A brush with Brusho

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Just a quickie today as I'm pretty behind with everything!  I was lucky to be given some Brusho for my birthday and have been having a play.  Next weekend I'm on Kay Carley's course at The Craft Barn so watch this space for some more Brusho creativity...

 

  I'm entering the roses in to The Craft Barn's weekly challenge on Backgrounds.

Bashful Bunny

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There's definitely a touch of Spring in the air, the birds are sounding chirpier and the daffodils are beginning to peek out.  Time to think about The Craft Barn calendar challenge for March - Yellow and Rabbits.  A good excuse to use one of my oldest and most loved stamps, the PSX Bashful Bunny.

First the bunny was stamped and masked.  A circle stencil and a mask for the sun were taped down.  Gradually the image was built up using Distress ink over torn paper masks for the hills and images stamped in Archival ink.

The twig and flowers were stamped around the edge with second and third impressions to add depth.  Details and shading were added in coloured pencil.  Yellow was added to the edges and some texture added with stamping (doesn't show up well in the photo).

I'm entering this in The Craft Barn Calendar Challenge  - March - Yellow and Rabbits. 

Materials Used:

PSX: Bashful Bunny

Hobby Art stamps: In the Country, Winter Scene-Its

Card-io stamps: Majestix Oriental Blossom stamp set

Stampers Anonymous: slight alterations

Ranger Distress Ink: squeezed lemonade, scattered straw, bundled sage, shabby shutters, weathered wood, salty ocean

Ranger Archival Ink: jet black

Clarity: moon mask, circle framer

Spectrum Noir pencils

A Trouble Shared

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Thanks for stopping by.  Inspired by Alison Hall's plaque on PaperArtsy's blog, mainly because I love the colours, I decided to make one with a particular friend in mind.  The theme is all about paint, an excellent excuse to get out the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics. 

First some grunge paste was added to mount board and when dry painted with snowflake and chalk paint.

Pieces of patterned paper were glued on.  Some masking tape was painted in patches with bora bora, wording stamped in snowflake and pieces added to the paper.  Splatters of eggplant and beach hut were added by flicking a paint brush.  More script was stamped in cobalt Archival Ink.

Gelatos were added to the edges and very lightly over the Grunge Paste.  Treasure Gold was used to add highlights.

The flower was stamped repeatedly and painted with washes of beach hut and eggplant.  The flowers were layers up, with one flower cut smaller.  Treasure gold was added to the tips of the petals, gold pen added to the centres with a pearl gem. 

The sentiment was stamped in Archival Ink, coloured with paint wash and adhered with Multi Medium.

I'm entering this in PaperArtsy's Challenge 3 - Paint.  Thank you for taking the time to look.  I really appreciate all of your comments.

Materials used:

PaperArtsy stamps: Eclectica EDY05, EDY10

IndigoBlu stamps: B.F.F.

PaperArtsy stencil: PS003

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: Bora Bora, beach hut, snowflake, chalk, eggplant

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

Treasure Gold: white fire

Faber-Castell Gelatos: grape, cotton candy

Ranger Archival Ink: cobalt

Ranger Multi Medium Matte

gold marker

masking tape

patterned paper

All the things I try to be

Six weeks after my first Journal Soup 2 online tutorial I decided it was time to try another one.  In Part 3 All the things I try to be, Kate Crane's video gently guides you through the steps to create a journal card with a whimsical face.  As a first attempt I'm fairly happy and have a few ideas of what I could do differently next time...

Materials used:

gesso

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: little black dress, snowflake, mermaid, 

Bora Bora, London bus, limelight

Spectrum Noir pencils: 24, 29, 33, 34, 65, 66

Faber-Castell Gelatos: cherry red, margarita mix, cotton candy, acqua dolce, snow cone, blueberry

Hero Arts stamp: life of the party dots

Meli-Melo stamps

Ranger Multi Medium, Matte

Stabilo All pencil

white paint marker

washi tape

 

Valentine Birds

A little card for my lovely husband who bought me the bird stamps for Christmas.

Stamped in Archival ink and watercoloured with Gelatos.  Then masked off and the hearts stencilled on with a little extra Gelato splatter. XXX

Materials used:

Ranger Archival Ink: jet black

Faber-Castell Gelatos

Tando mask: hearts

Smile

Hi there

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.