Tags and more

Hi all,

Well I was a lucky girl during the week and received a stack of stuff in the mail - and all of it beautiful! I was particularly excited to receive a tag swap back from the very talented Julian Buttenshaw, and thought that I would share. The photos do not do it complete justice, particularly as Julian has used the great demengiefever treatment for transparencies, which give the piece a huge amount of depth and interest.


And there was an even nicer surprise waiting on the back. Reds + texture! This piece was absolutely custom made for me!


Thankyou, thankyou Julian.

I am struggling with a collaborative bookpage at the moment - it seemed like a good idea to sign up for this in November, but I am struggling. The collab book theme is surrounding wonders (ie nature) and the book has to be done in blues and greens. I was in a good blue-green phase when I signed up, but now it is long gone! I will have to continue with doodles / fiddles until something comes up (which usually means that I end up with a LOT of ATC backgrounds). I may have to have a play with some texture paste to get the juices flowing a bit.

On other matters my car window was smashed on Friday night in a parking station in the CBD - some little b^#@#^*& had decided that a late night rampage would be a good idea and broke into my car looking for Penelope (my navman). Fortunately, Penelope was at home but as it is a long weekend O'Brians glass can't fix it until next week. The upshot is that I am without a car until Wednesday because there is only gladwrap covering the passenger side "window". The real irony if this was that I was being responsible leaving my car on Friday night because I thought that I had had 1 too many drinks to drive, and would be better off collecting my car the next morning. So, being responsible drops me an insurance level rating, which means that my insurance will cost more, I have to pay the excess, I paid extra to leave my car overnight in the CBD, and had taxi fares. All in all a VERY expensive evening.

From the keyboard of the disgruntled (and poor) Liz

Weekly Name and Shame & stuff

Well, lets get it over with...

Weekly Name and Shame: -100g

sorry about the delayed post - work has been ridiculous, and I had to wait an extra 2 days for my weigh in. Had a bad week this week - work stress. Ho hum.

On other (more interesting) matters I have been relatively quiet on the art front due to work, but have managed to finish a couple of things.

The first is Kit Swap VIII for Arty Oz (apologies for the quality of the scan - nothing seems to be working well for me today). In a kit swap we can't use anything other than what is provided.


The next is an altered book in a tin for paperarts (I am currently doing July swaps). This is the tin:



Inside 1:


and inside completely open.


Hopefully I will get the long weekend this weekend and not have to work, so I can knock off a couple of other things! Will keep you all posted...

Weekly Name and Shame

Weekly Name and Shame: -1.3kg

yee-ha!

General update

Hi all,

Things have been a bit busy this last week, hence the lack of posts. I will start with the usual:

Weekly Name and Shame: -100g

not brilliant, but things will look up this week, I know.

in terms of other stuff, I was very busy last weekend helping Monika unpack at the new store. She opened at new premises in Spotswood on Tuesday the 12th. Very exciting for her, so please drop by and visit - you can actually see all the stock now - it is great!

My sister dropped by to see me on her way through to a hiking trip in NZ.... I have also been very busy at work, the boss was away in India, so I copped a bit of an admin burden this week.

I managed to do another baby card yesterday - which is rather sweet. Used some stampin up stamps that were still virgins to do it:


I should give a shout out to Lou and Martin and say congratulations on the birth of Holly Matilda!

I have also managed to complete my prototype for the latest ArtyOz Kit Swap, i will try to get them completed during the week and hand them on next Sunday, so I will be able to post output later on...

With any luck my output level will be on the rise again this week, so stay tuned!

weekly name and shame

Weekly Name and Shame: -1kg

well, now we are talking! this is a much improved result after last week.

must focus on sticking to the plan this week :-)

DeMengie Fever!

Well, this is this is my creation from yesterday's transparency class with Michael DeMeng :

Here is the detail of the transparency (behind the optical lens at the bottom of the shot):


The class was just great, and I am really pleased with how my piece turned out. I was lucky in that my composition just fell into place on the day.

I picked up some great tips from Michael - I was particularly interested in the patina effects created with pain washes. Very good stuff. His alteration techniques and use of transparencies was really clever, and who knew that Liquid Nails would become an essential art supply!

I didn't get photos of everyone else's work because the battery in my camera died, but all the work created on the day was just fantastic, and it was great to catch up with so many ladies I haven't seen for a while.

I think that I will be doing more "ASS-emblage" in the future.

Weekly name and shame

Weekly Name and Shame: +600g

well, disappointed is putting it mildly - I am back up to where I started! My JC consultant isn't sure what happened, but I will continue to faithfully keep my journal and if I haven't lost next week she will send it off to the dietician.

AND I did exercise this week too!

bah humbug.