WOYWW #235

I've missed the past few weeks so I thought I would make an effort today to drop in on all the WOYWW fun as I probably won't get a chance to in the coming weeks as we head towards Christmas.

Don't have a clue what I am on about head here to Julia our WOYWW hosts blog.

My Christmas Spirit is yet to arrive, so I'm desperately trying to get some last minute cards made, and have managed to make a couple using my gelli prints or papers that aren't traditional Christmas papers teamed with some beautiful vintage collage images from Altered Pages.

On my desk are stamps from two of my newest stamp set purchases (Darkroom Door and Unity) along with an unfinished Canvas (you can see the bottom half at the back of my desk).  All that I have done so far with it is the background which is lots of layers of color, stenciling, stamping, misting and torn paper and washi tape.  You may also notice a couple of new Art Stamps to the right of my craft mat which Altered Pages has just released (the clock and basket weave texture stamp)  These were sent to me along with a few others recently to try.  There is also some Left over Angels from one of the collage sheets and speaking of angels there are a couple of art doll shapes which I recently gesso'd  towards the back resting against my Gelatos.  I am planning on using this doll shape to make more angels like this.

As I type this post, I have inky fingers due to my morning play at making my own papers and using them with some stamping for colorful one layer card designs.  The photo below unfortunately doesn't show the shimmer of the marbled foil which is randomly scattered across the page.

Coming back to my workspace in general, last week I managed to get some more reorganizing done, as I purchased 50 DVD Cases to store my Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Sets in.  I rearranged my larger sets too which are housed in A4 document cases to another shelf to make room and tidy up a bit.  I still have the job of labeling each set so I know at a glance what is inside each case.  And probably need about another 50 DVD cases to finish the job as I still have a few rubber sets and a tonne of clear sets to re-home.  My weakness is stamps and even though I had a big cull a while back (mostly of my wood mounted stamps) I own way to many......lol.  I think I may have to make it my creative goal next year to use every stamp set at least once.

Happy Mail arrived last week too, as seen here on my other work-desk.

There was 2 x '40 for 40' Birthday Cards from Claire (a fellow WOYWWer) and some ATC returns for a couple of recent swaps over at AFA I was in.

Anyhow that's about it for me today!  If you pop over to Altered Pages a bit later today (Wednesday) you will see a Christmas ATC I made using another pair of angels from the beautiful Vintage Collage Sheet shown above which totally captured my heart.  

I hope you all have a wonderful week and a Happy WOYWW!

Painting Faces rather than Going Places

Hi Everyone!  I hope you have all had a great weekend!  We've had another stormy few days here so the best place to be in home inside safe and dry.  Nothing quite like the hail storms of last Sunday here, however other areas have had some heavy and huge downpours of hail.

So it was a quiet weekend here, as A was on respite and Rod and I took the opportunity to do pretty much nothing - which translates to I had time in my craft room.  I was admiring all the wonderul art dolls over on ATC's for all, so decided to give these a go which also enabled me to practice my face drawing and painting skills.  I used a mix of Gelatos, Watercolor Pencils, Big Brush Markers, Distress Stains, White Gel Pen and Collage to create them.

Here's a couple I made ..........but first let me warn you they are addictive.

These ones are the first of these types of art dolls I have ever made, you may notice that there are the Zodiac Symbols on them for Taurus, Aries and Gemini as I was going to make them for a Swap over at AFA, the colors of the dolls clothing are the lucky colors for those symbols too.  Then I thought I would make them more goddess like.

So I made goddesses for Pieces, Aries, Taurus and Gemini.

These were such fun and a great way to pass a few hours playing with my paints and scraps, which got me thinking what other types I could make.

So more faces will lead to other places.  For a full look at just what doll this face belongs to you will have to check over on the Altered Pages Blog on Wednesday for my DT Post where all will be revealed.