Tuesday 21 February 2012

I was inspired to be creative today by QVC's craft day.....

Here is a scrapbook page I made; which I was pretty pleased with. I got to use one of my new Stampotique stamps, and finally did some scrapbooking which I haven't done any of for ages. I used a lid to create the circles with paint which I thought gave a really good effect



Here are some of the recent cards I have made.....
I had a goody bag from Craftwork cards.....which I've started to make use of here.....I really like Warren the rabbit





Also recently I was inspired to buy a brayer.....I really love watching Barbara Gray demonstrate on the telly. It's taken a while to get used to but I was quite pleased with these two. Also I really like creating these scenic cards.....I bought a few sets of scenic stamps....and I finally got my hands on some Hobby Art Scene It's stamps which I absolutely love



 The one below I experimented using my brayer with distress inks and it worked really well; I used some white acrylic paint to create the clouds; and I don't know how I lived without them before but I got some cut n dry nibs and they are brilliant. I used them with my distress inks to add to extra shading and colour to the images
 Finally I was experimenting with various techniques and created the below card.....I stamped the robot man from Paper Artsy using silver paint on black card and it worked really well. Then in the background I stamped some mini scripts from Chocolate Baroque and then stamped and clear embossed to create a resist and used some distress inks over the top. Then used a few strokes of paint on the card itself to create a messy background.

Here were the cakes and chocolates I made for my boyfriend for Valentine's day that's just gone.


I went for chocolate overload......chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream and chocolate decorations.....oh and I added banana too.....and I can tell you they tasted yummy!!
Here is my first blog post...woohoo!

I wanted to start a blog to be able to record and share some of my crafty creations and other random thoughts....

I am really into altering items at the moment....at least when I get the time....

Here is a little suitcase I decorated the other day...


I used purple acrylic paint and also a purple metallic paint......then I used some white paint on the corners to give a more distressed look. Then added some embellishments and stamped on some images; and I mod-podged on a thesaurus page after dying it with alcohol inks!