C.A.S

 

It's my turn over on Clare Curds Craft DT page today and I came up with this very clean and simple, but stylish card.

 

 

I used some Flitter Glu and Mega Flakes, love these products! to create the substrate to cut my die from.

Then layered up my card base and sentiment on white card, keeping everything very clean.

 

 



Just a note

It's my turn over on Clare Curd Crafts today and this is the card I came up with using FlitterGlu and Mega Flakes

 

 

I've kept it very clean and simple, have to say I do like the white space!!



Looking forward

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Mine was peaceful, spent in the company of my husband and our two Sons. Our daughter and her partner couldn't join us as she was unfortunately working, so I made them both a 'takeaway' Christmas dinner, which her boyfriend called round and picked up so she had a good meal waiting for her when she got home at 8pm.

 

I was thinking of the coming year and came across a lovely quote online, which I wanted to use on an art journal page

 

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Elliot

I started off adding a coat of gesso to my page, and then using a collection of paints, inks and Dylusion sprays added colour



 

The colour was added in layers.

 

interest and texture added by using stencils and sequin waste.

some splatters are added with Dylusions



 

just keep adding layers until you are happy with what you see.

 

I stencilled through a face stencil using texture paste, and when dry I re-stencilled using a black permanent pen.

 

 

I added some pieces of masking tape and some Mega Flakes to give more texture.

more stamps are applied and some details using a black pen.

some white paint drips to lighten the page.

 

 

the words of the quote are torn to size and then added to the page, you could if you wanted hand write on your page.

 

 list of items I used from Clare Cure Crafts

- Dylusion Sprays

- Mega Flakes 

- FlitterGlu

 

I also used water droplets, water droplets 2 and raindrops set all by Designs by Ryn



It's getting closer!!

 

It's hard to believe that in three weeks the big day will be here! It only seems like a couple of weeks  have gone by since summer!!

 

My piece for Clare Curd Crafts DT blog this week is a mixed media wall hanging, and with Christmas been so close I made it a little seasonal.

 

 

I used a piece of mount board as my base, and firstly covered it in tissue paper to get some good texture. This was then coated in a layer of gesso, and then lots of layers of acrylic paints. Some stamping was added and some bubble wrap-applied paint.

 

Then I added some areas of Flitter Glu and Mega Flakes in Royal Peacock

The small snowflakes and the robin are from the Winter Critters stamp set

 

 

My girl is paper pieced and then paint added to give some depth.

 

 

 

How cute is that robin

 

 



 

 

 



Lots of lovely layers

It's coming to that time of year again, and no matter how much I want to bury my head in the sand and pretend that Christmas isn't just under 5 weeks away I need to put on my big girl pants and face facts. Now I stopped making all my Christmas cards years ago as I found it was too much pressure to make them all and I wasn't prepared to start making Christmas cards while I was still thinking of summer holidays, so now I only make a handful of cards for very special people and that allows me to put more time and effort into each one.

 

For this card I used  Here Comes Santa from IndigoBlu, available from Clare Curd Crafts.

I also used FlitterGlu and Mega Flakes.

 

I applied the FlitterGlu to the edges of the base card and then got a good layer of the flakes to cover the glue.

Then edged some black card, one of which I embossed, with silver embossing powder and layered these up.

 

 

 

Next I stamped the snowflake border in the FlitterGlu and covered it in the flakes, and mounted that onto a strip of black card and applied off to one side.

The tree was stamped and embossed in silver and mounted onto 3D pad, and the sentiment was tucked behind.

 

 

 

I'm sharing this card on the following challenge blog ~ http://scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/challenge-5-always-anything-goes.html



Like the Phoenix she rises

I bought some old but gorgeous stamps from a friend who was having a craft clear out. She has always had a really good eye and a knack at tracking down stamps that are a little bit unusual and different. So when I saw she was selling this stamp I jumped in there quick as it is one I've always loved.

 

The stamp does have a cat on it but for my purposes I cut the cat away when I was cutting the image out.

 

 



Now she is a little saucy, and not to every ones taste so I will warn you there are naked breasts (only in rubber stamp form) in the following pictures.

 

 

The piece is on a mountboard base, about 12inches in height.

Layers of acrylic paints, stamping ink and alcohol ink and gilding flakes.

 

The bee is symbolic of the Empress and feminine energy and I thought it went perfect with this piece.

 

 

 

 

Cute Critters

As soon as I saw this set of stamps my first thought was 'awwwwww how sweet' my second was how versatile they were.

The little animals are really adorable and could be used for any occasion.

 

I stamped them in Stazon ink and then painted them in a pearlescent paint.

I then stamped the trees with Versamark ink and embossed them with black embossing powder. The animals were then mounted on 3D foam pads.

I then stamped the star with FlitterGlu and then applied IndigoBlu Mega Flake in Royal Peacock.

Before mounting the black square onto the base card I edged the basecard with flitterGlu and applied some more of the Mega Flake.

Items used :- Mega Flake

                  FlitterGlu

                   Phat Foam

                                         Winter Critters stamp set