Friday, 31 October 2008
ATC Oct 2008 Flower Garden
Some paper napkin applique ATCs and one yoyo ATC I made for the Sept ATC swap at the Grind. I added small wooden picket fence embellishments to some and small pieces cut from silk flower bushes to others. The bottom right hand corner ATC is paper cut from a gift bag and embellished with a fabric yoyo and button. I made yoyos many years ago, but this is the first one I've made in a long time and the first time I used the new Clover template. It makes the process quicker and easier to do.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Pink Rolodex Swap 2008
Judy of the Byhand Artist's Yahoo group is hosting a Pink theme Altered Rolodex swap and this is a sample of my contribution. I started with a fan brush and painted the woven pattern with 2 shades of acrylic craft paint. I adden a small piece of weaving and the quote "friendship is woven of many threads" The back uses photos of some of my alrered heads and a piece of pink ribbon.
Friday, 17 October 2008
BeeTags Oct 2008
I am participating in a "Tell The Bees" tag book swap and these are my contribution. Each artist is required to make 1 to 3 tags.
ATC Coffin Oct 2008
ATCs using the Quietfire Design coffin template. For 3 I used Cuttlebug embossing folders for the coffin and rubbed copper pigmant ink on. The other 2 I cut the ciffin a little smaller and cut it into pieces. I then glued to a larger black coffin shape and embossed with gold embossing powder. Pieces of plastic skeleton, wooden birds and stickers are the embellishments.
Holiday Mystery Knit Clue 5
Well here I go again, falling behind on the knitting and then more behind on posting. It is still a puzzle what I am making, but I'll post clue 6 later tonight.
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
ATC Oct 2008 Wax Play
Todays play time I decided to try melting wax crayons for the first time. I used a piece of corragated cardboard and pealed most of the top layer of one side I was pleased with the results, then decided to add the beads. I think they look like a waterfall. I'm sure I'll be doing more of these.
Holiday Mystery Knit Clues 3 and 4
Well I got a little behind on the mystery kniting and when I started knitting to catch up I forgot to stop and take a photo after day 3. Here is day 3 and 4 finished and photographed all at once. I finished knitting on Oct. 3 and just got time to post now. This is still a mystery at this point. Any ideas?
ATC Oct 2008
I spent time on Sat. Oct. 4 playing with my Cuttlebug embossing folders, rubber stamping and my first try at Spirelli. Some had pigment ink rubbed over with a cosmetic sponge to highlight the raised portion of the embossing.
Labels:
ATC,
ATC a month swap,
dry embossing rubber stamping,
Spirelli
Delicate Bloom ATCs
More napkins with rubber stamping and gold embossing. The more faint images are done with the second layer of the paper napkin. Most of these were traded at the Sept swap at the Grind.
Labels:
ATC,
ATC a month swap,
napkin applique,
rubber stamping
Tea Time ATCs
Some of these were sent for the Sept Byhand Artists monthly swap and some were swapped at the Grind swap for Sept
All are napkin backgrounds with vintage premium coupons which were in Nabob and Blue Ribbon tea and coffee.
All are napkin backgrounds with vintage premium coupons which were in Nabob and Blue Ribbon tea and coffee.
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