52Q week 4

So the prompt for this week reads 'When I look into my eyes, I see...' and here are my tags. This was a very thought provoking question and very cleverly worded imo...it made me think!

Mixed Media Monday

This weeks challenge was to create art that represents your country. I decided to go for the red telephone box which has been a familiar site in this country for around 75 years! They used to be everywhere but of course they are not used as much these days since most people have home telephones and mobile phones. A lot of our telephone boxes are being scrapped these days and in fact my brother actually bought one once and had it in his back garden for years. They are part of our heritage really and its kind of sad that they will prob be phased out at some stage. I think they are like our red double decker buses...very representative of the UK.

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52Q wk 3

This weeks question is 'Do you believe in fairies?'. I always believe in the mystical and magical...in fact I still believe in Father Xmas after I saw his sleigh going across the sky when I was about 6! So - yes, I believe in fairies...do you?

Mixed Media Monday

This weeks theme is to use primary and secondary colours. I do like using bright colours so I used this as an opportunity to do a page in my journal which I am making much more of an effort with this year. Tfl

Mixed Media Monday

The theme this week at MMM is friendship and I used this challenge to do the first page in my altered book. I have never attempted this before but have to say that having started the book, I will certainly finish it. The book - selected short stories by Guy de Maupassant - has been hanging around my craft area for a year or more and everytime I have paint left on my brush or sponge I have used it up on its pages which meant of course that when I finally decided to work in it, I already had several pages already started on which to continue.

Hope you like it!

52Q week 2

My tag in answer to Em's question 'Am I afraid of change?'


I am not afraid of change...I dont always like change but its challenging and stretches me often to do things that I would not otherwise have done so I don't think change is bad...it just pushes me out of my comfort zone.On another note, I feel excited that UK Scrappers are having a cyber crop...I love participating and get quite carried away...often not sleeping for more than 48 hours. Of course this is always easier if my hubby is away which is not going to be the case this year. I wonder if I can get him to do all the chores and all the cooking over that weekend? hmmmm

Crusade 27 - Shape up!

Not in the physical sense...phewwww!

Michelle Wards latest crusade is to shape up...take a shape and run with it!

I made up my mind right at the start of this crusade to keep my shape simple and so finally decided on the heart! The first thing I did was to use some leftover lino and cut my own heart. Initially I cut one 'lobe' larger than the other and (of course) I forgot about the fact that when stamping everything is opposite so of course my large lobe was on the wrong side. I ended up cutting it down more so in the end my heart shape had two fairly equally sized lobes. I then stamped with it on a brown mailing envelope. Something I had seen done in several art books but had never tried. I loved the way this came out. It has an almost poster like quality

Next I took some wax rubbings of my heart as well as of rubber stamps and painted with watercolour. Another technique that Michelle told us about last year whereby the wax resists the paint. This also gives an awesome effect and I have got so much better at it now that I am not trying to make it perfect! I also used my paper punch on this page and then found such a wonderful title for it when looking through my cuttings box. My cuttings box is something I started a while ago, just cutting out titles and pictures from magazines and throwing them into a box. Its great that we can make art without it costing too much money. I am so up for recycling whenever possible. The only thing that stops me is space! I have so many lovely boxes that I intend to do something with and I'm afraid to say I am stockpiling them :lol: Anyway, here is that page...

Next I used some modelling paste pushed through a stencil and then painted with some Stewart Gill paint that I had leftover from another project. This would be great with a bigger stencil as this one was a bit small. The page just had glimmer mist as a base. A bit more stamping and the page was done.

This next page was a bit of freestyle...I havn't been doing arty stuff for very long and sometimes I think I put too much thought into it but I am starting to find that I just go with the flow occasionally and get something done without thinking. These pages are starting to come together in a way that appeals to me and this next page was one of those. I don't even know what I did cos I just 'rolled with it'. I just love these heart shaped doillies...I bought them a while ago and always knew they would come in handy.

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