Illustration Friday - Slither

This was the first thing that came ot my head!!!

Bath Bombzzzz!

I made this for my Mom because she loves Lush..but the products are so expensive! This one is lavender scented and has little glittery bits in it. It took me a while to get the recipe right. I kept adding too much witch hazel and it kept fizzing up! It probably has more baking soda in it than it should, but this was the only was I could get the mixture to dry up.It smells nice and makes your feet soft..so all is good! I tied a bow aroud it, stuck a jewell on it and put it in a cake case for presentation.

Lady Bug Ring

Pretty Bows and Lady Bug Ring

The black one with the Lady Bug is going to be a necklace...once my chain has come through the post! The pink one with the cat will be a hair clip for my house mate (she is sooooo emo).

The Red rose is a ring that I made from felt and stuch a Lady Bug in the middle to make it extra cute :-)

Tape Measure Rosettes

OK. So it's not an illustration but hey... I saw some funky shoes in the Bullring that had TapeMeasure Rosettes on them. This sparked a little idea into my head..so I rushed off to the rag market and stocked up on tape measures. To my excitement (and I was actually squeeling with joy) they had them in different colours! Yay!

So I started with the big pink one (centre) with a tutorial on youtube. Then I did the blue one (bottom left).

the small ones were done with scraps of measure that I had left, except for the green one. It's quite addictive! They all have badges on the back so can be worn as brooches.

My favourite one that I made was a green one similar to the big blue one. I stuck a Hello Kitty button in the middle. But my house mate has stolen it and is wearing it now as I type...

Illustration Friday - Adrift

At the moment I'm OBSESSED with Totoro. I watched Studio Ghibli's "My neighbour Totoro" the other week and since then I've been mad about him. When I saw that the word for Illustration friday was "adrift" the first thing that came to my head was Totoro. So.... I decided to draw Totoro, with a smaller Totoro on a leaf floating on the water. The leaf idea came from the leaf that he wears as a rain hat, and the smaller Totoro is playing the acorn that they play up in the giant tree. Done in watercolor and pencil.

Muddy