Croco scrumptious!!!

Helloooooooooooooo :D
I'm still in love with my Croco paint :D
If you want to see what I did with it for Bubbly Scrumptious head over HERE:D
and heres a little sneaky peek to get you on your way .....
Can you tell what it is????
LOL :D

Hugs'n'snogs
J xx

Tims dimensional technique

I had a play with the technique I spotted on Tims blog the other day. If you would like to see how I made this please visit the Bubbly Scrumptious blog to see my post :D
I had such fun with it I didn't stop there, and can see so many ways to use this effectively :D
Time flies....
Family Values....
.And if your not sure how you could use this on your card making or scrabooking I made this tag with scrap book paper :D - although stick to the thinner stuff as heavy card/paper won't manipulate properly ;-)

Now can you picture the amazing embellies you could make?? or how about a title???
Please link back and show me what you make :D


Wwoooppppise!!! I haven't been back! well the winner of my Bubbly Scrumptious Birdhouse after the name was pulled from the hat was................................................drumrollllllll.................................
Carmen and Craig :D
Thank you to everyone who has supprted me and Hospice at Home :D

Please email me at julie.dandy@gmail.com with your address so that I can send it to you :D

Hugs'n'snogs,
J xx

A taste for the finer things in life....

Jennys eggs have hatched and left the nest so she decided on some retail therapy to ease the pain :D

















Her new pad is my little baby ben I bought off ebay :D
word of caution if you are also buying for the inards some have plastic components and a cardboard face :(
I managed one of each LOL :D





































I used Makins clay again for Jenny (the same process as for Zuzus necklace)and the moulded flowers around the clock face (coloured with antique gold perfect pearls and rock candy stickles) and cut the metal clock face so that it fit in to the back of the casing.
Lined the sides with patterned paper and added a nest and loads of bling :D

Hope you like my little altered project as much as me and Jenny :D
Hugs'n'snogs
J xx

Time to fly???

I am taking part in a pocket watch swap on zuzus altered art forum and this is what Zuzu herself has just received from me :D

I'm really pleased with this - despite a moment of panic last night when I thought she might not like it LOL :D
In fact so much I am going to make myself one just like it :D





My inspiration started when I bought these litle nests from ebay that had little plastic eggs inside - they looked too big to me so I took them out and made my own from white Makins clay. When it was dry I coloured them with broken china distress ink, vintage photo distress stickles and a spritzed the whole thing with copper cosmic shimmer mist.

I then stamped " imagination is more important than knowledge" on to a piece of photo canvas, frayed the edges and coloured with broken china and frayed burlap distress ink.
Well I tell a lie really because I first tried to stamp directly on to the watch but kept getting it wrong so I gave up and did it this way LOL :D
I inked the metal with a mix of black soot and ginger alcohol ink,then distress stickles in broken china and vintage photo,
I glued the canvas on with glossy accents and gave it all a thin layer smeared on with my finger to seal it all.
Everything got a quick spritz of the cosmic shimmer :D

This is little Jenny wren :D She is made from brown makins clay in a sugarcraft push mould I bought from ebay - cute huh :D
I stipled it with black and ginger alcohol ink and then antique gold perfect pearls brushed lightly over.
I highlighted the eye and the beek with sepia accents.
I them smeared on a little bit of the broken china distress stickles to give her a pretty glimmer :D She is sitting on a branch which was part of a necklace I bought from an ebay seller in china called skorbee - you may remember the birdcage pendant I bought last year? well this was from the same place :D
I distressed it with inks, distress powders in vintage photo and scattered straw and I think I threw in some cosmic shimmer and stickles for good measure LOL
Its embellished with crystal type drops from a necklace bought from peacocks and little flowers again from ebay.

The lobster claw clasp is from ...... guess......I dare you LOL - EBAY!!!! LOL

I put the watch on the clasp so that if Zuzu wanted to wear it without the watch she could because little Jenny sitting on the bench looks quite pretty without her babies :D

I was really excited when I had finished and had to share the pics with a few peeps to control it much to Zuzu despair when I wouldn't show her LMAO
But judging by here reaction I think it was worth the wait and hopefully won't get altered in to a future project LMAO :D

Hugs'n'tweety snogs,
J xx

Just a quick one....

to share my altered ipod touch cover :D

I would recommend giving the cover a coat of gesso to start with.
I didn't and when I used my distress inks they wiped off really easily.
So I used distress inks , pearl acrylic paint dabber, distress and rock candy stickles, distress embossing powder, BG Porcelain stamps and TH stamps with black archival ink and loads of Glossy accents to cover it all




























Also another couple of bits of jewellery :D











Hugs'n'snogs,
J xx

How curious...

I took part in an Alice themed altered item swap with two of my lovely talentedfriends Moira and Carol, who are really to blame for all of my altered work LOL
I stupidly forgot to take pics of my work before I sent it so have to impose on them to be kind and send me piccys :D


Here's the gorgeous nicho Moira sent me :D













And here's the beautiful necklace Carol made me :D









In return I sent Carol this pin with an altered spoon and charms
















And I altered a mirror for Moira, which I will post when I get a piccy :D

Hugs'n'wonderful snogs,
J xx

Steampunk kilt pin

This has a working watch attached to a chain with a lobster claw clasp so that you can unclip to read the time :D
It also has watch parts, various charms and a pen nib.

Hugs'n'snogs,
J xx

edited to add I've sold this in ten minutes!!!! LOL

Altered serving spoon pendant

I got this fabby serving spoon from a charity shop and bashed away atit to flatten it out - I had to get hubbys big hammer out for this one though - my little making memories one was just getting laughed at LOL :D

It then took me about a week to drill the holes with my little archemides drill ( I NEED a Dremel LOL) anda few blisters along the way :(

I used a vintage pic from Art creations Friday challenge blog printed on to canvas and then inked with TH distress inks.
I was going to use my metal punches again but it wasn't working well as the spoon was just too hard!!!

I added instead pieces of vintage music score and a dictionary definition - Dream that had also been inked.
Added lace, buttons, metal embellies, distress stickles, Sepia accents and glossy accents and dangley charms :D

This is a really large piece approx 5 !/4" fromthe top of the bale tothe bottom of the rose and 2 1/4" accross

And because its altered metal in can also enter it for this months Alter it challenge - Tin pan Ally :D

Thanks for all of your support on here and facebook with my new venture :D
I can't believe I have 23 members already :D

This is for sale on ebay - item number 130391791131

Hugs,'n'altered snogs,
J xx

Can you guess....

what this started life as????










Well, long before it was bashed with my hammer,drilled and inked it used to be a spoon!!!!
I have to tell you its very therapeutic bashing the life out of metal LOL :D


I stamped the word "HOPE" with my metal punches,inked it,stamped it, added some distress embossing powders and distress stickles, then gave it a couple of coats of utee :D
Added a few embellies and Bobs your uncle :D



Wish I had bought the other set of spoons from the carboot yesterday now LOL :D

I will certainly be stalking the charity shops now LOL

Hugs'n'shiney snogs,
Julie xx

Altered pocket watch

This is a pocket watch Ibought from Jeanette at Vintage Supply Co and took apart.
Quite a fun process and worth remembering there is a particulaly boingey spring in there that catapults the contents accross the room as I discovered the hard way LOL :D

I decided to use the casing and make a pendant using a pic of my Great Aunt Molly (or Mary Ellen to be precise) printed on canvas.



I cut a piece of Prima Pastiche as the baselayer then added lace,springs, cogs, watch hands and a couple of pretty embellies.
The added a watch face over the photo.
I then re-assembled the watch casing - have to say I love it :D

I'm going to add this to the Alter it challenge blog as Mays theme is Tin Pan ally - altered metal items :D

Hugs'n'altered snogs,
Jxx

New Challenge blog for alterers :D

Alter It Monthly is a new Challenge blog. We know there are a few out there, but many are closing, many are very limiting by insisting on a certain size shape or item and most only give you a week to get your project in. If you are like us, you sometimes like to do a large project over the space of a couple of weeks, so a weekly challenge isn't suitable.
And sometimes its difficult to decide on a project. "what will I make?" you think as you stare at a box full of items waiting to be altered. Having a challenge site suggest an item or a theme might be all you need to get you moving.

So here is a MONTHLY challenge, aimed at altered art enthusiasts of all standards. It doesn't matter if only two people take part in a month, it will be worth seeing your work. if you don't have time to join but have a previous project you would like to share then please do. It will get us all blog visiting and sharing ideas.

and to kick us off, April's theme is Altered matchboxes... To take part simply leave a comment with a link to your matchbox, wherever it is.. (for example a blog or a flickr account... )