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
Hello and Happy Tuesday. I've needed cheering up today, what with the Man Flu, so I've gone in search of happy.
...and I found it with Trish's gorgeous stamp.
I started with some Dina Wakley paints and Creative Expressions embossing paste in silver and gold.
I love this stamp, it's Whimsy Girl 4 and I've only had her a couple of days so I'm really pleased to get her used straight away.
I'm entering her into the That's Crafty silver and gold challenge.
Have a great week, and thanks very much for looking x
Hi and happy Monday (what's left of it). I've been having a bit of a play today even though I think I'm coming down with the Man Flu. I'm sniffing a lot and feeling very sorry for myself so Man Flu it is!
This is what I made.
I started with a gelli print made from DecoArt Media paints, and die cut a square. Then I stamped the Lost Coast Designs Thick and Thin Men.
Next it was time to get busy with the crackle. First of all I gave it all a layer of DecoArt Weathered Wood, and when it was dry, a coat of Media Crackle Glaze. Next came the Antiquing cream in white and brown.
I cut a clip board top from aluminium tape, and rusted it with Paynes Gray and Quin Gold.
That's it now, I'm going to go and sigh very heavily in the hope that it will get me a cup of coffee.
I'm entering my famous couple into the Lost Coast Designs 'anything goes' challenge.
Have a great week, and thanks very much for looking x
I've been having a bit of a play over the last few days with some new Deco Art chalk paints, Andy Skinner stencils, Seth Apter dies, and lots of stamps.
I started by putting some DecoArt modeling paste through lots of stencils onto an A3 canvas. I'd put a couple of layers of paint on this previously, then chickened out because the size of it scared me.
I've just got some DecoArt Americana chalk paints, so I manned up, chose a few colours and started scraping!
A couple more colours and a bit of white pen and I was happy with the background. To be honest I could have just played at this bit forever.
I used the same colours to paint a couple of mixed media sheets, and stamped them with the Seth Apter PaperArtsy stamps. These were for the die cuts.
Here are the PA stamps again.
And some from Stampendous.
Some die cutting....
This one's my favourite.
The quote is the title of a Robin Williams film from a few years ago. It was very dark and I didn't particulary like it, but it's stayed with me all this time, so perhaps that's the sign of a really good film.
I'm entering this into the 'anything weird or creepy' challenge at Dream in Darkness, the TIMI Anything Goes challenge at Craft Stamper, and the Put A Stencil On It challenge over at Mixed Media Monthly
Thanks very much for looking, and have a great week x
No, don't worry it's not Christmas all over again, it's just that Snow, Snow, Snow is the challenge over at IndigoBlu this month. So as I still had a little bit of my Christmas stash hanging around, and I'm determined not to get caught out by Christmas next time, this is what I made.
I don't actually have any IndigoBlu snowy stamps, so I've had to improvise with Rain Droplets
and Circle Dot Background.
I stamped the wonderful Stag Night and covered him in gilding flakes, but he didn't show up too well so he's been used in the background. I've used bits of the waste to make domed stickers.
I love how he looks embossed in black.
The design of the card is from Mojo Monday. I really struggle making cards so it's nice to have a sketch to work with.
Way hey, Christmas card number one done - definitely a result!
Have a very happy week, and thanks very much for looking xx
The words are from the Crazy Thoughts set and they've just been stamped and embossed in black and cut out.
