Lasso

We have a new theme for our inchies....lasso!

A snippet from a magazine for this one....

And for my ATC... I used a mop-up background, a rope stamp for the border & a hand sketched lasso,

YeeHa, I think I'll go rope me a steer or three LOL!

DLP

As a focal point/coming into focus ....

I've gone super simple this week for the DLP challenge....used the Sizzix/TH butterfly frenzy to cut a stencil. I've sponged black acrylic, used some butterfly washi tape for the background and then used pens & black soot DI to colour the large TH layered butterfly that someone had sent me in exchange for some layered leaves.

Inspiration

Well this week the Journal 52 challenge took me right back to my City & Guilds Creative Embroidery days!

Inspiration board is what is called for and I just dived into my box of bits that do it for me.....

There's a lot on here : left book page (love the writing) an artists "hiland coo" a label wrapped with silk thread, a paper artsy metal image, some stencilled paper, butterflies die cut from alcohol inked paper,a knight on his charger (history buff), a crazy looking lady (love the colours/textures), a gelli printed piece +corset! some fishtails! assorted silk thread.

right: a fashion ad, more variegated threads,lace, jute & hessian, a piece of canvas work with assorted stitches, a piece of correspondence paper, book, a couple of artists pictures, seashells, a gem, flower, more threads.

I'm a great lover of pink/orange & turquoise/green combinations as well as working with texture although that is mainly in my textiles (when I do them which seems to be seldom these days)

Inner strength

I had to think about how I wanted to interpret this weeks POSITIV>>+>>JOURNAL theme which is "your inner strength". So like the French to give you deep meaningful themes! Reminds me of all the intellectual & philosophical classes at school....

Crumpled tissue paper + DI over both pages, edged with more DI.

Die cut letters + fired brick.

I've hand stitched 4 layers of papers together: base layer is angel hair paper(stash) then paper with acrylic fibres included that I made on a course about 25 years ago with Geoff Lowe, a layer of mulberry paper printed with Indian script followed by another layer of my own paper that has bits of metallic machine embroidery threads through it. I used a variegated Caron Wildflowers thread in Burnt Toast.

A little red heart & some chit chat stickers to finish off

Hope that next week is not as deep!

Manicure

A new paint job on my nails today but I'm hopeless at taking piccies with 1 hand so I'll just say that it's a very pale opaque grey/mauve (free with Cosmopolitan!)

Nail is also the theme this week at EIM so here are my shares for this week

This is actually a piece from a magazine, an advert for Sally Hansen nail varnishes!

My ATC is a paper scrap, a piece of white card stamped with a hand print and red nails painted on!

Have a good week & thanks for visiting.

The weekend!

Cold grey weather this morning but the sun was pouring into my workroom this afternoon :-)

I finished my journal 52 page where the theme is just write.

Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass, Broken China DI with chevron & bitty circles stencils...

Then I just wrote...the story of my page.....

DLP where the challenge is borders & the prompt is borderline feels like I'm going to lose my mind....

I was determined to use some of the stash that was on my desk after a tidy up yesterday & the day before (making room for a printer on the bookcase) so my left hand page is all Nitwits paper & the right hand has some leftover elements....

A close up...left side

And the right...

I've spread a layer of yellow decoart, used paper buttons to partially create a border, written dreaming of warm summer days with a blck sharpie & doodled the border.

The flowers were stuck down, outlined with dark wash & then Molotow white dots around them as another border....funnily enough this page is far more along the lines of my comment on the J52 page as I'm wearing lime green jumper & jeans! The subconscious plays tricks on me yet again :-)

Happy weekend to you all & thanks for popping by to visit.

Poultry

Moo-mania have a new theme & quite by chance I had some appropriate stamps land on the doormat recently with a magazine.

I have even used up scraps...sketch book scraps and mop up scraps this week :-)

Here are my hen, duck & Jemima Puddleduck

It's a lot of fun using up my bits & bobs in this way & I've got quite a selection of Moos now, sometimes they even make their way onto card fronts!