Altered Game Pieces

Added patterned paper, a tassel from an earlier make, gems to the green one and a bulb shaped safety pin to attach with.

Boho Style Tassels

Love how these turned out.

Hardware Skulls

It's been a while...............................

Black Powertex & shiny nuts, bolts, screws, hooks and rivets.

Black Powertex base, red Powertex with black bister & screws, nails, nuts and safety pins.

Yellow ochre Powertex, rusting powder, small sand balls & rusted screws, bolts, nails and bracket.

...............................Happy Hallow's Eve

Fat Pages

I had a little play today and made these five fat pages. Fat pages are 4" x 4" squares. The photo isn't very good as it's been dark and raining all day.

But each of the pages has a quote or some kind of script so I'm entering them into the PaperArtsy challenge.

Altered Dominos

I'm in a mini marvels swap and this month the theme is altered dominos. It's been a bit of a rush job as I went back to work on Thursday and the deadline is next weekend, but I got there in the end.

They are foam dominos and were initially painted in everlasting chalk decoart paint, next I randomly added silver shimmer dazzling metallics, then I stamped the PA mini script in black stazon to create the background. I stamped the images onto text print paper, cut them out and stuck them on with decoupage glue and then sealed the whole of the domino with it. Once dry I pierced a couple of holes, added wire and embellishments to finish.

Tag & Atc Swap - Stencils

Background brayered with DecoArt multi surface paints, knocked back with white gesso. Black modeling paste through the diamond stencil. Marks made with bottle tops in black and white gesso. Script stamped in black stazon. Die cut umbrella man, painted in black gesso and black modeling paste applied to the umbrella for added texture.

Background randomly gesso'd, yellow media mister added and red drips. Rouge chalky paint through Andy Skinner burning rubber stencil, bumped it using white gesso. PA mini stamps in blazing red stazon and some script and Finn stamps in black. Main image is from Dina's silhouette plate, stamped on a separate sheet, cut out and mounted on 3d foam. 

Close up of the bumped stenciling.

Close up of stamped wings with media clear crackle and rubbed over with English red oxide antiquing cream.

Over stamped some of the script in red stazon and splatted red and black media mister to finish.

These two mdf atc's have so many layers. The first layer was a patina from the dazzling metallics range. Next a layer of serene on one and yesteryear chalky finish paints. Laid a stencil over and painted through with innocence. Stamped some script in black stazon and flicked some black and white media mister over them.

Stamped two of Finns butterflies, cut them out, added a safety pin and some words.

All products used are from the DecoArt range.

N is for Numbers

Over on the DragonsDream TIO blog my good friend Helen has chosen this weeks theme of stencils and the letter N.  I used 3 stencils, diamonds down the left, T!m's ruler down the right and PTP dangles across the top. And as my N is for numbers I randomly stamped numbers in the background, added some tissue tape and the bingo board from a TH stamp set.

Wings and Things

Over at A Vintage Journey they have a theme of wings and things.

Over on Amandas blog she'd made an ATB but cut some heart shapes out the sides to make a light box which you can see here. I, with permission, pinched her idea and using the butterfly movers and shapers die cut the shapes out of opposites sides of the ATB.

I covered the cut out shapes with T!m's tissue wrap, and stamped some images in stazon.

Also added stamping to the other two sides.

I used one of the die cut shapes on the lid and added a mini safety pin for the body. I stamped the bee from the TH set onto the same gelli print page and cut it out as over at Fashionable Stamping, they have a theme of birds and bees.

TH May Tag Inspired by Alison

My take on T!m's tag for May courtesy of my mate Alison. I didn't much like this months tag, but then I saw what Alison did, which you can see here, and had to give it a go.

Playing with Numbers

Over at Artful Times this week they have a theme of spray away. I took this photo as I didn't want to spray too much and thought most of it might end up getting covered up.

These are the 3 sprays I used. They are all browns.

I didn't really know where I was going with it, I was just playing, but this is my finished piece. I managed to sneak in some of my gelli plate pages, along with tags, stamped images, tissue tape wooden pieces and various other bits and bobs.

Close up of the tissue tape and some the the metal embellies.

I also added a vellum and corrugated tattered florals flower and a stamped butterfly and one covered in UTEE as over at Anything But a Card they have a theme of spring forward and are suggesting butterflies and flowers.

Another close up of the stitching on the tag.

And finally a close up of the sprayed ink.

A Vintage Journey have a theme of spring flowers and I'm hoping mine qualifies as I've used two of T!M's tattered florals!!

First tag of 2014

T!m posted his first tag of the New Year and what a cracker it was too. I mostly followed what he did, but used the alarm clock as opposed to the stop watch.

The embossed cogs and idea-ology parts, cogs, spinner and gears.

The ticket was stamped with part of a saying from my new classics #5 plate. I also flicked on some Dylusions graphite ink. I think this colour is now discontinued as it's in the old style bottle!!

And finally my embellishment.

Tag Along have a theme of tickets this week, so I'm going to enter over there too.

Frosty the Snowman

Over at Tag Along their theme this week is 'frosty the snowman'.

To make him 'frosty', I added some dry glitter and coloured it with salty ocean distress stain and added blue distress stickles on the buttons and the ear muffs.

I created the background using pewter, faded jeans and broken china distress stains. You can just see the pewter popping through.

Also PanPastelUk have a theme of winter wonderland using metallics and one other colour, obviously my other colour is blue. 

Vintage French Flair a La PA Style

France has been inspiring us again this week over on the PA blog.  I adapted her day #3 tag technique with the tissue paper, fresco paint, stencilling and stamping.

I then added the stitching.

And finally the embellishments and the finished tag.

Now I don't normally do this, but as I was reading down the list, all these challenges just seemed to fit together perfectly.

Dragons Dream - TIO - have a recipe of vintage, texture and flowers, and you have to include at least one real stamp, so I stamped the PA french script in the background using timber brown stazon.

**Edited**  I made top 3 for this tag

Stampotique's theme this week is 'French flair', hence the Eiffel tower die image and French script stamping.

Simon says stamp challenge have a theme of 'pin it' where they want to see our pins, paper clips etc, so I've added a hat pin to the hessian, the scroll is a type of paper clip and the destiny tag is attached to the ribbon with a mini safety pin.