ArtyFartyAnnie

Hello Bloggy Friends, Like many of us these days, I love to recycle/upcycle/repurpose rather than throw away stuff which may be useful AND I have way too much crafty stash. In other words, I'm a hoarder by nature. It quietly drives my DH nuts and I'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by it all. This year, I'm on a mission to use it all up - clear the decks a bit and really enjoy all that lovely stuff I've accumulated over the years. So, this was a perfect project for me at the moment - it started with recycled takeaway bags and Amazon packaging, which I fashioned into a little mini book like this ... ...then I piled on loads of ribbons, lace, flowers and other trinkets and treasures I've been saving for special for AGES ... Here's the back cover ...

Hi Everyone, Can't believe that we're really over half way through the year already and this is Week 28 of Wanderlust 2017 !! It's proving to be a great arty-farty adventure and I've been trying so many new things - it's been an amazing experience :o) Last week, lovely  Sandra Evertson showed us how she creates a beautiful Bohemian Patchwork wall hanging, using gorgeous vintage fabrics which she finds in thrift stores (charity shops here in the UK). She also demonstrated how to make a hand-painted and beaded pendant which can hang on the piece as a focal point or be taken off when you want to wear it. Here's how mine turned out ... Sandra's pieces were all hand-stitched onto her base, which looked beautiful, but I wanted to finish mine quickly today, so I used a glue gun to stick everything onto a piece of mount board from the stash I totted from a local framer.

Hi Everyone This month the challenge over at GoGoGetaway is this mood board ... ... and here's my finished page (sorry, very dark photo as it was all stormy here when I took the picture, so the light was awful) ... This is a school photo of my beautiful niece, Alice, taken a couple of years ago. I can see so much of her Dad, my brother Ivan, in this picture.  As well as the colour scheme of mint, sugar-mouse pink, fuschia, gold and black, I picked up several elements to maybe use on my page -  Confetti/sprinkles Hanging/stacked pieces Balloons String/twine Hearts Circles Candy stripes, rolled paper Black/white photo Jewels, pearls Frames Handpainted words XOXO Mermaids, rainbows, unicorns, fairies I had a play with a new stamp set I bought from China through Ali Express, using VersaColor inkpads in a pale pink and pale teal to create a watercolour effect background (which mostly got covered up in the end, but it was fun to do and pretty w...

Hi Everyone, Hope you're having a lovely weekend wherever you are in the world and managing to squeeze in some creative playtime :o) You know when you get a tiny delivery from Amazon and it comes with shedloads of packaging? I hate that. Well, here's the story of how I turned this (this is really now it arrived) ... ... into this gorgeously colourful art journal ... I was inspired by the wonderful Rae Missigman , who encouraged us to "Build something beautiful out of the ordinary" for week 26 of Wanderlust 2017 . Rae started with large envelopes and plain paper, but I adapted the idea to use what I had available ...