The Play Date Cafe - colour challenge PDCC106

This week's challenge over on

The Play Date Cafe

is to create something using the colours

Grey...Yellow...Pink

I had a problem thinking 'pink' when the colour square in their

picture above was more of a dusty tone.

I decided to work with a 'pink' which looked more like the colour square

rather than a bright pink I had in my mind.

I've been making a doll each week for these challenges so thought

I'd make a dress with pink and yellow ribbon.

When it came to it though, I just didn't like the combination

so made a background with the colours instead

It's mountboard covered with book text then coloured with

a combination of paints and mica sprays.

There's a little silver in there too to represent the grey.

Instead of a dress, I made her a trouser suit - that

sounds so dated now, what shall I call it - an 'all in one' perhaps,

although it is actually a two piece!

Her shawl is some sheer grey ribbon

and her hair is grey coloured embroidery thread.

Her name is 'Gray' and here's a close up of her face.

Her pink clothes look darker than the colour square,

but her lips at least are pink!

If you want to see some more of this colour combination

Grey...Yellow...Pink

there is a linky whatsit on

The Play Date Cafe

and I'll be adding mine to it shortly.

Thanks for looking :)

"She-Art" - I could resist no longer!

After seeing various 'She Art' on lots of different blogs,

I finally gave in and signed up to the She Art Workshop by

 Christy Tomlinson.

(click on the picture below for further details)

I've just completed week one and created my very own 'She Art Girls'

I wasn't brave enough to work directly onto proper canvases so

each one of these is a piece of loose canvas measuring

approx 3 and a half by 5 and a half inches.

This first one started off with a tissue dressmaking pattern

and I was so pleased with how it turned out.

The words I chose for the first girl was 'Practice Makes Perfect',

this second one I wasn't so pleased with, and decided yes -

'It's all about the Journey'

This one started off with various book and music pages -

and can you see the ticket too?

The final one - 'tell me the truth' .... no don't

I may not like the answer - lol.

This one started with various scraps of scrapbooking paper.

I really enjoyed making this art and look forward

to seeing where the 'journey' takes me next!



The Play Date Cafe - colour challenge PDCC105

This week over at the

The Play Date Cafe

the challenge is to create something using the colours

Kraft/Taupe...Flesh...Cadet Blue

 

Well, here's my take on the challenge -

meet Medusa!

I cut the bodice from a scrap of leather but used the

reverse (suede-y)side as the colour better fitted the challenge.

I sewed on a strip of lace at the top.

The skirt and wrap are both sari ribbon - I've been lucky

that for the past three weeks of joining in with these challenges,

I've had just the right colours of fabric.

The 'Medusa' locks are part of a recycled scarf.

Her face is moulded from air dried clay and painted with acrylics

and water colour pencils.

She is mounted onto mountboard which I covered with

brown paper, then distressed a bit with masking tape, gesso-ed,

painted and added some Brilliance Dew Drop ink

-colour Pearlescent Sky Blue.

I also had some sari ribbon which complemented the

colours so added that to the edge of the background too.

I stuck everything down with good old glue sticks using a glue gun

- I was amazed that the glue didn't come through to the front of the

 sari ribbon, it must be extremely strong fabric.

I don't know how it will 'age' though (the glue that is)

as it isn't acid free.  As Medusa is staying with me though,

it doesn't really matter - we can age together gracefully,

although I think I've got quite a start on her! 

Thanks for looking :)

An Altered Tin: 'Fall in love with Buttons' Swap

'Fall in Love with Buttons' is a swap I joined in with on a lovely blog called

Button Floozies.

"With Autumn soon upon (most of) us, I thought it would be a lot of fun to have a Fall-themed swap! The Fall in Love with Buttons Swap is one-to-one; that is, each participant will be paired up with a swap partner. We will each alter an Altoids tin, filling it with autumn colored or autumn themed buttons, and send it to our partner!"

I love buttons (well, who doesn't!) and I love sorting

through them, so couldn't wait to alter a tin to fill it up -

 I had to though as I didn't

have the right sized tin but found one on Ebay.

I painted the tin with a coat of white acrylic,

then covered it with some Autumnal patterned Decopatch paper.

I cut some leaves from scraps of leather

using the Tim Holtz' Alterations/Sizzix 'Tattered Leaves' die.

I found a couple of wooden beads to represent berries.

I stitched the leaves and berries onto an old doily flower then stuck it

onto the lid.  I also added a couple of Autumnal themed buttons.

I remembered a poem learnt at school, well the first few

lines of it anyway - Ode to Autumn by John Keats.

I Googled and found it, printed out a few lines

and added them to the outside and inside of the lid.



Then the best bit - finding all the Autumnal coloured buttons

to go inside - I must admit I wanted to keep them all - lol!

Here's all the buttons I managed to cram inside the tin.

Unfortunately my swap partner hasn't confirmed whether or not

she's received the tin yet, although as I sent it out at the end

of last month it should have arrived by now.

This is how I wrapped it - the button card (gift tag) is a rubber stamped

image from the 'Very Vintage Set 3 La Couture' A Katy Fox Collection

from Toodles and Binks.

If you want to see some of the other altered tins and buttons

there is a Linky thingy on the Button Floozies blog here 

and some more on the Button Floozies Swaps

group on Flickr here.

Thanks for looking at mine :)

The Play Date Cafe - colour challenge PDCC104

This week over at

The Play Date Cafe

it's their '2nd Anniversary Challenge' & to celebrate

they have lots of lovely prizes to give out to lucky participants.

It was my first time joining in last week and I was thrilled to

get so many lovely comments and also a little award

for my blog - yay!!

Thanks guys!!

This week's (Anniversary) challenge is to use the colours

Mauve...Egg Yolk...Artichoke

What fabulous colours they are too!

I've decided that whenever I join in with these challenges

I will make a doll of some sort and mount it on a card

as I did last week.

As luck would have it I had some sari ribbon with two

of the colours already combined!

I machine stitched a few strips together to make the skirt.

The bodice is silver self adhesive tape coloured with alcohol inks

and roughly embossed freehand with a pointy stick.

Her shawl is more of the sari ribbon but with some felting yarn

meshed into it I did this with my new needle felting tool.

How easy it was to do too!

The background card is old music and book pages

coloured with distress ink and acrylic paint.

Her face is moulded from air dry clay and coloured

with water colour pencils and acrylic paint.

Her hair is mohair fleece.

(I've just realised I didn't give her any pupils in the eyes - oops!!)

Thanks for looking x