Artful Times Challenge. A mode of transport

I was going to make another 'man' card, but don't really need one at the moment. I used an already coloured tag that I had made previously, and stuck on stamped images of cars. I thought it looked a bit bare so made some little tags to add on.

Altered spectacle case

I have to admit that this sat on my desk for several months before I managed to come up with  an idea. It was the  fact that everyone else had done theirs, that spurred me on.

I painted the case inside and out with acrylic paint, and when this was dry I glued some shells in the bottom bit, and fibers for seaweed, and a couple of seahorses in the top. I added some diamond glaze in the bottom so that it looked wet. The outside of the case I painted with a metallic turquoise, and before it goes to my swap partner, I'll glaze it to stop the paint chipping off.

Fabric birdhouse book M, N & O

I tried to do something a bit different for these, and get away from the scene type ones I had made for some of the other birds.

Artful Times challenge---I do like to be beside the Seaside

This is a bit of a quickie as I seem to be rushing around like a mad thing. I love doing seaside themes and have an altered spectacles case on the go on the same theme. Will probably put that one on as well (when it's dry)

Artful Times challenge --Men

This challenge came just at the right time as it's my son in laws birthday, and I had a card to make. If it hadn't been for the challenge, I think it would have been a bought one this year.
I inked the background with distress inks and stamped a road map on it. I then made the main piece by again inkng with distress inks and cutting the vintage car out fron an old OS map. I couldn't resist putting an old , really old man in the drivers seat, with some children from magazines in the other windows. he now has the card, and I did get into trouble about the old man. Well he is 43 today.

Bird house book G, H, & I

Just realised that I hadn't put last April's pages in, so here they are. G was one I had made earlier, and just made it G for garden birds. H and I were made into mini landscapes for a background for the bird, which I had printed onto fabric, and bondawebbed on. There is some machine stitching on both H and I, which so far are my favourites.

Bird house book J, K, & L

I am now finding it difficult to find new ideas for these pages. I must read some of my textile books to get some new slants on fabric pages. I am stuck on the scene type route, and need to do something different. The smaller picture at the bottom had  to be done on a different scanner as mine is having a crisis. That is, I've run out of ink, and therefore the scanner goes on strike as well.