The Tiddy Jiggy is finished!

So the main pic is the whole jiggy, from left to right and top to bottom


















Dragonfly Jane, Pinkster, 3peaches,
Eluned, Leigh11, Magpie,
Sixofone, Wisher and Roxy52


So we have roxy52's piece which is Blues - music & colour, for this i gesso'd the piece then used alcohol inks in 3 different blues stuck on some musical notes and the words [a rhapsody of blues] then added another musical note to dangle off the bottom corner.

















Then Eluned's piece which is Hollywood - bling & sparkle, for this i searched for the right image and found this one stuck it to the piece and decoupaged the word BLING on it and added a faux diamond ring as a dangler on the side.

















Then Leigh11's celtic design, which as i've said before is a celtic love knot.


















Then Magpie's piece, this one really got me thinking as she wanted Metal & grunge! i dabbed black and espresso dabbers over the gesso'd piece and covered it in glossy accents roughly for a grunge-y look then cut out some coggy shapes and a spanner in grungepaper then painted them silver and dry-brushed copper paint over then used funky brads for centre bolts and stuck them to the piece with glossy accents and glazed it again.














Then Dragonfly Jane's piece which is Magical Moon, for this i gesso'd the piece then used acrylic paints and stamped an image and stuck gems on the covered the whole piece in glossy accents for protection and shine.
















Pinkster wanted vintage butterflies as her theme so it gave me a change to use the papers i bought at the scrapbook shop in Durham last October then decoupage 2 layers of butterflies that i had covered in crackle accents and put a smaller one in the corner covered it with stardust stickles, used a cropadile and added two eyelets and a pink ribbon tied in a bow!













For my theme i chose Egypt and covered the piece in gesso and painted it gold and used butterscotch and meadow alcohol inks for a tarnished look and decided that i wanted to do my name in hieroglyphics then again covered it with glossy accents!

















Sixofone wanted Mickey and Friends as her theme, again i found an ideal image and printed it off and glued it to the piece then cut out mickey's outline and decoupaged it and covered it in glossy accents to strengthen the layer ( i used a bright citrus green instead of the usual black as i wanted it to be bright and cheery like Mickey's voice!


















Wisher had just returned from a wonderful holiday/honeymoon and wanted her jiggy to represent the Caribbean Islands she had visited and asked for me to do her piece on Dominica! She had snorkelled around Champagne Reef and i decided i wanted a bubbly effect for her piece so i gesso'd the piece, painted it pool blue and added some funky underwater pieces to represent what she might have seen in the gorgeous waters then added clear dewdrops to represent the champagne bubbles then covered the whole thing in glossy accents to strengthen the piece and make it shiny!

Scotlands for me!

I've had a fab weekend with some wonderful ladies and managed to do 2 lo's mind you the ladies who sat either side of me did 9 and 5 respectively so i either talked too much or am a super slow scrapper....

Then tonight i logged on and discovered an email from Janet of Pink Gem Designs saying i'd won the monthly draw!!!

Off for an early night now and get ready for the mini cc on Wednesday night!

L x

I've posted some pics too!

2 sleeps!

On Friday, i have a mega drive ahead of me! over 300miles to Moffat in Scotland, I am meeting up with some of the girls from the frozen north thread and also my friend Sarah is coming too(from Norfolk) so we both have a bit of a drive to do although she is cheating and driving up to the north east on thursday and staying with family overnight!

I didn't sleep again last night so i've cat-napped for most of this morning and am trying to stay awake today so i'll sleep tonight and tomorrow night in the hope that i'll pack my car up and do some last minute shopping, dye my hair, wax my eyebrows and find the kits that i said i would take with me for a friends daughter! at the minute they are proving very elusive!!!

I am taking my 'pooter' with me but am hoping to get some serious scrapping done so may not actually get online.... but i have to be back for sunday evening to watch the last episode of Being Human....

i-kay-ahh

as some posh architect said on HIGNFY a long way back now... anyway i found an app that you put you name into and it gives you your ikea furniture name and a pic of your furniture piece!

huh, i bet they were up all night thinking this one!!!

Feeling pretty pants of late

So i went to the Drs today and saw a Dr Nimenko, what a star he was! i have pleurisy and am now on antibiotics and painkillers! so i'm off back to bed shortly!

Another Tiddy Jiggy piece

I finally managed to glaze it and here it is dry next to the design i chose to use, its a celtic love knot!

The background is a combination of 3 different colours to give it a mossy look/feel and the knot was painted in bronze and outlined in black to make it stand out!

I hope Leigh11 likes it as much as i do!

Kids...

Yesterday I woke with a stinking cold! having been up most of the previous night trotting back and forth to the bathroom! sorry tmi!

I love my 3 dearly but i don't love the bugs and stuff they bring home from school! I'm looking forward to going to scotland at the end of the month but today has brought a letter in the post saying my car tax is due on the last day(Grrrrrrrrr!) trying to figure out the finances and see if i have enough for car tax and petrol money on top of having to pay for my monthly subs kit and anything else that might take my fancy! Oh well off back to bed now, just one last thought!

Why is it always half term or school holidays when you pick these blinking colds and shivers up???

Cards

Lately I've been making more and more cards for friends who are scrappers and I used some stamps from a lady called Janet who owns Pink Gem Designs

Anyway here are some of the cards I've made! hope you like them!















































Please visit Janets blog to view more of her fabulous examples

Tiddy Jiggy piece

 

This is the first piece of a jiggy swap i am doing thru UKS, the pic looks yellower than it actually is because i took the photo at night using artificial light...

anyway just to give you an idea of what it looks like and i really hope Jane likes it - the theme is magical moon!

I must post more!

I received the January kit from Sarahs Cards and have so far only used it to do one layout but here it is, its my mother-in-law and I am pleased to say she likes it and the other is a lo of Tessa and Ethan decorating the christmas tree in Dec...

will try to post more often