Tuesday Taggers challenge

This weeks challenge over at Tuesday Tagger's is Taste of the Orient. For this challenge and my own challenge to do something arty every day in November I decided to re cover a ring bound journal that I didn't like how I had decorated it. The front cover is silk sticky backed paper, I think it is DCWV but i'm not sure it wasn't with the original packaging and the back is done with matching normal paper from the same set. The inside covers also done with paper from the set. Feels lovely and looks pretty cool but the camera hasn't picked up the colours right, maybe because today was just grey all day outside!!

Tuesday Taggers & Compendium of Curiosities Challenges

Firstly sorry for the bad picture, my PC is in the shop for repair so I am on our ''spare'' one which is Jurassic and slow and ugh so I have no ability to dress up the picture or even straighten it ( I will replace the piccy when I get my PC back).

So I am entering this canvass into 2 challenges, firstly the Compendium of Curiosities which is grunge flowers and Secondly Tuesday Taggers which is Books. This has been made by request as a 2nd wedding anniversary present for the husband to give to the wife.

Items used: Dyan's spray inks and pearl powder from Art from the Heart, Distress ink, Beads from stash, Grunge paper, book page, Tims birdcage and tattered florals die, Tim's stamps.

Macabre Monday & Tuesday Taggers Challenges

I usually upload Tuesday Taggers entry's on my other blog, Horner's Corner but today I am combining it with the Macabre Monday challenge so I am uploading it here.

So the Tuesday Taggers challenge is to recycle something, so I took this tin that had in it a very tiny amount of Prima flowers (like 10) and a 2inch thick piece of foam at the bottom that was hidden by the flowers so it looked full, yes you could say im abit bitter about that considering the extortionate price of the thing (like 10 quid!!). Anyhow I have been loathed to throw it away so I have decided to recycle it and turn it into a nice tin to hold all my metal charms that are floating in the bottom of a drawer and I can never find when I want them.

So picture above is the before picture, now onto the Macabre Monday part of the challenge, Ode to the Bruise. Which is to use the colours black, purple, yellow and teal, just like a bruise which I have a massive one on my foot from dropping a stone from a dry stone wall on it but thats another story. So here is what I did. Well gesso'd the interior of the tin, let dry, gesso'd again, let dry. Randomly painted with some cheapo paints purple, teal and yellow, let dry. Painted a nice layer of Blonde Moments crackle glaze available at Art from the Heart, let dry. Painted over with not so cheap black paint and it started to crack instantly, I must say I love watching this happen, let it dry. Spray varnished inside, let dry and lastly spray varnished again in case I missed any of it and let it dry, do you see the recurring theme here!! So I got some fabby ribbon from my monthly Crafty Feeling bloom kit and wrapped that around the outside, thats one piece of ribbon it comes half organza half satin and then added the little dude to the top because I still want to see inside, the gems were already on it and they are stuck on really good, maybe that's why the tin was so expensive!!

Hope you like it and if you see a tin of Prima flowers like this, you know what to do.... hide them so no other sucker can buy them and get ripped off too!!