PLAY TIME!

Once again I have been a bit slack keeping up my blog.
The Easter holiday period has been a blur of comings and goings...us going to visit my folks over the Easter period and my grand-daughter coming to stay for a few days, leaving just in time for a BIL to arrive, who in turn, left before some friends arrived for a quick over night stay on their way home from their Easter holiday!
It was lovely to see them and we not only had a yummy Chinese dinner out, but we girls had an hour or so play before bed-time while the boys exchanged their veiws on the world!
My friend had never played with beeswax, so I set about changing that. We quickly went thru' my box of scraps and spare images and both made an ATC...here is mine.I used scraps of two paper napkins as the background,a Zettiology Collage image of Mona,some of my printed harlequin paper and butterfly wings and the gold paper border is part of the negative left overs from using a crown punch.
It is entitled "Mona Tries Collagen".
Unfortunately I didn't get to scan my friend's ATC.

See what happens when you eat too much cake!

This is my latest ATC, made for our monthly PaperArts group swap, the theme being "Marie Antoinette".

I used images of a period gown and one of Character Constructions Stamps of Marie and Photoshopped them to size.

The background is hand dyed canvas sprayed with Moon Shadow Mist, and has a Silver Krylon Pen resist.












I made a slash in the neck line of the gown image and put Marie's extended neck through it so that when you pull the crown up, the head comes up with it.

Heart-felt Healing Doll

After the Victorian fires which occurred in February, at the instigation of Keron Lee,http://thecolourguru.typepad.com/
a group of people volunteered to make Healing Dolls to be handed out at random to some of the victims in the hope that they would find some solice in knowing that there are many people caring about them.

This is one of several that I made.

The faces were printed onto an old cotton pillow case that I applied to some freezer paper before cutting to A4 size to be able to go thru' the printer.

The central heart is cut from some hand made felt and I tea-dyed the heart fabric to age it.

A BEESWAX COLLAGE

This is my latest tute on Bevlea's and my Techniques blog......
http://2cre8art.blogspot.com
It is done on a canvas board, first layer being torn magazine images covered with white tissue paper that has a pattern of gold cherubs over it.

The white tissue paper "dissolves" into the BG but the gold cherubs form a resist and show up quite well, altho' that is hard to see in this image.

All embellishments are adhered with beeswax, no other form of adherant was used.

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER

Back in January when Bevlea was here on her annual holiday, we both used the same ATC background with this image of a woman on it as a challenge to make an ATC for each other.
There was a little difference in the colour of the BG but they were both cut from the same sheet of hand dyed paper.
Mine is on the left,Bevlea's on the right.
Mrs Percy has a 3D mounted fan and the ship is off a paper napkin.

TWEAKED QUILTIE

With a different orientation and
a few different embellishments,
this is a slightly smaller version
of my previous quiltie.

This one was made as a "book page"
for a group swap.

It has a cardboard backing,which is
covered with a credit card techniqe
painted paper, and then
Cuttlebug embossed.

The wings are silver German Scrap and
the little metal, glitter covered crown
was originally on the end of a hair pin.

I printed the text onto silver Laser paper.

My apologies for the poor quality of
the image but the silver paper,beads
pearls and glitter are not favoured by
the scanner.

Are We Related?

For February, our paperarts group's ATC swap was Ancestors.

Of course, I couldn't do a "straight" one..had to have my satirical sense of humour show out ...again!

This is a print of an old photo. I PhotoShopped the Gorilla heads onto Father and his children, used a yellow Embossing Gel Pen for Mother's hair, her buttons and brooch and also for the hankies in the pockets. Also used a pink one on the baby's dress ruffles.

I also rubbed the background over with Shabby Shutters Distress Ink.

My First Blog Award!!

I'm excited!!!

A "blogger" friend of mine, with the impossible-to-pronounce-unless-you-know-how-name,which sounds nothing like it's spelt... Diana O'Cobhthiagh very kindly awarded me with this sweet award.

Very fitting as it's from a very sweet and talented person...check out her blog ...

http://docobhthaigh.blogspot.com

I am to award this onto 5 other deserving people,so I shall do my best to do so

For those of you that receive the award,these are the guidelines that came with the badge:

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers."

The following ladies are my friends,(one is very special..you know who you are!), fellow group members and talented artists..all people that have helped me along the path to where I tread now......some of whom I have met physically and others just on the net....thank you dear friends for all your encouragement.

I present you all with this award..

Bevlea Ross http://soularts.typepad.com/

Glenda Laing http://glendasgazette.blogspot.com/

Lucy Leatham http://artitudebylucy.blogspot.com/

Kathy Carvellas http://kcn2cats.blogspot.com/

Marion Bockelman http://bockel24
blogspot.com/