Chipboard jewellery and a little toot :D

A little bit of excitement today cos I can now share with you that I have been invited to join the Tando Creative Design Team.... whooohoooo with a cherry on top :D  That means lots of lovely lovely chippie will be coming my way to play with.  I want to say a HUGE thank you to Di  for the opportunity and I hope you will pop over to the Tando blog to join in with the gorgeous things that I and the other DT members will be sharing there.

I couldn't abandon my painting just yet... oh you just know that I can't...lol... so I was uber excited when I realised that the Tando Chipboard is sturdy enough to take whatever I throw at it... and as it also has a gorgeous white coating it's ideal for painting on. Yeeeeeessss!!  So for my first pieces for the DT I decided to create some heart jewellery.  I think Frida Kahlo is a wonderful artist and my brooch above is in honour of her.

I then decided to paint a little whimsy girl and turned the painting into a necklace before finally doing a mixed media brooch (below) too.   Lotsa fun... I enjoyed every moment.

This one was created by throwing bits of kitchen roll at it... ok ..ok I didn't throw them... I rolled them and collaged them and added swirls of fabric coated wire... but you know what I mean ;-)

The colouring is watercolour crayons and acrylic paint mixed.

Now for the best bit... I made these from the Tando Home hanger and I still have another heart and the words left to play with... heh heh.. I'm nothing if not frugal with my goodies!! 

I will share what I make with what's left soon.  TFL

hugs

Chris xx

Freedom art journal page

A bit of a change from painting with this page... but hey I still have pencils and pens in my hands.  I love doing backgrounds with coloured pencil because they have such a delicate look.   Glueing and sticking is so therapeutic too and those old magazines sure do come in useful :D

Doing pages opens up some really wierd stuff in my head sometimes... do you feel that when you do yours???  Do you feel that sometimes other people pull the strings in your life more than you do yourself... I think I have always been a people pleaser... more worried about others than myself and it sure is a hard habit to break.   ooooooooer DEEP or what...lol
hugs
Chris xx

Splish, Splash, Sploshing around....

with paint that is :D  Just fancied a play and made a swirly stencil out of paper to play with for my background.  loadsa fun!!   Used more images from Dyans downloads but this time I coloured them with paint and Copic markers.  So versatile... I am gonna have to have more...lol

I started off with an idea BUT after I wrote my journalling on the page (just quickly by hand) I looked at the page again and it reminded me of something that happened a long time ago so I think now I am gonna paint over a bit of it and add different journalling... sheesh the things I do...lol

It was the HAT that did it!!  Provoked a memory from my childhood when these hats were all the rage and we began making a corduroy one at school... all hand sewing too I might add.... I was about 8 at the time.  However I had an accident and got my fingers badly trapped in a car door so was absent from school for a while and when I returned was still bandaged up so couldn't sew... but worse... because I wasn't at school my teacher decided to give MY HAT to someone else to complete and keep.  SO MISS BROWN... if you ever read this .... KNOW that I hated you for that from the depths of my being...lol

hugs

Chris xx

Believe in yourself....

because if  You think you ' can't  '... You '  won't '.   That's my journalling thought for this piece...prompted by the fact that I spent sooooo long thinking that I couldn't paint or do faces that I stopped myself from doing any of it in any constructive way and many other things too.   I am slowly beginning to believe in my own ability now and I'm so glad I didn't give up completely :D

I've often cried tears of frustration over something I've wanted to do and my own negativity has stopped me from going further... so now I am going to turn over a new leaf and I'm gonna start believing in me... who knows where that might lead :D

Do YOU believe in YOU!!

hugs
Chris xx

Dyans new downloads....

are totally tickling me... I loves them :D  Got my hands on a few this week and though I'm jumping from one thing to another at the moment  like a flee in a circus!! (well when your mojo is moving you gotta work it right...lol) I managed to roll my painting and a journal page into one....whooohoo

No having to scoot around in magazines for images to use (although I do like to do that when i have time) just painted my background and got down n dirty with me pritt stick :D  Even fancied myself as a bit of a

fashion designer lol... so I created my own catwalk.  Dresses out of bows and ties... whatever next ha ha ha.

Not that I have legs like that.... more like tree trunks... but I can dream!!

strut your stuff ... because... you're worth it :D  Well we are aren't we???

If you fancy getting your hands on some of Dyans downloads you can find them HERE and pop over to Dyans blog too cos there is loads of inspiration there... you won't be sorry :D
Okay gotta scoot... the paintbrushes are calling my name and though I haven't had much time for blogging lately I am gonna pre post some stuff on standby today so there will be more for you to see this week.
Hugs
Chris xx

Whimsy painting

I have soooo been neglecting my blog but time just seems to be flying away with me especially with my new found love of painting.  I can't seem to put my paintbrush down and after progressing to Whimsy lessons on Tam's free willowing course it's even more fun.  I'm so glad I joined up.... there is still time for you to join in with the fun...just click on the link to the right :D

Butterflies, toadstools and whimsy are bringing out the little girl in me once again...lol

Have a great day :D

hugs

Chris xx

Pretty in Pink

Okey dokey I promised to share more of my painting that I've been doing over the last weeks and although there has been lots of trial and error and lots of paintings that I am not over impressed with .... this is my favouritest one of all.  

I am not one to blow my own trumpet BUT I can't beeeeelieve that I drew and painted this.... each time I look at it it makes me feel all warm inside (and to be honest I get a bit choked up  too cos I feel like I am finally realizing something inside me that I thought just wasn't there).

I think that no matter what I draw and paint in future... my pretty little girl will ALWAYS be my favourite...  she created a moment of awakening and I love her for it :D

Thanks for looking

hugs

Chris xx

Face-journal pages

Ohhhhh I AM a happy bunny.... I've been having soooo much fun doing Tam's...  Art, Heart and Healing free course.  I have learned so much in just one short week and found a new passion.  I've always wanted to be able to paint faces properly (you may remember some of my first attempts from previous blog posts weren't anything to write home about though lol)

This is my first attempt at painting one...with instructions from the course... and using watercolour crayons (which I think are amazing).  The pages aren't complete... I have stamping and words to add but I ended up continuing to paint more faces so got a bit sidetracked. (I will share the others with you later).

The face is supposed to be me... well I know I look older ha ha ha.... but hey I feel this young inside so I guess it is me in a sense :D
I've just come home after a couple of lovely weeks with friends so will catch up with you all as soon as I can :D
hugs
Chris xx

Mixed Media dress

Do I like getting messy... you betcha... the messier the better... it's the cleaning up I don't like.  I haven't taken part in Margarets Dress it up challenge for ages... despite the best laid plans... I get sooooo sidetracked :D  There are just sooooo many things I want to do and try that there just aren't enough hours in the day!! 

I love sloshing paint around and made a background using acrylic paint... pva glue... watercolour paint and inks. Placing the colour randomly on the sheet along with the glue.  Then I bubbled it with a heat gun... it's really cool doing that... magic before your eyes... just love the texture it creates.  I then just cut out the dress shape from the piece I painted and shaped it a little so it didn't look flat.

I just adore Autumn colours so I think this is gonna be one of my most favourite of the dresses I've done :D
To see the other dresses for October go here.
Hope you are having a good weekend.
hugs
Chris xx

Top Hat Zentangle doodle

When I get my teeth into something I just can't let go... so carried on and did another doodle yesterday (so much for doing some stamping...lol).  I do forget how much I like to draw until I get started but then I get so involved in it that I can't get anything else done.  So I am knocking myself on the head today and demanding that I put the pen down and get something done in the house and then maybe some 'proper' papercrafting :D

I went for a gentlemanly theme with this one just because I started a squiggle on paper and it looked a bit like a top hat... so electric light moment happened and I decided to have a go at a proper shape.  It was soooo much fun!!

Hope to visit you all today now that I have put my pen down...so see you soon :D
Hugs
Chris xx