Just fun stuff...

When I do my letter journals and in happy mail. I always like to include some of my art. So to relax and just for fun. I grab a piece of white card stock and put out some blobs of paint. Then I grab a paint brush and make circles with all the colours. Add some collage papers of anything in my scrap box. Some splatters and then random dashes and mark making with my pens. Of course I added some washi tape. I just got this cool domino washi tape. 

For these ones I cut up into ATC or Artist Trading Card size.  They also make great cards or I back them with card stock to make small gift card type cards too. 





A few more of my Index cards or ICAD's from the last few days of July.

Going to add this over on Paint Party Friday.

Have a great day 

Vicki-Ann :)

Altered playing cards...

I am playing along with Claudines art corner card challenge.. Each week Claudine posts on her blog a technique to do 2 playing cards.. I am pretty much following along with what Claudine is doing, so I am not going to repeat it all and go into to much detail here. Claudine has step by step pictures and details on her blog of how she does her cards so pop on over and see her great pictured tutorial instuctions.

Week 9 

I used a stamp from Teesha Moore for the one on the left.. The stamp on the right is from Lacy Sunshine digi stamps. I just blew up the frog part of the stamp. 

 Week 10
With week 10 I had a bit of a mix up.. I did the ones above in about November last year and it's only last weekend, yes 6 months later that I thought. Oh I better finish this challenge. The posts are all still there to catch up and I did enjoy doing these cards a lot..  So I started doing them again got half way through this one and though wait think I have done this one.. Oh well think I like the second lot better than the first lot anyway. Dylusion stamps more of some Teesha Moore collage I used on these ones.

Week 11
Last year I was lucky enough to get a grab bag of mixed stamps from Teesha Moore. These stamped images where 2 of the stamps that I received. the one that says imagine that is the same stamp, stamped twice and I just turned one of them to make him look 2 eyed.  I like the other one on the planet well I thought it kind of looked like a planet.

 Week 12
This was for Thanksgiving it was a simple card week. Covered the card with cardstock and the purple is a printer copy of my art work. Cut out a butterfly and collaged that and the paper background on with Helmar Decoupage craft paste.

 Week 13
Bees I just gotta love bees.. I had these bees in my stash of papers for a while.. The big one was a magazine image that I cut out. I could not tell you what die the honeycomb is I cut that out at a friends one day to see what it was like. Just had the pieces in my stash. I used the DecoArt Media crackle glaze on the bird image inside the honeycomb.

Week 14 

Well this shows how far behind I am when I am doing Christmas cards at Easter.. These where both die cuts that I have had for ages, given to me by a friend. I don't have any snow embossing folders, thought this burst one looked ok though. Stampin'up stamp for the Merry Christmas. 

Have a great day 

Sandy :)

The altered playing card challenge week 5-8

I am playing along with Claudines art corner card challenge.. Each week Claudine posts on her blog a technique to do 2 playing cards.. I am pretty much following along with what Claudine is doing, so I am not going to repeat it all and go into to much detail here. Claudine has step by step pictures and details on her blog of how she does her cards so pop on over and see her great pictured tutorial instuctions.

Week 5 I used a Teesha Moore stamp and for the girl on the dream card I printed a picture from The last door down the hall, siblings There is some wonderful pictures there to use. Well worth browsing around and having a good look.. 

Week 6 Teesha Moore stamp for the graveyard stamp and the bat.. Tim Holtz movers and shapers die for the bird. 

Week 7 I used a stamp sets from Kaisercraft and another one from TJ Designs called Vintage by the sea.. 

Week 8 I used a Dina Wakley stencil for the stenciled red hearts on the one on the left.. My Grumbacher watercolour dripping is always fun.. My handwriting for the love on both.. 

Loving how my key ring is filling up this is so fun to have hanging on my desk will be fun with all 52 cards on it.. 

Have a great day.
Sandy :)

The Altered playing card challenge...

I am playing along with Claudines art corner card challenge.. Each week Claudine posts on her blog a technique to do 2 playing cards.. Its been going for 5 weeks now and I have done the last 4 so thought I would show this on a monthly blog post.. I am pretty much following along with what Claudine is doing, so I am not going to repeat it all and go into to much detail here. Claudine has step by step pictures and details on her blog of how she does her cards so pop on over and see her great pictured tutorial instuctions.

Week one... 
We had to Gesso all the cards...

Week 2... Dylusions backgrounds...

 Week 3... 
Tim Holtz stamps and die cuts with inky backgrounds...

Week 4...   Acrylic paint backgrounds with Gelli print houses and Paper smooches stamps.. I drew the cat lady and collaged her dress and her onto the card.. Doodled the sun with some spots. The stamp at the top says 'My door is always open'. 

Have a great day
Sandy :)

Paint Party Friday, Create Art...

I got some new black pens and wanted to try them out.  They are the Pilot permaball and the fude ball.. They both work awesome over acrylic paint no more killing my other good pens yay.. I have been wanting to try the cut out letters from magazines too so always fun to play in my journal.. The art stamp is one I carved out of an eraser.. 

Linking this up at 
Paint Party Friday hi everyone.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)

WOYWW #211

It's cold and wet today here, so the curtain is shut and the lights are on to take the photo.. I have been working on a tag and its off to the post tomorrow.. Learning also about spray inks and playing in my journal doing some backgrounds, so bright and cheerful on such a bleak day..
Well didn't the swap go well?  I am looking forward to the desk hopping and seeing all the little ATC's today..  I have heard that everyone has received my ATC's so can reveal mine now.. 

My little ATC

I drew and painted mine as this is something that I am just learning . They where such fun little canvases to do everything in miniature..  The little diamonds I did with dobbing paint through and onion bag and liked the little miniature stencil look it created.

Jo's ATC

I received a lovely ATC from Jo's (Twiglet's) so beautiful all the hand stitching and the vintage lace just so pretty and something to treasure.. We had a public holiday last Monday so the other ATC's are probably in the mail somewhere still zooming to me.. 

Julia from  WOYWW gets us all together every Wednesday to have a look at desks from all over the world.. Grab a cuppa and take a browse.. Thanks for taking the time to comment and enjoy the blog hopping around all the desks.

Have a great day
Sandy :)