More e-mail cj LOs.

I have been rather lax in uploading these .. just realised I have three that were just sitting in the file!!! All of these are my versions of the LOs Liz sends me ... Just a Bit Closer is the April one, Family Day Out? is May and this month's is Water Reigns.

There was another place available in the swap ... so these
are my second set for "Midsummer Night Dreams" .. with
the emphasis on Dreams.
Again the piccies are from the web .. with wings added by me
and backgrounds from ACA_Iridescence, Nicecrane Designs_
Gothic papers, and two kits from Stacey Mann - Designer at
Digitals .... Surreality and Not Your Mother's Papers (!!)

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.