I Know

Challenged by a friend to make something using scrapbook papers (something I don't do often), this is what I came up with. The song I Know What You're Doing by Dionne Farris is a favourite on my ipod right now, and as I was listening to it when I started this, I used some of the lyrics as the text.

It's a Maya Road chipboard book, and was covered with Sage and Sky Butcher's Block papers. I've had those for a long time and always liked them, so it's nice to have finally used them on something. I also used some of the new Tim Holtz unmounted stamps, which I'm loving! While on holiday in the USA in the summer I bought some snaps that look like phillips screw heads, and I've used those for the first time here. Am loving those too!

This turned out a lot grungier than I had originally planned, I guess it was just the mood I was in! Oh, and just to say, if I'd actually counted and realised there were 20 sides of chipboard to be worked on, I may never have started it!! LOL

As ever, click on an image if you want to see a larger version. Enjoy :o)

"Classy" is in the eye of the beholder

I was asked to make a birthday card today, and it had to be "classy". Always a worrying thing to hear!! Anyway, I turned out two examples, and here they are. No fancy techniques, just plain stamping and a bit of tearing. They're even too classy to actually say happy birthday!! Enjoy! :o)

A Mixed Bag

2 more Christmas fat pages today, completed in between preparing Thanksgiving dinner (which turned out lovely, thanks very much for asking!).

Enjoy! :o)

Three French Hens

Well, if for "french hens" you substitute "tree branches". 3 variations on a theme here, all using one of my favourite stamps, Tim Holtz's tree branches. Um... and not much else to say about them!! Oh, except the moon on each was made using acrylic paint, and one of my favourite crafting tools, the little finger of my left hand. Enjoy!! :o)

The ceremonial burning of a mermaid

It's Canada, it's Thanksgiving, and that can only mean one thing.... time to burn a mermaid!! Well, perhaps not a traditional Thanksgiving pastime, but it's how we spent our afternoon today. A carved wooden mermaid, bought long ago on a beach in Mexico, was past her best, with a broken tail and two broken arms, so it was time to put her out of her misery. Down to the fire-pit at the bottom of the garden we went, and a toasty time was had by one and all!! :o)

They say things come in threes....

...so here are 3 more christmas fat pages.

I've joined a christmas rubber stampting themed swap list on the Craft Swap forum (http://www.mfbb.net/craftswap for those of you interested in friendly craft-related chat and lots of fun swaps to take part in!). There are 20 people in the list, and we each make 19 pages and send one to each person on the list, at the end we will each have a unique 19 page book of eachother's work. I'm almost 1/2 way through making mine, first time I've ever been ahead of the game! LOL

Similar routine here to the other pages I've made in this set, except that I decided to try out a couple of alphabet stamp sets that I've had for a while and not tried yet!


As ever, comments welcomed! :o)

They say it comes but once a year....

... but that's clearly a lie!! It's only a couple of days later and Christmas is here again! Rich reds for these ones, always very christmassy in my book, and maybe a little bit of a retro feel too, though that could be down to the stamps I've used. No acrylic paint this time, just distress ink pads. Fired brick distress ink pad was rubbed directly onto the pages to colour them, then rubbed with a wet baby wipe to get the patchy blurry effect. Any extra blur effect is down to my phone camera!

My much loved Tsukineko/Sakura white pen has gotten very sick, it's either dry or dropping great globs of white ink all over the place I haven't been able to find a replacement locally, so I have used a Sakura glaze pen for the snow and beard highlights. Still on limited supplies/equipment and photographed with my phone.

All is Full of Love

After getting a bucketload of free mount board off-cuts from my local framing shop, I cut some squares and started to muck about with acrylic paint and some new (and old) stamps. I was listening to some music and All is Full of Love by Bjork came on, one of my favorites of her songs, so rather than throw out my experiments I stamped some of the song words onto them and bound them together with the Bind-it-all. (I can't stop binding things! It's so nice when you get a gadget that actually does what it says it will in the ads! lol)

I make no great artistic claims for this, I was just messing around. Nice to have them in a book rather than floating around on my desk getting messed up or lost! Click on any of the images if you want to see a larger version.

Cover

Page 1

Page 2/3 - "You'll be given love, you'll be taken care of"


Page 4/5 - "You'll be given love, you have to trust it"

Page 6/7


Page 8/9 - "Twist your head around, it's all around you"

Page 10/11 - "All is full of love. All around you."

As ever, comments welcomed!

Nursery Wrongs

I got to thinking about nursery rhymes the other day, you know, the way you do (or maybe you don't, but I do). They're all so old now, often written as cautionary tales about events of the time, for example, I believe that ring-a-ring-a-roses is about the great plague.

I thought it was time some of them were updated to caution against more modern phenomena such as divorce, drug addiction, etc. Cheery soul, aint I?

Covers

Page 1

Pages 2/3
"Peter, Peter, married cheater, always looks for something sweeter"


Pages 4/5
"Little Miss Muffet sat on a bus, her marriage had crumbled with minimum fuss"

Pages 6/7
"Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie, addicted to pills that made him high"

Pages 8/9
"Monday's child is tense of face, with nervous glance and can of mace"

Pages 10/11
"Jack Sprat got none of that, his wife was never keen"



Pages 12/13
"Lucy Locket, electric socket, farewell note stuffed in her pocket"

Pages 14/15
"Matilda told such dreadful lies, a friendless life became her prize".

Comments welcome, as always!

In-flight Entertainment

This project is based around the movie descriptions in an Air Canada in-flight magazine. They were so short that taken out of context the sentences seemed a little bizarre, and many of them were not even recognisable as the movies they were supposed to be describing!




Pages 1/2 - "A commitment-phobic man keeps falling for a woman with no short term memory".



Pages 4/5 - "A professor framed for a murder in the Louvre unravels a religious mystery".



Pages 6/7 - "The son of a brilliant archaeologist receives the ancient map that his father died to protect".



Pages 8/9 - "A Manhattan orphan infiltrates a brutal gang in order to avenge his father's death".



Pages 10/11 - "After a series of unsuccesful romantic set-ups, a visually impaired man meets a woman he could fall for".



Pages 12/13 - "Stripped of her noblesse, a French woman goes to Versailles to try and win back her status". The attached mini-book contains an account of the famous case of "The Ghosts of Versailles", in which 2 women on holiday in Paris in 1901 claimed to have gone back to the time of Marie Antoinette.



Comments welcomed!