Canvas'

I was totally inspired by Jeanne Olivers online class that I am taking, she does some really lovely subtle backgrounds, very different to my normal! She did one canvas using a magazine picture but it reminded me of one of my wedding photos

So I used this to make the below canvas.

The netting was a pain to stick down! The quote is a few lines from a poem my brother read at our wedding.

So the rest of the painting is going well and I have sold quite a few at a local craft shop! Very exciting. Here are a few of my recent favourites

Finally Scrapping again!

Had a fab time at Sue's on Sat, got the scrap bug back! I had several month's worth on Cocoa Daisy kits sat at home untouched so I took those and wanted to just scrap! Nothing too complicated or detailed just get back into scraping, and I did!! I used Oct, Nov, Dec and Jan CD kits, some mists, paint, texture paste and stencils.

I can really see how my love of mixed media is influencing my scrapping!

Will's Harry Potter Party

For Will's 7th Birthday he wanted a Harry Potter party. Well as I also love HP I was all for it. And after much internet searching (thank you Pinterest!) Here is what we ended up with!

Platform 9 3\4 brickwall door

Spell and potion books

Wands

Sorting Hat ceremony

Potions class

"Great Hall" with banners and floating candles

HoneyDukes sweet shop

Birthday cake (Harry's scar, layered in Gryffindor colours)

Owl Party gifts (all handmade by me! pattern is from Snowybliss)

We played pass the dragon egg, pin the scar on Harry and stupyfy and imobilus (musical bumps and statues!)

Each child had a broom and a cape, we made quills and played Quiditch.

I had sooo much fun and I think the kids did too.

Next year? bowling!

Painting and thrifting!

So I did some more painting, trying something different. Problem is I liked them too much so now I am keeping them!






These 2 were presents.





I was inspired by Lisa and her thrifting! So I brought some tea cups


That are now cupcake stands!


Old cake stand


Spray paint


New stamp holder!


This could get addicted!

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Actually scrapped!

So I have been doing lots of painting and not so much scrapping, but I went to see the lovely girls at fun crops in Abingdon and actually did some scrapping! I have lots of Cocoa Daisy kits that I havent really touched so all of these come from them.

Canvases

Lots of painting going on! I have set up a FB page in the hope of selling some and I have also been asked to sell them in a local craft shop.

Firstly this one for me! made with the brilliant new stencils by Juile Balzer for Crafters Workshop

These ones are all now in a local shop that sells lots of different locally made crafts. I've sold one already! Very exciting

And how they look in shop window!

And inside the shop

These ones were gifts for my friends. This one for my friend with 3 kidsChristening present for my beautiful god son
My friend's new baby