Discovering the Ocean!

April 25th 2018
The Three Muses Blog has a prompt of "The Sea World" this week and I thought this journal page was perfect - this diver is discovering the sea!!! LOL

This "diver" gal is a digi by Bloobel Stamps - always love the quirkiness of Lisa's digis - perfect for fun journal page creations! Digi coloured with Copic markers and added to an underwater background including fishing net and line accessories with some little half pearls to imitate bubbles!!!

Home Sweet Home

October 12th 2011

The new challenge at the Three Muses this week is "Home Sweet Home" and I've made a collage creation for this new theme.

I've used images from another new collage sheet I have from Art Tea Life along with a "Home is Where the Heart is" sentiment from CS Designs.

Don't you just love the "old" couple sitting together?

Don't Drink from the Bottle Alice!!

October 5th 2011

I couldn't resist using this little "Poison" bottle from CS Designs again on my new 4 x 4 project made especially for the Three Muses Blog this week - their theme is "Bottles/Jars".

I've combined a digital stamp with some collage sheets and printed out the wording myself. The background Halloween themed collage sheet is from June at Dezinaworld and the "Alice" is from a new collage sheet purchased today from the great range at Art Tea Life. I've sponged "Old Paper" Distress Ink around all the images and wording to give a "worn" look.

I really like this little piece and had some fun with the wording!

A Politician Should Have "Three" HATS

August 17th 2011

"HATS" is the new theme at The Three Muses Blog this week! and I decided to make a "set" of ATC's - I haven't made ATC's for ages so this was a great opportunity to create on a smaller scale!

The quote is by "Carl Sandberg" - A politician should have three hats, one for throwing in the ring, one for talking through and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected!!!!!

I couldn't resist using these little boys and hats from Lisa's Altered Art as I thought the hats they were wearing suited. I printed the text onto the backing paper - definitions of politician and also quotes to tie in. I printed each part of the quote onto sheer paper and tore around the text and adhered to the ATC with a coloured brad.

A bit of humour for the week I think!!!

Turning Japanese

July 21st 2011
This is my card for this week's "Oriental" theme at the Three Muses Blog. Make sure you pay them a visit and see all the wonderful creations from everyone!

I've used one of the great digi stamps from the "Darlings of the Orient" range from CS Designs. This image is "Asian Square Sakura - Cherry Blossom". I've also used some of my favourite Japanese papers from my "stash" and I stamped a swirly vine image and placed the little folded flowers along it.

The little Dahlia folded flowers I found on a tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers - they look great and I'm really happy with them. I think I'll definitely be using these little flowers again!

I've also entered this at the Clear it Out Challenge Blog as I have had some of this Japanese paper for years LOL!!!! Craft Us Crazy also have an "anything goes with a digi" challenge!



Words are Cheap!

June 1st 2011
Another post for today - LOL I've been having a creative day and making a few collage type cards and things.

This bookmark has been made for the new challenge at the Three Muses Blog who's theme is "The Written Word".

I couldn't resist using this new image from one of the Octopode Factory's collage sheets - Charlie Chaplin! The "elephant images" were some recent freebies from June at Dezinaworld! And I've used torn bits of book pages to add some written word elements! The "quote" is one I found when I did a search of quotes by Charlie Chaplin! And to finish the bookmark I have added some fibres to the top! Everything has been glued to a piece of black card.

Can You Do The Bird Dance?

May 21st 2011
Well can you do the Bird Dance??????

I've made this tag for a few challenges (Bella Creations and the Three Muses)!

I've also entered this tag in the Gingersnap Creations GC102: Spicy Supply Challenge - Twine. The "theme" for May was Wild West and I think this dancing girl looks like she could have been on stage in a Wild West Saloon doing her stuff!! (I've incorporated "twine" to make the nest look more twiggy as you will see below).

The tag has been made as well for a challenge at the "Oh La La" Group at Bella Creations. We had to use the 'dancing lady' image from Gecko Galz on a tag or bookmark and as I had just finished cutting out some "bird" images from one of June's Collage sheets at Dezinaworld I came up with the idea of adding feathers to the woman and have her dancing on "eggshells" doing the bird dance!

The wording has been made with my DYMO Label Maker - nice and quick to print out and I like the effect of it. I used some household string and feathered it out to put behind the nest to give it a more 'twiggy' look.

The Three Muses new challenge is "Eggs" which is also why I wanted to incorporate the bird theme and use the nest and eggs from the collage sheet! Overall I'm really happy with this tag - I like the colours and it's a bit of fun!

"Underwear"??????

April 27th 2011
Okay today has been an intersting crafting day - my silly sense of humour has been running wild!!!! LOL if you have seen my Police Woman card from my earlier post today you will understand!
This card has been made especially for the new challenge at the Three Muses Challenge Blog which has the theme of "Underwear" and I couldn't resist putting my 'weird' style to it!!

As you can see this is a bit of a collage card with lots of images - they all come from various "places"! The woman standing in her petticoat is from Lisa's Altered Art, the 'King' is from Lisa Vollrath's 'Go Make Something' fabulous freebies and the flowers and phone (dog & bone) are from Dezinaworld (June has great collage sheets). And I made the sentiment myself - I love this old typewriter font - great for vintage style and collage projects!