Fleur

Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely weekend. I've made a little hanging which I'm entering into the 'a little paper' challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show. The paper which is around the size of a 6x6 paper pad I've made myself using a pretty Wendy Vecchi flower stencil and the heart stencil and mask together with another floral stencil from the stencil girl and some letter stencils.

 There are lots of layers of distress paints, Dylusions inks, fine lining and text with black India ink and some ink and paint splats too.

I mounted my paper onto some corrugated card painted with watered down white distress paint.

The ribbons for hanging are coloured with Dylusions inks which I love for their vibrancy although here I've used them with some of the white to lighten the up.
I'm also entering the Country View Crafts challenge of 'how does your garden grow' and the Songbirds Challenge ' Bloom and Grow'.
Have a lovely Sunday,
Chris x

The CrAft Barn Alpha Challenge - K

Hi everyone. It's a new letter for the Alpha Challenge today at the Craft Barn blog and this fortnight the letter is K. My word is 'king' and I chose to work with one of the lovely new Crafty Individuals stamps and this is such a pretty image. I stamped directly onto the page with black ink, coloured with pencils and then outlined my word with black pen.



Enjoy your day.

Distress paint on fabric - Postcard from Paris tag

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good week so far. I have a tag to share today and this is one of the jumbo size Ranger tags which is a nice size for the big bloom I made using the large flower from the tattered florals die.

I used some buckram fabric painted with some Fired Brick Distress paint and cut some flowers from the tattered garland die to go with the large flower.

For the Tim Holtz Alterations Eiffel Tower die cut which I cut from thick board I used some texture paste before painting with distress paints.

The background is created with a Wendy Vecchi brick stencil and modelling paste which was painted over with distress paints after drying. I added some Dylusions ink on top as well before stamping with various stamps from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Urban Chic stamp set. I've also added Tim Holtz rub on's around the tag. Decoration is distress painted ribbon, paper flowers, painted butterflies, hearts and pearl pen pearls.

I'm entering my tag into the anything goes challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and the Paper Flowers challenge at Unruly Paper Arts (hopefully my tag fits for UPA, I have paper flowers and flowers that I made).
Chris x

The Craft Barn - Spring Bouquet

Hi everyone I'm here with a card and tag made for the Spring Bouquet week at the Craft Barn Blog which is showcasing the gorgeous PaperArtsy Stamp designs of Jo Firth-Young and Lin Brown, I know we all enjoyed working with the stamps which are beautiful and there's lots of inspiration from my team mates all week.

I chose the lovely Lin Brown 02 set which features this gorgeous tulip and butterfly, a couple of sentiments and there are leaves and another flower too. My write up of what I did is on the Craft Barn Blog and all the products I used are below the close up picture.

Paperartsy Lin Brown 02 Dylusions Inks Bubblegum Pink Pure Sunshine Lemon Zest Fresh Lime London Blue Glossy Accents Stamping Card Black Pen White Pen

12 Tags of 2013 - May and SSS&S Inspired by

Hi everyone, I got my May ATC done today for The Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2013 and enjoyed the new rub on's technique very much. I love how the rub-on's retain the white paper underneath after the ink has been applied, it's a great way to create a background. As I've been inspired by this technique I'm also entering my ATC into the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show which this week is 'inspired by'.

I used stamps from the TH Urban Chic Stamp set for my stamping and created my own plaque using a Magnolia heart tag that I heat embossed with white powder and then edged with black. I embellished with some Memory Box flower and butterfly die cuts coloured with markers.

Back tomorrow with a Craft Barn project.

Clown Tilda

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well so far. Today I'm sharing a card with the sweet Tilda as a clown from the once upon a time collection. I've coloured with watercolour markers, given her a clown nose with red marker and drawn in a harlequin background.

My background paper is made with a harlequin stencil and Dylusions inks and over the top I've added a die cut DooHickey doily to the bottom and top left. I finished off with some flowers, doodling and pearl pen pearls and with a circus sentiment of Tim Holtz stickers.

I'm entering my card into the challenge at Tilda's Town which this week is May Day flowers.

Chris x

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter 'A'

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is going well. It's a new letter for the Alpha Challenge today at the Craft Barn blog and this fortnight the letter is A. My word is Avenue and I chose to work with a Paperartsy Mini Stamp MN85. For this page I decided to stamp onto a Ranger kraft no. 5 tag and after doing that I added to the stamped image with some doodling in black and white pens before stapling the tag to the page.

If you're joining in I hope you're having fun with it, I have to see this is one of the most enjoyable challenges I've done and I know I'll continue with this dictionary until it's full.

Enjoy your day.

12 Tags of 2013 - April ATC

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I've made my ATC for Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 and improvised as I went along. I don't have have the metallic distress paints and used a different brand bronze and copper metallic so the effect isn't quite the same, but I enjoyed the patina technique all the same and used broken china and peeled paint distress paints with the metallics to create it.

I did have the stamp this time and I stamped the ATC and then the wing section onto plastic packaging and cut out. I heated the wings a bit to make them curl and applied with strong glue. I also used gave the patina effect to some metal pieces and a plastic number from an alpha parts set.

To finish off I added a bit of vintage photo distress stickles.

I mopped up the leftover mix of paint with a number 5 tag and used the pear stamp from the same Stampers Anonymous Classics set which I highlighted in white.

Enjoy your Saturday.
Chris x

Backgrounds

...is the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week and I'm scraping in at the last minute with my little ATC sized notebook. I used stamps from the Penny Black Social Butterfly clear stamp set and a jewellery border stamp from the Paperartsy Lynne Parella stamp set 002 to create my background stamped over a layer of spritzed distress ink.

The Tando chipboard swirly butterfly is inked and stamped in the same way and then heat embossed with clear powder. I added flowers, corners and pearl pen pearls to finish off the cover and then put in the pages with the back cover.



Hope ouve had a great weekend, it was lovely and sunny here in the south east for two whole days! Spring is official :D.

Chris x

Tilda Long Stocking

 Hi everyone! Today I've made a card with the sweet Tilda long stocking and coloured her with distress and wataercolour markers, cut her out and added her to my card base. I also used the gorgeous butterflies again this time stamping, colouring with markers and cutting them out to place amongst the flowers. I also added the Magnolia balloons with a chit chat sticker as this is a Birthday card for a lovely friend.

I created the card base for my die cutting machine with Basic Gray paper under the trellis. I've added stickles for some sparkle and lots of pearl pen dots to decorate.

Enjoy your day!

Ballerina Tilda

Hi everyone, a card to share today with the gorgeous new Princess Tilda with ballet shoes, I do love the ballerinas :D! I coloured Tilda with distress and watercolour markers and added some faux stitching around the image. 

 

I also created the background paper with the fantastic new collage style stamps that are in the new 'once upon a time 2013 collection'. I used the two smaller butterflies and the smaller crown and distress ink for this piece. The rest is a floral overload :D, stardust stickles glitter glue, seam binding ribbon, a chit chat sticker and pearl pen pearls. 

I'm entering my card into Tilda's Town challenge of flowers everywhere.

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Canvas Swap

Hi everyone, Back today with a long overdue post of my canvas swap with my lovely blog friend Kelly in the USA, apologies for the delay Kelly! We swapped canvases a while back, we both enjoy making these art doll (Christy Tomlinson style) canvases and it's always fantastic to receive art from a friend. A lot of work and thought has gone into the creation and there's always a feeling for the person I find with these. I've always fancied a fishtail dress too....very glad to see that I have one :D. I love the colour scheme, perfect for my surroundings, the patterned paper, all the sparkle, feathers, tiny details, wonderful flowery background (she knows I love flowers, butterflies and hearts) are superb and really can't be done justice to by a photograph.

 I have tried to capture the sparkle it's very pretty.

 I saw the pretty pastel shades butterflies, stars and flowers for Kelly and used acrylic paint and stencils for the background. The dress is cut from a larger hand painted doodle type background piece and the body is cut from book page. I used decoupage glue to stick the pieces to the canvas.. I added some gems to the waistband and a chitchat sticker to decorate.

Thanks again Kelly for my treasured canvas.