Finding New things.

Evening Bags I have made, done with acrylic paints, Puff paints, glitter, beading and formed material.
The black and white flowers are white puff paints and Glitter, The orange flowers are stenciled over brushed on acrylics and enhanced with glitter edges. The purple was machined material over painted, and puffed, using a heat gun to make the textured material,enhanced with beading and silver ribbon. Click on all pics to see larger versions.

I have also done felted and material bags, and have at the moment a WIP on an evening bag made from machine embroidered pieces with a lot of hand sewing and beading .Will show these in the next post.

I have put these in here , as I was looking at another blog of ladies I know who do such fun work and saw one of their bags I loved. Hope they get to see my efforts.The blog I am refering to is ,one of my D's, Julia
Take a look ,a very talented gal as well as a very talented group of ladies from Melbourne.

Anothe blog of interest to me is with Amanda who is having a Christmas challenge with Giveaways. Interesting and Fun in making a different Christmas item each month til Nov.

I must catch up with her and try to put something on her blog from me. Go Amanda

Have a lovely,

Sunny

Peaceful day.

Love to all.

XXX

Elizabeth

Finding New things

Hi , well I am excelling myself.I have just done these two bracelets, from a Tutorial
by Cindy Lietz, from only last Friday. that I think is the quickest Ive ever done anything I have seen on the Tutorials.
Just got so interested in the method. So easy and quick to do , and lots of potential.
Take a look at the preview of this tutorial. Click on Cindy's name above,or from here
Faux Agates
I said I would be back with a whole new outlook once my eye Ops were done, and now I know I can. I feel like I have a renewed shiny life.
So Life is Good to me and I hope others are having such a happy time as me.
Had a hicup yesterday,tho.
Found a snake crawling on my laundry window. I've never ever seen one so near my home, and was so unerved by it .
I did get rid of it, sent it packing with a broom, so dont think I wll see it again, altho I am still very wary when I step outside.
Some people like snakes and all those crawly unwanted things but not me sad to say.
On my friend Rita's, blog recently she posted some pics of our last meeting. We had a lovely time and the first pic there is of one of the ladies Jey, she is so talented with a needle and her Scrapbooking is so proffesional you'd wonder how she does it all. There are also pics of myself, not good but passable .
We are so lucky to have so many multi talented and precious friends in our groups here , and I feel very blessed to know them all.
So I must away to keep up the good work now that I am refreshed and motivated
Finding New things to do .
Again have a lovely day
continuing on your talented
arty crafty way
love to all.

Elizabeth.

Finding new things

This is a necklace I made just before I had my eye operations.

from a tutorial I saw on Polymer clay web.

The pieces are placed on the base bead painted side down. When baked the colour shines thru the translucent giving a soft effect.

I'm Back

Wow have I been away from here for such a long time, so long over 2 mnths, that's long to me.

So much so that I wonder if any of my blogger friends are still out there and even a little bit interested in me or what and why I have been so long away.

If you read the last post, you would see that in April, I was going to start to have Cateracts taken off both my eyes.

All is now done and I am over the moon with the results.I can't believe what I see now.

Smartie me thought I could see before the Ops, and really wasn't interested in the Doctor talk, but now that the problems are all solved, I thank God for great eye Surgeons and such care they took of me.

I am blessed in the way all has come right for me.

Talk about Finding New things, it is as if the world has been cleaned and is all new and bright and shiny again, and I cant believe what I am seeing.

I dont need distance glasses anymore and have 20/20 vision, so all my eye troubles were really the Cateracts, which are now gone and made a new ME !!

Of course there is a funny side, while now I can see beautifully, I can also see all the spots and smudges around my house and am forever dabbing and cleaning them off . Soon tho I won't need to do that, as I am able to do more cleaning now as I go and am laughing at myself.

Wonder what my friends ever thought ,when they visited. I always thought I had a clean house. LOL I think I did have, but now it will be even cleaner and I like clean.

Of course I missed a lot of things for this last 2 months and mainly I missd my Polymer Clay Video Lessons with Cindy Lietz, so I have a lot to catch up with.

I could see with one eye before both were done but until they were both done and healed it was a bit hairy at times. specially when I tried to type things in here.

In a new concept Cindys gals are putting their work on their own Blogs or sites and linking them so they can be seen easier. I like this idea and it takes a load away from our tutor Cindy, so that she can concentrate on her beaut lessons.I will be putting my efforts here are soon as possible to catch up.

If you want to see some of the other students works go to the Cindy site and scroll thru it. It is amazing.

So now that at last I have alighted like my Butterfly friends, I'll take off and go do some Poly clay work and bring it back here even better that before.

Have a wonderful shiny new day

Flitting around in the Sunshine.

Its everywhere.

Like those floaty Butterflies.

All my love to you.

Have a wonderful day. I will

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Elizabeth

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Hi, it is a month no less since I found myself here.
Where has the time gone ? and why have I not felt the urge to be here?
I don't really have the answer to that last question.
I have been busy and lots to do and have been in to read the great blogs that I follow, but never actually made it to this page. But here I am .
Am I in need of Inspiration, yes maybe thats it.
A friend sent me a very good newsletter by Tory Hughes, a Polymer clay Artist and Teacher
Today's Territory: Inspiration. at http://toryhughes.com/
There are some great passages,dealing with how to motivate yourself to bring back that thing we call Inspiration. A great insight to help us all.
I have also been Finding New Things in the free tutorial range of Polymer clay.
has a good one on making your own Texture plates.
http://rivervalleydesign.blogspot.com/
I have done this before on my own but found this one interesting.
http://www.polymerclayweb.com/crackledinlay.asp
has a fascinating tutorial on a crackled inlay where the painted surface is put face down on the bead or other surface, and after baking is sanded off to find the colour.
Just amazing.
Also remember to go to my favorite Cindy Leitz site where a paid for, tutorial comes in to me, every Friday with a new and exciting way of learning about Polymer clay.
The Newsletter in there is an inspiration in itself with the students comments. You can tell where I have been spending my time away from this blog. Yes, there of course.
I also had the pleasure of meeting up with two of the bloggers I follow Amanda,and Lulubelle, ( in my followers as, Cloth doll lover, and Lulubelles Creative Studios) lovely sites,they are sisters and daughters of anothe blogger friend Rita, what a talented family, when they came to Mackay where I live, recently. What a pleasure to be able to actually meet up in person. don't you think that make the world seem smaller.
This is the only blog I will be able to do for sometime, as I will be going away to see my Daughter and Gran kids for 2 weeks and then when I come back will be going into the unknown world of having my Cateracts done in April and May. I will of course be twice as prolifiic after all that and have lots more to see and say.
Keep blogging and have
Wonderful days filled with Inspiration
and great work.
I am looking forward to returning with greater eyesight and bursting with new ideas.
Elizabeth XXX

Finding New things

Hi these are all pic of the Nature Resort ,my D and G/D and I went to before Xmas 09.
Lovely walks, Kangaroos sitting by the paths, and the beach right the front of the Motel units.Ullyssis butterflies flying around in th sun, like the one at the top of this post. (See in a former post also)
It is lovely to look back at. Click for larger view.
It is only about 45mins from home.
love
E XXX

Finding New Things

Hi, just so you can see I have been working and not shirking while I havent been here
That's not to say I should have been doing more.
The first lefthand pic,(click for better view) is a mix of all the things I have made in preparation of my Cindy lessons, plus at the top a few square canes I have done recently. Maybe make earings from these canes.
The butterflies are just medalions, made with squished Torn Water colour clay. I might wire these
The middle things in the first frame are of Faux bone, from Cindys lesson on Faux Bone. I like this, and intend to do more
The small round and small cuts of chips, in the same first frame, pearlex covered pieces are to use in the embellishments in the Inlay pendants that Cindy taught us.
The middle pic is not of the Paper I made from a Beryl Talyor DVD(it has moved as it was published, so reverse next two pics, and you will understand) I was lucky enough to see on our Doll Group day . One of our very talented ladies had sent away for the DVD, It is of Blending paper, fabric, and embellishments.
This is really my first love, paint and altering paper and fabric. Like ATC's and Fabric post cards.
The first piece on the left is a calico(muslin to some) painted with Lumiere paints and embossing powder and heat gunned to give a tex surface. The one on the right in reversed middle pic is done same way but with watered down Acrylic, and a small amout of black puff paint, again heat gunned to bring up the puff paint. not much on as using from an old bottle ,next time will have a better puff paint bottle.
Ah!! the pic at the bottom is something I have devised. We are about to make
Faux Opal with polymer clay so,not having any of the right glitter for the inclusion
Improvisation needed here.
I have Pinata inked, silver mettalic cellophane, in the colours I wanted, and am cutting them up into vey small confetti like pieces. time and patience needed here, but I'll get there. The top pic is of the conffetilike cut pieces of mettalic cello.
Has anyone ever done it like this?. I dont know?
Those Pinata inks are just amazing. They are like the Adirondak inks, work well on anything metal like, so why not the mettalic cello
So you see I am having fun all round.
I can Soar away here all on my own and reach the achievements I aim at.

Wonderful

Have a lovely day whatever your passion is today.
Love
EXXXX

Finding New things

Hi all, well today is March 1st, at least to me, so I thought I had better start the month off right and be here. This is the start of Autumn today here (Fall ) to some others.Our beautiful Summer is almost over.

We still will have very hot and humid weather til end of April, and so far this season have not seen anything of our Cyclone season, altho have had so much rain, enough to break the bank, but luckily no flooding. Do you remember 2 years ago we were flooded out? Anything other than sprinkles now brings us all out in a frenzy of, no not again. We here are all of the thought, it was a once in a lifetime experience and of course now know what to do if it was to pop up again.

We had been warned about flooding, a few times this season, so much so last week , I put as much as I could up off the floor in my craft room, because that day we had a severe flood warning as it had been raining for days. It did not arrive and needless to say things got left where they were for the rest of the week. Oh that craft room will you ever stay tidy?!! Even canceled going out as thought streams might get flooded and I wouldnt get back. But again all's well there at the moment.

The pic above it of Kaleidoscope canes I have just learnt through my Cindy Videos. Not as precise as I would like, but now that I have the formula I can improve

As they say there is always room for improvement, and when I take something on I feel that and know I am going to improve. Practise makes perfect as you know, and of course were there's a will there's a way comes into it too. So thats me, with my try try again attitude.

Yes Attitude, I heard today some one said, Attitude with Grattitude.

That sayings probably been around for a long time, but has just sunk into my sphere of comprehension, Ho Hum for some of us. I looked up the word Attitude in my very small not every word in it, dictionary,, and found it can mean a lot of different things.

1 A way of thinking and behaving.

2 Posture of the body

3 Informal hostile manner.

Thats a nice saying though, for it says, be grateful for your attitude.

Now some people's attitude does not do them justice, and they fall by the wayside in their hostile manner, so step it up, get a better attitude and be grateful for all the nice things around you. Have a great attitude and you will find everything around you falls into place and you will be happier. Little things won't seem to mean so much, but yet other things will be nicer

Mmm there I go again.

I see so many people who cant let things go ,when they really shouldnt have these things crowding the brain.

At least here with all these talented and creative people in these blogs we dont get time to dwell on the negatives, at least I dont.

Life's hard but it's meant to try

us.

Making us better characters

for the next life

There's another thing,why are we here?, well I think it is to learn lessons to help us in our next life.

Wonder what I will be in my next life and what was I in my last?!!.

According to the lessons I have learnt in this one, I must have been under a stone in my last life LOL!!!, so now when, or if I have another life to go to, I will have all this great knowledge to take with me. I sure will know about Kaleidoscope Canes by then LOL.

Just get above it and lift your head and smile

and as I say, Soar with the butterflies.

Much love and you are all, always in my thoughts

XXX

Elizabeth