Hellebores

Hello

It's been another week of life getting in the way of art. I had a lot of prep to do for the craft night at Chertsey Museum. The ladies made really great frames for mirrors or photos. The die cutting in advance paid off as there wasn't much queuing for equipment on the night.

I have managed to make cards for Mothering Sunday in the UK. A friend gave me a lovely hellebore stamp by Sheena and I tried to combine it with the moodboard colours and easel card challenge with Isa on Facebook.

As they say 'That's All Folks' for this week anyway.

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

Leap-frog

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I've fallen a bit behind with crafting and blogging, partly because I have been prepping for an up-coming craft class, and partly because I have been a bit under the weather.

I have managed to do the March challenge for #tagalongwithIsa on FB. I used the mood board colours and the challenge was to have an element repeated three times.

The background stencils and the laser cut frogs are from GiogioCraft. 

March is the month for frog spawn but with the weather we've been having I hope it's not all frozen!

I hope the week puts a spring in your step. Thank you for stopping by.xxx

A little bird told me

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A super quick one today as I'm doing a mountain of die cutting for a craft class in a few weeks. 

I used a Gelli plate background with acrylic paint and stamped on the Lavinia bird, berries and hare. The berries and spatter were done with Posca pens.

 

 

Not my usual colours but I like how it turned out.

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a lovely day xxx

 

Seahorse

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A very quick one today. Back in September I posted about using Pentart light modelling paste with stencils. You can read it here. Today I'm sharing another card made with the same batch of backgrounds.

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This time I used watercolour for the background and paint pens for the seahorse.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. It is destined as a birthday card for a seahorse lover.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a lovely day xx

Wisley in winter and street art in Bristol

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I've had a busy week with lots of meeting up with friends and family. I managed a walk around Wisley RHS gardens with my sister and was inspired to paint a picture to capture the winter colours.

I used acrylic paint, paint pens and ink.

We also had a lovely weekend with friends in Bristol and had a Sunday morning walk around the North Street area in Bedminster, looking at all of the amazing street art. Too many to share them all but here are a few of my favourites...

I love the idea of public art, beautiful, inspiring work free for everyone to enjoy. I hope you've found some inspiration too.

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

Live with love

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For the February #tagalongwithisa challenge you have to use three elements from the list. I love this colour palette so I went with the colours, embossed heart and gears.

The heart is a GiogioCraft die cut, painted and embossed in several layers of clear embossing powder. I used DecoArt crackle past on the tag and Gelatos to colour it. Wetting the Gelatos allowed the colour to run into the cracks for more definition. The background gears are peel offs which worked better on the rough texture than stamping would have done. There's very fine spatter which doesn't show up particularly well in the photo.

I haven't had the Gelatos out in ages. This was quite messy and fun to do.

Thank you for taking the time to pop by. Have a lovely day xx

 

 

Love is in the air

Hello

A friend sent me a very apt meme this week...

Be someone

who makes someone else

look forward

to tomorrow.

The elephants are watercoloured GiogioCraft laser cuts and the hearts cut from a gel print.

Sending you love xx