28 Feb 2014

February 12 Tags 2014

I am so late doing my February Tag you can see Tim's tag here.
I  managed to get it done this morning it was pouring with sleety rain so we decided it was going to be a home day and instead of doing h*******k I went into my craft room and got inky.... you should see the mess I made!!

 
 
For my background I used a brick effect  mask and victorian velvet, mulled lavender and dusty concord distress inks and followed Tim's instructions.  The heart is cut from the same stamped image and I used encrusted Frantage Lilac, as I don't have any distress glitter and I liked the texture the glitter gave the heart on the original tag.  Frantage was the only thing I had which was chunky enough and I must say I am pleased with the result. The bottom of the tag is grungeboard cut with the ornate on the edge die which I covered with several coats of  Pewter distress stain.



When I first saw February's tag my thoughts were that now I had the chance to try the blackboard technique........ I know everyone has had a go.... with fabulous results...... but this was my first attempt so please be kind to me lol.  Of course I had to "improvise" as I don't have everything Tim used.
For My version of this technique I stamped with ranger embossing ink and dried it, then I rubbed chalk all over the area, the result isn't bad I was pleased with it for a first attempt.

I will be linking this tag at

Tim Holtz blog 12tags 2014

Frilly and Funky Challenge   Stencils and Texture

Sunday Stamper   Hearts

bye 'till next time
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Products used
Tim Holtz:
Distress Stains, frayed burlap
Distress Inks,  victorian velvet, milled lavender, dusty concord
Stamps Tim Holtz stampers anonymous "Thoughts"
Idea-ology Key
Ranger manila card
Tag Bigz Die , on the edge die
Others:
Frantage
Black card
Chalk

25 Feb 2014

Wall hanging

A little hanging and some challenges
At Country View Challenge #12 this month it is Painty Pleasures and  Tando Creative challenge is Passions, my passions are  stamps and getting very inky and painty, so I hope this fits their challenge.
So today I lost myself in my little craft room and got very painty.  There are quite a few photos so I hope you can stay until the end.

I had no idea where I was going with this project when I started only that I was going to use a piece of packaging (part of a box) that I had saved and some new PaperArtsy stamps HP 1008EZ which I have just bought to cheer myself up!.
Firstly I exposed some of the corrugated backing then added paints to the panel.  I used Adirondack paint Aqua and Pool, also some cream acrylic tester pot paint which I dry brushed  and used fingers to blend the colours, I love getting my hands into the paint.


next I used a mask  firstly with pool paint and by moving the mask slightly I went over again with aqua leaving a shadow effect I was really pleased how this turned out you can just see it under the stamped image.  I was lucky enough to win this mask oblong/square from a Tando Creative challenge.


next using same mask and texture paste I added some to top and bottom corners, I also rubbed some over an area with my finger so just leaving a little texture, when dry more paint and distress ink was added.

 
Here you can see the texture better and the mask effect.
 


 
flowers I found in my stash they had gems in which I didn't like so I replaced them with the little buttons, corners are from Creative Expressions I love them so using them is hard....lol but the corners were crying out for something.
 
 
Everything was stamped with Ranger Archival Ink coffee, words were stamped onto cream card with same ink and I used distress inks antique linen all over the card  and vintage photo around the edges, after they had been cut out.  Metal butterfly was silver so I altered this with a alcohol pen.
Vintage photo distress ink was rubbed over the raised areas and around the edges.  I also used  wax  rub on with my finger over all the raised edges unfortunately I couldn't get the camera to pick this up but in real life it looks fabulous.  The hanging is destined for the bedroom as the colours are a perfect match .......which was a pure accident!
 
 
Thank you for staying until the end hope you like my project. 
I will also be playing at
 
'till next time


Products used
PaperArtsy stamp set HP1008EZ
Adirondack paint dabbers Aqua and Pool, Ranger Archival Ink Coffee, Distress Inks vintage photo and antique linen
Mask Tando Creative
Modelling texture paste
Metal corners Creative Expressions
Flowers and butterfly unknown (stash)
Spectrum Noir Pen

22 Feb 2014

Strong ATC and Tag

Hi everyone sorry to have been a bad blogger I have been under the weather with face and head pains which were eventually sorted out by the Dentist.....yikes 4 visits in 7 days not pleasant at all, but he was very good and has so much patience with me as I am such a scaredy cat!!! So not much crafting has been done, I am starting to feel better and the sun is shining.......well I think that's what it is :)) lol.
Our Grandson is coming today for a sleepover haven't had that pleasure for a while, he is growing up so fast so very quick post today as this morning I have made my ATC with a Tag  for the Q & L challenge at The Craft Barn




Can you see the sun shinning through the plant I couldn't resist taking photo here!
I really like this quote and also thought it very apt for the weather we are having here in the UK so a double meaning I think.
Quote has been added to an /ATC and the backgrounds are made with distress inks and stamps Tim Holtz, tissue tape and my favourite die of all time umbrella man any excuse brings him out to play....

Thanks for looking and I will be around to visit you all over the next week I have missed blog land so can't wait to see what you have all been upto.
'till next time

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