New baby in the Family

We have a new baby in the Family, Tula Rose. I decide to make her a fairy to hang in her room and a little scrapbook for her parents, all ready for them to add her first photos.

New digital avatar

I thought it was time for a change of avatar. I used my new found digital skill, such as it is, and a bit of good old cut and paste to make this new avatar for the forums I visit. I must admit I do love playing on the computer now, time just flies!!

November Journal page

As a former nurse and member of the Red Cross, this page had to be about remembrance. Its a few days late as I had trouble tracking down a poppy!! But here it is.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! This is the digital piece I entered for a dress a pumpkin game, Have a spooky one!!!

More Halloween decorations

I have made this pennant decoration and a treat cone from the Tim Holtz seasons paper pad. All the instructions and things you need to make them are at the Fruit Pixie blog and online shop. Have fun!

Halloween treat boxes

I made these little boxes for my friends and teacher in my German class for Monday. I did the artwork digitally and then cut them out and made them up in front of the TV.

Spooky skull

As Halloween comes around I love to look in all the shops to see what I can find to alter slightly and add my own arty flair!! When I saw this in Wilkinsons for 50p it was a must have. It was brown plastic to start with, I was so keen to get going I forgot to take the before picture!! If you would like to alter one for yourself pop over to the Fruit Pixie shop and blog to see how its done and get all that you need, except the skull, you will have to drop in to Wilkinsons for one of those.

Birthday card

Today is my sisters birthday and this is the card I made for her, don't you just love that dog!! Happy Birthday Teresa!!!

Halloween treat bags

My Altered Pages kit for October is a kit to make these cute Trick or Treat bags. If you would like to make these for your little monsters for Halloween visit Altered Pages ( link to the right) and you can find it under kits.

Get well card

My Dad had the first of his cataracts removed today. Of course I had the perfect digi kit to use for his card. One of the first fully digital cards I have made and I must admit I am quite pleased with it.

October calender page

A good excuse to get the spooky children out for this one, great fun to do too!!

Witches house class

This was my Halloween class for Bristol scrappers. A witches house made of foam core with a roof that lifts one side so you can fill with sweets. The class took all day but everyone ended up with their own house decorated in their own style to impress and scare their family and friends!

spooky book swap

I have taken part in a spooky book swap on Art 42. The book is 8x8 and had to be made to a spooky theme, so I chose to do a family spell book that has been handed down through the family from witch to witch. Hoskin is an old Cornish family name chose at random.

Button box kit

My new kit for Altered pages is now available on the Altered Pages web site, link to the right. Great as a gift or to put a gift in. The kit comes with a template so you will be able to make any box size, just follow the same pattern.

September calender journal page

Well better late than never. I did start this before I went on holiday but time just got the better of me, so it was the first thing on my list when I got back. The image is from the Tatty Button CDrom which comes with its own image builder so you can enlarge the images and make your own background papers and scenes using all the images on the CD. Hence being able to get Tatty to almost A4.

Kaprun Zentangle

I have been enjoying the challenge of my holiday Zentangles. This will be the last holiday zentangle this year now. This time I did it like a Zentangle diary, the day we went to the Hydro electric dam was a bit of a challenge though!! Can you guess what day we went? Sounds very boring but it was very very high and surrounded by mountains and glaciers, so quite a site.

Shrink Plastic paper dolls

The great paper doll stamp set from The Fruit Pixie is the perfect size to use with shrink plastic. As you can see I enjoy Zentangles and thought it would be a nice idea to Tangle the different body parts and see what happens. I tried both clear and white shrink plastic and came up with two lovely art dolls. If you would like to have a go too the stamps are available from The Fruit Pixie and instructions will be up on their blog and Facebook page shortly. Have fun!

Another Journal!

We are off again at the weekend for another holiday in Austria, can you tell we love it there??? So another journal to be made. Its the same idea as the other 2 as I like to have the pockets to put all my tickets, leaflets and maps in. This time though I have used a lovely digi kit by Holliewood studios.

St Wolfgang Zentangle

I just about had time to complete my holiday Zentangle while we were in St Wolfgang. Well there was lots of walking to do and cakes to eat and hot chocolate to drink but I got there in the end. As St Wolfgang is in the Salzkammagut ( the lake district of Austria) we spent a lot of time on the boat that runs like a bus around the different villages on the shores of the lake, hence the waves. The criss cross pattern was the flooring of the boat and the swirly pattern was a part of one of the pergolas in the grounds of the Summer palace in Bad Ischl.

Lukes monster

A couple of weeks ago , at a family lunch we were all doodling when my nephew Luke drew a picture of this little monster. I thought I could make him, so I took the doodle home and this is what I came up with, just in time for his birthday! He loved him, now I have a monster order from his brother!!