Every Inchie Monday - Bag

On Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is bag. I was away for the weekend, so took my sewing kit and made a tiny bag out of some scraps I had. I was careful not to let anyone see what I was doing, in case they thought I had finally lost the plot.

Tag Tuesday -- Egypt

On Tag Tuesday this week, it's Egypt. I can't remember when I last used my Egyptian stamps, probably years. So out they came, dusted off, and used for this weeks tags. I coloured the backgrounds with distress inks and stamped with black, brown, and rust colours. I embossed the one of  King Tutankhamun on gold mirror card, with a bright blue. I had previously tried to emboss in gold and colour in the blue. Hopeless, so out came the gold card, which seems to have a greenish hue when scanned.. To one of the tags I added gems, and to the other some charms. 

Every Inchie Monday -- Gate

This week on Every Inchie Monday, the word is gate. Running short of time as usual, I painted the background, drew in the fence and stuck on a hinged gate. It is open, so you can see into the garden The scanner even gave me a shadow at the bottom of the gate.

Artful times Challenge 38 - Scrap art

On Artful times, we were challenged to use up our scraps. So, rather than go pull up some weeds in the garden, I tackled an 8" x 8" canvas that has been lurking in my craft room since 2008 when I did a class at Ally Pally. I hated the canvas and ripped all the stuff off it. I decided to use up all the bits left over from the class with Finnabair, and this time use a photograph of my mum. I would have taken it to the class if I'd been organised enough. I glued on all the strips of canvas and lace first, and added some cogs and numbers. I cut out the photo and placed it in position. All the chunky bits were then added and the whole thing painted with gesso. I spayed on the colours, and when dry dry brushed some more gesso to dull the colours a bit. Finally I rubbed on some copper Treasure gold. That just about finished up all the bits I had left over.

Show us your twinchies - Autumn and Autumn colours

I haven't been on the Show us your Twinchies challenge for ages, and am still trying to catch up with everything. I don't know where the time goes, but go it does.
I decided to do a fabric one, using up some scraps of fabric made on a Lynda Monk course. It's lutradur, foiled and bonded on to felt. I cut out some simple leaves, and machine stitched them on. The picture does not really show up the golden foil on the leaves.

Tag Tuesday -- Wings

This week, on Tag Tuesday, ( I'm very late with this) the subject is Wings. I was going to do butterflies, but decided bees would be fun. I am going to make a whole tag book on the subject, now I have started.
The backgrounds were coloured with distress inks, and on one I made some honeycomb with air dry clay, using a stamp, and then stamped some bees, and a small tag. The other one I used a honeycomb embossing folder and again stamped the bees on separate card, and stuck them on. I hung bee charms on the bottom of both tags.

Layers and layers

On a course with the wonderful Finnabair we made three projects.
My favourite was the book , then the canvas, and last of all the 12" x 12" layout on some of the gorgeous paper.

The secret of this was layers, not only with paper, but with gesso, paint, and embellishments. I don't normally work with all the multi-layering of embellishments, but really enjoyed making all three of these. We were given loads of stuff to work with, and Anna's teaching was brilliant.