Beach In A Box

Hello Nomad friends.  The hot weather is inspiring me to think beach so I got my man to eat some sardines and repurposed the can using stamps from Rubber Dance Take the Plunge stamp set.

I used the tin and the lid to make my fun beach scene, the Take the Plunge stamp set, real pebbles and shells, Emerald Creek Dirty Sand embossing powder and loads of different colouring mediums; distress inks and markers, paint markers, gel pens and sharpies.  

 Really enjoyed putting this together. Hop over to the Rubber Dance blog for more piccies and a step by step.  Maybe you have a tin that needs a remake????

Thank for dropping by.  Hugz

Save the Beez

Hello.  Welcome.  Yesterday was World Bee Day.  I have noticed the decline of our buzzy friends.  I have noticed when the weather turns cold and wet and they vanish, only to reemerged a month later to work hard again.  We need them so badly.  Please take care of the bees.  Don't use pesticides.  They kill the good with the bad and often the good take longer to recover, so you get more bad bugs, then you spray them again!!  Cherish your dandelions for the precious early nectar they supply and the happy colours they bring to the garden.  Be brave, go wild.  

I decided to join the PaperArtsy challenge where they want to see assemblage.  I liked the tin can man in the challenge post and also Carol Fox's garden sign made me think about making a tin can to put bits in in my greenhouse.   I sprayed my can with copper laquer.  I used a stencil and some yellow acrylic on burlap fabric.  The metal flowers are from Korthobby.no with a few half pearls.   The bee is from Rubber Dance, stamped and coloured on shrink plastic.  The legs and antennae were a bit of a shrinky dinky nightmare but we got there in the end.  I made the sentiment on ye olde typewriter.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Paperartsy - Assemblage
Korthobby - Anything Goes

This Ones For Me

Hello.  Welcome.  Over at Unruly Paperarts they have a special link up for Inspire Your Heart With Art Day

Make something from the heart, something you love with no restrictions or limitations.  Yesterday I made some altered playing cards and I loved the colours on the yellow/red one so I decided to make something for me.  Something arty that I could use and look at every day.  

I started with this packaging material I have had for a while

I painted it white.  A bit of kraft showing through is good. 

I painted it yellow.  A bit of white and kraft showing through is OK

I watered down some red paint in this old tin can and splatted.  That definitely looks like someone's been murdered!!!  I spread the remaining paint over the inside and outside of the can, which is actually part of the project........

Whilst waiting for paint to dry I stamped Kaiserkraft Grafitti stamp all over a piece of white card.  Then I stamped it off, giving various shades of grey. 

I fussy cut some hearts

I edged them all with archival black and drew a line around the one with a sharpie.  Wasn't sure I liked this so I left the others with just the inked edges. 

I cut some other hearts from black script printed wrapping paper and edged them with white scribble.

I wanted some black and white tape, but my black paper tape is very narrow, so....  I took some blue painters tape, painted it black and then stamped Kaisercraft Arty in white paint.  I smudged the stamp at one point and you can see the blue peeking through.  Kinda like that.  

I wrapped my can with the blood splattered yellow waffle stuff and wrapped the tape top and bottom.

 

 I added a few bits of left over tape and then some hearts

More hearts

More hearts

And more.

I love my new tin for pens and things.  I looks a bit like a basket and the waffle stuff is quite spongy so it has a nice feel as well.  Much improvement over that old tin.  Hugz

Joining the fun at

Unruly Paperarts - Inspire Your Heart With Art Day