Just for You

Here's a sneak peak at my card for Creative Studio's. Please pop over if you get the chance. Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

I Believe I Can Fly

It's the fabulous Arwen's first time to be hostess over at Stampotique and for her challenge she has chosen wings. Here's what she says.

Wings have something mystical for me. Angels have wings, fairies, my favorite animal: the bat :) Love and positive feelings give wings. Today I would like to see what gives you wings. I am very curious about your creations.

Here's my MDF tag.Lots of layers of paint, pastels and stamping on this one which equals one very happy bunny making it.

I started by painting my tag very roughly with Silks paints.

Next came lots of stencilling and stamping. I've used 

Vintage Script (of course, don't I always)

Journey Collage - another favourite

Hutching's - it's a favourites day out lol

Next came more stencilling with my uber sparkly metalic PanPastel's through a leaf stencil. The copper and golds are to die for.

Jo's Great Moon was stamped onto book paper and Stella was coloured with Prisma pencils.

Her wings are from Big Bee and have been stamped onto vellum.

The quote is part of World All Her Own

Here it all is again with her wings on straight lol.

Janet's Trees and Bushes have been painted and layered.

This was such fun to make, thanks very much Arwen. I hope you will join in with our wings theme and remember NO DIGI's :-)

I'm also entering this into the PanPastel challenge which is Anything Goes, and

Fashionable Stamping Tag Along.

Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking xx

Tag Along For PaperArtsy and Artistic Outpost

The wonderful Ellen Vargo is over at PaperArtsy this week, and she's been wowing us with her colourful abstract paintings. I tried to follow her day 2 technique to add to my tag book.

I pretty much followed her colours and instructions and all was well until we got to here.

I love this way of creating a background and will certainly use this technique again.

Next came the book pages and stencilling. I tried the Autumn Fire fresco but it didn't show up too well, so I went over with Cinnamon on two and Claret on the other. A bit bold I know but I liked it.
Then came my disaster, I stamped the Artistic Outpost images with my usual Versafine, but I think it's dried up a little. They didn't show up at all well but I couldn't  just stamp over. My middle tag was fine 'cos I used a Brilliance inkpad instead. So not wanting to be beaten, I stamped the images again on PA tissue paper (and before you beat my door down it was my last sheet so the pressure was on) 

They are not what I had hoped for but sometimes things don't go according to plan (I don't normally blog these though lol).
All the stamps used are by Artistic Outpost, from the Typography, Whimsical Melange, French Flight, and Birds of a Feather plates, and I will try them all again when my new Versafine arrives :-)
I'm linking these to the PaperArtsy challenge and also Artistic Outpost Anything Goes challenge. 
Hope you have a good weekend - I'm going to visit my sister and it's into London for us so happy days :-)
Thanks very much for looking x

Be Strong and Grow

Here's a little look at my latest Creative Studios piece.
If you get the chance, please pop over and take a look.
Hope you like it x

Brrr....

We're continuing the theme of stars this week at Stampotique, and I've made a little stary ATC.

I stamped Brrr... onto black card and embossed in white, then I stamped the stars from Design Cube and embossed in a white and silver mix.
Brrr... has been coloured with Prisma pencils along with the border around the edge. The frosty bits are glass glitter.
As always there are 2 $30 gift certificates for the lucky winner of the draw this month, so please join in the fun.
Hope you like my chilly ATC, and thanks very much for looking x

Live, Laugh, Love

It's been ages since my IndigoBlu stamps have come out of their box, so while Neil was watching the football I had a play. Their current challenge is to use your favourite IB stamp. Although they have many beautiful stamps, this was an easy choice for me 'cos I have this Script Background. I really don't want to count up how many script stamps I have, and they are ALL my favourites :-)
I've stamped Clematis Flourish onto white card, and again on vellum and covered with gilding flakes. I've just cut the flowers and birds out and layered. The sentiment is from Live Laugh Love. 
I'm also entering this into the Country View Crafts  challenge which is monochromatic. You are allowed black and white, and I've chosen shades of gold for my colour.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

It's Hearts and Butterflies for PaperArtsy

The lovely Alison (aka Butterfly) is guest designer at PaperArtsy this week, and she has made a gorgeous hanging for our inspiration (here), and this is what I have come up with.

I started with a plaque from the MDF man and painted it in the same colours of Fresco paints that Alison used.
I then stamped and embossed the sentiment from Darcy 01. I thought the background looked a little bare, so I stamped the words from the Ding and Dong plate in gold and clear embossed. I had my usual problem with the wonky stamping. I do have a stamp positioner but it seems that it wont work if I leave it in the box lol. I then stamped the same stamp in coffee archival and clear embossed again.
I painted some book pages in reds and reds/greens, and stamped the butterfly and heart from the Darcy plates.

I added a touch of Frantage embossing powders in gold and green to finish off.

I enjoyed making this and will definitely try the 'blob and stipple' way of painting again.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend, and thanks very much for looking xx

Shoot For The Moon

It's the lovely Sam's turn to pick the theme at Stampotique this week and she has chosen stars. 
I don't know one person who doesn't enjoy looking at the stars. Stars fill us with a sense of fascination and wonderment. Earliest societies mapped and traced stars. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second and because stars are so distant, many of them millions of light years away means we look in to the sky from the distant past. Therefore I am inviting you to use stars in your creation this week, as the main image or as an accent. I can't wait to see what you make, have fun!
I've made a stary piece for my Stampotique chippie album.

 We've both chosen the oh so cute Hazelheart, and given her a falling star, I've not copied Sam honest, you must be channelling crafty ideas through the rubber lol.

I've started by giving my chippie a coat of lumpy gesso (it's very old and the conservatory is flippin cold) I've cut the moon and stars with a Tim Holtz die and used the waste as a stencil for the pastels. I'm loving the new metallic pans, I've used silver and gold here.

Next I stamped and embossed Fax To Wolfgang and cut out with the die. It was then gone over with Versamark and the gold and silver PanPastels were dusted over the top, then edged around in black.

I used France's Design Cube around the edges - everybody NEEDS this stamp, it is SO versatile.

Shoot For The Moon has been stamped directly on the chippi, I practised about 5 times. perfectly straight, then as soon as I go for it I do it wonky!! I don't know how I do it, just lucky I guess :-) This is why I don't often stamp directly to my project.

Hazel's been stamped and cut out (I wonder why) I've coloured her with Prisma pencils, and honestly she hasn't got a five o'clock shadow I just need to practise with my shading lol.

So I hope you can join in with our challenge and remember the rules :-)

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.

If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  

Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.

*No digi stamp creations please*

I'm also entering this into the PanPastel challenge which is 

Anything goes or Silver Lining.

Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking xx