Waxing Lyrical

Looking over on Suze Weinberg's blog I saw that she had covered a mirror with beeswax.  Well having a couple of those Ikea mirrors hanging about, taking up room, decided to have a play.  

My mirror was black, so put on a couple of coats of trad tan, four coats of beeswax, then pushed in different sizes of cookie cutters.  Then time to play, added loads of different colours of alcohol inks. dropped it on the wax then, gently at first, took off with paper towels, kept adding different colours and sometimes took off the colour underneath, sometimes left it on.  Really enjoyed doing it, and like the effect.

I put it on the wall to take a photo and my husband walked passed and asked what it was.  I said a mirror, and he replied that the mirror bit was far too small, he wouldn't be able to see to shave, I said, it's just a work of art, at which point he roared with laughter and said, but it's not practical......the philistine, see what I'm up against.

Crusade No. 44

I have decided to have a go at the journal technique challenge run by Michelle Ward, take a look at some of the lovely backgrounds here

You have to paint layer, upon layer of paint using a scraper, I used a Starbucks card, keep applying layers, taking a bit of here and there, etc.  Once I'd got the backgrounds to my liking, I then cut a stencil out of paper and, on the top one, used my scraper to put on paint and gesso, on the bottom one, I just used gesso.  Really enjoyed doing this, not finished, is anything ever, and will probably add to it next week.

SSC Week 120 - Ruby/Blue

Felt like doing a bit of crafting this week, so entering the SSC this week over on Hels blog, colours are ruby/blue

I cut out a greyboard piece from one of T!m's dies, covered it in white acrylic, crackle glaze, then turquoise blue acrylic, stamped with T!m's script stamp, cut out a greyboard heart, covered in TSS bard door metal which I'd put through Cuttlebug folder, sanded lightly.  Put a bit of fibre round and finished off with a gem.  Covered three silver heart brads with alcohol ink, bit of tissue tape, ticket attached with memo pin.  Really enjoyed making it and didn't take long.

Graphic 45 book

Had a brilliant day at AFTH the other day making this lovely book using some Graphic 45 papers.  Neither Dy nor myself were feeling too well, but managed to battle through and had a laugh.

Book front

Inside

I'm afraid I've not been too well for the last few weeks and this last week, really bad,  progressively getting worse, in the end had to give in and phone the consultant.  Had CT scan, chest X ray, bloods, breathing tests, etc., anyway when I saw him and we looked at the x rays, quite a shock because my COP has returned with a vengeance.  We had managed to reduce the steroids to a fairly low level, but now back up to max strength with the prospect of having to have chemo in December.  As you can imagine I feel gutted, but as my consultant said he never gave me any promises and there was always a risk that once the steroids had been reduced it would flare up again.  So we're now back to original diagnosis, it will take at least 2 years to get under control.  I was so looking forward to getting some winter sun in October, but not a chance in hell now.

I now know why my mojo has disappeared, anyway after a couple of days on my little miracle pills, I'm feeling a lot better and hopefully will start doing some crafting again. 

Hope you're having a good day, it's a beautiful sunny day here in North Sheffield.  

365 Journal page for August

Here's my page for the 365 Art Journal which is being organised by the extremely talented Kate

I haven''t even prepared the pages for September, I think a lot of us are a bit behind, but it's been such beautiful weather, too nice to craft.

Maybe I'll prep mine tonight because football is on the telly, so that means no Corrie.

A messy, painty day

I seem to have lost my mojo, but was determined to do a journal page today, even if it killed me, lol.  It was inspired by taking our two granddaughters to the coast the other day and the youngest, Charlotte, kept asking 'are we there yet'.  I'm sure you've all suffered from your kids saying the same to you.

I did this in my A5 Moleskin, painted the pages with gesso, painted on some acrylic paint, then used Altered Original Inks from AFTH, sprayed through various stencils, added the images which are all by Nancy Baumiller at Diviantscrap.  Finished off with doodling and made the images 'pop' with Portofino, sorry Portfolio oil pastels, which are the best oil pastels, ever.

Today is Sandy Poppins 50th birthday, Happy Birthday Sandra, hope you've had a fantastic day.

Birthday Blog Candy

Heather is giving away this gorgeous stamp, go and have a look here