More Arting Attempts!

I cannot believe that ANOTHER month has gone by so fast!...no wonder I am feeling my age...which is all downhill now...LOL.

Altho' it is now JULY, I am only just catching up with adding work done in April!  The ATC swap theme was Bees Waxed Vintage Woman and also one of a Vintage Man. It was a "double-bunger" as there were not many of us in the swap.

           We had to adhere lace to the woman's ATC and a metal object to the man's.

This was my first attempt, which is OK, but NOT ME! Way too prissy!

Using a beeswax candle I adhered tissue paper to a hand dyed background, added the image, some netting and then lace with red "jewels" (which I see now that one is missing) and a gold sticker corner and trim. I gave her a feather and a jewel in her hair but she still didn't look too happy so I put her aside and made the ones below as a "set".

                                   Aaaah!!..now THESE are more me....LOL

We also held a swap of houses of our own theme, using the pattern of Lynn Whipple's, featured in a CPS magazine, Spring 2005.

I chose to make mine in a Zetti theme.

All images have been digitally compilated, using mostly png. images from Crowabout StudioB at DeviantScrap

The birdy in the nest, which is wired to a grape-vine twig, is there to act as a "handle" to lift the roof off the house. The wire goes through the roof and has a plastic egg and feathers added to it for balance. The little "window" flaps either side of the roof have tiny wooden eggs as knobs to raise them. I wired a larger plastic egg to the entrance and made a wire loop on the other side to act as a closure of the walls/doorway.