zombi plants & juicy eyeballs

zombi plants & juicy eyeballs
fun zombi art print by melanie dann

Monday, April 30, 2012

Beautiful Photographs of Nature, Flowers, lizards & Australia on the central coast & sydney

A Picture Says A Thousand Words, So True!

Hope you enjoy these wonderful pics i took as much as i enjoyed taking them.


Skull Rock The Haven Terrigal NSW


Terrigal Beach NSW
yellow flower
red flower NSW


Water dragon Lizard terrigal NSW

Water dragon

smiling water dragon

Haven Beach NSW

Australian Reptile Park NSW



snake at reptile park NSW



emu with a hairdo

Sydney Bridge 

bird botanical gardens sydney

Botanical Gardens Sydney 

duck



Birds under the shade of a tree

elegant cream flower 

purple tree sydney 

opera house sydney

Clear waters at terrigal beach NSW

plant root

pink flower

Perfect Pink flower
eye pooping flowers


Pelican 

Terrigal Rocks nsw
Wamberal nsw


Hungry seagulls

Long Horn cow

''I want my milk back'' cow

Close up cow
British bull dog

Alligator 


Mouse Spider
Tree Botanical gardens Sydney 


Sydney

sydney opera house

array of trees sydney 

pitted rock face sydney

Bird of Australia 

Red flowers sydney

Botanical gardens sydney

Black bamboo

Carved Bamboo sydney 
Cat with attitude

Mini Lizards

Bronze whaler Shark Terrigal Rocks NSW

monitor lizard nsw

water dam nsw

nsw flower
Lizard in our garage


Huntsman spider
Gosford art gallery Garden
Gosford art gallery Garden
water fall at Gosford art gallery



trim round ball hedges at Gosford art Gallery

very green bug, love its eyes 

Chicken face
Butterfly landing


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beautiful flower in full bloom
frangi panni flower, so perfect
succulent
meeting of the bug bodies


aloe vera plant

Handmade Jewellery Ideas using vintage crochet

Handmade Jewellery Ideas For Crafty Fingers

I have lots of different ideas for homemade jewellery and am constantly coming up with new designs so this page will always be added to with new ideas to inspire you.
Handmade jewellery allows you to add that personal touch wheather you are making it for yourself or for a friend. There are so many mass produced peaces of jewellery for sale its nice to wear something individual. Jewellery to me adds that bit of personality to an outfit and there is nothing more complimentery than when someone asks where you got it from and you reply '' I made it ".

Vintage Lace/crochet Jewellery

This range was inspired by reusing a vintage crochet table cloth i brought from a charity shop. You could also use vintage lace or if you can crochet yourself then great.

Vintage table cloth. It can be cut into various shapes i go with the design when cutting, this has some beautiful circles in. 
Always do a quick measurement of your wrist before sowing.
I used a clasp i sourced from ebay. All you need to do is hand sow the clasp to the vintage lace one end and where the clasp hooks in and out sow again leaving a gap big enough for the clasp to hook in and out easily.

This is the above braclet with added charms. I used bits of broken jewllery and buttons to decorate it. The gaps in the lace are perfect for hooking charms onto.



This is another one i made with different charms.

This design uses those beautiful circles that were in the vintage table cloth. I used two circles and joined them together with elastic so one size fits all bracelet and just added a small bit of the crocet to hide the elastic. All hand sown.


With the elastic it fits any size and is super comfy to wear. You can either wear it as it is or add a bit of bling.


Bling added, which adds to the vintage look.

Another design with lots of charms. I also used a ribbon tie. I made the ribbon extra long so it rapped round adding to the design.

Again using those circles from the crochet i made a flower by scrunching the fabric together and sowing it in place. I added a perl bead to the centre.
 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Ideas For Handmade & crafted adults & kids Birthday,valentines, Easter & mothers day paper craft greeting Cards

Hand Made greeting craft Cards For All Occasions

There is nothing more interesting, personal and thoughtful than giving or receiving a handmade card. I love the different craft papers you can make or buy, ribbons, glitter and glue. Anything goes. They can be as simple or elaborate as you like and there are so many occasions and reasons to send a card. Sometimes its nice to just send a " thinking of you card" just to remind someone you havnt forgot about them. It is amazing how something so simple can brighten up your day. 
As a child i would love to receive mail by post it would make me feel special. I always loved pop up cards when growing up, they were fascinating and so detailed.
There are many different mediums you can use to create cards and i hope to cover as many as i can so i will be adding to this post as much as i can with new handmade card ideas for every occasion. 
bird card made from craft paper, butterfly cut shapes and a hand drawn bird.

children's card, little lizards with 3D curling paper tounges
butterfly flower, layered paper
butterfly tree
I like to use a good quality water colour paper or sketch book paper because you can hand draw and paint  anything you like which can be cut out and used on your card design. Using a good thicker paper enables your design to stand out on the card giving a 3D look adding depth and interest. It also will not curl or distort especially if you are using paints.
Men's cricket fan's birthday card using layers paper with masked tracing paper backdrop with vintage image  
wrapping paper cutouts
This card was made from a bird gift tag my sister made and sent me for my birthday, i loved it so much i designed this card, simple but effective
paper and mini fimo butterflies with paper star
another bird on tree deign using paper
This one has more of a christmas feel, using paper and sequins to create a ginger bread man
Hand drawn bird with cut out flowers using water colours
Funky angle card made from paper and plastic 3D butterflies 
Perfect for Easter or Mothers day, I used thicker card to raise the heart giving it a 3D effect
Perfect Mothers day card, layered paper flowers and folded paper holder brings it to life, if your mum has a fav colour just change the design to suit her.
simple cake design, who doesn't like cake!
Try to collect different colours of paper. I rip strips of colour from old magazines, newspapers and junk mail. They are great for cutting little flowers out and save you loads of money so get recycling.
For the modern mum, paper on card
pretty twig and flower reef using brown paper and a steady hand
Pink bouquet of flowers with butterfly detail

Paper layered flower

Bird in nest, made using cut outs from magazines
Layerd hearts with red pen detailing. I used a felt fabric heart in the centre to give it some texture. I also print the little message off my computer but if you have great hand writing you could write it on  
Cute and fun hand sown mushrooms in felt with paper  grass
I made this card from a gift tag my sister made me (the mushroom) added clouds and a little wooden lady bug which you can buy from craft shops
Girly pink card with pastel on water colour paper background. I used brown paper to create the rabbit and hand drawn the detail with pen & pencils
Pirate theme card again using brown paper and pens


Happy birthday hand made greetings card made from paper & polymer clay butterflies 
Love You Vintage airplane hand crafted card
Hand painted sugar skull tattoo art greeting card
Heart with butterflies
Hand drawn sugar skull lollipop head with cherry earrings
Vintage style birds delivering a letter
This is one my sister made and sent me for my birthday, she has sown onto the card and used stamps which gives it a real cool vintage look and i love it xx









Boat themed boys birthday card using paper cut outs with 3D fish














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