Calendar pages-finally!

I am so late posting these again, I thought I would be more organised this month!

I started Aprils page a while ago but wasn't really happy with it. I then recieved some wonderful goodies from Carolyn in a swap I was part of. Amongst the stash she sent me was this wonderful tag that she had made which I thought would be perfect to include on my calendar page. The tissue wrapping paper the goodies were wrapped in was lovely as well so I stamped flowers onto it, cut them out and stuck them on my page.

I drew a silhouette image of a girl with an umbrella and stamped some more flowers on the page aswell.
This is my completed March page.
Check out the other awesome calendars over at The Katherine Wheel.
TFL
Sami x

A mothers wish

Here is the painting I did for my daughter at the weekend. She has been asking me forever to do her a painting for her bedroom. She wanted a fairy painting (probably more flower fairy than this!) so here is the result.

'a mothers wish' (subtitled 'Mummy and Shelby')

Mixed media on canvas

I used water colour crayons, acrylic paints, twinkling H2O's, stamps, Tim Holtz tissue tape and a mix of music and text sheets.

TFL

Sami x

Paige's dream

Here is a little something I finished last week. I couldn't post until now as it was for Paiges birthday which we celebrated yesterday at our monthly swap.

This canvas was inspired greatly by the work of Tam over at willowing.org. I have done a couple of her courses and they have been fantastic.

The canvas was A4 size and I used water colour crayons, acrylic paint (Dylusions), water colour pencils, Tim Holtz tissue tape, stencils and stamps. 'Paige's dream'

Thanks for looking,

Sam x

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Postal goodness and Mothers day

My parcel arrived yesterday from my spring swap partner Carolyn. The spring swap was organised by Jamie over at Lyrical Journey. The idea was to make a new blog friend and send a little something to them in the post.

I recieved all these wonderful things in my parcel- a handmag tag (which I am going to use on my april calander page!), lots of images to use on my journal pages, two beautiful photos that Carolyn had taken (which will go up in my craft room when we move back home), lace, buttons, a flower, 2 stamps, a chocolate bunny (which I had to fight my daughter for!) and 2 felting needles. I was overwhelmed with all the wonderful stash goodness! So much thought had gone into the parcel it made my day! BIG thank you's Carolyn! My husband has just arrived home from Tesco with a beautiful bunch of flowers for me for mothers day! The kids had already bought me a DVD so I was not expecting flowers as well.

My two beautiful, wonderful children also made me this 'Diploma of mummy-ness'! I love it! They always make me a little something on mothers day whether its a painting, a poem or a song and these are always my favourite gift.

If you are celebrating mothers day today, have a good one!

TFL

Sami x

Spring swap

I have not posted all week because everything I have been working on is for other people! But my spring swap partner recieved her gift yesterday so now I can post it. I was paired with Carolyn and I spent ages looking through her wonderful blog, deciding what to make for her. I was very lucky as we seem to have lots in common so I decided to make an altered art wall hanging.

I started off with some thick carboard that I cut into four pieces. I covered each piece with old text and music pages before using gesso over the top, rubbing off the excess.

I did the first layers of paint (Dylusions) and added some Tim Holtz tissue tape.

I built up the layers using more paint, dylusions spray inks, stencils and stamps.

The houses were stamped onto sticky back canvas that I painted in the same colours and then stuck onto each piece. I made the flowers with circles of the canvas, added the chipboard letters which I had painted and stamped and the metal embellishments.

I stamped my favourite stamps all over some kraft wrapping paper so that Carolyn could save the paper and use the images for her art work, included a little note and sent it off. This is the first swap I have ever taken part in and I really enjoyed it. I have done paintings for friends and family but have never sent my art off to someone I dont know, I was really nervous about how it would be recieved, but I had a lovely message to say thank you!

I am looking forward to doing more swaps so if you know of any let me know!

TFL

Sami x

A lovely weekend

Just wanted to post a few pictures of my weekend.

On Friday DD and me went to her school for the felt making course we are doing. We made these lovely felt beads which we then turned into necklaces. DD's is the pink and purple and mine is the green and purple. On Saturady Paige came over to show me how to make some crochet flowers. I have tried several types of crochet flowers but I think these ones look the best. Check out Paiges for blog for loads of lovely crochet and crafty things.

On Sunday we took our doggies to the beach for a nice long run. (My photos did not come out in order and blogger wont let me change them around!) Willow is the Golden and Oakley is the black and tan, they are both cocker spaniels from Paige. They are wonderful dogs and enjoy going nuts on the beach! On Saturday evening a group of us went up to Culver Down to watch the Bloodstone Border Morris dancers. These are an awesome group of morris dancers! They paint their faces and wear red and black..very goth like! They were dancing to welcome the spring equinox (which was last sunday). It was really cold but luckily my sister came prepared with coffee and homemade camembart and onion scones..delish! My son took these pics of the dancers.

Theres Mr Paige taking pics of the dancers, which I will try to get a copy of!

I had such a fun weekend and I hope your weekends were great too!

TFL

Sami x