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

Here are some cards I made. The first one is a Sweet Poppy stencil coloured in with Wink of stella pens and a craftwork cards greeting and some distress ink.

 This one I a skyline stencil coloured with distress ink and a greeting.

This one a Stampotique stamp on a dylusions background  and some modelling paste through a stencil and some little pearl drops and some glitter paste and a greeting

 This one is some Tim Holtz stamps coloured in with derwent inktense pencils and a little gelatos and another Craftwork cards greeting.

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.

Cards

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

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.

Card

Here is a card I made....

An 80 cut on the cricut from patterned paper, inked round the edge. Some more patterned paper in the background. I stamped on the Happy Birthday and added some gems. I also added some ink and gilding wax round the edge.

Destiny

Hello. Craft Barn time again - words this time are destiny or gift, I couldn't find anything fun so I went with this Shakespeare quote.

I used distress ink mostly in the background, some stuff was already left on the page from the previous page as well. Then I drew on some stars and the words using a posca pen, a wink of stella pen and a molotow pen.

Better

Helllooo!

This time the Craft Barn words are patience or better. I found this funny rhyme about sneezes in a book of nursery rhymes that contains the word better.

Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger;

Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger;

Sneeze on Wednesday, receive a letter;

Sneeze on Thursday, something better;

Sneeze on Friday, expect sorrow;

Sneeze on Saturday, joy to-morrow.

I created the background with Dylusions, tar gel, texture paste, sparkle medium some through stencils, also various paints and also some distress inks. Then I randomly wrote on the rhyme with a Molotow pen.

Happy 70th Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Hope you have a lovely day :)

Here are all the crafty things I got up to for my mom's birthday.

Firstly I decorated an album

It comes already pink with the edges already shaped I just added decorations, photos, ink, paints, stamping etc etc. I also used quite a few mediums with stencils etc. to get different effects, I tied it all together with ribbons.

 Next I decorated this cake shaped box - the lid comes off so I could put some presents inside. I painted it with gesso and then sprayed on Dylusions in hindsight the gesso was probably a bad idea as the Dylusions rub off quite a bit but I got there in the end with a little distress as well. I then cut out some butterflies on the cricut and stuck them on as well as some butterfly stickers I had. I used a silver pen to go round the bottom of each layer and then I added spots of glitter all over.

Then there's the card.....which is texture paste over a splodgeaway owl stencil and then covered with distress inks. Then I cut a 70 out of coloured paper on the cricut and stuck it on.

Then I made a cake - it's a coffee cake with coffee flavoured butter cream on the inside. Then I iced it and decorated with butterflies and a 70 and some shimmer powder.

Easier

Well only just managed to get this one done in time. The words for this Craft Barn challenge were easier or childhood.....I spent ages looking for a quote to inspire me but couldn't come up with anything so in the end just went with the obvious Easier said than done.

I ended up doing it a bit backwards because I drew the letters whilst on holiday but I didn't have any inks or paints to do the background with, so had to leave that for when I got home. The letters are metallic Molotow pens and then the background is just a hodge podge of Dylusions and distress inks, and a little zentangley type stuff on the side - I would have done some more Zentangle but I didn't have time.

Roald Dahl

Well I went to Hobbycraft last week and picked up some new goodies.....a pack of metallic Molotow paint pens......I don't think I can ever own enough pens; a pack of calligraphy pens to experiment with lettering and all the Roald Dahl stuff (from Do Crafts) was half price, so I got a paper pack which is ace. Already I want them to release some more stuff with different characters on - Magic Finger, Twits, Georges Marvellous Medicine, Matilda, Witches - if anyone's listening hehe!!!

Anyway here are the cards I've made so far....mostly just with the addition of a little distress ink or paint/glitter pens.

Grace

Craft Barn challenge time - the words are peaceful or grace, not really my kind of words......have to be all serious hehe!! Anyway I settled on this poem by Emily Dickinson called The Wind and I've just put the last part of it on my page.

It was the reverse of the page from my previous challenge so I just decided to leave the ink blobs that had bled through as part of the background I quite like doing that with whatever splodges and blobs I've managed to leave from previous work.

I used blue pastels in the background and then I used salty ocean distress over a splodge away stencil for the tree. The I used a metallic molotow pen to draw the leaves like they are blowing off the tree in the wind. Then I just simply wrote on the words with a calligraphy pen.

Thing

Here's the latest Craft Barn challenge the choices were thing or family.

I decided to go with this poem A Song on King William the third - author unknown - although I just noticed that there seems to be a similar poem by Robert Burns also.

On my page there was still some residue of the pastels from the previous page but I then sprayed on some Dylusions. I added some fresco paint in white and then dripped on some distress reinker to make the blobs. I wrote on the poem with a green Posca pen and I stamped some Tim Holtz stamps in green archival.

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.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Here is this years birthday card....

A balloon stencil....I get all my stencils mixed up so can't remember who this one is made by......I used extra heavy gel medium mixed with fresco paint and also luminarte silk paints to get the greens and blues through the stencil. A little distress around the edge and a craftwork cards greeting.

Mind

Here is my entry into the latest quotes and lyrics challenge over at the craft barn

The words this time are mind or ignorance - I went with mind and an Edward Lear limerick

There was an old man of Three Bridges,
Whose mind was distracted by midges,
He sate on a wheel, eating underdone veal,
Which relieved that old man of Three Bridges.

I couldn't fit it all on the page so it's just the first part.

The pink background is pastels and the writing is a fine Sharpie with a little Wink of Stella for good measure. I decided to join the Splodgeaway club and those flowery leaf stencils came with the fist package, I just used distress ink with them. As always a little walnut stain mysteriously ended up around the edge hehe!!

Cards

Here are some cards I've made recently, don't think I've posted these.....

This one is gilding flakes stuck to flitter glue through a splodge away owl stencil. With some colour bloom sprays and distress inks.

This one is clear texture paste through another splodge away stencil and then distress inks over the top, and some fine sparkle medium on the leaves.

 This one is another splodge away owl stencil (some kind of theme going on here hehehe!), this time I dyed some paper artsy grunge paste with distress reinker and then added some distress ink round the edge.

Proud

Hello blogland! Just sneaked this one in on time.......for the Craft Barn challenge, this time the words are proud or vintage. I searched and searched and almost gave up and eventually ended up with this nursery rhyme.....that includes the word proud. Apparently a moppet is a rag doll!

To create my page I used opaque paper artsy paints in the background. I then wrote the quote with a molotov pen. I stamped JoFY stamps in black archival and then used translucent paper artsy paints and also the metallic glaze to paint the stamped images. Finally I added a little distress ink peacock feathers and black soot around the edge.

Mountain

It's another Craft Barn challenge; this time the words are mountain or mistake. As usual the search began for a quote that inspired me, and I actually saw this quote via Goodreads pop up which was perfect for the task. It is a quote from The Land of Heart's Desire by W.B. Yeats.

Here is my page.

I used two distress inks to create the blue background - salty ocean and peacock feathers. I then used part of a splodge away stenskape to create the mountain with black distress ink. I stamped the lavinia ivy at the top with archival ink. I then wrote out the quote with a white posca pen and then outlined all the letters with a pink wink of stella. Finally I stamped on the fairies and stars (also lavinia) and coloured in their wings with pink and purple wink of stella pens.