'Angelic' She Art

DD#1's bestie admired the She Art I made for Christmas and asked if she could have one for her birthday. Had I known what life was going to be like I would have said yeah in 2014!!

I am glad now that I had already said yes as it has given me a few hours away from the madness that surrounds me and has reminded me how important a little bit of me time is. No point in me crashing and burning, then where will they all be???? So I aim to have at least one evening a week in my haven...I may not always have time to share it on my blog but hey ho!!!

So, back to the art. Batts has been DD#1's best friend since they started play group at three. A truly lovely girl, DGD's Godmother and all round angel.....an idea was born!! The only brief I was given was it has to be ...... purple!!! Here we go again....LOL

Off to wrap and deliver it now....hope she likes it!!!

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x

Today is Your Day

Another FAB-U-LOUS challenge over at ScrapFriends :0)

This time I am playing along with their colour challenge.......and it's a good 'un!!

I have had this old photo of me, DH and DD#2 hanging around since I brought it down from the loft to repurpose the frame...I know it was taken on one of my birthdays...I think around 1993...hence the hair...both DH and me!!!

Papers are scraps :0) Background stamp is Kaisercraft

Check out the fabulous texture rub ons from Christy Tomlinson...yummy!

Lovely flair badge from Stash Panache :0)

So the challenge is:




and I used this week's sketch from Let's Get Sketchy



go and have a play here

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

'Proper' She Art #1

Hello,

as you may have realised I have got the mixed media bug....badly!! I have just ordered more canvases and paints and am trying to find texture paste in the UK.......can anyone help?

As I unwrapped the canvas I started thinking about the daughter of one of my Mum's best friends. She and I were the oldest of the kids in my Mum and Dad's group of friends. The adults would take it in turns to host and all the kids would stay upstairs whilst the grown ups would eat, drink and be merry.....it was the 70's and children were not really included in their social lives!!!

Anyway, J and I would hang out together, having nothing in common with the younger children. As I got older I no longer had to go with my parents so J and I no longer saw each other.

J has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and is undergoing horrific Chemotherapy at present with 42 days of Radiation therapy to follow, so, as you can imagine she has been on my mind a lot.

Once I decided I wanted to do this canvas for her, the colours and words flowed. I wanted it to be strong and bright and positive....because that is what she is :0)

There are a lot of photos but as the canvas is 7 3/4" by 18" I have taken photos of each 'section'

papers are MME Miss Caroline and the stencil I used is from Prima. The butterflies are cut using the Tim Holtz die....my fave!

The butterflies represent new beginnings.

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Grandmas do listen......

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

So, last one of the dancing quartet today, and with critique taken on board, here is the girl with pink hair!!

Thing is kid, you want pink hair, Mamma gets to choose the rest of the colours ;0)

Thank you so much for sticking with me, see you soon!

Ali x 

#3 and my personal fave :0)

You can see I really have the bug now!

I spent the whole of last week working on these. Every time I past my craft room I would pop in and add another little something to one of them!
That is the beauty of mixed media you can spend 5 minutes and walk away. If I am doing a layout I have to finish it, so I have to make sure I have allowed enough time. Consequently, there are days when I don't even go near my craft room.
These little darlings meant that I had some time, maybe not as much as I would like, in my happy place every day.

This background is by far my favourite of the four. I love the colours, the texture and of course the glitter!! I like this girl the best too....I think it's her blue/black hair.

Thanks for popping in today, last one tomorrow :0)

Ali x 

Dancer Canvas #2

Back with number 2 today :0)

I took quotes from Scrapbook.Com, so brilliant that they list them by theme. It was easy to find four quotes that would work with my dancers and the words kind of took me in the direction of how to pose them and how I wanted the background to be.

I love the colours of this one.....you will note that every one has pink on it somewhere as this, in DGD's opinion, is the only colour of any consequence!!

Thanks for popping in today, back with my favourite tomorrow!

Ali x 

A little dabble into mixed media!

I guess it wasn't going to be long before I had a little play with canvases and mixed media, so many of my lovely bloggy friends have inspired me :0)

DD#1 and DGD are about to move into their new house and DGD is having a ballet themed bedroom. DD#1 was looking at canvases and asked if I could do something dance inspired, a) to save her a few bob and b) so that DGD had something unique. This was my chance :0)

I was going to post all 4 8 x 8 canvases together but I think it might be overload so I will do them one by one and in order of creation so that you can see things definitely get a lot freer as time goes on. I even went back to redo this one's hair as it was a little too restrained. LOL.

I have learnt that it is best not to use cardstock for your 'shes' as they stand proud on the canvas....but that's what it's all about eh? Live and learn!!

I am really proud of my girls as I have never even attempted to draw anything before!! I adore this new foray into paints and paper and texture.

This canvas is the only one that DGD has seen. She picked it up, studied it and commented 'thank you Mamma, she is beautiful, but I would have liked her to have pink hair' ain't no pleasing some Prima Donnas!!!

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x