Christmas 2017

Here are this year's Christmas cards, really loved using the Paper Artsy Zinski stamps and the Deep Red snowmen

The Magic of Christmas

Merry Christmas from blogland! Here is a configurations book I made for my mom and dad; it was really fun to make and to decide what to put in each section and basically it was any excuse to cover the entire thing in as much glitter and sparkle as possible!

The cover is painted mostly gold and a bit red inside with some added gilding flakes and chipboard letters painted and then some inka gold in red and them some glitter paint and inside some gilding wax and then I used red sparkle medium through a stencil to make the stars. The snowflake is 3d printed.

Inside the snowman is 3d printed and then painted; then the little tree and wreath I inked and then added some white paint to the tree for snow. Then I used some snowtex type stuff. Wooden letters to spell out noel with some berries. Mini bells, string beads, a 3d printed angel; the little green house is cut out on the cricut, mini pretend lights, a wooden 25th December decorated with gilding wax, glitter in tiny bottles; another little bell; a gingerbread man which is patterned paper and then loads of added glitter and sparkles. And it all couldn't have been done without loads of heavy body gel medium to stick everything down.

Happy Mother's Day!

Well Happy Mother's Day to all mother's out there......

Here are this years cards I made. The gold one is a variety of gold paints and gelato with a frame also then painted gold; in the background of the frame is some metallic leaf stuck down and then the letters a pre-made plastic ones that I've added some paint to (which makes me wonder if we could print some letters like this on the 3d printer.....).

Then I added a bunch of buttons and embellishments also painted and waxed and glitter added to finish.

This one is a couple of paper artsy fresco paints and then some paint through a stencil; then I made a heart and letters using a silicone mold with some modelling paste and then I added some ink and wax to the heart to colour it. A quick swipe of gelato finishes the corners.

Finally one of the monthly Splodge away kits was this wishing well kit which I thought was ideal for mothers day. I glued it all together and then I used texture paste with a splodge away stencil which came with the kit for the bricks. I then painted it with paper artsy fresco paints; these new limited edition ones are my new favourite colours (you might have noticed!!). I used texture paste with a splodge away stencil which came with the kit for the bricks. Then I filled it with chocolate hehe!!

Somewhere over the rainbow....

Well I made this rainbow today.....I started it a while ago.....by creating a rainbow of Dylusions ink sprays on a canvas board then I left it for a while and I just uncovered it today and thought hmm I think I'll finish this off.

Basically it's an assortment of buttons, sequins, glitter, beads and other embellishments; with some added assortments of paint, glazes, waxes and whatever else sprung to mind....

The true hero of the piece other than the power of the rainbow itself was Golden's extra heavy gel medium which just sticks everything down but in a less gluey way than glue and is just an excellent medium to work with.

Faith

It's the last craft barn challenge.....this time the words are faith and harmony.....I found this quote by J M Barrie - All the world is made of faith, trust and pixie dust.

I wrote the words with paint pens and coloured in the sections around the edge also and drew a flower. I added some glitter and gilding wax also.

Edit: Inspired by the others who've created collages of all of this years challenges, here's mine....I forgot some of these were even this year!!

Christmas card

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.

Nowhere

The words this time for the Craft Barn challenge are hug or nowhere. It turns out nowhere is not a very common word, couldn't find it in any of my poems books, didn't really want to use hug either; so had a bit more of a think and thought maybe I could do something Halloween themed - and I found this quote from the movie Halloween, when Laurie is talking to Tommy about the boogeyman. It gave me an excuse to use my Halloween masks as well.

So I stuck down the four masks and sprayed over orange and purple Dylusions and some water and then I wrote on the quote with a purple pen and then added some wink of stella to the word Halloween and the I put some distress ink around the edge and finally added orange and purple glitter.

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.

Things and things

Helllooooooooooo

So here are a few things I've made recently.....

This one was a flower I stamped ages ago and I finally got around to turning it into a card, adding a touch of glitter and a greeting.

 This one is mostly Tim Holtz papers, with some gilding wax, a few fibres with some gold mod podge and a gem

 I made some Mars Bar crispy cakes for Easter, any excuse to put little pink chicks on things hehe!

 This one is a stencil, I just used distress inks and a craftwork cards greeting

Others things I've made

I've not posted in a few weeks so here are some more things I've made...

This one is pretty much all craftwork cards stuff; plus some added picked raspberry distress ink

This one I used a stencil with some texture paste and then used distress ink over the top; then a couple of mats and gems, and I cut out the 40 on the cricut

 This is a ginger and treacle tray bake, from one of the Great British bake off books

This one I used a new stencil in the background using pastels and distress inks; added a couple of mats and pearls; I coloured the little wooden robot I think it was with alcohol inks and metallic glaze and a craftwork cards greeting

Finally I made this with my new Lavinia stamps......love these!! I made a background with Dylusions and then stamped the fairy houses etc and added some colour with distress inks and a craft nib, and added a touch of glitter and a greeting

Melt Art

Helllo!!!

I had a play with the melt pot last weekend, haven't used it in ages...so wanted to try out some new things. I had a silicon alphabet mould I hadn't used yet - so I made some letters with various UTEE's and put glitter and gilding flakes and stuff in the mould, and I made a little mini canvas with some of the letters. The background being Dylusions, a bit of detail sparkle medium and black in round the edge. I made some other stuff too but they might show up on future projects ;)

In other news....here is a card I made! Simply it's sparkle medium through a stencil on to black glossy card, and a Craftwork cards greeting.

Just realised there was no stamping involved on either of these either....

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.

Final alpha challenge....

Phew the alpha challenge is complete - here's the link to the Craft Barn

The final two letters were X and I.....

Now there were about 6 words beginning with X, one of them being the letter X itself so not much choice so in the end I went with Xylophone. There was already a some ink on the page from Y on the next page so I also added some blue paint. I cut out rectangles and glued them down and then made a beater from a pipe cleaner and some card. I stamped a few music notes as well.

 Then for I, I chose a word I found reading the dictionary and that is Ichthyology the scientific study of fish - picture has a little too much reflection in it but the background is distress stain in blue and some silver round the edge and then I stamped some fish on some paper I had already inked and then cut them out and stuck them down and drew on some lines and measurements etc.

 Finally I finished off the front cover by painting it with gesso, then I made use of a few things I had for Christmas one was the cricut mini so I cut out some letters for A2Z and inked over them and I used some gilding wax around the edge, also some distress stain and then I painted the whole thing with gold shimmer mod podge and sprinkled on some glitter before it dried.

Wow and that's the whole year done!!