Mixed Media Canvas

All my art pieces seem to be the same kinda style at the moment - messy, painty with some collage images thrown in. Add a cute quote and there you go. It's just what I enjoy doing at the moment and here is another canvas I did.....

I bought some collage sheets from Lisa's Altered Art recently, they are extremely versatile and I like working with old photos. Whenever I can I use old family pictures to make it that bit more personal but finding just the right photo is often easier said than done so collage sheets are the perfect alternative and you can print them in the required size.

I hope you enjoy my colourful girly canvas and feel inspired to create something yourself.

Another crazy painted mirror

It's yet another mirror, I just love them. Practical little home decorations and so much fun to do. This one if another piece to be goin to the fair on saturday. It's similar to one I did previously but then again they are all unique.

I am entering this into the Simon says Stamp and Show Challenge where this week Anything goes.

This is also a creation for Try it on Tuesday's Altered Week and this week we are making presents. Their challenge is sponsored by The Craft Barn as usual.

Published in Stampers' Sampler - a dream come true

There are some news you just have to share and shout out cause they are so exciting! I got my copy of the new Stampers' Sampler today and fast forwarded to the Photo Challenge results to find one of my cards has been printed.

This challenge was right up my street as I love working with old photos and the picture on this card on page 68 is one of my all time favourite photos, it's my mum when she was little and it's such a pretty picture.

All the other photo cards are really cool too and very inspiring, I'm sure going to try out a few layouts shown in this.

So go get your copy, it's one of the best issues in a while.

I am my art and my art is a reflection of me

Another mirror so I thought I title this post with one of my favourite Wendy Vecchi stamp quotes. Mirrors and reflection, you get it?!
So yeah i painted yet another mirror but I am really enjoying it so why not. And this one is going into my craft fair stock, which reminds me I really need to get planning on the table set up and write some price tags and work out prices and well, just plan it all, only a week to go.
So exciting and scary!

So with this mirror I went a bit crazy on the painted background (again) and just had fun.

I also had some fab news, the local shop thats taken on some of my mirrors has actually sold one so thats really great news. I better get making some more.....

Bottle cap fridge magnets

I've recently come across some bottle cap fridge magnets in a shop and thought what a fab idea. I had already bought some bottle caps previously and the epoxy dome stickers and these caps fit one of my circle punches perfectly.
So I got making.
Some images work better than others, just give it a go.
For these I used stamped images but I think they'd also look fab using old photos or maybe even magazine clippings. Anything you can punch out really.

I think they'll make a nice addition to my display at the craft fair next week. I am a little nervous about my first fair but also excited. Hope the weathers nice.

More of a detailed view here, I used one of the hero arts background stamp - pop dots for the ones on the left. The butterfly is out of a bigger image by Paperbag Studios.

A fantastic opportunity....

A great opportunity has come up for me recently and I've been meaning to share for a while but never got round to it.
Basically opposite where I live is a row of small shops and businesses, one of them being Studio 61 - a framing studio and art gallery. The gentleman who owns it has kindly agreed to display some of my work, my mirrors to be precise. Although it's not exactly what he normally exhibits (mainly his own photography) he liked my stuff and as I'm a local artist he wants to give it a go and see if my stuff may sell. So the past 3 weeks I've been busy working on some mirrors for him and I dropped them off today and now it's wait and see if people are interested.

This one here is my latest piece and my favourite at the moment, again I got really messy and painty with the background and the houses are stamped (Paperbag Studios) and coloured with my new favourite neocolor crayons (thanks to Kate Crane for the tip!!!).

Fingers crossed my mirrors sell and I may get to do more business with John. In the meantime I'll just enjoy getting messy, I have just stocked up on mirrors so I'm set for a few weeks!

I want to ride my bicycle....

Time for another card I think.
When looking through my stash a little while ago I thought those idea-ology gears would make really cool bicycle wheels so I borrowed my mum's Darkroom Door stamps and made this card. Just lucky the image is just the perfect size for the gears.