Sweet Dreams

Good morning all and happy weekend to you all.  I'm feeling a little sleepy at the moment, with Autumn around the corner and the dark nights making an appearence it is somewhat reflecting my mood in what I have made for this project.

                               

  

For this project I used:

Dylusion paints (crushed grape, lemon zest, bubblegum pink, vibrant turquoise, white linen)

Stampotique - Magda Polokow - Pajama Party

Inktense pencils

Finnabair art basics 3D Matt gel 

Finnabair art ingredients mica powder blue opal

Posca paint pens

On the door hanger I gave a coat of gesso.  Over this I blended crushed grape and white linen Dylusions paint. Once dried I applied some tiles of card using the 3D gel.  Using the lemon zest and bubblegum pink I applied more Dylusions paints in random areas of the hanger,  I love the way these blended to a different orange shade. I dried this layer before using the vibrant turquoise paint again in random areas.  I knocked everything back by dry brushing with white Dylusions paint.  Once this was dry I added some more vibrant turquoise.

Now that I had finished my painting I added some background stamping and stenciling, through a raindrop stencil I scrapped over some of the 3D gel and set aside to dry.

I stamped Pajama party onto some watercoloured card and coloured with inktense pencils.  I cut her out and adhered her using the 3D gel.

Around the tiles and Pajama Party I went in with my inktense pencils and added some shadows.  Finally I doodled with a White Posca pen.

Remember to drop by the A Sprinkle of Imagination shop where there are lots of special offers!

Crafty hugs,

Clare X X X 

Here's the science bit!

Hi blog friends it's Clare here today and today I'm revisiting a technique that I used a long time ago.  It's more of an experiment with paint if I'm honest, it really is quite scientific!

Using Dylusions lemon zest, I painted a layer onto the canvas and dried.  After this I painted a watery layer of white linen, with a pipette I added some drops of surgical spirit. Here's the science bit!  The surgical spirit pushes the paint away leaving these beautiful natural circles that you can see below.

It is very important to do this in a well ventilated room!  Once the white layer was dry I added a watery layer of vibrant turquoise and added more surgical spirit, dry again, and another layer of watery white.

Once my white layer had dried I added the final layer of bubblegum pink and repeated with the surgical spirit.  I stamped Stampotique, Kira Nichols, Kitty Squad stamp and coloured with  water soluble crayons.  I cut them out and placed them popping out of the circles.  I stamped one of the Dylusions sayings and added to the mini canvas.  Finally a little doodling with my posca pens.

I decided that I would add a magnetic sheet to this canvas and pop it on the fridge.

Thank you for stopping by today, have lots of crafty fun!

Hugs,

Clare X X X 

Technicolour or Monochrome?

Hi peeps, Shirley here.  I've been playing with this gorgeous stamp from Karen Hayselden in the new Stampotique Originals range. Meet Herbert Hare - isn't he wonderful?

I stamped out a couple of images, and coloured one with Derwent Inktense pencils and gave it a light wash.  Once it was dry I went back and added more dry colour.  Around the whiskers:

 Around the ears:

And a  shadow wash to ground the image.

Then I did a monochrome version, using just the black pencil.  A light wash inside the ears - always wash inside your ears ;)

Then pencil shading on the face and around the outside of the image.

Followed by a shadow wash to ground the image.

Pop on over to the store for a look at the rest of Karen's and other Stampotique designers' ranges.

Have a great weekend!
Shirley x

Boots

Howdy folks, I've  sadly made it to the end of what has been a couple of  relaxing, crafty weeks.  It's back to school for me on monday where I shall be daydreaming of my little crafty hideaway and doing maths, of course!  So with that in mind I have prepared myself a little door hanger in anticipation of the monday morning blues.

On the door hanger I painted with the following Dylusion paints: Bubblegum pink, cherry pie, vibrant turquoise, white linen.  I also used black linen for the circles.  I doodled around my mark making 

with a white Posca pen.  I chose Kate Crane's delightful Stampotique character 'Boots' with hope that she will lift me from my doldrums.  I coloured her in with Inktense pencils, cut out and adhered her to my door hanger.  

All I need to do now is decide where to hang it.  Dare I hang it in my teaching area at work or just on my bedroom door to warn the family to tread carefully?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!

Crafty hugs,

Clare x x x 

Happy you!

Hi guys I'm here today with my latest post for A Sprinkle of Imagination.  Along with me I have brought Nina Angel, Magda Polakow's cute design from the Stampotique originals.

I started to work on a piece of black card.  Using Dylusion paints, bubblegum pink and vibrant turquoise I blended through Dylusions starry night stencil.  Once my colours were dry I bumped the 

stencil over and blended some white dylusions paint through the same stencil.  I doodled over the constalations with a white posca pen and set aside.

Nina Angel was stamped, cut out and then watercoloured using distress inks.  From a piece of card that has previously been sprayed with Dylusion inks I die cut a star and added some white dots.  From the Lawn Fawn die 'Happy birthday to you' I cut out the words happy & you and joined them together. And added some more white dots.

Thank you for stopping by today, remember to stop by the ASOI shop and check out the fabulous selection of stamps, stencils, paints and mediums galore.

Happy crafting,

Clare x x x 

Fabulous!

Hello my lovelies, I'm here today from A Sprinkle of Imagination to share with you some feathered friends from Stampoutique.

I started off by blending some fresh lime  and white Dylusions paint onto a tag.  I added some background detail to my tag using contasting paint and ink.

I stamped Kira Nichols Stampotique - Birdy Up onto some water colour card and using Inktense pencils I gave the birds a burst of colour. There are four birds on this stamp but I only used three.  I added some little dots using a White Posca pen.  I fussy cut out my three little birds and set them aside.  The sentiment was from the Dylusions set Say it how it is, stamped on white card and cut into individual words.

I assembled my birds along with the sentiment onto the tag and embellished with some sequins.  I added some glossy accents to the birds wings and eyes and the pink bird had a sprinkle of glitter to make a little more fabulous.

Thank you for stopping by today, look forward to seeing you again soon.

Crafty hugs,

Clare x x x 

new stampotique originals

hello there! 

If you've been to the shop lately you may have noticed a few friends have arrived 

from Stampotique Originals.

If you have been to the shop...well. a few new friends have arrived from Stampotique Originals! 

Its always like THE best Christmas EVER when we get our Stampotique deliveries. 

Here's a peek at a few of the designs we have from Magda Polakow (yes...formerly of our design team... couldn't be happier for her!) , Daniel Torrente and Kate Crane to name a few! 

You can see all the new designs. and some long awaited restocks here in our "new in" section. 

I'm sure you'll find some to add to your Christmas list!

Happy Creating!

Vicki 

You brighten my day!

Hello!
A little panel from me today... packaging materials giving nice texture!

The cardboard looked particularly  ridged for some reason, which is great...

I used paint as usual on the base, smearing colour along with white to give a blended look.

The flower was created from stamped images, a heart for the flower head, and a curl for the stem. Both are Stampotique..

The words are from the new stamp set I told you about last time, the Hero Arts one with the die included..

I did a little doodling to finish..

Have a fabulous day!
Trish xxx

Mixed media stripped back.

I had the urge recently to use my water colour journal, one I've not used since.......since......that long!!!

I love water colours, it's my favourite way to add colour but despite this usually my journal pages are full of mixed media goodness but in fact I thought I'd go simple for a change and really take it back a notch. Mixed media doesn't have to be about tonnes of different products and in fact if you've put two different media on a page you can call it "mixed media".

So with that in mind I masked off a border in my book and stamped Agatha Crown by Magda at Stampotique with a Waterproof ink.

I painted the whole page around her with clean water then using my Neo-Color crayons, I made pools of paint and dabbed this around the wet paper.

Once it had dried I went around it again with more watered down colour to make the paint darker. I painted in some of the image with my fine brush and used a skin tone alcohol marker for her face.

I simply added a few spots of paint and stamped the "When Pigs Fly" also from Stampotique next to her and gave her a little grounding with some MME washi tape. This one is a really shiny blue but its not easy to tell from my photo. At the moment I seem to be into ripping it in half and using little bits of it here and there. This photo taken later in better light shows the tape in all its shiny goodness.

Have a good day

Jaine x

Ruby Tangerine

Hello!
Another 'challenge myself' project today...create a project that looks really colourful but has a minimal colour palette. I chose to use just two colours, red and orange, alongside black and white. Both paints from Dina Wakely, Ruby and Tangerine....

I used my 'go to' technique of the moment to create the background...smearing paint. Watch this space for a smearing tutorial video....this weeks challenge for myself is to finally get into the video tutorial field!!
Anyway....smeared paint, with a brayered layer of white to take the edge off the colour, as otherwise the figure won't 'pop' enough from the background. A little collage stamping...

The figure is created using Stampotique stamps...hearts in two sizes, and a quirky face...

I added a halo effect using red Prima wired thread. Fab stuff, gorgeous colours and keeps its shape wonderfully...

As is usual with my projects, it wouldn't be finished without a random bit of book text..

Hope you like her!
Trish xxxxx

Happy Pumpkins !

I've got a quick and easy card to share with you this week. I love Autumn/Fall and all the beautiful colours. Inspired by the abundance of pumpkins around at the moment I made a card for a special someone. I just know it'll make him smile!

I stamped two of the pumpkins from Stampotique Originals directly onto my card. The middle one was stamped using Archival Ink onto some cardstock that was painted with acrylic paints. His googly eyes were made by drawing onto a couple of tiny circles with a Micron pen and covering them with Glossy Accents.

Thank you for calling. Happy Halloween if you are celebrating. Gez

Recycled & reused !!

I've had such good fun making a card from my ever growing box of paper scraps, score!!

It was so simple, I am going to try this again!

Is it just me or do others save the beautiful packaging when they buy new crafting supplies... I couldn't throw this packaging away so I used it as the starting point for my card!

There is a lovely collection of Prima goodies over in the SHOP. I decided to use the packaging from the lovely, scrumptious Say It In Crystals yummy, embellishments!!

Using scraps of Tissue Paper by Tim Holtz, patterned scrap papers and old pages from a dictonary! Each were matted and layered to produce a simple card. Using a couple of stamped images from Stampotique Originals.

 Bella, Bella...

Happy creating, Gez

A bit of graffiti.

It looks as though Agatha Moon is dreaming of the future and what life has in store for her.

My page was kind of created by just adding stuff and doing what I fancied. No plan, just winging it so to speak. I slapped on a bit of paint here and there and used a few off cuts of paper as a collage element on the page. I then added some paste through a Crafters Workshop stencil and wrote my journaling with a paintbrush. Agatha who is designed by our own Magda, was painted with water colours as these are my favourite colouring media to use.

Happy crafty Sunday

Jaine x