tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75754102495923215462024-03-12T17:45:00.245-07:00whyducks and thingsThe ramblings of a mad woman who likes art and duckswhyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-24051805762936392542016-03-09T13:08:00.002-08:002016-03-09T13:08:29.115-08:00Bright and Bold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Using scraps of card paper and string left over from other projects and left on my table, (I am terrible at tidying up) then stuck down on a canvas.</div>
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Lots of DecoArt fluid acrylics, interference turquoise and the Lovely Metallic Lustre turquoise.</div>
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So there you have it, wonky fish and bad lighting!<br />
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Must do better next time.<br />
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A few weeks ago I was looking at this Monet painting, The Lily pond, at an art class I go too.<br />
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I liked it so much we all in the class had a go of doing our own lily pond. Well me, being me, ended up painting with my finger! I find it so freeing using my fingers to paint with, I just tense up when I have a brush in my hand.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mmm I thought, I could do that, but my way. Thinking of all the shapes that are important in my life, I set too work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started with a sheet of acrylic cheap paper and basically just stuck odd bits on it, like my empty B.P tablet packets, netting from satsumas, bits of packaging, just everything that would normally be thrown away in other households. Then I covered everything in Gesso, crackle paste, texture sand paste, Glass bead texture gel. So I had loads of texture on it. Texture makes me very Happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next I painted in all in acyclic black paint, let it dry. Drew on my shapes in chalk and painted those shapes white, as I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it yet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here you have all the things that are important to me in my life. My children in the shape of a figure, my husband is the Treble clef with the heart in it, the sun, nature in the shape of a flower, my cats, my ducks, a paint brush, as art is my life line and bits of heart (love) are included too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope you can see all the texture and cracks. Husband doesn't like it (always hurtful, but hey ho, we are all different) but hope someone out there does like it! xxx</span><br />
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I want to enter the DecoArt competition to win some of their lovely goodies. (because you can never have too much paint, can you?)<br />
They asked for paintings that we had done inspired by a famous artist. So here is a painting I did inspired by Monet a short time ago. It is of a local lily pond.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Been busy today playing with my paints. I while ago I bought to large canvas's from the charity shop, two for £3. Both 70mm x 40mm. They were a horrible plasticy surface. So today was the day to get cracking on one of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started with a large piece of Hessian, which I cut some holes in and pulled some of threads out. (which of course I forgot to take a picture of)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I slopped large amounts of emulsion paint (bought very cheaply at DIY shop as someone had ordered the colour and then didn't want it) Stapled the Hessian on and slopped more emulsion on top adding a few off cuts of Hessian on top.(This was an idea by the way from my teacher Peta Stockton, who is a very talented artist) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Picked up my trusted Decoart paints, covering the dried Hessian with white paint. I covered it with white as I had a mental block as to what to do next and was panicking about such a large empty space. Brayered some colour that pleased me on, Stencilled a bit, stamped a bit. (not easy on such a ruff surface) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finished abstract piece, MAYBE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So if you only like the colours like my husband, it still made me happy doing it. No thinking and worrying about drawing, I just went with the flow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So finished or not, that is the question?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for calling by, comments are very welcome, so I can tell I am not on my own!</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-22397195876457830022015-03-28T16:19:00.000-07:002015-03-28T16:19:24.194-07:00Yesterday I felt a bit rusty.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hi there thanks for stopping by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I found a Huge (well 21") black plastic Buddha in a garden centre the other day. I love Buddha's, ever since I was lucky enough to visit Bangkok in my twenties for three days. All those lovely temples, Buddha's and sunshine I just adored and of course, the smell of Jasmine in the air. Anyway I wanted my Buddha to look like rusty metal. So yesterday I set too it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is the black plastic I started with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">See he is a big boy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is how he looks now after a splish, splash, splosh of paint. (be prepared for lots of boring pictures, you might need a cup of coffee before you start)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So now all I need to do is vanish him and find somewhere to put him in the garden, because there sure isn't anywhere to put him indoors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That is all folks!</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-15324507435013570502014-11-24T07:35:00.001-08:002014-11-24T07:35:51.064-08:00Take one Ali Reeve Egg Cupbaord<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi there nice people, (well hopefully you are nice) thanks for stopping by. Hope you have nice November sunshine too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have finally finished a project I started a while ago, so thought I would show you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take one Ali Reeve, Stamp away Egg Cupboard kit. One mallet, glue and fit it together! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Add some yummy DecoArt paint called New Life (which sadly the photo's don't do the lovely colour justice) It is a really beautiful green. I so loved it I nearly stopped there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided I wanted it to look a bit worn inside, so I sanded the inside a little bit. On the outside I didn't sand it but, instead I added some DecoArt Americana Decor crackle Medium. Left it to dry, then put my back out for a couple of weeks (queue violins) two expensive visits to the Osteopath and I was ready to carry on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I mixed some Timeless and Everlasting paint together as, I didn't want the colour to be too beige and the Everlasting lightened up the colour. I then dry brushed a little extra New Life on the edges of the box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the top I then added a stencil by Dylusions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I made a little duck and painted it before sticking it on the front. As our eggs are ducks eggs in this household.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the moment the back and sides are just painted, still thinking about whether or not to add some egg stenciling on them, but at the moment it is staying as it is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So all I need now girls is some eggs. But I might have to wait now until Easter to get some!</span><br />
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Having two kittens means things (lots of things) are getting broken and some times that has made me rather sad, in particular a pot that belong to my mother which I was rather fond of.<br />
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So what the heck I wasn't going to loose anything by trying to fix it was I? So I thought I would have a go. No more nails and DecoArt paints and a touch of glossy Accents to fill in the gaps and give it a bit of a shine.<br />
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Far from perfect, but I am happy, thanks DecoArt you have made me happy.whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-52064972746898947702014-06-03T14:51:00.000-07:002014-06-03T14:56:21.901-07:00Short and sweet, OK short and wonky!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just made a card for my daughters birthday!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wonky I know, but Hey it is hand made and I didn't have any dies big enough!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I said it was short and I wasn't just talking about me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why is it that when people look at your work and say 'That is good' you don't believe them, just thinking they are being kind, and then one person is negative about something you have done and you completely believe them and end up feeling rubbish about your work! Ho hum, I thought when you got older you didn't care what people thought! Well not in my case I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, what brought this all on is I have been painting! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lots of beautiful things to look at in nature at the moment and little art work being done as I am trying to fight my way through the weeds in the garden while the sun shines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope the sun is shining on you and thanks for calling by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kathy xxx</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-1722224690708809372014-04-25T06:08:00.000-07:002014-04-25T06:08:22.787-07:00Hubby say's a mess<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hubby say's it is a Mess!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I say "I am just playing!</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-25009242578114666632014-04-11T11:11:00.000-07:002014-04-11T14:34:52.074-07:00Not boxed out yet!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am still playing and loving the new Chalk paints by DecoArt. Today I also used a fabulous stencil by the very talented and funny Carolyn Dube. Do look her up on Youtube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started with a box I found, which was rather battered and cracked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It had a big crack across the lid, but don't think you can see it from this photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I ripped out the insides (cruel I know) covered it with gesso to, hopefully, fill in the holes left where I had taken the insides out and to cover the crack on the top. Sanded when it was dry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Using Carolyn's stencil and a palette knife, I scraped DecoArt Modeling Paste through the stencil all over the top roughly. The roughly part wasn't on purpose, it was just my cack- handedness! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painted with a mixture of the Chalk paints on the outside,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do hope you liked it.</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-80705052364332401882014-03-17T11:10:00.000-07:002014-03-17T11:10:37.099-07:00Getting obsessed with letters and paint.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi thanks for stopping by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is it just me, or are baby girls popping out all over, where are the boys? Are these girls ever going to have boyfriends when they grow up?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway a sweet little girl has arrived to a good friend of my daughter, so seeing as my last little girl gift went well (well I thought it did) I thought I would do another one, but this time I did the full name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">AND NO it isn't pink again! Sorry pink lovers everywhere, I just couldn't do it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Started with some wooden letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And a wooden board I found that had two holes in it. Randomly stroked some Americana relic chalky paint on the board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Followed by Everlasting, let it dry then sanded it a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Painted the letters with relic (forgetting to take any photos, sorry) let it dry. Then I mixed two colours of chalk paint together, New life (very apt) and Escape to make a teal-ish type colour, painting it on leaving a few odd places showing the relic through. When it was dry, I added some DecoArt one step crackle. Left it for a few hours while I cooked dinner, then rubbed on some New life paint on the top and rubbed off with some wet wipes (squeezed out) after a few moments, leaving just a small amount in the cracks. Happy with that, I glued them on the board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not sure this pictures show the cracks, but they are there honestly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It needed something else, so I added one of my waxed butterfly's (sorry but I love them) and also I added a piece of rope (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which had Everlasting chalk paint just lightly rubbed over it)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> through the holes so it could hang up, and I think it is done. Almost forgot to seal it all with DecoArt crème wax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What do you think? Hope she likes it, if not her Mum and dad can stick it in a cupboard can't they. Anyone know of any boys being born!</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-46603344031096189852014-03-02T09:35:00.000-08:002014-03-02T09:35:55.290-08:00Been playing with new paints<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is post is all about my getting my sticky mitts at last, on some New DecoArt Chalk paints and yes it is well worth the wait! It just slides on and I didn't even prep the wood first!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gave it one coat of the lovely colour of escape, thought I would need more coats, but no. Excuse the fragile tape around the sides of the draws, but my low tack tape was in the car and it was pouring outside and I am very lazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ruffed it up with some course sand paper, especially around the edges, wiped the dust off and then gave it a coat of a dark wax. Buffed again and finally went over the whole piece again with the clear wax.</span><br />
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I am so excited about my latest painting mixed media piece, it is what happens when you mix ideas from Andy Skinner together with ideas of Dina Wakley and add a bit of me!<br />
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A short while ago my lovely mate Julia painted a wonderful picture of her daughter, a very talented lady (Julia I mean, don't know about her daughter, but I am sure she is pretty clever too!). Do pop over to her blog and take a look at her beautiful picture http://julialsw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/, I thought what a lovely idea to paint your daughter, so here is my lovely daughter Kara.<br />
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It is huge 50 x 62 and is full of cracks and texture<br />
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A close up of some of the texture<br />
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Poor Kara looks as though she has been shoot in the head!<br />
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I used Americana DecoArt paints Warm white,True red, Marigold and Deep Midnight and lots of wax!<br />
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And just a quick look at what my naughty ducks have done to our lawn with all the rain we have had!<br />
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<br />whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-84513679846994040502014-02-26T05:56:00.000-08:002014-02-26T06:30:00.700-08:00Trying to forgive myself for things not being perfect!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi there thanks for dropping by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today in the UK we have lovely sunshine, followed by very heavy hails stones and then gorgeous sunshine again, all in the space of 10 mins. It is the weirdest winter ever here, I have only worn a coat 4 times, so far!!!!! Fingers crossed that is. It is lovely to see the spring flowers in bloom again and although it hasn't been cold the weeks of heavy rain has got me down. So Spring is so welcome and with any luck maybe it will soon dry out the lawn, which in turn will stop my pet ducks digging it up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My lovely daughter gave me this sign at the weekend, isn't it great! Is she dropping hints at the state of my garden I wonder!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway onto some art. The title of this post is referring to the fact, that my writing is pants, big pants really and it rather messed up my piece here. But ho hum I am trying to forgive myself about it and just laugh! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I needed a sign for the front door, as if I am in the back garden I often don't hear people knocking at the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gave it a coat of DecoArt sealer and when dry I gave it a coat of various colours of Americana paints, trying to make it look a bit gardeny! Gave it a bit of a sanding then using of DecoArt crackle paste through stencil by Creative Expressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't have room for the writing and the writing was as I say PANTS! Still I carried on and grunged it up a bit with some wiping on and off of black paint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to try again on the other side and Lol, that turned out worse!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just wanted to finish with a couple of photos of a lovely weekend (a Christmas gift from my lovely kids and there partners) we had last weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went to a fab restaurant in London with puppets hanging form the ceiling!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our son is the second on the left and hubby in the middle, the pretty blonde is my son's girlfriend Emma and the guy on the left is my daughters partner Ed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And before you fall asleep, this is me and my lovely daughter Kara.</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-91324734335133408042014-02-18T10:47:00.001-08:002014-02-18T10:47:45.262-08:00Do things for baby girls have to be pink?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was so inspired by <a href="http://theyorkshirefox.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/shabby-chic-altering.html"> http://theyorkshirefox.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/shabby-chic-altering.html</a> blog about altering a letter to cerebrate a birth of a baby girl, that when my son's boss/friend had a baby girl a day later I thought I would have a go too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought a large wooden M (The baby's name does begin with the letter M, so that is OK)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started by sealing the wood with DecoArt Faux finishing Medium (which was just as well as later I ended up putting it under the tap as I didn't like what I had done!) When it was dry, I painted it with gesso, to give it some tooth and extra protection. Later after it was dry I added molding paste, crackle paste, little beads, letting it dry a bit with aid of a heat gun and stamping the heck out of it with lots of girly stamps. I wasn't trying to get an exact clear stamp on it, but just texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I then painted it white to give it a base to start with. When that was dry I</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">painting it, as the Yorkhire Fox a baby pink Decoart </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pink</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> chiffron, but then I decided, I just don't do pink! Sorry but I can't, so when it was dry I put a wash of Traditions Aquamarine with a smige of Traditions Phthalo Blue over the pink, but it was still too pink, so washed over it again with the same mix. Now it was too blue, Worried I may upset people with blue for a girl, when it was dry I dried brushed it with the pink! Still too blue, so dry brushed it again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I took a little mouse, covered it in sticky silver foil metal tape. (No real mice were hurt in this piece of art work)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Painted her grey (mixing the paint) then when she was dry, I dry brushed her with brown then white and a touch of black. Oh and gave her two eyes and pink ears! (a little pink is OK)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Added some touches of DecoArt Metallic Lustre Silver Spark (lovely stuff) and bob's your Uncle or in this case the baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And because I felt bad about the lack of pink for a girl, I painted the back (that no-one will ever see) Pink!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So all that is left to do is to varnish it and to add a couple of hooks on the back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So if they don't like blue for a girl, they can put it in the bin, I will never know. But I had fun making it for their baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for passing by.</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-33276040770886007282014-02-06T08:34:00.000-08:002014-02-06T08:36:41.328-08:00It is getting to that time of year again<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I thought I would use the lovely stencil by Carolyn Dube called open buildings. I had watched a video of hers and was very inspired by her use of it. Do look her up on utube she is lots of fun. As well as using the stencil, I mixed it up with some Dina Wakely methods which, I adore using household items. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A bit of a wonky photo sorry, but that is me folks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for taking a look xx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and other secret items </span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-51733028229996448922014-02-03T05:05:00.000-08:002014-02-03T05:07:34.310-08:00New tissue box<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Morning all, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope you have some sunshine where ever you are in the world. Today so far here in Kent, UK we have at last a short break between rain down pours! But I can't complain, as it has been so mild this year. Just feel so sorry for people that have lost their homes due to the many flooded areas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just to show you today what I have been up too. Whilst the Nathalie Kalbachs (www. nathaliesstudio.com ) Creative Jumpstart has finished, today is the last day of entering their giveaways. So this is my entry, using household produces just lying around our house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was greatly inspired by the tutorial done by Dina Wakely using sacking, she showed us how to make embellishments for cards, journals etc .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I took it one step further and covered an old tissue box with her method.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope you like it, I love it! (hope that doesn't sound big headed) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for dropping by x</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-80131738564122970882014-01-31T10:24:00.002-08:002014-01-31T10:24:59.918-08:00Memory wall hanging<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today it is pouring down in the UK, it has been for weeks now, so this makes it very difficult to take decent photo's because it is so dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A depressing January this has been due to the weather, apart from the Creative Jumpstart class for the whole of January! As I said before, it has been run and organised by the very clever and talented Nathalie Kabachs http://www.nathaliesstudio.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I wanted to show something I made from tutorial made by a wonderful lady, who I was lucky enough to meet before she retired, Suze Miller Weinburg. She called it a wrap I think (Don't quote me on that) but I am calling mine "A trip along memory lane wall hanging!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started by taking two wooden door handles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sealed them with DecoArt Faux finishing medium, let dry. Gunged (very descriptive) with Texture glass, dried. Then dry brushed the heck out of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't think it is fair to Nathalie or Suze to go into much detail of how I made it, but here it is. Next came a cardboard tube left over from wrapping paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is it in situ above our hatchway from the dinning room into the kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a bit wonky at the moment, waiting for hubby to get home and straighten it for me. I might add some hangy things, just thinking about it at the moment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two door handles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then strips of string</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">old broken necklace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ribbon from very important gifts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A bit of a tie dyed dress of my mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">scraps of fabric of my daughter cot cover from 33 years ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a very favourite (clean) sock, that just gave up the ghost and developed a hole (sob)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bits of sheet metal left over, so painted and embossed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">strips of an old shirt, I have been wearing for the last 25 years, that finally died on me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and probably other things I have forgotten about! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a lot more things to make from Nathalie's course, as I was rather late in starting, due to being a bit poorly at the time. Hope she does it again next year as this is fun</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-71171501556795608052014-01-29T05:32:00.001-08:002014-01-29T05:32:50.103-08:00Creative Jumpstart<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hi Everyone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just wanted to tell you about a fantastic month long, on-line course called Creative Jumpstart. It is run by the very talented Nathalie Kalbach <a href="http://%28www.nathaliesstudio.com%29/">(www.nathaliesstudio.com)</a> She has lots of her crafty buddies along giving really helpful videos on using all the house hold things we have around us to make art. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is what I had after watching Anna Dabrowska video. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I used an old canvas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Firewood kindling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Old plastic vitamin bottle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tissue paper from a gift I received</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Old lace lying around for years, that I never knew what to do with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Butterfly off a Christmas cracker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Plastic net from oranges</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cardboard roll from Christmas wrapping paper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cardboard from cereal packet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Old paint brushes that had gone hard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Old tube of paint, also hard from age</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A heart that had been wrapped around a gift </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yawn are you still with me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hope you like it! x</span>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-62197981912123592632011-03-26T06:10:00.000-07:002011-03-26T08:09:04.789-07:00Inspired By Jennie B<div>Hi all, Please someone explain to me how I put a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">linky</span> thing in!!</div><div>Because I was so inspired by Jennie B's (not a new Spice girl, but Jennie <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boxall</span> from The Artistic Stamper) Blog the other day, where she showed work from one of the workshops she had taught at, I wanted to show you how I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">intepretated</span> it. Someone had <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">blown</span> Mr T's inks onto a white canvas and then <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">drawn</span> a flower as well to finish it off and it was stunning. Just wish I knew how to show you!</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588381369062127474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7kaWErtde4oS5PzR1FaMV8_09NZWCr9qzNoOASTBz7bXmVTcpZxcKqcdqVXro_4-P5tSGRartShWsdGVzQQqrEm5shVnt9M5mev_9kARtZSIgBquvWJ2Qc-be7ypA8yODixzemYGSGg/s400/shoes+painting+and+silly+egg+004.JPG" /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Eggnore</span> the silly egg, it should be on the end of the post, but I don't know how to move it!!!!! I know, I know, I am a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">computer</span> twit!!</div><div> </div><div>Anyway I decided to try out what I had admired on Jennie's blog onto a pair of shoes!</div><div>"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">OMG</span> thought my husband, she has flipped, I knew it would happen and now it has"!</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWl0RvG78D57-ov-oj7-BL5HKcfNMROPUwt7RhL7xgOJ2iPgLHPcQpl4hES6TGkNeQmrO90ZnB32b5R2WsExYdKKYKKE1xwTD8rM9kmng741z54zcLIZENOETVYnTdsyFwH6_mXOGlxYY/s1600/shoes+painting+and+silly+egg+002.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588381076596384962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWl0RvG78D57-ov-oj7-BL5HKcfNMROPUwt7RhL7xgOJ2iPgLHPcQpl4hES6TGkNeQmrO90ZnB32b5R2WsExYdKKYKKE1xwTD8rM9kmng741z54zcLIZENOETVYnTdsyFwH6_mXOGlxYY/s400/shoes+painting+and+silly+egg+002.JPG" /></a> </div><div> </div><div>I bought a pair of navy blue canvas shoes for £6 at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Asda</span>, put two coats of Claudine H's white acrylic paint (blank canvas) on as a base.</div><div><br /><br /> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdMf4mDpidSll5Q8F1JtePJ-J4bs2SYtFyaFXHIe_84DJTuNfEKhh-PDgHj5G6qLt5vXYb6r4HLR47hYybL-V_1AgvPPnWl1a0Oc0kHzPGcT2JCTSkZR4gSZejsu-RDI75Z7GEwjprtY/s1600/shoes+2+008_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588380723689091938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdMf4mDpidSll5Q8F1JtePJ-J4bs2SYtFyaFXHIe_84DJTuNfEKhh-PDgHj5G6qLt5vXYb6r4HLR47hYybL-V_1AgvPPnWl1a0Oc0kHzPGcT2JCTSkZR4gSZejsu-RDI75Z7GEwjprtY/s400/shoes+2+008_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />And then I painted and splattered with lots of her other lovely paint colours!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpuUGtqUkznPCzMOQVNCgRIcA74cEbCUghgFK02I6oPnv1Omj0hAOtgkqyrhaK8v11_Vt7cv761jPBi1xovYREQ-tkKbMtdwTwFkLAZVoyRbHIudM5PTkYBSlns_jCG5CLheNEVBVVM0/s1600/shoes+2+005_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 303px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588380266816920962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpuUGtqUkznPCzMOQVNCgRIcA74cEbCUghgFK02I6oPnv1Omj0hAOtgkqyrhaK8v11_Vt7cv761jPBi1xovYREQ-tkKbMtdwTwFkLAZVoyRbHIudM5PTkYBSlns_jCG5CLheNEVBVVM0/s400/shoes+2+005_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Don't look too closely, I managed to paint a bit of white inside by my over enthusiastic painting! I was going to paint a flower, but decided it was too busy for that.</div><div> </div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWzPt62hAmvVQ7o372CQVD7jXleOWra5vY_ZTpBhdskbik-y8PtwqBozM1JtyZm6jjhj33GQVAUqjsjH9iUENvSxPF_zryxo1yRXV-OBh1G4205pcqD3OYaVE8Xcfo-9Fhz5FyxesDAM/s1600/shoes+2+002_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 189px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588380011443022258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWzPt62hAmvVQ7o372CQVD7jXleOWra5vY_ZTpBhdskbik-y8PtwqBozM1JtyZm6jjhj33GQVAUqjsjH9iUENvSxPF_zryxo1yRXV-OBh1G4205pcqD3OYaVE8Xcfo-9Fhz5FyxesDAM/s400/shoes+2+002_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />Sprayed it with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">scotchguard</span>, and Bob's your <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Auntie</span>! Maybe i should have left them blue! But anyway I now have a funky pair of shoes, which my husband says will be good for painting in!</div><div>Well it makes a change from painting the lounge walls, which is almost finished by the way! Carpet arriving tomorrow. Hurray! </div><div>Thank you Jennie for the idea. All I need is to shink my feet by half a size, (I had to buy a size 4 as they didn't have a 4 and a half and the 5 fell off my feet) so my right foot is rather squished up and not very comfy, hopefully they might stretch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div></div></div>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-72348789635966973622011-02-07T10:46:00.001-08:002011-02-07T14:30:25.240-08:00Facing my Demons<span style="font-family:verdana;">Now that could mean all sorts of things couldn't it! But it is not my fear of heights, nor is it my fear of of Mr Fox getting my girls(ducks), nor is it my fear that I may never be able to eat cheese again!</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Anyway to explain:-</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Each month a couple of mates and I meet to make cards (well more to put the world and the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">NHS</span> to rights) and each month we take it in turns to set a challenge to bring along to the next meeting. It is my turn this time and at the last meeting I struggled to think of anything. My brain had gone walk about - in the outback! Then I thought "what do I hate (using craft wise) the most?" That way I could stretch my mind a bit!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ahh</span> I thought eventually! I hate the colour yellow! Now, as far as I am concerned, yellow is the colour of daffodils and custard and that is fine, (more than fine), but for me that is where the colour should stay! I know, I know, lots of you love yellow, but not me! So there lies my challenge, make a card using YELLOW and black only! I know for all you yellow lovers out there it would be easy, but not for me and many attempts later and half a bin full of yellow rubbish here are a few I came up with:-</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2wbAOM29cf0ZzVWDLfMGYcJEknMlqdcDhTAKj-04KapsLPIhmXdOCoUDdxTLl-HJfXb0BnsUeq4Zm7I77NhzHb4qoFQdy8XtYdjCtDtYnjFWhECm5yShlR-0xuSMhTzi_SXJJIiYvEE/s1600/demons+005_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 325px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571022673214087074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2wbAOM29cf0ZzVWDLfMGYcJEknMlqdcDhTAKj-04KapsLPIhmXdOCoUDdxTLl-HJfXb0BnsUeq4Zm7I77NhzHb4qoFQdy8XtYdjCtDtYnjFWhECm5yShlR-0xuSMhTzi_SXJJIiYvEE/s400/demons+005_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><br /> This card My hubby who knows everything, tells me I have put the message the wrong way round, (the Structural Engineer in him), I am not going to tell him, but looking at it he is right, Ho hum! I like my little bee.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8YnfUyMnKiNIDINW9m6qCWL769L9Qvyd9Qu-N4PMlUUQ3g-xwPvWP3LdrYsI4PJckD0TZuGZoh8T195PLrJNDkvDED-_-b9bojj1ZEwRBT8RUvL2pjQETQL1v4bJef3-qs1rfT2lYTk/s1600/demons+014_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 289px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571022490245570562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8YnfUyMnKiNIDINW9m6qCWL769L9Qvyd9Qu-N4PMlUUQ3g-xwPvWP3LdrYsI4PJckD0TZuGZoh8T195PLrJNDkvDED-_-b9bojj1ZEwRBT8RUvL2pjQETQL1v4bJef3-qs1rfT2lYTk/s400/demons+014_edited-1.JPG" /></a> Lots of different stamps here but I think they go well together. Distressed ink and a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">smidge</span> of glimmer mist give it a bit more life I thought. (used on the card above too)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aWUwl12bOM0RC6UNDVvnrizQre3_kD-_7hAtzelluYZFvnEmfZQefg7V-VMYbuN9QVH16TZZGcc7gAQDfYVPmBfSYIrS0YKMLHVL5YQisC0RFFriQ1u4xnEonSTD-9Dl5BTBfbgOfvQ/s1600/demons+013_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571022316872947250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aWUwl12bOM0RC6UNDVvnrizQre3_kD-_7hAtzelluYZFvnEmfZQefg7V-VMYbuN9QVH16TZZGcc7gAQDfYVPmBfSYIrS0YKMLHVL5YQisC0RFFriQ1u4xnEonSTD-9Dl5BTBfbgOfvQ/s400/demons+013_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />The next two are a bit more conventional, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">using</span> plain card and just stamping, I prefer the top two!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOj8XDnQr4rvjt2kvzNaswiCQ9oqze9s-ibuPSYT33eR5T04bvtLqdED7VNJfCoTNReIIv4eflXt1LxgjjvS6fYpslRbGgOcrbp4ZKUdd9ulZx9jrBnh-MpyZgtQYmobQbcSDkLAwZTk/s1600/demons+009_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571022113537938850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOj8XDnQr4rvjt2kvzNaswiCQ9oqze9s-ibuPSYT33eR5T04bvtLqdED7VNJfCoTNReIIv4eflXt1LxgjjvS6fYpslRbGgOcrbp4ZKUdd9ulZx9jrBnh-MpyZgtQYmobQbcSDkLAwZTk/s400/demons+009_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />The last of my yellow cards, are you still awake?<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcO1WVFePdHBJ8ZyyDPQ-ktz8C4wTSVaYCgfbhmn4DFRGuI8NHVz_6sdXnUdPRmhhV7btGOjk8bW47KOjfXkyntW7jy_jkYuJQ8AdZPISUiXHNuozDgw6Wtx3ZiDGOB7Cw6siA8XS9nI/s1600/demons+006_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571021685122978050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcO1WVFePdHBJ8ZyyDPQ-ktz8C4wTSVaYCgfbhmn4DFRGuI8NHVz_6sdXnUdPRmhhV7btGOjk8bW47KOjfXkyntW7jy_jkYuJQ8AdZPISUiXHNuozDgw6Wtx3ZiDGOB7Cw6siA8XS9nI/s400/demons+006_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />And if you ever send me a card, please make it any colour other than YELLOW, but you could send me a bowl of custard if you like!<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrguPnFKCe8c3c5vFKg3G53IVYe-iYUBhREGbpE9bfwae1SsqBjf9Q4aU23GDKnwllC3oZasTZV1ueD_yyFCZ0J2AUBPCS4lV6ZTj7VhDw81EO_3y0rTtL3tKj_H3F2ooJjgXTTbqqsvs/s1600/demons+005_edited-1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 325px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571021379232948786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrguPnFKCe8c3c5vFKg3G53IVYe-iYUBhREGbpE9bfwae1SsqBjf9Q4aU23GDKnwllC3oZasTZV1ueD_yyFCZ0J2AUBPCS4lV6ZTj7VhDw81EO_3y0rTtL3tKj_H3F2ooJjgXTTbqqsvs/s400/demons+005_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-82613737456930176852010-12-07T12:11:00.001-08:002010-12-07T14:40:59.322-08:00Feeling Blue<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Feeling blue, nothing to do with the flipping snow! But all to do with my colour of the moment! A short time ago I was very lucky to win a set of lovely scrummy stamps from Jennie at The Artistic Stamper and they have been waiting for me to have some energy and time to get crafting. The time has come! A kind person donated me some scraps of mountboard, so with my Terra (which is never far away from my hand) and Ferro, off I splogged! Having got the consistency I wanted, I then stamped into the paste and let it dry. Hopefully this will make sense to some people.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJde_-hbCj8e85jhgrHNlK1amrDEBhwPyqiBHCdP4BbjpLBADP2hQxKxTRezsuXsxb0RLgcYqbAj1cMTN4Mggmd32qX0xd_ND0OuD7Fv8Iyifx08lJNiRnEqM-XZgM36PxlfhTATcW4aI/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+014_edited-1.JPG"></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJde_-hbCj8e85jhgrHNlK1amrDEBhwPyqiBHCdP4BbjpLBADP2hQxKxTRezsuXsxb0RLgcYqbAj1cMTN4Mggmd32qX0xd_ND0OuD7Fv8Iyifx08lJNiRnEqM-XZgM36PxlfhTATcW4aI/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+014_edited-1.JPG"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJde_-hbCj8e85jhgrHNlK1amrDEBhwPyqiBHCdP4BbjpLBADP2hQxKxTRezsuXsxb0RLgcYqbAj1cMTN4Mggmd32qX0xd_ND0OuD7Fv8Iyifx08lJNiRnEqM-XZgM36PxlfhTATcW4aI/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+014_edited-1.JPG"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJde_-hbCj8e85jhgrHNlK1amrDEBhwPyqiBHCdP4BbjpLBADP2hQxKxTRezsuXsxb0RLgcYqbAj1cMTN4Mggmd32qX0xd_ND0OuD7Fv8Iyifx08lJNiRnEqM-XZgM36PxlfhTATcW4aI/s400/Blue+mood+and+snow+014_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548039317044846034" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJde_-hbCj8e85jhgrHNlK1amrDEBhwPyqiBHCdP4BbjpLBADP2hQxKxTRezsuXsxb0RLgcYqbAj1cMTN4Mggmd32qX0xd_ND0OuD7Fv8Iyifx08lJNiRnEqM-XZgM36PxlfhTATcW4aI/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+014_edited-1.JPG"></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A few days later I had been painting a picture and had loads of Claudine's studio sky blue paint over on my craft sheet. It would have been rude to throw it away, it is such a pretty colour, so on it went randomly onto several of the prepared mountboard pieces.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3d6lj3lpuhbk9U7TXHhExzTBgM6lPt3fTkHBBO9hHWDlrFBQAafkKtzZC3KpmG6cYmmNHasplaosZ6cSZJvUp7-Vh_9m6af9blellt8608BEAUKw9JKGbogZFzFaAlQlulNGD-NYVGg/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+016_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3d6lj3lpuhbk9U7TXHhExzTBgM6lPt3fTkHBBO9hHWDlrFBQAafkKtzZC3KpmG6cYmmNHasplaosZ6cSZJvUp7-Vh_9m6af9blellt8608BEAUKw9JKGbogZFzFaAlQlulNGD-NYVGg/s400/Blue+mood+and+snow+016_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548039179576183746" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>While it was drying, I painted some grunge board with, you guessed it, more sky blue.( I really had lots over!) When dry, I stamped with black stazon with Jennie's lovely stamps and cut them out, first the bird cage and then the flying birds. Next I sprayed the boards with glimmer mists and when they were dry I added some gorgeous Inka-Gold silver and the pretty blue to various places. Then simply stuck on the cage and the birdies, oh and added a ribbon to hang it up with!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now for a break! Imagine music in the background, maybe "Blue Moon."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc41vD8bTl1U7jki_B95rY7532eanDx4XBa_OW10YRHKDX_fP79E4wRp3_Tcmlf-jsaLs5yhFOreFzRJlVYc3GR2pYSY5ipaihCtL7GTBfYcY3pCufV_t1APzB8ar6Y0025GPGm_n0kpY/s1600/Blue+mood+and+snow+027.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc41vD8bTl1U7jki_B95rY7532eanDx4XBa_OW10YRHKDX_fP79E4wRp3_Tcmlf-jsaLs5yhFOreFzRJlVYc3GR2pYSY5ipaihCtL7GTBfYcY3pCufV_t1APzB8ar6Y0025GPGm_n0kpY/s400/Blue+mood+and+snow+027.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548038891404869970" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is day one of the snow, not much then!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Break over, Next one</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjixWZkfJtFrsov64qbtcBIYrf7j-ASdTKQrANBP6iJ4pVyxO2b3soQf9yG_J9_vbfsum7vmctcUbQcxLW2mZ-xnCWy9lyUuOsiliMfKqQHG2WXy2b9vLhAtUj2N0jHrLj1AqqVsoAQsI/s400/blue+mood+two+006.JPG" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiru178_NDeGz0pqnvUCkZZmwmND2CNSqU-9mV39dNFnB2WAoKTUDLeB7dg-R7zWn1TPb2Gk1W77Hf0lxAbxLvVSx0hbTPKGP3xQgG9yRG6NNUS5vI3vBD7L15Pqbt6NTpJwnybiYxKfGQ/s400/blue+mood+two+004_edited-1.JPG" /></div><div><br /></div><div>More of Jennie's stamps and also a Tim Holz stamp snuck in. A scrap of orangey yellow card, edged with distress ink was used as a sun, or is it a moon, I am not sure? It is a shame you cannot see of the sparkly bits in the background, blame it on the photographer (me!)</div><div><br /></div><div>Pause for breath! Lastly ("thank god" I hear you cry) I made a card!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7z8_d6XykPlbMLP4eYLttWAH6uxcOClZFXxR27cYeDGC-rA4gkbm4D1-9TD4DvQuGJQQJ0gGjj3Hx3dhXOhLDuMVjTo6s3js4Tt5Nmz5Nen94eVk95f_tW2_t-cM2RuwjuAsYjkVoJY/s1600/blue+mood+3+003_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7z8_d6XykPlbMLP4eYLttWAH6uxcOClZFXxR27cYeDGC-rA4gkbm4D1-9TD4DvQuGJQQJ0gGjj3Hx3dhXOhLDuMVjTo6s3js4Tt5Nmz5Nen94eVk95f_tW2_t-cM2RuwjuAsYjkVoJY/s400/blue+mood+3+003_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548037680901765218" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>More mountboard die cut into a circle. Versa marked it, sprinkled with Suze Weinberg's Blue Iris Uttee Brightz. (getting the theme, Blue,) then stamped Jennie's little bird (my favourite) into it with Black Stazon!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqmmmn3jj1hBE9anaYXKTJbJf4cs3XRyaL4z4l8tv8csxOJgibr0Gj6e_bgGtcRNWgdlmf0iZ9_9fSqjE1bGpqTSVSb9jUFrnDKfq7CNrNg5e_Um6WGnf-HyifXttU2lR_xvzQoQh0dU/s1600/blue+mood+3+007_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqmmmn3jj1hBE9anaYXKTJbJf4cs3XRyaL4z4l8tv8csxOJgibr0Gj6e_bgGtcRNWgdlmf0iZ9_9fSqjE1bGpqTSVSb9jUFrnDKfq7CNrNg5e_Um6WGnf-HyifXttU2lR_xvzQoQh0dU/s400/blue+mood+3+007_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548037439523546530" /></a><br /></div><div>Cuttlebugged a piece of white card for the background, smeared (which you can't see sadly) with BLUE Inka-Gold, mounted it onto a matching blue piece of card. Stuck it on a white card and popped the bird on the top! Oh I forgot I put a smear of ice stickles on top of the blue uttee and Ink-Gold silver! Looks much better in real life.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUe08wL1uk9OP5yfxTUzc3jKTvA-QcaQ7db1XCPg8NWcW2J0EbrzBTA_B5dcDkw01fzS_HMkWtus7lp2Kaq_FWOYP_hvkzCt-Mc7tOmU7aAa1sCZNWlZo1VXBHe-L3nEz42FtngblDqM/s1600/Ian%2527s+snowy+pictures+005_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUe08wL1uk9OP5yfxTUzc3jKTvA-QcaQ7db1XCPg8NWcW2J0EbrzBTA_B5dcDkw01fzS_HMkWtus7lp2Kaq_FWOYP_hvkzCt-Mc7tOmU7aAa1sCZNWlZo1VXBHe-L3nEz42FtngblDqM/s400/Ian%2527s+snowy+pictures+005_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548036981190429842" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Happy Christmas Everyone!</div>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575410249592321546.post-62918379178582211032010-09-22T12:01:00.000-07:002010-09-22T13:06:44.624-07:00Under attack<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Today was a beautiful day in sunny Kent and I am not sure but, I think it is the first day of Autumn. Tomorrow it is meant to be cold and wet so, I made the most of it and spent the day in the garden with the girls enjoying the sunshine. (I even got out the sun cream again!)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >But as I went to pick the raspberries I was horrified to find that the raspberry patch was alive with those eight legged, big, hairy, beasties, called spiders! Loads of them on their strong webs strung from bush to bush! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Not to be beaten by those nasty things, I had to break my way through some (well quite a lot really) of the webs to get to my berries. Even though I don't like them I felt guilty about destroying all there hard work and honestly no harm came to any beasties I promise, hand on heart!</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDoYi8fLqmGaz2Q-nIj4SuhK_EPAWEn4CPDgGtGCR21Y0DCW6ZE4c7kKWYb0RVof7Lr79J1CbzCvZopNTp1PMJCFU_vfwdXZPrhL7XbD9kr0BQdh7OteGQDOo7SW-pOrHryS_WHFs1vo/s1600/Spiders+and+garden+things+009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDoYi8fLqmGaz2Q-nIj4SuhK_EPAWEn4CPDgGtGCR21Y0DCW6ZE4c7kKWYb0RVof7Lr79J1CbzCvZopNTp1PMJCFU_vfwdXZPrhL7XbD9kr0BQdh7OteGQDOo7SW-pOrHryS_WHFs1vo/s400/Spiders+and+garden+things+009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519817152678551394" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lovely begonias still in the garden, they all have to be hung up very high these days, so a certain 3 bad ducks don't eat them. One of there favourite snacks, that and Busy Lizzies! Well I guess most flowers I grow are their favourites, so gradually things are getting higher and higher in the air! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqPU5BqSsRe1fwrZ52h3vZXxzLfFycMSeT6z8ZvCatKXTW2uD0k3SjncVSQXbL4cF7dJu0tmKlj2fZyK1X0Vdx8bJw6IAMOhMOXJG4x5N5P0lkcRHuFldEPfbfHqXa9zFnOy_cep3T9o/s1600/Spiders+and+garden+things+006.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqPU5BqSsRe1fwrZ52h3vZXxzLfFycMSeT6z8ZvCatKXTW2uD0k3SjncVSQXbL4cF7dJu0tmKlj2fZyK1X0Vdx8bJw6IAMOhMOXJG4x5N5P0lkcRHuFldEPfbfHqXa9zFnOy_cep3T9o/s400/Spiders+and+garden+things+006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519816905386861378" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I really love this colour, white with just a tinge of pink around the petals.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISrOzf78_ZCDRQNVhgbhJTVYtkEfGiQiNNE3J9nGnH-QK-oD9EedqbbWmKFARpCZVXAee0Txi2_NlIg8KjGwVKnYxpDABFP5s1WHfiL6B2SCqyDDZaTwam5aTrPyBFLJ727dg4baC8Bs/s1600/Spiders+and+garden+things+003.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISrOzf78_ZCDRQNVhgbhJTVYtkEfGiQiNNE3J9nGnH-QK-oD9EedqbbWmKFARpCZVXAee0Txi2_NlIg8KjGwVKnYxpDABFP5s1WHfiL6B2SCqyDDZaTwam5aTrPyBFLJ727dg4baC8Bs/s400/Spiders+and+garden+things+003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519816700357617378" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just before you nod off, I will move onto a crafty piece!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTePCOFU3cdCuDh80JCs1QLueXyFagDuw_3bRPKSVKOjyb5csGRe3lKurkrtyqcTLx8IyOwo8HtPGawTaBm1t2xI9J9DA8o912AqtcIJEVDKwF_EdVZzYeOlEtsHdJ8iQVcIxaflxR3dU/s1600/week+11+neckless+001_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 367px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTePCOFU3cdCuDh80JCs1QLueXyFagDuw_3bRPKSVKOjyb5csGRe3lKurkrtyqcTLx8IyOwo8HtPGawTaBm1t2xI9J9DA8o912AqtcIJEVDKwF_EdVZzYeOlEtsHdJ8iQVcIxaflxR3dU/s400/week+11+neckless+001_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519816325177716530" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just made this yesterday from Claudine's course of course,(lots of courses there and no food in sight!) Boo last week this week, but I am way behind so I will probably be showing stuff for a few week yet! It is made from painted Sticky Backed Canvas, painted with Claudine's paints, cut out into circles, dried and frayed around the edges. Printed out script writing onto SBC, cut out flowers and stuck them on top of the painted circles. Backed the circles with fabrics that matched, then threaded cord through holes I had made through the middles of each flower. Put a few knots in the double cord, (seen done by Chris Dark on her web site )put some fixings on the end of the cords. A first for me so they will probably drop off next week! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQjSLiizzE8wCXCw5wso85eGDfE5XfOPhwyILYvC9cGAv19JPSHKOHeIeCuuLekC3Vaa1nCaEcZq5zPc3FkeUTO5dVdLqKbH_FR0ZryPKMUaaLztC5f5JHdH-MCR4ASRZJwClTL-mAXU/s1600/Spiders+and+garden+things+020.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQjSLiizzE8wCXCw5wso85eGDfE5XfOPhwyILYvC9cGAv19JPSHKOHeIeCuuLekC3Vaa1nCaEcZq5zPc3FkeUTO5dVdLqKbH_FR0ZryPKMUaaLztC5f5JHdH-MCR4ASRZJwClTL-mAXU/s400/Spiders+and+garden+things+020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519816047436466018" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I couldn't finish without a couple of pictures of my bother girls, spreading out to look for dropped flowers, I am sure they think that the best flowers only grow in mid air!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lxqqWMj5PPoQkfD5Y7kEHjB_yCwdjm_DGejt7GpE1-itZguQUnUyw78KQgZjXO-6YdKtpocktUhdRIAHpkVmy3TXvTpVHfDRd-gDxGPbgErmgXQ2kMHg7HFwyu20sjQ1fg9r25I3lRU/s1600/Spiders+and+garden+things+014_edited-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lxqqWMj5PPoQkfD5Y7kEHjB_yCwdjm_DGejt7GpE1-itZguQUnUyw78KQgZjXO-6YdKtpocktUhdRIAHpkVmy3TXvTpVHfDRd-gDxGPbgErmgXQ2kMHg7HFwyu20sjQ1fg9r25I3lRU/s400/Spiders+and+garden+things+014_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519815676588116834" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A good shot of my knees don't you think? Muddle and Puddle having a good wash and brush up and Wigwam is after my sandwich! Tomorrow if it rains they will dig up my lawn, in revenge for not sharing my sandwich! So apart from the beasties a brilliant day was had by all! </span></div>whyduckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778041000508308443noreply@blogger.com1