My, how time flies!! This is another challenge from http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/.

The inspiration was the "squiggle" at the bottom of my version ... it comprised of one and a bit sections of the wavy lines ... and it reminded me of the wave form of acoustics - the electronic version of sound - hence the three short and one long sections. This sound .. dit, dit, dit, dah ... is the morse for the letter V, and Beethoven used it to open his 5th symphony. This, in turn, was used as the call sign for the British World Service during WWII .. V for Victory !! and all from a little squiggle!

Another super challenge from http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/ , this time the swirly bit that I have used as a "worm hole" to get my dragon home!! Again this is a digi ATC with the background erased in places to give a starry effect and then the swirl and dragon layered on top.

This is my somewhat tongue -in-cheek version of challenge 5 on Artarazzi. The button and background are from Plum Crazy by Dedicated2Digital. The font is Mariah. The title and quotes are from Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

This is my attempt at a mini book using toilet-roll inners. I'm not very good at embellishments .. I'm a digi scrapper and they come with the kit!! ... but I hope this will be acceptable. The "clouds" of words are courtesy of Wordle ... (great place for a play ... http://wordle.net/) and they are on the reverse of the pocket. The tag has a verse on the front, and space on the back for comments. A hanging label and some fibres complete the look.

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Great site for all sorts of crafty swaps ...

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This is my contribution to Irene's cj .... as you can see, I'm not too good on straight edges!!
The background is my Dad's silk paisley Evening scarf, the wide vertical lace is from an Edwardian hanky, the picture is my Mum, age 18 mths, printed onto lawn and the other laces are old cotton/ribbon. It's all hand sewn and IRL doesn't look quite so crumpled!

Yeah, today it worked!! This is my version of the "Marilyn" piccy for the Artarazzi challenge found here ...

http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/ I used the filters in PSE4 and just played around a bit ... I think it would make a great mouse-mat!!

I wanted to upload a digi LO for the Artarazzi challenge but for some reason I couldn't ... so it is here:-
http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=180537&cat=500 I had great fun doing it, and it was actually very easy using the filters that come with PSE4 !!

This is my entry for the second digi challenge to be found here ... http://artarazzi.blogspot.com/ I loved the way this picture shows the absolute trust between the child and the adult .... who's hand is offered - not controlling or grabbing the child's .... with the child secure enough to need only the two fingers for guidance and reassurance. Gorgeous. I decided black and white were the best colours to emphasise the picture without overwhelming it.

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!!