Great blog Hop

                 Hello everyone, today I’m very excited to announce a wonderful collaboration between Rubber Dance and ColourCraft in a blog hop! 

Each day will showcase an array of  fabulous art from both teams using materials from both companies.

One lucky winner will receive both, a £25 voucher to ColourCraft AND a 25€ voucher to Rubber Dance.   

All you have to do is visit the fabulous designers from both teams and comment for your chance to win!  The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN! (One comment per blog please.)   You have until 14th, February at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments, and the 

Winner will be announced on Rubber Dance Facebook page and Colourcraft’s Facebook page on Saturday 17th, February.  

Here is my creation

I really wanted to use cups in my make, and as I didn’t have any I designed some and then cut them out on my explore air2

Now I had my cups I chose my stamps I’ve listed those at the bottom along with all other materials 

I chose colours which I know would add contrast and interest. Starting with my backgrounds I carefully painted around the stamped images.

Next I used the ink to paint the images, I loved blending the colours to add shade by varying the value of the colour.

I measured the cups and Andrew cuts to allow them to sit inside each other

I knew I wanted to stick them onto yet another contrasting colour which I also added touches of Brushos to for more interest.

The background sheet was then mounted onto blue card which was stuck onto an actual card. I kept the blue card the same size as I didn’t want a white border. I designed my quote  cut it out, and arranged it on to finish.

To finish, once everything was completely dry using a black pen I added a border around my cups to give a stamped effect.

One last look at the finished piece.

Here’s what I used:

Crazy Flowers #1	Crazy Flowers #2	Beautiful You	Blossoming Rose	Brusho 24 Colour Boxed Set
Aztec eco metallic paint Lustre colours

And now the links for today’s line up

Shilpa

Katie

Susanne

Rubber Dance Blog

I hope you have lots of fun dancing your way round this colour spectacular 

Take very good care

Hugs xx

Little houses

Hello everyone, here I am again with more creative inspiration, this time for Country View Crafts. The them is Anything but cute and you could win £20 

To spend in the shop, and with all the new stuff coming out of Creativation 2018 which I know will soon be in the shop now is a great time to enter.

So today I’m sharing these little houses. I’ve had this die for ages but never got round to using it, so I cut myself a bunch out,  and have a ready stack.

So here’s what I did

Laying out the different pieces I decided to add lots of texture, using Craft Paste through a stencil.

Below is the roof pieces

And the body of the houses

Standing it up to get an idea of what it looked like. I throughly dried the paste with a heat tool

The paint I used was Chalk Mists , and here and there Gold

I added some washy tape for interest, and as the stencil I used created what looked like doors and windows I made these stand 

out with a black pen.

Again a touch of Gold

Material I used

Houses and Washi Tape - Tim Holtz, Sizzix

Grunge Paste - Paper Artsy

Stencil - Essentials no 1 ArtZone

Paints - Chalk Mists 13@rts

Gold - Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions please leave in the comments and I’ll get back to you

Take care

Hugs xx

Do a little Dance for Rubber Dance

Hello everyone happy Sunday, and welcome to another journal page using the fabulous stamps from Rubber Dance

Here’s what I did, on a Eileen Hull journal 

Using Fresco Finish Acrylic From Paper Artsy and a brayer I applied the paint in layers

Colours used, Hey Pesto Smurf and Blue Glass

I then covered the page with Vintage script 

Next I added the feature which is Dancing Woman

Around the feature I added the leaves from Crazy flowers 2

The sentiment is from a great set called Adore me

I coloured it all in with big Brush Pens from Fabre Castell and the Gold is from 

Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 6 Colour Set Starry Colours.

Let’s have a last look

You can purchase these stamps except from 

https://www.debsartzone.co.uk/

Or from Rubber Dance

http://www.rubberdance.com/

Happy crafting

Take care 

Hugs

Ancient Goddess for Country View Crafts

Hello everyone, I cannot believe how fast time is flying here we the 1st of February already! And being the 1st of the month means a new challenge at Country View Crafts, whoes theme this month is Anything but Cute, chosen by the lovely Chris. Here is my inspiration!

This page was a recycled page in my Dina Wakley Journal which started like this. Bit freaking looking I know, but it’s an under painting 

And hopefully would have improved lol.

So using a stencil from my Essential range (no1) and grunge paste I added some texture. I dried this with a heat tool.

When I designed this stencil I wanted it to present value for money, which is why it actually has 4 designs. The blocks has many different uses and then you have 3 sizes and shapes of diamonds, some quite small which are great for your ATCs or smaller makes.

To add some extra texture I used my palette knife on top of the paste, by placing it flat and then raising it similar to icing it forms tiny peaks.

Then I had fun spraying chalk paint which have a Matt finish. I loved letting the colours drip down the page. I found it interesting how

the eye which was originally open now looked closed. Talk about faces drawing/painting themselves lol. I loved how it appeared and so decided to keep it and accentuate the closed eye. 

As the colours started to dry I was reminded of ancient temples and all the markings on the walls and so chose to add some of the hieroglyphs 

from my stencil by the same name. I have always had a fascination for ancient Egypt, my inspiration for this stencil (there’s more to come too) and so thought it would work well.

Here is a close up

I decided to add some gold from my new (at the time) watercolour paints, which I thoroughly recommend, links below. 

I love the opulent look it gave to my page. 

Now the face, some simple brush strokes in black added just the right amount to the her features and some white gold on her lips 

Some more close ups before a last look at the whole thing.

What I used

Grunge Paste - PAper Artsy

Essentials 1 and hieroglyphs - Deb’s ArtZone

Watercolour Paints - Kuretake Gansai Tambi

Well that’s it, thanks for stopping by, 

Take care

Hugsxx