just a silly birthday card for someone with a love of cephalopods



inside it reads, 'Here's 10 squid for your birthday. Don't spend it all in one place!'
PS- for any international folks out there - slang for uk pounds is Quids, hence the Squids.

a vintage paper valentines card. took ages to cut it all out, luckily Youtube was on hand to keep me entertained!

a plethora of ancient greetings card wildlife

Just a standard thinking of you-esque type greeting card.

this is a commission for a new babies room, they only gave me the info that they wanted it to have baby animals in it so I kinda went overboard on making it more than that! I hope the baby likes it.

The poem in gold around the edge is from Alice in Wonderland -

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
BY LEWIS CARROLL

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?

My Mum had the unfortunate sense of timing to be born the day before Mother's day   which meant that in my more thoughtless youth she got 2 presents but only 1 card (*ashamed*)  . So I decided to surprise her this year with a 2 in 1 card.





and both cards out of their mini envelopes.



she liked them, so i may try to do a variation on this next year too.

ps I know I'm posting this 2 months late but my internet has only recently got itself together...

Sorry im late (again), i had to hunt down some slugs in my garden before i could finish it!

Hi Pinksparklystars, i only just got here too so just jump in at the deep end and grab the nearest flotation device! 

Graverobbergirl- i love that Vindictive Vapour Vanquisher (patent pending) and i love the character herself, but she could use some pattern or darkness to her jacket to set her apart from her background. maybe some lovely old fabric pattern like this...
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4140026/2/istockphoto_4140026-victorian-fabric.jpg

Anywhooo, heres my contributiony...


the text reads - The Slugs Shall Enherit the Earth. (and the cockroaches of course)

It looks better in person, the indian ink on top of the acrylic paint is too shiney to be papparazzied. It was quite funny actually, the slug that was modelling for me kept going after my ink bottles and nibbling on my fingers, little scamp!  (and yes i do realise i misspelled enherit, but i was tired and a slug was trying to eat my finger.

heres my page for this week, i used the word rain.



i like the idea, but i think it looked better in my head 
One other thing, im a bit confused about the words pickd, i thought the theme for last week was rain/feelings but a lot of people used automatons, apples etc. Do you generally go freestyle for themes and go to the weekly theme if you're out of ideas?

Its kindof a shadow box...i think. One thing kind of led to another and now im not sure what it is 

Anyway, one of my freinds nicknames is clairebear, so for her birthday i drew her this...


I didnt want to send it to her all nude and alone so i put it in this box

and used my dremel to shape the clouds

but im not posting it in the finished section because im a bit stuck on how to finish it, the lid looks all bare and i dont know what to do with it.


Any ideas would be great, as im kinda running out of time as her birthday was kinda yesterday...

Hi everyone!

First of all, sorry for being late but i was so tired last night i fell asleep before i could post it! I had an idea for the connections page but since i only joined on wednesday i didnt really have the time to do it properly,  :'(so I did the title page for my journal instead. Maybe ill do two pages nxt week...

heres the little dictionary im using (i dont know what language that is)

and heres my titley page! Its got the Visual in the eyes and the Journal in the eyelashes.

As for the pages already up...
Phyzzychick-love that page, and the discworld refuernce was a nice touch, dont worry bout not havin a turtle, everyone knows that once you get past the elephants its turtles alll the way down!

Gemcraft- great envelope page ( i like pages with secrets in them)

Danni- those geckos are too cute and nice resourceful use of berries!!

Ok, sorry its a bit long but i thought my first post should be done right!