Arty Girlz weekly challenge #54 RED

This weeks challenge over on Arty Girlz is the colour RED as always you can create what ever you like and interpret the theme how ever you choose.

I have made a small canvas board modern Art painting for my sons bed room actually this is going to be a set of 3 the red one is #2 of the set and the blue green one is the 1st one that i did and number 3 is a work in progress.

The boards come ready prepared i used Hard molding paste to create the textured sections, when that was dry i painted the canvases with Acrylic paint when that was dry i used silver gilding cream over the textured surfaces then glued silver washers to the textures sections.

I used flouriest wire to create hanging loops for the back by twisting and making a figure 8 so my son can hang the canvases what ever way he wants and the other end of the figure 8 acts like a spring and lets the canvas stand proud from the wall rather than tilting inwards.

They do look better in real life i just couldn't get a good pic :-(

whats going on???????

whats going on with Bloger this morning it said i had 3 comments clicked on there and i also had another6 from the 5/8/08 which is what 5 -6 weeks ago wonder why they didnt come through till now, has anyone else had this ? wonder what else has not come through hmmmmmmmmm.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #53 Autumn

This weeks challenge over on Arty Girlz is Autumn
so it may be the perfect opportunity to scrap those autumn photos or maybe you could use autumn colours such as browns, reds and golds on your creation....as usual use your own interpretation of the theme and use any format that you like, cards, Atc's, layouts, altered art, jewellery...we like to see all types of crafter's joining in with our challenges.



Here's mine An Autumn themed art journal page



I have just started an art journal and made an Autumn themed page I used paints in reds browns oranges yellow golds for Autumn colours and the image i over painted with greens,browns and added gold glimmer mists in her hair. stamped leaves and swirls in the back ground and used Gesso over the top. The scruffy writing reads.



Her name is Autumn, the leaves fall from the tree's and dance to the ground in her presence.

Everything changes as she walks natures path, browns,Golds, Reds, Yellows glisten in the morning sun. she will come every year to show her beauty as she walks natures path.



I really need to work on my writing I'm such a scruffy writer

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #52 Birthdays

This week's challenge over on Arty Girlz is Birthdays ~ why you may ask well............

ARTY GIRLZ CHALLENGE BLOG IS 1 YEAR OLD TODAY

To celebrate Arty Girlz first birthday we have put together a little prize for one of our participants to win. so pop on over to Arty Girlz and join in the Birthday challenge

We would like to thank everyone that has joined in with our challenges over this past year its been fun seeing everyones work and getting to know you all.


The challenge is to ....create something for a Birthday so could be a card or a gift, even a layout of a birthday ~ anything you like as long as its associated with a birthday

Heres my card I used lilly kate papers the image is from crafty individuals and the flowers are silk and paper.

Here you will find lots of images for you to use in your Art work just right click "save as" and save the image you want to your computer.

Feel free to leave comments it's nice to know they are being used and especially if you have used them on your art work, as i would love to see what you create with them .
Keep checking back as i will be adding lots more :-)

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #51 Home inspiration

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is to take inspiration from something in your home.

So it could be the colour of the object, the pattern, the shape, anything at all.

This is my take on the challenge

I started off with this Tack box thingie or is it an old cutlery tray ? I'm sure it has a propper name but i dont know what it is LOL I found it in my dads old tool shed and thought awwwwwww I like that

I gave it a good wash the pic above is after it was washed lol minus the dead spiders dirt and cobwebs..

I painted it cream have a thing for cream at the mo, when it was dry I sanded it along the edges for that shabby chic kinda look, then I painted the red flowers by hand with acrylic paint when they were dry I stamped the flourishes with black stazon all over (the stamps are autumn leaves.) I cut some nice coloured paper to fit in the sections in different colours. That's it done my inspiration was the big red flowers on the cup that's standing on top.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #50 ALTER IT

This weeks challenge over on Arty Girlz is is 'Alter it'

so maybe you have a vase that needs jazzing up with some glass paints or a notebook that could do with a make over or maybe a photo frame? The choice is yours we can't wait to see your altered creations :)

I Altered a mirror The mirror was from Ikea and started life like this.

I covered the frame with moulding paste to give it texture (i love this stuff) while it was still wet i pushed the bottle into the paste on the right hand side to fix it in place, the bottle had bath salt in it at some point i liked the bottle so kept it.

when it was all dry i painted it with cream emulsion , when that dried i rubbed gold guilding cream all over the frame on top of the ripples.

Next i got some of the sea glass that we had collected on our travels rubbed guilding cream around the edges and hot glued it on to the bottle.

Then i rubbed some more guilding cream in to some more sea glass and tried to arrange it on the right hand side to look like a flower and stem, then hot glued the glass into place.

The finished Mirror

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #49 Summer

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is Summer .

I'm away at the mo but will be back by tomorrow so i will leave my comments for you when I'm home.

Here's my creation

A 4x4 canvas I covered the canvas with molding paste to get some texture going then i sprinkled play sand all over it while it as still wet cut a small picture of my son at the beach and placed it on the canvas as well.

I added tiny shell's and pebbles with some crushed shells to the canvas as well while it was still wet. cut out the words and added them to. It need some thing to use as a hanger but i haven't found the right thing yet any ideas? and maybe i will add to it but I'm not sure.

Arty Girlz weeklychallenge #48 Add shapes to your project

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Im away from tomorrow (22nd) until tues /weds of next week so appoliges if i dont comment on your blogs, i will catch up when i get back.


This week challenge over on Arty Girlz is to add shapes to your project.

This week challenge is sponsored by the very talented Andy Carolan who is a freelance designer who specialises in cartoon illustration and products for the card craft industry. Andy is proud to have produced many varied illustrations for Joanna Sheen’s popular product range.
Click the banner to visit Andy's website
Andy has also produced the fantastic Card Toonz CD Roms and has kindly provided two of them as a prize for one of our participants to win The CD's contain a collection of cartoon character toppers, backing papers and banners that will help you to celebrate any occasion in style
If you would like to purchase these fantastic CD Roms you can find them HERE

so pop on over to Arty Girlz and join in the challenge for a chance to win these fab CD Roms

Andy sent us both a CD rom to use in our examples this week ~ Thanks Andy :)


I had the card Toonz professional nuttyness cd rom. These cd roms are great fun and have lots of cute images backing papers ect. which are great for quirky fun cards for all ages.

I just printed off the images and 3d decoupaged them on the first one i used retanges as my shapes and on the second one i used scolloped circles.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #47 NO patterned paper

This weeks challenge on Arty Girlz is 'no patterned paper' don't panic too much because this doesn't mean that you can't make your own patterned paper using stamps or doodling or from other resources etc it just means NO shop bought designer patterned paper so pop on over to Arty Girlz to join in with the challenge.

Julie and I asked sandy if she wanted to be our Guest designer this week and she said yes so if you would like to see what sandy has done pop over to Arty Girlz or Sandy's blog HERE.



Here's what i did and there,s no paper or card in sight. When i was a way last week i went to a great shop in sittingbourne and in the haberdashery dept they had a basket with crafters material remnants for 99p a bag so i picked up 2 lots. This was made from one of them.

I cut a piece of the canvas material to fit a piece of mount board. then used my sizzix to cut out a large flower and 2 small ones and layered them up and used a bead in the center.

The leaf was cut out from the pattern in the material. I did an image transfer on to cotton of Audrey Hepburn and layered that on to more of the brown silk material, folded the corner and added a bead. cut another piece of the canvas frayed the edges and layered the image on to that.

Rolled another piece of the material and stitched it to hold the roll then sewed the trim (also in the bag) to the back of that .

Assembled everything and stitched into place. added wadding to the back then put it on to the mount board. I used a piece of velvet brown thong for a hanging loop.

Its a very touchy feelie piece and i wanted to keep the frayed edges on everything to add to the effect.
The photo is a bit rubbish as it was dark when i took the pic its much better in real life honest LOL