Sassy pets

Hello

It's been a busy two weeks with lots of family stuff and not much time for crafting. I have managed an afternoon in the craftroom to have a dabble at a new challenge set by Isa on Facebook. As well as the monthly tag challenge (yet to be completed) there's a postcard challenge this month. It has to be postcard sized, 2D/flat, with animals and a 'sassy' sentiment.

I stamped the Snarky Cat from StampersAnonymous first and masked it off with a sticky note. I smooshed some Distress ink on a mat and spritzed it before swiping the watercolour card through it. With the mask still in place I added spatter, some stencilling and stamping.

The cat was coloured with alcohol markers and a pale grey outline added to give the illusion of depth...but it is flat honestly!

Once I'd started I couldn't stop until I'd done a couple more with the same process. I used the Katzelkraft light bulb and cat, with a Snarky Cat sentiment and  GiogioCraft stencil.

I think my favourite is StampersAnonymous Mr Meow Meow and Tweets McGee with a Stamperia stencil.

Which is your favourite?

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a lovely week xx

 

 

 

 

Just my type

Hello

A quick post today to share a card made with a Giogiocraft stencil and Derwent inktense pencils. I traced around the typewriter stencil and then built up the colours inside.

I shaved a little off the end of the pencils and diluted with water to get the ink for the splatters and finsihed it off with a text stamp from StampersAnonymous.

I enjoyed using the stencil this way so I might have an experiment with others to see if I can get the same effect. Watch this space!

Thank you for stopping by. Have a lovely day xx

More monoprinting

Hello

I'm just posting a quick one today as I have fallen behind with the monoprinting challenge set by Kim Herringe for those following her course and hope to get a few prints done later. 

9. Grass 

10.Beetle

I love how these two are a pair, but the combination of print or ghost print creates a totally different feel.

 

11.Scooter

Thank you for all your lovely comments on earlier posts. I have taken your advice and started turning some of the prints into notelets and cards.

Hope you have a lovely week ahead xx

 

Snarky cat returns

Hello
Hope you are all keeping well and getting through the challenges of a restricted lifestyle. I've lost my energy and creative mojo this week, but I know that's fine and normal and it will be back.

Here are some cards I made last weekend with the fabulous snarky cat stamps. I went with warm colours this time. You can see my first batch here and a link to the method I used here in one of my old Craft Barn posts.

I'm off to find my mojo. Thank you for taking time to stop by. Take care xxx

Snarky cat

Hello
Today's post is another project for the #craftingwithgiogio challenge. With a project every other day for April, I must confess to a little slippage, but I'm hoping I can finish on time. It's such a pain when work gets in the way of crafting. The theme for the 25th was 'stamping'.

I was given the fabulous Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat stamps for my birthday.  I went back to a technique I posted about a long time ago in The Craft Barn design team days. You can still read it here.

 

 
I have some dear friends who will find the sentiments very funny. The good news is these are only one half of the stamps. More to come sometime.

Hope you have a happy week ahead xxx

Get Carried Away

Hello there
Getting my crafting back on with a bit of card making over the weekend. I've been having a play with another of the StempelBar stamps picked up on my travels last summer.

This is a favourite technique of mine at present, combining silhouettes with stencilled backgrounds. I made the backgrounds by swooshing the paper through wet Distress Oxide ink and then adding layers of stencilling on top.

I stamped the Banksy balloon girl and masked off before adding the scratches. I finished off with highlights in white gel pen and a computer generated sentiment.

I got carried away having a bit of a play with some different colours and stencils.

Thank you for taking time to visit. Hope you have a great week ahead. xx

Materials used:

StempelBar: SB-UM0895-II

Stampers Anonymous: slight alterations

Carabelle Studio: London

Tando, Carabelle Studio and Ranger stencils

Distress Oxide Ink

Archival Ink

There is always hope...

Hello
At last a chance to play with some of the stamps I picked up on my travels this summer. First up the Banksy little girl with a balloon - There is always hope.

 

 

 

 
I picked this up from StempelBar in Berlin. Actually I spent quite a few pennies there on Banksy and graffiti art stamps. There may well be a few more cards and projects to come in this style!

Animal Farm

Hello
Business and housework sorted for the weekend...time now for a bit of crafting. First of all just to let you know that my latest post for The Craft Barn is live today on the blog.

I really love these cheeky chaps from the PaperArtsy Elena Zinski range.

The cards are actually one layer apart from the paper flower. Hop over to the blog for the step-by-step tutorial and find out how to achieve this effect with masking techniques.

No time to chat...crafting awaits! Hope you have a lovely relaxing day. Thanks for stopping by xx

O is for Outlandish

This fortnight's letter on The Craft Barn dictionary challenge is O.  A bit of a remake of some cards I made earlier in the year, but I love the Art of Brett Weldele stamp set so any excuse...

I had a great time at The Craft Barn today on a workshop with the brilliant Kay Carley and treated myself to the Kaisercraft stamps used here with my voucher from the last dictionary challenge.

Materials used:

Stampers Anonymous: mister meow meow and tweets mcgee, slight alterations

Impression Obsession: solar system

Kaisercraft: hexagons, honeycomb

Katzelkraft: so special

Tando stencil: letters

Dylusions paint: fresh lime, london blue

Derwent Inktense blocks

Archival ink

Be Different

A quick CAS (clean and simple) birthday card for a man. The background was created by pulling a print from dye based ink on shaving foam. The images were stamped and masked to layer them.  Some parts were bleached to keep them white and other parts shaded with ProMarkers to give a shadow effect.

Materials used:

Stampers Anonymous: Call it Art, The Essence of Art

Cosmic Shimmer ink spray misters

ProMarkers

Archival Ink

N is for Night

Super quick post for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge. You'd think being on holiday I should have more time, but it doesn't seem to work out that way! I was going to go with numbers for the letter N right up until the point I got the stencils out and saw the Clarity town stencil. That's the joy of crafting you never know where the muse will take you!

W is for wine

W is for wine...of course! Thought I'd get the gelatos out for a change for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge this fortnight. The background is made with layers of gelatos rubbed through stencils with a baby wipe, then stamping on top with a few highlights. The main image was stamped and watercoloured with the gelatos. A little distress ink was added here and there for shadows with the rings stamped in paint.

Materials used:

Stencils: Stampers anonymous harlequin, Clarity trellis, unknown brick

Creative Expressions stamps: wine label

Faber-Castell Gelatos: buttercream, butterscotch, iced chai, cinnamon, chocolate, red cherry, grape

Archival Ink: jet black, coffee

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: blood orange

Distress Ink: black soot, vintage photo

gel pens, Stabilo All pencil

T is for Time

I was delighted that my number came up for a £10 voucher from The Craft Barn for my last entry to the dictionary challenge. I will have no problem spending it! The new letter is T and I felt I had to go with Time as this is something I never seem to have enough of.  Sometimes I know I don't enjoy what I'm doing as I'm fretting about what comes next. Remember the Now is the perfect sentiment for me.

Can you spot the deliberate mistake?!

Materials used:

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: snowflake,  blue oyster, vintage lace, taupe

Archival Ink: coffee, cornflower blue, jet black

Distress Ink: weathered wood

Papermania: beautiful time pieces

GiogioCraft: vortex spiral

Stampers Anonymous: clockwork, handwritten thoughts

tissue tape

A is for Anthropoid

This fortnight the letter for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge is A with no extra twists.  I don't get to use this stamp often so initially I thought of ape, but anthropoid is a much better definition... like a human, such as a chimpanzee, that resembles a human.  What could be more human than wearing a top hat?

Materials used:

Archival Ink: jet black

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: little black dress, snowflake, London bus, 

haystack, china, blue oyster 

The Crafters Workshop: mini circle explosion

Stampers Anonymous: shatter THS014

Katzelkraft: so special

Impression Obsession: solar system

Kaisercraft: film edges

L is for letter

Just in the nick of time, my entry for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge.  This fortnight the letter is L.  A very quick one done this morning before getting ready to go out for a Mother's Day outing.  Very far from perfect but I didn't want to miss a letter out so early on in the year. 

 

 Materials used:

Stampendous: timeless memoirs

Stampers Anonymous: classics3, art from the heart, solar system

PaperArtsy: EDY10

Impression Obsession: C-A-C flourishes, 

script stencil

 PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: inky pool, mermaid, London bus, snowflake, chalk, buff, chocolate pudding

DecoArt: glorious gold

Stabilo All pencil: black, blue

gold gel pen

Meow Meow

I love this stamp set, Mister Meow Meow & Tweets McGee.  You can expect to see it crop up in more projects!

Materials used:

Stampers Anonymous: Mister Meow Meow & Tweets McGee, slight alterations

Katzelkraft: so special

Impression Obsession: solar system

Clarity: framer shape circle

Tando stencil: letters 

Distress Ink: twisted citron, mermaid lagoon, black soot

Archival Ink: jet black

Promarkers

Mister Meow Meow

Just a quickie for this week's Craft Barn challenge on the theme of hats. Love the image from Stampers Anonymous: Mister Meow Meow & Tweets McGee. 

B is for binoculars

As birdwatching has been such a big part of my life I had to pick binoculars for The Craft Barn dictionary challenge - letter B.

Materials used:

Impression Obsession: solar system

Katzelkraft: KTZ118

PaperArtsy: EDY09, EDY10, EDY11

Papermania Urban Stamp: looking glasses

Stampers Anonymous: handwritten thoughts

Taylored Expressions: discover your wings

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish: snowflake, cheesecake, 

guacamole, hey pesto, chocolate pudding 

DecoArt: glorious gold

Archival Ink: jet black, coffee

and some other stuff...

Coasting Along

Hi there
A friend asked if I'd be interested in selling a few things at a craft fair and I thought I'd do my best to pull together a few bits and pieces.  I thought coasters always go down well so I set about altering nine bisque coasters with chalk finish paint and archival ink.  I chose three designs and three colour schemes and created a mix and match set.  I started with a white undercoat and then a mid tone on top and a darker tone on the edges. 

Then followed some stamping in white paint and I'm afraid at that point I got so engrossed I forgot to take pictures. 

 The next step was stamping in different coloured Ranger Archival ink and when that was dry the words were repeatedly stamped in black.  Before the ink was fully set the edges were rubbed with a damp baby wipe to knock the colour back a bit and make the centre stand out.  To tie the layers together some circles and a border were stamped in gold paint and a co-ordinating colour.  The edges were also painted gold.  The coasters were sealed with three layers of matte finish glaze to protect the stamping and give a surface that you can wipe clean with a damp sponge.  To finish they have been backed with a co-ordinating square of felt.

The problem is now they're finished I think they'd make rather good presents for my friends!  I won't be too sorry if no-one buys them ;-)

Materials used:

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: amethyst, orchid, chocolate pudding, Irish cream, 

eggplant, lilac, snowflake, chalk, vintage lace, old gold, matte glaze

Ranger Archival ink: jet black, coffee, cornflower blue, deep purple

PaperArtsy stamps: EDY09, EDY10, EDY11, HP1006, HP1009

Impression Obsession: solar system

Stampers Anonymous: stuff to say