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Not a lot of time for crafting or blogging at the moment but here's a little something with a Valentine's flavour.

The heart is made with grunge paste through a Tando stencil, which is why it was difficult to get it all in focus.

The Craft Barn calendar challenge for February is Red and Hearts...I'm hoping I can get away with one heart!  Thank you for taking the time to have a look.

Materials used:
PaperArtsy: Grunge Paste

PaperArtsy stamp: JOFY  JM05
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint: eggplant, claret, orchid, red London bus, mermaid, snowflake
Ranger Dylusions Ink Spray: post box red, funky fuschia
Ranger Dylusions stamp: The Right Words

Kaisercraft stamp: Arty

Tando stencils: Hearts, Giovanna Spiral
The Crafter's Workshop stencil: Mini Circle Grid
Stabilo All pencil
silver paint marker

Bruges Mini Album

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This week's challenge at The Craft Barn is Mini Albums, so I thought it was a great excuse to photograph a little album I made a while back.  A friend in South Africa, who is in to scrapping, sent me a BoBunny Enchanted Mini Edgy Album which was perfect to compliment the snowy scenes.  Fortunately the photos only capture how pretty it was and not that it felt like -10C in the wind.  It was a magical weekend.

 

 

Shiny Stuff

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I've not had much time for crafting in the last month but with less than 24 hours to go I decided to make something for the PaperArtsy Challenge - Shiny Stuff.  Inspired by Trish Latimer's post I decided to make something with copious amounts of Treasure Gold in different guises.

I started by melting some glue with a glue gun, and pressed in to it a flower stamp which had been lightly smeared with vaseline to help it release.  When cool, I cut out the petals and covered them in classic treasure gold.

I covered two edges of a piece of card stock with a thin layer of grunge paste.  On the left a brick stamp was repeatedly pressed in to the past and on the right a script stamp to add a little texture.

Then I experimented with some Fresco Finish chalk paints for a background.  I stenciled on some leaves but later changed my mind and painted them out.  Some script was stamped in distress ink and the flowers were stamped in Archival ink.  The flowers were outlined with a Stabilo All pencil.  Some more stamping was added to the background.

Treasure gold was lightly rubbed over metal butterflies to highlight the design.

 

More treasure gold was used to highlight the painted grunge paste.  Some extra lines of treasure gold were added with the edge of a credit card.  Gold microbeads were added to the centre of the flowers with a little extra higlighting of course.  Finally I decided against the painted red stamens and added some metal nailhead stickers for a final bit of bling.  Definitely shiny stuff.

Thank you for stopping by. Why not pop over to the PaperArtsy blog to see some of the other entries?

Materials used:

PaperArtsy: Eclectica EDY10, JOFY JM05

Fresco Finish chalk paints (chocolate pudding, taupe, vintage lace, chalk, mermaid), Grunge Paste

Ranger: Archival Ink (jet black), Distress Ink (peacock feathers), Glossy Accents

Treasure Gold: classic, white fire

vaseline

white gel pen

Stabilo All pencil

metail embellishments

cool glue gun and glue

January Cat

Getting a bit ahead of myself I'm making a start on next year's calendar! I'm taking part in The Craft Barn's Calendar Challenge.  For January the entries must include the colour aqua and snowflakes.

The large snowflakes were clear embossed on a background of white gesso.  Next weathered wood distress ink was added and the smaller snowflakes were clear embossed, with a little additional embossing powder sprinkled top right and bottom left.  Torn paper hills were added and distress ink colours were built up around the edges.  A stencil was used to add the branches and ground.  Water was spritzed and flicked onto the card and blotted.  The cat was stamped in archival ink and highlighted with white gel pen.  Finally (the photo doesn't really pick this up) the edges were embossed with transparent glittery embossing powder to give it a bit of sparkle and the calendar was added.

Materials used:

white gesso

Stampendous Embossing Powder: detail clear transparent, kaleidoscope transparent

Ranger Distress Ink: weathered wood, evergreen bough, faded jeans, black soot

Ranger Archival Ink: jet black

Ranger: multi medium matte

Clarity Stamps: moon mask, woodland stencil

Katzelkraft: chatool KTZ63

Stampendous: retro border SSC062

Fabulous Boot

With a few girlie birthdays coming up I thought now was the time to get out the Fabulous Boot 2 stamp by The House of Zandra.  First the background was stamped all over with swirls in Vintage Photo Distress Ink and the circles shaded with Promarkers.  Next a frame was die cut and the Fabulous Boot was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black, allowing the top of the boot to come off the frame.  It was then restamped another twice on pieces of card so the flowers and boot could be decoupaged.  The images were shaded with Promarkers and assembled with silicone glue and Cosmic Shimmer glue.

Entered in:

Craft Stamper's Take It, Make It Challenge for January 2015

Materials used:

The House of Zandra: Fabulous Boot 2 stamp

background swirl stamp

Memento Ink: tuxedo black

Ranger Distress Ink: vintage photo

Promarkers: marine, island lagoon, frosted jade, shale, tan, crimson

Cosmic shimmer glue, silicone glue, double sided tape

Home Bird

Happy New Year and happy new crafting!  With the start of 2015 I decided it's time to try something new.  Inspired by Kate Crane I had a go at a whimsical journal page.  Having had a lot of fun I think it's something I might try again!

 Thank you for taking a peek.  Hope you have a great 2015 xxx

Materials used:

Paper Artsy Fresco Finish paints

DecoArt Dazzling Metallics gold paint

Hero Arts Birds and Branches clear stamp

The Crafters Workshop flying geese stencil

Assorted background stamps and stencils

White gel pen

Faber-Castell gelatos

Leaving it to the last minute!

In the summer I bought three Artemio small cube candle holders with every intention of decorating them for the table for Christmas.

Well tonight is the night my family are coming for a big meal together and with 3 hours to go I decided now was the time to sort out the table decorations!  A quick base of Fresco Finish Mermaid...stamp some snowflakes in DecoArt Glorious Gold (the snowflakes are actually flower centres)...

...some London Bus on the edges...a few gems and some Star Dust Stickles...a bit of ribbon...red felt on the base...on the table and the glue isn't even dry yet!

They will go beautifully with the coasters made at The Craft Barn with Helen Chilton earlier in the year.

Off to sort the veggies now... 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Creative New Year xxx