Altered box for Paper Artsy

Hello everyone I hope you are well, I'm just about to have a break from work and have my mum and sister up from Essex for a visit. They are staying the week which will be lovely.

Anyway I digress from the purpose of my post, which is to let you know I'm over at Paper Artsy tonight with a box I altered using the fabulous new stamps from Everything Art. You can see  the details here.

 

 

Take care everyone 

Hugsxxx 

 

A pair of Tags

Hello everyone, thank you for joining me today, as I'm sharing a couple of Tags I created this morning. Over last few months I have struggled with creating anything, through lack of inspiration, motivation etc. I'm sure many of have experienced this from time to time, so know how I feel, and how frustrating it is too.  I had more time, and  space to create and yet found  that I had less interest! Equally I had a burning need to create lol. So it's was all a bit hit and miss. Hopefully my muse is back from her vacation and creativity will continue. 

I have also been working hard behind the scenes with secret stuff which I cannot tell you about yet, but watch this space! 

Now onto my Tags 

 

 

Both backgrounds were created the same way, lots of Distress Oxides my favourite products at the moment, some mica powders for some shimmer, old script, and circles. On top of which I painted a coat of crazing medium which gave a tiny crackle. The stamps are from Rubber Dance, designed by the fabulous Katy Leitch, stamped onto smoothly card and tinted with water colour.

Here are the steps for each Tag and some close ups

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this tag below I added some washy tape

 

 

 

 

Last look at them together

 

I hope you like them and enjoyed the seeing the different steps, your feedback is always appreciated!

Take care and stay creative 

Hugsxxx 

 

New Challenge at Country View Crafts

Hello everyone, today I'm sharing a journal page I completed for this months theme, at Country View Crafts which is hearts, and was chosen for us by the extremely talent Hazel. I love this theme, as it is so versatile, as my teammates prove over on the blog. There awaits an abundance of fabulous inspiration to get your creative muse working over time. So I hope you can pop over and take a look. Enter the draw and you could win £20 to spend in the shop.

 

I only used 1 Stencil but used different colours as well as turning the Stencil around as well as back to front 

 

 

 

I added a touch of red acrylic to contrast with the blues and greens. Then drew my hearts.

 

I painted them pink but didn't like them...

 

So change them to blue, with Distress crayons to add shading and light

edged with a black pencil. I then added the Distress Ink

Lastly added my sentiment

  

Last look

 

Here's what you will need

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil 

Dina Wakley Acrylics small bottles 

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides

Tim Holtz Distress Crayon

Tim Holtz large Chit Chat stickers

All from Ranger

I hope you like this page and that you are inspired to enter the challenge 

Take care 

Hugsxxx 

 

My heart

Hello everyone I'm over at Rubber Dance Blog today with my last make as a Guest Designer. I have had a wonderful time and enjoyed playing with all the fabulous stamps. Uses this code DWFREESHIP for free shipping over €15

Here's a peep 

 

And here's a recap of all my Rubber Dance makes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And I'm sure there will be many more!

To get a full view of today's Make, please follow this link and don't forget

Free shipping over €15 with this code DWFREESHIP

Take care everyone 

Hugs xxxx

 

A handy thing

Morning all today I'm over at Rubber Dance with another piece for my Guest Designer slot with Bibi and the fabulous team. Here is a peep.

                                                     

 

All the details can be found on the blog 

You can also get free shipping when you spend £15 with code DWFreeShip

Hugs xxx

 

Tag book for Rubber Dance

Welcome everyone I have a post on the Rubber Dance today, which was originally inspired by Clare Lloyd who is in a Facebook group to which I belong. In the group we create miniature art and this was a mini zigzag book but I decided to make a #8 tag book. Here it is, but to see all the details please follow my link.

 

Thanks for poping by

Take care

Hugsxxx

 

Lost in Flowers

What's going On?

Hello everyone, firstly apologies, I'm confused as to why my post did not save the content of what was written, it seems to be happening on my schedule posts but I don't know why. Be assured I'm looking into! So over to what you should have seen on the 1st of May, remember today is the 5th and so the challenge has started and there is even more inspiration on the blog.

Hello friends and followers, today starts the new the Challenge over at Country View Crafts chosen for us by the lovely Monika and the theme is Flower Power. How appropriate for Spring, with all the new life appearing in a palette made by nature. Not forgetting of course how powerful flowers really are, with their abundance of colour, their scent, which is used in so many ways, their use in culinary delights and their healing properties of mind and body. They truely are powerful!

Enter your art inspired by the theme and you could win a £20 voucher to spend in the wonderfully stocked shop

 

I chose to make a large tag 

 

 

Here how it came together

I created a fine crackle using Crackle Glaze painted white on top with Fresco Acrylic Paint in Chalk from Paper Artsy. The a layer of spray dyes  from

Lyndys's Stamp Gang 

 

I Stencilled the Face (I forget who the stencil is by)

Flowers from Zinski Art for Paper Artsy

Colouring in using Inktense Pencils from Derwent 

 

 

I do hope you get to play along

Take care hugs Xxx