Let's Go Fly a Kite

Hi everyone, I hope you enjoyed your long weekend!  I've got a clean and simple card for you today.

This silhouette image by Jenni Bowlin looks great with very little embellishment.  I just sponged a background using Seedless Preserves Distress Ink, then l laid the Fence Frame stencil from The Crafters Workshop and sponged more Seedless Preserves.  To ground the image I stencilled Black Soot Distress Ink through the Tim Holtz Stripes stencil.

To finish off, I trimmed my panel then mounted it onto purple card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Shirley x

It's A Man Thing

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Shirley here with a trendy masculine card for you.

I started off by stamping the guy image from Dylusions Mini Couture using Tea Dye Distress ink, watercoloured the image using the same colour, then masked that with some scrap paper.  I inked up the Mix Tape 6x6 stencil by Ronda Palazzari with Distress Inks, turned it over and placed it over the masked stamped image at a jaunty angle, pressing it down with kitchen roll so that the colours mixed, and the excess was mopped up.

The scrap paper I used for masking was red and white checked, but because it got soaked by the Distress Inks, some of it ripped and stayed behind as I was removing it.  Doesn't it look cool, though?  Might have to try drawing checks on the jacket next time!

I used a stamp from Dina Wakley Textures to add some detail around the edges, then trimmed the panel, matted it onto black card, then adhered it to my card base.  On a spare piece of black card, I wrote the HB2U with a white Posca pen, and stuck a strip of the trimmed card across the bottom using 1/8 inch Wonder Tape.  It just adds that little bit of interest.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Shirley x

Drive fast!

Hi everybody! It's been a while since my last blog post, but now I'm back scrapping away after a great vacation:-) It's been over a month without scrapping so this time I really had to get messy and just play!
I have to girls and got them some pink princess pages. But I have to say I'm glad that my girls can be real tomboys sometimes so they will get some cool, messy pages to:-)

This page is made mainly from Jenni Bowlin products, but I've used a few others to. For my background I used a TCW stencil and dabbed on some Prima Chalk Fluid Edger - Fall leaf.
Then I layered a few of the Jenni Bowlin Modern Mercantile papers. I also added some washi tape also from Jenni Bowlin. To make the papers blend more together I used some gesso on a babywipe:-)

To finish my page of I embellished it with different stamps, chipboard stars, metal gears and arrows and a rubon from Tim Holtz. LOVE those rubons, they go on perfectly no matter what the background is!

And I also used a few Jenni Bowlin products to make the page come together. A sticker flag banner, postage stamp sticker and a Vintage Decks card. That rooster card was just perfect I think! 

I also used a sketch from a Norwegian sketch blog called Skissedilla. Followed the sketch loosely this time. Pop in if you want to play along this week:-)

Wishing you all a great sunday:-)

Panic....

Hello!
Back to my standard 'go to' comfort projects today...a painty panel!!!
I've been trying out a less is more approach to the background with this one, trying to get some detail simply with the colour (and a stencil!)

This is what I call my 'bruise' colour combo...yellow green and purple! Gesso on the 8 x 8 chipboard sheet to start with, just to make the colour pop. I then scraped texture paste through a stencil, before getting busy with the colour. I started with yellow, then added sponged and brayered layers of pale green, white and purple.....

Lots of thin layers, just building up the colours!
I sponged gesso through the stencil to give white highlights...

For my focal images, I used a new stamp for me, this Stampotique design, Tenticurl by Jo Capper Sandon....

Three images of varying sizes. The middle one is the full stamp, the smaller image has had a bit chopped off, and the bigger one has a bit added!
My Stampotique lady is looking a little nervous...

So I found a suitably apt quote from my stash of cut up book phrases! Those curly things definitely look scary to me........!
Have a nice weekend!
Trish xxxxx

Puffy Heart Love!

Hello!
I've been playing with sticky backed canvas..... and I sewed a puffy heart!

I'll get to the heart in a minute.....
The base for this is a box frame, so a nice bit of depth...

The background is very easy, it just takes a while because of the drying issues! Firstly, I covered the frame with old book pages using multi medium. This is the first waiting time...multi medium is not over fond of the heat tool, heat too much and it starts to bubble and lift up whatever you've stuck down! So, once dry, I gave it a wash of brown paint which takes seconds! I sponged embossing ink through a stencil, then added green embossing powder to give the detail....

A tiny bit of black splatter stamping finished the design. Then it was part two of the waiting game as I covered the whole thing in clear crackle medium!
Whilst that was drying (it takes a good 2-3 hours even in this heat!) I created the heart. I drew a very rough heart on the canvas, then cut two shapes out. Now, sticky backed canvas is ....um.... sticky backed. This isn't really ideal when you want to sew it! I've found the best way round this is to peel off the backing paper, then pounce the sticky side with an anti static bag, one of those things you use before you emboss to stop stray powder sticking where you don't want it! I would imagine rubbing a little talcum powder over the sticky side would work too, if you don't have an anti static bag. Once the sticky wasn't sticky any more, I sewed part way around the heart, stuffed it with a little wadding, then sewed it up completely. Despite the heart being all soft and squishy, you can still treat it as a canvas surface.....so I painted it! Red Claudine Hellmuth paint to be precise.....

I also covered it in crackle paint......

Once all the crackles were dry, I glued the heart to the background.
The hanger is a piece of driftwood, decorated to match the background...

I hammered two nails into the top of the wooden frame, then wrapped wire around the driftwood and around the nails to join the two parts together.
I rubbed a little gold paint into the crackles here and there to highlight them, then added the Alphapart words as a finishing touch....

I think I'll be making more puffy canvas shapes, really enjoyed making this one!
Trish xxx

How beautiful..

I really love challenges, especially color palettes and sketches. The challenge blog "Thats just so cute" have many different challenges and they have a color challenge every month. This time it was a really lovely palette! It's only a few days left to play along with this challenge but maybe you want to give it a go?

This time I made a page for my art journal. The text stamp says; "How beautiful the day is when touched by the kindness."This book will be filled with only good pages :-)

For the background I started out by applying molding paste trough a TCWS stencil. I also sprayed on some Goose Bumps. LOVE that medium! I than sprayed some glimmer mist on and started to mix up water colors to get the right shades. To finish the page of I used a rubbon from Tim Holtz. They are so beautiful and really easy to rub on:-)

I've used these product that you'll find in the shop:

• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs: Elements
• Glimmer mist from Tattered Angels
• Stencil: The Crafters Workshop
• Molding Paste