ATC for Domonique

I love this ATC, it is a sneaky Halloween theme, if you look directly at the piece it looks fairly plain but if you tilt it you will see the cracks in the bat and the secret message that I have etched onto the acrylic. The tree is merely PVA glue

ATC for Jan

I am currently running an ATC swap...nearly finished, this is the ATC I have done for Jan Palmer...her chosen theme was "from the heart", I have used lots of texture and then I have put it behind acrylic and then worked more on the face...something different :)

book pages

I'm in my first ever paperbag book swap and these are my pages so far...in total I have to do 24 pages (2 different designs)

Spring Carnival

It's summer here in Australia, so spring is a while off, but with the heat exhausting us all I thought I would create something a little "cooler", Spring Carnival is a bit bigger than the last few dolls I have done, her body is 11 inches in length, the style I have created for her is, what I call, "bottle".

just a casual scrapper

I always state that I'm not a scrapbooker...and I'm truly not, I began my papercraft journey as one and was very dedicated to it, but I totally sucked at it (I can fondly reflect). What has this got to do with the picture? That's a layout I did (as per request from the magazine), it was recently published in Australian Scrapbook Creations (vol8 #11). I was asked to share my fave technique (impasto :) ) I've been published a couple of times but this is the first time in a scrapbook magazine...I guess I'm a casual scrapper :)

Pins, Pretties and a sneak peek

My friend (and uber talented scrapper), Gilly came over a couple of weeks ago and I noticed one of her pieces had a lovely leaf headed pin, inspired I decided to decorate some pins myself...I'm going to make some polymer leaf heads when the weather gives us a break.

The paper flower is made of stained and shredded scraps of paper...just for the fun of it :)

The canvas...sorry that is all I can share at the moment but a big thanks to Jan Palmer for sending me the newspaper plates.

ATC swap

It's summer time here in Australia and sooooo hot, I'm not a summer person at all, but I find if I keep myself busy and distracted then I don't feel so ragged. I am currently running another Facebook ATC swap, this one is on behalf of a new friend, Jan Palmer. These are just some of my ATCs for the swap.

"Butterflies", "Fleur De Lys" and "Black, White & Blue"

Happy Scrapper

ok, I thought I had better get these pictures of my one hour layout up...I'm not a scrapper...I say this and yet I do sometimes scrap...maybe I can be referred to as a surprise scrapper? I have used Prima and Green Tara flowers, all chipboard is Scrapware.

Ring in the new year with an ATC

Happy New Year to everybody, I hope you all have a super creative year ahead...and other good stuff! I bought a ticket for tomorrow nights' $30 million lotto, so please feel free to cross your fingers and toes, Disneyland is a must if we win.

Last night I sat out the front watching my two boys doing relay races up and down the drive way with 65 sparklers, they had fun, I got a small burn on my foot from JD dropping a hot wire on me...oh and I started a small fire, but all in all we had a nice time.

I created my first ATC for 2010 by taking part in Scraptivates' online challenge, hop over and check it out, you can win a prize...and just like lotto "you gotta be in it to win it"

Challenge #1 Festive

Over at Artist Trading Dollz, the first challenge theme has been posted, this is my take on the theme "Festive", it didn't have to be Christmas but I liked how this was turning out, she is a small doll and would be lovely on the tree I think...I might have to work on a few for next Christmas :)   http://artisttradingdollz.blogspot.com/