Car Boot Sunday!

Today I went to the car boot sale, I found some cool things!

This humongous doily (:-)) is the biggest one I have ever seen! 15ft x 12ft I am guessing it is a bed spread (or someone had a really big table! Lol)

This cute egg house!

Lots of necklaces, bracelets to take apart, flowers, bottles and the tray.

Some bells,

A round wooden box and

Some lace! 

Not bad for 11/2 hours of exercise!

Thanks for popping by!

Relaxing!

This what I do to relax in front of the TV or while watching Ustream! 

The backgrounds are made with Aqua tone and a water brush, the birds are from a car boot brought book which I fussy cut out. I like to add pen doodles, words and dots too! 

Most of my crafting things are upstairs in my studio but I have my pencils, crayons, watercolours, aqua tones, pens and a selection of books/paper by the side of my sofa so they are always at hand for when I can't get upstairs!

Here is just a few of them!

Thanks for looking!

A Folder

Yesterday I made some card using some unloved paper (you know the ones we all have and think why did I get that?) I randomly ripped it up and glued it to a piece of card. (Silly me forgot to take a photo) When dryed I stamped using black archival ink some birds, foliage and swirls again randomly over the paper. 

I used the full sheet to make the folder. I scored a 1inch channel to make the spine. The ribbon is attached by making a slit either side of the spine and threading some seam binding through.

The inside has 2 pockets (which extend so I can get lots in). 

This the end veiw it shows how the pockets extend to hold lots.

I used a bulldog clip to which I added all sorts of things to, (a domino, which says 'Fill each day with Art', a metal butterfly, a pearl, a metal bead, a glass bead and an MDF block covered in washi tape with a molded bird on it).

A close up of the bulldog clip charm.

Thanks for taking a look!

Secret Garden Canvas

This is how the Secret Garden canvas started out, a few scraps of lace, die cuts and book paper adhered to the canvas with Matt Medium. The darker die cuts I painted gesso over to tone them down.

Then I put some texture paste through a couple of stencils for added texture.

Added lots of leaves, (fabric and clay) flowers (fabric, paper), moulds, berries, pine cones, acrylic pieces with a hot glue gun. Then sprayed brown ink in and around the flowers and leaves. I also randomly dabbed gesso over some of the leaves and berries for a more even colour tone.

I hope this close up shows how textured the canvas is!

Another close up

Here is the finished canvas! 

Thanks for stopping by!

My Dar Teddy

I made a Dar teddy! Have a look at Dar's teddy on her blog Artedar's Attic.

My teddy is made from recycled linen which I stamped with Tim Holtz stamps with black archival ink. I hand sewed all the pieces and stuffed with toy stuffing, added a bow and some button eyes (one is only loosely on) and a lace patch. It was easy to make, the hardest thing for me was sewing the arms, legs and patch on so that they looked like they had been pulled off and sewed back after being loved for so many years! A lovely little project to make!

Thanks for looking

Lulabelles Place has a Little Shabby Chic shop

I have opened a little shop over on Etsy! There is only a few things in there at the moment ( took me a whirl to get my head around it all!) but I will be adding more very soon! If you want to take a look click on the pictures on the left hand side of my blog and hopefully you will be transported there!

Everything that I sell is a 'found' treasure so I won't have great quantities of anything so buy while I have them!

Everything will come wrapped in usable wrappings either tissue, clothing pattern tissue, a doily or book paper and as far as possible recycled  packaging.

Hope you like what is on there so far! Keep looking I have lots to add (more chandelier lustres, doilies, tart tins, flowers, foil tape, brown parcel tape, plasterboard tape, to name but a few)!

If there is anything you are particularly interested in please let me know!

Thanks for looking! 

Bye for now!

The Same Moon

I found this on Pintrest and fell in love with it! I have a thing about the moon, it reminds me of my Mum. Unfortunately I can't find it again, I was so excited about trying to paint it that I didn't pin it so I thank whoever did this beautiful piece of art and hope you won't mind my trying to paint it for myself. I don't paint often but this inspired me to get out my Aqua tones and Prisma pencils and have a go!

I just did a quick sketch on some paper and then started with the Aqua tones just to put down a base, adding more intense colour where needed.

This is what it looked like when I had added some Prisma colour pencils over the top. It is no where near as beautiful as the original but I was pleased how it came out. I left the background blank as I knew I wanted to put it on a canvas.

And here it is finished. The canvas has been painted with black gesso, sprayed with various colours (which do not show on the photo but look pretty in real life).

If I can find the original on Pintrest at a later date I will add it to this post! 

Thank you for looking!