Time Flies . . .

Wow .... I have been gone a long time.

I have been doing crafting in that time but inspiration has been sparse, so here are a number of projects I've done in the last year that I havent blogged, "I can do Pretty" is the latest, finished only yesterday.

Many are family cards, projects or a part of Doodle Arts & Letters & Letter Love 101 by Joanne Sharpe, great online classes, I would recommend them.

I'm due to take a class with Kate Crane next month which I am really looking forward to at the Artistic Stamper in Kent, which I hope will kick start my mojo ready for the christmas card onslaught.

Whilst not being prodigious with my art I have been prodigious with my crafty spending online for when my mojo returns and have got many new stamps and masks (too many) ready for some inky play, dont you just love it, being able to shop whenever the need strikes.

Anyway I hope you enjoy my photo heavy blog.

  

 

   

 

 

 

      

Would really appreciate it if you take the time to comment. Thank You

A posy of flowers

 

A card for my fellow 1963 buddy, who turned 50 this week. As my craft room upheavals are virtually over I decided to let it all go for this.  I had a vision in my mind for what I wanted to produce and in the end I didnt veer off too much. Biggest bugbear was getting the flowers to stay put, realised I needed a flower oasis,but had to use a sponge instead as sunday afternoon and too late to nip out.

Hope you like it, Sharon loved it.

I'm no artist . . . .

. . .  but I like to give it a try, This journal page evolved into me playing around with layers of inktense block and pencils and prismacolour pencils to build layers, and create light and shade. I bought together various things I have learnt on the web in the last year, like yellow for the base colour of the skin. I enjoyed playing with this and spent a number of evenings adding yet more layers.  In the end I had to stop as I went through the paper in the the right eye,oops, so was unable to add the highlight LOL.

I used a face mask as the guide for my face shape and features, but then drew my ownfeatures in, still a lot to learn on drawing but immensely satisfying to get something that looks vaguely human. I then used a Tim Holtz stamp to create a headdress by stamping it twice.

Here's some close ups so you can see the layers and the mistakes, definitely need to do some more work on nose definition, and eyelashes how do you do them!!! Loving my scouse brows though. LOL

Of course didn't help myself by starting with a layered green background, ho hum, its all a learning curve.

Lynn Perrella piece

Looking at Paper Artsy blog and saw this brilliant piece accompanied by a photographic walk through by Sue Carrington, so decided to have a go this weekend.

 

two pictures, left without flash, right with. Couldn't decide which one showed the piece best. I had different ideas for the piece was thinking willow pattern for colour, and major embossing on the fish kites, however when I went to glue down the piece the fish took on a life of their own and decided to fly, loved the look so this is what I went with.

Playing with new stuff

Been playing with my new grunge paste, treasure gold and Paper Artsy fresco paints and stencils.  Took inspiration from Paper Artsy blog, Leandra demo at Ally Pally and Linda Brown blog.

Now it has to be said they make it look dead easy and I cant tell you how many layers of paint there are on these pieces of paper, because I would get something good and then mess it up by trying something on top of it, which then meant repainting the whole thing, it was however great fun and done over many nights, have stuck them to two card fronts but dont quite know who if anyone shall receive them, shall just add them to my stash of prepared cards.

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Next week Im off to Ireland for a girlie weekend, my lovely friends are taking me to see our other friend for my significant birthday (just gone). I believe it will include shopping, gossiping, eating and drinking  . .  yee hah!!