Altered matchboxes

Hi everybody!  

I discovered some large and small matchboxes in my bottomless pit, so decided to alter some.

I am entering the large matchbox into the 'Mail' challenge at FSC

and into Simon Says Stamp and Show

'a little stamping'  and
Anything but a card - steampunk and
Craft-Room Challenge - Vintage Stamping

The stamps used are from Paper Artsy and Scrollswork. I covered the box and the tray inside with some scraps of railway-ticket DP, and added some stamping to the sides using mail stamps from Chocolate Baroque. The pen has been fussy cut, varnished and rolled to give it more dimension. The little letter with the sentiment has been made from an ancient envelope. The paper artsy figures and the train have all been stamped with archival black and  fussy cut. The train is the mail train, of course!

 

Have a good day, take care and thanks for coming by.

Colour this Quote Challenge

Hi everybody!

At Artists in Blogland, the challenge this month is to colour this quote:

"The sun is shining...That is the Magic. The flowers are growing--the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic--being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me--the Magic is in me. ...It's in every one of us." 

For me, creativity is magic, words are magic, and our fantasy is an ever blooming garden full of an inexhaustible magic. I have tried to show this magic in my pages. The background has been made from another smear, wipe and try sheet  - they always make the very best backgrounds. I just love the blue and purple shades and the flashes of yellow and orangecoming through like sunshine. I did a lot of stamping to put lots of patterns and texture into it. The quote is my variation of Chesterton's, 'There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds'. The images used are from Gecko Galz.

 

I couldn't resist using fairy dust Stickles on the wings.

 

Oops, forgot to rub out the pencil lines!

 

This was a fun challenge. 

Have a good day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Journal Pages Architecture

Hi everybody!

I have made some more journal pages for the challenge at Art Journal Challenge

I have built up layers of colour, stamping and  tissue transfers etc. I was trying to convey the idea that our towns are all built on layers of the past, which can sometimes be seen and which are sometimes covered, but are nevertheless still there, building, shaping and influencing the foundations of the world as we know it.

I used acrylic paint for the background, and pastel chalks to give more colour to the pages. I have used two quotes, from Sir Winston Churchill and Goethe.

 

Have a great day you all! Take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Moos, a template andJournal pages

Hi you all! 

The challenge at Moo Mania this time is 'Landscapes'. I have made a set of little gift cards using my moos. They are moo-sized prints of photos and paintings. I used my smear and brush-wipe paper from last week, which I had already crumpled up and almost binned by mistake. I think it saved distressing it! I added a bit of stamping before gluing on the moos.

Here are 2 photos and a part of a journal page I made about the 'little prince'

 

Here are 2 more landscapes and part of a canvas.

 

More landscapes.

 

A home made Van Gogh copy  and a painted landscape.

 

I got the mini cards at the Euro shop, 50 for 1 € - I think they are supposed to be place cards - whatever, they were a bargain!

For my butterfly page I used another smear and wipe sheet of paper, to which I added some stamping and stenciling. The images are from Gecko Galz.

 

Several people asked for the template / instructions for the 'word-birds' I showed yesterday, so here it is - have fun! If you print it onto A4 paper it will have the right size. Sorry about the black marks on it, I think I need to clean the scanner glass!

Have a good Sunday, take care, and thanks for dropping in!

Paper Saturday - word birds

Hi everybody! 

Today I am showing you some of my 'word birds' - little birds made from paper scraps, and with a quote or saying written onto them, hence the 'word-birds'. They are quick and easy to make, and fun to decorate.

 

Linking to Manon's 'Paper Saturdays'

Have a great day you all, take care, and thanks for coming by.

Paint Party Friday and More

Hi everybody, time for another Paint Party, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin. And it's also week three of Summer of Colour, hosted by Kristin. And there's a new challenge at Piaroms's 'Mix it Monthly', so I have been busy trying to do something for all of these challenges. And I did my alpha page for the challenge at the Craft Barn. This week has not been easy, as I had very painful and shaky hands again, which was not a big help. But I tried my best, things just take much longer.

Conny at Mix it Monthly gave us a 'recipe' this time - seaside, blue, sand, violet, seagulls, wood and a verse to accompany it. I altered a wooden IKEA picture frame, which I painted with acrylics in blue and violet. The sand has been made from torn paper, and the fence from a thin piece of wood, which I cut with a TH fence die. It crumbled a bit, so it's turned into a rickety fence, but I did give it a coat of white paint. The background is painted paper.  I added paper bunting, a cut out ship, a fishing net and a few other bits and bobs.

 

And my verse? 'I do love to be beside the seaside!' 

Also linking to Simon Says Stamp and Show, anything goes, and to 

Altered eclectics, anything goes

For Summer of Colour I have made a journal page, with which I am not satisfied, but at least it's the right colours - pale pink and charcoal grey.  The background was painted with left over colours in the course of the last 2 weeks. I think I will try to do something more with it, but not this week.

 

And last but not least, my 'B' page for the Alpha Challenge at the Craft Barn. I chose Beloved, and have added a quote  from the Song of Solomon 6:3, which I have written in Hebrew and English. I do like the way this one turned out, so that's something! The background was wiped with a little gesso to tone it down, and I left it that way as I decided to keep it black and white.

 

If you stayed with me to the end, congratulations!

Here's wishing you all a happy weekend, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!