Try it on Tuesday - Neat & Tidy

 Good morning all my creative souls! Today we have an awesome challenge over at

 Try it on Tuesday

"Neat & Tidy"

This is something that is hard for me, as I love to art journal and get messy... so I thought.. what a great way to get my little Zentangle book out and play! The repeated shapes makes this as "Neat & Tidy" as I can get! LOL!!!

I do hope you will join us for this bi-weekly challenge!!! And do check out what our awesome Design Team has made for your inspiration!

Happy Creating!

((HUGS))

Helen

TIOT Exciting News!

I have some amazing news!!!!!! 

I am so thrilled to have been asked to be on this amazing

 Design Team at Try It On Tuesday!

Today is my first post, so be patient with me! LOL! 

This weeks prompt is "Home Sweet Home/Where would you like to live"!

Well... this was an easy one... I want to live on a beach somewhere warm, and open the doors, look at the sea and art all day long! How happy I would be! 

Instead, I am in Ontario, in the snow and cold and just dreaming! One day it will happen!

I even took the photo of my art journal piece on the snow bank out the front door! LOL!

I used distress inks for the background, some molding paste through a word stencil, a bird stamp and some actual sea grass I picked in Florida last year! (shh.. don't tell anyone!).

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my very first design team post for Try it on Tuesday!

I hope you will join me and all the team to join us!

((HUGS))

Helen

Go Green and/or Recycle

Good morning! The girls over at Try it on Tuesday challenge blog have an awesome challenge for the next couple weeks .. Go Green and/or Recycle something!  

I decided to do both! I used an old iPhone that my son had that was broken and lots of green!!

I love recycling old computer parts for art bases, so why not an old iphone! First I found some bits and bobs in my stash... some are new, some are recycled as well...

Then after adhering them down to the iphone using gel medium, I painted it all with black gesso...

Next step was to use some green ink sprays and spray all over.

Final step was to use a selection of metal waxes to highlight the areas that are raised. (forgot to photograph this step!).

Just played until I was happy with the finished product...

I hope you can Go Green and Recycle this week!

Thanks for taking a peek!

((HUGS))

Helen

TIOT - White Space or Colorful Grunge

Hi everyone! The challenge over at Try it on Tuesday challenge blog is to use white space or colorful grunge! So for the challenge I decided to do white space! (Love my white space!). 

I made a card using white space and only a die and a few bits of paper.....

And I also made an art journal spread in my travellers notebook....

I am also using this as my submission to TioT DT application!

I do hope you enjoy and have a fantastic day!!

((HUGS))

Helen