A BOUNTY FROM FLORIDA

 

The plan was to fill an envelope each month  with various items and send it to each other. Die cuts and stamped images were mentioned  and that is what  I sent, and that is what I thought I would get back, but of course Kit had to go just one step further.

LOOK what arrived today.

And the most delightful mini album.

Can you imagine how excited I was.

THANK YOU

Now here are my two pages for the July swap hosted by LIZ  http://studioartplay.blogspot.com/ over at milliande.

KITES

I used a page from a world map and added gesso and ink. It was finished with tissue, die cuts, pens , ribbons and vintage quotations.

 

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

 

 

I used acrylic paint on the card and then scratched it off with sandpaper , images taken from my image collection ,TIM HOLTZ number and the clock hands cut from a TIM HOLTZ  SIZZIX die weathered clock. The spiral is also a SIZZIX die. And a quotation.

Flowers cut from the fused plastic bags I made a couple of days ago.

The large flowers are 5 inches across.

As it was much cooler today and we had rain I walked on the sea wall with Wilson  .These photos were taken with various apps on my iPhone.

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ONE HOUR AT A LAVENDER FARM

 

I took my elderly sick parents and and a elderly aunt to a Lavender farm this morning and this is a few of the photos I took.

5 acres of different types of Lavender

They also had some beautiful cottage garden flowers.

 

And also ducks

As I am writing this on a glorious Summers evening I am being smoked out by a very inconsiderate neighbour who has been burning rubbish for over a week.

Tonight was the night I decided enough was enough and went and spoke my mind ,followed afterwards by my 81 year frail female neighbour.

Two hours later we are still being smoked out so the windows are now shut and I smell like an ashtray .

FELT AND PLASTIC

 

I love felt ! i like the feel of it and the wonderful colours and the fact that it is wonderful in my SIZZIX .And so when I read an article in a magazine about a company called blooming felt I just had to order more supplies.

I also ordered a selection of silk strips which I thought would be a nice addition to journals.

And now to the plastic ,over at  http://milliande.ning.com  in the Frugal Artist group Sonja http://artfrommysoul.wordpress.com/  had posted about melting plastic bags. I have done this before and made mainly embellishments and ATCs (and almost killed myself with the fumes ). But as we are having glorious weather and every window is open I thought it was safe to have another go.

I layered several plastic bags together and placed various items including items cut with my SIZZIX  on top of the rather pretty pink one.I then placed a clear plastic bag on top of that. This was sandwiched between baking parchment and ironed.

Actually it looks a little odd in the photo but it turned out much better than I could have hoped ,and it almost looked as if it had been quilted.

The two die cuts at the top are cut from a vintage map.

And then it was off to the SIZZIX.

As this had been so successful and only taken about ten minutes I started a search for more plastic bags. This was always going to be difficult as I have refused any carrier bags when shopping for at least five years.

But lurking in the back of the cupboard I found a solitary bag not enough for the task in hand, so I had to use some of the bags which are normally returned to the driver when my grocery's are delivered. (well I am recycling them )

As the main bag was black I added a few ice breaker cards ,sweet wrappers,foil flower, and bubble wrap. and again covered with a clear layer.

And I forgot to mention red ribbon this also turned out well .But I am going to take my time before cutting it up.

As i knew I had no other bags in the house I asked my 82 year old neighbour if she had any.

JACKPOT !

 

This one is in WELSH .

As I was so excited by the wonderful colours I thought I would not rush into using these and I just worked on the bright River Island one which may become Hearts or flowers.

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