My Artsycraft Weekend goodies!

First of all I'll say that Caroline and I had an absolutely wonderful amazing time. Leandra and Lin were fab - as usual. Also a big thanks to Jo and Lynne for all your input. Thanks to Karen too for taking all my money (Ron hasn't half got the 'ump with you for serving me!!!).......

Anyway - first of all we did "Secret Garden"..... This is my tissue rose at the top. It was great fun scrunching it up into a ball and then straightening it out again! The little bird is made of metal and then rubbed with alcohol inks to distress him!

This is the finished piece. It's a giant tag! The tree is grey board with a stencil on it and then Ferro rubbed on to give the texture.

We then went on to our main project (saving that for you !).

This next piece was our last project. I chose Lemon and Lime - so out of my comfort zone but I thoroughly enjoyed the colours. All citrussy. The centre is a piece of metal put through the big shot with an embossing folder and then rubbed over with alcohol inks. The heart stamp is a paperartsy one (of course!) I then went round it with a black slick writer.

Now for the main project. This is one of the squares. Embossed metal with alcohol inks (I think) and an embossed moth.

This next one is the moth again (this time stamped) on a square of canvas stuck onto grey board. The stamp is one of paperartsy (of course!) I really like this square.

This is my bestest favourite thing of the weekend - my metal rose. I just love this. It is on a tile that was covered with Terra and heated til it bubbled and we rubbed it off.

This is the final piece all put together. The tiles were put onto a canvas panel which was painted black and then I painted it brown! The gold edge is gold goop. The red goop is painted on through a stencil. My colourway was Mediterranean Mix.

Tiles 1, 5 and 9 are metal, tiles 2, 6 and 8 are sticky back canvas and tiles 3, 4 and 7 are covered with Terra.

The birdcage was stamped and die cut from acetate and black card for us. The reverse was painted with kaiser paints in antique white, a brick red and a mustardy colour and then pressed onto the black card and the paint made it stick! It curved naturally which was kinda cool!

Anyway hope you like my efforts. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the whole thing made all the more great by the aforementioned ladies who helped us and got us out of many a sticky situation - you know - we don't make mistakes we have happy accidents - that sort of thing!!!!!!!

I have to confess it has taken me over an hour to do this post cos I keep watching "the Buble" and getting distracted.

Thanks for stopping by.

Burnice x

At last I can reveal !!!

This is the bestest thing I have ever made.

First I covered the shape with terra paste (sahara) and then stamped into this with a script and a clock stamp. I then painted with acrylic paint (eggshell). When the terra is overheated it bubbles up.

When this was dry I used blue, pebble and mushroom acrylic paint. The copper and very shiny blue are viva precious metal paints. I then sprintz it with tattered angels shimmers in blue and sepia gold.

I then painted a piece of the metal (which was copper on one side and and silver on the other. I used the same blues and mushrooms. I thought it was a bit bright when I first did it but then I decided that it looked like copper piping when it gets wet (IYKWIM). The images were stamped in archival ink.

The numbers were stamped with stazon onto the copper metal and then "aged" with the blue precious metal paints.

This is the finished result. The metal down the side was embossed over moulds and spritzed with the glimmer mists. The top one was done by Leandra herself as a sample to show us what to do and I asked if I could have it for my clock and she said "Go on then !" - so I did! The embellishments were all cut out and stuck on with red line tape. The back board is a canvas panel 14x10 and painted with the same combo as the clock face. I then stamped onto the canvas with some of the fab stamps.

I do hope you like my creation and if you behave yourselves I will put the next project I did on tomorrow.

Have to say I had the best time............................

Well best get on with me knitting.

Burnice

Funny thing happened on the way to Newport Pagnell.....

It all started so well. Linda arrived, we had lunch, set off and had to turn round after two seconds cos I couldn't remember closing the bathroom window (a bit paranoid after being burgled cos I left the bathroom window open - b"""""ds!). Good job we did go back cos I hadn't closed the bathroom window !!! So off we set again.

Mrs sat nav was on form and we (well Linda did) drove and drove and drove and drove. I get out my knitting (very relaxed now you see!) and am three quarters of the way up the leg warmer and then suddenly my driver said "think we might need some petrol!" "WHAT" I say. Now this might not seem a problem but we were on the M25 just before the Heathrow junction! "Don't panic" she said "we have about 30 or so miles left in the tank". "oh that's alright then" I say. "Keep your eyes open for a garage" she says. We go a bit further and Linda remarks "I definitely need petrol now". Did you know there were no garages along the M25. Burn puts her knitting down (nervous now!) and Linda makes an executive decision. We turn off the motorway and then came to a roundabout marked Uxbridge/Hayes or something like that. Well Mrs sat nav is now having an eppy so we had to turn her off cos she was driving us mad! We drive for a fair bit and then came to a junction. Decision time again. Do we go right or left. We go left and Linda said "bet the garage is the other way!" Got to the junction and as we were turning left we looked to our right and there sure enough was a bloomin' big garage !!!!! We turn round. Gave the car a lovely long drink and set off on our way again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I picked up me knitting cos I am relaxed again!!

Anyway I/we had an absolutely fantastic time at the "workshop". It was amazing. Learnt soooo many new techniques, used sooooooo many new products and stamps and met soooooooo many new peoples!! Had a good laugh too. Not allowed to post any images or say anything about it so as not to spoil it for those going this coming weekend. I will say this tho' "YOU WILL LOVE IT". The "thing" I made looks fantastic "in situ". Even him indoors thought so, so it can't be that bad !!!!

I will put some photos on next week.

At work so best fly.

Laters

Burnice