Pam's Corpse

I love my Corpse :) 

Thank you everyone for the bits you did :)

Rebecca's Exquisite Corpse

Here (finally) is my fabulously freaky face from the exquisite corpse project. Sorry it took so long to get it up here but having no camera is seriously affecting my blogging!

Top left - Me Top right - Glittery Katie (living up to her name!) Bottom left - Pam Bottom Right - Virginia

Thank you all ladies - I luuuuurve my freaky lady and she hangs in my craft area to inspire me. I think she's beautiful.

Cheers, Bex

Pam's Desert Island CJ: Smooth Criminal

So I can't sew, I've never worked with fabric, I don't own a sewing machine and when I received this I thought HELP! :o) It is gorgeous though... and a couple of ideas sprung to mind first of all printable canvas then transfer paper was suggested to me. Tesco only had transfer paper so I went with that! I'd already decided what I wanted my page to look like and I'd created it digitally so I had something to follow. It turns out transfer paper is fab!

I love smooth criminal and I love music played with classical instruments (Metallica's S&M album springs to mind!) and I love cellos (Apocalyptica hello!) so this was an obvious choice for me. I hope it's not too papery for pam (thank you mod podge!!!) I managed to use some ribbon as well under the title after painting it red. So here it is:

As Pam doesn't like MJ the only reference to him is the hat hanging off the cello but it seemed to me to fit my theme of a smooth criminal with bullet holes and blood drops. Pam describes the song as exciting and sexy and I hope this page goes some way to representing that.

Thanks for looking :o)

Mail Art Trail - incoming!!!! x 2 and a half

It has been a while since I last took part in the Mail Art Trail, and I recently signed up twice in fairly quick succession, before and after Donna, so that we could swap with each other

Here are the cards I received back from the trail

First off, this fantastic mini art quilt from Pam:

Isn't it fantastic?? I'm so pleased that it made it through the postal service intact, it must have raised some eyebrows on the way through :)

And secondly these two gorgeous cards from Donna, which came via an unplanned detour to Scotland - thanks for sending them on, Sonja!

The top card is the "real" one - a beautiful original painting, I love it!  The second card Donna described as a "cheat" as it is one she has had printed from one of her paintings, but I am very glad to receive it as I have seen a couple of these tucked into the Desert Island Discs CJs as they go round, and I was rather hoping I would end up with one for myself :)

Gill and Pam Pair Journal

Hoping to post this to Gill this weekend so here is a heads-up on the Pair Journal.

I found some gorgeous little books on sale in Oxfam and bought four of them

 the paper is lovely to use, takes paint well and also works well with stitching- so perfect for my lumpy-bumpy style of journalling

I love drawing eyes - found this top one in a magazine and had to contrast it with an open one

I have a tendency to use up left-over paint and media because i don't like wasting things- so play around with 'bits' in my journals

These two pages are left-over carveable paste from another project you can see on my blog

More left-over paint- gold and red from the same project

and some old images i had

Also had some paper left from the gold leaf I was using in the other project- the backing paper usually has lovely little flecks of gold left on it when the leaf is removed - so i glued it in the journal and tried a couple of stamps

Then i doodled a bit - I think I was feeling imprisoned after being stuck inside for weeks :)

So- good luck Gill :D

DID CJ

Finally catching up on blogging my CJ entries - I'm afraid I ended up doing two very quickly due to the amount of time I have had sitting around recovering from surgery - so here they are

First is Sian's - I chose this song not having heard it before and loving it- I have since downloaded a couple of albums :)

I have a thing about trees- they tend to signify growing (of course) and also in this case the many things that women are 'supposed' to be- the lyrics of the song making it clear that she won't be pushed into any of them

and on the inside a lonely female figure juggling all the different aspects of herself- I deliberately left this quite sparse so that people can add whatever things they think they are juggling :)

I'm afraid i did this one when i was still a bit high on morphine so I forgot to add to the other pages :( (that's my excuse anyway)

Next I did (apparently in the wrong order) Pat's

I'm afraid I only managed to add a little bleeding heart to this page

 My own entry was on Norah Jones' song 'Come Away With Me' - I've always loved this song and felt the flock of birds and the dream-like colours would suit it. One line mentions flying over the yellow grass so I dug out my old flower press to find  some grasses I pressed a couple of years ago- I hope they survive the various postings :)

And this is where i have been sitting for the past 2 months while I recover from surgery :D

Desert Island Discs - Sherry's fabric CJ

I love working in fabric and thoroughly enjoyed this one.

I decided on 'Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien'

and it made me think of all the things you might regret just washing away down a drain- so I did just that

 The leaves are the regrets

The spiral is the black drain down which they are being washed away

The gold and bright colour at the back are the good feelings left

I hope it makes sense?

Non-Christmas Sardine Tins.

I had fun doing these- I tend not to be a glittery-snowy-person so i went for the non-Christmas themed group. It's taken me a while to put pics up - apologies for that

I received the Barbie tin and it floored me for a while- until my Steampunk tendencies emerged again :)

I had to tie her hair up

used a clock of course

and bits of other clocks I had handy (I tend to have stuff like that handy)

and tried a bit of 'tattooing'- not sure if it lasted tho.

And she ended up as Steampunk Barbie

The next one I received was 'Klimt' based and had a note about mermaids

I couldn't find any mermaids I'm afraid so i went for a fairy theme and thought this little person sitting among her jewels would look nice

This is the first time I have altered a sardine tin- I hope the results are pleasing to the owners- bit of an experiment really.

I also received mine back- and what a wonderful creation it turned out to be!!

Glorious!! I Love Crows!!