Hi, it's time for my second piece for Country View Crafts and January's theme is 'Inspired by Bottles'. Call me sad, but I love ships in bottles, so this is my ship on a bottle.
My version is more Pirates of the Caribbean than Little Mermaid, but that's to be expected with a Stampotique mermaid.
I started with a clear bottle and filled it with glass beads. I added a couple of drops of Salty Ocean re-inker to water and topped up my bottle. I then mopped up the water and picked up the beads that had floated up and out!
My waves are from a Dyan Reaveley plate, and my Sheena Douglass sunken ship has been stamped onto black shrink plastic. The seaweed is a very old stamp that's been stamped onto acetate.
Such a scary mermaid needs a quote from a scary film, and they don't come any scarier than Saw.
She's been coloured with pencils and cut out and attached. Sticking things to glass is such fun - not!
So would you like to play a game with her - you wouldn't win!
I hope you like my bottle, and there's still plenty of time for you to join in with our challenge, so find your inspiration in a bottle (that sounded better in my head,alcohol is not compulsory lol)
Have a great day, and thanks very much for looking x
Hi, it's time for my second piece for Country View Crafts and this time I'm heading for the city.
Another song I'm afraid, they just seem to get into my head, so I'll share it with you here and it can get in yours :-)
A very simple Brusho background made with lemon, yellow, and orange on Ranger Watercolour card.
The stencil is by Sheena Douglass, and I've also stamped the Stampotique Neverending wall and coloured with Distress pens.
I've used crackle paint for the Eiffel Tower.
I've stamped and water coloured some Stampotique stamps and cut them out.
A little bit of stitching on the plants
More stamping with Stampotique alpha stamps.
... and all done.
So I now have Summertime in the country and in the city.
There's still time to join in with our challenge, so please join us at Country View Crafts.
Thanks very much for looking x
Hi, and happy Sunday. Here's my 2nd DT piece for the Country View Crafts Simply Scenic challenge.
I've used a mixture of Brusho crystals and Dylusion spray inks.
Next some stenciling with Sheena Douglass stencils and DecoArt paints.
That's as good as my scene setting gets :-)
All of my Stampotique favourites have been stamped and watercoloured. Much cutting and sticking and the family portrait is all done.
Still a few sad faces here, wouldn't it be nice if they all had Chessy's lovely smile....
Well now they have!
Much happier, although Alice does remind me of a demented ventriloquist's dummy lol
And the Queen is definitely not amused.
This was fun to make, and you've still plenty of time to enter our scenic challenge, so please join in.
I'm also entering this into the Love 2 Create challenge - anthything creative, and Craft Stamper take a stamp - anything goes.
Thanks very much for looking, and enjoy your weekend x
The theme at Tag Along this week is frogs, so here is one of my favourite frogs, Old Timey Frog from Stampotique.
A stage of the Tour de Yorkshire came quite close to where we are, but I think my guys could have beaten them.
I used the Andy Skinner method to make a rusty paint background for the bikes with DecoArt paint, and the frogs are on a Media acrylic spray background.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x
