Creative Tuesday - Jam on Toast

Over at Creative Tuesday the theme this fortnight is "Hot Toast and Jam" - I of course can't ever miss the opportunity to bring out my pair of cute giraffes who obviously seem to like this for breakfast. I sit here and wish and wish I could have a pair of tiny giraffes... Anyone seen the scene in Despicable Me when they shrink the elephant... yes I would love that shrink ray :)

2.5" x 3.5" Original ACEO - Giraffes eat Jam on Toast

Pop on over to Creative Tuesday see what other people have made!

This item is also in my Etsy store - hop on over if you want to see where these critters also go.

Creative Tuesday - "I want to go to"

Every time I hear the phrase "I want to go to" I nearly always think of the moon.... so hmmm... I decided to draw all of the giraffe family hanging out on a rather Mars looking like moon (what with the bright red colours). Well we can all bend the rules a little!!!

2.5" x 3.5" Original Art ACEO - Giraffes on the Moon

 

 

 

 

Head on over to Creative Tuesday's little corner of blog land to see other inspirations for this fortnight's topic :)

 

 

You can find this piece of art for sale here in my Etsy shop.

 

I have also kept myself busy with this month's NFAC Theme: All in a Row

 

Check out my Elephants - Giraffes - Pigs

All on eBay now!

 

Minion Mashup

One of the swaps on ATCs for All that I've joined is Minion Mash Up which was to find a famous painting and put minions in them. Now I am an enormous fan of minions and I am thrilled to bits that they get a whole movie to themselves next year!!! Here are a few that I've done so far. I was tempted to stick to my ultra vibrant colors but rather experimented with trying to get the colors close to the original painting as possible. A very fun endeavor.

So here we have “Minion’s Mother” – inspired by “Whistler’s Mother”

 

2.5" x 3.5" ACEO - Minion's Mother

"Whistler's Mother"

A Salvidor Dali inspired mashed up painting inspired by “Sleep” 

2.5" x 3.5" ACEO - "Sleepy Minion"

"Sleep" - Salvidor Dali

My last one is for sale in my Etsy shop – inspired by “The Metamorphosis of Narcissus”. I absolutely love Dali and will probably keep using him.

"2.5 x 3.5" ACEO - "Metamorphosis of Minion"

 

"Metamorphosis of Narcissus" - Salvidor Dali

I've also been experimenting with different pen thicknesses with some great results. It helps that I've also acquired a tiny thin brush to do all the fiddly detailed bits!

Creative Tuesday - Birdhouse

I had a great idea once I saw this theme to once again shrink my cute giraffes so that they could go visit some bird houses of there very own. I don't think they found any birds as they've scared them all away. I don't keep a bird house at home but maybe I should, some of them are supremely adorable!!!

 

Here is my entry for this fortnight's theme:

 

 

2.5" x 3.5" Original ACEO

Head on over to Creative Tuesday to see all the other awesome bird houses/cages.

 

If you want to grab it for yourself - this item is listed in my Etsy Shop.

Creative Tuesday - SOCKS

It's been ages since I last wrote on my blog and I've decided to come back with some ultra cute elephants in socks (of course).

 

Inspired by Creative Tuesday's theme of socks I wanted to incorporate my love of elephants with such a fun theme.

 

 

Here is my:

"Casual Elephant in a Party Hat and Super Comfortable Soft Slipper Socks"

 

2.5" x 3.5" ACEO

 

And:

"Happy Stampy Elephant in his Fashionably Long Stripy Socks"

 



2.5" x 3.5" ACEO

 

Very happy to pop back into the blogging world again and hope to have fun with more blog hopping.

 

Check out all other awesome "sock" entries at Creative Tuesdays fun little corner of the internet :)

 

*Waving*

 

 

So I've just noticed that "socks" has already expired and I was too late, I think I just saw the theme and got so excited I went ahead with it anyway - no matter - no harm in linking it all up anyway and I'll check out the next theme!



Journal Pages full of Flowers

My first journal for me to fill has arrived.

All the way from Russia from Irina.

 

Firstly a thank you for the little bag of shells - yay.

 

Now the theme set for this journal is flowers, awesome and quite an easy theme which works well for me.

 

So I have recently got myself a large amount of stamps and as I've been sorting them to find foreign and British stamps I noticed a lot of bird stamps... Which gave me an idea for my first double page spread.

All of those birds and houses are tiny cut outs from stamps - I wanted to add a lot more things but I always worry that I'd over do it. So I left it at that. This was my painted page.

 

So next I had a stab at some more collage and mixed media. I decided to go with my original theme for my journal and let Georgie the Sunflower say hello to Irina!

 

 

I am really pleased with how this came out, with collage I never have a plan, I just start in one corner and slowly fill the page out. The border was cut from a napkin I received many months ago. I'm glad I could finally use it. I really enjoyed doing this first step of the long journey. I have 3 more journals to see and decorate and look forward to seeing mine come back safe and sound.

My Art Journal reaches Russia!

I have pictures back from Russia to see what Georgie has been getting up to!

 

Here she has discovered Russian Ballet!!!

And here she's discovered Russia is a good deal colder than the UK!!!

These are so sweet - all of them from the lovely Victoria - you can find her blog here.

 

Thank you so much - now it needs to go to two more people and then back to me - yippee! I suspect I may have to do another Georgie journal!

To view Margaret's 4 pages - here.

To view my 4 pages - here.