What a wonderful weekend!

Hello everyone, how are you all? Here we are in September! A lovely time of year for me, as I just love watching the changes colours as we move through Autumn. It also cools down a bit which I appreciate.  So it was a perfect day to meet up with the PATwits, Leandra and Mark from Paper Artsy and the wonderful artist Seth Apter, for a workshop. This was also made very special for me by sharing it with the lovely Hazel who stayed with me for the weekend.  

Here we are at the end all together and very happy!

If you would like to read more about this please visit the Paper Artsy Blog, where Darcy has given a fabulous overview

Of the whole weekend!

 

And this is what I created, It has gone through lots of tweeks and I finally like it.

 

The canvas is at a funny angle in this shot. But it has good light!

 

 

This is what I bought on the day

I will be back tomorrow with a small journal page I created using some of the techniques.

Take care

Hugs xxx

And the winner is...

Hello everyone, what a wonderful weekend I have had, but I'll tell you all about this in another post! Now I want to announce the winner of my give away. I had 71 people enter and using random.org... And the winner is...drum roll please, number 33 who is Debbie Whatley, please get in touch via email with your details and we'll done! Thank you all for taking part and supporting me, I really do appreciate your comments, especially when confidence dips, so a big thank you for that as aswell.   I'll hope to be back later with 'all about my weekend'...

So hope you can join me, take care for now,

Hugsxx

 

Blog giveaway

Good morning everyone, thank you so much for popping in. You may recall a couple days back I hit 100 followers, and said I would do a random choice to pick one of you, who had commented to say they want to be in the draw. I also said I would put up a photo of the goodies, well here it is!   

  As you can see it's a full box of goodies, with a mix of stamps, sprays, paints, mediums, and more, all from leading brands. It is all from my own stash that I have doubles of, or that 'impulse buy' that I just had to have, that's never seen the light of day since. It will  be sent to one you, if you are picked by random.org. As this draw is only for my followers, all you have to do is make sure you are following my blog and comment below that you would like to be in the draw. I'll do the draw next Sunday evening and announce the winner in a post on the Monday. Good luck everyone!  

Take care as always

Hugs Xxx

 

New Challenge for Country View Crafts

hello everyone, and welcome to the first day of the new challenge at CVC, as always, read the rues to make sure you qualify. And of course if you win you have a lovely voucher to spend in the shop.

The Theme this month is Travel 

My teamies have some wonderful creations for you to look at become inspired, and here's mine!

Here's what I did

 First I stamped the background with IndigoBlu BB1 circle stamp and used Dristress Crayons for colour. Then I used EEA3 circles to form the big circles. The boat is from ESN19.

Here are some close ups

 

I hope you like my take on this months Theme

Take care always and I'll see you soon 

Hugs Xxx

 

 

Quick Journal play

Hello everyone, how are you all? This is a quick post to share a journal page I created last night, well I started it last night! I've added a few photos of the stages, and I'll list the products at the bottom. Keep creative! X  

   

 

Watercolour paper with a wash of blue and green.

 

 

Drew my features.

 

 

Using water soluble pencils and a water brush I coloured everything in.

 

 

To complete I added a little stamping with Olive ink and a hand carved stamp, I inked the edges in Brown and wrote a few words.

 

What I used

Prima: watercolour pad 8x8, watercolour paints Decantant pies, 

Dewent: Inktense Pencils

Uniball eye fine -black

Ranger Distress Ink walnut stain, water brush

Sable round brush #10

 

See you all soon

Hugs xxx

 

 

 

Heart

Good morning to all of you, and Happy Monday! I know some of you will probably be getting ready for work as you don't get today off, but hopefully the day moves swiftly for you so you can get home and rest. I am one of the lucky ones who doesn't work bank holidays so today I'm off to the Craft and Design show at Hyde Hall.  Before I go, I wanted to share this heart I made to enter the Paper Artsy Challenge whoes theme is Beads Charms and Dangles. I thought this was an excellent challenge and as I need more jewellery it's easy a perfect challenge.  

  I created the heart and bead out of Paper Clay. Once I got my shape of the heart I pressed a cog stencil into the soft clay which gave a good impression. I then left them to dry for a few days.    Once completely dry I sanded the heart down to smooth it off and then painted it with Finnabair Alchemy Mettalic paint in several colours. I did the same for the bead! I wrapped the heart in soft wire including a few glass beads and secured at the back. I assembelled the necklace and hung it on some ribbon and string mixed together.    Here's some pics

The challenge runs for another week so you have plenty of time to enter.

 

I'll see you all soon

Take care as always

Hugs xxx

Fabulous day teaching!

Morning everyone, I'm still floating from yesterday's class! Everyone created such brilliant pieces I was blown away! I was teaching my usual Journal Class at Birds in the Barn Marks Tey, and this month we were using a technique I call Boxed In.  

This is my sample I used to inspire the class

 Although everyone likes a good chat and a laugh sometimes I have to get them to concentrate lol.

 

 

And here are the finished pieces

 

 

 

 

 

 

There you go, have 9 stunning pages. 

My next class is 24/9/16, to book please contact Birds In the Barn  01206 211099

Take care as always 

Hugs xxx

 

 

 

Celebrations and a Quick Journal Play

Hello everyone, thanks for popping in. I'm soooo excited, today I got my 100th follower! 100 of you fabulous people have followed my blog. I'm blown away! Thank you all, it means so much me. Before I forget, welcome to my new new follower. I hope you enjoy seeing what I create. To celebrate, I am going to organise a little thank you, to one of you picked randomly. I'll post all the details tomorrow, so watch this space.   Okay, so now onto my journal page, which is in my small Dylusions Journal. I must admit that I am not a fan of these journals. I rarely find they can handle the amount of water and paint I use, without tearing, and warping. I do love the different sizes, and how strong the covers are. I have already started planning what I will do on the covers, but that's a long, way away. I will use them up, but then look for a different ones. Suggestions welcome!  

  Here's my page, Fresco Acrylic paint for the flowers and stems - Lavender, Snow Flake and Granny Smith. Infusions - Black Night and Violet Storms. Pearl Glaze, all from Paper Arsty. 

 

Hope you like it!

Take care as always

Hugs xx

A Journal Page with Dangles

Hello everyone, I have another journal page to share using JOFY 45-46 which is her new release for Paper Artsy. I've taken them down a different route this time. I do hope you I've it. I'm also going to enter it into the challenge at Paper Artsy whoes them is Beads Charms and Dangles.   

    I will also be teaching this page at Birds in the Barn in Marks Tey this Saturday, we only have one place left so hurry and book with the shop if you want to see how I made this page.

Take care for now

Hugs xx

Journal page

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well, and enjoying the summer. We are having a heat wave at the moment here in Essex, although not sure why they call it that, this is summer, and I remember summers as a girl and they were hot. Anyway it has been very hot, and when I don't have to do anything it's lovely but as soon as I move, I start to glow. Lol! Please do keep safe and make sure you drink plenty, as we had a level 3 alert today at work. If you can stay out of the Sun between 12-3pm and keep as cool as you can. The elderly and young are most vulnerable.        

Okay,  on with my journal page, which is inspired by this months challenge, in the wanderlust online class I'm doing. For obvious reasons I cannot give you the details but the materials I used I will list at the bottom.   

  

 Golden:              heavy bodied Matte Medium, Fibre paste 

 Paper Artsy:       Grunge Paste, JOFY mini 49, 50 

 Dina Wakley:      Media Line heavy bodied Acrylic Paint,  

 Prima:                Texture brushes (designed by Finnabair), colorbloom sprays 

 My own stamps, and craft stash.

Well there you have it. Anther page in my large Dylusions journal. 

 

I hope you can pop back soon, as I'm teaching on Saturday and hope to share the sample page over the weekend. For all of you off at the weekend enjoy! 

Take care as always

Hugs xxx

 

                             

On the Beach

Hello everyone, today I'm sharing my second inspiration piece for this months challenge at Country View Crafts. There are lots more inspirations on the blog.  

 The background was created using different ink sprays; the blue and yellow are from Shimmerz and the white I'd DecoArt. I sprayed then let it drip moving the page back and forth to move the the ink.

 

 

I started to add my elements, choosing to use black ink as I wanted to retain the black and white look. I wanted to create a ghostly look, to represent a time gone by, when people flocked to the coasts in England, reaping the benefits of sea air and sunshine. Even though I know the lady laying down is technically not right, I love the effect it has.

 

 

The stamps are from Oxford Impressions. I created a more vintage look by scratching into the paint and then adding distress ink.

 

To finish I added a sentiment

I do hope you have been inspired to play along,

Take care for now

Hugs cx