Tiny Pieces of Art in January

 At the beginning of the year I started a year long challenge courtesy of Linda Pearson on Facebook

I decided to use index cards as I had a little booklet of these in my stash. 

I like this format as I have been doing the Index Card a Day Challenge during June and July for some years now.

This month's prompts are as follows:

So far I have made

Week 1

I used Visible Image stamps with Distress Oxides. Acrylic paint and Dr P H Martin's Bleed Proof White ink. Sand texture gel through a stencil.

Week 2

Yellow paint with texture. Music paper. Collage. Black Posca.

Week 3

Art by Marlene stamp with sparkly water colours. Tracy Scott butterfly - embossed. Orange pen, sparkly gems.

Week 4

Base layer from water colour paper pad then water colours. Raindrops (Designs by Ryn). Intense pencils. Sentiment from Altenew. Scorched timber distress.

Week 5

Grid collage using calendar pages. Sentiment - Sissix. Cut apart flowers - BeeArty.

Scorched timber distress.

Happy Crafting!

WOYWW #869

 

  

Follow the link to find out more about What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #869

Here is my workdesk:

My desk is not really ready to use at the moment - I have dumped a few things on it. There is a pile of small boxes ready to decorate... a few pages of Alice cut-aparts from Natalie May (I am making items for an Alice junk journal at the moment), a weight that I was using to squash some small pages, collage on the desk easel, a few tubs of glue, gesso, medium and texture paste...

Here is the cover and the fourth page in my year-long challenge.

 I am using index cards, 3 by 5 inches in size.

I had got this far using water colours, Designs by Ryn stamps of raindrops and Intense pencils.

The theme is Summer Storms.

I decided I needed a sentiment and found this in my stash from Altenew.

I used scorched timber Distress around the edges.

At the front of my desk easel is my Art by Marlene tiny journal (4 by 4 inches).

I was using this to do 6 Collages in 60 minutes - a free workshop by Collage -Lab.

These are my results:

1. Strata, neutral, tear.

2. Radial, Focal image.

3. Grid

4. Cruciform.

5. Landscape - back, middle, foregrounds.

6. Colour Palette - warm or cool.

That's all for today...

Happy WOYWW! I hope to get around all of you this week...

Color Dare #688

 

  This picture shows my make for the

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge DT

Do pop over to the Color Dare Challenge and take a look at my teamies' makes.

This picture shows the challenge -

 

My card comprises a cream card blank matted with a neutral patterned paper. I added the image cut from this paper pack after adding some black pen work around the paper:

I then used water colours to add the colours from the challenge plus some neutral skin. the sentiment also came from my stash...

Happy Crafting!

 

Conjurer of Dreams January Challenges

       

Today I am sharing the things I have made for the Conjuror of Dreams DT.

 However the optional month's challenge is TIME for TEA

First I made some little calendar folders

Then this.... Can you make out the large letters (draped with a banner)?

I decorated some large letters:

I then made some ATC sized cards and made them into a banner:

I draped these over the Yummy letters but the photos didn't do them justice.

The Conjurer of Dreams items I used were

Time For Tea

Tea for Two

Teacups

Have a look on the CoD site for more challenges

The current Anything Goes challenge can be found here.

We have other Blog Challenges: 

Free Image Challenge  can be found here.

ATC Challenge can be found here.

Tag Challenge can be found here.

Handmade Ornament Challenge can be found here.

and also on the Facebook Group

Happy Crafting!

WOYWW #868

  

Follow the link to find out more about What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #868

Here is my workdesk:

Not a lot to see - a few stencils that need putting away - as we have been away for a few days.

This was the third page in my year-long challenge. I was pleased to see a couple of you had investigated it...This page had the prompt A little ray of sunshine with the weekly focus glitter, embossing powder, stickles.

I used an Art by Marlene sun stamp and Tracy Scott's butterfly.

Yesterday I got up early to join the UKSN Zoom craft and chat. Sheila led a workshop which was a challenge to use 6 items that might be on your desk. My desk is covered in 'Alice' paraphenalia so I ended up making this little mini-folio, including a little notebook:

So we went away - the first day we took the ferry from Sorrento to Queenscliff and had a look around there and Geelong.

The next day we were off to the open range zoo/safari park at Werribee:

Next up to Melbourne where we saw Saturday Night Fever.

Then on Monday Sophie and I went to the Australian Open and saw a couple of matches.

We arrived home to find the high winds had caused some damage to the garden:

But a wander around the Australian Garden found that unscathed.

Today we had Ollie so we visited a Sculpture park - this giant gnome is one of my favourites.

Sophie went looking for the Aurora last night and sent me this picture... we could see nothing here at home!

Happy WOYWW! I hope to get around all of you this week...