Showing posts with label Crop-a-dile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crop-a-dile. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

WHAT A FUN SWAP











I received my returns from the latest swap I was in and boy was it fun. I just love my returns they are all so different. It was fun doing a bird shape. I wasn't sure how I would put them together. Some people were going to make a mobile and some a book, where do you bind them? They were facing in different directions and I had thought I would ring them at the top but didn't like the way they would flip because of the different direction of the head and tail. So I choose to ring them at the tail, I like to bind them because then I can hang the whole group together and flip through them anytime. I made one for myself to keep and since I am into STEAMPUNK at the moment I made the BROWN BIRD with the watch parts and the heavy metal beak which was a rusty something-or-another I found in the backyard. Have a Art full weekend.............DIANE




Sunday, November 23, 2008




These are 4 x 6 Chunky Houses....................They are extremely fun to make. I will finish them up with danglie yarn and ribbon, charms and beads......
With Thanksgiving just a few days I just wanted to wish all my art friends and family a Happy Thanksgiving.....we are so blessed and have so much to be thankful.. Diane


Saturday, October 11, 2008

Whisper


In just a few days all the pages for the Got Bling swap will be here and the fun for me starts. Sorting through all the beauties, each and every one a special little piece of art......I have been punching the pages as they arrived so I am all caught up on that. They are all neat and orderly in their boxes waiting for the last three packages to arrive..just a few more days. Art-On.................Diane

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Beautiful Bling Book

Admit it........you are hooked on ART and this rather new form. In our world of excess, bigger is not necessarily better....These small 4" X 4" little works of art are fun to create and don't take up much room to collect. Even if the amount of STUFF you need to collect in order to make these little beauties..can fill a whole room.

The "Got Bling?" swap is getting down to the wire. Ireland has mailed their returns. That is the furthest place these little art works are coming from. Just about 1/2 of the pages are here, punched and set with eyelets. I have the rings, so each player will receive a completed book. They can add more pages if they want, I know I made extra for my book. I will fill everyone in on the progress as I go along and I plan to take a picture of my swap table when they get here.

I also have a surprise for the 1st player to send in their pages, and a special little something for the 2nd. arrival. PEACE...................Diane

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Trees of Wonder

This little 4 x 4 was made for a PAT swap over at MAIL ART WORLD. http://www.mailartworld.com/forum/showthread.php?t=401 I like these little groups. You can sign up for as many as you want and there are only six people per group and you pick your own picture and five people do some art with it...I always like to make one for myself so I end up with six pages all with the same picture yet all completely unique. FUN FUN FUN.

Two more people are ready to send their GOT BLING SWAP pages to me....How exciting. The first pages I have gotten have been so great. Looks like the art work on this is gonna be fantastic...I am already planning my second swap....JOY......Diane

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

GOODBYE SEPTEMBER


" RED.....A color whose hue resembles that of blood or of the ruby or is that of the long-wave extreme of the visible spectrum. In the color range between a moderate orange and a russet or bay". ( Webster )The red rose will be gone but replaced with leaves of gold and bright orange, some red. Sound so poetic and looking so beautiful. Changing the color of the mornings. Shadows that are longer. And then the M E S S ......WORK, RAKE, BURN. Love fall.



Got another package yesterday for the CHUNKY BOOK SWAP-GOT BLING....hopefully the others will arrive in the next 15 days..........Who0Hoo.....Diane

Monday, July 28, 2008

Chunky Book with rings



Got my CHUNKY BOOK together...what fun, I love it. Want more!!! Guess I will have to see if someone at AFA will host another...Maybe I should host a blog swap?? Hummm I will have to give that some thought.

The She Sells was done by me yesterday. Love that image, she was also the star of Jewels from the Sea Swap.

I LOVE the page I got from Cardina Soap Chef http://www.atcsforall.com/forum/member.php?u=1767 She is over at AFA. It is a great page. It was just one of the six pages I got in the Chunky pages with Quotes....

The Last page is from Mireya http://www.flickr.com/photos/art4mysanity We did a one on one swap over at flickr. and you can find her at AFA too.

My little book has 6 pages from Amy's Swaphttp://www.atcsforall.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3601, 6 pages that I made and one from my friend Mireya...

The SWAP idea keeps popping into my head...I guess I will have to see how many people are interested first. Stay tuned. Stay Happy........Diane

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

I LOVE making 4" x 4" Book Pages


What can I say......I love making Chunky Book Pages. I hope I still love them after I punch two holes in them and ring them together. Some of them are fairly thick and I may not be able to use my Crop-a-dile punch and eyelet setter. I think if they look too thick I will just drill holes with my handy-dandy drill.
I have so much to do tomorrow...It will be nice to just drown myself in art and escape from the smoke and the fires for a little while.