Felted Money Box Jacket
Posted by: trishbee on: January 13, 2010
This is the jacket I did for the money box challenge mentioned in a previous post. I havent attached it to the money box yet, I will update when Ive finished the money box. In the meantime this is what the jacket looks like:
Dragon Age Origins
Posted by: trishbee on: January 12, 2010
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Ive just finished playing Dragon Age Origins and thoroughly enjoyed it. Its a fantastic role playing game which came out last month.
With the weather being so bad Ive not had much energy for making arts and crafts so I decided to get stuck into this rpg to keep me amused over Christmas.
My character choice was a female mage, and upon finishing my first play through Im now off ‘travelling for a time’ with the love of my life Leliana the rogue after successfully fighting the Blight 
Im going to start the game again with different choices this time to get a different ending 
Any other fans out there?
Cant wait for the new expansion pack…
My Top 3 DVD Movies of 2009
Posted by: trishbee on: January 12, 2010
These are my top 3 movies watched on dvd in 2009, each film moved me to tears and stood out from the crowd as being the best for me.
A Love To Hide:
The Boy In Striped Pyjama’s:
Milk:
The 2010 Perfect Present To Myself Challenge
Posted by: trishbee on: January 11, 2010
Just an idea I had for the New Year which I thought Id share incase others fancied having a go….
‘The 2010 Perfect Present To Myself Challenge’
Its that time of the year where some of us are feeling unloved and a little unappreciated as our other halves, families and friends failed yet again to buy us the things we REALLY wanted for Christmas like those all important art supplies, rubber stamps, a die cutter, or maybe a new art gadget or something similar…well worry no more because next Christmas it will all be different….as YOU will be in control
Heres a guaranteed way to ensure that come Christmas 2010 you will get exactly what you want for Christmas in the art department…you very own…2010 Chrimbo Art Supplies Money Box Fund Saver!
Basically for this challenge I want you all to make from scratch (or alter a container if you really want to) a money box for saving your cash in. You can make your money box using any craft technique at all, it can be made from absolutely ANYTHING at all. You can make it from metal, clay, fabric or chip board – its UP TO YOU!!!
Get your thinking caps on and get thinking and more importantly get making art and sharing what youve made…
You have until the END of this month to make your money boxes – remember to make them pretty and paint and embellish or do whatever you wish to them. SHARE photos for what you created – step by step photos are perfect too.
GET MAKING YOUR MONEY BOXES NOW….
Once you have your money boxes you can start saving your silver in them ready for Christmas 2010! Set yourself a set amount every week which you wont miss – a minimum of a couple of pounds or dollars, you can always add more some weeks if your feeling a little flush. See how much you can save from now until December and whatever you’ve managed to save in that time slot is all YOURS to spend on ART Guilt free art supplies! A perfect present from yourself!
Brrrrrrrrrrr!
Posted by: trishbee on: November 10, 2009
Getting very much colder here, so bad I have done anything creative in over a week, my fingers are now severly restricted, glad I got all my swaps and commitments made early! Spend my nights sitting under my blanket with microwaveable heat packs on my joints to keep me warm, drinking hot ribena! Homemade soup is on the menu most days – it hurts like crazy cutting the vegetables up to make the soup but its worth it once its made as it warms you right up!
Just as well theres lots of interested programs on tv at the moment to amuse me – flash forward, house, true blood, sanctuary, defying gravity, stargate universe, fringe plus all the usual soaps tv land has to offer….
Merry Christmas From My Fur Baby To YOURS!
Posted by: trishbee on: November 10, 2009
Do you have any festive pics of your fur babies to share?
New Stuff
Posted by: trishbee on: November 10, 2009
Just added some new uploads to my flickr, they have been on my camera for a while and I forgot to upload them!
You can see them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trishbeedesign/
Karin Slaughter Triptych
Posted by: trishbee on: October 31, 2009
Ive just finished reading Triptych by Karin Slaughter. Im a huge fan of her books, especially the grant county series, but I fell out with Karin earlier this year after reading the shock ending in Skin Privaledge! I finally managed to bring myself to read another one of her books this week, Triptych isnt part of the Grant County series but I need to read this and Shattered before I can read the latest instalment of the Grant County series so I can find out how Sara and Lena are getting on…
Triptych was a great book, I really like the character Will Trent and cant wait to start Shattered next.
Altered Cd Swap – Completed
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
I posted earlier about the altered cd swap Im in, you can see the first post here:
http://trishbee.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/altered-cd-swap/
For my next step for this project I took a tube of outliner paste normally used for glass painting, and I applied dots on one side of the snowflake and let it dry.
Next I coated both sides of the cd and snowflake with a layer of black gesso and let it dry.
Once dry I painted the entire thing on both sides using navy blue acrylic paint.
To add some distressing and texture for my next step I heated the cd and snowflake using my embossing gun, this make the paint bead up a little bit and also the liquid outliner bubbled too but I wanted it to do that
Once the cd was cool, I dipped my finger tips in metallic blue acrylic paint and smudged it over the snowflake to add highlights, I also repeated this step using a pearl turqouise paint and silver rub n buff. I just kept going till I liked how the snowflake looked.
I did this step on both sides of the cd.
Then I got my mini drill and drilled a little hole through the cd so I could make a hanger on it.
I then applied silver rub n buff to one side of the cd only and left the other side navy blue for contrast.
Once all the paint was dry I sprayed over the top using acrylic glaze to varnish it and then finally added some gold thread to act as a hanger.
Heres the pictures below of the final piece:
Front:
Close Up:
Back:
Needle Felted Glasses Case
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
Heres a glasses case I made using needle felting:
front
back
Embellisher Experiments
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
Ive been playing with my new toy
Ive discovered that organza goes lovely and texturous with the embellisher machine as you can see below, I decorated it using different colours of wool rovings and some silk fibers were added to make the dots and the border:
Front:
I get a real kick out of seeing the backs of the felted pieces for some reason
Another felted purse in the makings…
Front:
Back:
Needle Felted Book Mark
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
This book mark was made from an offcut which I felted for a purse. Im addicted to playing with this craft form
More Felted Purses
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
Heres some more needle felted purses I did:
Purse 1:
Purse 2:
Needle Felted Purse Finished!
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
Finally finished the purse I made from my first attempts at needle felting. It needed a fastener so I added the button and loop as you can see in the photo.
Its now on its way to a friend for a welcome to your new home pressie
Blog catch up
Posted by: trishbee on: October 25, 2009
Ive been absence from blogging lately – suffering with the usual complaints so I wont bother moaning about them as Im fed up of listening to myself moan all the time And I bet you do too
Anyways in my absence online Ive been playing with my new purchase and my toy – a felting machine otherwise known as an embellisher!
Ive had so much fun just playing and learning how to use the machine and the best thing about it is that it doesnt require any physical strength on my part! Result! I can now dabble with a bit of arts and crafts even on my bad days
I gave myself a bit of a shock the other day just how weak I am as I wanted to finish off some bookmarks for a swap, I wanted to punch single holes into the bookmarks so that I could set eyelets into the holes. I used one of those office style silver single hole punchers for the job because it is usually the easiest and quickest tool for the job. But I couldn’t physically move the punch at all!!! No matter how much I pressed and pressed the puncher just wouldn’t budge!! That shocked me!
Back to playing with fabric and fibers methinks as it doesnt require any muscles!
More stamps on ebay
Posted by: trishbee on: October 10, 2009
This is my last lot of ebaying for 2009, I may list more in 2010 if I find more stamps I dont use or want, heres the link to my ebay stuff:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/pennylessartist/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
Altered Cd Swap
Posted by: trishbee on: October 10, 2009
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Im in the middle of making some artwork for an altered cd swap, for some reason Im drawn to using these large foam snowflakes on my cds!
This is the first step, will update when Ive painted them:
Some Calendars for a Christmas swap
Posted by: trishbee on: October 10, 2009
Its that time of year again where I make my obligatory art calenders for Christmas swaps and gifts!
Spoiler Warning – do not peek if your in Xmas swaps with me!
These calendars where all made using different handmade backgrounds, the houses you can see on each calendar was made using recycled felix cat food boxes cut into house shapes. I added corrugated card and fun foam to make a recess to the front of the house and painted it with burgundy acrylic paint. I added highlights to the ridges of the corrugate with copper acrylic and then made some fabric paper and painted it red and cut it into hearts to make the hearts inside the houses.
See below, click on any pics for larger images:
Close up of one of the houses:
More Felting!
Posted by: trishbee on: October 10, 2009
I think Im in serious danger of getting hooked!
This is a piece I was working on last week, Im going to make it into a Christmas gift for a swap, I havent finished it yet as it needs a lining on it.
This is a felted bookmark Im working on:
Below is a purse I made using my first felting attempt which I blogged earlier:
front with open flap:
front closed flap (isnt finished yet)
back of purse:
First Attempts At Needle Felting
Posted by: trishbee on: October 2, 2009
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This is my very first attempt at needle felting. Im surprised how easy it is to accomplish with so very little tools and very little energy too. I needed to make some art using a technique beginning with the letter F for Carols challenge, naturally I decided on Felting because Ive wanted to give it a whirl for some time 
To make this felt piece I used various colours of wool roving which I had got in a textile collage pack which I bought from ebay. I also used a sheet of black felt as my felting base, a polystyrene block as my felting mat and a couple of felting needles.
I was surprised how quickly and easy it is to make the felt art, simple puching movements with the felting needles fuses the wool fibres to the felt piece and makes them join together.
Once I was happy with how the felting looked I highlighted it using gold glitter thread with a back stitch.
Im really pleased with how this turned out and with how easy it is to do. I must do more felting!
I wonder if this is the start of a new obsession?
About Me
Welcome to my blog, my name is Trish Bee & I live in the North West of England.
My other blog became corrupt so I had to import all my older blog posts into this one as to serve as a back up.
Ive decided to use this blog to showcase my latest artwork as well as mutterings on life and things in general.
What Is Art?
art n. the products of human creativity; works of art; the creation of beautiful things
art-venture - creative play involving uncertainty as to the outcome, to throw caution to the wind and participate in new or exciting art experiments and projects as part of ones creative and spiritual journey.
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Playful and hyper, you enjoy being around other people... as long as everyone's having fun. You are easily bored, and you almost always need some sort of entertainment. If you're not keeping busy, then you're apt to get in some sort of trouble! Why you would make a great pet: You're very entertaining, even when you're not trying to be Why you would make a bad pet: Well, personal hygiene isn't exactly your thing... you kind of smell sometimes What you would love about being a rabbit: Playtime... and eating flowers What you would hate about being a rabbit: Being held like a toy |
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