One World One Heart Giveaway Blog Event

This international event has been organised by Lisa Swifka from her blog …A Whimsical Bohemian… and she said ‘the original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world … to discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way”

This is the first time I’ve joined in with this annual event or offered any giveaways from my own blog so I hope I’m doing it right - there are four prizes in total - read on.

….. So here goes, Roll Up, Roll Up, welcome to my blog, it’s great to see you here whether you are a regular visitor, an occasional browser or you’re here for the first time - you are all very welcome and I hope you’ll come back some other time too.

To be in with a chance to win one of my giveaways all you need to do is leave me one comment. Please make sure I will be able to link back to you or leave an email address so I can contact you if you are a winner. The draw will be made on 15th February 2010 so if you want to enter, please ensure to leave your comment by midnight 14th February. I will post the names of the winners on my blog on the 15th February and will post out the prizes during that week.


So, what are the four prizes?

1.  A jointed paper doll called Leilah. She is a cousin (twice removed) of Aladdin and will soon embark on her exciting journey on the Magic Carpet and maybe will arrive at your house? Her body is cut from card and painted with acrylics. Her clothes are fabric and her hair is a boot lace. Her face has been moulded from air dry clay and painted with acrylics. Her legs and arms are moveable. I’ve put a couple more pictures of her on my Flickr photostream (link is in the sidebar). 

2.  A book of 30 sheets of silk screen printed Vellum
A border pack of heavy uncoated paper stock (50 sheets 2x12”)

An altered domino magnet (details of how I made it may be found here)

3.  A book of 50 sheets of heavy uncoated paper stock (8” x 8”)in ‘Antique Creams’ colours.
A border pack of heavy uncoated paper stock (50 sheets 2x12”)
An altered domino magnet

4.  A paper punch - mini tag shape

A border pack of heavy uncoated paper stock (50 sheets 2x12”)
An altered domino magnet

So there you have it! Don't forget, leave just one comment to be in with a chance of winning and come back on 15th February to see if you've been lucky.

If you want to continue riding the Magic Carpet and be in with a chance to win more goodies go to Lisa's blog and check out the list of other participants.

All that remains for me to say is Good Luck, Bonne Chance, Viel Glueck, Goed Geluk, Buena suerte.

Art Freebies Challenge

This week's challenge on June's Art Freebie blog was to use an image of some papyrus. I knew papyrus was a type of old paper but I looked it up and discovered that it is 'thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant and first manufactured in Ancient Egypt'.

With this in mind I decided the use the image as a background to the Egyptian Pharaoh 'Amenhotep' (yes, I looked that up too - lol!). So it's a beeswax collage - the first layer is dark gold coloured tissue, then the image (after cutting parts of it away), then the Pharaoh and his name (covered again with some of the tissue to cover up the white paper) - all adhered with the beeswax and finally some gold ink around the edge to give a slight border.

It's turned out a bit green due to my printer ink running low - I quite like the effect though and it blends with the dark gold tissue.

Art Freebies

Art Freebies is a new blog created by June who each week is going to post a freebie image for us to use in a challenge - we can make anything and in her words "as long as you use this image in your work in some way. ATC'S, COLLAGE, CARDS,TAGS, ALTERED ART, DIGITAL, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING"

The freebie image this week is of Lady Macbeth. I have made a simple ATC by first sticking on the image then making a 'peeling paint' effect background using petroleum jelly and acrylic paint (smear on the jelly, then paint straight over the top and once the paint is dry, wipe over with a dry cloth and the jelly acts as resist.) The quote 'what's done, is done' is from Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 2)and was said by Lady Macbeth to her husband who was distraught after having murdered King Duncan at her instigation. I thought the red peeling paint effect represented all the blood shed in the play.