Trizzy's Puzzle of Time

I found this great 4 piece wooden jigsaw at the craft show and thought "WOW' how much fun I could have with this. Firstly I scrunched tissue paper and stuck it down on each piece. When they were dry I painted them and the fun was just begining - I hope you enjoy my Puzzle of Time !

This first piece inspired me to continue the 'Time' theme on all four pieces. I stamped on acetate - I found this matt board circle and thought it would make a great watch face. I am always buying clock faces and 'time' phrases - not sure why, maybe cause I am getting older time seems to be going quicker ?? :)

I made this piece using just bits I had lying around and just added the 'Captured in Time' gel sticker to tie into the whole theme - the black mesh stuff is a roll I bought from the cheap shop and use it for lots of household purposes - eg: under my keyboard so it doesn't slide around - it adds a great effect I think.

This piece I just wanted as a clock face - using stickers, clock numbers & hands, embellishments and an embossed corner - It has less on it but I think it matches well with the other pieces.

On the final piece I wanted to create a window - I used stickers, a die cut, skeleton leaves, gold brads on the door an embellishment I bought from the fishing dept at KMart, off cuts of card & mesh.

Alphabet Swap

Christmas Tag Swap - hosted by Jessie

Step 1 - after cutting tags out, I applied white paint with a credit card and spread the paint around not covering the entire surface of the tag so you could still see the colour of the tag

Step 2 - using the edge of the credit card, I scored into the paint in all different directions

Step 3 - when the paint was dry I stamped around the edges with Hero Arts stamp (two flourish flowers)

Step 4 - I adhered a piece of red texture paper with a torn side. Then cut a piece of Basic Grey's (Scarlet's Letter) and edged it with black Staz-on and attached it to the side then stamped wording in black Staz-on in centre of tag.

Step 5 - I then attached a piece of ribbon with a 'V' cut out and kept the length so it overhung the tag. Then I cut another piece of green card which was stamped and edged with black Staz-on and stuck that over the top. Final step was in inked all around the edge of the tag with black (yes Staz-on) - and that is how I made my tag - enjoy !

My First Canvas

There is a small social group that I meet with once a month and the challenge for next month was a canvas. I was excited because I had never completed a canvas before and was really looking forward to the challenge. This canvas was painted with metal bronze paint & then rust activator was used. This was a technique that Jessie showed me and I thought it was a good base for this project.

Canvas Stage 2

I used different stamps and silver embossed - even though it looks gold on this photo - you can see it better on the finished piece.

Complete Canvas

The finished canvas - chip board letters were sprayed with silver & copper krylon spray. Diamontes were added to 'Wish'. The 'Make A' are apoxy stickers. Pre-printed image was glued on top of gauze which was frayed and glued down as well. Then a coat of glue was added over the top of image and a silver corner sticker was used. I was very happy with the final result as I have never completed a canvas before. The colours I used were not what I would normally use, especially silver & copper together but very happy with it.

ALCOHOL INKS

I used Adirondack alcohol inks on felt which I dabbed and twisted all over gloss paper as the background as well as my gold krylon pen. Then I stamped image onto cold or quick laminate with black stazon. Layered it onto black cardstock, edged a piece of bazil card with black stazon, tore some black card for corners and added embellishments. Cut out scrabble letters 'Serendipity' adhered with foam adhesive and put dimensional glaze over the top.

Mother of Pearl Swap

This is a card I did for CC Swaps (Mother of Pearl swap) earlier this year. The background is kaleidacolor Baby Powder brayered, spritzed & dried. Using crumpled cling wrap dab Pearl White Lumieres over the top. Word stamping is done with Silver Pearl embossing powder. Embellishment is Paper Clay pressed into a mould - when dry use pearl Fab-Foils with appropriate glue over the peaks. Silk flower has also been painted with Pearl White Lumieres and using a brad to attach (two sides of the flower have been trimmed flush with the card) & down the side is Magic Mesh.

I have also used fine silver thread wrapped around just below my stamped image.

BACKGROUNDS

Onto white gloss card I ironed scrunched up sandwich paper (the wax transfers to the card) then I dabbed alcohol inks lightly over the top. Finally a light spray of Iso-Pro over the top to enhance resist technique.

BACKGROUNDS

Pour a small amount of pearl blue & grape lumieres onto a lid or dish and using a scrunched up baby wipe lightly dip into both colours then randomly blot onto white gloss card. Then stamp over the top with a texture stamp using eggplant adirondack inkpad.

BACKGROUNDS

Using white gloss paper I brayered it with Kaleidacolor inkpad very randomly all over, spritzed with a fine spray of water. Use a heat tool to start drying process - when small pools are left, lift and continue drying to create runs. Blot excess and finish drying. Scrunch up into a really tight ball - carefully - then open it up, slightly flatten and swipe with gold encore metallic inkpad over the peaks. Using a hot, dry iron smooth out wrinkles. I've used the same technique on the Mother Of Pearl Swap, but I didn't crush it up.

BACKGROUNDS

I used black gloss card and Luna Lights paint and just dripped a few drops here and there - then placed a second piece on top and kinda squished it around between the two layers. I pulled it apart and got this amazing coral effect