Fish(y) at Tag Tuesday

Hi everybody!

The theme this week is 'fish'.

My first thought was to make a fish-and-chips tag, but then I had a strange fishy dream Friday night which inspired this rather surreal picture for my tag. In my dream I was looking through windows and watching the people inside, who all seemed to be underwater, and there were fishes and various bits and bobs floating around it, like it was some giant aquarium. 

The background picture is from Gecko Galz, and I added the fish digitally. I printed it once on paper and once on transparent foil. I layered the pictures over each other, making sure that the images were not exactly aligned, which gives an unfocused look, as though you are looking through water. I added a fish and a shell 'outside', and mounted it onto some dark grey mirri-board before adding an eyelet for the ribbon and a fish charm.

More Seaside Moos

Hi everybody! Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

The Moos have all been made from little scraps of painted paper, which have been stamped, embellished and mounted onto mini-cards.

This one was inspired by Shakespeare - 'Full fathom five thy father lies....of his bones are coral made....'

Linking to MooMania

Have a great day, take care, and thanks a lot for visiting!

Yellow submarine

Hi everybody.

The current Alpha challenge at the Craft Barn is 'Y' and we have to use yellow. 'Yikes, yuck, not yellow again!' That was my first thought, and then I heard the music - 'We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine....' - Are you all singing already? Any excuse to listen to the Beatles again!

My dictionary page is so bright you might need your shades, but it was the psychedelic age, remember?

  

Also linking to Manon's Paper Saturdays

Have a great day, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Paint Party Friday and Sommer of Colour

Hi everybody!
Another week has sped by and it's party time again.
PPF is hosted, as always, by Eva and Kristin, and SOC by Kristin Twinkle-Like-a-star.

For PPF I am sharing some journal pages I made with a green man. The background was another smear and wipe sheet, with a bit of spray added and a lot of background stamping.

I am also linking to Simon Says Stamp and Show, 'Good to be green'

 For SOC I made another journal spread, this time with the theme architecture again, and am also linking to Art Journal Journey.
 I used gesso for the background, and then added in the colours over the collage and tissue transfers with pastels.

And we're not finished yet. I made myself a journal using some of the fabric scraps Donna sent from Mexico. First I had to persuade my machine to sew, not an easy task, but with some online help from a nice chap called Alex in England, it worked. Sewing is still not easy, as I need to work with my nose next to the needle to see what I am doing, and it is not perfect, but I LOVE it!

This is the back:

And last, but NOT least, I received this beautiful picture from Sandra in Australia. She has done a giveaway each week with her SOC paintings, and I was lucky to be one of the winners. Thanks Sandra, it is hanging in my Arty Kitchen and will be treasured.

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

OOAH - You hold the key and MooMania, 'seaside'

Hi everybody!

Today is the beginning of the new week's challenge over at OOAH creations - 'You hold the key'.

I distressed the card with vintage photo, and then stamped some little hearts randomly over it. I layered some printed transparent paper over that, and added the image of the little girl (CI) with the lock and key and a leaf/flower embellishment.

 Inside I cut a heart from honeycomb paper and glued it inside so that the heart opens with the card.

It would be great if you would join in, and there is plenty of inspiration to be found on the blogs of the DT - Chrissie, Sandra, and Janet

The challenge at MooMania is 'At the seaside'. I made some seaside themed Moos, which I put onto some mini-cards. I have made settings for the photos with some of my nautical decor. The first one has been made with some loosely woven turquoise and silver fabric, which I pushed into 'waves' before decorating. The photo has been taken on my kitchen board. The sand has been made with some German glass glitter.

 

The next one has been taken on the cupboard door. Here I have used strips of paper for the sand and sea, and made some TINY deckchairs, beach-huts and a boat..

 

The last one has been taken with Hein Blöd, my Emden teddy sitting in his beach chair! Here I have used a scrap of blue painted paper, a fish and some dew-drops.

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

Two floral cards

Hi you all!

Just sharing 2 floral cards today, with the same motive and style, but still each a bit different!

Both tags have been made with the same stamped image from Scrollswork, which I cut to look like an old photo. For the first card, I used some printed card, and after folding it into the double z form, I fussy cut around the flowers along the bottom edge in the centre part to make a pocket for the photo. I added a Prima flower and some leaves.

 

The second card has been covered with panels of paper from a Gecko Galz paper pack. I added some clear gem-stones to the flowers and gave the little girl a bow.

 

I am linking to Craftroom Challenge Blog , vintage stamping.

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

Tag Tuesday and Try it on Tuesday

Hi everybody!
At Tag Tuesday our theme this week is the 'Roaring Twenties'.

The roaring twenties always brings to mind the pictures of the flapper girls, feather boas and suavely dressed men in elegant cars, although for many in Europe and from the end of the decade in America it was a time of grinding poverty after the First World War, when those with no  money fought to exist.

 (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

The tag I have made shows the other side, I just wanted to remind us that not everybody was part of this superficial glamour world.

I have used an image from gecko Galz, a pink feather (so hard to stick down!) and some beaded fringing over some long fringes from an old stole.

At Try It On Tuesday our theme for the next two weeks is 'Home is where your heart is'.

I have made a little canvas, treated with structure paste and painted with various metallic paints. The little house has been stamped. I gave it a layer of cheap, clear glue, and threw lots of beads and gem stones onto it.

Also linking to Simon Says Stamp and Show, green.

Have a good week you all, take care, and thanks for looking!