CAWlling in again !

I have recently been away from home for just over a week in a warmer climate only to step out of the plane into a cold, bleak, rainy day, and, after finally catching up with what I was behind with...(the story of my life!!!...vbg), I finally found time to create this little fella.
It will probably be my month's (August) technique on our http://2cre8art.blogspot.com so I will refrain from giving the details here until I decide on that.
Cawments invited and appreciatively received...vbg


Oh...in case you think my house must have been soooo messy that it took the 20 days between posting to clean it up, I thought I'd better let you know that I have made a series of ATCs for our group swap themed
"NUMBERS".
Unless you have a silly imagination like mine, he probably won't make sense standing alone as my dear friend Bevlea Ross and I got our heads together and decided to each make a "side-by-side" complementing pair...only saying I was to make the male one and she the female...which I have yet to see, but she tells me we both used the same Cuttlebug Embossing card and both chose rust coloured background papers. Mine is actually some of the rusted paper I made myself, then rubbed over with Ranger's Spiced Marigold Distress Ink. I used a scrap of my self-printed harlequin paper and a rusted cog over his eye.
I shall add Bevlea's ATC pic here when I receive it so he should make sense then..vbg.
HERE is BEVLEA'S "Numbers" ATC...does it make sense now?...vbg

And, a friend of mine loves Sea Horses and the colour purple, so I made this Mermaid ATC into a little wall hanger for her birthday gift. Needless to say she was thrilled!

SWIMMING WITH MERMAIDS!

More fishy-tailed little ladies came swimming in yesterday...I think I am going into...or perhaps am now going out of... a "BLING" stage in my creativity...vbg.
This time, all but two have clear transparency wings which I heated with my trusty old heat gun (der!) to curl them up, which makes them appear to be 'floating".
They all have 3D elements, either at the fluke of their tail's, or the fish in their hands. The shell hats are also 3D mounted.
I have used up all my watery looking back-grounds, so for now, mermaid themed ATCs will be put to rest.

SOLDERING ON!

June's Mixed Media theme for a group swap on our PaperArts group was Microscope Slide Pendants. We only had to make one but I, as usual, got carried away and made four...a couple of which are for some special people....but not telling here 'cos it will spoil the surprise! One was for the swap and the fourth for me, and I intend to make a couple more for my daughters.
The two three inch ones were constructed the copper foil way, using the wavy edged tape and soldered over. I used scrapbooking papers for backgrounds, snippets of lace and small pieces of gold paper doilies. The images are from a Paper Whimsy Collage sheet. I added tiny German Scrap stars to the women's heads and drew veins on the wings with a gold gel pen. Also added the gold gel pen to the children's images.
I added metal/brass corners to the tops and charms to the bottom of each, which I coated with the soldering patina solution to darken.


With the square ones, I used Ranger's two inch square Memory Frames.
The masculine one is covered with plain copper foil tape and soldered. I used scrap booking papers for BGs and added my own text. The male images are from found sources, altered to suit, using party hats from an Artchix Collage sheet, reduced in size, and then drew on the clown face with gel pens.The clown face side is the front. Again, I added metal/brass charms etc. and coated them with the patina solution.
For the feminine one, I used the wavy edge copper foil tape, and added metal/brass charms to the top. It has a found image of Theda Bara on the front and the child image on the back is from a Tuscan Rose Collage sheet. I used Derwent watercolour pencils around the images to give depth and a little dab of pink went onto their cheeks. I used scrapping papers and lace with these also, but as the lace was on both sides, it made the insert too thick to fit into the frames with the two pieces of glass so, after trying to force it in or bend the frame open more...to no avail, the "light" came on and I used a piece of clear acrylic of the back (the child's image side). The only drawback with that was that I had to be SUPER careful with the soldering iron....it would melt if even slightly touched by it, and as it turned out, it also swells a little, which you may be able to see in the photo, but I feel all in all, it turned out OK and it was a good solution to the problem.

AND THE WINNER IS.......!!

Thanks to all who took the time to look at my blog and leave comments. It made for interesting reading....both the good, and the bad about leaving comments on people's blogs.
I understand that those on dial-up are handicapped by time and that there are those of us that don't have enough time in a day as it is, even with broadband service. I have been "trapped" into reading blogs for hours because one leads to another...LOL.
I am also of the opinion that if the blog that I go to to view does not have anything of my liking on it, I may not leave a comment, but mostly I do try to find something there to comment on....even if it sounds trite, at least I have shown a form of encouragement to the blogger.
I am not really interested in "personal journey" type blogs nor will I bore readers of mine with anything too personal...if I want to put THAT out there I should put it in book form and (try to) make money out of it!!!...LOL.
I also want to thank the folk that commented on my "art" work....you all brightened my days and made me feel loved...LOL
I wish I could give you ALL an ATC but then it wouldn't be a Lottery, would it?...vbg.

So, that being said, it is time to announce the winner....no..it's NOT Diana O'C....it is none other than.....

Number three on the list....

And.......you will all have to go to the comments list under the MERMAID ATC to find out who that is...and will the winner then contact me with her details please.

This is such good fun that I am thinking I shall have to have another Lottery ...down the track..where the crow flies..LOL