Finished!!

At last I can show the finished mixed media piece that I have been working on recently.

The Gift

mixed media on card

I have been so indecisive over this piece and I am relieved that she is finally finished. 

Hope you like her. x 

Paint Party Friday

I am a little worried that I may be boring some of my regular visitors as I have featured this WIP in my last few posts. However, I wanted to offer something up for this Paint Party Friday so I thought I would show some pics of how it has progressed since my last post.

I felt it needed something in the top corner and I was toying with the idea of a bird but I thought I would try this stamp.

I didn't like it so I covered it up with a torn piece of scrapbook paper.

I applied a few layers of paint and some stamping and then added the bird.

I am a little disappointed  in it but I am too scared of over working it so I think it will have to do. Perhaps I will keep starring at it a little longer and then decide.

I promise that the next time you see this piece it will be finished.

Thanks for visiting. x

WOYWW & WIP

Hello there. It's time again to join in with this weeks WOYWW.

This is what's on my desk today.

She is still a work in progress. I have just placed the little bird down for now to help me decide whether to add it in or not as I feel it needs something else.

Thank you to all who visited last Wednesday and for all the lovely comments they are very much appreciated. x

Cardboard Cutie.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was working on a piece of mail art for a blog friend. I couldn't share it at the time as I didn't want to spoil the surprise. Now that it has safely arrived at its destination I can now let you take a look.

I used a piece of cardboard and adhered a piece of scrim using matt medium. I then applied some gesso and modelling paste. For this little 'cutie' I used charcoal pencil and acrylics.

I have a fallen in love with this little one. I'm glad she has gone to a good home.

Thanks for visiting. x

Paint Party Friday

I don't know where this week has gone but it's Paint Party time again.

It has been a hectic week but I did find some time to play around with my mouldable stamps. For those of you who haven't visited here since last Friday and are interested to see what I did this week with the stamps you can have a look here.

I made this little piece from one of the stamps and a lovely tiny autumn leaf I found.

Then I used it to make a stamp.

I also used the same textured background on a stamp the add texture to this mixed media piece I am currently working on.

I hope you will stop by again and see how it turns out.

Thanks to everyone who has left such lovely comments recently, they are always greatly appreciated.

Bye for now x

Linking this post to Paint Party Friday.

WOYWW 280

I'm late today. I've been sitting in A&E all day with my Hubby. All the tests came back fine so that's good. So it's now 5pm and I'm sitting here with a late lunch of peanut butter (crunchy) sandwiches and a hot cup of cofee sharing my desk and whats on it with you.

This is how it looked first thing this morning, before the trip to A&E.

I am currently working on small mixed media piece.

Here is a close up showing how I used one of my moldable stamps to create some texture.

If you look very carefully in the bottom right hand corner you can see where I got the impression for the stamp from. I have found that you can get some of your best impressions from lightly textured surfaces.

If you haven't seen these moldable stamps before and you would like to know what I am talking about. You can see on my previous post here. 

Well I'm off to get my second cup of coffee and check out some other work desks. If you would like to see what others have been up to this Wednesday then click on the WOYWW badge in the side-bar and take a look.

Thanks for visiting. x

More Molded Stamps.

Following on from my last post I have been creating some more stamps from moldable foam.

The one on the left was made from sequin waste and the one on the right was from a hair dryer.

With these stamps, together with the little bird stamp that I made a while ago, I made this little print.

Some things make better stamps than others. This household plastic peg turned out well.

But when I pressed the heated stamp onto a group of  beads with a ridged pattern on them and saw the imprint they made, I thought 'ooh! what a lovely pattern they look like seed pods'. But the print came out like this.

I was forgetting that only the surface of the foam stamp would print and all that lovely texture was to deeply embedded into the foam. Lesson learned. Lol!  But it is still rather interesting.

I have used Tim |Holtz Distress Inks here but you can use acrylic paint. But a word of advise. Have some baby wipes at hand and clean them well before you re-heat them or you will not be able to remove the paint.

Thanks for visiting. x