Quickest post ever!!

This week Gillian paid us a visit over at Paoer Artsy. she did a gorgeous mad piece using the paper artsy postcards that we all receive in our crafty packages....you can pop over and see it here..

I well and truely ran out of time this week so did this piece in about ten minutes!! I do quite like it though :D

I didn't have time to do loads of stamping but I think like it without....

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Canvas inspired by Alison

Two posts in two days!! wow...Seemed to get a wee bit more time to myself this week and the weekend off as well. Alison Bomber did some lovely work this week over on the Paper Artsy blog you really should pop over and have a look here

This one was inspired by day 2...  I just used a 5x7 canvas and followed along with what Alison did.


 At the end of September some of us patwits got together for a two day class with Lin Brown up in Potterpury..well that is another blog post and coming soon I promise!! Well the naughty girls presented me with a lovely set of stamps by Darcy because I did a bit of organizing..so I decided to use them on my canvas and here it is...

Chalkboard

Well it's Darcy's last week as GD over on the paper artsy blog and what a week it was!!! Her first project of the week was a lovely chalkboard...you can pop over and see it here. I loved the project and thought I definitely wanted to have a go..also want to have a go at all the lovely projects she rustled up this week..the patchwork paper here...and the fabric book is to die for..but need to find some jeans to cut up!!! you can see it here..well you should just go over and see all of it from here because she even designed some gorgeous stamps!!!


For my chalkboard I used a bingo clipboard which I had picked up ages ago in one of those pound shops.. I painted it all over in little black dress, Then I coloured some grunge paste with guacamole and stenciled the leaves up the side. I then painted in some hey pesto and green olives.

After seeing Darcy's new stamps it gave me an idea what to put on the leaves as I didn't really want flowers because the board is a bit small. I bought some great molds at Stevenage earlier this month and one of them has a cute little heart..so I made some light weight paper clay hearts and painted them with claret and london bus frescos..they were stuck on along the vine. I made a banner with some calico and painted it with haystack. This was all assembled onto the board and little paper clay bumble bee.
I made a loop from grunge paper to hold the chalk...and done.


I would like to thank Darcy for sharing her fabulous projects with us with such great step by step instructions

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Have a Heart

Just a quick post...I have been playing around this morning before getting ready for work. I had a go at Frances project on day 1 over on the PA blog. You can see it here.

I took a size 8 tag and gave it a thin coat of blood orange, dried that and added a thin coat of crackle glaze, dried that and added a layer of snowflake. I distressed the edges and added a small amount of black ink.
Next I cut two paper artsy primitive hearts and stuck them together, added a thick layer of grunge paste and pushed a chain into it....let that all dry. I painted it in london bus and when that was dry sanded it back to reveal some of the grunge paste underneath. I gave it 2 coats of gloss glaze and let that dry.
To finish it off I wrapped some chain around and added a tiny padlock and key from my stash..stuck it to the tag and added some black ribbon.

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Inspiration from Darcy....

On day three of Darcy's GD week over at paper artsy she was making all kinds of pretty things for a garden party!! Well surprise surprise I didn't have much time to make one of the larger projects but the lovely little stones she painted caught my eye...you can pop over and see all the projects here..and there are a lot of them!!! All beautiful and very clever.

So with not much time to play with I painted three stones in a mixture of bora bora and mermaid frescos.  I added the word ART  using grunge board letters and stuck them on with glossy accents. I then gave it all another coat of paint. I used hey pesto to shadow around the letters and to give it a bit of contrast.

Next I stamped the small script from clocks 1 lightly over the letters with olive archival dried that off and gave all the stones a wash of snowflake dabbing most of it off with a baby wipe..

Lastly two coats of Gloss Glaze and they are finished. I will put them outside my shed somewhere I think...

                   Not a fantastic picture, the colours are much brighter.

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On day one...

Blimey two posts in one day I really am trying to play catch up!! On day one Darcy did some gorgeous shabby coasters!! I really wanted to have a go at this..so popped into tesco on my way to work and picked up a pack of coasters with the cork backing..you can see how Darcy did it here

I only had time to have a go with two of these...don't think I have quite got the hang of it yet but will have another go when I have time...

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