LTDO Challenge

Now this was a challenge indeed for me! The challenge was "to use a canvas". First of all I had to buy a canvas!!! I found this one in a local shop but at 20"x8" it was quite a daunting size to start with! I have always fancied the idea of a canvas with the children on so now was my chance. With Jess's help I managed to collect some pics of them and printed them onto lazertran to transfe them to the canvas. I added lots and lots of gesso and silver paint, splodged on with a sponge. I used some music pages (around my musical children!) and a piece of book text which happened to have Eliza's name on and a definition of family. I attached some shisha mirrors using crackle accents, some black glitter and a swirly stamp, some tiny beads in glossy accents and then printed with some bubble wrap to finish.

I am not quite sure how I feel about this piece....I think I like it, but I am not quite sure if it has enough depth or flow to it yet. And does anyone know why my images have gone all pink? Is it a funny reaction with the lazertran? I have never used that before either so lots of firsts for me this week!

Rolling Recipe Week 5 AND LTDO Challenge!

The LTDO Challenge this week is to use a machine so I used my Big Shot to emboss the dots (with a Cuttlebug folder) on the black core dinations card. Then I sanded it back a teensy bit and stamped and embossed the black and red hearts on the top part. Bird is stamped, coloured and glittered then attached on sticky pads and then sentiment was typed on the PC. So a double whammy as this weeks recipe is a stamped heart, a bird and the colour black!

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Also in the summer hols (my don't THEY seem a millenia ago?) we visited Shakespeares Globe Theatre. Sadly we didn't go to a performance but the guided tour was amazing and so fascinating. Our Guide was really animated and when we were there they were taking publicity shots of the cast for the Summer Programme. Guess who was there? Only Matthew Kelly! And we saw him down on the stage! We weren't allowed to take pics whilst the cast were on the stage though.

Some more scrapbooking!

Continuing with 2009 and this page shows what my children did with our downstairs toilet. None of them liked going in it so I said they could paint it so that they WOULD! We found all the tins of leftover paint and away they went. The only bit done by an adult was the shark which Dad drew (but they painted!)

Rolling Recipe Tag Week 5

Week 5 and our Recipe was a stamped heart, red and text. I have had this stamp for a while, I bought it off a forum buddy, but I think I have only used it once, and I don't know why 'cos it's lovely! The BG I did using pastels and a sheet of scrap paper and copious amount of hairspray to fix it! Then added a strip of torn red card and the stamp, coloured with the good ol' water colour pencils. Finally I had a space at the bottom so added the 3 eyelets!
Week 6 requires BIRDS!!!! OMG better go start thinking....

This months CJ

This is the CJ entry I have just sent off! The stamp was this fancy key....I guess I was inspired by Valentines Day! The heart is mountboard, covered in card that I painted with red/black acrylic paint and then embossed in the Big Shot and then gave it a quick blast of cosmic shimmer. I just stamped the key and coloured it with distress inks; lock is a grungeboard one.

The reverse of the page was for the sign in so I used the same vellum for the BG and just added a hand coloured cockerel and some letter tiles.

UKStampers Charm swap

The delightful Minxy has arranged a charm swap on UKStampers. We all make 14 charms and post them to her and she is going to make them into bracelets for us! How lovely is that? These are REALLY bad photos but I tried each and every different way to no avail; these are the best ones.

The teeny hearts are friendly plastic (love this stuff!) and then I have just added "blue iris" crystal beads and some purple/blue seed beads interspersed with silver spacers. IRL they are very twinkly in an understated purpley sort of way! Hope peeps like them!