Sunday 30 August 2015

E is for Elephant

My entry for the Craft Barn challenge this week is a tag. The theme this week is animal which is handy since I have an outstanding alpha tag project that is yet unfinished and I needed to do something with an elephant. I have also been playing with a home decor project today so had some scraps of paper that really needed using up. This tag is what happened.


Distress inks : Peeled Paint and Hickory Smoke (love that new Hickory Smoke)
Paper scraps : Tim Holtz Wildflower Paper pad
Ribbon coloured with the same inks used for the background
Dylusions Spray : Linen White - when it reacted with the distress is went a light grey colour, nice.
Elephant Stamp : Any Skinner Circus set, a bit of water colouring with the hickory smoke ink
Random stamping around the edge : A TH swirly floral thing 
Sentiment : Tim Holtz

I am having a great Sunday doing nothing but crafting, hope you are enjoying your Sunday too.
Thank you for visiting.

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Runway

The Craft Barn weekly challenge is to use spray. I thought that would be pretty easy but the first part of the challenge was to find my sprays as I'd not used them in a while.

I found some Fireworks sprays in Angel Pink and London Fog, a nice colour combination but, those little bottle nozzles get clogged up so they needed a good wash. The pink did not spray, the result was more of a blot but I liked it so went with it. My white teapot also got a bit of a makeover as some of it ended up there as well. I have to say, I don't recommend these sprays.
I got a much better effect using the Tim Holtz distress spray. It is easier to control and the colour is richer.

For the challenge I have made two note cards. The sprays are used for the backgrounds on watercolour card.




Stamps used :
Tim Holtz Cityscapes CMS224
Tim Holtz Runway CMS214

I stamped the images onto the watercolour card and masked them before spritzing the backgrounds with the sprays. The sentiment on the London version is a die cut and Bonjour is stamped. The panels are mounted on Kraft card and a bit of baker twine added to finish them off.

More Runway and Cityscapes to come, currently work in progress.


Saturday 22 August 2015

I Love Chocolate

The Craft Barn weekly challenge theme is "something sweet and sugary" so this theme is just begging for a chocolate offering. I decided to try and keep it simple, mainly using paper crafting although some stamps are used for the sentiments on this card.


Ingredients:

Marianne Designs : COL1366 Chocolate is the Answer Die & Stamp Set 
Marianne Designs : COL 1367 Box of Chocolates Die & Stamp set
Spellbinders Nestabilities : Labels Four
My Minds Eye : Paris & Co paper
Ranger : Coffee Archival Ink  
Tim Holtz Distress Ink : Vintage Photo

The paper bow was made using a We R Memory Keepers envelope board. This card is big, at 7 inches by 7 inches that is a bigger card than I would usually make but where chocolate is concerned, I reckon big is good.

Tuesday 11 August 2015

Craft Barn Weekly Challenge 9 : Colouring

It has been an age since I entered any blog challenge so here goes, this is my entry for the Craft Barn Weekly Challenge 9 which is colouring using pens.


Stamp: Stampendous Cling Winter Birds.
I used Promarkers to colour the image:
Greens : Lime Green, Bright Green and Forest Green
Reds : Lipstick Red, Crimson and Burgundy
Browns: Satin, Sandstone, Cocoa and Walnut
Blue (for the dotty shadows) : Powder Blue

Some glitter is added to the bobbles on their hats and the snow on the branch and the card finished off with a bit of peeled paint distress ink around the edges.

Another Christmas card done to add to my 2015 stash, I am ahead of the game!



Sunday 9 August 2015

Pretty Pastels

It was Saturday morning and I was up earlier because I had booked a TV ariel engineer to come to my house. I was thinking it would be a good idea to play with my new PaperArtsy JOFY stamps so I have no idea how I ended up making two cards using Inkylicious stamps. Anyway, these two cards are what I made.


Stamp : "Poppy Lea", sentiment "Make a Wish"
Background : Adirondack Caramel, Raisin and Denim dye inks applied with duster brushes.
Poppies are highlighted with Sakura pens and a border doodled with a black pen.

You need glossy card stock to get the inks to blend nicely but it is quite hard to get a sharp image with the stamping. My meadow flowers faded away at the bottom but I reckon that's OK, it is a hot summer's day and I have rescued it by popping a bow on top. 


Stamp : "Allium"
Background : Masked a shape and applied the same colours of dye ink with a duster brush.
The Allium are highlighted with a silver Sakura pen and similar doodling around the shape.

Until next time, Thank you for looking. x

Monday 3 August 2015

Robot

A little card for a friend's birthday this week :


Stamps : Personal Impressions by Lindsay Mason : Overhaul Needed

This one was fun to do, I love that Robot's expression.