Mixed Media Monthly Challenge for January -- Time Flies: The Artistic Stamper & Anything but cute.

For this challenge on Mixed Media Monthly I have made another page for my steampunk & time jigsaw book.
I painted gesso onto the piece and added some of Tim's tissue paper which luckily had a time definition on. I used some texture paste through one of my time stencils. When this was dry I went over all of it with distress inks. I stamped some of Chocolate Baroque's steampunk stamps onto card and fussy cut them  I finished the piece off with cogs and some wooden letters.
I also made a large tag with some of my favourite Paper Artsy stamps.

I am also entering this in the Anything but cute challenge  which is Ring out the old bring in the new. I have used some steampunk stamps from Chocolate Baroque that I hadn't used before.

http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/challenge-9-ring-out-old-bring-in-new.html

Also entered into the Artistic Stamper challenge -- Anything goes

http://www.theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/january-2016-new-creative-challenge.html

Some more Dyan Reaveley style journal pages

Here are the next lot of journal pages.

Crafty Individuals Challenge blog -- Lace and buttons

Crafty Individuals first challenge of the year is for bits and bobs, lace, buttons etc. I decided to make mine with fabric. I stamped one of  Crafty Individual stamps of women onto fine white cotton, cut them out and then added fabrics lace, buttons, lace and beads.

Tag Tuesday-- Windows

A quickie one this week. The background is distress inks, with a die cut for the window. I stamped some trees on the background. I added flowers at the base for the window box.

Every Inchie Monday -- Village

This week we have to get a village on the inch, so, as we have been away I did two African villages. No way was I going to attempt churches and cottages on an inch.

Craft Barn challenge A-Z

On The Craft Barn challenge site, they are doing an A-Z theme. You have to stick to the same substrate eg tag, ATC, dictionary page, journal page, etc. I am going to do a tag book, as I have always wanted to make an alphabet one.
I have used one of Tim's crazy birds and placed it in a nest. The background is from an old book with distress inks on top.
I have just read through the instructions again, and when I get home I will put a B and the dictionary definition on the tag.

The last pages for my sea book

These are the last three pages for my fabric book of the sea. Just the cover to do now.

The background is made with felted silk tops. The fish and ammonites are made with 3D fabric medium through a thermafax screen onto lutradur and heated with a heat gun. The lutradur disintegrates with heat, leaving the fabric medium. I then sewed it down on the machine and added yarns and beads, and larger beads for bubbles

Fabric stamped with Indian wooden blocks, the embroidered on top. Yarns added for the seaweed, and beads for bubbles

This one is a small quilt with various different fabrics, silk, cotton, scrim, heated polyester, and yarn. Beads, peddle fabric and a seagull added at the end.