Desert Island Discs - Circle Journal - another page

Following on from my previous post earlier today,

this is the latest page I've completed - for Karen.

Of her song list, I chose 'C'est La Vie' by

Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

It isn't a song I'd ever heard before, but I took inspiration

from the words of the first verse ...

"Have your leaves all turned to brown

Will you scatter them around you".

Karen's page was a square of mountboard,

and I started off by sticking on old book pages around the edge,

then one layer of paint.

 

I thought I'd have a play with the small Gelli Plate I got

for Christmas and watched the video tutorial 

'Printing with Gelli: Monoprinting in Layers'  

I wasn't too keen on the next layer

Even less keen on the next layer!

So I brayered on a lighter shade of green

I added a few lines of paint, but still wasn't satisfied with it -

I carried on thinking in future 'less is more'!

I wanted some leaves on the page and remembered a great tutorial on

Ink Stained Roni's blog.

It's basically using brown paper, distress ink, glossy accents

and a leaf punch.

I love these little leaves, they're so realistic.

I also added onto the page a little card which opens up.

 This covered up quite a bit of the background (yay!!).

I scattered and stuck on some leaves, added a macrame, beaded

thingy I'd had pinned on my noticeboard (made a few weeks

earlier), a button from Hobbycraft which had the perfect

colour match flowers on, and added the title of the song

with some wooden letters.

 

 Now it didn't look so bad, in fact I was even pleased with it!

I hope that Karen will like it too.

Desert Island Discs - Circle Journal catch up

Towards the end of last year I joined up to a

round robin / circle journal with the theme

of Deserts Island Discs.

My original blog post has all the details in it. 

I've just finished my latest page, but before I blog it

thought I'd post here the earlier pages I did.

As it was a while back I can't remember all the details,

so will just show the photos.

This is the page I did for Virginia

for one of her chosen songs

'Dude Looks Like A Lady'

 

Front

 Back

Next is the page I did for Pat

for her song 'Isn't She Lovely'

Finally, here's the page for Sian

for the song 'Cut'.

 

 I was really pleased with the 'stencilled' couple

which was an image I printed off from Google, 

cut out and stencilled ink through.

I'll blog the page I finished yesterday next

which I can remember what I did with - only because

I took a lot of step by step photos along the way!

Mother's Day Card

This is the card I made for my lovely Mum.

I followed the tutorial at 

The Funkie Junkie

to make the sunflower.

I used white crinoline (for the petals)

and canvas (for the leaves)

and coloured them with Distress Inks.

For her present, I gave my Mum some earrings

I made using Peridot and crystal.

Hope all you Mums out there had a lovely day too xx

Tattered Floral Die Challenge

I'm back!

The longer I stayed away the harder it was for me to return.

However, if anything was going to get me back it was Tim Holtz -

and the latest challenge on his blog.

The challenge is to create something, anything with the

Tattered Floral bigz die by Tim Holtz/Alterations/Sizzix.

I've used this die many times but wanted to try something

different - so opted for Shrink Plastic.

   

Once I'd shrunk the flowers with my heat gun,

I coloured them with alcohol ink and glitzed them up

a bit with sparkle mod podge.

Here's a close up of a flower showing the subtle sparkle.

As the colour was quite translucent on the shrunk plastic,

 I had to paint the back with white acrylic and edged them 

with a Distress Marker Pen in Victorian Velvet 

which is quite a good colour match

for the Pink Sherbert Alcohol Ink.

I decided to make a ring .....

 ....... and a matching elasticated charm bracelet.

I think the round Rose Quartz beads are a good

contrast for the bright flowers.

In the centre of the double flowers is a little

Amethyst chip. 

The challenge ends 22nd March.

Pink plastic jewellery, who'd have thought it!

"Come on Barbie, let's go party"

Jane Austen paper Doll

I made this doll for Victoria, my swap partner

for the Advent Swap I participated in.

One of Victoria's likes is Jane Austen so I Googled

some images and her blue dress seems to feature a lot!

I copied it the best I could (oops, should have

ironed it by the looks of it, I'm sure Jane Austen's

dress would have been perfectly pressed and pristine)

Her face is moulded from air dry clay -

 the hair is some sort of dyed wool - 

I can't give more details as I can't get to my cupboard 

where my supply of it is kept at the moment as there's 

Christmas presents blocking the door!

Oooh-la-la - moving swiftly on!

I also made an ATC to accompany the doll,

see, there's that blue dress again - lol.

This is the last of the Advent presents I made for Victoria,

but it's been a lovely swap and I've felt like a little girl

again opening up a present every day

(and of course, there's still one to go!)

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I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing everyone

a very 

Merry Christmas 

and a  

Happy and Healthy

New Year

  

and to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart 

who takes the time to read my blog

and leave me comments, I really appreciate each and every

one of them.

Enjoy your celebrations and hope to see you

here again next year (if not before!)

Cheers

 xxxxxxxxx