My Creative Saturday

This weekend, whilst the children were at their dads for the weekend, I was determined to make something for the sake of making.  I have so many things I want to try out at the moment that it was hard to decide what to do.  So as I drank my third cup of coffee on Saturday morning (honestly, I'm not really a caffeine addict!) and scribbled down my thoughts I came up with the idea of working to a theme and getting as many projects done as I could around that theme.  I had 6 hours to kill and here's what happened.

I decided on the theme of Dance Envy.  I won't go into why but it's close to my heart and my first project was to come up with a collage.  A paint and fabric and paper and stuff on a board collage.  I really dislike collage in this form, I just can't get with it and so this was the most difficult part of the process.  Despite the theme being envy I wanted to stay away from the obvious colour choice of green so I opted for blue (blue is also  mood right?).  Here's the collage I came up with:

Ok, that's that bit out of the way.  The next two items were kind of made at the same time - whilst a bit of one was drying I worked on a section of the other etc....

I added a layer of matte Mod Podge to a sheet of scrap-booking paper to make some folds a little more durable and whilst that was drying took it upon myself to decorate a bottle to make it into a Dance Potion bottle...here's what I started with....

The bottle was a Rose Lemonade bottle I bought whilst visiting Avebury stone circle with a friend earlier this year.  The shape was lovely so I kept it and now it has served its purpose.  I covered it with  tissue paper I printed with a vintage scrip from a letter I found online.

The blue liquid is a patina fluid - I stuck a big old sparkle stone on top of the bottle and the wrapped it in copper tape (the same stuff that does not keep slugs off the pots in my garden).  Wash all finger-print oils off of the copper tape and then apply as per the instructions.  Except, applying it as per the instructions did not work so I added some neat to the copper tape and then yes, the copper turned from bright and shiny to brown before my eyes.  I rinsed it off once I was happy and quickly dried it off.  I then added more embellishments, making sure to add the same photo that was on the collage for a sense of connection between the items.

I swiped the bottom of the bottle with a distress ink and some copper from an ink pad, added a label I made from a font I found online, and a dance quote I liked plus a couple of other vintage prints plus the other stuff you can see here.  I could detail it all but at the end of the day you just have to play with what you've got....

And to finish the set I made another little ephemera wallet, with the words Dance Diary on the front and the words Dance Envy in the centre.....

All three together look fabulous.....art for arts sake......

There will be more themes.....

In the meantime head on over to Handmade Harbour to see what other craft folk have been up to.  And don't forget, to create is awesome.....