Knowledge

Here is the next craft barn Q&L challenge the words this time are knowledge or hurt. Well I spent absolutely ages searching for a poem I liked and I couldn't find anything that caught my eye. In the end I went for this Albert Einstein quote.

I used three paint dabbers mostly through the sponge dabber so that I left some of the pattern from the sponge . Once that had dried I mod podged down a picture of Einstein and then wrote on the quote with a black Sharpie. Then I drew on the border in a Zentangle inspired way. Finally I added a touch of dusty concord distress ink.

Aquarium

The new letter in the dictionary challenge is A - it took me ages to find a word - there are a lot of boring or unsuitable A words it seems! Anyway I decided on aquarium and a plan soon came to mind....

I used the appropriately named Aqua colour paint dabber on the background; I then found a plant stamp suitable to use as a fish tank plant and stamped that in Mowed Lawn and Forest Moss distress ink. I stamped the two fish - one is Paper Artsy the other is Inkadinkado. Then I drew some bubbles with a fine liner pen and then used clear gloss to make 3D and more like water. I used a craft nib to colour in the fish with barn door, spiced marmalade and salty ocean distress inks. Finally I used a little peacock feathers around the edge.

Here is the link to the Craft Barn

Element

The new letter in the Craft Barn's alpha challenge this week is E.

I decided to choose element - as it fits in with the elements pages I have been doing and gave me an excuse to use my Crafty Individuals bottles of poison set......seeing as a lot of elements are poisonous....

Here is the link to the E challenge page: Craft Barn E challenge
I started off by using paint dabber's peach and lemon for the background.......and I printed off a tiny periodic table and sprayed it with lemon Dylusions and glued that on to the page. Then I stamped various poison bottles etc.  from the Crafty Individuals set and highlighted some of them using a craft nib and distress inks and then I distressed around the edges....

 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...

Had to post this as I just finished this picture and I am so pleased with it....

I bought some Bockingford watercolour board to experiment with - as I love to cover my creations with ink and paint etc. and I wanted a surface that was a bit more robust so that I could go mad; and it was really great to use......I didn't really know what I was going to create....so I started off just creating a background with acrylic paints, bubble wrap and lid tops stamped and a few micro beads and I left it at that with plans of adding some stamping at some point. I came back to it today and decided on using the two Stampotique stamps I have (although I wish I have more!) and I stamped those with rainbow ink pads and then used a brush and water to colour them in by just bringing in the ink from the stamped image - which is something I have been playing with over the last couple of days because I saw it in a magazine. I also did the same with the mushrooms (which are Dylusions stamps)  - I cut them out and after creating a cloud for them stand on stuck them down with matte Mod Podge. I used Staz on ink to stamp the flowers round the edge which are a mixture of Tim Holtz stamps and a couple of Hobby Art stamps; and then finally I stamped the Tim Holtz sentiment stamp with black archival - and it turned out way better than I imagined and I managed not to make any inky fingerprints on it which is my usual mistake! Oh and just to frame it I went around the edge with black soot distress stain....

I seem to be getting back in to scrapbooking lately as I hadn't found time to do any for ages.....and now I've done a few pages in a matter of weeks. Here is one I finished the other day......I was keen to stop just using rectangular photos and so I cut out the photos and I think it looks pretty good. I also used two of the free stamps from Craft Stamper magazine......I just recently got hold of a couple of back issues........I love this magazine as it really shows you new techniques and is inspiring and I read my copies over and over again......needless to say I finally submitted and bought a subscription...

The brown shell stamps are Paper Artsy and I added a few other embellishments. I used distress stains on the chipboard shape and then stamped on the "Seaside fresh air" stamp which again is Paper Artsy. Oh and I almost forgot I used a paint dabber to replace the sea that I chopped off the original photo and stamped on the spiral background (from Lindsay Mason)