Vintage

Hello crafty friends, today sees the start of a new challenge over at Mixed Media World, and theme chosen for us by Lena is Vintage. This month our fab sponser is The old Design Shop who is offering three images for the winner

                                                                       The Old Vintage Shop on Etsy

 

There are some fabulous designs from the team which you can see by following the link above, and here is mine.

 

 

On a Grey/whiteboard  tag from That's Crafty, I created lots of texture with heavy white gesso and  new brushes from Prima. Spray paint from Lyndys Stamp Gang, washi tape, Ranger, butterfly and stems die cuts from Sizzix, sentiments number is from Prima and the other is Ranger. Rust is Viva paper rust. 

 

 

Here are some close ups of the process

 

 

 

 

 

I hope we have inspired you to play along

 

I'm entering this tag into a Vintage Journey challenge which you can see here.

Take care as always

Hugs Debs xx

Tutorial on MMW

Evening everyone, today I have a tutorial over on the Mixed Media World, I hope you have time to go look, as I've added a video. Nothing fancy just me creating lol. This is the first of five over the next few months, showing how I create my faces using different mediums. I'm just sharing what I've learnt so far and having fun, so hope you enjoy it if you get the time to watch.   

I'm also sharing this face on Kim Dellow's site as Kim invites us to share out face each Friday 

Take care as always hugs 

Debs xx

Spring Tag

Hello everyone thanks for popping in, as I'm over on the That's  Crafty blog today, with a tag I created to remind me of Spring. I cannot wait for it to arrive bringing all that I love with it. There is a peep below and if you can, pop over and read all the details., link above. 

Pop back soon as I have lots to show you, take care as always 

hugs Debs Xx

2016 #5 Paper Doll {by Debs Wainwright}

2016 Topic 5 Art Dolls

 

Hi everyone, thanks for popping in as I have something to share over on the Paper Artsy Blog tonight. Here is a peep but you can see all the details by following the link above.

I had such fun creating this project so I do hope you like it.

 

Take as always and I'll see you soon 

Hugs Debs xx 

Journal page

Morning everyone hope you are all well this Sunday morning. I'm so looking forward to my hols that begin next Saturday as we're off to the Peak District for two whole weeks, bliss. In the meantime I'd like to share what I created yesterday at my workshop for Birds in the Barn yesterday.    

 

 I love the bright colours and thought I'd enter it into Anything but Cute as their current challenge is Crazy for Colour.   

Here it in close up. 

 

 

I have no step outs of this, but the sample I created for the workshop was created in the same way so I'll show that.

 

 

 

 

 

Materials used Heavy bodied acrylic - Dina Wakley for Ranger Tinting base - Decoart  Clear texture paste - Finnibair for Prima Texture brushes - Finnibair for Prima Portfolios- Crayola  Black acrylic ink.  

The ladies created some fantastic art which I'm showing below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aren't they all fabulous, we had a fab time and were well looked after by Karen and Sue, thank you all for a great day.

My next journal day is April 9th which I'm looking forward too. See you all back later for a little surprise. Shh here's a clue, it's in collaboration with Mixed Media World who I am lucky enough to design for each month...

 

Take care everybody hugs Debs 

Show your face inspired by Darcy

Hello crafty friends, thanks for popping in, especially as today is Friday, and that means it's 'show your face' over at at Kim Dellow's blog. Kim invites us to make a face and share; some months we have themes, and this month it's inspired by. I'm sharing a face today inspired by the lovely Darcy Wilkinson. Darcy is an amazing artist and designer, she teaches workshops and designs stamps for Paper Artsy as well as regularly demoing for them at all the big craft shows.

  Darcy was a great inspiration to me as I started my crafty journey. Seeing her faces brought back my memories of drawing as a child. Always faces/ girls and flowers, never believing I was any good, I gave up. But as I learned more about this wonderful craft world I realised that it would be okay to start drawing again. Darcy advised me about online workshops which would be useful, etc, and I can say I've taken quite a few now, lol. So Darcy, thank you x.    The face that inspired my piece today, can be found here, as well as lots of other wonderful art by Darcy, so please if you have the time pop over and have a look. Since I started my journey there have been loads of other wonderful people who have have inspired and influenced by development and I'm thankful to all of them too. Okay so here she is.  

 

I loved painting her it was so much fun. The flowers and butterflies are from Kay Carey EKC 1&2 for Paper Artsy and the face was Fresco Acrylic  paint also from PA. the background and flowers are watercolours by Ecoline.

If you would like to join in with Kim's show your face, follow this link. Have fun everyone and I'll see you soon. I'm also entering this into the Craft Stamper challenge for this month. 

Take care as always 

Hugs Debs 

Wall hanging

Hello everyone, I have some fabric art to share today, it is my inspiration piece over at That's Crafty's  new Challenge which starts today. The theme this week is stencils and Masks, and my team mates and I, have put together some really fab makes to get your creative minds in a whirl. The winner of the challenge will receive £20 to spend in the shop.     Here is mine 

 

Many of you will know that I love stencils and most of my art has stencils on it somewhere. The ones I used for this make, were all Dinky Stencils, one of new products produced by That's Crafty. I adore these stencils, not just for ATCs (which they were purposely designed for) but for all my crafting needs. They are such a useful size for me as I tend to use bits of stencils instead of the whole thing and they perfect for that.   

  The medium I used was ink Effects from DecoArt. I love using this ink as you apply it to paper and once dry, iron on the image to your fabric. You can get several prints from the one sheet, although they do get lighter the more you do. I use normal copy paper as the heat travels through it lovely. The best way I have found to use it with stencils is on a small blending tool and sponge. Hold the sponge over the top of the shaken bottle and shake up and down. Squeeze excess ink off my pushing the sponge against the top of the bottle, and use in the normal way. My face was created with a number 5 round brush again onto copy paper.

 

 

 

 

I prepared my heavy Calico by cutting and ripping to size ( you get a nice frayed edge by ripping). Placing my stencils paper face side down I applied the iron and slowly ironed the background onto the fabric.

 

I loved how this came out! Placing my face down, I repeated the process. 

Part of what I tore off was just the size to write my sentiment on, so using fabric pens I wrote my words in a stylistic way inspired by Joanne Sharpe.

 

Unfortunately I cannot get to my sewing machine, so used faux stitching around the sentiment as well as the main body. Using a grey/white board and heavy Matt Medium I stuck the fabric to the board. Placed two holes one either side at the top and hooked it up to some chain from Tim Holtz.

I hope you have been inspired to play along, take care as always 

Hugs Debs xx

All these birthdays

Hello everyone, I was counting how many birthday cards I need for friends and family and thought I'd better getting going as I'll never catch up lol. Do you make your own cards? I often wonder what people who aren't crafters feel about getting hand made cards. I do wonder if they realise how long they can take or recognise the skill involved?  If you have a story about a card you have made, and would like to share it, please email me and I'll put them on the blog. It will interesting to find out each other's experiences whether good bad happy or sad. We can see if any common theme emerge.   Now with all this talk of cards, you might guess that I'm sharing a card this week over at That's Crafty and you would be nearly right. In fact I'm sharing a set of three. Here's the peep! 

 Hehe I'm naughty aren't I! 

All the details and more piccys are on the blog so if you can, please go check it out.

 if you have time to pop back tomorrow I have a new Face for you.

Take care as always, hugs

Debsxx

Industrial no 2

Morning my crafty friends, today I'm sharing my second make for the current challenge at Country View Crafts. 

I'm always curious where inspiration comes from and in this case it was a TV programme, Australian My Kitchen Rules. In their headquarters kitchen the backdrop looks like panels of rust which includes greens and blues as well as the rust colour. So, my background is very similar.

I got so carried away at the start I forgot to take photos lol. However what I did was, spray some blues and greens onto my heavyweight card (Smoothy card from Paper Artsy is 340 ) which was perfect for what I wanted. I then scraped on a thin layer of Texture Sand from DecoArt all over, and dried it off. On top of this I painted one layer of Rusty Paper by Viva, which is a beautiful thick paint like substance which just looks like liquid rust. I dried this and then sprayed some more blues and greens. I then cut these into 1 inch strips which I cut to different lengths. I love how this come out, the photos don't really show how deep the colours look.

I arranged these pieces to form my background. I used a 6.5x6.5 board book by Eco-Friendly which is fabulous for adding diamentions to you page as it allows about 1/8th for each page.

 

 

 

The gaps I filled in with a black felt pen. Then started to add my elements. The glue can just be seen on these pics which was Golden Heavy Matt Medium but will dry clear.

 

 

 

 

I arranged a variety of pieces keeping to the old and rusty pieces representing the industries of old. My fantasy is a key at the back which when turned hoists the container upwards to the surface so the jewels can be removed.

 

 

The elements I used are from my stash of bits and bobs collected over the last three years, except the rust container which is from Finnabair by Prima.

And one last look at the finished project

I hope I have inspired you to get your thinking caps on and come up with some lovely rusty, greasy pieces.

Take care as always and I'll see you soon.

Hugs Debs xx

 

New Challenge and a birthday celebration

Hello my crafty friends, today is the Launch of a New challenge at Country view Crafts and I got to choose the theme which is 'Industrial'. This month also sees us celebrating our 2nd birthday. How fabulous is that!

Please visit the blog to see all the wonderful creations the team came up with to inspire you, they are really pushing the boat out this month. Check the rules before you enter to make sure you qualify and you could win a £20 voucher to spend in the shop.

 

My first piece this month is a Tag full of grease and oil to keep the mechanics working. I love creating vintages pieces especially with a grungy feel. I hope you like this piece.

I had so much fun creating this piece. There are lots of photos, so grab a cup of tea, kick back the shoes and I'll talk you through stages.

I found some images to use on the background from a note pad from Prima, tore them out and placed them where I wanted them on the tag. I wanted to make a flower from metal and chose tin sheets as they are easily cut with scissors. Cut the petals out and punched some holes here and there. I also punched a hole in each one at the bottom so that I could secure them together. The holes on the petals I added brads to look like rivets.

As you can see above, I used an old clock face for the centre of the flower.

And here it is after I had aged it using several inks pastes and paint.

I set the flower to one side and finished the tag. I added stamping from plate ID04 from Paper Artsy. Some cogs from my stash. I also add some embellishments some I made from clay and others from my stash.

All the elements were 'treated' to age them, and make them look grungy. I used a combination of paints patinas alcohol inks and textured sand.

In the photo above you can just see some tiny roses I made from polymer clay.

I added treasure gold all over to give glimpses of what it originally look like

In its former glory and finished with some rusty wire to hang the tag.

And a last look

Thank you for stopping by, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments and I will answer as soon as I can. Take care as always and I'll see you soon. Hugs

Debs xx