My little artist and her adventures with Sculpey...

Yesterday Georgia and I had such fun playing with sculpey :)

She wanted me to share with you what she made.
It's a little 'Sun Art Doll'
called 'Sunny' :)
This is the new mould I bought this week, and this lovely large box of sculpey...
Georgia and I will be having a lovely time playing with it over the next couple of weeks.
It's such a lovely craft for both children & adults.
I've so many plans for this face mould, even as I'm sitting here now typing away I'm thinking up more ideas.... & I'm keen to use some of my rubber stamps with the sculpey also...

Inspire - an art doll....

I've had some Beautiful pieces in my Design Team kit from

The Stamping Queen

I particularly love this Printed Acetate by Collections

and I really wanted to create an art doll with it.

Well her she is

~ Inspire ~

I placed the acetate over the top of a 'raw' chipboard dress form and sewed it in place.

the Wooden Flourish is glued to the back and then sandwiched between the front dress form and another which gives this piece a lovely substantial feel.

here's a little tip for you when sewing Acetate onto chipboard ~
take a piece of scrap paper, using double sided tape tape your piece of chipboard to the scrap of paper, cut your acetate piece a little larger than your chipboard shape (my shape was the manican) Place your Acetate over the top of the Chipboard shape and tape the edges of the acetate (remember you cut it larger than the chipboard shape) to the scrap paper.
this holds everything firmly and stops it from slipping while you sew.
Once you have sewn your acetate to the chipboard shape, you can simply remove the excess scrap paper & acetate from the edges.
If you'd like to see the other pieces created by
The Stamping Queen Design Team
we'd love you to check out our blog :)
TSQ Design Team Blog

Darkroom Door Pt.4

This is a peek at my last piece I have created for

Darkroom Door

All of the pictures and full instructions can be found at

Darkroom Door Pt. 4

Thank you so much Rachel for inviting me to be a Guest Artist at

Darkroom Door
It's been so much fun :)

and thank you to everyone for your lovely comments :)

Flight 32

Flight 32

is

My latest Art Doll

she was a 'hoot' to make, if you've not made an Art Doll yet,

I would really encourage you to make one, they are sooooooo much fun :)

I really love Assemblage art, I love taking the things that have been long discarded like this 50 year old pen nib, or the old worn builders ruler that has knocked about in a tool box for many years long since replaced by a new retractable metal one, the Vintage Optical Testing lens that was used for testing Eyes, Brass Military Wings that never saw service but were packed away with other Army Surplus for years, and there is an WW2 Badge that has been kept for years in a button jar.....

They each mean nothing to the other separately, but together look what they have made, a little piece of Art from my Heart

The face on 'flight 32' is a hand carved bone bead

and the crown is a Brass Stamping that I embossed with Embossing powder.

Hope you have a Delightful Week :)

Quirky Mummy Art Doll no.3

This is Quirky Mummy

and she was a whole lot of fun to make

See her little tiara.....

that came out of the treasure box from Ruth (see the post below)

it is an old 'shoe clip'

This is my favourite bit....

I really love these old Arcade 'for amusement only' tokens, it's attached to an old clock cog

Alrighty then, these are the bits and bobs I've used to make Quirky Mummy

few bits from TSQ
they are the Collections Chipboard Manican body, Collections words, Collections Antique Photograph (for the face), Paper Artsy Minis (MN22)Numbers stamp (for the body)

bits out of my stash include -Ruths beautiful old shoe clip, old Mother of pearl cufflink, old tin button, jewelry findings, clock hand, two silver coloured key tags (wings), optical lens, cog, arcade token, key, chain, beadcaps (boobies), nuts out of the old clock I pulled apart, screw type brad, and liquid nails glue.

Have a Fabby Week everyone :)

ok...so I'm hooked on Art Dolls now....

Well after showing my little miss my first Art Doll (see the post below)

She Declared that she loved them!!!

and would really like one

so I got to work on a little one for her this morning...

Lots of bits and pieces all stuck together :)

This is my kinda art!!!

I used some bits from

The Stamping Queen - they are the German Scrap Wings, Collections Manican body, Collections words, and that Fabulous little 'door knocker' in the centre of the body...

all the other bits are either from my jewelry making stash or from my scrapbooking stash.

These little dolls are great for using up 'odd' little bits.

Can you see the Tiny little locket for a foot, it's only 1cm in diam.
So I think my little miss will be pleased with this little dolly :)

a little bit of Vintage Art :)

This morning I had an order from

The Stamping Queen

I got the Somerset Studio Mag, which I've only had a chance to quickly look at, Fabby to see all of those Gorgeous Blog friends names in there :)

and some of these cute little Collections manican bodies, and German Scrap Wings

and ofcourse I couldn't wait to play, so I didn't ;)

And I made my VERY FIRST REAL ART DOLL - What a Buzz!!!!

I acutally cut my 'Sumerset Studio' Mag....can you believe that????

naughty aren't I, but I cut this face out of the paperwhimsy add

so I've used a whole heap of little bits and pieces, that lovely jewelry finding I've used for the skirt comes from 'brass bouquet' , most of the other bits are just little pieces I've gathered, I love those optical testing lenses I've used for the head, and that clip on the top- it's an old 'braces' clip that came out of my Nans Button jar :), the keys are from a bunch my dad gave me
ok...off to put this in The Stamping Queen Gallery

have a Happy Arty Day :)