Shrines...

Not long now till I fly to NZ for Jessie's retreat AND I get the meet the amazing Annette Husband! I have known this talented lady for years, have been fortunate enough to be in various swaps with her and now we get to meet - how awesome is that!

So the theme is Shrines - I have always wanted to have a play and bought some ages ago from Natalie at Scraptivate - finally made some! On this one there are some Scrapware wings which have been fantasy film'd and beads! Love beads! The shrine is 2.5 x 2" - very much in my comfort zone - the one we are doing is huge like 12" high!! Now that will be daunting for me!

And another...

I am so glad I have had a 'play' with my shrines - even though they are tiny in comparison to the ones we are doing at retreat, they are still a lot of fun!

I cannot wait till I get there and see all my Kiwi friends

Steam Punk inspired bracelet...

Steam Punk - my new favourite at the moment! Did a swap last year and up until then never heard of it - then went to Ironfest at Lithgow and the theme was Steam Punk - hooked ever since! I made this piece with chain maille in mind - clever old me :)

July - Elizabeth

The theme for this swap was 'Elizabeth' - first of 6 months with some very interesting themes - on this one I have used my Cuttlebug embossing folder Queen of hearts on a background I made using Starburts stains from Lindys Stamp Gang, then sanded the embossed background. Stamped Liz onto some textured white card and spritzed her with some glimmermist - made the flower from newspaper using Tim Holtz dies and did a Jane Clark technique with spritz sprays, heatgun and scrunching (lol) added some Collection scrabble alphas for the name - German Scrap (of course) highlighted with antique gold gilding wax and the small coin used in the centre of the flower which was also rubbed with gilding wax and some Stazon was one of 6 items which we received and have to use one on each project for the next 6 months - so off to NZ it goes and looking forward to receiving lots of yummy art in return...

Mystery swap

We received this cut out shape and had to decorate to our hearts content - UTEE, micro beads, wing, german scrap, just some of my favourite things - didn't really want to part with it, but I reckon it went to a very loving home :)

Blog revamp

hmmm seems like I have been neglecting my blog - well a little make-over should cure that! Life has been 'interesting' lately and right now I am thoroughly enjoying the ride! My mojo may be on vacation but my craft purchasing has not - thinking a good clean up of the craft room and actually unpacking all those bags of crafty goodness on the floor will quickly rectify my lack of creativity and the fact that Jess has signed me up for more swaps is sure to get me into gear! I am attending a mega huge retreat in a few weeks at HV and also organising one for next year with Vickie which has blown out of proportion, so just a bit excited about that!!