Week 22 - Lotstodo Challenge - Travel In Style

This is one of my scrapbook pages from our recent DIY holiday to Canada. We picked the truck up from the airport and did a bit of travelling around to different ski resorts. We've enver done it this way before but really enjoyed it. We saw more of the lovely country this way.

Mr Clothes Peg

I'm hosting a couple of altered wooden clothes peg swaps. Been playing and this is what I've come up with so far. He might alter or he might end up with a twin of a different colour!!!!

Houses Swap - Lotstodo

Andrea on the Lotstodo Forum is hosting a houses swap. Each had to relate to a certain theme, a man, a woman, a child and an animal

Another Yesterday's Makes

We made these little books yesterday too. Images, words, tissue paper, twill, ribbon were are attached using the hot melted bees wax.



This is a close up of one where the bees wax has been used



We made 8 in total, 4 with bees wax and 4 with stamped images from the new TH range available at Art from the Heart

I doodled around the black edges with a gold pen

Yesterday's Makes

This is a 4 x 4 canvas made at Art from the Heart on yesterdays workshop. The fab images are from Lisa's Altered Art and are available as digital downloads for $2.00 a sheet and can be used over and over. I ordered a couple of sheets last night and she gave me 2 free ones, so 4 sheets for $4.00, you can't go wrong.

I used the some of the altered words / sayings from another one of Lisa's altered sheets for the 4 sides

The canvas was firstly cover with the lightest of the 3 dabbers in the colour co-ordinating set, in my case green, no surprise there then!!! This just gave a light base coat. The second of the colours was just dabbed on and then rubbed in with a finger and the third and darkest colour was used to 'frame' the piece, ie each edge was swiped with the dark colour. The metled bees wax use used to attach the images and words, tissue and dress making paper to the canvas. It gives it a lovely smell and a great texture!!!

Art From The Heart Workshop - Bees Wax

We were all given a pack to 'play' with, well you can imagine my surprise when I got this image in my pack!!!!!


Left to right all working away - Chris, Sue, Bee, Lisa & Maz


The whole group


Chris & Me


The Grimsby Clan and Dy

We had a fab day. You can see our WIP on Dy's Blog. As mine's not finished yet, I'll blog it later when it is.

Lotstodo Week 21 - Cracked It

This is a card that I made a while ago now, but I just love the colour and the effect of those dragonflies

I've also been scrapping my recent holiday photo's. On this layout I used crackle paint to create some of the snowflakes

A Forky Thingy!!!!

I bent the prongs on a fork and came up with this. The arms and legs are from Artgirlz (thanks Sue for getting them for me), the flower stalks are strips of corrugated cardboard, the flower heads are from Hero Arts

Photo Frame

It will soon be Laurens birthday so I thought it would be nice to send her this framed photo of her and Fraz taken when they came down for their holiday in April. They did make another visit not so long ago, first May Bank Holiday, but the weather wasn't great and the camera never came out of my pocket!!! I hope she likes it.

The wooden frame was sanded down, given a coat of gesso, given a coat of aged mahogany crackle paint and sanded again to reveal some of the gesso layer

Scrap Book Slide Show

Canada 2009 Ski Trip

Finally got all my pages completed. They are only very basic, but that's the way I like 'em!!!!

Week 20 - Lotstodo Challenge - Working with Wood

I made this piece from all sorts of nik naks. I used mini wooden pegs, match sticks, coffee stirrers, tickets, string and eyelets. The image was stamped with versamark clear and then embossed with peeled paint distressed powder

Been Playing Again!!!

I've been playing courtesy of Lorraine at UkStampers. I wanted some 'Lutradur' but couldn't find any in small quantities, so she suggested that I try tumble dryer sheets instead, so I did. I bought the cheapest ones I could find, 94p from Asda.

I then used my new craft tool to burn shapes and patterns into it. Obviously this is just a practise piece to see what happened, how much pressure to apply etc. As you can see, some bits I managed to burn!!!

I then sprayed with sheet with watered down distressed re-inkers

I will get around to doing a proper one, one day!!!!

Lotstodo Week 19 Challenge - Stripes / Lines

Sue, this one is especially for you, pink and flowery!!!!! The canvas was coated in bees wax. The napkin was soaked in the melt pot directly in the melted beeswax, pulled out and laid on the canvas. I used my new tool with the small iron shaped extension to re-heat the wax to adhere it to the canvas, smoothed it out with the flat surface and added a piece of ribbon. It doesn't show up very well on the picture but there are lots of different shades of pink stripes behind the flower and on the right there are stripes too - you just have to look closely!!!!

Vintage Atc's

Every month I host an Atc swap on UKStampers. This month Sue chose the theme. Here are my vintage efforts

Week 18 - Lotstodo Challenge - Let's Face It

I used a piece of balsa wood to create this piece. Stamped my image in black stazon first, then burnt it out with my craft tool and burnt out the pattern around the edge