well perhaps not...I have a challenge on my yahoo group where we
are altering children's shoes, here is my first effort. the
original shoe is a little girl's shiny black dress shoe, I have
then covered it in liquid nails for texture, before it had a chance
to harden I made swirls with my palette knife. Once dry I then
painted with pthalo green, did a dabbled wash over with a sea
sponge and copper and gold, the next step was using my heat
gun...not to dry the paint but to bubble it and make it even more
textured. I smeared a little antique gold Rub 'n Buff over the
raised areas and then attached adornments, etc.
See one of my previous posts to see how I altered the German Scrap
pieces.
The red shoe is not finished yet but I just love the colour so
far.
These shoes are made for walking
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
wonderful Dresden trim AKA German Scrap
There are a few things I love and one of those things is German
Scrap, I really like that I can change it's appearance so very
easily too...very very easily!
I have tried a few things on the gold coloured pieces earlier in
the year (these ones shown are available from Scraptivate in
Western Australia), I tried vinegar....don't ask why because I do
these things when I'm having a "moment" lol....anyway the vinegar
stripped the colour right out and left it smelling like fish and
chips, so I moved onto "Silvo" silverware polish, it stripped the
colour out too and left the piece quite fragile.
Soooo I went back to my trusty fave. and as always it leaves the
pieces fabtacular and devine.
Rub n' Buff is the way to go, it strips out the gold and leaves a
nice trace colour behind, every colour is different, so it really
pays to play...Spanish Copper is the one I use the most, followed
closely by black and turquoise. We stock some colours at FTN, you
can also purchase from places like Bunnings and Spotlight.
Now go play!...and get your hands dirty!
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
name tags for friends
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Target Artist Art
on my Yahoo group I run (ATC Secret Society for Altered Artists) we
have a little bi monthly game called Target Artist where we send
art to the TA for the moment, well I was so pleased with this
little thing I have made for our current TA (Barb), that I just had
to share :)
I have used resist stamping again and gold leafing
Sunday, September 23, 2007
catching up...again
Theme #3 Little Wings (Inching Artists)
Golden Gothic Arche
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
My trip
well I had a lovely break, we stayed at a really nice B&B
about half an hour away from where I was teaching, the scenery was
beautiful, so the trip to and fro was not wasted.
The class went well and the ladies all seemed to enjoy themselves,
they were super friendly and very down to earth which made teaching
a pleasure. I wish I had remembered to put the memory card into my
camera because I would have loved to have taken some photos of the
devine pages that were made by the ladies for their books. Some
decided to not use the original chubby house design and instead
opted for "skinnies" and flip books. It was a long day but I think
they would have been happy to go on a bit longer....I know I would
have :)
Thursday, September 06, 2007
something really really really old
some ATCs
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Gothic Arches - MOON theme
The new theme on "Gothic Arches" challenge site is MOON, I have
created the arty moon by building over the stamped image with clock
pieces that I have been collecting
http://gothicarches.blogspot.com/
inchie site...
Friday, August 31, 2007
Gothic Arches
Daring Cardmakers
Wednesday Stamper
Think Monday-Think ATC
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Altered CD for upcoming FTN class
I really need to work out the settings on my new camera, that would
I would most likely take a better pic :)
I made this CD for future classes I will hold at FTN, the
butterflies are stickers on transparency sheets...simple simple
simple and of course I have used fusible film, embossing and alch.
inks
go get ya hands dirty!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
....and another class
I have been asked to run a stampbord class next month, it will
be on the 28th (Friday) September...for those not ready to think
ahead just yet :)
The class is from 6:30pm until 8:30pm...although I have found that
my students don't seem to want to leave or even pack up by
then...not that I can blame them, we do have fun!
Again I'll just mention that you may want to prepurchase the
Stampbord tool for the class....I will have scratchy tools for
class use but it will work very primitively.
Phone FTN to book...see you there :)
P.S this class will be in the AM too, same day 10:30-12:30
Artist Trading Cards at Fred the Needle...round 2 :)
last night was the last ATC class for the month, I hope that all
those who have attended my classes this month had a great time and
learnt alot...or atleast one thing. We played with shaving cream,
masking, fusible film and all the fabo. stuff that goes with that.
It was super cool to see I had a repeat student (Judy), happily
playing again.
Sooooo onto the next round of techniques.....drum roll.....
Resist stamping, shellac and an intro to stambord
Friday 14th sept 10.30am to 12.30 and Friday night 21st sept from
6.30pm to 8.30
ring FTN or walk in.
I suggest you pick up the stampbord tool before class to make sure
you have one, we will of course provide the class with small
stampbord pieces that can go on ATCs/cards, etc and there will be
more to purchase at the conclusion of class.
In October we will be playing with larger pieces, including 6x6
frames (my art is available to view on the front counter of FTN)
Don't be afraid...be inspired!
If you are interested in being in a monthly altered book club
please leave your details at FTN...if you include an email I can
keep you up to date :)
I hope to see you there...classes are filling fast!


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