Time

 Time.
  It was my son's 21st birthday yesterday.... Can't believe where the time has gone!

After painting a canvas, adding texture and making it a bit rusty looking. I like old!

found a swirl image in my files, I printed onto image transfer paper. All you need is an iron and it works a treat, so easy to do.

I always go into the clock shop in the town where i live, its facinating i like to look at all of the old clocks....very sad life I have.lol   I.ve got to know the chap that owns the shop and he now saves me all of the clock/watch parts that are of no use to him. These are some of the stash I've had off him. Aren't the great.

And of course some Tim Holtz bits, noboby can live with out those. You can just make out the background on this photo.

The tag was coloured with DI inks, arter dismanteling an old clock and ripping out the face sounds easier than it was. I stamped a tree image onto it.  The text at the bottom reads.....

To lie sometimes on the grass

under trees on a summers day,

listening to the murmur of the water,

or watching the clouds float across the sky,

is by no means a waste of time.

 from the darkroom door set.

Wax Works

Yesterday after i posted the pictures I had another play around with this one.  I made some metal flowers and put some lace behind and finally popped it in a frame.   I really pleased with the result.

A close up of the flowers.

Wax Works

Wax Works...

I've been playing around with bees wax for the past few weeks and thought I'd share them with you.

I started using tissue paper and layering it over a painted canvas, added some stamping. I was not very happy with the end result but couldn't quite put my finger on what it was that I didn't like. After a week of it sitting on my shelf looking at me, it was the colours I didn't like...> out came the alcohol inks and beads, after a bit of playing around I much preferred it now...

This is a close up of some of the details, I stamped into the wax as it was setting.

I was please you can still see the stamping .

I only used small amounts of wax on this card to add texture.

The gold wax mixed beautifully with the bees wax, the way it swirled around gave a nice effect.

I attached two small canvas together with a hinge, added texture and painted them.  I then went rooting around all my bits and bobs, too see what else worked with the wax. Almost anything does!

Finally an old favourite that I've used many times. The wax gave it a nice vintage look to it.