Have you visited the freshly re-opened Picture This! challenge blog yet? We have a mood board challenge going on – beautiful, bright colour combos. Here is my interpretation of the board: Make sure you visit the blog and take part!
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Forever | canvas
Sunday – Funday. I decided to enter a challenge that is so completely out of my comfort zone. Mixed Media Warriors July challenge is all about creating on reversed canvas. I grabbed an old canvas I had stashed away from the time I claimed the office and changed it into my studio/craft room, a jar of…
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Greens & blues – tags v2 | ScrapAfrica
If you read my previous post, you will know that I didn’t really like the Greens & blues – tags v1 | ScrapAfrica I made for the April mood board challenge from Scrap Africa. After some time of battling with myself, I went back to the studio and too a fresh set of tags. This time it…
Read MoreRemember | Cold Weather | 7Dots Studio challenge
Today’s page is my entry into the December-January challenge at 7 Dots Studio; the challenge is called ‘Cold Weather’ and that is the only direction you are given here (apart from incorporating products from their range in you work, of course). As a base, I used Rising of the Sun paper from the Love Is In…
Read MoreSet of Christmassy-ish cards
I’ve been trying to catch up on my snail-mail this week and, as apologies for the long wait most of my penpals had to endure, I decided to make each of them a kind-of-Christmassy card (yes, I did write 3 letters today as well as made the cards – it was quite a task but…
Read Morebits and bobs | canvas
Today, I wanted to show you the canvas I made using a variety of metal embellishments, 2 old brushes and two mica powders. The canvas I used has been recycled from a winter project that I mad some time ago but didn’t really like. I removed the old elements as much as I could and then…
Read MoreScrapAfrica challenge no65 | mood board
This week I have made a page inspired by the blue/winter mood board in the ScrapAfrica challenge no65. I love the delicate blues and wintery feel about it so I used a very old photo of a 6-year-old me sledging down a snowy slope. Good old days… As always, I created loads of layers of texture…
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