Experimenting

Last night I visited another craft room extraordinaire! This time it was the turn of my friend Gill....now I don't want to sound like an envious person because I'm not, but her crafting space is amazing. One large room, two (large) desks to work on and oodles of storage and yes - overflowing with goodies! (in every size, shape and colour!)

Gill had seen my 'Create' canvas and loved it and she just happened to have two canvases (four actually!) for us to play with. Well with an invitation like that what is a girl to do but step up...

We used Adirondack acrylics as Gill hasn't got the Claudine Helmuth paints (yet). The results are different but just as pleasing....we got good and painty "Do you want a pair of gloves" Gill asked "No, no Im fine" I answered ... ought to have thought about that as I met up with my daughter to go shopping in Derbyshire today and had some strange looks from shop assistants every time I made a purchase!

I need a quote and some finishing touches for mine, which I will get round to...I just love this kind of messing about - it's a different kind of creativeness than designing scrapbook layouts for my classes.

I added splashes of paint to the flower, some filigree metal squares and a Tim Holtz idea-ology key....

Don't you just love this unusual button? Its almost pebble like..

And here is Gill's creation .... again, paint on the flower along with a bit a stickles, metal corners around her quote, "fru fru" feathers under her flower, a touch of bead work around the edges ....she went one better though and added TWO idea-ology keys....now I just call that plain greedy....