2cre8art challenge

Well the end of the month is nearly here. I had planned to do the January challenge from Barb and Bevleas new technique tutorial blog earlier in the month, but as usual time went no where.

We got home from the coast ( Woodside Beach) tonight, Australia Day and I thought I better have a play. I found this image of Sophia Andersons via another blog The Color Guru last week and really liked it so searched for one that I could use. It will show up on the retreat houses too :-)

Anyway, thanks again to Bevlea and Barb for creating the blog for challenges. You girls rock.....

New ATC done

This is an ATC that I did for the January Paperarts Free title. I had done a "No Paper" one for a NZ group and so decided to do a very similar one for the Paperarts group, but used a paper image for this one.

The background is some nice fabric that is old french writing, then creditcard technique washed some "green" paint over it, then added some netting that I had sort of dyed with some paints along the side, I stamped a flourish with versamark and gold embossed it, it did get more gold on the bits of wet netting :-) but I think it looks OK. Then after I added the image I put some "faux eggshell" (a technique I got from one of the Cloth Paper Scissors Magazines) bits on her head and added a bird image to that.I added some scrummy Black Mica Flakes to the bottom too.

Now........... Last Monday I went to Bevleas again and we did some more of Kelly Rae Roberts book. I just need to finish the two pictures we worked on and I will then add some pics here.
Til then, have a fantastic Australia Day weekend won't you.

My latest ATC and some other stuff

that was done for Paperarts last swap, Weird Chairs. I do like that pic of Marilyn. Thought she might like to take a trip on a Ship and waited for it on the tower bridge. Oh well, it is the New Year and had a couple of swigs so forgive me won't you.

This year I like a couple of others have decided my resolution will be to do the Challenges I have set myself, refer an earlier post. But I am joining Bevlea, Lucy, Eliza and Barb (from afar)to do some techniques from some of the art books we all own.

I am looking forward to the retreat only 10 weeks to go. Will be a busy time for me, as I have to go to the Gold Coast the week after for work.

Anyway, this past year has been busy for us, Went back to NZ in February for a wedding, had our kids over in March for about 12 weeks, went to Lakeland Florida
in June to buy some Golden paints LOL, hey the $$ was good, nah, went to a Conference, Thats Vegud, Alley, Geoff, myself and an American lady that we gave a lift home too. cant remember her name, bad me.....


also my job came to and end. Then when we got back just over 5 weeks later our second grandchild was born so home I went for a visit, while I was there the guy I was doing volunteer work for rang Geoff and asked us to move to Melbourne to work full time with them.

So end of September saw us move from Shepparton to Chirnside Park, so here we are. Before the move I went to Wagga Wagga to spend a few days with Barb . The end of the year has been good, some art time spent with Eliza and then some instruction days etc at Eva's. way to go girl, thoroughly enjoyed the soldering day. Then joined Bevlea and Lucy's play day along with Eliza which has now become a regular play day. So thanks to you all for making me welcome to Melbourne, a bit different to Shepparton. From art starvation to a wonderful feast of playtimes. Hey who has time to go to work.

See you soon

Happy New Year

Well, the New Year is in and dusted. My girlfriend came over from NZ and we had a great time, well I did anyway. We went to New Brighton beach, My friend dont like her picture took LOL............
Chadstone shopping centre, well spent about 2hours there, not enough even to do one corner, but I can now say I have been there, we went to Belgrave and came home via the Dandenongs and Sassafras (sp) spent a good time wondering the shops there. Ohh theres one I would love to replicate back in NZ eh!!Sandy.... Sandy spent her holiday pocket money on some nice things for her kitchen, hope you had no trouble at baggage Sands.
We also went on the Puffing Billy, would have been more enjoyable if the weather hadnt been so darn cold. We took Sands bush too. Now that was fun, apart from the leeches that decide they liked my legs oh yukkk..... we dont know how well off we are in NZ with no nasties like that.
anyway........... She went home on the 3rd. Will miss her. See ya in May Sands.

Play Day finished

Well, I have added my affirmations to my canvas made at Bevleas on Monday.
I am quite proud of it. Am I allowed to be LOL.
My DH said that knowledge made my neck grow and that Pinocchio was my boyfriend. LOL He is a shocker isn't he.

The technique was from Kelly Rae Roberts that was published in Cloth Paper Scissors issue 17. Bevlea is so clever and shared her wealth of knowledge on face painting, will I be able to do it again.hmmmmmmmmmmmm more lessons probably. Gosh, bubble wraps good stuff isn't it.... It sure make a good background.

Any comments on it will be gratefully received. :-)
Good, bad or indifferent LOL............

We are rushing up to Christmas time. We are having the week between Christmas and New Year off work. But looking after the business while the owners are away with family that are over from Germany. We have no family over so we will be Ma & Pa by ourselves. But my girlfriend Sandy is coming over on the 27th so we will celebrate a bit then. It really is quite hard to be here without family, especially the babies. They grow so fast.

Anyway, Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year. Check back soon, you won't know what I might get up to over the break.

Playing with Friends

Yesterday I went over to Bevleas to have a play day. Took a day off work......... Well it happened to be an enforced day anyway as I have been a bit unwell for a few days, so it was great to go and play. It was a great day. We played with some techniques from Kelly Rae Roberts Taking Flight book. Attendees were Bevlea, Lucy , Elizabeth and Barb from long distance.
Barb has hers on her blog already. Shes a clever GF.

Here is the first one of mine that we did. Almost identical to the book, but it was a practise run. I will do another soon with the stamps that I originally was going to use, but unanimous decision we decided to do the same as the book.

We then did another technique from CPS that I haven't quite finished yet. I will load it here when its done. But just to say that Bevlea is a fantastic tutor and I learnt heaps about doing faces :-)) Will I remember it for another time, probably not. But hey an email away or a phone call away and help is there.

2 IN ONE WEEK WOW.

Well here we are only 4 days after my previous post.
Not a lot happened at all. Have done a few more things artwise.
Sent a pennant series to a guy in New Zealand and it got lost in the post.
Heres the pics, sorry Denis. Will make you some more.






I enjoyed making them. I will do some more and hope that the firts lot turns up too, then he can arrange them across is new craft room wall.

I am going to visit Bevlea on Monday and we are going to do a page in a book that a few of us have. I am looking forward to it. We will be using Sculpy etc. Never done any baking clay seriously before, so a learning curve for me.
Ciow for now........... I will return :-)

Well I havent done so well yet in posting on this have I LOL.

My thanks to Bevlea for designing my Blog header. Shes good isn't she.

I will now upload a couple of things I have done in the last couple of weeks.
Ive been doing some house pages for a group I am in. The first one is Glass house for Nikki, the Architectural house for Lucy, next is Vintage house for Gail and along side is French house for Sarah. I cant wait fo my turn. My title is "My Mothers House" I have another one ( Greta's) in my camera to upload and another in progress on my desk. They are great to make..

Anyway. I am going to do my challenges, starting today, so will upload it ASAP, first I have to go into the challenge site and see what I am supposed to be doing.

WATCH THIS SPACE

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Ive been reading the book Artful Blogger and at first I thought the book was a bit blah, but on reading again I realise its time for me to do some serious stuff on here.

I like Michelle Wards Green Pepper Press Street Team idea from her pages(pages 24 and 25 in the book) and so I will try and do her Challenges so as to keep this blog more up-to-date. Its not a design team, so no tryouts, its about having fun and sharing your work. The challenges are called Crusades and are posted monthly. So.......... an updated look is on its way. When its done I will link to some very talented people.

I'm also going to Creative Soul Retreat organised by Bevlea Ross, being held in March 2009. I am so looking forward to it. Meeting lots of new faces to names and also some faces that I havent seen for a while. When I learn how I will link these things for you to follow and have a look at some awesome eyecandy.

Cheers
Glenda

Unto us a child is born.

Hey, people, I forgot to let you know that Victoria Rangi was born in Wanganui in New Zealand on July 26th, she is absolutely gorgeous and her parents and grandparents are very proud. I went over and stayed for two weeks. It was a precious time and I found it hard to leave the family behind. It was just wonderful to see the parents and also my number one grandson, mind you it was Papa he was looking for, but he certainly is a Nan-nans boy.

Anyway. It was so good to see Paul as they had stayed with us in Shepparton from early March to mid May. See his picture with his Dad, hasnt he grown. I Will update more later.