I'm a Winner

Woohooo I am so thrilled to have been picked by Mr Random Org as the winner of a fabulous prize over at the Craft Barn with my Art Journal Cover - thanks Craft Barn can't wait to start shopping....

Canvas Mini Scrapbook

.........Red White and Blue

I wanted to make something for me to keep as a reminder of the Queens Diamond Jubilee and after a lot of pondering I came up with the idea of a Canvas Mini Album which was inspired buy some photographs I came accross of the Queen in her younger days. I admit to saving anything royal escpecially which refer to important occassions so while I have  collected the Newspapers, magazines and anything else I could get my hands on for the Diamond Jubilee I also now have my own crafted memory too.  My Grandson was so excited when he saw this canvas and wanted to know all about the Queen when she was "little" and was fasinated by the story which made me realise why making memories is so important.
The ArtisticStamper Challenge blog  this month is Red White and Blue so I will be playing there this month.

The project is technique heavy and if I describe every aspect you will have dozed off and I  will have typers cramp.....lol, so I will briefly describe parts and if you have any questions just leave me a comment I will be pleased to reply.

I made the background which covers the canvas totally by stamping onto tissue with archival ink in various colours with stamp set from Papermania Portobello Road most of this has been covered on the front but there are glimpses. DH had music for God Save the Queen which I scanned and printed out tore the pieces into strips that  I wanted and added to the front - top just under the banner and bottom below the mini book;  and the dates were added with my tape machine. The title is white thickers letters stamped in grey ink and glitter added to the 60. Papers also from Portobello Road collection.

This has to be my one of my favorite pieces of the canvas; I printed out this picture of Queen Elizabeth  at her Coronation in 1953 and using a transfer technique transfered onto canvas; I use Claudine Hellmouth canvas ATC in cream when dry I mounted a TH glass trinket over the top with glossy accents - love how it turned out in rl it looks very aged

 Here are the photos mounted into a mini scrapbook this is one side - the first side you open

and on the back I have collaged some postage stamps I had from the days I used to save stamps in my childhood, the stamps span the years and I also found some of the Queen Mother in her younger days with the King and Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

Are you still with me....lol if you are still, here lastly is the box I made using nestibilities dies and special card I have had for ages and ages, I inked the flowers in old paper distress inks, ribbon and pins are Creative expressions.

I had great fun with making this project but I think the best moment was when my Grandson was excited and interested in the story behind this memory canvas.

Thanks for looking and staying to the end.

by for now

Maggie

Flying High..........

..................80 years young
Hope you all have had a lovely weekend, we spent yesterday helping my Uncle to celebrate his 80th Birthday, we had a great day meeting up with family and catching up on the gossip. I made him a card in a hurry early (6am) on Sunday morning,  I realised as I went to bed on Saturday that I had a present beautifully wrapped but no card - can you believe it..... so panicked was I that I very nearly got out of bed to make it but when I'm tired I can't create anything!! All was well in the morning though the card went together quickly and without a hitch, just as well as I had to bake a cake to take with me too........but that's another story......

I will be linking this card to The Stampman Challenge - Time or Travel

Inside of card and card and envelope

Wimbledon starts today and I am a huge fan so will be glued to the TV every afternoon, not sure how much crafting will get done in this next fortnight but I do have projects to finish for birthdays etc., so will have to fit them in somehow......... so looks like I might have to have a few early early mornings........mmm!!.  I also have a new phone and will need a week  to find my way round it and set it up lol.... or enlist DD or DS to do it........2nd option seems good!!
Thanks for looking and for leaving comments when you visit me,
Bye for now

Art Journal Cover Challenge.......



Hello

Well it has been ages since I have managed to get online to blog firstly we have been away and since our return life has been a little hectic to say the least, but when I saw the Craft Barn challenge to make an Art Journal Cover how could I refuse as this was where my AJ journey began.........and although I have not made any more pages since the last challenge :-(  my journal needed a cover makeover and I had kept putting it off ........so yesterday I ignored everything that was going on around me and the *HW* that was shouting at me and went into my room of craft and got very messy and inky and had a fabulous morning. 

We had to use Masks/Stencils in the making of our cover, I will list my ingredients at the end of the post.

 I used brown paper that had been in a box as packaging and it was nicely crumpled,  I sprayed with various colours of cosmic shimmer mists when covered I crumpled up the paper in a tight ball and squeezed......inky fingers now....... could have worn gloves but hey that's half the fun.... getting inky.....yes!! Paper was undone and left to dry, tried hurrying it up with heat gun but it was very wet......so I had to go and have a coffee and a rummage for masks and stamps.......can't make anything without my stamps....... so here is the finished result of the front cover.

 This photo was taken with the sunlight shinning onto cover which shows up the cosmic spray's shimmer

2nd photo taken without the sun shinning across cover .....not so much shimmer showing

For the Feather mask I used Terra paste and when dry went over it with lake mist paint dabber when this was dry I used rusty hinge DI with the spot mask, loved the layers of texture, pale blue and denim paint dabber were used with the square mask, I carried on masking and spraying and dabbing and Inking........a little too much perhaps but I love the finished effect and I was having way to much fun to stop...lol!!!

Sentiment was stamped onto card that had been sprayed (by mistake a happy accident on untidy desk......) with same colours and Tim Holtz stamps when everything was dry I used my piece to the cover up the front cover of my AJ which was thin card, to cover the inside of this cover I have used another piece of the brown packaging paper sprayed with same colours, I  have left this undecorated for now and will go back to this at a later date.  

As I said before I was having great fun and found I couldn't stop here so I continued  onto the back cover, now this was made of very heavy chipboard unlike the front which was thin card, so I sprayed directly onto this first and let dry. Then using the same masks I sprayed and Inked as before, I applied Ranger paint dabbers to the Tim Holtz stamps in various colours stamping bird and sentiment in Black Archival.  The finished cover is sooooo different to the front I love how they have turned out.

I have ended up with two completely different covers using more or less the same ingredients and I had great inky fun, thanks for the challenge Izzy.

Ingredients

Cosmic Shimmer Sprays, masks, Ranger = Distress Inks, paint dabbers, selection of Tim Holtz stamps,  Terra paste, Archival Ink