Pop-up Cover

This is my cover for Life Book week 7 taught by the lovely Jane Davenport. I've used a mix of tissue papers from Tim Holtz and Seven Gypsies and couple of different serviettes too; matt medium to hold it all in place and coloured with Beach Hut a transparent Fresco paint.

I'm still working on the pop up pieces but hope to blog these soon.

Thanks for looking.

 I really appreciate your comments so please don't be shy.

Karin x

WOYWW 247- Candy Diva

Good afternoon desk hoppers, I have just completed my week 5 piece from Life Book 2014! 

I know I'm jumping about a bit here with it but that's OK, because I can.

I knew this piece was going to take a bit longer for me to get my head around and I ended up using Marieke Blokland's template for this fun piece "Candy Diva". I think I might have been a bit clumsy with my layers, there are so many on here, but I'm not sure you can see them all. 

I'm hoping to catch up a little more with the other Life book weeks, as I'm recuperating from an operation this week. It will take my mind off to wonderful places. :-)

If you'd like to have the low down on snooping at other workdesks around the world nip over to the stamping ground where you'll find all of the details.

Thanks for passing by.

Karin x

Be True To You

Here's my mixed media piece for week 4 of Life Book

the teacher for week four was Kelly Hoernig.

Week four was a bonus week "Be True to you".  

I got a little carried away by creating two pages.

This isn't as bright yellow in real life and the tag colour should have more hints of teal showing.

I'm hoping you'll be able to see the under layer of texture in these larger photos.

Sorry I can't add any details of how these pieces were created as I was following class techniques in creating them. 

Although I did add a couple of twists of my in own.

Paints: Fresco by PaperArtst Zesty Yellow, Limelight, Beach Hut & London Night.

Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Black Soot

Tissue Paper Melange & Composer

Plus a few other bits and pieces.

Thanks for Looking,

Karin 

WOYWW 242 - paint

Here's my work desk for today, it's one I use fairly often.......the top of my chest freezer ;-)

I'm playing around with my fresco paints today as I want to take part in the challenge set by Ellen Vargo  on PaperArtsy's blog

I'm going to keep this post short this week as I want to get back to my paints. 

Happy Wednesday everyone, thanks for popping by. 

Your comments are really appreciated.

Tag for Chris

Here is my final tag for a collaborative forum challenge.

This time I have made one for Chris who chose the theme of children/childhood. I've used Tim Holtz and PaperArtsy Dies, Prima flowers, a feather and dewdrops to embellish this tag. I found the little girl image already cut out hiding under some papers on my desk and can't remember where she came from, the background is a wrinkle free distress and crafty notions spray and stamped using distress inks. Hope you like it Chris.

ArtsyCrafts weekend - Birdhouse project

Now that the second ArtsyCrafts weekend is over I can show you the projects we made.

I'm starting with the last project as the other two still are in need of tweaking, due to an accident with a water bottle lid not being fastened properly. OMG when I took them out to look at I was so upset but all is not lost as you'll see in my next post.

As most of my friends know, I really don't do cute but I adore this. The top picture doesn't show the metal roof so I've included another with a glimpse of it.

Time tag

I've made this tag for another collaborative forum challenge. This time I have made one for Paula who chose the theme time or place. I've used Tim Holtz masks and distress inks along with PaperArtsy stamps for the background, the metal embellishment and the UTEE timepiece. Hope you like it Paula.