Two cards made in my class on Saturday, don’t you just love the little egg on funky chickens head.
The set of stamps came from Stampin Up.
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All About Me
The arrows, circles and film frame are all new dies which I wanted to try.
Started with an A4 piece of card and made a mood board or sometimes called master board.
Mood boards are so useful because they let you play with lots of mediums.
Designing the final project is also much easier because everything is unified.
Used various paints, inks, stamps and stencils before cutting out the background of my card – 13cm x 13cm.
The rest of the A4 sheet was used to fussy cut the dies.
Both cards here were made with mood boards
Nature Theme At FSC
For this month’s challenge FSC is going with the theme of ‘NATURE’ which has been picked by my lovely DT teamie Carola.
Made another art journal page for my FSC piece with trailing autumn coloured ivy leaves but check out those legs – how cool do they look?
I have been wanting some Viva Las Vegas Stamps for a while and Dot has now got some in her shop Ink Art Designs.
We still Skype each other two, maybe three times a week and I was soooo excited when she said she was getting these stamps in.
There are many different makes of stamps for you to buy from her shop but I bought most of the Viva Las Vegas ones.
Guess what stamped images you will be seeing in the coming months???
Ivy Wall from Inkylicious was stamped with a Big and Juicy ink pad called Spice, then ever so lightly spritzed with water. It was really a very fine mist because I didn’t want to lose the detail of the image. The ink pad is dye based and works just like DI’s but it has five tonal colours in one, the pad works extremely well with a brayer. Both the Inkylicious stamp and ink pad have been in my stash for years so it’s about time they started to see the light of day again.
Used the bird and leafy branch from a Stampin Up collection called Papaya Collage which is retired now.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning.
Ink Art Designs Etsy Shop is sponsoring FSC and they will be offering a stamp for the winner of each new challenge.
Tag Art
Whilst in my craft room watching Andy and Tracy on Hochanda yesterday, saw a tag that I had started but not finished so decided to have a play with it.
FSC Just Loves To Be Feminine
For this month’s challenge FSC says “Make It Feminine” which the lovely Avril picked as her theme.
This adorable little girl is just about my favourite stamp of all time. She must be the most well used in my collection.
A very simple card from me today … oops I was just about to say … no mixed media in sight … which would be silly right because as we all know mixed media is a broad definition that covers many arts and crafts.
Started by making a frame with a Spellbinders die then embossed with a folder.
Stamped the I Love Paris onto some coloured cardstock and placed behind the frame. To finish I layered the other stamps over the top.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning.
Ink Art Designs Etsy Shop is sponsoring FSC and they will be offering a stamp for the winner of each new challenge.
Stamps used …
Tim Holtz Distress Oxides
Definitely look forward to April as this is when I go home, stay with the family, then trot off to Ally Pally.
Not this year, first time of missing the show since it started. Family all flew to Spain for an Easter break plus my brother and SIL decided to go to Somerset.
What about all that money I saved? Yeah, as if … went on a spending spree at Hochanda, Carabelle Studio and Frantic Stamper.
Had the MISTI tool for awhile now and I have always been tempted to buy the larger version but so glad I didn’t because one of my purchases at Hochanda is the new Tim Holtz Stamp Platform … and all the Pebeo paints plus Sheena’s newest stamps and dies!!!!
Sorry Mrs MISTI looks as if you are going to be redundant!!!!
All the Oxide Inks arrived a few weeks back … it only took a week from the time I put in the order until they arrived.
Didn’t dive in and play right away, waited until I felt the time was right to have a go with them. Made a few different makes using various colours and techniques.
Wanted to find out how good the image looked when stamped with the inks and also how they reacted to colouring in with a water brush.
Just took my time and slowly added water as I went along. At each stage if I was happy with how it looked then out came the heat gun to dry.
DO’s used are: Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain also used the DI Black Soot.
Next make is completely different plus more colours used.
The card above uses DO’s – fossilized amber, worn lipstick, broken china and spiced marmalade.
All the colours were blended onto an A4 card which was then die cut with one of Sheena’s newest dies also the Thinlits Wildflower die set.
Stamped onto some of the waste card and fussy cut the lady plus some butterflies before adding onto the card.
List of stamps used.
Modes Of Transport At FSC
Not much been going on in my ‘Crafty Cranny’ simply because I have been MIA again (another short break to the UK).
That’s the holidays over for the time being, next break is AUSTRALIA.
FSC wants to see ‘Modes Of Transport’ for this month’s challenge which the lovely Dani picked as her theme.
It’s all about my stamp journal again, love the neat, crisp, clean look of these pages. Getting to use loads of my stamps which have been gathering dust for tooooo long. Only inks and stamps are used in this book … see first pages here.
For these pages I did a “before and after” starting with the horse then moving onto a motor vehicle before finishing with a van.
By the way the motor vehicle and the van set were both virgin stamps. It’s OK, both wrists have been slapped, especially as I have had the PaperArtsy set for about five years and the car for two.
Reverse masked the horses then dappled with coloured spots.
Can you believe that the last time I used these Visible Image stamps was in April 2015 here just after I had bought them at Ally Pally.
Masked off the ‘AFTER’ and also the van then stamped over with a crackle stamp.
All stamps used for the journal pages, inks are a mixture of Versafine and Memento.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
Good Ole Bubble Wrap
Showing pages from the new A5 art journal which I had to buy on my last trip home.
Two on the go now but I just might take this one home with me when I next go and leave it there. That way I will always have something to doodle in.
Used some of the new PaperArtsy stamps that I bought whilst at a class with Helen Chilton, Sandy had her shop there.
Extended the ends of the flower petals with some doodling flourishes and added numbers to the leaves.
These are the first two pages when the book is opened and as you can see I have used the SU Beautiful You stamps plus a variety of others.
Clare has very little crafting stuff which is good because it means I have to improvise and use things which I haven’t used in ages.
Bubble wrap is one of those great alternatives to stencils and it came in handy for these pages. Painted gesso onto it which gave a fantastic resist on the page.
Beautiful You
It’s a long time since I have fallen in love with any Stampin Up stamps but the new set called Beautiful You are sooo pretty.
Whilst home Clare and I had a great time using them but left all the cards with her.
So today I made some more for myself. Both cards have been framed with doodling and a splatter stamp.
Extended her dress a little with a black fine liner pen and also added stripes and polka dots to it.
This card uses a different technique than above because she was first stamped with bleach then dragged the stamp a little before taking off the card.
Left it to dry naturally before over stamping with black ink. Added some polka dots to the umbrella. Next came the splattering with bleach to imitate raindrops.
Bleach is such an effective medium to stamp with.
Both cards together.
Just A Number At FSC
FSC wants to see ‘It’s Just A Number’ for this months challenge which the lovely Brenda picked as her theme.
The smaller numbers on my card have been white embossed to make them stand out more on the painted and stencilled background.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
