Darkest Night

Materials used:

Distress Ink: squeezed lemondae, wild honey, barn door, festive berries, 

fired brick, aged mahogany, walnut stain, black soot

Dreamweaver stencil: crows

Card-io stamp: greenery 1

Lindsay Mason: happiness verses

Mixing Media

This week it's all been about mixing media at The Craft Barn. I've had lots of fun with Alchemy Wax and the Color Bloom sprays. For full project details have a look at The Craft Barn blog.

Enjoy the Day

More cards using one of my current favourite techniques, not least because once you get started you can make quite a few cards fairly quickly. The wording is cut on a digital die cutting machine and coloured with alcohol pens. The backgrounds are stencilled using Distress Ink and stamping or ink splatters added. Gel pens add a little more interest and depth and a few sequins finish it all off.

Materials used:

GiogioCraft stencils: floral circle, vortex spiral

Distress Ink pads and reinkers

ProMarkers 

sequins

gel pens

V is for Voyage

Getting ahead of myself I thought I'd tackle the newest letter for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge...V. I was thinking along the lines of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaire.

Having finished the page I then went to put the definition on, and too late, decided I'm not sure it goes! What do you think?

Materials used:

IndigoBlu: grand tour III

Kaisercraft: chevron

Brusho: gamboge, orange, dark brown

Distress Ink: fired brick, walnut stain

Fresco Finish paint: snowflake, old gold, blood orange, china

DecoArt dazzling metallics: glorious gold

Archival Ink: jet black

white paint pen

E is for Eclectic

The current letter for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge is E. I toyed for a long time with elephant but in the end went with eclectic as I love the PaperArtsy Eclectica range of stamps and am always looking for an opportunity to use them.

The background was created by sponging and stamping in paint. The foreground elements were stamped on tissue paper, painted on the reverse and glued in place. The hanging leaves, birds and flowers were stamped directly onto the background and coloured with paint pen and ProMarkers.

 Materials used:

PaperArtsy Eclectica stamps: EDY 05, 09, 10, 11

 PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint

Archival Ink

tissue paper

Matte Medium

ProMarkers

Sharpie paint pen

Woodware Wreath

This week it's Christmas Makes at The Craft Barn. I've made a Christmas card with one of the new Woodware stamps. For full details pop over to The Craft Barn blog for a look.

Winter Wreath Scenes

Getting ready for the Chertsey Museum craft and wine evening in November. We'll be making winter scene cards with a mixture of Card-io, Hobby Art and Clarity stamps. If you're in the area it should be a fun night. The museum provides the crisps and you can bring the wine! Follow the link for more details.

Exciting news...

I am delighted to be able to announce that I have been asked to join the fabulous Craft Barn design team. My first project is on the theme of 'dimensional'. Do have a look at The Craft Barn blog for the full project details, but here's a little peek...