Family Relations

Sisters was the theme last Saturday of Small World of Inchies & Twinchies. I made this Twinchie for it, but events overtook and this is the first chance I have had to upload it.

I used several differnt stamps from Paper Artsy and 7 Gypsy's, layering them together, adding a bit of colour with pen and glimmer mist and then adding glossy accents to the two figures.

Lets Play Tag.....

Leona has tagged me, so now I'm it! This is the first virtual game of Tag I have played.......

Here are the rules:

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Right, so now a little bit about me:

1. I have always loved anything creative - working in many media.
2. I am a Visual learner - I learn mainly by seeing (rather than Auditory or Kinesthetic)
3. Teaching is my career - Art and Textiles of course, to some wonderful teenagers!
4. I love cats - am owned by a beautiful all black - Hugo.
5. I aim to visit Egypt, The Great Wall of China, Macchu Piccu, Red Square, and Safari in Africa.
6. I would love to find the time to write a book, pass on my passion for creating.
7. I have a wonderful family, whom I would be lost without.


Now to tag some other fantastic friends and allow you to see their creations:

• Julie & Karen (They come as a team! Scrapbook Sisters)
• Jeannie
• Sarah Fishburn
• Morag Cutts
• Jenni Boyns
• Ed
• Hermine

Have fun passing it on further!

Sally x x x

Chasing My Tail

This week has been so hectic I really feel that I am just chasing my tail, as soon as I think I have caught up with everything, there are another 10 things to take their place!!! So I have covered two challenges with this piece - Flowers for SPA & Crows for Created by Hand.

I used a Heidi Swapp mask of a bird on black paper and used turquoise acrylic paint over the top. When the mask was removed I then added some black paint to the bird and gave it a larger beak, like a crow, added some highlights and then moved to the flowers. For the flowers I used three sizes of a retro pop flower and punched them from several patterned papers, layering the sizes and attaching with brads. The flash going off has made my crow look a bit bright, but is much clearer in the detail shots.

Where Has All The Time Gone?

There just does not seem to be enough hours in the day to cram everything in that needs to be done at the moment. But I managed to find a bit of time to finish of this piece for Gothic Arches.

I used a selection of time stamps from Cherry Pie Arts, skeleton leaves, a tag, and a butterfly punch for this arch. Cream card with blue and creamy brown chalk eye rubbed over the surface was used as the background. I then stamped one stamp directly on the background and then two others onto pages of text and cut these out to apply on top. I then added the strip of paper with watches on and the tag and skeleton leaf. I then added a few punched butterflies on top to complete.

A section of the arch. I am not sure why I link butterflies with time, but for me the two seem to work together well.

SBS24

Well, I joined group 24 of SBS, a site where you can get to know new people, make friends, share your work and get constructive feedback! I am looking forward to getting to know all of you in my group and explore your work. From what I have seen we are all so diverse and that is so inspiring!

Please scroll through my site to see all that I do, a mixture of many types of art, craft and scrapbooking!! I get excited by all kinds of art and craft including Altered aRt, Scrapbooking, ATC's, Photography, Textiles, Mixed Media........The list could go on!

I aim to update my blog and create new work as often as I can, but sometimes the dya job can get in the way! I am a teacher of Art / Textiles so in a way I do not mind it getting in the way as I am still creating - unless I have a stack of marking to do!

Handwriting.....

can tell a lot about a person. This is the theme for TMTA this week. I have chosen to focus on the tools of the trade - pen and ink. I stamped the pens on the background and the ink bottles on separate paper. I also stamped the handwriting piece on a separate piece of paper, trimmed and chalked to look like a letter and attached it over the pens. I coloured up the ink bottles and attached over the top with foam pads so they are raised off the surface.For this one I stamped the pens on the background and the ink bottles separately. I cut around the bottles and added a little colour and chalked the edges. I then laid a piece of acetate over the background ans stamped the handwriting and attached in the corner with a brad. I then added the bottles of ink to the bottom, again with foam pads to raise them up.

I enjoyed layering these images and using traditional means of creating handwriting, I still love using dip pens, although I tend to use them to draw with rather than write! You can get some great results.

In Miniature

It is an open theme at TGIF this week, so I thought that this was a good opportunity to share with you a miniature project I completed over this summer. I attended a class run by Karen at Scrapbook Sisters where we were given a small box as part of our kit and had to alter it and create a small book to go inside. This is my end result:

The mini book is made from one sheet of 12x12 paper, which was folded and cut in the right places to fit together. I decorated my pages with a mixture of stamps, leaf punch, photographs and journalling.

Cities of Europe

Was the theme for Make A Moo or Two this week. I chose to make two different sets, one on London and the second on Venice.

For these first two I drew an abstract Union Jack in chalk eyes on white card, then stamped a vintage skyline of London over the top, I then selected the two best areas and cut them to size, adding the wording to finish.

For Venice I chalked white card with two shades of blue, then stamped a Venician Gondola on top. I then took a small square of Stampbord and chalked the background to match the card and stamped a section of the gondola on top. I then scratched out the highlights and coatd in Glossy Accents. Once glued onto the background image in the right place I added the wording to finish.

Pretty in Pink?

Pink is the theme set by Gothic Arches. I found this hard as I really am not into pink, but came up with two very different arches. The first one shown here is my second attempt. I used a pink cardstock as the base, tore up some text and added chalk to the surface and edges then glued this down. I then stamped two trees and embossed with a gold shimmer so they blend into the background. I then added a third tree in the middle and embossed in white, adding pink glitter to the leafy part. I finished by adding a few stamped butterflies and spraying a glimmer mist over ir all.

The arch below is my first attempt, I had something in mind but it did not work as well as I wanted it to, I wanted something a little different and quirky. I used Alien Quikutz dies and punched them out of varying pink and text papers. I stamped the circle frames and glued on two strips of text. I then placed all the little aliens and added glossy accents, and finished it all off with a few pink flowers and stickles.

Dancing...

Personally I have two left feet, but Dancing is a great theme for an ATC from TMTA. I created two very different ATC's.

This first has a more traditional dancing feel, made using a stamp from The Queens Dresser Drawers. I chalked arounded the figures and then added a couple of buttons for interest.

This ATC was made by chalking the background with yellow and red,then adding some black streaks across, giving the impression of a light beam. I then stamped the little silhouette figures, these are stamps I have borrowed from a friend, I love them and wish I knew where they came from, as I would love to own them too! I then stamped DIVA and added glossy accents to the dancing figures.