Monday 19 January 2009

Do you do the lottery?

No seriously, not the one with the balls, but the UK ART Lottery. Fancy being in the draw for a box of fantastic arty pieces? Then do go and have a look at the ts and cs.

The theme for the January lottery is 'Shiny' in honour of a brand spanking New Year, not that there's much sparkly about it from where I'm sitting!! Still, I have used everything shiny I can think of with metal, embossing powders, FP, glitter and a bit of bling to make this 4 x 4 hanger. The image of the magpie was copied from a photo, rendered into a line drawing and then tinted. The message reads 'I have a magpie mind, I love anything SHINY'. Hope that fits the bill.



The ACF challenge this week was to use a lovely picture of a little girl who looked like she was on her way to school. As I said in one of my previous posts I am going to use this challenge to make a 4 x 4 journal, a size I'm getting quite fond of. I used acrylics and stamping for the background plus some stamping and opaque permanent pens for the background. Additional images courtesy Flickr collage group. I felt it needed some words but 'inspire' was the best I could come up with. As I'm keeping this one for myself I may add to it if inspiration strikes (ha ha) before I make up the album. Any suggestions?



AND FINALLY.......

The piece of Mail Art featured in my last post is on its way to Babs in Oklahama. Hope it gets there in one piece! Thanks for playing Babs.

9 comments:

Sherry said...

I do the lottery - lol - so I'm in with a chance to win it - woohoo!! Love your magpie piece, fits the bill so well.

Great 4 x 4 page too - what an adorable image that is.

~Babs said...

are great pieces, both.
I especially love the 'shiny' one!
Thanks so much for the opportunity to receive the mail art; I'm excited!

vintage wil said...

what a beautiful 4x4 card!!!
.
thanks for this lovely
entry to ACF

Stacy said...

Great piece, Cindy! Love your background - works so well with the image!

Femmy said...

beautiful piece Cindy!!

Mooneybeams said...

Ha! I always refer to myself as a magpie because I love anything that sparkles! This is a lovely piece. I hope you enjoy your journal. I've seen lots of lovely art journals and I'm slowly beginning to feel inspired by them. Just need to find an old book to hack up and turn into one, now!

Anonymous said...

beautiful collage

Viv said...

Two fab pieces Cindy. Love shiny.. and I keep looking at that image and thinking I should use it cos it's so pretty....great job!

Sharon said...

Cindy I just had to tell you I LOVE the art piece you have done for the shiny raffle and as my name is MAGPIE it fits the bill well and I own it now....
I just had to say thank you it is beautiful...
Sharon xx

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