Mini Album and Card classes in Galway.

An Siopa Bui , Galway.

There are some more photos I took between the showers in Galway over on my PHOTO BLOG.

(Click the highlighted words or the link in the side bar )

Sizzix cards...

These are a few of the sample cards and album covers I made for the classes I taught in Galway this weekend, the first class was a mini accordion album demonstrating how to make up the album and decorate the panels with tags, pockets, photos, stamped images, ribbons etc and the second class showed different techniques to achieve with sizzix dies layering, chalking, inking, doodling and even icing a birthday cake in the flavour of your choice =0) .....I really enjoyed the classes , it was great to meet up with new like minded people and despite the terrible weather I had a great weekend in Galway.

Gothic Arch " Shades of White "

Gothic Arch Challenge...

The Theme for Gothic Arches this week is " Shades of White" This was more difficult than I first thought, I love using white but to only use it with little or no other colours was strange because no matter how many layers and embellishments I used it still looked bare.I painted the background with acrylic paint then layered textured papers, flowers, buttons, ribbon and some metal charms around this woman image which I love.

Tilda and Co Challenge.

Tilda and Co Challenge

The Tilda and Co challenge this week was to follow a sketch. I drew the cake and added doodles a butterfly and pink beads, then added diamond glaze to finish.

Style stone

I received a lovely surprise pressie fromKiki last week which included four Celtic designed " style stones" , today I attacked one of them with alcohol inks and continued to make a neck piece with contrasting beads, here is the finished piece. ( Thanks again kiki )

Lynda's Salt Dough Challenge

I love a crafty challenge and when Lynda gave a step by step salt dough tutorial on her blog I

had to give it a go, mine is not as perfect as the ones on Lynda's blog but it is my first

attempt=0) Thanks for the challenge.

Sizzix

I am teaching two card making classes with An Siopa Bui soon and one of the classes is using Sizzix dies, these three cards are among the sample cards I have made showing how to build up, add colour and achieve different looks from the same die cuts.

( There are more cards made with sizzix dies along the side bar under Labels.)

I have been given this award again by Dianne I nominated seven people a few posts down from this one....Thanks Dianne.

Innovative stamp creations #7

Innovative stamp creations

challenge us to make some Moos using their rubber stamp images, I stamped the images and embossed with black detail ep, coloured with marvey markers ,blended and finished off with gold utee.

TMTA " Colourful"

TMTA ...Colourful

I didnt use a lot of colours for this challenge but instead used some of my favourite bright colours I love the pinks,blues and purple colours combined with the gold utee.

Make a moo " Black & White"

The theme for Make a moo or two this week is B&W I used the little boy sailor stamp from Inka for this challenge.

Digital background and Tilda stamp.

This is a digital background and my latest Tilda image .

Brilliante Weblog Premio 2008

I have been given this award by Jasmin Thank you Jasmin.

I have to nominate 7 other bloggers whose blogs I admire and visit frequently.

Each award winner must show the award and link seven nominated people from their own blog then post a message on the seven chosen blogs.

Nellie, Kiki, Joanne W, Carol, Elisa Kate , Deb

( I tried to choose seven blogs I hadnt nominated with awards before )

Wednesday stamper " Newspaper"

Wednesday stamper " Newspaper.

This photo was taken on the Titanic ,I made the frame by covering hard board with newspaper clippings about the Titanic, I inked the torn newspaper with butterscotch ink and stamped the whole frame with a crackle stamp to give an aged effect, I finished the frame with layers of PVA glue to give it a glaze.

Midsummer Megascrap class 2 ...

I finished my second project at last...This was the Mini pop up album we made in the Lance Anderson class at the Midsummer Megascrap. We finished the pop up ball and some of the pages on the day and finished the rest of the book at home. I love this book because there is so much detail with tags , bows and flaps making it even more interesting and an album to play with.

Donna's Class at the Midsummer MegaScrap

This is my album from Donna's Class at the Midsummer MegaScrap here in Dublin..It was a fantastic day and I loved both classes. I kept my album plain and simple with clean edges because I was using photos of my son I didn't want it too flowery or fussy. There are eight pages altogether making a sixteen page album full of photos and embellishments so it feels really full and crammed packed even though I kept mine simple but you could let your imagination go wild with this one.

Tilda Summer Album.

Using the same card folds in the post below ( Card making with An Siopa Bui ) I made up this little Tilda Summer Album ,I always make little books and never seem to get the time to fill them so I stuck with this one and finished it.

Theme Thursday " fairies"

I made this Fairy door during the week for a forum challenge and thought it fit into the Theme Thursday challenge perfectly too.

I have described it in more detail in a few posts below this one.

Sunday postcard Art " Women"

This is my first time to take the new 4x6 Sunday Postcard Art challenge and it gave me an excuse to use this image which I love it also encouraged me to use colours I wouldn't usually use. The background is stamped and gold embossed on maroon coloured card and handmade paper.

Cardmaking

These are some of the cards I made while teaching card making with Kerry from An Siopa Bui today.I really enjoyed meeting new people, some who were already familiar with me even though I had never met them before so if any of you are looking in her please leave a comment to let me know =0) The four square cards were a huge hit and they can also be made up into an album , I really enjoyed making these. The top two cards were demonstrating stamping and embossing.

Thanks everyone for making it a lovely enjoyable day.

Fairy Door...

I made this little fairy door ( it measures 6 inches) for a monthly challenge! I used corrugated card which I scored to give a wood effect then coloured it with bronze and brown ink pads and sprinkled with gold utee,I then embellished it with charms etc and added my favourite flower fairy.

A couple more Tildas

I love these stamps mixed with a digital background and some diamond glaze for added dimension and shine.