Broken ATC

 Hi all, well i had a little time this morning and decided not to fill it in with stuff that 'needed doing' but instead decided to do something i wanted to do. Now my crafting stuff is all so deep in the cupboard and no room to breath in there that i can't find many materials or rather i don't fancy digging in there to find inspirational materials. Sooo All i have available at the moment are, pens, papers,inks and stamps. I wasnt in the mood for stamping so made a collaged atc instead using materials i had cut out from magazines etc. This one is called 'Broken'

 I do hope everyone is ok and having a great pre-Christmas time. I have a few health issues as you may already know but am ok and working through them. I will hopefully get back later and comment on blogs and hopefully catch up a bit with my blogging friends.


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Back again

 Hi all, I have been busy with graphics lately so not made a lot of art either physical or digital as you can see. I do however have a new blog which acts as a relief from both as i dont make anything special for it, just add old pieces of art,poetry and general daily stuff as well as personal photo's etc. its on my Dezinaworld addy/handle so i dont get to see my old friends much over there so would you do me a favour if you havent already ? please add to follow me at the new on UNWRAPPING MY HEART   then I will be able to keep up with my good blogging buddies more as i am often over there working on Dezinaworld and things. I will still be posting here but until i get a bit more time to play, its not that often and  ....... I miss you ..... (sob!! sob !! )

Ok in the meantime, here is one I made yesterday for a new digital challenge I found called Digital Montage Studio 
 There are a couple of prompts, the word 'Reflections' (interpreted any way you wish ) and a lovely seed pod image. Do pop by and try it. Hope you enjoy my version.

 Click for close up - I call this one 'Rainbow Mirage' the picture originally is of a snowy copse of trees.

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Collage ? yes really ? yep I did

 Lol well the title mainly is about my lack of creativity for ever so long. well thats not strictly true. I have just been so busy creating digitally and getting over a trapped nerve that it seems like my physical art is so lapsed that i wonder sometimes if i am ever going to make something. well today I did !! In fact I began an album for my mothers birthday in December but it needs a lot more work yet. But also made this 4x4 mixed media collage. ... woohoo !!! it felt sooo good to create.
I hope you will like it and if you saw it over at my other blog unwrapping my heart ... i apologise

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Two for the weekend

 Hi all, I know i am not posting too much on here lately, just busy with my Dezinaworld blog. I have had time though to play a little this last few days and one of the things i really wanted to do was a piece for the Digital whisper challenge, The love Kimmie gave is the gorgeous flowery background to play with and the above image is what i made .. its very whimsical which was a nice thing to do. Below is a christmas ornament die cut that i got from my lovely friend Chris   I had a wonderful play with my dezinaworld vintage angels and some Stickles... what fun

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Christmas Belle and a new personal blog

 Hi everyone, I am so pleased to be creating for fun again. I am starting to get busy with the bling for christmas decor and will share pics when i am done. Also I have a new personal blog where i will be sharing all kinds of stuff, not just art. I have already made a few posts so hope you will come and follow me over there as i can also keep up better with you from there. Its 'Unwrapping My Heart'  I will be so, so happy if my followers here will add to follow me there  :) I know i havent been the best blogger lately but that should make it easier for me to come and visit you from there.
Now on to today ... Over at Dezinaworld  where we have being posting christmas things and having fun with  our new Giveaway Everyone Wins Challenge,my wonderful friend and designer Gayle Page Robak, has created a wonderful collage set called Christmas Belles  
 Gayle is such a talented lady. I adore her work and I just had to have a play with the new set and create something. this is my piece. I hope you like it.

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Theme Thursday

 My arm seems almost healed now and I feel good :) I have been very busy making collage sheets and png sets for my other blog and took a break to make this one for the challenge over at Theme Thursday. All the steampunk parts are from Dezinaworld and the man is also from the Dapper Dons set there. The map is a public domain image.
Thank you to everyone who commented on my autumn atc and asked about my arm

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Finally I create & prizes for everyone

 Hi everyone, I finally was able to createone small item. Over the last 6 weeks or more i have been struggling with arm pain and couldn't create at all. Now I am able to work for a short while without too much pain so i am on the mend i think :) So here is my atc which i created for one of my favourite inspirational challenges the Lots to do challenge,
Background is designed using different autumnal colour inks and then I used a black vines and bird silhouette stamp and layered on the top of that, some die cut leaves which were sprayed with cosmic shimmer in 3 colours.
Oh and please pop by my Dezinaworld   as i am doing a challenge there where EVERYONE WINS. its a papercraft challenge and each person that enters gets a prize. Have a lovely week everyone.
Hugs June

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Soartful Key to my heart

 Soartful Key to my heart challenge this week is set by Jeanette, She really inspires me, and many more people with her challenges. I just had to make something for it.

Key to my heart

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All images from my Dezinaworld blog including the steampunk heart

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Back at last

 Hello everyone, I havent been around for the last month or so due to a trapped nerve in my neck which has caused me a lot of pain and stopped me from using my computer very much at all. Its still not better yet but i am getting there, slowly ..
I have missed everyone and missed blogging so much but couldnt manage anything. This is my first post in ages and its just to show you my digital piece which is using my new Steampunk set at my other blog Dezinaworld   
 I will try and slowly build up my blogging again so hope to be catching up soon.

click for closer look :)

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Fimo play

 Hi everyone, Well i had a play with my fimo for the very first time. I had fun and created some tiny roses embellishments and painted them with glitter paint to catch the light. I was fairly pleased with how they turned out as its always hit and miss with a new medium isnt it?

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It arrived and I had a quick play

Hi everyone, well my bigshot arrived and i had a little play with it but to be honest I just havent felt that great this week so not a lot done but wanted to share my first card using this fabulous machine. If i havent yet caught up with you blog wise, please leave me a comment and i shall pop over soon. Have a lovely day everyone

using my big shot, a couple of die cutters,punches and image from my Dezinaworld stock plus lots and lots of distress ink and a little gel ink

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Thank you

 Hi All, well I know i havent posted for a short while but I have been very busy with my digital work and not really had time to craft but hopefull it will change soon as I have just purchased a big shot to inspire me and also some fimo clay. Neither of these are things i have used before so i will look forward to playing :)
I had a lovely surprise today in the post as i recieved a postcard from wayyyyyyyyy across the world in South Africa from my lovely online friend Denise. I have met some of the most wonderful friends online through blogging and each of you are precious to me. I cant believe how wonderful it is to have so many caring and kind friends from all corners of the world. So a huge THANK YOU is in order to each of you .... I feel blessed.
just a very quick mention that i have a Massive set of Paris/French images and backgrounds on Sale at my
 Dezinaworld  blog but its been up since yesterday and its a ONE DAY only offer ... there is literally just an hour or so left to grab them as the offer will come down then.
Since I have to no art to share with you, i thought you might appreciate my lovely postcard from Denise so here it is ...

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New Challenge

If you like a challenge and one thats just that little bit different, pop over to my  Dezinaworld blog and join in with this weeks spot prize challenge. No need to buy anything, just join in and have fun !!


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Circus Atc

 I printed off a the first sheet of my new set 'send in the clowns' which will be released later this week on my Dezinaworld blog. I cut and coloured the collage pieces and added a little heart which i punched and coloured and inked the background in purples and distress ink.

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Believe and Story Book Tales

 This is my second post today, maybe because hubby is out and i have some peace and quiet and a little time to create. I made this one for the Sunday stampers challenge - Ruby/Blue
I used distressing inks stamps and image plus a lovely royal blue feather to make this card. Thanks so much for the wonderful challenge.

I hope you dont mind, i just had to also show you my new digital stamp set at Dezinaworld too. I really enjoyed making this set.You will need to click on it for closer look.

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Drowning

 where on earth this piece came from i dont know. I have a tendency to go with colours and images and just let them lead me where they may. this one is one I created for the Creative Spirit challenge being held by my lovely new friend Cindy. Please pop by and meet this amazing lady.

Hope you like my 4 x 4 collage piece using alcohol inks. distress inks,cosmic shimmer spray, photo paper torn image and Brilliance ink in platinum on the stamps (from my lovely friend Hilda ) and finally a little self expression in the details using white gel pen.

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Christmas Rocks !!

 This is a pink and lilac and green Christmas card ... yeah i know, not my usual style but i fancied a change and when i saw the Simon says stamp blog hop challenge i thought it was a perfect opportunity (sorry my camera is playing up )

so here it is ' my FIRST Christmas card this year

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dreams

This one is for the Three Muses challenge (numbers)  and the Lots to do challenge (butterflies or insects)
 Thanks so much for a lovely challenge ladies

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Haunted design house challenge

 I loved the challenge this week at Haunted design house  Which was 'elegantly evil'
I made this atc using .. image from 'gothic set 2' at my other blog which will be posted today. And added some flocked backing, some lace, black velvet ribbon and some sequin ribbon.

'Black Widow'

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Violin Girl

The stamped image of the lady with violin is a 'Faux stamp' and its Free in yesterdays post from my other blog
If you would like it just pop by and grab it and create something beautiful with it. In todays post you could win a brand new 'first edition' of a collage set that you suggest ... interesting huh ? read about it today
here  Dezinaworld

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Soartful

 I just had to have a go at the 'Time' theme for Soartfuls challenge this week. Jeanette has such amazing challenges and even supplies images to help out if you need a starting point. I didnt use the image but used some from my Steampunk' collection at Dezinaworld  and created some other parts myself. I love how this turned out

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Back to my roots

Its been a while since I really got back into my mixed media painting and collage so today i had a really good time with these pieces. All are atc size.Using paints and inks and gel mediums was bliss.Isnt it funny we allways want to move with the times and use all the latest products and mediums but in the end its what we enjoy the most that counts .... getting paint and inks and other messy stuff is what i do best so from now on i shall try to remember that.

'strawberry' 

gel medium,acrylics and stawberry image

'shadows' gel medium and pen inks.

 'Joy of being' collage peices and paper with distress inks

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Three muses challenge

 The three muses challenge this week is back to nature. I decided on this tag

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Huante design house

 Hi all, this is a quick post, i am shattered after a long day but wanted to come and post my card for the haunted design house challenge
 Image is from Tiddly Inks and I used sharpies to colour and added some little eyes to the hear leaves so they looked to be peeking out too. Background layer is cosmic shimmer sprays. I created the text and inked and punched the hearts and coloured.Added a beautiful ribbon and that was it.

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chalk and cheese

 I created two pieces today and they are like chalk and cheese. the first is for the sunday postcard art . its called 'Castle Ghost' and uses image from Dezinaworld  Gothic 2 set.
The second piece is a card i made to replenish my stocks.... all girly what !! lol.

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Black & white plus

The theme of this weeks Spot Prize challenge is Black & White and a splash of any other colour. I fancied a play myself too with this so ... here is my altered coaster ...
Painted white with acrylics
image added then smeared with thin white acrylic
Randomly edged in white ink and then embossed in white and silver mix
florals and lace bow and broken jewellery parts attached with hot glue

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Lots to do - fairies or angels

 Hi all well I went for the interview at a place where you paint pottery and help people to paint their own, children and adults. The guy wanted someone artistic ... I was thrilled at the thought of working there as it suited my disabilities i thought. Until i got there and apparently the job was not only in the pottery section but it involved, cooking, cleaning, helping out with childrens parties, office work, promotion and apparently keeping the staff in order. all for £6.00 an hour.... and there were stairs up to the cafe bit which is one thing i cant do. So guess who refused the job ? Yep ... aww well it was not my dream job after all.

Here is my piece for this weeks fab Lots to do challenge .... I had fun so thanks to the great team at Lots to do for your inspiration.All images and text are my own from Dezinaworld

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Steampunk

 The world has gone steampunk crazy and I couldnt be happier i love it and have a set just released today at my other blog Dezinaworld  I just had to create with the set too of course and had a little fun making this little guy.
Also have a job interview this afternoon so wish me luck

 and here is a little look at the sheet . click for details please

Dezinaworld 

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New challenge and my most recent card

 I made this card yesterday and meant to post it up here but added it to my Dezinaworld blog instead. I have been busy over there lately and having a lot of fun but i do like to record my makes here too. To see how i made it please go here  Also to join in this weeks Prize Challenge which is Black & white and a touch of colour pleaseclick HERE

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Haunted design house challenge

I made this collage for the new challenge at Haunted Design House. I can see myself joining in with this challenge in the future too I hope as its something that really catches my imagination.
Hope this one us suitable for the challenge which is ' pink on the brink'  I added the gothic lady image
 from Dezinaworld

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Clay distressed buttons and beads

Well its been a while since i made anything at all but was inspired to join in the challenge a Lots to do 
I had a little play with some rough (unwhitened ) air drying clay and made these distress look buttons and beads. The camera doesnt do them much justice as they are painted brighter than they look with a metallic cream over the top in antique metallics. I wanted them to look distressed and think i achieved that much. I am pretty pleased considering its my first play with clay of any kind.

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Over at Soartful there is a lovely challenge and I used the beautiful vignette provided and created this one. The images used are from my dezinaworld sets the girl from the 'childrens roundies set'

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Another journal page

This is another page of my mini journal. I finished it today. The journal as i said before is all about things i am and things i love. Todays page depicts the moors and heather. There is a kind of tranquility that is unique to moorland that takes my breath away. I love the moors best when its wilderness is unbroken and the wind is blowing through the grasses and heather ... nothing on earth is like it. I hope this page shows a little of that in colour and design.

The lady is dressed in a beautiful heathery colour so she was additional but the Background colours are spritzed on to show the colours of the moor grasses then I added some hand painted heather and grasses and then wet to blend and blur. The text is from a book of flowers and describes some of the ancient uses for heather. Once over heather was used to make sweeping brushes.
Everything else is inked and i added the 'moors' wording just to finish.

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woyww & Mini Journal

I am currently working on a mini journal and have made three pages so far. Its called 'pieces of me' everything in it including the colours,images,numbers etc are pieces of me. For example the ' woman with child ' depicts me as a mother and grandmother and I have sung that song to all of my babies at one time or another. the numbers depict my 2 sons and my 7 grandchildren. And on other pages you can see i have a love of fairies (which i believed in for a very long time and am hanging on to that belief lol ) and butterflies. Many of the colours i am using depict 'Nature' which is another love of mine. I will post more pages up when they are done.

Also below are pics for the woyww which i have explained before ... i dont really have a work space but like to share just the same so these are some of my inks and stamps etc ... the journal is what i am currently working on too so that counts methinks :)

 My Resource shelf with books and things i take images from

Large drawer of wooden stamps

 Large drawer full of unmounted stamps

Large drawer of stamping inks

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beautiful things

Since i am not really doing a lot of art lately. I thought i might as well share other things too. I took this picture yesterday of my pyramid of light. I chose it years ago while on a holiday in the lakes. Its a gorgeous glass pyramid that reflects light and sometimes casts it upon the surrounding walls etc. Can you also see the small reflection of the clouds in the sky on the bottom of the pyramid ?  Isnt it interesting how we all see beauty in different things? I love crystal too and think its my passion for colour that draws me to such items.
What are your favourite things (not people ) and why ?

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Forgive me ...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you all know why i havent been blogging as much as i would like and also explain that sometimes when i get chance i blog from my other account and you may not realize its me lol. The other account is 
 my Dezinaworld one. To save time I could move arty retreat and art freebies to the other account but my lovely blogging friend Susie Jefferson  spent a lot of time and work on my layouts that i really dont want to do that and also it would be too complicated to move Art Freebies  or vice versa.
I appreciate every single visit and comment here though and i try to respond to them all. I am following a lot of blogs and i try and visit when i can but due to the sheer volume of work on both the above mentioned blogs, i dont have a lot of time left. I love blogging and miss getting around to them all but do try very hard to recipricate when you pop by.
So please forgive me if i dont get round as much as i used to, and please look out for comments from my dezinaworld persona too. I do visit a few blogs each day depending on which blog i am working on.




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Man of the world

 I made this atc today using my new collage set 
I used antique linen ink and edged with a darker distress ink. added the images etc. Its the first atc i have done in while and was nice to do. I am keeping the other images for cards as i always need something for male cards.

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A friend inspired

 I had a lovely afternoon yesterday. I met Jude   and we had a wander round the town and a good chat. It was lovely to see you Jude !!
Jude brought me some goodies so i was inspired to make a card ( hardly heard of these days for me ) and this was the
card.... yeah i know its not brilliant but its a start lol

I also recieved my atc's from the swap at creations by jj forum   thanks to Celia, Nona and Hannah for these beauties

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