Altered Mirror

Please excuse the naff photo!

I have seen a few altered mirrors on friends blogs, so thought I'd have a go myself.

This mirror we inherited when we moved in, so spent no pennies on it!
2 coats of black gesso, 1" stampbord, inked with various distress inks, then lots of different stamps used, then I used crackle glaze & glossy accents on all of them.

Thanks for looking.

Word Challenge

The challenge over on Lots to do Challenge blog is to use a word. Sorry the word is not very exciting! I used an old mint tin. I found some die cut chip board letters which I stuck onto the lid. Then covered the whole tin in self adhesive metal, which I have never used before, so it's a bit rough round the edges. I then used alcohol inks to decorate the tin, I finished using a gold leaf pen to highlight the letters better.

Thanks for looking.

Canvas

Nearly forgot how to do this again!

I have to thank Hilda for giving me the inspiration to do this with her altered canvas on her blog, so thank you Hilda.

Anyway, I altered a canvas yesterday. I started off by putting a thick layer of Windsor & newton Mineral texture gel all over,including sides. After it had dried, I then glued cut up pieces of newspaper. With the remaining mod podge, I added 1 drop of vintage photo distress reinker (waste not, want not!) to give an aged look. After that had dried, I then added my frames which also had the mineral gel & the lighter ones had sand texture gel on them, with CI images behind. (thought I had some larger frames, but can't find them!!) The final touch was stamped images on tissue paper & glued on.

The picture does not look great, but hay ho, I'm pleased with it, considering I have not crafted in an age!

Watch this space for am altered mirror I am working on!

Thanks for looking!

No craft

Hi all.

I can't believe we're in June already! I have not done any crafting for some time, but I hope to get my mojo back soon so I can blog something!


Hope life is treating you well!


Mags xxx

Art

The theme on Lots to Do challenge blog this week is "Art", so I made this canvas.
Background is various acrylic dabbers, then I used a swirl stamp round the edges.
I then used the tissue paper technique, which can be found on the technique zone blog. I seem to struggle with this, as I always seem to get creases when doing this, but on this occasion, I think it adds to the style of the theme!

Bandanna Atc's

Ang is hosting an atc swap over on Lots to do & we have to use the bandanna technique.
I seem to really struggle getting the colours crisp on these, but I hope they are OK!

My girls.

Taken today in the garden.
Going through a black & white photo stage at the mo!

Element atc swap

Andrea over on lots to do is hosting an atc swap in which you make 3 atc's, but the you have to take an element out of the first one to use on the 2nd, & again, an element from the 2nd for the 3rd!

It sounded easy enough, till I came to do it!

So, 1st atc is simply, the 2nd, I have taken the background flowers for this & the 3rd, I took the daisy chain from that.

I hope I have done it ok!

Gesso

Hope I'm not late for this weeks challenge over on the lots to do challenge blog!

The theme this week is to use GESSO in your work.

I made an atc, with various images stamped onto it, then glossy & crackle accents to finish it off.

Tag & bookmark swap

These are for a swap I am hosting on on LTD.

The theme is to use something new you have bought for your craft stash (even though we are in a credit crunch, I am sure we all find a few £'s to spend!!!)

My new stash is cuttlebug embossing folders, acrylic dabbers, & CI stamps.

March recipe swap

These are for another swap over on lots to do.

This months recipe is

Animal image
Ribbon
3 gems
Colour purple.

Canvas swap

Andrea on Lots to do forum, is hosting a canvas swap.

There is no theme this time.

I used the egg shell technique from the fab technique blog, link should be on here somewhere.

I used gold acrylic dabber paint, then sparkle mod podge to give it a bit of sparkle.

The inside is covered with gesso, and I added some fine crushed up egg shells, to give it a bit of texture, then I let that dry. The image was stamped onto tissue paper, cut very close. I then used mod podge again & placed the image inside, then another coat of glue.

I hope my swap partner likes it!

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I don't know........................................


Leave her playing for 5 minutes on her own to go & wash up, & look what happens, she falls asleep on the spot!

Just had to share these with you!

New craft room

These are pictures of my new craft room, all tidy for a change!

My lovely hubby made me some shelves for all my stuff & a new shelf today to keep all my wooden mounted stamps on. I do have a huge desk though, which is fab!
The wardrobe also hold's a huge amount of stuff, but the doors are little to be desired, so all art work, albeit, fat page, arch, etc is gratefully received to hide the hideous doors!!! Thanks!

Folded atc swap

Claire-Louise is hosting a folded/hinged atc swap, again, over on Lots to do Forum

I have never made an atc like this before, so I was unsure of what to do, but I hope this is OK!

Recipe Swap

Ang over on Lots to do Forum is hosting a recipe swap.

We have to make 1 atc, 1 skinny & 1 arch all containing

1 button
2 squares
1 image
and the colour green

Here is my effort!

In Stitches

This is my attempt at this weeks challenge over on Lots to do challenge blog.

I made a fat page.

The background is the shaving foam technique.


I then added stamped images of flowers & leaves & coloured in with H2O's.

I hope you like it!

Quick update!

Hi again.

Quick update for you, well, we are still unpacking boxes, but on the plus side, I have done a small amount of crafting, but I can't blog it, as it is a birthday present!!!

We are having double glazing fitted in the next week or so, so I best get organised for that to happen, so might get a bit of crafting in before that all kicks off.

Thanks for popping back & seeing my blog, albeit, very boring!

Take care of yourself!


Mags xx

Hello again!

Well, we moved in the end, 3 days before Christmas!

We are getting there, still lots to do mind you.

I have unpacked all my craft boxes into my new room, but still have to organise it though, which might take some time!

Hope you are well & thank you for dropping by today.

Happy Christmas

I would just like to wish you all a very merry Christmas & a happy new year.

We are hopefully moving house this coming Monday (22nd) so therefore I shall be off line for sometime, probably till the the new year.

Thank you to all who have left comments on my blog this year. Lets hope 2009 will be a better year for all of us.

Christmas

It is Andreas turn this week to set the challenge on the lots to do blog. I made a canvas, which was covered in red acrylic paint, then snowflake peel offs added & finally a FF image 3d onto it.

Canvas

It is Ang's choice this week & she has chosen Canvas.

Here is mine!
Red acrylic paint for the background & then various stamps. I had done this a while back, even before we had all chosen our themes.

Quoations

It is Hilda's choice of theme this week over on the lots to do blog challenge, & her theme is "quotations". I chose to do an arch, & used one of my Tim Holtz stamps.
The first one I had made, I done some more stamping around it, but it took away the main focus, so I threw that in the bin & just focused on the main image.
As they say, "less is more" & it applied in this case.

Envelope art

I'm so sorry I'm late doing this, it's just been so mad in my life.
Anyhow, this is my envelope for Andrea's choice for the blog last week!

Remembrance day challenge

This is my canvas for this challenge, set by Ang. I painted the canvas red, then added some gold & then added my image, then used mod podge afterwards.

Black & white

Alison has chosen this weeks challenge over on the lots to do challenge blog & her theme is black & white.
I made a fat page, which I used the opaque white staz on with various stamps.

Girls Halloween outfits!

My very own pussy cat dolls tonight!

Nature Challenge

OK, confession time. I was on the phone to Andrea, & I had to come up with with my choice of themes on the spot, as I had forgotten all about it! So, there I was, looking round my office for inspiration & I glanced over to my canvas & chose the nature theme for this weeks challenge over on Lots to do challenge blog.
So, here you have it!
Hope you like it & can join in this week!

Sophie's 1st school photo!

Bless her! Her first ever school photo!

Forever Friends Cards

This is few cards I have made over the last few days with my new ff stamps, nothing very exciting I might add, just needed to take my mind off "life" issues at the mo!

Stone

This is my effort for the stone challenge theme on lots to do this week.
I covered the arch in stone coloured inks then used my 4 stone stamps, again, in stone like colours, I then used embossing powder to create texture to them.

friends atc's

These atc's are for a swap on another forum I belong to. This is my first swap with this group so I hope the are up to scracth for them!

Beer mats

I have made these for a bland door of Bridies shop, I hope she likes them!

v w x y z skinnys

These are the final skinnys for an on going swap on Lots to do.

Winter Twinchies

These are my twinchies for a swap I am hosting over on Lots to Do. All have various blue inks, then all have been stamped with a Christmas images, then either embossed snowflakes, & stickles added for sparkle!

No stamping Challenge

Over on the lots to do challenge blog, the challenge is "no stamping"! I bought the large decoupage kit form QVC this week & so far I have made 10+ cards with it, & so I thought I would use this as my entry!