Class of 2016!

Here are all my Christmas cards I've made this year:

Sights around Britain

Another new project is to make a sort of art journal/scrapbook of places I've been around Britain, with photos, journalling and whatever else I feel like!

Here is the front cover and the first page. The cover I first painted with black gesso and then I stuck down various letters I had which I also painted over with black gesso. Once dry I added foil to the letters in Around and then paint the whole thing silver, then I added some gelato, inka gold and gilding wax to the letters. I added some washi tape and some distress ink before painting it all over with a layer of mod podge to add some protection and keep the tape glued down.

The first page I took two photos of Ynyscedwyn Ironworks in Wales and stuck them down and added a layer of washi tape. I had already painted the page with gesso to prevent any inks soaking through to the other pages. I added some blue distress ink and wrote on the title and journalling.

Mean while in the bird house a blue tit has been busy emptying out the contents and there's only a bit left in the bottom now. It went quiet for a few days and then a couple more blue tits came prospecting so we'll wait and see if anyone moves in!!

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.

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 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!!!

Just One More Thing....

Well let me tell you I can't explain how my brain works.....but anyhoooo after I made my Q&L page earlier I'd used the opposite page to spray the little man and it had left a brilliant outline....all I could think of was the chalk outlines on police shows and of course that led me to Columbo, so I created a Columbo page!!

In addition to the Dylusions that were already on the page, I added some pastels and some washi tape, and just in case you were wondering the blood is liquid pearls. I cut out a picture of the man himself and mod podged him down and wrote his famous catchphrase at the top.

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.

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!!)

Zigzag

Hello, it's alpha challenge time again.......and it's letter Z....oooh not many to choose from, I wanted to do zombie but I couldn't think how to so I opted for zigzag instead. Now I've had a bit of an ink blending mat weekend (more on that in my next post!) and so I knew I wanted to use that somehow. The page was already half yellow from yo yo on the previous page and coincidentally I also used some zigzag washi tape to outline the definition that I had also used on my yo yo page as well.

I picked out a stencil with zigzags on it and I picked out three distress inks picked raspberry, peacock feathers and evergreen bough and set to work creating zigzags all over the page using ink off the blending mat and some squares of cut n dry foam with the ink on them. Then I wrote on zigzag and highlighted it with a white gel pen and that was pretty much it, simple but effective.

Here is the link to the Craft Barn

Happy Birthday Dad!

Well what to get the old fatherkins (sorry less of the old!) for his birthday.....I decided to procure an alphabet of beer, mostly courtesy of beer hawk, and to accompany it I created a little booklet, here are some of the pages and the beer in all it's glory on the kitchen floor hehe and a picture of the birthday boy himself!!

So the little book itself is mostly a lot of Dylusions ink everywhere! Plus a bit of Distress ink, a few stamps here and there plus an alphabet set for the letters, and good old mod podge for the gluing; and I remembered the merits of a white gel pen on the cover. I punched each page and tied them together with a couple of pieces of twine that I'd also dyed with ink, oh and I added a little sparkle on the front with perfect pearls.

Then to the card which is Distress stains and perfect pearls in the background, then Dylusions on some paper and then I stamped the map stamp which I think is Papermania, and a Tim Holtz Enjoy the journey stamp and tore them out and edged them with ink. I stuck them down with washi tape, oh and I had an off cut where I'd used texture paste through a stencil and inked over it. I took some plain chipboard letters and used alcohol inks and then rock candy crackle paint.

And that I believe is it..........................phew!!!!!!!!!!