Experimentation

I have been experimenting with Brushos and mica powders. I mixed some colours of Brushos up in a small spray bottle along with mica powders. I was surprised how shimmery this turned out. you can't see it in the photo but you can see the shimmer in real life.

Once dry I ran it through an embossing folder. I stamped some flowers from the henna elements (love this set) and die cut a hummingbird.

I wish to enter this into the Handmade bliss (colour challenge) June Challenge

70th Birthday!

I have made this card for my Aunties 70th Birthday.

I used Altnew Henna Elements stamp set for the flowers and leaves. I  coloured them in using promarkers (I forgot to check which colours). I then matted and layered some white card onto purple and stuck this down on a blank card. I then printed the sentiment using Craft Artist and also matted and layed onto purple card and onto the card. I am quite pleased with how this card turned out.

 

I am entering this card into the Handmade Bliss Blog Challenge

Crackle Paint

I was Ali Reeve making a crackle paint on Thursday on Create and Craft using Corn Flour and Chalk Paint. She has also made it with Gesso. I loved the crackle effect but don't have any chalk paint or gesso so decided to see if I could get the same effect using paints I did have. I tried Acrylic and Emulsion.

This is the Acrylic and as you can see whilst it cracked it was only slight. If you want a slight one this is good.

 

 

This one is done with Emulsion and provided a great crackle effect. Will definitely be using again.

Dog Mirror

I am normally a card crafter but have recently become interested in altered art/mix media/making stuff whatever you would like to call it. I went to my first craft show in September and found some lovely wooden dogs from Button-it Buttons. They did however come with holes in so I emailed them and the lovely lady said they could do them without holes in if I wished. I put in my order and they arrived super quick.
I don't normally plan projects but I had this one in my mind as to what I would like to do with the dogs. I bought some mirrors from ikea which had large outer edge/frame on them. I also purchased some wooden bones and planned on putting these on to it but decided against it once I had finished the dogs.

The top picture is the blank dog. I then put two coats of black emulsion onto each side and then proceeded to glitter it. I used a black holographic glitter. I did four dogs and each dog was glued onto the mirror in the four corners.

The finished mirror.

 

I am quite pleased with the finished article and hope you like it too.

I am entering this into the sisters of craft challenge Anything goes

 

Crafty Hugs

Candles

I am not sure how I discovered about personalising candles but since I have I have loved it. I have done a few but only remembered to photograph three, Doh. This first one I made for my sister in laws Birthday

This one was for a local business where I used to rent a room (I am a massage therapist in case you didn't know)

This one is for the owner I made her when she wasn't feeling very well to cheer her up

The Candles can be personalised with words, pictures, photos. My next attempt I think will be trying to use my owl stamp to personalise a candle, I am a bit obsessed with this stamp at the moment.

I am entering the candles into The Sisters of Craft Challenge Blog

Fox in the Snow

I am loving my new stamps of a fox and an owl. I wanted to use them on the latest Creata Challenge 'Inspired by a Song' so had to find a song with either in. I found one by Belle and Sebastian Called "Fox in the Snow".

I used Creata Kraft Card, Creata Mirror Card, Mr Fox Stamp. Embossing Powder and other Card from my Crafty Stash.

VW Camper Box

I was looking around the internet for instruction on how to use my eazi scoreboard as I bought it off ebay and it didn't come with any instructions. I found this blog post with instruction on making a notelet box http://ikkiscuttlebugcupboard.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/using-your-eazi-scoreboard.html. I decided to have a go and see what I could do. Here is the results:

 



I am entering this into the Creata Challenge and the Sisters of Craft Challenge. I have used:

Creata Kraft Card
Ali Reeve Stamp
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Papermania Glitter Strips