Journal pages

I have been experimenting again and these are the results.

Acrylic paints, stamps, rub-ons and pens

Collage, pens, water-soluble oil pastels

Pens, pencils, charcoal, water-soluble oil pastels

Collage, pens, water-soluble oil pastels

Credit: All collage pieces from Crowabout Studio B

Necklace

I made this necklace by embossing a piece of metal and attaching it to a metal backing piece. I then used acrylic paint and Glimmer Mist to give it an antique effect. A neat piece of jewellery that cost me less than £2 to make!

Grunge Paper doll

I stamped all the components of the doll (by B Line), onto Grunge Paper and, once cut out, coloured them with Distress Inks and Glimmer Mists. Attaching the limbs and head with brads made them movable - what fun!
The background is one a made last year using Starburst Stains and cling film.

All dressed up ...

I have been decorating dresses! Not sure what I'm going to do with them yet .... perhaps use as tags, or on cards ...

Arches

When a girl wakes up early on a (not) sunny Bank Holiday what can she do whilst waiting for her hubbie to wake up? Why, craft, of course!
I recently saw Linda Brown of LB Crafts make some sweet little arches, so I just had to try for myself and here they are.

To make one yourself, apply two or three colours of Distress Ink directly to the chipboard. Once dry spray some matte white Crafty Notions' Creative Colour Spray over it. Once dry, add a few more touches of ink. Stamp desired images onto the arch and add some embellishments. I made mine I used a metal/tape/cardboard sandwich (another of Linda's techniques).

Insects

That's the theme from Sunday Postcard Art. Here's my interpretation.

Credits: Miss Vivi, T Baxter & A Sexton - all SBG

Itinerary 22

Art Journal Caravan this week suggested that we think about ourselves from a different perspective. These are the mixed media pages that ensued:
 

The verb of the week is 'whisper'. I used this as the theme for my digital page:

 

My right foot

Here are two journal pages I have completed this week.

The first - my right foot: 

The second - urban living:

ACF 76

Art Creations Friday gave us this picture to play with this week:

This is what I did with it:

Credits: everything except the photo is from Crowabout Studio B Borders & Bits

Card

This is my piece for the Three Muses, who are celebrating their first anniversary this week.

Credits: T Baxter, Baers Garten, Miss Vivi all at SBG; Lisa's Altered Art

Eyes

This is a collage I created for a challenge from Paper Packet Fridays at Paper Digital Arts.

Credits: Ztampf, Maya, Ruby Rynne & Tangie Baxter, all @ SBG

Straight from the heart

A digital collage. All the elements are from Birgit Kerr's fabulous 'Urban Love' kit.

Shabby chic card

Remember those rosettes? Well, here's what I did with four of them.

A Tag

Crumpled card

A long time ago I made some crumpled backing papers using Starburst Stains. For whatever reason, they then sat in my stash unused. Time for action! I decided to make a card with them. After tearing out the squares I stamped flowers on the smaller one and painted them with metallic paint. I stuck it all together and added the peel-off greeting as the final touch.

Apologies that the photo isn't great; it was very difficult to get a good picture because of the shine from the papers and the metallic paint.