Grimm ATCs

Over on UKS I have joined in the Grimm fairy tales ATC swap, I'm in 2 groups, so I have made 20 ATCs 10 for each group, I choose the stories, The Elves and the Shoemaker and one I hadn't heard of before The Spirit in the Bottle. These are being posted off to Rebecca who is making them into little books before sending home.

For the Elves and shoemaker, I printed out a picture and coloured it in with my promarkers, I think I need a little more practice to get my shading right! I sewed on a little piece of leather style fabric, punched holes and put in some eyelets added ribbon and a little shoe charm :)

For the spirit in the Bottle, I printed out the words of the story as a background, added an image, a piece of the magic cloth and a little silver axe.

Look forward to getting these back and seeing what everyone else has done :)

KISS art journal CJ

another month and another KISS art journal page, this month it is Lou's journal and her theme is Love, Life and Happiness, where I had to create a page with a quote or poem relating to love, life or happiness. My quote is about life, I painted the background, did a little bit of stenciling, doodling and stamping, image transferred the woman onto the page, a new technique for me which I loved doing and very impressed as to how it turned out, I'll be doing this one again :) then I just wrote on the quote, all wrapped up and ready for the post :)

July Trendy Tags

Another month and another set of trendy tags, this time the theme was steampunk. I did the Tim Holtz Creativity 101 class a few months back and the technique I have used on these tags was one of the classes. First I used distress inks for the background, added some stamped images and then smeared distress stickles rock candy all over to give a little bit of bling.

My 3 tags.

Close up of my tag.

Collage pieces

On the secret swappers we are doing a collage piece a la Tim Holtz like this

everyone was given a different colour and theme, my colour was sunflower and theme time, we all made 11 pieces of 4 different sizes each, I had fun playing around with this. I have started doing more altered stuff thanks to the secret swappers group. I think my pieces look good :) can't wait to get them all back and put together.

More Alice ATC's

I have joined in another Alice ATC swap over on UKS, this http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftime hosted by Sarah, I make 6 ATC's and get 6 back. I choose the caterpillar an Octopode digital stamp, first time using a digital stamp, I found it really easy to do, great thing is you can print out the image to any size you want :)


All my ATC's ready to be posted off.



Close up of one of the ATC's.
Looking forward to seeing what ATC's I get back.

Art journal pages

I'm in an art journal CJ over on UKS called From the Ashes hosted by Karen, I have completed 2 pages for her journal, topic anything goes :) I tried out 2 different styles for her book, one with inks and the other paints, I really liked getting messy for both of them but I think I preferred the inky one, which I gave the distressed look. Which one do you like?




My painty style page, I found this great blog by Tracie Hanson where I took inspiration from her doodlicious daybook, check it out :)
My inky, Tim Holtz Steampunky style page and yes there is a little bit of glitter, for that added bling, I hope you will be happy with that Karen.

June Trendy Tags

Another monthly tag swap over on UKS this time hosted by Rosie, the trend this month was bunting or flags. I love this little Stampotique stamp. The bunting made me think of a party theme:) I was pleased at how they turned out, hope whoever gets them likes them too.