Long time

It's a long time since I posted to my blog, my how time does fly. I do intend to get up to date, or at least post some pics of art I've made.
Actually my new laptop has nudged me to get on here, there is a feature called Live Writer, which means I can write my blog and upload pictures without actually having to go to the blog. The programme then uploads it when you say so. But, when I tried to set it up, it recognized that I didn't have an active blog , so like a good little girl I am doing as I am told and posting so that it now becomes active. LOL

Tyvek Paper

Adrienne has a swap running, which requires the use of 'fabric paper'. Here are the pieces that I have been playing with over the last few days. The challenge now is to use them for something!

I used Tyvek paper for my base. For the first two I used tissue, and serviettes for the images, the second two were gift wrapping paper. I used very watered metallic acrylics to add the colour.

Tip Ins

The theme for Sweetpea's tip in swap for July was Time.
Here is my offering. I wanted to get away from 'Clocks', so I hoped this would work.



For Karen's birthday I decided to make her a tip in instead of a birthday card. I think she liked it !

Angel Pages

Most of the last month was taken up with creating pages for an 'Angelic' book swap. There were 12 people in each group, and there were 6 groups, but I signed up for 3. Some greedy art hogs signed for all six lol! I have got almost all of my 36 pages now, just a couple to come, and with 3 of my own that makes a really chunky book. I am thinking of how to bind them and what to do for covers at the moment. The artwork I have received has been amazing. Here are my pages:

Deco Books

A few deco- books have come my way in the last month. Here is what I did for them:


For Denise R

For Maggi G

For Sweetpea

Play Day

Yesterday my friend Karen and I had a play day, using our Wizard and Cuttlebug Embossing Folders. I have recently joined the Wizard Yahoo group and over the last couple of days Jane had been talking about using acetate in the wizard and different methods of colouring it. Here are some of the effects I achieved.

The backs of the acetate were covered with glue, using The Essential Glue Pad by Tsukineko, and then , before colouring I added some bits of metallic leaf onto one. They were then coloured with mica powders. The blue one was highlighted on the front with Luminere gold. I scanned them with gold mirror card on the back, but different backings would give a myriad of effects.

Before colouring I added some glitz to each of the pieces. The green one was coloured using dye inks dotted into Kleer floor polish and the spread out using a paint brush.Once this was done a piece of crumpled tissue was added to the back, and covered with a thin layer of the floor polish. The orange one was done using alcohol inks direct onto the acetate, and then covered with crumpled tissue and floor polish.

These are simply alcohol inks with gold krylon added. They have been mounted on plain white card.

Row Houses

Trish Bee has a swap going for Row houses. We had to make 26 of them. I really don't know why, but I had a major problem with this one. It took me days to make the first 4, then I did nothing for a while, but eventually I started again, and finished the rest quite quickly. I hope they are what she is looking for! It did turn into fun, using up bits of background, cuttlebug embossing folders, stamps , images and bits and pieces I had stashed away. For some I added words.