Dad Card

I stamped the image in black stazon, coloured it with Ultramarine Blue Extra Dark (520.1) pan pastel and removed the colour from the car with an eraser.  Unfortunately, due to the rain and grey skies it's quite difficult to see.

So I did an auto correct and it shows up much better. 

Remember this card background from a previous post, well I've added the topper and the letters 'dad', for a card for fathers day.  Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is 'one for the boys' so I am entering this card.

Metal Beaded bookmark

I picked up this metal bookmark from the Sincerely Yours show last weekend and I simply attached some Tigertail wire, threaded some beads and added a charm.  


Yes Kate, those larger beads are pink, but it's not for me, I've made it for my mum!!!

More Pan Pastels!!

Been having another little play this afternoon with black card, my stencils and pan pastels.  This is the Crafters Workshop harlequin template with Neutral Grey Tint (820.8) coloured through all the diamonds.  I then picked up some Turquoise Shade (580.3) and randomly coloured over the grey.  

This stencil is from Imagination Crafts and is called wild flowers.  The flowers are coloured with Orange Shade (280.3) and Yellow Ochre (270.5) and the stems Bright/Yellow Green Extra Dark (680.1) and Permanent Green (640.5).  the dragonflies are a mixture of Magenta (430.5), Turquoise Shade (580.3) and Neutral Grey Tint (820.8).

**The rubber / eraser works just the same on black card**

Pan Pastels, Stamping & Erasing

I blended the Permanent Red (340.5) and the Permanent Green (640.5) pan pastels to make the background.  Stamped my new Stampendous stamp 'Ranunculus Field' in black archival ink and took my rubber/eraser to the leaves and the flower heads.

Pan Pastels & Stencils

Well here are some of my pan pastel and stencil efforts using the stencils I got at the craft show last weekend.  This is the Crafters Workshop stencil, 'burst', used with pan pastels Neutral Grey Tint (820.8), Turquoise Shade (580.3) and Ultramarine Blue Extra Dark (520.1).

I used two stencils for this one, the background is 'cubist' using pan pastel Turquoise Shade (580.3).  The foreground stencil is made by Imagination Crafts and is called 'Butterfly & Daisy'.  For the flowers I used Permanent Red (340.5) and Permanent Green (640.5).  The butterfly colours are Violet Shade (470.3) and Magenta (430.5).

This is a Crafters Workshop Balzer Designs stencil, 'Mini Flower Frame'.  Before I used the stencil I covered the whole of the card with Yellow Ochre (270.5).  I used Permanent Red (340.5) for the petals and Orange Shade (280.3) for the centres.  I then took a rubber (eraser) and lifted off some of the pastel.  

**A tip, if you are going to use a rubber, make sure you clean it off every time you rub it into the pastel or the colour you take off will transfer**

Tags

The girls over on the PaperPlay forum have been very supportive, so this month I sent them all a tag back with their atc swaps.

Over at Out of a Hat Creations, the theme is 'If I Had Wings', so I'm entering the above tag which was stamped with T!m's papillon plate in black stazon.

Lynne Perrella collection 003 stamp coloured with pan pastels.

Lynne Perrella collection 008 stamp coloured with artbars.

Lynne Perrella collection 008 stamp coloured with various ink sprays and paints.

Art Journey and Lynne Perrella collection 008 stamps coloured with various ink sprays and paints.

Atc Faces

May's atc swap theme over on the PaperPlay forum was 'faces'.  These are my 3 using stamps from the Lynne Perrella Collection 003.  The backgrounds were created with artbars, ink sprays, white picket distress stain and stewart gill paints.  


June's theme is 'by the seaside / beach', so if you fancy joining in, click on the link and join the forum.  I'd appreciate an email just to let me know if I don't know you.

Another Surprise

That Neet is full of surprises you know.  When her and Chas left the Lincoln Craft Show on Sunday, instead of going home, they went to Cleethorpes to stay for a few days.  Now Cleethorpes is only about 6 miles from me, so imagine my surprise when she phoned and told me she was coming to see me and wanted to meet Fraz whom she'd heard so much about.  Well here they all are.  Fraz was on his very best behaviour and even posed for the photo!!!

It was absolutely fabulous to see you both again, even if I only saw you on Sunday, and I'm looking forward to seeing you again a week on Thursday, can't wait!!!


But at least I got to surprise her too.  I decided to make her a little baggie to take with me on Thursday, so I gave her it today instead.  I also put some other bits I made inside.  I wanted to make her something that incorporated some machine sewing as she has recently purchased a smart new sewing machine herself.  I wasn't brave enough to free motion sew an image on the front so I stamped one instead!!

And this is the back.  I know she likes the TH papillon stamp plate, even though she doesn't own it yet!!!

So I gave it to her today instead, see you on Thursday!!!

Lincoln Show - Sincerely Yours

Well having been cooped up for so long I finally got out to the Sincerely Yours Craft Show at Lincoln today, even if it was a tad warm.  I really wanted some stencils/masks to use with my pan pastels as I've only got 2, but as you can see, I've rectified that now!!!  I also picked up a few stamps.  I'm really not a lover of clear stamps but we saw a demo with them so decided to give them a go.  The Stampendous and Graphic 45 stamps are cling mounted.  And finally in the top right, some beads. Oh and I picked up a box of Papermania chipboard butterflies and dragonflies cheap (£1).

A close up of the beads.  The long silver hook is a bookmark, I had to ask too!! You attach beads to the end and put the metal piece in the book page.

This is what I really went to the show for, but alas I didn't buy any as they were too expensive.  But it was lovely to see all of the colours together, side by side.  I've made a list of ones I need to order from Oyster Stamps as they have them on offer, buy 5 for £20, these at the show were 3 for £16.  

And then the biggest surprise of the day, Maz spotted Neet doing a bit of demo-ing on the Oyster stand.  I told Maz it couldn't be her because she wasn't going.  She was really, really naughty and didn't tell me coz she wanted to surprise me, she nearly did as we were on our way to the exit to leave for home and if Maz hadn't of said something, we'd of gone home non the wiser!!  

And then we went outside and I met Chas, Neets other half.

Artful Times - Challenge 5

I set this weeks Artful Times topic of 'Ribbon & Lace'.  I used various different pieces of fabric, lace, hessian and a skeleton leaf to surround the main image.  I added fabric flowers and a silk rod tied with ribbon to the lace on the left hand side.   I coloured a piece of plain white twill with spiced marmalade and mustard seed distress stains.  I then stamped the word 'cherish'.  I found a delicate gold coloured butterfly in my stash which I think Sarah sent to me in an envelope swap which just fitted perfectly.  It measures approx 9" x 6".


Please feel free to join in with this weeks challenge and pop over and see what Neet and Von have made.  Leave us a comment, we love to hear from you.

A 50th Birthday

A friend of mine has a 50th birthday today, can't tell you who as I promised I wouldn't tell anyone how old she was!!!!  The head and body were made from modelling clay, the hook screws and pins were added and were left to dry for over 24 hours.  Once dry I sanded them down, painted the body in faded jeans acrylic dabber and the head in sand CH studio paint.  I created the face with Artbars.  The head is wrapped in a piece of window lead.  I used beads to create the arms and legs, added washers to make the hands and added a bead and a bead cap for the hat.  To attach the head to the body I used a washer, a metal flower and a bead cap.  I made the metal frill for the neck from the smallest of the flowers on the TH tattered floral alterations die and added the key chain.  I added the

'5' '0' gold peel offs to finish.

This is the card I made.  The 50 and the happy birthday are clay pieces which have been coloured with cool peri alcohol ink as was the card background.  Various Art Journey and T!m images were stamped in shaded lilac and seedless grape distress inks.  The main indigo blu image was stamped on a separate piece of card in black stazon.  The edges were coloured with frayed burlap distress ink.  Frayed burlap was also added to the main background to balance it out.

Pastel Tag

This week Pan Pastel UK Challenge are asking for pastel colours.  I went back to my old faithful canvas ~ corrugated card.  I cut a piece in the shape of a tag, peeled back some of the first layer and gave it a couple of coats of butternut eco-friendly paint.  Once dry I applied sand eco-friendly paint to the edges.  I ripped a piece of white copier paper, stamped it in versa mark with the script from the TH papillon plate.  Used the violet and turquoise pan pastels to pop the image and colour the background.  (Well I had to use some pp's with it being the pp challenge.)  I coloured the butterflies using the new spring limited edition of distress inks, gave them a spritz of water, stamped them onto white cardstock and cut them out.  I rolled a piece of text paper, tied it with a bow that I had made from white fabric and dyed with dusty concord distress stain and placed it on the copier paper.   I stamped the words 'happy place' onto a piece of white cardstock in shaded lilac distress ink and coloured it with squeezed lemonade.  I added the pearls, the fabric flowers and stapled the loop of fabric at the top.  I finished by edging the tag with dusty concord distress stain.

School Postcard

I haven't joined in with the Sunday Postcard Art challenge for a very long time, but this week I decided to change that.  Their theme is childhood, so I chose a school theme.  The background was created using a brayer, a credit card and Stewart Gill paints.  I stamped some random images into the background.  The letters were stamped onto tissue paper with black stazon.  I gave the background a coat of matte medium and carefully laid the tissue on top, but still managed to ruckle it a bit as I was brushing over it.  I did the same with the image of the school girl.  Once dry I went back in with the SG paints over the tissue paper.

Take a Stamp

I have seen in some Stampington magazines where a stamp is chosen and used in different ways, so with this is mind I set off having a play.  I decided to choose my new Art Journey 'Pear' stamp from the aptly named Pear plate!!.  As you can see I made an arch, an atc, a couple of tags and three cards.  This is a long post as I am going to explain each one below.  So either grab a coffee or carry on blog hopping!!!

The arch ~ stamped background using distress inks, adirondack dye inks and stazon in shades of purple.  I then gave them a light dusting of violet shade and ultramarine blue extra dark. I stamped the two pears onto tissue paper with timber brown stazon and cut them out.  I gave the arch a coat of golden matte medium, laid the first pear on and gave that a coat too and then laid the second one over the top and coated that too.

I used glossy card for both the background and the card.  The white card is stamped with olive stazon using the image from the TH papillon plate.  The pear is stamped in black stazon on to glossy card as the background was created using juniper, lake mist and willow alcohol inks.  Edged with forest moss distress stain and smudged in.  I used my one and only distress marker, picket fence to squiggle underneath the pear so it didn't look like it was floating, not sure if you can see it on the photo or not.

This is my least favourite one and the one I did last.  I covered the background with yellow and green Stewart Gill translucent paint.  I stuck on a few pieces of music script and added a bit more paint.  I inked clear ink through a piece of sequin waste and coloured it with burnt sienna extra dark pan pastel. I stamped the pear in versa mark but because it was dark by this time and the light wasn't good, I couldn't see where I had stamped to put the pan pastel and I was a bit heavy handed with it on the left hand side while I was sussing out the image!!!  I stamped the words in timber brown stazon and coloured it with some other Stewart Gill paints.

Atc ~ I stamped the pear in 3 shades of green using colorbox fluid chalk inks from the Autumn Pastel range.  I masked the image off and stamped the CI music background with saddle brown stazon.  I used orange extra dark pan pastel to colour the background.

I stamped the pear image on the plain white tag in bamboo leaves Memento ink, masked it off and stamped the twigs image (from the same plate) in various colours of distress inks and adirondack dye inks.  I spritzed it with water and stamped it onto the tag.  I took the scroll from the same pear plate and again used various colours and randomly stamped it on the tag corners.  I took a wet paintbrush to my art bars and coloured the background of the tag.  I used forest moss distress stain to edge the tag and added the fibres.

I stamped a script Paperartsy image in versa mark all over the tag.  I used ultramarine blue extra dark pan pastel to highlight the script.  I went over the whole tag with a combination of violet shade and turquoise shade pan pastel.  I stamped the pear images in cool peri and eggplant adirondack dye inks, cut them out, mounted them onto the tag with 3d foam and added fibres to finish.  I edged the tag in dusty concord distress stain.

And this is my favourite one, a card.  The three pears were stamped in olive, timber brown and saddle brown stazon.  They were masked off to create the effect.  I gave them a bit of shadow using my artbars.  I edged the card with one of the greens from the Colorbox fluid chalk autumn set as above.  I stamped the word 'friends' in timber brown stazon on a separate piece of card, edged it and stuck it on the card.  The whole thing was then attached to a white card.

Thank You Card

I made this little card as a thank you to Neet.  I used pan pastels as I have been trying to talk her into buying some for ages and I'm happy to report she now the proud owner of lots of colours!!!!!  I created the purply~lilac background by, are you ready for this, going outside, picking up a handful of red, white and pink blossom that had fallen of ours and our neighbours trees, placing them on a piece of card and then on my big shot plates.  I gave them a spritz of water, put the top plate on and ran them through the machine.  Once dried off I lightly tinted it with violet and magenta pan pastels.  I stamped the cow slip in black stazon and went over certain areas with a white pen.  I also wanted to incorporate the new spring limited edition of distress inks as they were fast becoming a favourite of hers too!!!  So the butterfly was inked in all 3 colours, spritzed with water and stamped to give a water coloured effect.  The word thanks was stamped in the peacock.  The actual card was coloured with turquoise pan pastel.  I didn't press on too hard as the card was hammered so in some places the white came through giving a lovely effect.


Apologies for the quality of the photo and the colours, but it was a real gloomy, dull day when it was taken.