So, I'm editing this to go along with the
What's on Your Workspace Wednesday, I've wanted to participate for awhile, but since I haven't been creating for awhile, I didn't have anything to show, well, this week I do (maybe I just want a lot of comments).
I signed up for a couple swaps in a yahoo group, and I've been putting them off because "they're not due until August", I realized the other day, August is less than a week away YIKES!
One of the swaps I'm signed up for is a charm necklace swap, I've done 3 charm swaps already: a couple bracelets and a chipboard house with charms dangling off the bottom. I was thinking I had to make 26 charms for this swap, which is a lot of charms if you think about it. I was reading the rules today and realized it was only 15, that was a huge sigh of relief. I haven't exactly decided what I'm doing yet, but here are my bases:
They are pieces of faux shell that I covered with a mossy colored tissue paper. They had 2 holes in them, they were called spacers. I had started by covering only one hole up, but that looked stupid, so I went back and covered everything both sides with the tissue paper. I'm thinking about layering something else (don't know what) and then adding a varnish to the top of it.
The next swap I signed up for is a chipboard bird book swap. We were sent a book with cover and 5 pages, I have to decorate the 5 pages and send them back, so then I have my own cover with 5 pages from other people. Here's what I have so far:
I covered the pages with old book pages and then sprayed them with my homemade glimmer mists of gold and pink. I did discover while ripping off the excess paper, that the pearl ex powders that I mixed with water to make my sprays come off on my hands, so I'll have to put some modge podge over the top when I'm done. The back side has been painted with a very light green. I'm thinking of stamping some kind of image, but wonder if that will be too busy with the text.
And my last project, is something I just started for fun. Here it is:
It's a tree. I took a 12x12 canvas board, painted it black and then added the same mossy colored tissue paper as on the charms above and then painted it with my new water colors. I don't paint very well, but trees are pretty easy. I don't know what's coming next with this project, but it may be put on the back burner while I finish my swaps, I have about 2 weeks to finish them.
Any suggestions for my projects?
I really love the orange one below, the elephant is from a set of earrings I bought at a garage sale this summer.
If you have no idea what WOYWW is, head on over to Julia's blog, to snoop around other people's desks.
I thought a swirly would look nice about where the wing would be, only I didn't have a scrolly stamp, I did, however have a chipboard swirl, which I traced around in black and then colored the shape in in brown. You can't see it, but you can still see the words through the brown, and it's a little sparkly due to being colored over the 'glimmer' mist. I also added a piece of lace for the tail, and a very light gem for the eye.
I also mod podged over the flat parts, so the brown ink kinda spread out over the bird, and you can't quite see the sparkly mist anymore. Here's a close-up (which is also blurry). The back is painted green and has the Yahoo! group name, swap name, hostess name, my name and date. I thought they turned out rather well.
I have been trying to get a shift off at work, and this is my thank you card to my co-worker for filling my shift.
For the other side I chose a bunch of nice words. If you can't read them here they are: bravely, confess, confidence, duty, estates, feel, proprietor, purchase, question, relieved, smile, sold, trumpery, value, wages. I tried to find money words because of the problems on the first side.
So that's what I ended up with, I hope the other ladies in the swap like them. 
This is a plastic storage container with 4 drawers that I plan to use for storage, got it for $1.00
Brads, and stickers. The top brads were $.50, the silver colored ones have gems on the heads of them, got them for $.10, the purple ones were $.10, and the little smiley face stickers were $.10
A couple of Christmas cross stitch patterns for $.25 each. I don't know who will be receiving them, but I've found cross stitch is fun to do while watching TV, and maybe (no guarantees) I can get some presents done early.
The full picture of my finds. The background is a wool sweater I bought for my friend, Loretta, who's been looking for wool sweaters to felt, found it for $.50. The leafy garland, I bought to pick off the leaves and make something fall-y out of, found that for $.10 The cross stitch patterns and brads are above.
The next swap I signed up for is a chipboard bird book swap. We were sent a book with cover and 5 pages, I have to decorate the 5 pages and send them back, so then I have my own cover with 5 pages from other people. Here's what I have so far:
And my last project, is something I just started for fun. Here it is:
Any suggestions for my projects?
A box of four light blue Christmas ornaments, two tins full of things, a small painted picture in frame, an old book, a tiny birdhouse, a set of 'turqouise' jewelry (2 clip on earrings and a pin), a butterfly pin, a small plastic box and two tiny jugs.
Here's the inside of that book.
A close-up on the tinier items, and what's in one of the tins. There's buttons, minitiature animals and some beads.
Also, a bag of jewelry misc, there's pins, watchbands, and other stuff.
Also, some of the buttons in this jar.
