Vintage Woman 4"x4"

A page for my chunky book completed,also the last creation in my lace series lol,I have really enjoyed playing with lace ........

So this one was a bit different as my background is fabric dye'd with brusho then Gesso painted on and stamped,lace attached and antique jewellery I found in a second hand market.

Captured in Lace

ATC (Artist Trading Card) Another dye'd Lace piece using Brusho Paints,Background Acyrlic with H20's

Brusho Paints

ATC .."The Hidden Word "

I do like these paints they are in powder form,just need mixing with some warm water,they go a long way,i mixed some up in pots,they last ages,the colours are sooooo vibrant,also work great on fabric,,watercolour paper,any sort of paper as you see here !

Working with Lace...Traded

ATC ..Lacy Dreams

A friend gave me some antique lace which was falling to bits,although still beautiful,I thought i would like to try Brusho paints on it as its like a dye,lethel for the hands,wish i wore gloves lol.

This is the result ! think my hands look better !

Gothic Arch Book

This is the cover of my now completed Gothic Arch book !

I triple embossed onto mount card then stamped into it while still warm the butterflies,the embossing powders were mixed with mica powders,which made a lovely pearl glitter feel which i love. I polished up with Rub n Buff for a nice finish.

Then i Cut a butterfly with my Cuttlebug and embossed that too the same way. attached a lovely charm piece fron an old broken bracelet,it match's perfectly,with the same colours,a lucky find at a second hand market !

Altered Scrabble Tile Pendant

My Poppy Pendant completed at last !

Altered Scrabble Tiles

Snow Barn...Winter theme Challenge. The smallest watercolor painting i have ever done lol,set onto a scrabble tile then applied a gloss coating which brings the colours out beautifully,added beads and a lobster claw clasp for hanging,either as a handbag charm or bracelet,this one was created for a challenge,theme Winter.

This is the front and back view.

Autumn Days ATC's

My autumn ATC's background Brusho paints,embossed and collaged.sketch pen.

Oriental Mini Book

Love making these books and as i now own a Bind it All machine it makes life much easier,not that i got the hang of it yet lol,this is my first try !

I was inspired to make this book as a lady on my Flickr site sent me a piece she had done with alcohol inks,we exchange little goodies when sending ATC's out,anyway i thought this would make a lovely cover for my book as you see here,so attached an altered domino to it.
Using the same colour theme running through the book ,it has about 8 pages all embellished,with oriental images/quotes/rubber stamping/tags, etc.Also enabled me to use up my evergrowing stash of Oriental stuff which i love !

I really enjoyed making it for my daughter in law's birthday,she loves arty lol.

Easy does it !

Last night I had a call fom a friend to say it was her mothers 100th birthday this Sunday,tomorrow !I would have dearly loved to spend time on making a special card,but had to choose from my already made stash.........this is it.
I am an admirer of Joanna Sheene,well known cardmaker on TV etc,and at one time bought her CD,s,which I then made up a few cards,this is just one.

If you want a quick easy card,where you dont have to think,but still be a little bit creative,this is the thing for you !,must say i did enjoy,making it,although not my thing,i like to be in charge start to finish lol.

This is just a matter of printing off the backing paper and imagine from the PC and assembling them,layering up etc.
The only thing i did do to finsh it off was add the butterfly,which I glittered also the rose image I covered with Dimensional magic,to give it a glass ,gloss feel.
The 100 No, was added last night using my cuttlebug machine. soooo one quick and easy card for a lovely lady.

Poppy Sketch

I painted this today,I dont know why but I have this need to just paint this week.but nothing on a serious note just to pick up the brush and paint whatever comes into my head.
So chose the ATC size,never having painted on this scale before,I really enjoyed it ! although saying that I have done a few this year when I was on holiday in Portugal,just packed my travel paintbox and small brushes and some bits of w/color paper,didnt take up much room and boy was I glad I did ! the evenings were so boring lol.

I look around my craft room and think,what on earth have I got all this stuff for when really all i need is a box of paints and i,m happy !!
Trouble with me is ,these ideas keep popping into my head,I must alter that or WOW thats a lovely image,i can do a lot with that.........I get inspired quite easy these days,it could be retirement,boredom,I dont know but I can say I enjoy my life,just to potter about doing what comes naturally haha.......
Dont get out so much these days either,not to just walk the countryside and paint whatever took my fancy,Like i used to do, life changes ,one door closes and another opens as they say...so most things I do now are from memory.

The other thing that helps is teaching others to paint,just one day a week, I think thats what did it for me this week,when watching them painting,I have this bad habit of grabbing the brush and doing it lol, always getting my hand slapped ! This week the lady was painting poppies,I was itching to do it haha.....so hey presto I got it out my system today !! not from real life though,just trying to capture from memory.

Playing with Pastels

Watercolour and Pastels experiment on ATC size.
Titles= River Mist & Summer Mist........

Just had to blog these as they are my first Pastel paintings I have done on this scale,I,m pleased with the experiment and may do more.

Always with my Pastel paintings I lay down the watercolour first its more as a sketch or guide for the finished painting,but nice to see the watercolour show through the pastel,hence ,light and shade.

The Pastels add more brilliance and colour to a watercolour making it more vibrant,I find.

I have always worked in these two mediums together,I love to move the pastel about and love the misty effect.