ONE WORLD ONE HEART UPDATE

Congratulations to all the winners that were drawn on the 14th of Feb. The winners of my 2 items were StaciRoseDesigns and WhistlestopCafe and their gifts will be sent out this week. I am thrilled to say that I was also a winner and I will be looking forward to participating in next year's OWOH. Well done Lisa and all who contributed...

OWOH AND THE WINNERS ARE.....

The winner of the first draw for the Fabric Collage was Sandi from the Whistle stop cafe and the winner of the second draw was Staci from staci rose designs.
Thanks to all those that entered. I have really enjoyed being part of this great event. Thanks to Lisa for organising it and to everyone for the lovely comments on my blog. See you all next year. Looking forward in the future to spending more time accessing everyone's blog. Happy Valentines Day!!! Rob...

PURPLE GOTHIC ARCH CHALLENGE

Although I'm a little late with this Gothic Arch Challenge, I had decided to make it anyway. I love these little arches. There is a new one due tomorrow.

Here is the link to the challenge. http://gothicarches.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/purple/

ONE WORLD ONE HEART

This is a world wide event to bring bloggers together and make new friends, you can read all about it at One World, One Heart on this addy: http://oneworldevent.blogspot.com/

I have done a special piece of art, a fabric collage with image transfer for this event, it is 10" x 8" on a firm backing, ready to hang. If you would like a chance to win, please leave a comment below this post and you will be in the draw for the prize. You must have a blog to enter into this contest. The winner will be randomly drawn and announced here and notified by email, I will make the draw late on Valentines Day evening (Australia DST). Good Luck and thanks Lisa for organising this lovely event, a great way to meet other bloggers and a "feel-good" happening to be involved in. I would love you to sign my guestbook and let me know where you live. Thanks, and go spread the love.

UPDATE: I can't believe what is happening here, I have 99 messages now, so I think that it's time to go off to my studio and make another gift for when I get over 100 messages. The love is definately spreading, and there are some gorgeous creations being given away.

OK, (2 hours later) Here is my second give-away, it will go to the second name drawn out. It is made from Aqua Swarovski crystals, beautiful multi coloured glass beads and glass seed beads, with a beautiful little crystal heart on each end. The photo doesn't really do it justice, but you can get the idea.

FRIDA

I have been collecting pictures and artifacts to make a collage of Frida and after doing the tin niches, I decided that it was a good time let my muse free and created my impression of Frida. Hope that you enjoy it. Please enlarge it to see the detail clearly.

TIN NICHES FROM MEXICO

This is the larger of the two niches, it is 280mm x 150mm

This niche is smaller and measures 135mm x 80mm

A few weeks ago, I bought some beautiful tin niches which are made in Mexico and have been itching to get to them and decorate them. I had a wonderful day yesterday and have done a large and small one and am so thrilled with them. Unlike a lot of my art which I give away, my husband LOVES these and they are going to have a permanent home here with us. Hope that you enjoy what I have done with them. I think that I will have to get some more to give away as gifts to my family and special friends. These are available from Paper Forest in Australia...... and Joyce is great to deal with. Here is her addy: http://www.paperforest.com.au/

BUTTON DOLLZ

I've been watching with interest all the lovely Button Doll creations on Wednesday Stamper and Artchix and so I decided to have a little play with one of my own. Great fun and I'm looking forward to making some more later.

The original Button Dolls are attributed to a Spanish artist called Nenufar Blanco from Barcelona in Spain, she has many beautiful creations on her Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nenufar-blanco/sets/72157602578791060/

Enjoy

GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.......

Over at her blog, Catherine Matthews-Scanlon is giving away 2 copies of her new book "Art from the Heart". It looks like a wonderful book and will no doubt be on many wish lists, including mine. All you have to do is visit her site and leave a message to be eligible to win....... http://cmscanlon.blogspot.com/2008/01/giving-away-two-copies.html

ANOTHER ISMAKI CHALLENGE

I have found a little time to make another card for the challenge on Ismaki.

Here is the link:

http://ismaki.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/challenge-1/#comment-142

Thanks girls for the challenge.

Rob

ISMAKI CHALLENGE 1

There is a new challenge site called ISMAKI, which is being run by Isa, Kianel and Mag. Here is my entry for this first challenge which was timely because I wanted to make a card for a friend with a new baby, so I used this template to inspire the card.. This is the challenge addy:

http://ismaki.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/challenge-1/

A NEW TWIST ON BRAYERED BACKGROUNDS

Riviera Kaleidocolour

Melon Melody Kaleidocolour

Calypso Kaleidocolour

Berry Blaze Kaleidocolour

I spent yesterday afternoon playing with a new twist on brayered backgrounds called Shining Stones. It is one of the challenges on Trish Bees "Next Generation Stampers" group and has really got everyone keen to try it out. I want to try some more with different cardstock, to try to get the look of more "texture" on the pages. I am so happy to have some lovely new backgrounds to play with and have some swaps and projects that I have lined up for them.

MY FRIENDS CAME FOR A VISIT

Two of my very talented arty friends came for a holiday and we had a lovely time together being creative and having lots of laughs and good times. Here is a photo of them in my workshop where there were several inspired works of art produced while they were here. So good to have you here Bethel and Lucy, look forward to your next visit.

CHRISTMAS JIG SAW

This is a jig saw that I did along with another 11 girls for Christmas. We each did one piece for each other in a 12 piece jig saw and all ended up with a lovely keepsake that we can hang up each Christmas. Thanks girls for your gorgeous pieces.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to all, and especially to all of the generous people who come to visit my little blog and leave such lovely and encouraging comments. May 2008 bring you and your families all much Joy and Happiness.

Rob

KYLIE'S COLLAGE

Here is the collage that I made for my daughter Kylie for Christmas. Each item on the collage has special signifcance to her and her lifestyle and the beautiful way that she nurtures her two children, Elias and Jamaica. I really enjoyed making this for her and she really loves it. And after seeing this, she has been very interested in starting to do some collages herself. She is very artistically talented and I'm sure that when she gets some time to get started, she will be soon turning out some lovely pieces. I have so many things to upload to my blog, but have been having problems with downloading from my camera, hopefully I will have it sorted in the next couple of days. Luckily this one was 10" x 8" so I was able to scan it.