Star Climber

Today I did a double LO of John when he did the aerial assault course at Xscape last October.

This one did for Wk 4 of 52 challenges - to make a chipboard embellishment. I handcut the star and painted it.

I have also been playing with paint again.

I used a vaseline resist technique on this page. You put blobs of vaseline on the paper, then paint over it, then when it is dry you wipe off the blobs revealing the paper underneath. I also painted some doodles on it.

Pizza Anyone?

Managing to get caught up with Elsie Flannigan 52 Wk challenge on UKS. This is my LO for week 3 - the challenge was to use ribbons. The photo was taken last April in Rome.

We took the boys to play short tennis at the sports centre today, which was fun. During the week Andrew and I went to see Alvin and Chipmunks which was funny. Its Back to the Books however for me as my next OU course starts today. I am doing a Level 3 course (eek!!!) Religion Today. Looking forward to it but a bit apprehensive too.

More Paint

Have been playing with paints again. Week 3 of Got Paint was to use masking tape on a piece of card then paint over it. It gives a lovely textured feel.

This page was done by painting the background with two different colours, the flower is chipboard and then painted. I made the leaves by using masking tape on card, then painting, then cutting out the shapes. I then used alcohol ink on the edges.

This page is for Week 2 of the Art Journal over on Emily Falconbridge's blog. (Yes, I know I still have to do Week 1!!) For this page I used masking tape over the bottom corner, then painted the page, then added lots of things with different textures.

Graffitti

I've been playing with paints again. Week 2 of Got Paint class at BPS was to try out graffitti stamping technique. This is where you use paint on your stamps and stamp repeatedly over each image.

This first page was done using acrylic stamps from Banana Frog on a painted background.

This page was using foam stamps.

This is a LO using the graffitti stamping technique. The photo is from our trip to Rome last April and is of one of the ruins on the Palatine Hill. I'm really not too sure whether I like it or not.

A is for ...

I'm on a roll today. Just finished my page for A for the Creative World Art Journal. I'm doing an 8 x 8 journal on My Family Life. A has to be for Andrew.

Got Paint

I finally managed to start my Got Paint class by Emily Falconbridge at BPS. I am going to do an Art Journal which will display the different paint techniques in the class.

This page was done using dry brush on background then wiped with a wet wipe, middle bit is pp with a Heidi Swapp mask.

This page is done using a dry brush and Heidi Swapp masks.

This page was done using an acrylic wash with dots of gold paint added, then I added words but from a bit of scrap paper.

This page was done using dry brush for the background, the middle bit is a piece of pp with gesso on it, then the waves etched into it and then painted.

I had great fun doing these pages.

SO

Finished a LO for Wk 2 of Elsie Flannigan 52 challenges on UKS - I'm up to date! Challenge was to convert a photo to black and white. Photo is of John last May at Gardenstown in a typical teenager pose, I can just imagine him saying So.... Background paper is from The Page Coaster Collection, Trendy Stripe, the other piece is from my scrap bag and I can't remember what it is, title is Heidi Swapp stickers.