Christmas 2019

Woah a blog post....here are some of this year's Christmas cards. Loving the Paper artsy zinski cats and the Hobby art sprouts!!

Class of 2015!

Well it's long time no blog for me.......! So here are this years Christmas cards I've made...

 I've had these sparkly flowers for a while and finally got round to using them

 Some sparkle medium on black card and I've got these Tim Holtz word stickers which are really useful

 Sparkle medium again....this and above are both prima stencils

 There's a mixture of Oxford Impressions, Paper Artsy, Hobby Art, Dylusions and Stampendous I think. I used Derwent Inktense to colour in santa as well.

 This is a Hobby Art rudolph

 These are Hobby Art as well

 This is Oxford Impressions with added embellishments

And another with Sparkle medium in a different colour. Merry Christmas!!

Christmas cards

Here are some more Christmas cards I made...well actually this first one is Lee's birthday card, which is a Stampotique monster stamp slightly coloured with wink of stella pens. I added some inka gold in blue and also some ink through a stencil and some washi tape.

This one I used sparkle medium through a star stencil.....really love this stencil. Then I stamped snowflakes, the tiny snowman and Merry Christmas and added a little colour with promarkers on the snowman and then a little distress as well.

This one is two stamps with a touch of promarkers and some festive wash tape on the corners.

This one is a Hobby Art reindeer and the cool yule stamp (not sure which company that's from) mounted on some glitter paper and some washi tape on the top and bottom.

This one was the little robins also hobby art I think and the background was the same star stencil as above but this time with glitter embossing powder.

This one was a little leftover from the star stencil with the sparkle paste and then a robin and postbox stamp from Hobby Art with a little added snow and a craftwork cards greeting.

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Here are some more Christmas cards....

Those are hobby art stamps, with a little added promarker and glitter

 This is a splodge away stencil using grunge paste dyed red and some sprays and ink in the background

 These are hobby art stamps again with a craftwork cards greeting and some fake snow

 Hobby art stamps again on this one and some fake snow and a craftwork cards greeting

 This one is sparkle medium through a tim holtz stencil and some distress spray stains in the background and the toppers are craftwork cards with a little added molotow pen

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Here's one more Christmas card I've finished. It's a Hobby Art reindeer stamp stamped using wow glitter embossing powder in red which I then coloured in with Promarkers and I added some glitter around his feet for snow. The greeting is also a Hobby Art stamp - stamped with red archival ink. I mounted it on some glitter paper before attaching it to the card.

Christmas cards

Here are a couple of Christmas cards I've made....

I got this gingerbread house stencil last week and tested it out.....actually worked even better than I thought.....really love the effect. Basically you get two slightly different stencils that you use one and then the other with different colours to get this effect. It's made by That Special Touch. I used distress ink through the stencil is evergreen bough and festive berries. Then I just added a stamped greeting and mounted it on some patterned paper.

This one used a splodge away snowflake stencil with some clear texture paste and then I used silver distress spray stain plus some distress ink.....that must be evergreen bough as well I think and also some gold gilding wax. Plus a stamped greeting at the bottom (from Hobby Art). The paper in the background is patterned as well but you can't quite see in the photo.

Sheep

Well what d'ya know it's another letter in the alpha challenge over at the Craft Barn not many left now and this time it is letter S. So I was discussing it with my mom and we decided on sheep, so here is my page.

Basically I just really wanted to stick cotton wool to my page hehehe! Anyway so I found some sheep I'd cut out on the cricut and used them as a base and stuck them down, and then I manually cut out some heads. I stamped a few background hills and the ground with some Hobby Art scene it stamps and coloured them a little with mowed lawn distress and slight bit of walnut stain. Then finally I stuck on some cotton wool :)

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Here are some more cards I've made..

For the Christmas card I used texture paste through an old brass stencil I've had for years, and then I went over the top of that with distress ink evergreen bough. I tore out the snowman and glued it on the card and added some ribbon, a Christmas tree and bauble that I found in a random box of Christmas shapes, I stamped on a greeting (Hobby Art) and then I used gold shimmer mod podge and added some Stampendous glitter which is really sparkly :)

I got a mystery box from Paper Artsy which was totally full of new goodies, I painted a background with Fresco finish paints and then stamped on the football image I tore that out and added a greeting.

Walking around in Circles

Hellloooooooooo!

Craft barn challenge time again....actually I'm a week behind.....but that's why it's a good job there's two weeks for each letter, anyway this time it is W and you have to use circles on the background. So I was thinking Weather but when I checked my dictionary I had previously torn that page out for another project. Then my mom text me and suggested walking because I do a lot of it - and so I picked walk out of the dictionary. Even better I could link in the circles with the phrase "Walking around in circles".
 So this time I used Paper Artsy Fresco finish paints - I forget the actual colour names but a light pink and lilac - then I used a scrap bit of card that I'd previously been messing about with stencils and inks on and punched out the circles - I glued them down with sparkle mod podge - which has got glitter in it. Then I drew on the little stick people and stamped the signpost which is from one the Hobby Art scene it sets. Then I used purple archival to stamp the dots (Tim Holtz Ultimate Grunge) and and added some purple glitter. The I used black gesso and a lid to stamp some more circles; and I went around the edge with some walnut stain and dusty concord distress inks. Oh I also drew on some circles as well with a purple fine liner.

 Here's the link - letter W

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 Here are some more Christmas cards....I really love all the ones I've done with my new Cricut cartridge, although sometimes it can be fiddly to cut all the parts out and stick them together, the finished articles look really cute! The background paper is from Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet collection.

For this one I was trying to go for the keep it simple but I struggle where to stop hehe! The tree is from a set of trees I think it might be Creative Expressions not quite sure tho..... I stamped the Hero Arts greeting on acetate and drew on the baubles on the tree and coloured with distress stickles.

I bought some pre cut out trees and used them here. Coloured with silver paint, a kind of brass type paint that I swooshed a bit to get a pattern and then crackle paint. Background paper is Graphic 45 again and the greeting is from Craftwork cards.







This one is a lamp post stamp from Tim Holtz SA and the houses are from the Hobby Art scene it coastal set. Made them look snowy with paint and gesso and used a bit of picket fence distress stain and some more paint for the snow on the ground. Stamped the hero arts greeting with gold paint and put some glitter round the edge....

Graphic 45 papers

Saw these papers at the craft show we went to at Kettering the other week and we thought they were amazing......to be honest they are so lovely I would like to paper the walls with them....

Here is a card I have made with the Christmas papers.......the stamp is a Hobby Art greeting and the background snowflake was the free stamp form this months Craft Stamper mag.

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........

 Here is a wedding card I made for my cousins wedding......I think it was distress strains in the background and some gesso and a spritz of purple dylusions.....then I cut out the flower using grunge paper and a spellbinder die and coloured it with distress ink and I drew the little stick people, die cut that also and lightly went over with spun sugar distress ink I think it was.... then I stamped on the congratulations which is from a Paper Artsy set and I used Staz On and glued down some ribbon and sprinkled some glitter on whilst the glue was still wet.

This was a birthday card for my dad......pastels in the background and then mostly Hobby Art scene its which I love.....and a bit of paint and micro beads around the edge of the card...

Inspired by Dyan Reavely, Kate Crane et al I thought I'd have a go at an art journal......well I don't know if it is going to be a journal.....but I bought a sketch book and I'm going to fill it with whatever I fancy....and here was the first page I made last night....

Sometimes you just can't beat black on a colourful background. It's a background created using pastels and then acrylic paint spirals and black archival stamped at the bottom using Hobby Art stamps.....and I finally remembered the usefulness of a white gel pen and used it to write the saying which was just bouncing about in my head...