Flower Power Canvas!

And Now For Something A Little Bit Different...

New Treats!

Wow, went halves with my FDF on some "Wafugami" speciality papers at a bargainous price! $19.99 (that's around a tenner!) and we got 16 packs of different colour combo/designs of these gorgeous delicate papers. Each pack contained at least 12 sheets... just look at my half of the stash... all laid out... they are all double sided, and some have the most gorgeous metallic or pearlescent sheen to them... mwah!

"Beautiful exotic paper in handy 6"x6" size pieces. Great for collage, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, iris folding, cardmaking, altered arts and more! "

To top it all off, the packs each had the most fantasticly sumptuous names!

• Lime Gingham Combo
• Light Pink Gingham Combo
• Red Gingham Combo
• Light Blue Gingham combo
• Bubblegum
• Gold Metallic/Solid Combo
• Metallic Shades of Greens
• Metallic Shades of Red/Pink
• Horizon Wave Art Combo
• Summer Daze

Yummy! These papers are, for want of a better word, lusherly! But will they get used, or become part of my "look don't touch" craft stash museum? Will have to wait and see!

The Holiday is Over; 1 down 1 to go!

Hooray, hooray, it's a holi-holi-day! Done and dusted, 4 Holiday/Vacation Themed ATCs, 3 of which will go in for the ATC Addicts R Us themed swap for August. The other one... aha!

Anyways, to each ATC I chose an image from either the "funnies" or "travel" ATC paper pads, adding colour using direct to paper technique, to lift them up off the background. Also added 4 fancy corners to make each image look like a snapshot from a holiday photo album.

Got Tuna?

Attached the phrase "Got Tuna?" with mini micro brads, adding a fish charm (thank you FDF!) which I had alcohol inked. Final touch, a wavy peel off (yup, you read that right, a *peel off*!!!)...

Memories

Added an alcohol inked metal plaque - memories - and some rustic looking gold glass chips, to create the effect of a pebble beach...

Dip Your Toe In

Added a windsurfer charm which had been alcohol inked, attaching it with a brad. Another wavy line peel off (am I feeling alright?!) and this one was done!

The Gene Pool

My favourite I think - attached an alcohol inked sea conch charm using a mini micro brad, and added the phrase "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard" - the final touch was a few of those rustic gold glass chips.

And, hip hip hooray, 1 down 1 to go - I have completed one of my gothic arches. I was drawn to them as soon as I woke up, so took advantage and got cracking with finishing one off.

So what have I added to what was once a mere background? 2 stamped images of teeny weeny flutterbies in spring pansy, coating the images with diamond glaze. I also stamped teeny weeny swirls in gold, attached a wire coil/ribbon to the bottom left hand corner, then, using wire, attached tiny lilac sequin flowers all the way round the arch so they kinda hang off - added a bit of ribbon to one of them. I bedazzled up the dark butterfly images on the backround paper using, those things I can never remember the name of... accent beads!!! I also gave both of these butterflies antennae (could resist!) Finally I added my alcohol inked metal butterfly and voila!

The Master Calls a Butterfly

Mona Lisa Smile - Hey Mona!

Backtracking - 7th July 2008

Hey Mona! Ooooh Mona! Anyone remember that song? Craig McLachlan, circa 1990 (?) Anyhoo, it was my turn to assemble a bag of goodies for each members of Goody Bag Girls, and see what we all created! Inside each bag was...

• blank ATC
• 4 pieces coloured wrinkle papers
• 1 piece cream/gold marbled paper
• pair of cream diecut wings
• 2 tiny star washers
• letters to spell the word "smile"
• selection of flower sequins
• florist's wire
• brad
• length of ribbon

What would you make?! Well here is what I did!

I think Mona has borrowed Elton John's glasses!

Going Under...

Backtracking - 9th June 2008

...under the sea!

It's a theme for ATC_addicts_R_us this month and I have gotten rather into the jo-zone with this one. There is something about sea colours that make me go ooooh and I had loadsa fun playing with these backgrounds and creating collage-y style under sea scenes. Above you can see are the works in progress...

The backgrounds are actually wallpaper samples courtesy of Sainsburys Homebase (!!!) to which I have added colour with my ink pads and twinkling H20s - see how the spots on the wallpaper have resisted more intense colours? I love that effect!

I have decided that Friendly Plastic is now *definately* my friend - I used it to create the starfish on the ATC this ATC "The Weight of Water" using one of several molds that have been gathering dust in ye olde craft room. Had fun distressing star washers (from DIY store!) with clear inkpads and B-Muse embossing powders (love those powders, must buy more!)

There are heaps of elements used on the final ATCs from charms to crimped tigertail, from ball and chain to beads, from mesh to mulberry paper. A right mish-mash of stuff, but somehow it
works! (I think...?)

Ripped up a dictionary for the various words... some of them are rather teeny-weeny so to see them proper-like you'll have to click on them ;)