Bingo Anyone?

No, it's not a game of Bingo unfortunately, but I have altered a Bingo board I bought on Monday.

To start, I coated all the sides with a mix of brown, white and black acrylic paint and used a crumpled piece of kitchen tissue to sort of stipple it. Then, I added some red ribbon and tied a couple of short strands of brown fibre near the knot.

I used Karen's masking tutorial to stamp the images (Annie collection by Lou and Karen and exclusive to Charmed) onto 260gsm card. Thanks for the instructions Karen, it worked a treat. These were coloured using my Prisma pencils and blending pencil. Not sure what I think to it, but I still haven't made some of the paper stumps. After cutting the images I stuck them down using foam pads. To make sure they stuck well, I added a drop of PVA glue to the side that would be sticking to the paint.

The wording was cut on my ROBO, stuck with PVA and doodled on.

The only sad thing, is that some or all of it will be covered with the paper I clip there reminding me of things 'TO DO'.

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Creative Therapy #62

I found this blog the other day and made a note of the current catalyst (#62). Here's what they said

"show us your therapeutic art around "What's a personality trait you admire/seek in others? Why? ... It can be any form of art as long as it speaks to you."

Sounded easy at first. Do a LO of my mum with the words 'caring, loving, thoughtful, gentle, strong, considerate, kind, trusting, friend'. Easy, except that I usually do LOs and had been given the nudge to do something different. I sat at my craft desk for what seemed like ages until inspiration struck. I had bought a few canvases last September and done nothing with them. I'd only ever used one canvas in my life (here), could I make it two?

Pondering some more, I took my acrylic paint and 'went for it'. Here's the result (please excuse the different shades as I'm having to scan and jigsaw it togther using a very simple editing programme as I don't have my camera or fancy programmes on my computer)

The writing's done with a black permanent pen and the charms/photo turn each have a word on them 'strength / friend / hope / trust'.

It's not how I imagined it in my head, but it's still not as bad as I thought it would be. Would I paint a canvas again? I have 2 more this size and 3 12x12 ones, so who knows?

Don't forget that there's at least one personality trait that others see and like in each and every one of us. We are all great in our own way. If you can see in yourself a little of what others see in you, you're doing well.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Just Jeans for an Altered S

I fancied having a go at doing some altered art yesterday, so I used my ROBO to cut 16 A5 size S's using light weight card. Repositioning spray adhesive came in very handy for sticking them together and after lightly sanding the edges, I got to decorate it. Might make more things like this in the future.

I was inspired by My Time To Craft's latest challenge 'Just Jeans' and mixed acrylic paints to a denim colour for the base, over which I've used a cream ink pad to give it a distressed look. My name is also cut on my ROBO and has been inked and doodled on. I finished with a mix of blooms, brads, lace and fibres

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

MUM's silly faces

My mum will never be old to me while she's able to make us smile and laugh with her silly faces and antics. While we were on holiday in 2007, I was snapping away with my camera while she was leaning on a wall taking in the scenery. I turned the camera onto her and when she realised, she decided to pull one of those faces and it just had to be scrapped sometime. This is that time!

I've used acrylic paint to cover some chipboard letters and frame, aded some PP, blooms, ribbon and a photo turn that has 'silly' on it. The sentiment on the top of the frame says "Take time every day to do something silly". That's not hard for Mum :)

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Farming

Done for the challenge on Friday Sketchers, here's my farming card

The background is done by mixing acrylic paints and there's stamping in red and black inks.

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Take care

Love and hugs

My Scrapping This Week

I've been crafting this week and have done both challenges on UKS.

Firstly the weekly challenge by the Slinky Pink Scrappers which was:
Scrap a photo from your childhood for 10 points
Use something pink (Well we are the slinky PINK scrappers!) for 5points
Add something metal for 5 points
Recycled something 5 for points
Finally add some stripes 5 for points

Here's my take on this challenge:

Photo from childhood ~ me as a bridesmaid - 10 points
Pink ~ everything except the photo, PP and ink is pink - 5 points
Metal ~ metal brads on the corner of the photo and antenna on the butterfly - 5 points
Reycled ~ the flowers in the top right corner are cut out of wrapping paper one of my presents was in - 5 pointsStripes ~ PP cut into wavy stripes - 5 points

Full marks to me for my team the Ruby Snippers


The second challenge I've done this week is the monthly one. This is what was said:

'With the forthcoming Euro2008, the theme is Team Spirit, but not limited to football of course! and the technique this time means you can enter a MINIBOOK, or just use binding somewhere on your layout.
THEME : TEAM SPIRIT / TECHNIQUE : BINDING'

Here's my take on the challenge.

I've used photos from the Race For Life I took part in 2 years ago.

I then used pink Bazzill card for the base and a folder from K & Co's Hannah scrap pad to go from Charmed. I cut the folder and turned the back round so that you could see the design from the front and bound both parts together using pink ribbon.

My scrapping 'just because' is of one of my cousin's sons before he started school.

I used acrylic paints to colour a piece of white Bazzill and put the photo on using brads. The saying "Time stand still best in moments that look like ordinary life" is from elegant wordart 2 and I've printed it onto vellum, once again holding in place with brads.

Wall Hanging

My challenges on 3'Cs were to do a LO (which is here) and a wall hanging. I said "I saw this and loved it, but never got round to making one. Now’s our chance. But once again, can you do it without using glitter, bling, pink, photos of people or pets?" karen added the points and extras on a couple of days later, which were:

POINTS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

COMPLETING THE PROJECT: 40 POINTS

BONUS POINTS USING ACRYLIC PAINT: 10 POINTS

I made my hanging before the points and extras were posted on the forum and didn't use acrylic paint, so off I went to get some. I stamped 3 flowers using it and stuck these on. The papers are all from K & Co's Hannah scrap pad to go from Charmed. I designed the wording and printed it from my computer, then hand cut the chipboard. I did the same with the frames. After covering them with the paper, I used a brush marker to edge them all. I used 3 of my favourite photos from my Somerset holiday to go with the theme of tranquil.