Mosiac

The lovely and amazingly talent Laurie Mika was in Australia teaching at the Creative Soul Retreat last month. Thank you Laurie for your abilities and patience, you really do amaze me with your calm manerisms. I had to step outside my comfort zone for this piece of art as this is something that I just would never have done on my own, but Laurie convinced me it was alright it will work, the vision I had was good. I so lack in confidence a majority of the time, most people don't know this about me. I had to leave the class at one stage and re-group, breathe, breathe and breathe some more then take a step back. Upon returning I was in the right frame of mind to get the job finished, whilst everyone was playing Trivia Pursuit I sat and fiddled, filled and finished the job. I do say that now it is finished I really like it and will make more, I especially like the centre where the face is actually raised up and it looks like it is floating. I did a transfer onto the polymer and it was so easy, I watched Laurie demonstrated this technique early in the day. This piece is quite large measuring 19cms squared plus the overhangs,the frame is quite deep and very solid.

Thanks Lady Di for getting me out and about by going down the mountain for Lady Di supplies, taking a drive has always made me feel better.

Family Wedding

It seems so much to get married these days, things just are not the way they used to be, traditions are a thing of the past but not on this special day for my cousin. Stephen was married to a really beautiful girl Sarah in the most traditional way I have seen in many years and they are so happy together, kindered souls. Like all of my family I have to make a card to mark the occasion and this was the wedding card that I made for Sarah and Stephen, simple and sweet. Punched the flowers and shaped them myself, had a relaxing time making it too.

May all the years Sarah and Stephen spend toghether bring nothing but happiness and laughter. Awesome wedding, everything was perfect even the weather.

Altered Mask

Never done one of these before "Altered Mask" so much fun and the brain was running rampant........ think I might have to make some more soon.

Doing Crazy Things

Well today is a crazy day, I started out with a list of what had to be done in order of priority. That didn't last long, everything that could get in the way of achieving these goals did. So in memory of my crazy day I have created a little crazy ATC, not the norm for me today. Credits go to Rian at http://riandesign.eu

Vintage School Days ATC

Vintage School Days is an ATC made in the Landscape format for a change. Background painted in Raw Umber & Yellow Ochre. Lettering Stamps are HeroArts and the dotty stamp is part of a Kaiser Craft Set, sorry don't know the name of it.

Eyelets you either love them or hate them.........

Eyelets, I used to love them when I was scrapbooking but now I am not that keen on them the only thing that is good about them now is the fantastic 'crop-a-dile' tool to make using them easier, thank goodness for my sanity. Had to use 'Eyelets' in this swap on my group, the image used here is a freebie from http://riandesign.eu Rian has some amazing freebies and you should drop by and see what she has. Thank you Rian for being so generous and kind. I love your creative imagination.

Black & White With A Hint Of Colour

Created these ATC's for a swap on my ATC & Mixed Media Yahoo Group next month. I didn't want to do the typical and colour a part of clothing or a hat so I added these metallic wings. The background is created with the brayer onto white cardstock, really simple, I hunted through paper for what seems like forever and finally came to the decision of just brayering my own. A dear friend of mine always says 'Less is better' I think she is correct in this instance.

Margaret Day In Melbourne

A truly lovely lady friend of mine came to Melbounre from Sydney a day early from her family and invested some time playing with the gang, being Lucy, Glenda and myself. Margaret who has all the patience in the world was teaching us some techniques with solder and links etc. We set forth to make some Bezels and create a little bit from Stephanie's Lee's book which I have mentioned on here before. This time like always we decided to put our own little twist to it. We had fun cutting the Bezels 'oh my what a stressful time that was' there is a technique to it, I do have to say. LOL turn the gadget not the pipe.....LOL... we know Margaret, I can see her laughing now. Did I mention how great and patient she was, I am sure we put her through hell and she handled it with such grace. I am such a stress monger at times....LOL. Well we Bezeled, soldered, fluxed, no I am not swearing....LOL and we soldered some more. My twist is I wanted to fill my bezel with watch parts and resin, this is the finished result. We also made these little bird nests soldered into the metal and they are still on the table being worked on but not much longer and I will post a picture of them too.

Twinchie Tuesday

Twinchie Tuesday that is what my dear friend Lucy and I called it. We had the mammoth task of creating what we believed to be a huge number (25) Twinchies for the Creative Soul Retreat 2010 Swap held here in Melbourne in about 5 weeks time. The theme for this Twinchie Swap was Leonardo Da Vinci, well this is my contribution and believe me when I say it took me the whole day. I am so over Twinchies that I never want to see another one again. LOL

Etched Metal Pin/Necklace

My nearest and dearest friends and I got together for another day of play and this time we were working from a book by Stephanie Lee and this is our version of her pin, we made a few changes and one of the main ones was it was a necklace, I don't wear pins. I did the etching all by myself without the trusty friends lurking and making sure I did it correctly, gosh is that spelt right? LOL I have to admit the etching is deep and feels fantastic to run the finger over. I darkened it with patina this made it look so much better. Above you can see the metal just after the etching was done and before it was folded into shape.