However, I do have some exciting news - and a fun new project for me! Click on the image below to find out more...
New project!
I haven't got anything to show today, as I just remembered yesterday that I have a deadline to finish - oops! Will be doing that for the next couple of days, and am also taking care of Kiti Q while Kell is on holiday.
However, I do have some exciting news - and a fun new project for me! Click on the image below to find out more...
However, I do have some exciting news - and a fun new project for me! Click on the image below to find out more...
On Your Side
The canvas size is, I think, 18"x24", and a bit brighter in real life. There are bits of this overlay and these rubons, plus some collections chipboard letters, book paper, a scrunched up napkin and paper from an old copy of Pride and Prejudice. The letter stickers are hard to see, but are from Carolee's Creations. There are also a few bits of fabric on there, blue pigment powder and red paint. Oh, and a couple of pieces torn from a picture of a Chagall painting in an old book. The words are the chorus of a Kendall Payne song, I don't know all the lyrics, but here are some of them:i will show you love
like you've never loved before
i will go the distance
and back for more
if you just say the word
...
the pain that you have suffered through
will never get the best of you
you will hope in something real
and depend on how you feel
when you call my name
then i will answer, answer
cos I am on your side
though the wind and waves
beat against your face
and you were on my mind
when the world was made
trust in me, my child
trust in me, my child
....
you have cried through endless nights
nearly given up the fight
watched your dreams like falling stars
heartache made you who you are
and looking back you see
that i have always been there
....
cos i have heard you cry
and it breaks my heart
for i love you so
and i will never lie
this is not the end
there is still a hope
and I am on your side
though the wind and waves
beat against your face
and you were on my mind
when the world was made
trust in me, my child
trust in me, my child
In other news, one of my layouts has been added to the Basic Grey gallery - here, I sent them the two Infuse based layouts I did for Kiti Q and they selected 'Cafe Family' to include.
New Painting
Well, I can't show you, because I just finished it five minutes ago and am SO not getting the camera out etc at this time of night, also with gel medium-sticky fingers (sorry, my poor laptop), but I just did a mixed media piece and I am really happy with it! Yay! It feel so good to do a 'painting' (ok, canvas really, but there was some paint). Also the message on it is kind of positive which is a step for me. Not my words, lyrics from a Kendall Payne song (will post with the picture of the painting, tomorrow maybe), but quite spiritual and, I dunno, positive. As spiritual things tend to be. For me, anyway, which is the thing with painting, it is more about expression than the end result. Bonus of course if you actually like the end result, which I do tonight, but I may not tomorrow, LOL. I promise I'll still show it though.
What also excited me was using the gel medium and pigment powder I bought (especially after Viv's awesome techniques article in SC about pigments). I don't think I did it properly, cos I was too lazy, I just sprinkled the pigment powder on the canvas and then painted over it haphazardly with gel medium, at the same time as sticking the book paper on. Hmm. Was fun tho, love the messy side of things, despite my unconventional use of mediums. But the important thing is that I DID use them!
OK I have had a glass or two of red, but I do remember I wanted to show a layout. Or was it two. Anyhow, one is in this month's For Keeps and is in the 'heartfelt journaling' category, involving a letter I wrote to my parents a few years ago - actually about 5 years ago, almost - with a recent photo of them.
And it took some thinking, but I remembered the other one I wanted to share was the one I sneak-peeked last week - Space Cowboy. The title is from the funky Jamiroquai track, someone thought it was from someone else's music - Steve Miller? don't know who that is, LOL. Um, no, Jamiroquai it is. I thought I'd post it as a Kiti Q customer who was buying the required product asked about the cowboy hat - I just drew that, but I will be making a tracing / template so if you want it just email Kiti Q when you place an order! A bit too much product involved for a class kit, sorry about that.
This just came in my inbox, the story of the day, and it made me laugh. That could be the wine, of course - not that I've had THAT much - but I'll still share:
What also excited me was using the gel medium and pigment powder I bought (especially after Viv's awesome techniques article in SC about pigments). I don't think I did it properly, cos I was too lazy, I just sprinkled the pigment powder on the canvas and then painted over it haphazardly with gel medium, at the same time as sticking the book paper on. Hmm. Was fun tho, love the messy side of things, despite my unconventional use of mediums. But the important thing is that I DID use them!
OK I have had a glass or two of red, but I do remember I wanted to show a layout. Or was it two. Anyhow, one is in this month's For Keeps and is in the 'heartfelt journaling' category, involving a letter I wrote to my parents a few years ago - actually about 5 years ago, almost - with a recent photo of them.
And it took some thinking, but I remembered the other one I wanted to share was the one I sneak-peeked last week - Space Cowboy. The title is from the funky Jamiroquai track, someone thought it was from someone else's music - Steve Miller? don't know who that is, LOL. Um, no, Jamiroquai it is. I thought I'd post it as a Kiti Q customer who was buying the required product asked about the cowboy hat - I just drew that, but I will be making a tracing / template so if you want it just email Kiti Q when you place an order! A bit too much product involved for a class kit, sorry about that.
This just came in my inbox, the story of the day, and it made me laugh. That could be the wine, of course - not that I've had THAT much - but I'll still share:
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Paper Skin
A couple more layouts from the third Candlelit Kit - love this stuff, especially the Jenni Bowlin chipboard and Hambly overlay. I was surprised how much I loved the We R Memory Keepers swirly rubons - the pewter tones just look so nice, and a bit more subtle than black.
How stunning is this photo of Ben and Sienna? One of the fab photos Donna Wild of Wild Creative Photography took for us.
I also made this wedding card and giftwrapping for an online friend of Ben's who lives in New Jersey (in the U.S.). They worked a lot together on VGR, a website for classic video game lovers like themselves. That was a few years ago - 6 years? Anyhow, Rev (his online name) sent us an invitation to his wedding, which we can't go to - surprise, surprise, LOL. But it is a shame we can't so we got them a couple of little gifts and I did this funky wrapping! I also made the card but the wrapping is my favourite bit. 
I always love wrapping stuff. Most of the stuff is from Love, Elsie's Betty range.
If you like the other kinds of music I listen to (see sidebar to the right), you might enjoy Kendall Payne - I just got her new cd 'Paper Skin' from digistation, I usually buy from cdbaby.com but they were out of stock already. Sweet, piano and lyric-driven melodies, some really nice songs.
I got some fun photos of the kids - well, mainly Sienna - this morning, will hopefully upload some later or tomorrow perhaps. I also have a cute little footstool, which has been covered in a vintage-y polka dot and velvet with appliqued flower, very funky vintage, to give away to a good home, since Ash keeps breaking it and I want it to be appreciated before he does something I can't repair! Pics tomorrow, or later today, or just email me if you think you will want it - Melbourne only, I'm in the Outer East.
How stunning is this photo of Ben and Sienna? One of the fab photos Donna Wild of Wild Creative Photography took for us.
I also made this wedding card and giftwrapping for an online friend of Ben's who lives in New Jersey (in the U.S.). They worked a lot together on VGR, a website for classic video game lovers like themselves. That was a few years ago - 6 years? Anyhow, Rev (his online name) sent us an invitation to his wedding, which we can't go to - surprise, surprise, LOL. But it is a shame we can't so we got them a couple of little gifts and I did this funky wrapping! I also made the card but the wrapping is my favourite bit. 
I always love wrapping stuff. Most of the stuff is from Love, Elsie's Betty range.If you like the other kinds of music I listen to (see sidebar to the right), you might enjoy Kendall Payne - I just got her new cd 'Paper Skin' from digistation, I usually buy from cdbaby.com but they were out of stock already. Sweet, piano and lyric-driven melodies, some really nice songs.
I got some fun photos of the kids - well, mainly Sienna - this morning, will hopefully upload some later or tomorrow perhaps. I also have a cute little footstool, which has been covered in a vintage-y polka dot and velvet with appliqued flower, very funky vintage, to give away to a good home, since Ash keeps breaking it and I want it to be appreciated before he does something I can't repair! Pics tomorrow, or later today, or just email me if you think you will want it - Melbourne only, I'm in the Outer East.
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