It is rather apt that I should be sharing this tag today, as I will be heading up to Manchester (Stockport) later to meet up with some crafty friends; the bee is the symbol of Manchester. This tag is dedicated to all my crafty friends from all parts of Manchester.
Altered dominoes was the first prompt in July for the 'Puzzled' theme over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More. This caused me to have to think outside the box: firstly, I don't have any dominoes that I could alter and secondly, how to incorporate them on a journal page. It was the last of the five puzzled prompts that I completed for that reason, although I left a blank page in my journal ready. In the end I found a way round both problems when I came across a quote that I really liked.
The July prompt over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More is 'Puzzled'. The final week's sub category is 'Wild Card'; I chose to use a board game that I enjoy as my inspiration for this page. For some reason my family doesn't enjoy playing this with me; if they do, I have to be a single player and play against teams of relatives lol. Just because I like collecting trivia and have a good memory...
I am slowly catching up with the July prompts over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More: 'Puzzled'. Week 2 was altered jigsaws; I chose to make a journal page using a suitable quote and altered some blank jigsaw pieces to add to it.
One of the challenges to celebrate 5000 members over on JJAMMMA (Junk journals and Mindful Mixed Media Art) is to create a piece of free standing altered art. I started with an empty powdered milk tin and ended up with a storage jar for brushes, decorated suitably using one of the new IndigoBlu stamp sets: Artist Studio.
Having prepared a blog post which I can't share until tomorrow, I needed a quick project to share today. The current challenge over on Tag Tuesday is 'Bingo', so I created this tag using a mop up sheet for speed.
I decided not to rush creating the ATC box and MDF ATCs that I shared with you last week and have been working on other projects in between. As you can see from my desk, I have finished painting all the MDF in the colours of the rainbow and edging each of the ATCs in gold embossing powder and heat embossing to tidy up the edges. Next I need to decorate them and decided to used my Crazy Dogs stamps by Tim Holtz. They have all been stamped out and are awaiting colouring in using my Ecoline pens from Royal Talens.
My laptop is always close by as it is the power source for my light box when taking non desk photos. Nothing to show on the other side of the desk today as Eva is away at the moment. To join in with desk watching or sharing, please visit Julia over on The Stamping Ground, where she keeps us all in order (or not, as the case may be lol).
