Frog queen

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A quick share today of a card made a while back for a family birthday using Giogiocraft's stencil set and laser cuts.

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Little grey cells

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Today I'm sharing a card made for an Agatha Christie lover's 50th birthday, using the IndigoBlu mixed media box kit 1 and a very handy StempelBar stamp.

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City of swifts

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I think I have said before how much I really love swifts, probably as much as I love clouds. At the moment I am missing the swifts, which set off back to Africa at the end of July and start of August, so I decided a bit of swift art would be good therapy.

I used Inktense pencils with new Derwent paint pens and waterbrushes that my husband bought me for our wedding anniversary. He took me to the pencil museum in Keswick (300 miles away) for a special day out to celebrate our 20 years. True love :-)

The world's first pencil.

 Pencil art...art made from pencils!

The world's largest pencil.

 My stash of goodies from the shop! Just need time to have a play with it all now.

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Crafting with Giogio mini challenge

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I'm finally trying to catch up a little as crafting and blogging have had to take a back seat for a while. I did have time to join in with Giovanna Zara's #craftingwithgiogo mini challenge on Instagram. Unfortunately I didn't quite complete it as we were away for a few days.

Day 1 animals and/or spray

Day 2 from the past

Day3 colours and/or grunge

Day 4 let it go

Day 5 out of the box

Day 6 flying high

 
Day 7 black and/or flowers

All of the projects used Giogiocraft stencils and/or laser cuts somewhere on them. You never know I may yet finish off the last two days.

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The love of swifts

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Hope you have been enjoying a relaxing weekend. I was up early this morning to catch the best light and finish off a canvas I started a few weeks ago. Most of the canvas was done with stencils and I only used brushes for the swifts.

Of course the more you look the more you want to tinker but I'm blogging so I can say it's done...probably!

I absolutely adore swifts and mark the year by when they arrive and depart. Only six weeks left for me before they start to journey back. Making the most of them.

Hope you have a great week ahead. Thank you for stopping by xxx

The fox and the raven

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Hope you have all been keeping well. I've been having a bit of a play this week with my new set of Derwent inktense pencils. With hindsight I should have started with making a colour chart, but I was a bit ambitious and decided to jump straight in with a picture.

I started with a Hobby Art Stamps image of a house viewed through a tree tunnel...

 

  

 

At this stage it nearly went in the bin, but I convinced myself that the purpose was to get the feel of the pencils and I carried on...

I'm reasonably happy with the end result and have forced myself to stop tinkering with it. I do love how the pencils can be layered and layered, but next time I need better paper from the outset.

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Look deep into nature

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I hope you are all keeping well. Last weekend, needing some impetus to get creative for an afternoon, I dipped into an online tutorial with Carpe Occasio Creative Arts on Facebook. I started off following but of course soon went off in my own direction. But then that's what it's all about isn't it?

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

I'm still working on the lettering :-)

Take care and have a lovely week xxx