Less is More ....Hand Made Flowers

Hi....I'm back with a card for this weeks Less is More Challenge - Hand Made Flowers....

 

For the flowers I used a Cheery Lynne die...I wanted them to be soft so I cut them using a paper table cloth...the ones that look like fabric...and added silver pearly stamens.....the stems are from a Memory Box Die and the verse is from a JOFY stamp set...and I finished with a few black pearls...

Have a fabulous evening

Hugs

Jan...xxx

Another Tilda to Share

Hello...just another quick post to share a sweet Tilda...its a dull cool day here so I'm doing all the chores so I can spend time in the craft room later...I went to The Craft Barn yesterday and spent the day doing an Art Journaling class...great fun...so you might be seeing some different styles from me but in the meantime here's Tilda....

 

She's coloured with DI pens really trying to master these...the DP's are First Edition New Bloom...I seem to be stuck in 'same layout' mode but I just wanted to show more of the delicious papers...

 

Anyway..hope you all have a lovely weekend enjoining the sunshine..

 

Hugs

Jan...xxxx

 

Tilda with Holly....

 

Hi Guys....yes..it had to be done...the first Tilda Christmas card made today.....and...

 

a ATC...

 

 

Just love those buzy bees...lol..

 

Its a quick post tonight...too hot and bothered..lol...

 

Catch up soon..

 

Hugs

Jan...xxx

 

Gone Back....

Hello guys..happy Monday!! the sun is still shining here and its just fab......

Today I have something completely different for me....well perhaps not really....when I left school many moons ago my dream was to go on to art college..I went to an all girls school where the brighter girls were encouraged to go to Uni and study law and the lower achievers were force to do shorthand and typing which would ease them into office jobs...me?..I was lazy...just wanted to draw and paint...I liked history and geography...language's?..no chance...lol...Maths scared me..(still does)..and as for sports...well...my mum always said that I wouldn't run even if my bum was on fire!!!..lol....

.Our Art room at school was in an old cricket pavilion at the far end of the sports field and I would sneak off there whenever I could to work on my latest art project...I wasn't good at drawing unless I copied but I loved colour and shapes and I was in my element with all the psychedelic stuff going on around me (this was late '60's).  I found a passion for screen printing and was luckily encouraged by my art teachers to interpret any of my projects in this direction and I chose to do my O level exams with this in mind....I really would have loved to go into fabric design but my parents had other ideas and when I left school they wanted me to get a nice safe office job....I did manage to do something a bit more creative and became a window dresser...but that's another story.

I haven't sat and doodled for years let alone get the paints out and have a splosh about but I channelled my artiness into card making as you have seen...but for a while now I have been drooling over some mixed media blogs and books and I really want to do a course..I'm not sure I still have it in me but I feel I wont know unless I try...so I'm looking around for a course to do in my area...but in the meantime I had a play over the weekend.....and here is some original art work by me...its not overly mixed media but its a start albeit a tiny one....

 

I doodled freehand with just a pencil the design on watercolour card....then coloured with DI pens..then I misted with water and let the colours run a bit then dabbed with a paper towel...when dried I went over the pencil lines with a fine black pen..then I used the DI pens again to enhance the colours more then used a white pen over the lines here and there and added more doodles....

 

You know what?...I am so pleased with it..(if I say so myself) all my own work....I feel I've gone back to my first arty love...and I'm not going to give it up again....

 

Have a lovely day...

hugs

Jan...xxx

 

Butterfly Tag...Just for Fun...

Hello....happy Saturday!!!...its going to be a scorcher..I'm off to the hairdressers in a mo to have me roots done..lol...and then I'll be back to laze in garden for a while....so I just popped in to share a Tag with you that I made this week...I must have had the sunshine in mind when I got inky with this....

 

I'm really getting into inky projects at the moment..but I think I'm not adventurous enough yet...I seem to keep it simple... so I'm going to try to find some workshops to attend to broaden my style...

 

Anyway...Have a great weekend...

Hugs

Jan...xxxx

Less is More....Shades of Grey...

Hi Guys...I have finally made a card for this weeks Less is More Challenge...Shades of Grey...

 

Sorry about the grim pic....I did try to brighten it...here...

 

 

but the grey now looks black....anyway..I used a Memory Box die....a Hero Arts background stamp called Woven Fibres  Momento Grey Flannel ink and finished with a few crystals...

 

I have made a few more cards today which I will share tomorrow.

 

Have a great evening..

Hugs

Jan...xxx

 

 

 

Mmmmmmmm.......

.....Aren't they lovely...Lilies....my very favourite flowers.....

 

 

I bought a large bunch as I wanted the house to be filled with fragrance for Mums funeral  which was  on Thursday...these were her favourites too....we had a lovely simple service with her favourite music...I just hope she approved.  The family came back here for refreshments and I know she would have loved having us all together and enjoyed catching up with everyone.

 

She had some beautiful arrangements and this peony was in one of them...I had to bring it home as its so gorgeous...

 

 

it's huge...about 6" and so fragrant the house smells like a florist at the moment..its a good job I don't get hay fever...lol...

 

Anyway...after a very sad day on Thursday...I had a nice quiet day yesterday in the craft room...

 

 

I've had these PaperArtsy Jofy stamps for ages and I was feeling in an inky kind of mood so out came the  DI's and pens and had a play...as they are quite small it didn't take long to rustle up a little collection...I'm thinking of framing them altogether.

 

I doodled with a white pen and a gold sparkle pen here and there to give a bit of a arty feel...and added glossy accents on everything that is coloured red....

 

This one is my favourite

 

 

simple...

 

But I just love these quirky birds too...

 

 

so cute....

 

...I'm planning some more time in the craft room  today....with the patio doors wide open to enjoy the sun ....Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy your BBQ's later..lol...

Hugs

Jan....xxxx