Long time no post

It's ages since I last posted, been busy and still managed to do a bit of crafting.  A couple of years ago I signed up to do a Suzi Blu on line class but never managed to finish it.  I finally decided a few weeks ago that I would start again but couldn't find it on my computer, then suddenly realised that I'd put it on my external hard drive.  Went to find it there, then remembered that I'd deleted everything on the hard drive to start afresh, what a fool I am.  Anyway this week I've been playing with drawing faces again, but I still cannot get the eyes right.

All paints and sprays are Dylusions, dress cut out of a piece of 7 Gypsies paper.  If you look closely you can see when I painted in the eyes. nose and mouth, but they were awful, so went over with skintone paint from Dylusions which is on of Dy's new colours and is fantastic.  The writing says I'm giving up but since I made this, I've decided I might joint another course on how to draw faces because I'm not going to give up, lol.  I think my girl looks very sixties, in fact I remember Dusty Springfield having hair like this.

Art from the Heart's 10th birthday blog hop

Lots of exciting things happening at Art from the Heart next weekend where the big birthday bash is happening. Want to know more then do click here 

So in Celebration we are having 5 birthday blog hops.

You should have reached my blog from She and are on the Stampotique Team hop

here is my first project

I used Dylusion acrylic paints, then sprayed through stencils with Dylusion inks, I stamped  Stampotique Supergirl and Uncle Buck onto an old book page, added some circles and lines, bit of splodging with a paintbrush loaded with watered down acrylic paint, machine stitched around edges

Here's my second project

Background is the same as the first project and the sentiment is from Dylusions Say What you Mean

Before you move on - you will need to collect a letter from me which is K

This is part of an anagram of a Stampotique product

Once you get back to Dys blog please email your answer to Ben.

So after leaving me a comment you need to move on to

here

Have fun hopping!

August Finished - on time!!!!!

Well I think this is a first for me.....August finished, but I have to admit not even started September.

Dylusion acrylic paints and sprays, made my own beach huts, Tumblefish Studio beach girl image, bit of doodling.

The At Journal Calendar is being hosted by the fabulously talented Kate, so why not take a look here at all the other gorgeous creations.

Warning - contains scenes of a sexual nature!

Had a brilliant day yesterday at AFHT taking a workshop with the super talented Kate Crane. It was a full class and I met some blogging friends, so it was nice to put names to faces.

This is the first page we did...

Background is created with Dyulsion paints, we gessoed through some stencils, then put on some gorgeous layers of Dylusion inks.  A Stampotique image with acetate bee wings from Jo Capper-Sandons bee stamp, bit of doodling and finishing off.

My second page took on a different theme from everyone else's.  It was inspired by the lovely Christine (who has a blog but rarely does blog).  You see she always wears rubber gloves when using inks and sprays and we were having a bit of banter and she got hold of the top of her gloves and snapped them, well the conversation degenerated after that so much so that I can't repeat it, but you'll get the theme when I show you my next page, but you've been warned, do not carry on reading if you are easily offended.....

Thanks Kate and to all who were there, I had a great day.

Enjoy the rest of the Bank Holiday weekend.

A lovely afternoon creating art

Had a wonderful afternoon yesterday with my youngest granddaughter, Charlotte, crafting.  Whilst she was happily playing with acrylic paints and crackle glaze, I did a journal page.

I used Paperartsy Fresco paints from here, then sprayed Dylusion ink sprays through various stencils, used a couple of the new Dina Wakely stamps, a couple of Stampotique stamps and the sentiment is a Wendy Vecchi.

I'm going to enter it into the current Stampotique Designers Challenge No 36 - Altering a Book Page.

Bucket bag

A couple of weeks ago we made a bucket bag at Craft Den, instructed by the very talented and patient, and I mean patient Jo, we had to make these flying swans.  Well she tried and tried her best to make it easy for us all, but no chance.  It took us ages and by the end of the day Jo was bright red in the face and had a bit of a dab on, lol.  Still we certainly laughed and laughed and eventually managed to get it right.  

You can see the 'flying swans' here

Different angle

Here you can see the toggle which helps to fasten it

You may wonder why there is a fly swatter on one of the photos - well a pesky wasp decided to land on my head, so I ran around a bit, hands all over the place trying to get rid of it, just made it madder, so got the b***er with the swatter!

July finished but where's August

Only managed to do July's pages yesterday morning, I seem to have been very busy over recent weeks, so although I'd kept a note of what I'd been up to, I'd never actually painted and prepared my pages, so unfortunately it's a very simple design.

Went all Wendy Vecchi.......I just love her stamps, backgrounds are Dylusion paints and sprays.  Take a look at Kate's blog to see all the entries.

......and where is August, it's well on it's way, been busy doing it today and almost done, just needs a few finishing touches.

It's been really humid here today, a day for just being lazy really, some hope.