Stamp stamp stamp!

Evening peeps, welcome to my Sunday evening. It's nice that you have taken the time to visit me. We are all so busy, so finding time to visit others can be difficult. I hope you enjoy my journal page. I feel quite excited when I look at it, which Is something I don't often experience when I look at my art. Yet get a lot looking at all your wonderful creations.

Yesterday I used a Julie Nutting Doll blank side up once she had been cut out. I really liked the idea and so thought I'd play with it again. 

I am going to enter the page into the Craft Stamper Challenge. On their blog they say this

'Take A Stamp'

 So.....get stamping and entering! You will be amazed at the prize on offer for one lucky randomly drawn winner..... Brace Yourself.... See for yourself here

I cut one out and stamped over the White with Black Archival using the eye from IndigoBlu stamp plate Take time

For my back ground I used Dina Wakley Acrylics on my 6x6 Gelli Plate. I was using my small Dyan Reavery journal which I bought for another project but I love it so much, I cannot stop using it :).

I toned it down using Chalk Fresco Acrylic from Paper Artsy; this has become my favourite white paint and my go to bottle sits on my desk permanently. I used a Brayer as Demoed by Leandra a while back as I love this technique and find myself using it more and more.

I also used a Lin Brown Stencil to create some circles. I sprayed shimmer yellow and purple.

I stamped a border and some dangles using Black Archival with some of my own stamps made from fun foam and hand carved.

Next came my doll, I thought about how to present her and came up with this.

I then added some flowers from a Darcy 09 plate, again in Black Archival. I chose to leave it uncoloured.

To balance the page I used another smaller Tag. Both Tags had been painted with DecoArt blackboard paint. They had a nice Matt finish.

I added some flower die cuts the bottom flower from Paper Artsy and the other from a packet of mixed  flowers.

I stamped a flower spray from JOFY 14 and coloured it white. I repeated the theme of the other Tag.

I added my sentiment and some bubbles to tie the page together, and I kept them black and white to add balance.

Some shots from different angles, I love these and will be printing some off.

Here is the full Page

Take care out there! See you soon

Debsxx

Couldn't think of a title

Evening everyone, thank you for your visit. Phew! This week has been so busy, and has gone so fast, I've only just started started to slow down.  I planned to play all afternoon but only manged a couple of hours as I felt so tired. Hopefully I get some time tomorrow.

I was tempted by the Craft Stamper challenge this week. On the blog it say this

Take A Stamp An 'Anything Goes' Challenge, but your entry MUST include stamping!  All the details, and lots of eye candy from the DT can be found HERE!

And the new That's Crafty challenge looks like fun. On their blog they say this

Our theme for this challenge is 'Tick Tock' and we would like to see anything relating to time please. This Challenge will run until 7.55am on Friday 29th January 2015. See the details HERE!

So with these in mind I sat in the craftroom with a coffee and the let the ideas grow. I chose to start with a large #10 Manila tag which I had used last week to clean my stencil.

I tore some Damask tissue paper and Chatsworth  from Paper Artsy and stuck it to my tag 

I sprayed greens and blues from Lyndy stamp gang spray paints and when dry used distress 

stain sprays in the gaps. And as with so much of my art lately a quick spray of DecoArts spray acrylics in White.

I stencilled some clocks randomly to add another layer using Archival Ink in Potting Shed. 

Next some text in the same Ink. 

Once this was dry I added more clocks in Black Archival . The stamps are 1D08 

from Paper Artsy and Take Time from IndigoBlu

That was my background! I needed something to stand out as a feature.  I rummaged in my scrap basket and found some card that had been sprayed when I was just playing. On this I stamped a doll from Julie Nutting and then turned it round. I used some Plum Fesco Acrylic around the edges of the tag to warm it up a bit. 

I used the clock stamp with cream versamarc on the doll stuck her down and then on the same paper wrote my sentiment in a white pen.

My finished tag

Thank for popping in. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday for start of the new challenge I'm hosting once a month.

Take care for now 

Debsxxx

Altered Calendar challenge with Darcy

Evening everyone, I hope all of you are doing okay, and that you enjoyed your Sunday. This morning I went swimming, 360mtr which is 20 lengths at my  local pool. I Then cut my OH's hair before I had time to play; but once I played I enjoyed myself so much, thanks for the challenge Darcy.

Darcy has started a new 'just for fun challenge' using a calendar which you alter to the prompts each month. You can read all about here.

Here is the first month of my calendar 

You had to leave some of original picture showing, add crackle and paper. Like Darcy I started with a thin layer of Matt Medium. 

I set about blocking in some of the picture with black Gesso

I sprayed DecoArt Media spray in Red and Shimmer mister  Yellow letting it drip. On the black the colours aren't  as vibrant but this what I hoped to achieve as I didn't want it taking over.

I loved how the spray caught the face which I had whitened with Translcent white Media Fluids also from DecoArt. I then used  Hansa Yellow and Quinacridone Gold, which I applied with my finger rubbing the colours in here and there. 

I needed to add some crackle so applied Weathered Wood in several areas and dried it with a heat tool.

I wanted to keep the same colour theme and so thought I'd experiment by spraying the Media sprays randomly over the glaze I was amazed how fantastic this turned out.

Next I added some book script to the skirt and painted it in Plum Fresco Paint from Paper Artsy . I didn't like how it looked so added some rough lines by using Grunge Paste also from Paper Artsy Once dry I gave the skirt another coat of the Plum. 

I used a Fude Pen which Dina Wakley recommends to add some details. 

And here is my finished piece.

I really enjoyed creating this page and I hope you like it too. Thanks for your visit.

Take care Debsxxx

...falling is just another way to fly.

Hi everyone, thank you for coming to see what i've been up to this week. On Sunday I got to play,! so, using the new products from DecoArt, which I was lucky enough to recieve * I decided to do a tag to enter the that's Crafty blog challenge.

On their blog it reads

'Our theme for this challenge is 'Blue is the Colour', so we would like to see the colour blue somewhere on your projects please. This Challenge will run until 7.55am on Friday 16th January 2015.'

And Elizabeth at dragon's dream TIO (tag  it on ) challenge blog says

I've chosen the first theme of the New Year of Turquoise and Bling, and as always at least one real stamp on your tags.

So I gathered my paints starting with turquoise and Colbot blue hue, and squirted some on my 6x6 Gelli Plate. I love this size as its so easy to use on tags and smaller creations.

I then used a damask mask and white acrylic 

Once this was dry I added a coat of one step crackle glaze and heat dried it. You do get a much better result if you let it dry naturally but it was fine for what I wanted.

I then painted the swirls in silver acrylic and when dry used Wendy Vecchi's crackle paste in a bird stencil and then one from Lin Brown at Paper Artsy. 

I rubbed antiquing cream in burnt umber into all the cracks and once dry rubbed clean just leaving the cracks more accentuated.

Around the edge I applied rust paint which when dries gives a real rust look.

I applied treasure gold to the crackle paste to give it a metallic look.

Next came a sentiment which is a quote by Emilie Autumn.

I added a little definition to the crackle past and words and added the bling to make it sparkle.

 * the paints, crackle glaze and Antiquing Cream were from DecoArt given to me through the Out Reach Bloggers Programme.  However, any opinions are my own :) x

Thank you so much for your visit. Please take care out there,  I know the weather is getting really bad in some areas. So looks after your selves! 

See you all soon 

Debsxx

Fragile Papers

Hello everyone, I hope you all are well and have had time to relax and enjoy yourselves.

I've been very busy catching up on outstanding tasks from work and not had anytime to myself. I think it will be like that for a while but hopefully I'll get back into routine of doing a little in the evenings as well as weekends. Although I've started swimming and going to the gym and of course that also takes time.

Today I'm bringing you a journal page inspired by the theme over on the Paper Artsy blog. There are lots of great inspiration and sneak peeks of new stamps. Very exciting times!

There is a video of how I created the journal page and pictures beneath of the finished page. I used Paper Artsy Fresco finish acrylics, a text stamp and flowers from Darcy Uk 09  and a sentiment from hot picks 1008 To complete the page I used Fancolour pens and Portfolio crayons  to added some shading to the circles.

Video 

You can see in the video that I got very messy and there is a very quick peek at another page which I didn't edit out! I hope you like the video, it's still not as good as I want but practice makes perfect. 

Take care and I will see you soon

Debs xxx

Colours to dye for

Hello everyone, I hope you all are well and feeling peaceful. Welcome to my new follows, thanks for popping by and following me, and Happy New Year to you All.

I love this time of year, as spring is not so far away and I am always my best in Spring and Autumn as it is not so hot or cold as Winter or Summer. I find myself struggling in the dark of early winter but as soon as the the Year comes I feel more vitalised. 

Today I pushed myself to play with silk and dyes. I have some plain white silk scarfs and dyes in a variety of colours. They are from silk craft ltd and here is a link to a video showing you how to use them. I have had them several months but have not played with them despite many weekend I tell myself I would. Something always stopped me and yet today I did. 

I had two different width and length scarfs which eventually would be part of the same scarf.

I died them both separately

This one was the smaller of the two and so would lay on top 

On the longer one I also added blue and pink to the purple to add some interest.

I stitched both together down the centre length wise to hold the two pieces of fabric together.

I then started to add my Merino Top wool in Cream and a very dark Mauve. I built up the layers slowly each fixing them into place by th embelisher machine. I really love this and wish I had more time to really master the machine.

I tried to leave gaps of wool in places as the silk scrunched up when the embelisher is on it and I love it.

On either end I added some wool strings made by twisting the wool after it has been secured in place. To this I added some gold strings to add some bling, to contrast against the dark Mauve which in these pictures looks almost brown.

As my winter coat is made from felt and is bright Pink this scarf will compliment it lovely.

Thanks for your vist today, 

Take care Debsxxx