I joined this months "Tag" swap , theme Midsummer Night's Dream",
and these are my six .. made digi and then printed out to
attach to ready cut tags. I hope my fellow swapees like them.
The main designs are all from copyright free art work (where the copyright has expired) and the backgrounds are from a
very old kit from Dedicated2Digital called Inner Storm ... I think it is discontinued now ... all of them either contrast enhanced or colour changed to blend.

This is a new adventure for me .. an Art journal/CJ. I am not used to the "freedom" in styles and application that an Art Journal uses but I am going to give it a go and see what happens!! I hope I don't let my fellow arties down.
The welcome page speaks for itself.. a printed and collaged scroll with vermicelli and doodling all round; The mainly white page has cut out papers and figures with doodled flourishes and "spots"; he black one .. a pair of stamped legs and some cut out borders together with squiggles and diaper patterns.

These two gorgeous jiggies are the ones made for me by my fellow jiggers ...the silvery one's theme is Metallic .. reading from left to right, top to bottom they are .... megbaby, T-Ann, me,sixofone,paddy,crafty barbie, material girl, scrappy dandy doo and Xmasbaby; the gold one is based on a Klimt painting .. dusty fairy, Ginger66, me, pip, mel81pop, nettyb, kikimama23, sabulous and Terris Chocolat. Thank you all ... I LURVE THEM.

Celtic Tags

These are my attempts at Celtic Tags for a swap on UKS. I don't have any stamps that could even remotely be called Celtic, and being a digi scrapper, I don't have much "stash" to use as embellishments, so I fell back on hand drawn ... except the horse and riders which were line printed (I'm useless at people!!) .. motifs which I then coloured with aqua-pencils and brushed through. Once finished I hated them .. they were on a white background .. so they have been scanned onto the compy and printed onto a parchment type card. You can still see some of the brushmarks though .. just to prove that I did draw these!!!

These are the finished pieces, made into the jigsaw shape so that I can see if they fit!!
Group 1 has the masks in the top corner, Group 3 has the gloved hand applying bright pink lipstick!!

Another round of our e-mail cj ... Typical is the "lift" done by Liz. Pretend is my version of hers!!

Last three ... just the backs to do and the complete set is finished!!

Bottom row: Illuminated T for T-Ann; Music for Megbaby; RED rainbow for Crafty Barbie.

I have finished the fronts of six of my pieces for group 2 ... from left to right they are:

Top row - Vintage Parisian Chic for ScrappyDandy Doo; Opposites for materialgirl197; Metallic for me.

Middle row - Dragon flies for paddy; Winnie and friends for sixofone; Pretty Embossed for Xmasbaby.

These are the pieces for the top row of the
Tiddy Jiggy swap .... a 6x6 jigsaw with themed
pieces which will be re-united as a complete jiggy
for the individual participants.

Masquerade for sabulous;
Nature/textured for kikimama23;
and my own piece based on The Kiss by Klimt.

This is the middle row.

Metal grungey for mel81pop;
Wings for pip;
Ammonites (and fish/Trilobites) for
Terris Chocolat

These are the pieces for the bottom row of the Tiddy Jiggy swap.

Vintage Love for ginger66; Flowers for dusty fairy; Steampunk for Nettyb.

OK, round two of the email cj ....Liz's "Focus" LO ... and my version "Too Far? Amazing how the same basic positioning can look so different, isn't it?

"Erewhon" is my version of a LO that was a class by Tracey Oakes in a recent CC on UKS. The "Schwedagon" LO is my scraplift of my LO ... there's complicated for you! ... which is to be my 1st email scraplift LO for an "email cj". I hope my fellow cjers like it.

This is the super stocking my Stocking Fairy gave me .. and, yes, ALL these things were inside it!!! Unfortunately at the moment I do not know who she is .. I cannot find a card/name anywhere ....so I shall have to find out and thenk her later.

A sort of "blendy-collagy" thingy ... experimenting with how to blend piccies into each other ... not too sure how best to do it, but I'm getting there .. I think!!

These are my contributions to the "Fairy Door" swap on UKS.

Gossamer's Gateway ... papier mache, Angel Hair, lustre paints and a butterfly:

Peri's Palace .... an embedded transparency from a brooch, clear glaze to make the window, paints and Stickles to make the "jewells":

Fuegon's Forge .... a gnome's door .. card covered in heat treated copper sheet to get a blend of colours, inscribed and treated with alcohol inks.

I hope they will be OK .. I enjoyed making them.

This is my returned jiggy .... one more piece to come but otherwise complete.

I LOVE IT ... so many different interpretations of Native American ... and such care and attention given to each piece. THANK YOU LADIES.

This is the 8x8 jiggy we are doing on UKS. I am rather pleased how it turned out.

Top: Pinkster_ piccy, Paddy _ Time, Mine _ Native American.

Middle: dotty_dotty _ Seaside, weaselwise _ Witchcraft, dusty fairy _ cupcakes.

Bottom: Princess Fiona _ En Francais, Material Girl _ Thought for the Day, AliBlack _ Winged Vintage Ladies.

This is the "page" I have made for Gill ... entitled "Home".

It's based on a Google Earth map ... though that is a bit vague now ... made of silk and metallic fabrics, beads and cotton perle threads, with a few viscose/lace motifs.

A couple of times the kind people who have left comments for me have asked if the piccy could be a bit bigger ..... this one is, so is that better?

Another Artarazzi challenge, this time courtesy of Faye .. thank you.

Somehow I can never seem to get past Van Gogh when I see sunflowers ... maybe because he painted so many pictures of them!!!

I extracted some leaves and parts of the flower for this one .. added a shadow to give some depth and then ... well, then my silly side took over!!!!

It's that time again .. another challenge from http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/ this time from Kelly, thanks for the inspiration. The empty ladder immediately made me want to fill it ...though not climb it personally as I am scared stiff of heights!!!!

The legs are from my "this is interesting" stash and the shards of glass are homemade in PSE4.

Whoa ... these challenges come around sooooo fast!!! Or maybe I'm getting too slow?

This is another Artarazzi challenge ... "You Give Me Fever" - a modern miss in a very modern stance!!.

I made a porcelain doll costumed as Morgana La Fay .. with a very similar stance ...hence the Medieval take on this one. The emblems on her sleeves and the stars either side of alLure spell out L in semaphore ..thanks to the arm placement .. so that gave me the title and "feel" too.

Another week, another Artarazzi challenge ... entitled Moon.

I have added a halo to the moon, coloured and layered the child and written a little ditty to tell her tale.

Edited to show verse.

verse reads:-The moon looked sad and it seemed to me, that he would like some company, So I took the lantern and a candle, but dropped them both when I broke the handle, So now the moon is sad AND blue, and, like him, I feel that way too!

Time for another challenge from Artarazzi ... this one is a fingerprint!!

I was wondering what I could do, not getting very far and probably slightly day-dreaming when I started to see depth in the print. Isobars on weather maps? Contour lines on maps? A tunnel? !! yeah!

So here is my tunnell/hole - tree rings and all ... being explored by an intrepid team of ashbseilers.

I think it must be an age thing .. but don't the weeks just fly by? !!

This is another challenge from Artarazzi ... a rusty, rivited outlet.
As soon as I saw it I could see a face in the pattern of rust ...but
who's was it? And then it hit me .. Darth Vader!! Hence the ATC ...
and the pun on the name. (sorry!)

Another page for the same cj .. this time for Chrissie .. entitled Mermaid (now I wonder why!!!)

The background was supplied and inspired a watery theme ... the mermaid is made of Angelina and fabric paints, some with a mettalic element. The "pearls" are sequins sewn down with pearlised thread, and two outline embroidered fish keep her company. The water weed is braid and feather stitch and a few strands of Angelina over the top finish it off.

This is my page in the Spontaneous Fabric cj , made for Sarah and entitled We Are One.

The background is metallic silk; I joined two pictures and used a filter on them to give the You/Me image. The knotted braid is handmade and the piece of silk brocade is held down with Guilloche embroidery.

Another week gone and it's time for the next challenge from http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/ .... the children were taken from a advertisement .... and I have extracted them in three sets, added colour and wings and foisted them on this poor fox!!!

Last set!! These are for me .. Native Americans .... Hopi in fact. The stamp is of three Kachina dolls and I have masked some of them to give a variety of placements. The photos were trimmed and shaped and I have added feathers and chain to echo the photos.

I am pleased with the results of my first "Deco" page swap .. I hope my fellow swappees are too.

Only two sets to go now ... this one is Vintage Ladies .. for Sheila.

The first one has a genuine stamp ... although it is a masked version of a larger one ... placed vertically on the side. The photo is an old postcard of real people .. unfortunately I don't know who they are, but I think they look like three generations of the same family ..... and the lace and background are digi.

The second one uses a "brackets" stamp to enclose the photo .. also a postcard ... with the rest digi plus a marker pen vine overlaid with Glossy Accents.

Getting along nicely now .... these are for Netty - Secret Garden - and both have "openings" to pick up on the "secret" bit. The gates were done on transparency so that I could use a "proper" stamp, and the background is all done with brushes on the compy. The birdie is a stamp, again on transparency, the background has scanned pressed flowers and brushed colours with two "real" stamps (gosh with the birdie that makes three on one page!!!!!) the blue flowers and the swirls. Will this do, Netty?