PLAYTIME GALORE

Its been school holiday delight for me and boy have I had some fun with late night turning into early morning playtime. Lazy days wearing my PJ's all day and playing in my craft room...its BLISS!




Joined the design team at SCRAPTIVATE...a gift that came just at the right time when I asked the universe to send me what i needed. Love this store and the team of talented girls who are scraptivate.My first DT pack was bursting with wonderful things to play with...they stock something for everyone and if they dont...just ask and I'm sure they can find it for you.

These set of teen cards whipped up from a super set of stamps from the STAMPOTIQUE range that SCRAPTIVATE have in . Such fun and these are so cool.
School holiday fun is over...back to work tomorrow...SIGH !

I feel JOY when.......

I receive art created for this months Mystery Muse swap from LUCY .

I love my ODD girl and thrilled to call her mine !I feel joy when I create whilst visiting with AWSOME friends.

To then send my little wild women to live with NESS I feel joy when I receive another fabric book and create a page for wonderful gals that inspire me greatly. Women like PATTI that inspire, encourage and say the most wonderful things to me.It does fill me with JOY !

My simple BLACK BIRD, just for you dear Patti.

I feel joy !

What makes YOU feel joy ???

and then.....

Well my latest page for dear Martha, a member of the FABRIC GIRLZ, is finished and in the post to Magda in Germany. Martha's wonderful book had a theme of a secret garden with a wonderful gate that opened into the book on the front page,with a brick wall the other side for us all to use as a graffitti wall to sign-in , really FUN !

I painted felt with metalic paint and sewed images that I had stamped into air dry clay and rubbed with coloured rub and buff. Turned it all into a big pocket with treasure hidden inside.

So inspiring to work with earths grand colour scheme,the greens, golds and brown have a calming feel about them I think...

Added tags to encourage viewers to touch and look...

Really enjoyed this book so hope Martha will like it.

Now this little fella is only very small but gave me so much joy to create while visiting with a lovely friend. He stand just 1.5 inches tall, a shrine by COFFEE BREAK DESIGNS that ARTISTIC JOURNEY sell in their online shop. Love these little shrines that come in many different shapes and sizes and can be turned into a necklace or tiny earings.

VERY COOL !!!

Meet JADE and...

Meet our new family Member JADE, adopted from The Animal Protection Society at Southern River. A wonderful shelter for cat's and dogs that my darling mum and dad has been involved with for about 10 years or more. BOY! have they been part of the driving force that have seen major changes for the place. New kennels and outdoor runs for the dogs and new housing and kitten sheds for the cats.So much work goes on behind the scenes to network looking for donations for food and bedding which local business are supporting with great enthusiasm.

My mum works tirelessly for this cause both at the refuge and behind the scenes.It's known by all that if she left the place would fall down !

If thats not all she now foster cares for SAFE which has seen quite a few little faces staying for a few weeks to a few months in their home.It stands for SAVING ANIMALS FROM EUTHENASIA and another great cause for animals.

Finally finishes this canvas for my gal pal which is finally in her hot little hands.Texture paste, gel medium transfer and fiddly bits all in the name of good fun.
Tried my hand at doing some copper etching and lets just say Ive learnt lots through mistakes. This was the best piece and will definatley have another crack at it.

Off to Miss Saigon today for the arvo session with my mumsy.How wonderful that grandad is coming to take my two girls out for lunch today. A super day for all as master 16 is off to act and direct in preparion for the school drama festival while hubby is in Darwin.BEAUTIFUL !

UPDATE: Boys Book Club

Well quite a few boys have finished the covers for their books and Ive gotta say they are pretty COOL.

Checkout their efforts...

We dyed paper,measured,cut, stamped, embossed, eyeleted. Used air dry clay, sand, metal tape, leather, paint,metalic rub-ons, alcohol inks, shim, texture paste, Split pins, string and brown paper.Pretty specky effort for 10 year olds to come up with these designs and Ive so enjoyed working with these lads.Its been the lift I so needed to fuel the creative fire.

Its made me dabble with a few mini books.The dark brown one is a tag book cover covered with shellac, a medium inspired by Julie H, which is just awsome and gives a glorious golden hue.The other two are tag books,the pages are tags turned into pockets that hold the tags poking out the top. Such fun

Been dabbling just a little and will share very soon.Thanks so much for having a peek and please leave a comment as its greatly appreciated.

Happy December !

cheers

PRAWNIE

Boys Book Club

An after school project called the GUTENBERG BOYS BOOK CLUB has me all inspired to help 10 boys to write,create and make their own,individual book.They certainly have Jane and I very enthused.The delight in their eyes is every so exciting as I can see the ideas whirling round in their heads.Most have a very vivid view on how they want their book to look, while others are very open to listen and happy to bounce ideas around.Im finding this a very interesting project,they are my muse at the moment which has made me rather keen to create.Is this what drives most people to devote their lives to teaching?I think it might !

We have aged paper( coffee granual's were a favourite that had the artroom smelling like Miss Mauds),created a book with a spine and started making embellishments with airdry clay.The boys really enjoyed some rubber stamping too.Gotta get them while there young and bring them to the dark side,he-he.The dragon book I made below seemed to be a hit as was the metal tape covers.

.Who says making male art is hard !

This Tuesday will see them all putting their hand dyed papers on the covers and learning to set an eyelet which I'm sure they are all going to love smashing with a hammer as much as I do.

Just thought I would share where my heads been at lately and this post is dedicated to the lovely Deb Baker who is ever inspiring and offer's encouragement to those that are lazy bloggers.he-he.

Cheers one and all

Prawnie xxx

It's been forever.......

It seems like forever since we've chatted and where has the time flown to ???

Thought I would share a pic of me, age 6, that was front page of The Newcastle Morning Herald, 1976.

My darling father came home with that paper declaring that 'he was sure he knew that girl in the picture'.

Gotta luv him.xxx

Checkout my wicked cool Easter Bonnet with my handmade carnations made from tissues. A wonderful idea shown to me by my grandmother who has since passed.I would spend hours colouring tissues with textas and suspend them over water using sticks,watching the colours bleed and mingle.

It's been forever since Ive created anything worth sharing, so this offering is a mystery muse gift I made for a great gal I so admire,Elaine.

Gotta love those dunny roll holders from 7 gypsies ( thanks Crozza )

So yes been doing a little dabbling here and there but nothing finished as yet.SHOCK, HORROR that I'm actually SEWING ( thanks Jane ) but will share my exploits another time.I think miss muse has arrived home,phew, I was beginning to worry......

GIFTS GALORE

In the last few weeks Ive been so spoilt by some wonderful talented girls, so thought I would share my treasures.
Natalie B sent me this rather scrummy post it holder all the way from Tom Price.Isnt it just super.Thankyou 'seamstress' lol
Love this girlie and her art and sooo not fair that we dont get to play anymore. Miss you Nat, but so pleased you have settled in your new home.

Now this ATC is from my gal pal SHIRLEY who Im so looking forward to spending some time with next week at Stamp Camp.
Woo Hoo, bring it on !
I just love this image and the background colour .
Thanks Shirl for the pressie.I feel so so spoilt

These next pieces are from the clever and talented Carmel who is doing a swap with me for this very arty ATC. This is alcohol ink on gloss card with the soot technique . Very special piece that inspires me, thankyou Carmel.

On the right ,also from Carmel, is just FANTASTIC .How shocked, thrilled, excited I was to receive this for a Mystery Muse swap we do on a yahoo group INKREDIBLY RT.

LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT C, so thankyou for sharing your art with ,me.

The very lovely DEB from the UK sent me this wonderful tag book for a swap we are doing.Love the subtle colours and images and Deb did spoil me with a lovely bag of treasures as well.Dont we all just love treasure!.

Thankyou, it's just divine Deb.

Is'nt the ART / blogging world GRAND ! OH YEAH !!!

Ive been TAGGED...Oh the shame !

The wonderful ILKA has been a very naughty girl and tagged me. I did have thoughts of cleaning and tidying, but decided to share as is. I am blushing with embarrassment and thanking my lucky stars that she didnt ask to see the whole room or the floor.

I'm going to pass the tag onto Natalie B ,Crozza ,Carmel and Jane P.

SO TAG, YOUR IT !

Colour me this ..........

Wednesday Stamper theme this week is COLOURED, so what is my choice ????

This is a bookmark I whipped up for miss 10 ( it worked wonders for a few days for a girl that would rather be doing other things than reading )

Done using chalks which I really enjoy as I find these very easy to use, come in a beautiful range of colours and I relax while working the colours.

So stamp in Versamark, then apply chalks with a pom pom ball held by an alligator clip . I like to finnish with a light layer of shimmer dust, then spray with a sealer. My choice, hairspray.

So many wonderful products to choose from. It could be paints, alcohol inks, H2o,chalks,crayons......So many wonderful toys to play with but I would like to share a few things that I made using Adirondak and Stazon inks on stampboard.

I'm thrilled to say that these are all featured in the wonderful AUZZ ART ZINE which comes out shortly.It features wonderful Australian and New Zealand talent.
Our very own Natalie Briney and Jenny Crozza also have some AMAZING artwork there, so please go and order a copy of this excellent magazine.
http://www.janineanderson.com/

Support local talent I say.