Fairies in My Garden

Caught these guys this morning.

They were all kinds of pesky!  Now I'm afraid to let them out!

Colorful,Over-the-Top, Scary Door

Here's my C4 Challenge for April.  Click here to read what the challenge was.

It's clay decorated with crayon (wax resist) and burnt umber acrylic.T he door knob is a crystal bead from my grandmother's broken jewelry collection sitting on a spacer bead backed by a rectangle of copper sheeting.

Candace's Green Sleeve

If you know me, you know I love coffee and Starbucks is a frequent haunt. Last week I was there with my husband. I was mulling over my options for the Green C4 Challenge and playing with the sleeve when I slipped my hand through it and thought it made make a cool bracelet.

So it began.

I've done a few things with coffee logos (yes, I collect coffee logos and photos) and really wanted to punch this up, so I got out my glittery gel pens and Glossy Accents.

I loved the the outcome!

You'll notice I flattened it for the Glossy Accents application. It will stay where you put it if it's applied to a flat surface. The coffee sleeves are made with 60% post consumer recyled material, so I was already pretty green. Then I got out the pieces of broken costume jewelry that my grandmother saved (along with the buttons off of everything she ever wore...sweet!) and made some decisions.

I gathered the green, pink and pearl beads, a hole punch, a lovely corner punch. stretchy beading string (I wanted it to be able to stretch and not tear when I put it on) and scissors. I punched a pattern of holes and started beading. I overlapped the back and corner-punched the top outer corner.

I cut wavy edges and added a few more sparkly spots.

I really should have slipped it on before I atached the ends together, because it's too big for a bracelet, but it's an awesome coffee sleeve!

Ghouls Gone Wild

This is my interpretation of the February C4 Challenge
 Holiday Fusion.

This ghoul has had tee many martoonies and is lifting her sheet hoping to collect more Mardi Gras beads!
She's made from transparent polymer clay, wire, feathers and beads.