aRtbUzz #9

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 [...]

Cracked Glass Technique

This week at 4×4 Friday, we are asked to use DaVinci’s ladies (other than Mona Lisa) in our artwork, so I went hunting for images of other DaVinci ladies, made up an A4 sheet of images and decided to have a go at Trish’s ‘cracked glass’ technique. I incorporated the ribbon and a stamped image [...]

Paper Friendly says I’m a ‘Super Site’!!

Woohoo!! Nancy (whose feed I subscribe to), has a fab resource blog, called Paper Friendly, dedicated to bringing you links to blogs and websites where you’ll find ’stuff to do and stuff to use’… I have been following her links for quite a while and then this morning, I looked at the SUPER SITE mentioned in [...]

A first Torso!

At Theme Thursday this week, the challenge is to make a ‘Torso’ and there’s a great template HERE. (Mirkwood is a fab site with tons of stuff!). I freely admit, I have never even contemplated doing one of these before, but as the template link was there, I printed it out and here it is [...]

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 [...]

Beeswax collage = kitchen chaos!

I wanted to take part in the challenge this week on Step Outside Your Box Saturday, which was to create something (okay a collage), with beeswax. I opted for Trish Bee’s tutorial and gathered all sorts of things I thought I’d like in my collage. I could’ve made 3 murals with the amount of stuff [...]