A digi ATC made for the Digichallenge on Artarazzi ... Beauty.
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These are my entries for the Pre-Launch Weekly Challenge ... Christmas Decorations.
The top two have digi backgrounds, glazed at the bottom, applied to chipboard and with hand cut chipboard letters. The front set have embossed "snow". Both words are painted with metallic paint.
The Silk bauble is just that .. hand sewn silk, one with metallic threads woven into the fabric .. embellished with hand stitching and tasssell.
The last one is totally digi .. a star made from individual sections fitted together and shaded to look 3-D .. and two small fairies fixed to transparent strips so they can hover whilst sprinkling the fairy dust!

These are my contributions to the Christmas Tag swap on UKS. Normally a digi scrapper, these were a bit of a challenge but I quite like the results.

The top one - Frosty - uses a freebie snowflake stamp and the only snowman one I own ... given to me in last year's Advent swap!! ... using embossing powder to make them stand out. The letters are handcut (you can tell, can't you!!), painted and glitter embossed. Add a few sequins and that's it.

The bottom two are front and back of the same one ... the back is my digi version of Dan's 3-D one.

The front is painted, sprayed with lilac mica powders made up to a mist ...it shows better IRL ... with pale green stamped trees cut out and layered and a large star in Diamond Stickles. A few sequins and a digi title layered with a transparent one to give depth .. my first attempt at a tag.

This is my contribution to Magpie's cj .... the background is what I call "splodge" dyed - wet the fabric and just splodge on some colours and see where they go!!!. The leaves are traced from my garden and the stitches/gel pen shapes are based on Blackwork - except this fabric doesn't have an even weave and I haven't counted any threads, just guessed where to put them! The border is pen.

This is Saucy Duck ... made forruthieB for a friend who loves :- Ducks!!, black, travel (are the stars far enough?) and Flying Saucers .. the sherbert filled ones!!! I'm quite pleased with him.

This is the front/back of my page in the Spontaneous Fabric swap .... for MandyNiO and called "Shimmer".

The one on the left has an ink-jet printed silk background with organdy and metallic fabrics held on with various "laced" stitches. The back is again ink-jet printed, this time on cotton, with angel-hair and organdy strips tied down with french and colonial knots. The label is held on with chain, pistol stitch, buttonhole and french knots.

These are the pages I made for mistyrat in the Christmas Mini-book swap.

These are my pages for a "Spontaneous Fabric CJ" .... the top black and white one is my page, the middle one is the front cover with the name ARTITEXTURE ... and the last one is the back cover.
Apart from the "square" pin tucks in the first piccie, all pleats, tucks,beading, embroidery and sewing in general is hand done which explains some of the wavy lines!!!

Almost half way!

I'm in a swap for Christmas and I didn't know what to do .. what I thought my swappee would like or perhaps a modern one but then again how about a really old fashioned one? By being a little more patient, I was supplied with the information I need. ... must learn to wait!!

Up to date again ... I hope I can keep it this way.

OK, a LO done on time for once ... I bet I don't make a habit of this though!!

Next Batch.

I seem to be doing these in batches ... I get the prompts and make my comments OK .. and then seem to run out of time to do the LOs!! Never mind .. I am getting there .. just in stops and starts! These are 7-10.

Another LSN.

I made it!! You make your notes on the day, but scrap them the day after .. when you've thought about what you learned .... I must admit it does make you think!

Learn Something New

These are the first 5 day's LOs for Shimelle's fabby class Learn Something New everyday. I hope to get another one uploaded, and then I am up to date. Yipee!!

Definitely getting the hang of these now! I think they go well with "Victorian" "gentile" papers .. a bit shabby chic even!!

Draagon Circle mini-book

Annette goaded me into doing this Circle mini-book by saying it should be about DRAGONS ... and she knows what I'm like with DROGONS !!!

So here it is .. two Oriental and two Occidental DRAGONS ... with Dangleys too.

Sun Book

Annette gave some super instructions on making a square mini-book ... and although I'm a dedicated digi scrapper, I couldn't resist!! So these are the piccies of the finished article.

Oh boy, have I got the duckies bug!!

These are my latest three ...

Walter - after Walter Mitty, the little man with over ambitious fantasies (duckling . peacock)
Lorenze (de Medici) .. Rennaisance duck
Flora .. just a most flowery duck.

duckies!!

These are my first attempts to "alter" a baby rubber duck!!
I had great fun , got very inky fingers and glue and glitter everywhere ... but I like them, so I don't care!!!

First three Fabric Skinnies.
Lou's ... Shabby Chic ... silks, lace, embroidery and pearl buttons.
Wisher's .. Lingerie .. silk, lace, embroidery and tiny buckles.
Culpepper's .. Urban Landscape .. silk, millinery net, metallic braids, beads and embroidery.

These are the Fabric Skinnies ...
Mine ..Map Based .. a lake and salt encrusted edges from the air:
Magpie's ... Just the Right Words ... her colours with "beads, wire and scrummy stuff"!
Nejxr25's ... Creams/whites ... silks, lace, pearl buttons and beaded tulle.

This one is for Molly ... same technique of wire and beads, this time with capis shell.
It's called Blue Moons.

This is a wire/bead/bits and pieces pendant for Tracy. I hope she likes it.
I call it Sunny Circles.

and lastly ... this is mine .. Long and Short of It.

This one is Gothic ... for Nejxr25

This is Molsmum's ... Vintage

This one is Lou's Venetian Masks

This one is Guinevere's ... Venetian Masquerade

This is BuntyB's "skinnie" page ... Venice.

This is my ATC for the UKS CC swap. Had to be a film , and as I'm totally stupid over dragons, well .. this seemed a good choice!!

OK, these are those first four with the other five to make the complete jiggy ... each piece will be made up into a jigsaw with all the other pieces of the same theme .. mine will all be Fairy Tales.

These are the first four of my digi jiggy pieces. top left is mine, Fairy Tales, then there's Travel, Oriental and in the middle The Eyes Have It.

Whoopee!! With a little help ..actually a LOT of help .. from dotty_dotty aka Val, this is the piccie of my dollies. I hope you approve.

button dolls

I've made some button dolls for a swap on UKS but I can't, for the life of me , remember how to get a piccy of them up here!! I'll persevere and we'll see if I remember in the future, sorry.

back again, at last!!

Somehow I forgot all about Blogging ... it must be my age or something! Anyway, I'm back and I hope to upload some more bits and pieces in the next few weeks. See you then. Enjoy.