Beryllium

Here's Beryllium.......this is pastels and then some oil pastels at the bottom.....and I made use of some new stamps........excellent danger, toxic etc. from Crafty Individuals and some Tim Holtz stamps - that's the brickwork.....

New things....

We went to the craft show at Kettering the other week, which means new goodies!! Here is a card I made......using a Paper Artsy stamp on a painted background - using Paper Artsy paints which I really like and will have to get some more of! I highlighted a few areas with distress inks.....then just made an inky background on the card....and I think I used metallic glaze too which is actually more silvery than it looks in the photo. Then embellished with a greeting and flower......

I'm working on something else too but I can't post it just in case prying eyes should see hehe!! Actually I've got a few things like that at the moment......

And I've done the next few pages of my elements.....but I just need to finish off Nitrogen and then I will have to post them......

Some more cards....

Here are some cards I have made....

The top one I just used some pastels to draw in the background, and painted the number one and cut out the elephants and stuck on the greeting.
The next one I drew the little crab, not sure what a crab has to do with Christmas but I thought it turned out OK and I kept to the sea theme with the starfish.
The last one I was pretty pleased with the background I creates using some gloss mod podge through some sequin waste and once it had dried going over the top with the distress inks picked raspberry and I think there is some dusty concord in there too. The I stamped on the stars which was the free cover stamp with Craft Stamper this month and then I sort of splodged on some gold perfect pearls. I decorated the snowflake with pink glue and glitter and then stuck a greeting in the middle.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Here is my first foray into waxed kraft paper.....I dyed it with alcohol ink and then die cut some shapes......the letters were plain chipboard that I coloured with distress ink and glitter......then the background is sanded C'oredinations and I used an Edgability to die cut the edge of the card

And finally this evening....

Here was quite a simple card I made.......but quite effective I think......I used an embossing folder on Core'dinations card and then coloured in the rays using oil pastels......because I forgot all about them and then I saw them being used in Craft Stamper and thought oh yes oil pastels......then I used a little bit of glitter.....went round the edge with barn door and then stuck on a Craftwork cards sentiment.....

Get Well Soon

Here was a get well soon card I made for my dad........I brayed the background although in the end I kind of ended up going over the top of it really......I used a craft nib to colour in using distress ink and the stamps are hobby art mostly and I think the birds a Tim Holtz and the one that looks like a postage stamp was the free stamp with this month's Craft Stamper magazine........

Lithium

Blimey it's taken me this long to realise I can give my posts a title.....even though I read so many other blogs with post titles that I don't know why I've never thought before.......anyway here is my Lithium page......mostly mustard seed distress ink background and then some gold metallic paint, a few stamps here and there although I don't think you can see them on the picture......oh and I found a little spiral that I used as   a mask and went over the top with gesso