All hail the Dylusions paints

Well what can I say....I've been so excited to get my hands on the new Dylusions paints and I certainly wasn't disappointed. They are brilliant. Using the mini blending foam as an applicator is genius and they are so quick drying and the finish is so smooth, no soaking through to the next page either. It's just so easy to create page after page.

Cards

Here are some recent cards I have made.....

The Bee one is using JOFY stamps from Paper artsy painted with fresco paints; then in the background is a die cut honeycomb on a painted background.

This one is random inks then a honeycomb stamp and I used some Splodge away numbers as a mask for the 50's and then outlined them with a white pen. Then stamped the Happy Birthday on another background and added some metallic gelato as well.

This one is birds die cut from patterned paper; with some washi tape, a craftwork cards greeting and a little distress ink

This one is JOFY stamps again coloured in with promarkers and a I hand drew the Happy birthday and mounted it one some bird house paper and added a few buttons.

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!!!

Music - Ode to a Nightingale

Just got this one done in time........the latest craft barn words are passion or music, as usual I spent a while looking for something to inspire me.....and eventually settled on Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats. Here's my page....

I used three distress stains for the background. The branch is a JoFY stamp from Paper Artsy and a printed off a picture of a nightingale and gloss mod podged that on. I used a posca pen for the letters and outlined them with a brown wink of stella pen. Finally I stamped on some music notes.

Truth

It's Craftbarn time again - the words this time are change or truth. I found this poem called The Deacon's masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes - that features the line "In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Here's my page.....I used fresco paints for the background; and then some grunge paste through some stencils and also some Dylusions through some stencils. The tree is a JOFY stamp from Paper Artsy, the tree is stamped in green archival and the leaves in distress; but they faded so I drew over with a fineliner. Then I wrote on the quote and stamped some more trees at the top and bottom.

Just messing about

Well I bought some canvases from Hobbycraft yesterday.....my mom says what you going to do with those? Erm not sure I say....just mess about.....so here is what I have created on the first one.....

So I started off by using some grunge paste (love this already it's thicker than other texture pastes I have so I think it might be using this a lot!) through some stencils, then I sprayed some dylusions and added some paper artsy fresco paints (mostly from the limited edition JOFY set I just got - ace colours) and then also added some definition over the texture paste with some peacock feathers distress ink. Oh I also tried out the technique from paper artsy of stamping into the grunge paste with my tiny little lavinia stars. Not sure if you can it from the picture but it's in the squares on the top right.

Next I used clear texture paste (creative expressions) over the spodge away owl in a tree mask; and then some more grunge paste through the moon stencil from the same splodge away set. Once dried I added some mustard seed distress ink to the moon and also some gold gilding wax. I also used black distress ink around the tree to highlight the owl.

I then mixed some more grunge paste with black paint and used the mountain mask from the same splodge away set to get the mountain in the bottom corner.

I then stamped on the bird (tim holtz) and the fairies (lavinia) and the trees (paper artsy jofy) and the ivy (lavinia). I used paper artsy fresco metallic glaze on the bird and fairy wings. I also stamped some stars with silver distress paint.

I added some stampendous fragments and some other glitter in the bottom corners. I highlighted a few areas with white gel pen. I added some distress ink around the edge. Then I finished it all off with silver gloss paint to highlight the edge, the mountain and a few others spots. I drew on the little birds on the moon. I think the moon is my favourite part.

More cards...

Here are some more cards I have made recently...

This one is a fresco paint background, some washi tape and changito monkey stamp

This one is some washi tape, a crown stamp, a craftwork cards greeting and a spray of Dylusions

 This one was for my sister whose birthday it is today....everybody say Happy Birthday Jemima!! I had a splodgeaway stenscape and it it totally ace....I made a background with spiced marmalade and scattered straw distress inks and then I just used black soot like mr splodgeaway does in the videos it turned out pretty well I did get a few smudges but not too bad for someone whose normally very messy.

 Finally here are some new stamps I had Paper Artsy JOFY - birdies......I stamped them on some Dylusioned paper and cut them out and I stamped the bird house on the c'oredinations and cut that out and sanded it. Then I found some patterned paper tore that out stuck it down edged it with Peacock feathers distress ink and then stamped on the tree in walnut stain added some glitter and finally the greeting in black archival.