenomenally busy week – you can tell because I haven’t blogged since Wednesday! I felt a great deal of pressure earlier this week because I’ve taken the huge step of opening my own “Studio” on ArtFire.com… yep, I have art for sale! If there’s [...]
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What does that even mean? Is it a word or did I make it up? (You decide!!) I missed joining in with The Three Muses last week – my ‘pockets’ were empty of energy and I was starting a head cold…. bleh!
This week, Taluula challenged us to use “windows” in our artwork, so I altered [...]
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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 [...]
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Diane chose “Stars” as her theme this week for Mixed Media Monday and has created the most gorgeous canvas to inspire us! I am taking a different approach and sharing a canvas I painted for a lovely woman whom I am proud to call my friend (well, our friend, to be truthful!) We see each other [...]
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The Three Muses: Ann’s turn this week to provide the theme and corresponding fab digital eyecandy! She chose “Hats“, cleverly using the quote: ‘If you want to get ahead, get a hat!’… Nice!!
I have a friend whose nickname is Budgie. I have a stamp of a budgie in a top hat, tails and pantaloons… perfect! [...]
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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! [...]
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For Theme Thursday this week, that’s the challenge… I made these three altered domino pins a while back when my new stamps from Third Coast RS arrived. They were in the summer sale and I fell in love with these Asian Beauties – had to have them! I thought they’d be perfect for Feng Shui [...]
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I love using this stamped image from Third Coast… so much so, that I created an Autumn-themed piece on 8″x8″ canvas board around her. I used pale pearlescent Stewart Gill paint (like my journal pages on leaf prints), glazed with the orange and then a little dry-brushed red acrylic in the centre. The image was [...]
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