The Erosion Bundle Project

I have recently joined the a Flickr group of like minded people who are readers of an American Magazine called Cloth Paper Scissors and who all live in the UK. One of projects that was in the May/June 2010 issue of the magazine was called disco (disintegration collaboration). Essentially it’s all about placing some bio-degradable items somewhere outside to weather and deteriorate as Mother Natures see fit – then bring it back inside to reveal and dry and make some form of creative art with the results. The group was encouraged to hang their bundles out to be exposed to the elements on 21st June 2011 and leave the bundles at the mercy of British weather for 6 months and bring them back inside for the big reveal on the shortest day of the year - 22nd December 2011. Well I have come to this project a little late so I have put together my bundles and hung them out on the 4th October 2011. I will still bring my bundles in on the 22nd December 2011 and see what Mother Nature has done to them.

My First bundle is what I call my Romantic selection of papers, fabrics, ribbons and other found objects!

The second bundle is a Rustic collection of papers, fabric, metal objects and even a used teabag!

They were wrapped and tied in Calico for the Romantic bundle and Hessian for the rustic bundle.

Both bundles are now hanging from the Bay tree in my garden.

You can see more about this project on The Erosion Bundle blog.

Colin says that it is now confirmed that I have finally lost the plot.

However, I am quite excited to see what the British weather can do to these bundles.

Halloween Home Decoration

I have just spent the last few days making my contribution for the Halloween Home Decoration swap on UK Scrappers. For this swap we worked in groups of 9 with each person choosing a letter to make up the word HALLOWEEN. I was last in my group and had the letter N to do! I chose a spooky theme which I had fun creating but I got a bit carried away with doing it and as you can imagine there was rather a lot of cutting, embossing, painting and gluing involved!!!!

Thanks for looking and I hope if you are the recipient of one of these you enjoy displaying it along with the other 8.

Tip in Trail pages.

These are the Tip in pages for the Tip in Trail on UK scrappers.

Irene's Nature Studies page.
Kitty Crafts Punky/Gothic/Stampotique

Thanks for looking.

Artistic License Circle Journal

This is the canvas that I made for Tigs over on UK Scrappers.

Interpreting her chosen artist Vincent Van Gogh, the picture is called 'The Harvest' and was painted by Van Gogh in 1888.

I have used Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky-back Canvas.

First printing and mounting the main picture and adding a framed smaller section of another printout. I have framed the smaller picture using Gold metal which I embossed first. To finish off I added 3 small silk sunflowers as another small homage to Van Gogh.

I hope Tigs like it!

Thanks for looking.

Affirmation Postcards

Another fun challenge completed.
Over on UK Scrappers Lou has organised you can see details HERE. For inspiration Lou gave us a link to Kelly Rae Roberts. I really enjoyed making these postcards and can see myself making a lot more!

Thanks for looking.

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.