26 Feb 2015

Butterfly Trio

Hello bloggers
I have been designing and making Save the Date invites for my Daughters wedding next year over several weeks and we managed to get them completed at the weekend, while I enjoyed the process it has been a nightmare for me to keep my hands clean lol as regulars to my blog know I am a messy crafter and love to get messy in my crafting......soooooo while I had clean fingers and a clean space (dinning room table) I made some CAS cards for me to fall back on.

 
A simple design using pretty papers, butterfly and circle punch, stamps and Ink  Stampin' Up
 
 
I would like to join in the challenge at Less is More  week 212  Theme Wings please be gentle with me all you CAS experts lol,  this really is not a style I am comfortable with and  hope my card is right for the challenge.

thanks for popping in
'till next time


r

23 Feb 2015

Stormy Days

Wall Hanging
Hi everyone hope you all had a good weekend, yesterday I had a crafty day in my PJ's, wonderful  the wind was howling and it was raining  so I was happy to be in the warm.  Firstly though I had to tidy my desk as I had no space to create.........my room is in a terrible mess.........after moving stuff around and making a space I came across a  messy painty background which I had put aside from another project which didn't work for me at the time just shows when you go back to something it can appear completely different.
The background was saying stormy skies so flicking through my stencils I found just the one and an idea was born.

 
The background was made by slapping on  lots of colour with  ranger dabber paints, sorry can't remember which colours as I did this a while ago.
 The stencil I used was Tando Creative City Skyline with texture paste, after drying I went over with gesso this also lightened this area a little when dry I lightly used black soot distress ink on cut and dry foam over the skyline, the gesso changes the colour of the ink and I like the effect I got.  The stamp from Tim Holtz was stamped onto book page paper and embossed with black fine detail embossing powder.  I then mounted my work onto sand and black card which I intend to mount into a frame unfortunately the frames I have I didn't like so this will have to be done later. 
 
I would like to play along at the following Challenges
 
Our Creative Corner challenge Tic Tac Toe  ( using middle line Paints/ Stamps/ Stencils)
 
The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge - use a Tando product (City Skyline stencil)
 
 
 I just had to share this black and white blackbird which hopped into the garden today and I couldn't resist taking his picture
 
 


He was a little camera shy but I got him while he as busy picking up the seeds from under the feeders, I have never seen one with so much white pigment change.
 
Thank you for popping in hope you have enjoyed my project,  also welcome to my newest followers thank you for following my blog.

15 Feb 2015

Two Hearts

Hello and welcome to my newest bloggers thank you for following me and I hope you enjoy popping in.
There are several challenges that caught my eye and inspired me this month which I would like to join in with and I will list them below,  so today I am sharing a card I have been working on for the last few days which dabbles in mixed media something I am fairly new to and always learning mostly by experiments that don't always work lol, but hay ho that's crafting and that's what I love about it. 
I apologise for the photo's but the last 4 days have been grey and overcast dreadful for photography and to get these I had to balance the card onto a large plant in the conservatory.

 
I started with a 6x6 piece of paper from Tim Holtz paper pad vintage shabby which was a pale greyish colour I covered this in picket fence distress stain to lighten the colour next using a Stencil I applied texture paste and left to dry, now as you know I am not the most patient of people  and hate to wait so this part of mixed media - playing the waiting game is hard for me  .....soooooooo I got some other craft stash out and made some backgrounds..............much better than  doing h*******k while I waited don't you agree lol. Sorry I am rambling back to card or else we will be here all day.........texture paste dry I then dry brushed the paste area with Adirondack paint lake mist, when dry this and other parts of the paper were painted with clear rock candy distress crackle paint I also applied paint and crackle to one of my hearts which I die cut from corrugated card with a Sizzix die (very old have had it years). My second heart cut from card was covered in  brushed pewter distress stain using distress ink pumice stone around the edges. Distress inks (as before) were added to all the crackles on my wall and heart, also distress ink pumice stone was added to the distressed edges of the main paper which I tore and curled first.  Tissue tape was added to the paper and the heart, chit chat stickers were added to my "wall" firstly the edges distressed with pumice stone.
sorry about the colour in this photo
 
Next step I made my card blank in white card and stamped the lovely distress corners one of my fav stamps from the Tim Holtz visual artistry collections range of stamps , using distress markers in the same colours as above inks and the spritzer tool these were added in various places on the card edges also onto the main paper, I also added some black soot very liberally. This done the main paper was attached to card blank and I added very small buttons to the burlap flowers and added knots of twine, the wooden word "love" was distressed with tea dye distress ink and an Idea-ology metal tab (precious) was added beneath the heart.
 
again sorry for the greenish tint on the photo really wish the sun would shine here soon!

 
Phew hope you managed to stay with me through this long post, as I mentioned at the beginning several challenges inspired me to make this card,  I really enjoy the challenge of mixed media which I am always nervous about but have come to the conclusion the only mistakes are learning curves lol.
The challenges which inspired me are

 New to me The Mixed Media Card Challenge #8 Love

 A Vintage Journey Tic Tac Toe  - Ribbon/twine / Die Cuts/Stains

Artist Trading Post  Exchange February Challenge- Love is in the Air

 Craft Stamper Magazine Make It Take It Challenge February - Stencilling

Thanks for looking. until next time




Ingredients
Tim Holtz
Distress Inks/distress markers pumice stone, tea dye, black soot. Distress stains picket fence/brushed pewter. Paper pad, Idea-ology, Distress crackle paint clear rock candy, Tissue tape, Stamps Visual Artistry Collections, Spritzer, chit chat stickers, Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabber lake mist.
Others
Sizzix die, texture paste, wooden word, burlap flowers, small buttons, twine, hot glue gun, Stencil Tando , card

8 Feb 2015

Wall Art

Drips and Drops
Hi
Country View Challenges February challenge is Drips and Drops so yesterday I had a lovely day playing in my craft room and getting very very messy I have ended up with several backgrounds for other projects as making Drips and Drops didn't turn out quite as I thought,  It really was a challenge to get a result I was happy with, by the end of my session I really was up to my elbows in paint and messy stuff it was great.

The background I finally decided on was made with Alcohol Inks on glossy card, throw in my favourite man and some of my favourite Tim Holtz stamps and this was the result..........


Umbrella Man was die cut twice and layered up to give more dimension all the stamping was heat embossed with ultra fine black EP. 


I mounted the picture into a black card frame which also got the Stamping and EP treatment the grey border was a little pale so I painted this with pewter distress stains...much better.

Hope you have enjoyed looking at my project and thank you for popping in ......

6 Feb 2015

Love is in the Air

After making my February Tag I had lots of bits and pieces on my desk and decided to make a couple of ATC's some of my favourite things to make and if I have time at the end of a project I like to do this with the left overs and it is very relaxing as I have nothing in mind when I start just to play as I go.  A Vintage Journey's new challenge Tic Tac Toe  was posted this morning  the Line I used was Ribbon/Twine - Die cuts  -Stains, you can also use other products with your chosen Tic Tac Toe.


For the  background on the ATC on the right is used Fired Brick stain directly onto white card and moped up the stain from my craft sheet for the 2nd background which was much lighter.  Embossed with Tim's Embossing Folder I highlighted the raised areas with black soot distress ink direct from pad heavier on the number 14 when dry I smudged gesso over some areas, black soot was applied to the edges.  Tissue tape flower, die cut key, stamped and embossed word which I cut out and lastly twine was tied to key  .  
ATC on the left background as above smeared with a little gesso, stamped and embossed words , tissue tape frill, ribbon, Die cut larger heart smaller ones were punched all from embossed red card distressed with black soot distress ink (same card I used on my February Tag) Here, added some lace and edges with black soot.

I would also like to play at 
Crafty Boots Challenge - Hearts and Valentines

The Artistic Stamper - Love


Thanks for popping by.





5 Feb 2015

February Tag

12 Tags 2015

Here I am today with my version of Tim's February Tag I followed the techniques and used what TH stash I had Background includes 2 Valentine Stickers from and bits and pieces of paper embossed card and stamped card all from my bit box.  Shock horror "no red felt " every colour but red.....so I made my hearts with die cuts and wire.


As always I have enjoyed the journey and I will be linking this tag at Tim's 12 Tags 2015 and also I can play at A Vintage Journey Challenge 24 "Love is in the Air"  my love for all things Tim I  think is very apparent most of my makes include something in his range and I love to make tags so Februarys tag ticks all these happy boxes.

Thank you for looking



Ingredients
Tag and bookplate die, Salvage Stickers Seasonal, paper stash Vintage Shabby, black soot distress marker, picket fence paint, Idea-ology, die cuts, wire.

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