Playing With Pages

 Some time ago I had photographed my oil colours that I had painted for the purpose of cataloguing and easy display. Anyway I decided to utilize these to collage some pages so that I could play with a big tin of water colours that one of the ladies at craft was giving away.

 I thought I might try to produce a turtle stamp. Heres the start .

 This page started with the red and pink postcard as inspiration with a copy of my lino print of mother and child and then adding bits and pieces as I found them. Its really hard to capture colour at night without moving the camera.

Mushroom Bags

I decided I needed a little Craft Me Time (despite having indulged in alot of "me" activities this week- facial , lunch out and the movies) I have decided to utilized my mushroom stamp to make mushroom bags. I had previously made up a berry dye bath and had recently purchased some calico cheaply at an op shop, so I had the makings of some lovely mushroom pink coloured material. A quick boil up and some lovely sunny weather and I was ready to roll out the fabric ink and stamp away.
Heres waht we got..

Little butterfly bag (not quite complete)

Thought that I might use these to gift the hand dyed scarfs

And now for a real visual treat that I know will make you all feel great and not the least bit inadequate..its a shot of all the rubbish (actually no its probably half of the rubbish, cause I'd already cleared away some) that had been accumulating on my bedroom floor.

My craft junk was gradually exceeding my limited storage space and began taking up a lot of my floor space in my bedroom. Mmmm. To the rescue my good friend Richmal whom gifted me a wonderful cupboard that fits perfectly in the only spare space in the corner of my room

I'm in the process of filling her up. I considered paint it with milk paint but I love the patterning of the wood and a bit of TLC in my holidays will bring it up to scratch.
Teddy needs a bit of TLC on his feet!!
Keep well and rest those wearys every now and again. Thanks for stopping by.

Stamping with Geninne

Yipee. I've received my copy of Making an impression by Geninne Zlatkis. I actually ordered two of these and am still waiting the second copy which my friend will receive as a surprise.

 I've carved two of the images from the pages - the vintage butterfly which I am particularly taken with.

 My first stampings are a little dodgy as I was stamping on a camp table whislt away. It was very therapuetic sitting in the open air quietly carving away whilst the girls where off jumping on the inflated  "pillow" (A jumping castle shaped like a huge pillow)I couldnt lean hard on the stamp block top and didnt have a roller to aide in obtaining an even print.

I love the mushroom print and want to utilize this to make a mushroom bag with my fabric printing inks on a mushroom pink coloured material.

Great inspiration, food for thought. Now to make a few of my own..