Fishy Fishy

Here is this  months Paper Arts ATC Swap for December 09 - with the theme of 'Fish'. Just a sneak peak and I will be back tomorrow with the how and more :)

As always my Flickr Account which you can get to from here by clicking on these words - have loads more photos and a tutorial of sorts and what I did to make these. Enjoy xxx

Paper Arts - November Swap - Diamonds

I have no idea where this last week went and how I have managed to not post for almost a week now! There are major renovations happening here at home at the moment with stage one just completed on Saturday after 5 weeks of mess and noise, I guess that kept me busier than I realised! Photo's will follow soon - a whole new backyard and stunning water feature at the front entrance so far.  However,  still months of work yet to happen well into next year at this stage. I'm excited but what chaos it has created on my otherwise very normal life.

So a quick post on what went out this week for the month of November for the Paper Arts ATC Swap - Diamonds. This one has perfect pearls  - interference red used as a feature in the background, with lots of yummy bling red and light pink diamonte flowers on the dress and jewellery. I a little had fun creating a frame this time with my corner punches and running the whole thing through the cuttlebug for something different to a standard stick on finish.

 

I ended up with three different versions on this one which are shown in my Flickr account as usual but showing here is the one sent as the swap. nest swap is 'Fishies' and it has be in by the 15th so I best get these ideas out of my head and onto paper.

Reversed Canvas Fairy Frame

This is my latest submission for the mixed media challenge for the Paper Arts Group for November. We were challenged to use a deep walled canvas frame 5x7inches and a fairy theme - mine is not quite the pretty fairy but all the same I think she has attitude and was quite cute when I found her.

There are loads of little details that the camera no matter how hard I tried just would not pick up, but overall I hope you get the idea. Little bits like the back wall is actually made up of loads of mini mirrored mosaic tiles, and the green flowers are all hand made from white velum that has been cut and then embossed on the cuttlebug, painted to blend with the other items and then a final light dry brush of gold.

The fairy herself is triple layered like paper toile, each layer painted in a different method to add to the 3D effect - layer one in a pearl shimmer, layer two in a fine crackle medium and layer three in a gloss finish as shiny as a photograph.

There is as usual lots more detailed photo's on my Flickr Account HERE that outlines all the details and processes I used to put this piece this project together.

Over the coming days I have ready to upload 52 finally completed new ATC's to share along with a Clear Acetate Romance Journal - so stay posted and remeber sneak peaks are always on my Flickr first.

ATC Paper Arts Swap - October

This is part one of  my October swap with the Paperarts girls - my ATC's. We had two themes this month being ATC's ' Fractured Fairy Tales' and then a slide book on any theme you wanted - I chose to do an Alice in Wonderland theme .

My chosen fairy tale was 'Beauty and the Beast' and with all the hype of Twilight of late and Vampires I figures if Beauty had a chance to update her choices she may well only date Vampires these days? Or at least that was my take on the 'Fractured Fairytale Sarcasim I could come up with any way. Above is the ATC made from the left overs on the right, the middle is the back of the ATC's and the one on the right is one of 12 made in the series.

I enjoyed using the new Marth Stewart dripping blood punch as you can tell, along with Tim Holtz rock candy crakle medium. I played just a little with Picasa to create the background picture and the grave scene. Lots of red Copic pen and an old German Noval lost a few pages in the process.

And you can never get enough of embossing so just a little here on the cross for a lttle touch of drama on the 'left overs' ATC.