Mini Memory for Tracey

Tracey chose for her theme any theme in cream, gold and brown. I must admit these are not colours I would normally work with and I struggled with this one - quite pleased with the final result - I hope Tracey liked it...

Trizzy

Tall Canvas

This canvas is 8x4" using Scrapware products, embossing powders & starburst stains. I just love the ATC frame - its so delicate but easy to emboss. I am liking this canvas, I am deciding whether to keep it or give it away, Christmas is just around the corner - I wonder....

Minchie Frame

LBB has got us all working on some Scrapware goodies - which I must admit has been alot of fun! This frame is 3" (7.5cm) square, so yes the squares within are tiny 1.5cm! I made something similar at camp in September for my friend Margaret in the US which was also red, black, silver & butterflies - must be still into those colours!

DCI - Mini Memory Swap - August was my month

A Mini Memory for Heather

September was Heather's turn for the Mini Memory swap on DCI. Her request was birds/butterflies in violet with a white colourwash. The background on the canvas was a metallic paint that was painted on thickly and heated. I used a microscope slide which was stamped and embossed with white EP - painted the back of the slide with purple acrylic. The wings were made with Grungeboard. The wire butterfly was added along with ribbon and of course some more diamontes...

Scratch Board

I coloured the Scratch Board with Alcohol Inks - stamped my fav stamp with black StazOn - then added a few layers of clear UTEE to both pieces. Added diamontes, metal sprials, beaded trim and a photo-turn to hang the piece. I hope she likes this one and I really hope that it all stays stuck together!! I used so much glue to hold the spirals on in the centre, I had it oozing everywhere!!

2" Canvas

On this mini canvas I have used, Style Stones, UTEE & Fantasy Film. The background on the canvas was sprayed with Memories Mist and Adirondack Color Wash. Style Stone frame was coloured with Chalk inkpads. The centre piece has been filled with re-used UTEE, melted, then some fantasy film with a layer of clear UTEE over the top. Hope my friend likes this one and I really hope it survives the journey there - fingers crossed!!

Butterfly Inchie Frame

Made this one at camp - I really like how it turned out, hope my friend likes it too! I am starting to finally use my mattboard embellishments, even the bigger ones which I am just cutting up and using parts of - these frames are so much fun, thanks Linda !!

Texture ATC

The background is Faux Washi Paper by Trish Bee - had so much fun making these backgrounds, very messy, but I am glad I am using them now in projects. I have sprinkled UTEE onto the ATC and heated it, very carefully - whilst hot stamped into it. Let it cool then rubbed silver gilding wax over the raised areas. I made these originally for a swap on CCSwaps then made more to give out at camp earlier this month.

Mini Memory for Carol

Using the reverse of a canvas - this is what I made for Carol in Victoria - thought the feather added a cool touch. Her theme was Bird house/birds in white, mint green and pale mauve. Hope she liked it...

Trizzy

Mini Memory of Carol Sweeney

This is what I made for Carol in the USA - her theme was floral/nature any colour. I used a resist method on the canvas and sprayed memory mists over the top - love this effect.

Trizzy

Scrapware

These were so much fun to play with! Scrapware have some great designs and lots of bits and pieces to add. What I really like is how you can use some of those beautiful handmade papers that we all have and lots of bellies - hanging from the bottom are some paperclip bellies I bought ages ago and have finally used them - YAY! Gotta say thanks to Linda B for the inspiration - again!

Fallen Angel Canvas

The Artzy Tartz had a shoe-box party, this was my contribution.




Fallen Angel
I am the Angel who fell from above
Hoping to mend friendship and love
I am the Angel who felt the most pain
When everything failed, I had nothing to gain
I am the Angel nobody sees
I was the Angel nobody wanted to be...

My 'N' attempt

Trish has started a new workshop and it's an alphabet journal - the first letter is 'N' - here is my attempt so far. I have used newspaper, navy, numbers, nude and some netting - I might come back to it later and add some more to it. The next letter is 'f' and I feel some flourishes coming on....

Altered Tin

Stamp camp always proves to be a dilemma when it comes to packing - trying to find ways to reduce what I take without compromising to many items. My latest discoveries are these double DVD tins - they fit exactly 32 'Little Bitz Boxes' from Christina's Crafts so now I can take lots of bellies to camp without them taking up to much room. To decorate the tin I used impasto and a flourish stencil from Tattered Angels then sponged with various colours of Lumieres and highlighted with gilding wax. There was no preparation to the tin I just used a palette knife to apply the impasto directly to the tin. I learnt this technique from Linda - you should check out her blog, lots of inspiring ideas.

Stampboard with Bling...

I started this piece at camp and finally got around to finishing it this weekend. I used alcohol inks on the Stampboard and then stamped it with my Tattered Angels 'Compass' stamp - which is huge! When it was dry, I dipped it into a few layers of clear UTEE. Added lots of bling, which took awhile with the tiny gem stones, added some metal corners and ribbon to hang it on - quite like this one, not sure where to put it though!

Favourite 'Bellie' Swap

With this swap we had to use our favourite embellishment and make an ATC with it. I used a flourish matt board piece - I have bought tins of these shapes and alphabets, so I am glad to be finally using them up! Using clear UTEE, heated it and while it was hot, I carefully added small pieces of fantasy film using tweezers. Keeping the heat on the piece so that it remained molten, I sprinkled on more clear UTEE and heated it again. I decided to leave it 'bumpy' with bits of FF poking thru but you could always add another layer of UTEE if you wanted a smooth look. The background is distress inks on canvas paper and stamped with white StazOn ink and the wording was cut with my Slice machine from vellum that was coloured with alcohol ink. Hope their journey to Carol in the US make it in one piece!

Green - CCSwaps

I have signed up for another 6 for 5 ATC swap hosted by Fiona in the UK. I have been using Linda B's Brazen Black and Diving Gold embossing powders and I have to say that I am hooked! The black has tiny flecks of gold and the gold has tiny flecks of black in it - very cool indeed! I have used the gold on the Scrapmatts fleur de lis and the black on the flourish background stamp

Kreativ Blogger Award

This award was sent to me by Martina - thank you, I really appreciate it! I have met Martina a few times and I always enjoy her company and also admire her art! Thank you Martina

The Rules:List 7 things that you LOVE
Link to the person who has tagged you
Choose 7 more bloggers to give the Kreativ Blogger Award to
Comment on those 7 blogs to let the recipients know you chose them

OK - 7 things that I love:

1. My husband who always supports me with everything I do
2. My children - they have taught me so much and I love everything about them
3. My family - I am so grateful to both my parents and my In-laws in my life
4. My friends - I could not get by without them, we laugh, we cry and we share so much
5. My art - without this not sure what would keep me sane
6. My love of reading
7. My life - very happy with how things have turned out, could not have wished for any more!

I award the following people the Kreativ Blogger Award:

1. Margaret Rodgers- A wonderful kind hearted lady from the USA who I know thru a few on-line groups, we have exchanged quite a few swaps and even more emails - Thank you Margaret for being a great friend!

2. Adrienne Goodenough- Adrienne who creates wonderful art and her friendship means alot to me - I am glad to have her in my life and I love to visit her blog - thanks for all the swaps all the way from the UK!

3. Carol Sweeney - from the USA, this lady is amazing - her detail for instruction is fantastic, her blog is one of my favourites. I have known Carol for sometime thru various on-line groups and just love receiving her art - Thank you Carol for all that you share!

4. Rena Sawatski - who is from Canada, love receiving swaps from this lady - also know her on a few different on-line groups - I am so happy to be giving her this award!

5. Debbi Baker - who is from OZ, I love to visit this blog - she does some amazing work! Thank you Debbie for sharing your art with us - keep up the great work!

6. Annette Husband - also from OZ, I know Annette from Chunky Book Artists and she is an amazing artist - a blog I often love to visit - She too is so deserving of this award, thanks Annette for sharing your art with us all!

7. Maggie Grabowski - Maggie in the USA is another blog I often visit - she is a lovely lady who creates gorgeous art - Thanks Maggie for letting us into your world of 'Art'

It was hard to just pick 7 - I wanted to give this award to so many others, but I hope that the bloggers above appreciate this award as much as I did receiving it - thanks again Martina!!

Wearable Art by Linda

My version of Linda's wearable art - I was lucky enough to do a workshop with her - she supplied everything. I love how she uses lots of layers to create this look - her blog is so worth checking out - thanks Linda for being such a passionate artist!

Textured Impasto

Had a play with impasto, stencils, starburst stains and acrylic paints - this was inspired by Linda who does amazing work, she likes to get messy! You can check out her blog here to see her gorgeous artwork - I am sure she will inspire you too!

Canvas Art

I really love working with canvas and this piece was created with acrylic paints, bubble wrap, embossing, and beads. You can see the detail in the photo of the beads, the colours are just gorgeous. I don't often use images but I really liked this one, going to give this to mum for Mothers Day, hope she likes it.

CBA - Collection of Quotes ATC's

This is a swap that I am running on Chunky Book Artists - my first ever on-line swap! I was very excited to have 18 members sign up for it! The little frames are from Scrap Matts and they come in an assortment of different layouts. Firstly I black embossed around the frame with a flourish then used silver rub n buff to highlight. The corner was inked up with Versamark and then UTEE'd (2 layers) and stamped into. I printed off the quote onto acetate and coloured the back with alcohol inks. The butterfly wings were bought at the show and I used wire (again!) to make the coils - I really hope they stay attached to the ATC's!

Flight ATC for CCSwaps

I am having so much fun with this swap on CC - this is the 2nd one now, hope the girls like it. The background I used was Memory Mists and oversprayed with black and silver webbing spay. The butterfly is actually from some wrapping paper and I just love the colour - I used silicone under the wings to give it a 3D effect and even used my new Slice machine for the flourish - what a great little machine this is! To finish off with some gemstones and brads as well as some wire for the antenna, could not help myself, love using wire...

More digital art

I really enjoy what you can do with digital art - my interest was sparked by Debbie Reid in the USA when she created a page in CBA for a recent swap we were in. Then more recently another friend Pauline showed me the basics using Photoshop - I still have so much to learn but it is so cool to create ART in a totally different way.

Masking - CCSwaps

Fiona in the UK is hosting a swap and all my fav overseas players have signed up - so I can't wait to see what I get back. My creation has Adirondack colour washes in butterscotch and wild plum which I sprayed over a matt board flourish - torn copper pieces that I ran thru my cuttlebug and highlighted with black Staz-on, mini micro beads over the top of my image and clear Glossy Accents over the 'desire' - hope the girls like this one! Thanks Fiona for hosting this swap it was fun to make.

Digital Art

I have finally worked out how to use Photoshop, so I have downloaded a heap of free images from the web - how much fun is this! I just love how you can easily resize, move, spin and change the images before printing it off. I really loved this piece so I decided to upload to my blog - now all I need is to find more cool images to download!!

Envelope Book Swap

I have signed up for this swap on CCSwaps and this one is going to 'Sweetpea'. I have finally used a piece of Grungeboard, YAY! There are micro-beads on the butterfly and my fav mesh ribbon down the RHS. Envelopes were made from a template and coloured with distress inks, stamped and highlighted with my white Sharpie. I hope Kathy likes it! It's a bit wonky because the envelopes are handmade they didn't quite line up - but isn't that what makes our ART unique!

Slice Design Cutter

With my new Slice machine came the offer to join a new Yahoo group called 'Slice Users Group' - how could I say no to another group! Rhonda started it up late last year and already they have over 220 members - well done Rhonda! They are running a 4" swap using any of the elements from the Slice Machine. On this one I used the Tab and Scallop corner - hope my swap partner likes it!

ATC JAM

Carol Sweeney asked me to participate in an ATC JAM. She was sent 3 ATC backgrounds made by Stephanie Povey that had torn printed paper and had been spritzed. Carol added the butterfly - instructions can be found here - I decided to make a paper bead which I wrapped in wire and added a pink seed bead to, then I coated the bead in clear UTEE. When this was cool I cut 2 lengths of gold 20 gauge wire and threaded them thru the bead then using pliers carefully made the coils and bent them into shape until it looked right. I also added some german scrap and edged the ATC's with black Staz-On ink pad. I keep one then send the other two back to Carol and Stephanie. Hope both the girls like the outcome....