Just another Friday really! Hello and a very happy snowy Friday. I'm sorry that I've not been around much, but my NEW (only a year old) computer is away for repairs. After nursing my cronky old one for many years, I thought a brand new all singing, all dancing one would be the answer to my prayers. NO! It went in, came home, and it was worse. And the numpty had wiped word, and the anti virus etc. It's now in again - can you tell I'm not a happy bunny lol.
Anyway my blogging buddies Valerie and Chrissie have re-launched Tag Tuesday and the first challenge is 'bookworm' - obviously they meant to say book giraffe.
The stencil is by Andy Skinner.
The paints are all DecoArt Media.
The rather spiffing giraffe is from Rubber Dance, and the books and background stamps are by Stampotique.
Have a lovely day, play carefully in the snow, and thanks very much for looking xx
Well rugby's back which means that Neil doesn't notice if I disappear for an hour or two (or three or four) so that's it, I'm in my conservatory and playing!
This is a piece of thick chipboard slightly larger than A4. I wanted to make my own art journal so this is the front cover - there's nothing to go in it yet lol.
It's all made with Deco Art paints and mediums, and Andy Skinner stencils, stamps, and techniques.
We have rusted modeling paste.
Some stamping and crackling.
More rust and Metalic Lustres on Mr Monopoly Guy.
I really enjoyed the peeled paper technique.
I spent hours doing this, it was such fun and I just kept on adding bits - due to the highlights (repeats) of the rugby, no-one noticed!
My blogging friend Rachel is hosting the challenge at Stamps and Stencils so I'm entering this over there.
Have a wonderful week, and thanks very much for looking x
Good morning and happy Saturday. I've really enjoyed the latest PaperArtsy challenge which is Pink and Orange, so I've been playing with my paints again. These really are my happy colours, and the butterfly came from a sheet of uncut rubber so it was good to get them inky.
There's lots of Fresco's, stencilling, and stamping.
Grunge paste and Treasure Gold. The sun is shining this morning so I may even get an outdoors shot
I've used
HP1204EZ
EEG16
HP1203
HP1503EZ and
ESN11
I'm also linking this to the Mixed Media Monthly February challenge which I think fits in beautifully with these happy sweets and colours.
Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking x
Good Morning and happy Friday. I'm really happy to be sharing my second 30 minute project for Country View Crafts, and this one took me 25 minutes (oh no it didn't - oh yes it did!!)
However, as I 'owe' 5 minutes from my last card, I guess that makes us all square.
PaperArtsy recently had an alcohol ink challenge on their blog and I learned this technique there. In the example canned air was used, but I simply take a few drops of alcohol ink, a drinking straw, and blow... a lot!
Next I added some stamping with JOFY 14, JOFY 09, and ELB 06, and filled the images in a little bit with Prisma pens.
Then a bit of matting, layering and stitching to hold it all together and we're done with 5 minutes left to spare - ta dah!
So 30 minutes or less is all I'm asking for you to join in with our challenge - you can get the supplies ready and tidy up again in your own time lol.
Have a fabulous weekend, and thanks very much for looking x
Good Morning, happy Wednesday, and welcome to my second blog post of the day. Thank goodness for the power of Blogger, or I would have to get up really early! It's February at last, I always think that January is the longest month (I know that technically it is, but you know what I mean.
It's my turn to choose the challenge this month at Country View Crafts, and as usual I've chosen something that's very hard for me - I don't know why I keep on doing this lol.
So this month I want you to create something in 30 minutes or less.
I must admit I've used every cheat in the book for this one. I've used pre-embossed card, stamp and die sets, and a very limited paint palate.
It's the first time I've used this Tim Holtz stamp and die set, so I just stamped everything onto Ranger Watercolour paper and cut it all out. I then worked out what size card I wanted. The images were coloured very simply with Distress Markers
The background card is from a Jenni Bowlin pad and it's already embossed so all I had to do was to cut it and sand.
The words are from the Crazy Thoughts set and they've just been stamped and embossed in black and cut out.
The happy birthday is from Simple Sayings and I really like these stamps. They just do what they say on the tin. I've stuck everything down with silicone glue 'cos it was quick. A quick whizz round on the sewing machine and it was all done.
I hit the stop watch at 35 minutes, which is 5 minutes over BUT (yes there's always a but) I'd taken at least 5 minutes worth of photos so I reckon that I'm OK. Anyway it's my challenge so for this month I'm Queenie!
I hope you join in with my quickie challenge, and remember, I'm a little bit like Santa, I'll know if you've been naughty (I also have white hair between the touch ups, and a big tummy) - thankfully the beard's not turned up yet!
Have a great week, and thanks very much for looking x
Hi and welcome to February. I'm delighted to have joined the Rubber Dance Stamp family, and here is my first design piece.
and here is the inspiration photo with the colours of this months challenge.
I love colour challenges, they make me work with colours that I don't often use (in this case grey) and I really like the results.
So I started by gathering my supplies, I'm using DecoArt paints and Tinting Base.
I stencilled the hearts through a home made stencil.
Then I got busy with the stamps. I've used
I Heart Art
The sentiment from Celestial Images
and stars from Textured Flowers
Here are those happy Textured Flowers again. I typed a few words, pulled off a few petals (no real flowers were harmed during the making of this ;-) ) and there we are all done.
My Seth binder isn't quite as empty now!
Please check out what my teamies have made here then please join in with our challenge.
I'm linking this to the Try it on Tuesday challenge which is Hearts and Flowers. Thank you Chrissie for the heads up :-)
I hope you have a wonderful month, and thanks very much for looking x
Good morning and happy Thursday. I love bright colours, so I was really happy to see the first PaperArtsy challenge of the year was pink and orange. Here's mine.
I gathered loads of Fresco's together, then discovered that they were all transparent, so put them to one side and started with Sherbet and Cheescake.
Now I could put on my happy colours.
Then added some stencilling and background stamping.
I've used
JOFY 12 and
EEG 16
The sentiment is from ELB 06
and my pretty girl is from JOFY 42.
Have I stuck her down a bit wonky - yes I think so, did I mean to do that - of course I did ;-)
I really enjoyed making this, I love these colours together and will use them more often.
Have a great week, and thanks very much for looking x
Good Morning and happy Wednesday. It's my turn to show you my second 'anything goes' piece for Country View Crafts. You may remember my resolution to be more organised and to make my cards early. Yeah well, moving swiftly along, I had some play time instead :-)
Just before Christmas I'd bought a Seth Apter ring binder. I'd decorated the outside but not done anything inside.
I started by applying some DecoArt white gesso with a credit card. Then I stencilled Fired Brick Distress Ink through a rose stencil.
Time to stamp now - lots of Rubber Dance Christmas stamps.
Also some Portfolio pastels through a Tim Holtz stencil. I heated this with a heat gun to melt it a little.
Here are my romantic giraffes. The Kraft Core was cut, embossed, sanded, then stamped and embossed.
Every project needs a pair of romantic giraffes.
There we go, at least one page is now done.
There's still loads of time for you to join in with our 'anything goes' challenge, so please play along.
I'm also linking this to the Rubber Dance blue, red, and white colour challenge.
Have a fabulous week, and thanks very much for looking x
