Postcard Challenge 2012

Week 13. Turkey.

How have you done this week? I am looking forward to seeing what you have come up with for this week's prompt.

After reading up a little on Turkey I found that the Trojan wars were fought there. So I collaged some images of an old map, some soldiers and the Trojan horse.

I then discovered that when Julius Caesar was at war with the city of Zela ( now known as Zile in Turkey) he is reported to have said..

Veni.Vidi,Vici...I came, I saw, I conquered.

So this is my card, using that phrase, along with the Turkish flag....however I changed it up just a little hahaha

Here is the card on the page...I will attach it with clear photo corners.

and here is the back of my card...how will Charlie find the combination number?

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Please only link up your blog if you are taking part in the Postcard Challenge.

circle journal

It's that time again, this month I was making a page for Lea, she loves pink, flowers and embellishments...so it just had to be fluffy flamingos.

I started by cutting a heart from book pages, this was cut in half and backed onto card. I drew the flamingos onto the book print.

I then coloured them in using prisma pencils, with shimmerz paint on the background.

I added texture paste and paint to the backs.

Then I added some fluff to the flamingos with marabu feathers in pale pink, dark pink and white..

Next I worked on the page, painting, spraying, stencilling, adding polyfilla thru stencils and more painting, plus some bejewelling...

doodling and bejewelling..

I printed out a flamingo poem and cut it into strips before sticking them onto the page..

Finally i embossed the edges of the flamingo heart and stuck it into the book using tabs at the sides..

Voila! all finished...

when the book closes the heart meets...

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Apologies, Blogger ate my scheduled post.

I only just checked and found it missing, so posting this from a bus...

Week 13...

This week we are off on a magic carpet tour of...

TURKEY

Looking forward to what you come up with.

Postcard Challenge 2012

week 12 Israel.

wow this week was hard huh?

I finally settled on a camel for my page..

For my card I looked to see what other animals were found in Israel. I discovered that in May 2008 the Hoopoe bird was chosen as the national bird. This choice was made to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the country, and was as a result of a survey of 155,000 citizens.

On the back of my card,we see Ren is still missing and charlie is following leads to find him..Is the whole organisation in peril, who is the mole selling names of agents, will Charlie find Ren in time?

HERE IS WHERE YOU LINK UP...add your name and blog link, then go visiting.

Postcard Challenge 2012

Here we are, Monday again. time for a new adventure.

Week 12...can you believe 12 weeks already, thank you so much to those of you still playing along.

Last week saw some fabulous cards, there was an abundance of beautiful tulips.

This week will be a long journey from The Netherlands, so make sure you visit the bathroom before we set of....ok!

This week we are off to...

ISRAEL


See you back here on Friday with your cards, have a great week. x

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week 11. The Netherlands

My laptop is still in the shop, but I am hoping to have it back on Tuesday. Apologies for these rubbish photos, but this pc won't recognise my camera for some reason, so i took them on my phone, emailed them to myself then downloaded them from my email..sheesh..I really miss my laptop.

So this is the page in my book..

The front of my card..

and the back..Ren is still missing, Charlie is following leads..

and the card on the page..

HERE IS WHERE YOU LINK UP.. add your name and blog link and go visiting...

I will visit as many as I can as soon as I have my laptop back.

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week 11.

Apologies for not visiting and leaving comments on your Canada pages. My laptop committed suicide and is in the shop, happened less than 10 mins after I made the blog post on Friday. I am hoping to hear from the shop on Weds, but no idea when I will get it back. I hope to visit some pages before this Friday.

So onto this week, where oh where shall we go?

Well it's back over the oceans to Europe, this week we are going to be purchasing some odd looking footwear and dancing in the streets of ...

The Netherlands...

See you back here (hopefully) on Friday.

Postcard Challenge 2012

here we are week 10..how did you all get on this week? I am guessing last week was a bit tough, we had less cards linked up last week than any other. I am hoping Canada inspired you all a bit more.

I admit, I was really stuck, even though there are any things to choose from about Canada, I just couldn't settle on anything. Then I found the art of Jon Todd, and I loved it. See his images ON GOOGLE IMAGES

So I kind of recreated one of his images, not easy to do small scale. I think his must look really good full size.
Here is my card..


I used acrylics, neos,scrapping paper and rub ons.

For the page I cut out a large maple leaf and painted it red, adding the names of Canadian territories and the capitals in white. I stuck that down and framed it with small punched out maple leaves.

here is the card on the page..

and finally the back of the card... Ren is still missing, so this week sees another card from Charlie...

THIS IS WHERE YOU LINK UP...



add your name and blog link and then visit each other. have a great week. See you on Monday for another country.

Circle Journal

A few weeks ago the lovely CLARE asked me to do a page in her journal. I didn't have time to work on it straight away, but last week I finally got started.

When I met Clare, she gave me some old paper that had building plans on it, so I started with that, by adding it to the journal pages.

I then added some ink and paint thru some sequin waste.

next I added a narrow page/flap in the middle, and drew a face on the left side.. and some hearts along the top.

I continued the hearts across the top of the other page, and added more to the face.

I then added some little flowers, and finished her wings..

On the back of the flap I added some doodling..

Next I added some ribbons to the edge of the flap and some text .

and finally some more text on the back of the flap and on the second page.

I really enjoyed working in this journal, thankyou Clare for asking me.

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week 10.

How much fun was Switzerland...lots of gorgeous scenery and chocolate.

Still plenty of time to link up, the mister linky will be there till Thursday.

See previous post for February's winner.

So where to this week...

this country has 6 times zones...yes really SIX..it has the longest street in the world, and the longest coastline...

it has a HUGE number of lakes...and the sexiest looking police uniforms..

it is of course ..

CANADA


See you back here on Friday, have a great week everybody.x

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End of February competition.

What a fabulous bunch of finalists. 

We had 41 votes...and with a total of 17 the winner is ...

LISA with her card from CUBA...

Well done to everybody.

Lisa, please get in touch with me here or on fb with your address so I can post your prize to you.

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Week 9 Switzerland..

Wow I almost didn't get this done had a busy week and a lot of backache, not helped at all by the Zumba class I did on Tuesday and the Rammstein gig I went to on Wednesday (see previous post for photos and videos)

Thursday was my day left to make the card, only my son decided to come home so I had tidying and sorting to do...all the best laid plans huh?...

I finally got it done, and while I knew exactly what I wanted to do, it ended up being a bit rushed, so not my favourite card so far at all.

When I was a kid, about 10- 11 yrs old, I went to stay with family friends each summer. In their house they had a collection of books that I fell in love with.

The Chalet School Books, by Eleanor Brent Dyer.

I never owned any, but read the ones they had there. A few years ago I decided to start collecting the books, and boy are they hard to find. There are around 60...I have about 14.

The Chalet School books were first based in Austria, then due to the war, the school moved to Guernsey and then to England After the war the school was relocated to Switzerland, and around half the books are based there.

So this is my card.. I sketched out the front of one of the books coloured it first with promarkers, added a little gesso then went over it with prisma pencils.

I collaged my page with red and white, to represent the flag. Easy peasy, just torn bits of patterned paper.

Then attached my card using clear plastic photo corners.

Back of the card..

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Rammstein

Last night I went to see Rammstein...OMG...bloody amazing.

I was stood just as the side of the stage, on the right, so had a pretty good view. I took 315 photos lol but those pesky boys moved around so much, there were a lot of blurry ones. After deleting LOTS I still have 167 and 5 videos.

See the foam canon in the last photo, that came right over me, I was covered in foam...so was my camera, I had to clean it up quick with my tshirt..Excellent band, not just music, but a whole 'show'. Well worth the money.