Attempt at a Canvas

Today I thought I would have a play with a canvas using some of my art journaling techniques.   I must admit I lost interest when I found other embellishments that went together better than this one so in the future I'm going to try another small canvas.

Skissedilla #203

This great sketch is from Skissedilla, I love it and hope to use it again.  Here's my entry for this one.

Products Used:

Kaisercraft: The Lakehouse Patterned Paperand Collectables, Title, Rose Flower

The Crafters Workshop:  Mini Circle Explosion CW278s

Prima Marketing:  Zip, Flower and Ink

Green Tara: Small Roses

ScrapFx:  Butterfly Circle Frame

Pipe Dream Ink:  Embossing Powders in River Rose and Sandstone

Seam Binding from Craft Queen

Viva Pearl Pen:  Cream

Tattered Angels Glimmermist:  Pearl

Tuille, Gauze from my stash

It's hard to see the stencil on bottom left and top right hand side of page and I don't think I let it dry long enough before taking the photo.

Border stamps

Thanks for all the lovely comments on my previous post.  The border is a stamp from Dylusions that I purchased for the lovely Georgia Heald at Paper Stories.  I've used it before and always had comments and it comes with six other border stamps.  It's called 'Around the Edge' - DYR34421.

Lizzy I cut a circle and crossed across the middle then rolled it back before securing with staples and brads.
Sandie I smiled when I heard we had Slinky and Malinki.

CSI Case #64

My scheme:  
Grow - matting around photo
Sprout - flowers and colour around the word 'create' and triangle stencil
Transform - also matting around photo, circle 'hey you' and leaf flourish
Expand - back layer and word title etc
Attempt - background of bird and patterned paper (doesn't show very well)

My Evidence:
Bird on canvas, top right
Random washi tape birds (hiding)
leaves, pen, diamond stencil

My Testimony:
Verbs in title, free handwriting for journaling

Hat Parade

I've been busy today making a hat for my grandson's Easter 'I Like or My Favourite' hat parade tomorrow.  He wanted some of his favourite toys from under the sea and he was adamant that we shouldn't see the actual hat. Here's what I came up with trying to make the blue satin a bit wavy like the sea and glued so we couldn't see any hat.

I found a free template for the shark, cut it our, painted and then glued it to the hat.

Laurie's Giveaway and Challenge

Laurie is having a giveway for her own birthday and she created a fabulous sketch for us to attempt and submit for her challenge.
This is my grandmother 'aka Ma' dressed up for someone's wedding.

March 15 Sketch

This is my attempt at the March 15 Sketch at Stuck.

This is me at age 36 when my friends baby was born two days before my birthday.  Ahh it was 20+ years ago!!!

White with 1 March Challenge

This challenge is to use White, Brown and Doodling.  I thought the Kaisercraft Basecoat range had lots of brown to use so it was my choice for this challenge.

I'm Very Lucky

I have been so fortunate to have been awarded another Leibster Award  from a very sweet, generous and inspirational lady from The Netherlands, her name is Amy Voorthuis http://amyvoorthuis.blogspot.com.au/.  Please take the time to visit her blog, you will be inspired and she loves Graphic 45 papers as do I.

The Liebster Award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. It is awarded to blogs that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to them. Once you have been nominated you award it to five other blogs.

The rules are: Post the award to your blogs, give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers, then leave a comment on their blogs to let them know that you have given them this award.  Thank the person who gave you this award.

Now I would love to pass this award on to five other ladies who do such beautiful work and who totally deserve something special and these five ladies are:

Chantelle

Stacey

Heidi

Jeanette

Sharryn

Please take the time to visit these ladies and become a follower of their lovely work, I'm a new follower to some and its always great to see what others are creating and to share some encouragement.

Sassy Scrapper

I think this is the first time I've entered at Sassy Scrapper, I decided to enter after seeing the sketch and also after a purchase I made recently that was delivered within three days, I was so impressed.  Take the opportunity to pop over and have a look in their store, they have heaps of stuff. 

I think that this is another first for me, not including people, this was from our Australian holiday in 2008, we saw so many beautiful birds and lizards (I was fascinated by the lizards so you may see some of them in the future).

Products Used:

Bo Bunny C'est La Vie range using, Nouveau, Voila and Panache

Prima Marketing Cameras and Tiny Birds

Flower Soft, Koala Grey

Kaisercraft Stencil

Bottlecap from Belinda

Green Tara Flowers

D-Lish Leaves

Versa Color Pinecone Ink

Jo Sonjas Paint

Liquid Pearls, Hot Cocoa, Peacock, Baby Blue

Ribbon

Sharpie Pen

Another Leibster Award

I have been so fortunate to have been awarded the Leibster Award for a second time from a very sweet, considerate and inspirational lady from South Africa, her name is Cathy Lane http://a-stroll-down-memory-lane.blogspot.com.au/.  Please take the time to visit her blog, you will be inspired.

The Liebster Award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. It is awarded to blogs that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to them. Once you have been nominated you award it to five other blogs.

The rules are: Post the award to your blogs, give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers, then leave a comment on their blogs to let them know that you have given them this award.  Thank the person who gave you this award.

Now I would love to pass this award on to five other ladies who do such beautiful work and who totally deserve something special and these five ladies are:

Susan

Leonie

Annette

Lisa

Narelle

Please pop over to these blogs and I promise you will be inspired.

thank you Cathy for my award.

Pearlex and Perfect Pearls

Can anyone tell me if these products work in the same way, I have one type and don't want to buy others if they're the same.  Thanks in advance.
        
A couple of websites I found that might be interesting:
flickr
ranger ink

Scrap Friends

My attempt at the fabulous sketch over at Scrap Friends, this was a challenge to me because I didn't know if I should add absolutely everything but anyhow here it is. It's my youngest grandson at Kindergarten last year.

Products Used:

Authentique Papers

American Crafts Cardstock

Kaisercraft Brads and Doily Card

Prima Marketing Camera Chippie and Small Alpha

Tim Holtz Key Chain

Scrapfx Template

Crafters Workshop Circle Template

Dylusions Ink

Purple Pumpkin Washi Tape

7Gypsies 'Wish' Card

Brilliance Ink

Twine

Paper Stories

This is my take on the challenge over at Paper Stories where they have an amazing sketch.  This was so hard for me to chop into a photo so I looked for ages for the perfect one that I didn't have to cut through faces.

I sort of set myself a bit of a challenge to use some older papers that I had so I picked out some bits and pieces and had my own little kit to work from.  I also haven't plaited anything for years so decided to plait the twine for my banner.

Products Used:

Basic Grey Archaic Paper and Sticker Range

Dylusions Around the Edge Stamp (from Paper Stories ages ago)

Stampin Up Ink

Twine

Sharpie Pens

Liebster Award

Today I was thrilled to be awarded a Liebster Blog Award from  Mary, 

Thank you Mary I was honoured, I've met so many lovely ladies through the blogging world and it's nice to be recognised as well.

About the AwardThis award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you have been nominated you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to these blogs.Rules for AcceptanceThank the person who gave you the award and link it back to their blog.Post the award onto your blog.Give the award to 5 bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers.Leave a comment on their blog to let them know that you have given them this award.

The people I would like to give the award to are:

Lizzy Crust

Judith

Shell

Sandrine

Fi

I don't know how I've mucked up my text and background colour so please forgive me............