Monday 24 September 2012

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Here is my first foray into waxed kraft paper.....I dyed it with alcohol ink and then die cut some shapes......the letters were plain chipboard that I coloured with distress ink and glitter......then the background is sanded C'oredinations and I used an Edgability to die cut the edge of the card

Sunday 16 September 2012

And finally this evening....

Here was quite a simple card I made.......but quite effective I think......I used an embossing folder on Core'dinations card and then coloured in the rays using oil pastels......because I forgot all about them and then I saw them being used in Craft Stamper and thought oh yes oil pastels......then I used a little bit of glitter.....went round the edge with barn door and then stuck on a Craftwork cards sentiment.....

Get Well Soon

Here was a get well soon card I made for my dad........I brayed the background although in the end I kind of ended up going over the top of it really......I used a craft nib to colour in using distress ink and the stamps are hobby art mostly and I think the birds a Tim Holtz and the one that looks like a postage stamp was the free stamp with this month's Craft Stamper magazine........

Lithium


Blimey it's taken me this long to realise I can give my posts a title.....even though I read so many other blogs with post titles that I don't know why I've never thought before.......anyway here is my Lithium page......mostly mustard seed distress ink background and then some gold metallic paint, a few stamps here and there although I don't think you can see them on the picture......oh and I found a little spiral that I used as   a mask and went over the top with gesso

Saturday 8 September 2012


I absolutely love learning stuff......and I love creating stuff so I am mixing the two......here are a couple of pages I've made about Hydrogen and Helium.......and hopefully the theme will continue.....although I'm always easily distracted by about a billion others things so who knows.........

The background on Hydrogen is pastel and then I printed and cut out Henry Cavendish and coloured him a little with Promarkers and then wrote on the facts with some pens I had years ago and the yellow symbol was cut out from an old periodic table that we had on the wall but kept falling off and basically that was what inspired the idea in the first place.......and the brown specks are a stamp

Then the other page is a background of distress stains and distress ink and then purple Dylusions.....I can't wait to get some more Dylusions inks as I've only got purple at the moment and I love how messy they are......then I wrote on the facts and I went over the top of the cut out symbol with sparkle mod podge and then I stamped some lids etc with black gesso then I dulled that back down by going over the top with yellow pastel.....and I coloured in the big helium letters with silver Promarker.......

I got a new Cricut cartridge Winter Frolic and this is the first card I've made using it.....I've cut out loads of shapes to use but just got to get round to using them......anyway I just distress inked the background snowflake paper and then stuck down the greeting and little robin in a blue and silver theme......
Here is a 21st birthday card I made......the little fish are part of an Inkidinkadoo set.......and I drew the 21 and coloured it in with markers and put some clear stuff to make to bubbles 3d; and stamped round the edge with a lid dipped in paint.....and the background was some paper that I gessoed over but I put a bit too much as you can't really see the paper any more but never mind still looked OK......