I should--- name this blog--- The FICKLE CRAFTER

Sort of---looks like I am starting Halloween early--but truth be known...I happened on some old polymer clay ---Fimo --- to be exact ----and wondered if it as still usable-----needless to say---it took a lil more prep work than usual  but  it seem to be workable----I have been toying with the idea of doing a BJD  forever--but it wasn't until I saw  one made with beads--  that I fell in love with-- and decided this could be my stepping off stone---to start with one similar---I have seen a few done  similarly --but I guess it finally clicked with me----Last year  I used paper clay  for my Halloween playthings and swaps..And I read where Fimo now has a new paper  clay also...So I may try a few in it--- but for now--I have gone polymer once more-- Christmas is coming--- and maybe-- for once-- I can get a head  start--- Yea  Like that is going to happen heheh  

YAY

Got another 14 mermaids done for a swap (at CRAFTER'S CAFE) and I mailed my first September birthday gifty out--No Pixs of the gifty but did take a few of my mermaids--- which I will share---I drew my mermaids and hope they don't mind -- but I learn so much more--- painting each  one----Imagine my surprise when I had thot I had  quite a few "finished " ---only to find  (the next day) my water colors had faded into the paper---which is all well and good for a picture --- but I wanted dimension-----So I went back with nail polish and LIQUID PEARLS  --I love LP--- Anyway here are some pixs---I started with just a mermaid-- then decided  I wanted more--One that said something to the viewer ----with out me writing my own thots on the ATC---Think I found it ---and I put a   merMAN on the back ---for the ladies --- with my info---I love being in the swaps ----as I see SOOOOOOO many different ideas  and I think they are ALL FABULOUS!!!SOrt of like being in a candy store--SO many fantastic ideas!! OH MY!!!! ( PS  The hair became dimensional when I added yarn strands and  painted over it!)

Puzzle Charm swap at Paper pantry

This is what I finally came up with --for my   latest puzzle charms swap --I have puzzles   pieces   everywhere hihieven on the inside of my card with my info--I need to find this  puzzle lady again and give her creator credit -------------------------- How kool is she???????????????????????I even hung a lil silver puzzle piece around her neck and then in a rush to pack it up  forgot to take that picture!! Oh my  Cant say  the lazy days of summer as it has been the  Crazy days of summer!!!

Fairy fantasies

These tags --one of which is shown here---are also for  the Paper Pantry ---It had to have a fairy on it-- and a acetate overlay  --SO I sprayed the background and put in a lil fairy and surrounded her with pressed (dried) flowers--then I put the overlay-- and put a lil girl--on it-- who had just discovered her----In back I have a lil elf who has discovered some fairies at play--He is in all gray --as the front says -- (In the black and white of this world ---is a gray-- that is fairyland

--colored by our imagination!) The lil holder-- for the tag --is all black-- with black and silver embellishments!! Lots of fussy work but fun --Hope I didn't go overboard  I kept adding and adding!!?????

There is a silver charm (on each tag in back) and in front there is a lil bronze key with dried flowers and the saying  --Unlock the Magic!!!

Vintage bathing beauty cards

Well--- you would know --- I forgot to take a few other pixs for this swap ---and one is the back of the girl in the White bathing suit--which I tried making 3d ---by  modpodging napkin on her outfit

MIA---- because

Finishing up projects------ and summer activities  !!!   Here is one of the finished ATC's for Paper Pantry  The bird is the front and the lil girl (with info) is the back!!

New project

I have several --really --but I thot it was  a --ha-ha or aha???-- moment--- that my husband's bird watching  "fit in" with the one of the projects (an ATC swap)-----That is his lil yellow binoculars behind the ATC-- I am constructing--I have to do one (to almost  finished)-- so I can then see  how to  set up my assembly line--Since I draw and fussy cut--takes me longer than the gals with the cutting machines and stamps--- but space and  moola --keep me dreaming!! I really don't mind tho-- as I love to draw and create---I think "need" is a good thing  --if --- kept in check!?!? What "is" that saying about  -------- being the mother of invention???