Pretty in pink

 After creating a house in a jar I've now created a tree on a plate. A pink tree too, well why not?

Underneath that pink frosting is a plain bottle brush from a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Woodlands pack. I sprayed it with Dylusions Bubblegum pink spray and Mr Hueys Color Shine for some sparkle. To give it some extra sparkle I touched the fronds with some glue and rolled the brush in Ranger Distress Glitter in Picked Raspberry. It's so sad I couldn't get a good picture with the glitter because it really does shine beautifully.

To trim my tree I took a cheap decoration and cut off the little beads, using gel medium to stick them to the tree. 

I used Idea-ology Tinsel Twine to wrap around the tree and base and finished off with a chipboard star from Tando.

I stood my little tree on an old wooden cotton reel and finished with a pink bow.

We've all fallen in love with these trees here and I'm sure you will too. 

See you soon

Jaine x

A smashin' good time.

After sifting through my recent haul of ephemera, there were one or two pieces which I had absolutely no idea where I was going to use them but little more than a year ago I wouldn't have hesitated in putting them in my smash book. 

At the risk of being 'so last year' I've turned once again to my smash book pages and had a jolly good time cutting and sticking.  

I sprayed some Mr Hueys Estate Green on the background firstly before adding my papers.

I used what I have left of the absolutely gorgeous Jenni Bowlin 'Boy meets Girl' paper from the Red and Black collection and used it to add colour and frames.

 

and I do love to make the most of my alpha's by using the negatives too. (Just call me tight).

The little blue advert is cut from another Jenni Bowlin paper called Modern Mercantile 'Hodge Podge'.

Isn't this tape gorgeous? More Jenni Bowlin called Lace along with the Smash date stamp from K and Co.

Have a good week.

Jaine x

Ephemera album part 2

Well as promised here are the inside pages from the mini album I showed you last week.  I used the bits and pieces found whilst cleaning out the house of my Parents-in-law a couple of weeks ago and while the photo's are not the main items on the pages as they're either too small, unknown or un-important, it's the ephemera which is the star in this album.

This album is also very economical too as I only used one and a half sheets of patterned paper throughout, Jenni Bowlin "Boy meets Girl" from the  collection  Red Black and White and Finnabair Sunrise and Sunset by Prima

I also had a piece of Bazzil antique paper which fitted in perfectly with it's newsprint background.

As if it wasn't distressed enough I flicked over a few drops of Mr Hueys Classic Tan ink.

The background page below is covered with Glitz Design paper layers and embellished with another Jenni Bowlin deck card

I sneaked in some gorgeous washi tape by Jenni Bowlin in this sage lace pattern.

I hope it shows you that you needn't make an album of just photo's as sometimes you may have a collection of ephemera which is crying out to be used.

Have a good week and I'll see you next week.

Jaine x

Playing with layers.

I'm off for a couple of weeks on my holls so my inspiration for my blog post was to make a postcard in summery colours. 

I started with a sheet of Glitz Uncharted waters paper which I used on my background and along with various other papers I die cut all my shape layers and glued them down to the postcard. I also had a small bit of Sticky backed canvas left so I used this to cut some pennants for the corner. Once everything was stuck down I went a bit mad with the Mr Hueys spray inks and just kept adding colours until I was happy with the effect and had unified most of the papers. 

  

As a finishing touch I rubbed some gold paste over to give it a shine. 

See you in a couple of weeks.

Jaine x

Scrap, layered, big tag

I really cannot tell you how many layers are on this tag, there are so many I could use it as a door stop! No seriously it's not that bad but there are a few. 

I had absolutely no idea what direction I was going to take this project in so I just went with it and the end result didn't turn out too bad I don't think. 

I started out with one of the massive Ranger tags. These tags are so big they stand alone as backgrounds and make great mini book pages or cards. 

I put it through a wood grain embossing folder for texture and sprayed it with ink and I was initially hoping the spray would work it's way around the embossing and look totally cool but it just wasn't happening, so I covered that up with two coats of gesso. (Two because the first layer activated the ink colour).  I sprayed again this time with two colours of Mr Hueys, Estate Green and Taxi Yellow.  I loved the colour but over the gesso layer it was too bright and swamped the scrap layers on top so I toned this down a bit by scraping over some white acrylic. 

The background still screamed at me but once I'd layered my photo and scrap papers it was looking a lot better. 

I used Glitz color me happy papers, Ranger tissue tape and tiny alphabet stickers (Prima do some just the same). 

Happy thursday, have fun and I'll see you next time.

Jaine x

Nests are best.

 

Hello there, well we're into March already and here the temperatures have gone well up from -3 or 4 a week ago to 12 yesterday. Amazing. Of course it got me out into the garden to tidy up and I was so happy to find little shoots peeking up at me. My thoughts are well and truly into Spring (my favourite season) by now and crafting spring is so inspiring with the bright colours and flowers.

 

Tando do a packet of three little chipboard houses which are just adorable and I did intend to decorate just one for a show and tell post here but once I'd finished one I had to use all three.  I turned them all into little spring birdhouses just for a bit of fun and colour. I die cut a little hole in the front and used acrylic paint to add colour.  I also used a resist canvas birdie by Prima colouring him with Mr Hueys spray ink. The flags are simply pieces of coloured washi tape doubled over a piece of thread then cut into triangles.

 

 

The two smaller ones are made in the same way but I pushed a bbq stick through the bottom so I could push them into a plant pot. I covered the roof of one with book page and used more washi tape to decorate the bottoms. The words are made using a dymo labeler.

Jaine x