Well yes my blog does still exist......

I've not posted anything in ages but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything of course.....here are some of the cards I've made, can't remember if I've posted any of these before. I'm currently distracted by 3D printing things....but that of course will be for another post! 

 This one is spray inks, stamps, stencils, embellishments, prima art alchemy paints, glitter, and a few other things besides! (Paper Artsy and Lavinia stamps)

 This one is mostly distress crayons, a few die cut cogs a little drawing a craftwork cards greeting

 This is distress ink through a stencil and some white pen drawn on

 This one is a indigo blu periodic table stamp, and distress crayons and gelatos and a paint pen on the top

 This one is Seth Apter dies, some inks and gelatos etc. and some gilding flakes too

 This one is pearlescent medium through a stencil and then lavinia stamps and purple ink

 This one is a stamp coloured in....I've totally forgotten which stamp set this is from...sorry stamp maker! Coloured with wink of stella i think

 This is ink and a background bark stamp and then another stencil with pearlescent medium

 This one is a create a scene die (X cut i think) with a lovely fox

 This one is watercolour crayons and paper artsy stamps

 This one I think is dylusions paint and then stamps over the top and maybe some gelatos

Cards

Here's a couple of cards I made.....this one is some Darkroom door stamps in blue and red archival ink and I hand wrote on the Happy birthday with Derwent Graphik pens.

 Here is this years Valentine's card.....picture is not too great as the light wasn't very good when I took the picture but it's various metallic paints in the background, then I made the heart our of fibre paste and covered it in treasure gold gilding wax and then the letters are Tim Holtz that I also added some treasure gold to; and I drew on the gold hearts around the edge with a Posca pen.

Cards

Helloo....

Here are a couple of cards I made....

The first one is an Indigo Blu stamp coloured in with wink of stella pens and with a few swipes of tango and london bus fresco paints in the background and I stamped on the bird stamp. I used part of a tree stencil from Splodgeaway and a little distress around the edge.

 The second on I got a piece of material and frayed the edges and added some alcohol inks and then gloss mod podged it down accentuating the brush lines which also ran into the ink, before it dried I stamped the map on some paper and then stuck it on top and added a bit more mod podge and little of the ink bled through on to the map. The greeting is a Craftwork cards one.

Cards and things

Hello.....

I've been busy in the craft room today.....here are some cards I've made, actually made these first two a week before....

JOfy stamps from Paper Artsy here on a background made from luminarte primary elements, reeves pearlescent medium and a couple of paints, fastened down with washi tape. A little tweet tweet stamp at the top and couple of craftwork cards flowers dyed a little pink, with a couple of pearls and a greeting.

This one is a distress ink background and then I used flitter glue and gilding flakes and some more Jofy stamps a little more distress ink and some clear wotsit (i forget the name) to make the bubbles. Oh and craftwork cards greeting.

I've also been working today on a secret squirrel project, here's a sneak peak......all will be revealed later in the year. Although I just received a set of golden mediums and I have been testing those out to great success :) Photos went a bit blurry but that all adds to the mystery hehehehehe!!!

The Class of 2013

Here are the remaining Christmas cards I've made from this year...plus also a card I made for a Christening as well....

Christmas card

Yellooooooooooooooooo!

Here is another Christmas card I made....

An indigo blu stamp and some mega flakes.....on some coredinations cardstock....stuck down with some washi tape around the edge and then some gold gloss paint all around the edge and a craftwork cards greeting also covered with gold paint (maybe a bit too much gold hehe!!)

The Magic of Christmas

Here is a little something I have made......I have entitled it the Magic of Christmas. I have wanted to create something like this for ages, I keep seeing things in magazines and on blogs and I really wanted to get a configurations box. Well I treated myself to a small one and here is a little box of Christmas joy that I created.

I started by painting the main box in a light green colour and then using flitter glu and gilding flakes around the edge. I got some Tim Holtz trees as well and I dyed this one green, I think this on was part distress stain and part Dylusions and then I added some glitter to the tree and the tiny piece of tinsel. I put cotton wool in one of the tiny bottles and sprinkled glitter on that as well, and I put little gold starts in the other bottle. I painted the two smaller boxes with gold gloss paint that I just got yesterday and already love, so it may now be used on everything hehe! Then I positioned the boxes in the larger box and stuck down the tree and then I added loads of glitters and stars and glitter glue. I also painted some glitter paint around the edge. I then found the star border that I had cut our on the cricut last year and never used, I painted that with glitter paint as well and added a few more stars and some glitter. Basically it was an excuse for me to cover everything in glitter:)

Gilding flakes are ace!!!

Hehe erm well they are.......here are a couple of cards I made with my new favourite technique you don't want to stand to close to me in case I try and gild you mwahahahahahaa!!

Anyway I got the Indigo Blu starter kit with gilding flakes and it it brilliant, here is a card I made with an Indigo Blu stamp and mega flakes and I also used some free hand in the corners with a quickie glue pen. Also I got some new dies and I really love those as well especially the holly wreath, which I used on some Coredinations, and finally I added a Craftwork cards greeting in the centre.

I used the same stamp on this one ( sorry the lighting is a bit funny on this photo) only with a different colour gilding flake and then I used some of the silver around the edge as well. I stamped the Get Well Soon with an alphabet set and archival ink. Oh and the background is just distress inks.

Card

So here is a card I made for one of my niece's who was obviously 10!

I used a Tim Holtz die to get the houses on the edge of the card and then some star dies using Core'dinations card. The number 10 is stamped on from an Indigo Blu alphabet set and I hand wrote on the happy birthdays. I added a few sprays of yellow  Dylusions and a smudge of distress ink. To finish off a little bit of glitter on the smaller stars.

Card

And finally here's a card I made....

I sprayed Dylusions on some paper.....yellow and orange for a sunny vibe.....then I stamped on the Paper Artsy birds in the grass, and Indigo Blu Happy Birthday - although I had a slight disaster when I dropped the inked up stamp on the page.....you can still see it but it's mostly covered up....phew!

I also stamped on the butterflies from the same Indigo Blu set using Spiced Marmalade and Walnut Stain distress inks.......and I just can't help it but after cutting out and sticking down the paper on the card I went round the edge with walnut stain distress ink.....nothing seems to be finished off without it :)

Cards and things...

Here are some cards I've made including this year's Mother's Day cards....

 This one was drawn Zentangle style cut out and layered on some card and a little bit of washi tape in the background

 This one again the centre is Zentangle inspired with repeated daffodils and then the background is some texture paste through a flower stencil and then sprayed with Dylusions and then I stuck some flowers on the top

 This is a stamp I got last week from Papermania......I just stamped and coloured it with Promarkers and added the greeting and a little distress around the edges oh and a little bit of glitter to finish

 This was a background made using Dylusions and stencils and I then tore it out using a ruler for a straighter edge and then walnut stain around the edge and another set of new stamps these ones from Indigo Blu and then in the far background I stamped grass and flowers I think from a Paper Artsy set and then on the inside I stamped another flower from the same Paper Artsy set and coloured with Distress inks

 I also had a go at making some chocolates for my mom and here are some of the results.....I just melted various chocolate bars and put them in silicon moulds and added a few bits and pieces like choc chips and fudge sauce and then once set I added a few decorations......silver shimmer, gold stars, metallic paint...all edible of course!

And I decorated this little basket to put them in......a layer of gesso followed by some Paper Artsy fresco paint in pink some washi tape around the handle, a little bit of ribbon and some pink tissue paper.....