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Day 9 with Nathalie Kalbach's Creative JumpStart and we have the fabulous Andrea Gomoll as our muse for the day. Lots of fun background work and layers of colour and texture. I've sketched my version of a chrysanthemum in a vase, watercoloured with distress crayons & dylusions inks.

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Day 8 with Nathalie Kalbach's Creative JumpStart and I've taken inspiration from our muse Diana Trout & her recipe for the Spice of Life. I've used the chemicals of happiness and of course caffeine! I love all the conical flasks, round bottomed flasks and different jar shapes found in the chemical laboratory and I was able to indulge in my love of organic molecule structures and formulae. I've watercoloured the page using Distress Crayons.

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Day 3 with Nathalie Kalbach's Creative JumpStart and our muse is Carolyn Dube. This is a great recipe for fun creativity and I followed her three steps.

My uncontrollable was sprays & the journal page I sprayed the previous project on. I couldn't call this page trash so my trash was package labels with lots of colour from Dylusions sprays and paints.

Many thanks to Carolyn Dube for all the inspiration.

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Day 2 with Nathalie Kalbach's Creative JumpStart! A little late posting as January has my immune system doing a little jumpstart of its own, as all the lovely bugs going round are giving me a great workout!
Tina Walker's Art Recipe Jar had me a little perplexed at first, as I wanted to put all my energy into creating not cataloging. I think it's a great idea and I will make one, eventually when I get some time. In the meantime I used her picks excluding the pan pastels as I don't have any.
This was so much fun and a great way to get out of a rut. I loved the nature element and I wonder what other exciting things you could put in your jar.

A third of the way through, so I've lots of posting to do!

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New Year, New Creations and with that in mind I decided to take part in Nathalie Kalbach's Creative JumpStart! After watching an inspiring video of Mystele Kirkeeng at play I gathered my supplies and gave it a go. Lots of fun seeing where my starting collage led.

Here's hoping 2018 sparkles for you!

Pop-up Unicorn

I've been playing along with Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker for the 30 Day Colouring Challenge and wanted to put some of my pieces together on a card. This is one of my favourite types of card. I love pop-ups, how they change from the flat 2D envelope form to their glorious 3D box shape. I've watercoloured all the stamps, shapes and diecuts with distress markers and heat embossed Elodie and the number two in gold. Acetate strips anchor all the elements in place and provide a little movement to the card.

A special card for a special niece to celebrate her 2nd birthday. Here's hoping her birthday is all rainbows and unicorns! 

Challenges:

Moving Along with the Times #53: Add a Number [2]

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stamp It

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Stamp It

Tic Tac Toe Challenge TTTC014: Acetate, Dimension, Gold [Column 1]

Unicorn Blog Challenge #25: Birthday

Supplies:
Distress Markers
Gold Embossing Powder

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After; The Greeting Farm Magical Friends; Paper Smooches Spectrum; Concord & 9th Sophisticated Script; Papermania Numbers
Dies: Tim Holtz Handwritten Celebrate; Lawn Fawn Hearts; Spellbinders Stars
Gold Pen, Stickles

Warmer Inky Dylusions

Decided to change my colour palette to warmer tones and to try for a cosmic magical background. This background started life like the last two, but I remembered to use my blender tool with the paint and stencils this time!

Lots of splatters of Dylusions white linen ink and some Heidi Swap Gold Spray, doodling with a white paint pen and black ink pen and some distress inking and crayoning to finish the background. 

I topped this card off with a watercoloured little unicorn from The Greeting Farm stamps.

Hope your day has a bit of magic!

Challenges:

Craft Rocket Challenge #40: Animal Kingdom

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Splatter It

Unicorn Challenge #24: Mythical & Magical

Supplies:

Distress Ink
Distress Crayons
Distress Paint
Dylusions Sprays

Heidi Swapp Gold
Primary Elements Powder
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Year Two; The Greeting Farm Magical Friends
Stencils: THMS070; Dylusions Large Arrow Border; Finnabair Alpha, Dots&Stripes
Paint Pen, Black Ink Pen, Graphite Pencil