Don't be board .....

Found a superb chopping board in a charity shop and snapped it up for collaging ....

It already had red sides, so I covered each side in pages of prayer book, and overlapped the edges, sanding them once dry. I covered both sides and then scumbled white paint over the top. 

Now for some fun, cutting lettering from pretty paper using a sketch as a guide. All the letters were drawn on the back of the paper in reverse. 

After gluing them to the heart, I rubbed in some pastel colours and fixed them before varnishing the piece ...

Here is the other side of this truly double sided art! 

Altered art finished ...

And with a couple of licks of Rosenthal on the frames, the pictures are ready to take over to Bridport on Wednesday!

Altered Art ....

Took some old picture frames with potential, and sanded any that needed it. this green one had a wash of white acrylic too ...

A donated old bible, which i had been after for some time, gave the frames a new lease of life ...

And with more precious pages and two Lovely quotes I created small pieces to fit into the frames.

These will be on display in Bridport soon :-) I had fun with collage papers, chalk and gold paint.

Chock-a-block...

old toy blocks,washed then painted white to freshen them up ... a nail was removed from one of them ... a pity there are not 6 of these!



5 light, cotton fabrics chosen from my ample stash!



some careful cutting and sticking down with ronseal acrylic varnish ...



and the blocks sealed with further coats of aforementioned varnish ...


I like jigsaws, and played with jigsaws on blocks like this when I was small.