Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw swap

I am really enjoying all the swaps I am involved at the moment and the latest one is a Jigsaw puzzle swap. 9 of us have been sent a 9 piece chipboard puzzle and we have each chosen a different theme/character from Alice in Wonderland to decorate our puzzle pieces. My chosen character is The Mad Hatter. Rather than bore you with a long explanation of how I have decorated my pieces I have taken photgraphs of the process.

Painted base with cut out hats.

Painted hats and fine detail painted onto the base.

The basic kit I made up for a hat embellishment.

The puzzle pieces are being posted. One completed puzzle is going to Canada so I thought I had better give the hat a bit of reinforcement!

I did worry a bit about the size of the prototype hat, thankfully I was able to scale it down.

All the hats drying off from the Claudine Hellmuth matt medium, which will hopefully help protect it from the rigours of the post office.

All the hats and other embellishment now glued in place.

Ending up with a Jigsaw puzzle that still fits together after all that paint/spray and glue!

You may notice that the pieces dot match up at the joins but because there will be 9 different themes it does not matter and I am not that Mad as to try and get all my pieces to match!

I hope that they work well with all the other lovely pieces and that my 8 swapees like them. I am really looking forward to seeing the completed project. I will share it here when it arrives home to me. I do know that Annette has just popped her puzzle onto her blog and it is really gorgeous. You can see it HERE

Thanks for looking.

Tim Holtz Sewing Room Die

I have been busy with the Tim Holtz Sewing die! I have used it for a project that I put together for our Funcrops third birthday crop and a chipboard swap that I am in on UK Scrappers. I combined the project and the challenge and I have used the 10 samples I made for the UKS swap. Hopefully my swapee's will enjoy receiving them as much as I enjoyed doing them!

Here is the finished project I made for the Funcrop.

This is the kit I put together for everyone to play with. I must thank my really lovely friend Irene who helped me design this little box. We had a fun afternoon in my craft room!

A table to play on

Some of the lovely finished little boxes.

Thanks for looking.

Artistic License Circle Journal

I have joined an Artistic License Circle Journal on UK Scrappers.
I am just about to post it on its way so I thought I would share my efforts with you. The completed journal should be back home again in about 9 months.
Each month I will be completing a page or shape for everyone taking part.
Details of the circle journal can be found HERE.

I will post all the pages that I do here on my blog once the completed journals have been sent home to my fellow jounallers.

I will also post my completed journal here for everyone to share then you can see what a talented group of people have worked on it.

The Maya Road calendar display stand I am using for my Circle journal when it arrives home.

My front cover using the design on the front cover of the book I have on my chosen artist

Victor Vasarely.

My interpretation of Vasarely's 'Kiruna'

Thanks for looking.

Tip in Pages

On UK Scrappers I am involved in a Tip in Page swap.
More info and information on Tip in Pages can be found HERE

The pages I have done are:
1. WORDS TO LIVE BY
2. ALICE IN WONDERLAND
3. VENICE
4. THE LIFE AND LOVE OF TREES
5. FAERIES
6. THE SEASIDE and an extra page on BUTTERFLIES to say thank you to Netty for hosting the swap.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

VENICE

THE LIFE AND LOVES OF TREES

FAERIES

THE SEASIDE

BUTTERFLIES

Thanks for looking.

Alice in Wonderland tag.

Today I have been making a tag for a swap I am in on UK Scrappers
I have another 7 to make but thought I would share this one with you.

Hopefully my swappee's will like it.
I have used a Ranger, Tim Holtz tag and Clear Art stamps.

Sneak peak.

Here is a sneak peak at a project I am working on at the moment. It is a labour of love and yes that is me wearing my Easter bonnet on the front cover!


More updates coming soon. (I hope)

Sal's barn layout.

Here is a Lay out I did for one of my Document 2010 pages. It is of a massive building project that Sal and Rich embarked on in in 2010 and now in May 2011, they have nearly completed it. to say it is amazing is an understatement. A layout of the completed project will be on here in the future.