Inspiration

Hello everyone...Genny here with a little inspiration. I had bought myself a notebook to keep track of my bills and the whole thought was so depressing that I just had to decorate it. I began by covering the front of the journal with a piece of black card and stencilled red bubbles all over it.I had some chipboard letters which spelled bills and painted them red with acrylic and then glued them to the edge.I then added some red glitter rope to the left hand side. I then platted some more of the rope to make a bookmark. I attached it to the metal binding and used a red fabric skull to the bottom. I finally added this fabulous piece of artwork..the voodoo king from SLS. I coloured him with my promarkers, cut him out and glued him in place. He look exactly like I feel whenever I have to pay a bill...lol. I am also going to cover the whole front with a piece of adhesive acetate..so that it will be a wipe clean book. I hope that you all like it and will think about covering your own notebooks. So until next time..take care and happy crafting.

Inspiration Post.....Genny

 Hello everyone...Genny here. For my inspiration post today. I decided to work with this skull again. I just love them and am always finding different ways to use them. For the one above, I coloured it with my promarkers. I then used it to make a feature on a new sign for my cottage. I had a piece of slate and painted orange flowers around the edge and placed this skull in the bottom left corner. I then covered the whole lot with some exterior Modge Podge several times. It now sits outside my cottage and has created quite a stir. I think that there may be several cottages with a candy skull very soon..lol.

I was intending to stop there but then I decided ton see if it was possible to papercut the same skull...so I did. I took the black and white image and cut out lots of the plain paper. I was also careful to leave a small white area around the whole skull to give it some definition after cutting so much out. I then glued the papercut onto a pink,lilac and blue background paper which I had made using my H2Os. I finally mounted the whole thing onto a piece of black.

There is no doubt that I will be finding other ways to use these skulls. I am aiming to make a panel to decorate my front door and that may well be a collection of skulls. I will share it with you all as soon as I've finished it.

I hope that you will come and join in the new challenge that is due to begin here on the blog tomorrow. The rest of the team has created some wonderful makes. so I hope that you will pop over and join in the fun.So until next time..take care and happy crafting.

Inspiration Post

Hello everyone...Genny here with my inspiration post. For today's make, I chose to work with this fabulous image of the girl and her cat. For those of you that know me it comes as no surprise that I would choose this..I suppose I am officially a crazy cat lady..lol. As with all my inspiration posts, I like to give a little insight to why I have created what I have. Well for this one came about as I was fussing , Raven, one of my cats. I was sat there stroking her and my mind was wandering remembering past times and coming up with ideas for the future. And that was where I began. I liked the idea of ideas and dreams popping around me..so there was the background..I used a bubble stencil with my distress inks and cut out various circles to hold my thoughts. The girl and the cat seemed to be the perfect focal point.

I hope that you will pop over to the SLS Lines shop and have a browse through all the amazing designs. And don't forget that a new challenge is due to begin tomorrow..the rest of the team have created some fabulous makes..so please be sure to take a look at all those. I so love seeing all the wonderful makes that people create. So until next time..take care and happy crafting.

Inspiration Post

Hello everyone...Genny here. I always try to include my thought process, when sharing my inspiration..and todays is rather strange. As you know I do have rather a passion for skulls...and my house stands testament to that fact..lol. Well as I was working on these skulls and thought to myself that these would look great outside..something a little different..so that is where they are going to live. They are going on the outside of the door to my studio.I have found a product that allows your artwork to go outside without being damaged..so that's my plan. I have coloured these skulls with my promarkers and have used different colourways on both. These will be joined by the skull from a previous inspiration post and create a panel on the door. When I've completed the door I will share it with you.

I have so enjoyed seeing your creations in the challenges and I hope that you will enter the new challenge that is going to start tomorrow. I have seen the other creations made by the rest of the design team and they are all fabulous...I hope that you will pop over tomorrow and check them out. As always all designs are available from the SLS shop. So until next time...take care and happy crafting.