Live with love

Hello

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

 

 

January basket

Hello

Something a bit different this week and something I found a bit challenging. In previous posts I have mentioned that I am joining in with challenges hosted by Isa on Facebook. There are four a month; a technique on a tag, art journal, Christmas card and 'the basket'. 

The idea of the basket is to gather together crafting supplies which have never been used, or not seen the light of day in a while, and come up with something. For those in the UK it's the crafting equivalent of Ready, Steady, Cook!

I have A LOT of crafting supplies so I was able to put together a basket of unused and neglected items with a steampunk feel. I started with putting washi tape and peel offs on black card. Then added some Distress Oxide ink and gilding wax.

A little bit of a cheat as I used a new Stamperia alchemy stencil for the background.

The Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 ticket stamp must be over 10 years old and unused. The Tim Holtz mini file folders are even older than that. To finish off I added gilding wax to the wooden adhesive beads.

I struggled at first to think of what to do, which is why the items had been unloved for so long, but in the end it didn't turn out too badly. The eagle eyed among you will have noticed there are still some things in the basket I haven't used. If I have time I may return to it.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a great day. xxx