My project for furniture crafts!!

A very VERY different re-upholstered footstool!

This course was just a basic introduction to Furniture Crafts and just gave us an insight into what the cousre entails! I adored this class and have signed up to go back after the summer.

We already had the frame so the brief was to re-upholster it using traditional techniqes! We were left alone to chose the fabric for finishing ourselves so I just went with the 'old tee shirt' thing!

I painted the frame with black metallic paint, cannibalised an Iron Maiden tee shirt and just added some funky black lace and silver upholstery studs to finish!




The lecturer really loved this piece! thought it was very 'me' and quite unique!
And I'm going to agree with him! I'm REALLY pleased with it myself! It was very satisfying to finally see it all finished and stand back at the end of it all and say " I did that"! :D

Thanks for looking, take care all

Jackie x

Some Tim Holtz style!

Made this for an Art teacher, Used Tim Holtz "Crowded Attic" Papers, the Alterations Birdcage die, added some charms and then used The Eaziscore large lowercase letters templates for the initial, I used Joanna Sheen's marbled papers for that and just added a few gems to embellish it. I added a 'domino' which was alcohol inked and also a sizzlets 'buttons' die. not the best of photos I'm afraid as my camera is refusing to work properly just now.







This one kind of took a bit of a weird turn! It's for a 'graphics' teacher. She does a lot of work with computer and the likes so maybe that's where the 'cogs' came from....cogs, gears...machines?...Hmmm ...yeah I know....bad huh! Still hopefully you can see where I was going with this piece. She also likes 'vintage' hence the old bike, the little bottle is filled with cogs from old watches to try and match in with the Alterations cogs and gears. Again an initial using the Eaziscore alphabet templates with Joanna sheen's marbled papers, and another domino.








This is the first card made in aaaaages! It's for an "English" teacher hence the bookatrix, caligraphy and printblocks backing papers, I made the paper rose using a stamp from my craft stash, and punched out some tiny flowers and leaves with matching paper. I cut out one of the print blocks with the recipent's initial and then highlighted some of it with a fine gold marker. Finished it off with some gems and some peel offs stuck down and then cut out of matching paper.


Thanks for looking in, and hopefully I won't be gone for soo long this time!

Take care

Jackie x

Art Project

Many many apologies for the lack of blogging for such a long time, but life and college have just got in the way I'm afraid!

Anyway, I'm thoroughly enjoying this little access course and so glad I went for it!

Anyway, I digress.

The above piece was a project for Art! I had to design a piece of jewellery which somehow managed to end up as this massive collage! My lecturer knows how 'creative' I am so instead of drawing (which I'm terrible at) she suggested I go the collage route! Didn't expect it to turn out quite so big, but once I got started there was just no stopping! I thought it was a good way to 'tie all the ideas together'!

So here goes with the 'construction'!!

I printed off some clockwork images, cut some of them up and tore some up, then stuck them to the canvas, when dry, I mixed yellow, white and a smidgen of brown acrylic paint and painted over the whole lot! I didn't want to 'hide' the images but didn't want them showing totally. When dry, I used a Clockwork masking set and over prayed with some antique brown spray ink.

I used the eazi-score large and small alphabet templates for the phrase, just cut form plain and patterned paper, over stamped them with the Clockwork Roses stamps set from the Artistic Stamper and then distressed with matching ink.

The cogs and gearwheels are a Tim Holtz Alterations Die and cut from Grungeboard painted gold and Silver. I also used the Winged Heart Alterations Die for the wings on the pocket watch, which comes from the Time themeplate from the Artisitc Stamper.

Again, using the Clockwork Roses themeplate I stamped onto patterned paper and Grungepaper painted silver and constructed the Roses. The butterflies and Snail are also from the Clockwork themeplates from the Artistic Stamper! I just couldn't resist that little snail!....lol!



The 'Door' is actually a movers and shaper die and a keyhole die, I ran it through the big shot with the wood effect alterations embossing folder. The image behind it was to show off the shape that I used to make the pendant wrapped round the letter " O " ! It was made using Copper colour metal sheet from Ten Second Studio, a couple of eyelets, a cord and some watch pieces and jump rings!

The tall roses at the side of the door are from the Elusive Images Rose Script themeplate! (my ALLtime favourite stamp!)and are coloured using Inktense water colour pencils.

The "clear disc" is actually clear UTEE with some watch parts embedded and it actually looks like resin! I just scattered some watch parts around the canvas and stuck them down randomly just to kind of finish it off a little!

I must admit to being rather pleased with this piece because I just wasn't sure about the background colour, but when my lecturer saw it she was thrilled and ordered to me to hang it up in my livingroom because it 'deserves to be seen'! (her words, not mine)lol

anyway, so sorry for the 'novel' of a post but just thought you'd be a bit interested in how it was all put together.

Thanks for looking in and again many apologies for the lack of blogging.

Take care everyone,

Jackie x

more playing

Quick play with photoshop!

Been having a little play in my graphics class at college today!

First time having a go on a Apple Mac and I love it to bits! Must save hard for one of my own!!

Just a simple go at Photobooth though to get used to things a liitle,

Going to head off now now and will post again later.

Thanks for looking in,

Jackie x

Mahoooooosive Collage!!!

It's biiiiig this piece! 18 inches by 24 inches and it's a deep edge canvas!!

I started by dry brushing the blank canvas with two different colours of distressing inks on the two different sides of the canvas, then over sprayed it with some Glimmer mists. Set it aside to dry and got started on the 'prep' work!!

The branches are made using brown craft card and the sizzix decorative strip "Branches and Birds" die, which I then ran through the Big Shot with the Tim Holtz Alterations "Woodgrain" Embossing folder and then oversprayed with some antique brown spray ink.

The flowers are made with the "Flower Power" Themeplate from the Artistic Stamper! I adore this stamp set, you can make soooo many different types of flowers with it, it's beyond belief!! Anyway I digress....I just stamped them out on different patterned papers, distressed them with 'matching' inks and then ran the leaves through the Big Shot with the "Text" cuttlebug embossing folder to give them a bit of texture!

The Butterflies are done using Elusive Images Patchwork Butterfly themplate which is absolutely gorgeous!!! I just adore that 'half' butterfly and have used that a lot!! anyway...I digress...again! lol.....They were stamped and heat embossed with black embossing powder and then coloured using the Inktense watercolour pencils!

The wording is done using the Eazi-Score Large Lowercase Alphabet templates, and it comes from the Elusive Images "Text Rose" themeplate. The word "earth" is edged in gold and then run through the "woodgrain" Embossing folder, I used the "Text" folder for the words " Laughs" and "Flowers" as I wanted to make certain words 'stand out'!

I then went over the flowers, and words with some clear Stickles glitter glue to give it a kind of 'magical look'!

Here's a couple of close ups of the flowers and butterflies...









I really enjoyed creating this piece! It was fun seeing the blank canvas being transformed into this!!

I'm not really quite sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but I'm sure I'll come up with an idea sooner or later.

Thanks for looking and take care everyone,

Jackie xx

8 x 8 " canvas collage !

Many apologies for the lack of blogging, I've been struggling a bit lately with depression so not really felt like doing too much.

But I've managed to complete this piece! It's hopefully going to be a present for someone and I'm hoping they will like it, because I'm not really sure what I was trying to achieve here and i seem to have got a little 'lost'!

Anyway, I used blue and white acrylic paint to give the canvas a 'wash'! After it was dry I used the Large upper and Lower case Alphabet templates from Easi-score as a 'stencil, then dry brushed around them with Faded Jeans Distress ink. I then distressed the edges of the canvas with the same colour, then oversprayed with a 'Fireworks Blue' spray ink, this gave a gorgeous iridescent finish.

I drew around the plastic letters on some patterned paper and cut them out then embossed them with the Cuttlebug 'Text' embossing folder. I also used the Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles to add some glitter to the letters.

The flowers were made using the Flower Power stamp Themeplate from The Artistic Stamper and also using a technique I found over the Artistic Stamper blog in the videos section. They were then backed by some Stewart Gill Glitteratti.

Here's a closer look






The butterfly is from the Elusive Images Patchwork Butterfly themeplate and is stamped using clear versamark ink and then embossed with black embossing powder, i also used the Clear rock Candy stickles to give it a bit of 'sparkle'!The 'Buttons'and 'Lace' are also an Elusive Images themeplate, 'Collage' i think it's called, I've had that set for so long i can't remember! lol.

I'm not really too sure if I like this piece or not yet, I think because I got a bit lost while putting it together is kind of putting me off it slightly. but I'll just put it aside for the time being. I'll make my mind up later maybe.

For some reason I can't seem to get any 'links' working today so please accept my apologies for not being able to let you see the products I'm talking about.

Thanks for looking in, take care everyone

Jackie x