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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Scrap page

This is a scrap page i made of my grandchildren Hayden and Casey in a fairytale frame  ( frame and elements by Aussie scrap designs )   

Designed in response to the challenge at I did it blog challenge

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