My Top 12 of 2012

One of the joys of blog-following is coming across blogs followed by bloggers you follow (if you follow me).  I followed a link from another blog that brought me to the Catered Crop Top 12 in 2012 challenge.  Now, I've already shared my favourite project - my final assemblage piece for the Timeworn Techniques workshop - but it got me thinking, what were the other 11?   So, in no particular order, I present -

"A Bottle of Firewater" - made for Andy Skinner's Evil Elixir Mixer workshop. 

The Altered Coffee Tin - 

The tag that I made for the "Hammer House of Horror" challenge, which is an example of my sense of humour - well, I think it's funny!

This one was a piece of serendipity - it was almost all made of  "rejects" or surplus bits from other projects - I love it because it came out so well!

I was having fun playing with Viva Terra paints and making paper roses out of paper I'd coloured with mica paints when I made this sundial out of unwanted CD's and a cardboard tube.

I think the rubber stamp I used for this cabinet card is beautiful so I didn't do much with it.  Again, this is a "reject" that I reused (the top left of the image didn't stamp clearly, but it's covered by the frame).

The theme for this next one was "Mona Lisa";  I spent a fair bit of time heating and re-heating UTEE to get the texture I wanted.

The UK went Olympic-mad this year - we went to watch the Torch be carried through our town.  As I tribute, I made my own, to be carried around the office!

A different faux leather and faux snakeskin technique on this little box.  I do enjoy making paper and card look like something else!  

I once had a cat that would go to any lengths to avoid setting paw on the floor (he was a rescued cat so we don't know what he'd experienced before he came to us).  We thought he had ambitions to catch bats instead of mice!  He inspired this tag - 

This is the cover of  a mini album I'm making.  The challenge was "stamping without ink" - I stamped into a thick layer of Viva Ferro paint to get the textured swirls-

And finally, one more time - The Dead Man's Chest.

So that was last year.  Onward and upward in 2013!

WOYWW - 18 July

Happy Wednesday, fellow WOYWWers!  (If you have no idea what this is all about, check out Julia Dunnit's blog here) Creepin' Ivy, doesn't time fly?  July already.  Not that it feels like it.  They keep promising us a summer but no sign yet...

On the ol' workdesk this week, apart from the usual junk, is a little locket (holding pictures of Lady E and Major T) cut from cardboard and covered with the mock croc.  This is about the last of it for the time being - but I did find some Anna Griffin animal print stamps in the stash which I hadn't thought about for a while so I might play a bit more with them!  The hinge is a scrap of grungepaper and there are a couple of magnets concealed in the frame to act as a closure.  You can't see the Vagabond, which is off to one side, which is what did the cutting on this occasion.  Nesties will cut quite heavy card if you run them through the Vagabond a few times (and they'll do grungepaper, too!)

The yellow duster is there because I was treating my Nesties with beeswax polish to act as a release agent (not because I was doing housework.  That would jeopardise my amateur status).  Seems to help a bit.  Anyway, thanks for visiting, and  I'm looking forward to visiting you in return!

See you next week!