Mixed Media Stencil

Mixed media background fun! This is a quick way to let your creativity roam. I started by gessoing my card to create a surface for stencilling and spraying. Then my inner child was activated as I emptied all my bits & bobs on to the table, spread them out and looked for just the right pieces for my card. After gluing, layering and drying I used pearlescent embossing paste through Finnabair's Harlequin stencil. When everything was dry, I added some white gesso to mute some of the elements original colour and some clear gesso where I wanted to keep it, then more drying time! Now to the spraying, two blues and a pink and then the glitter and micro beads. I found a relatively flat and clear place to stamp Happy Birthday in Stazon and added my doll.

The Audrey doll is coloured with promarkers and glitter paste stencilled through Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil and stickles is added to her skirt. I stamped in Memento Tuxedo black on some music script paper inspired by The Mixed Media  Monthly Challenge graphic.

Can you find the "Ugly button" à la Finnabair?

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers CCEE1602: Hats  [Audrey Doll Stamped Hat]

Craft for the Craic: January Blues  [blue sprays & micro beads] 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stencil It  [Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow, Finnabair Harlequin]

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #20: Time Flies  and you're turning 70!

 

Supplies

Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Birthday Farm Animals, Prima Audrey Doll
Dies & Stencils etc: Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil, Prima Finnabair Harlequin stencil.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stazon Jet Black

Paper: White & patterned card, canvas, doily, lace from stash

Highlights: wink of stella, stickles, glitter paste, pearlescent embossing paste, glitter, micro beads, paper flowers, metal embellishments & numbers, Papermania black gem, white & clear gesso. 

Sprays: LuminArte Plumeria, Bolivian Blue, Glimmer Mist Electtic Blue, Distress Spray Brushed Pewter, Dylusion Ink Spray White Linen
Colouring: ProMarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Something New

Something new for the new year, my first journal page. Lots of fun messy play with gelatos, stamps, stencils, embossing & glitter paste. A quote from Douglas Adams embellished with the essentials: a towel, tea and a bath that seems more fun than the one Adams is writing about.

Douglas Adams describes the blues and how they alter time so well in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, when he explains that Sunday afternoon feeling when "that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, ... and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul."

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers CCEE1601: Hot Tea Month
Craft for the Craic: January Blues
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Something New

STAMPlorations {Stencil Sunday #27} + January Mixed Media Challenge
The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #20: Time Flies

 

Supplies

Stamps: Avery Elle Alice & Friends, Tea Time, Lawn Fawn Violet's ABCs, Smitty's ABCs, Sally's ABCs, Paper Smooches Mini Monograms, Papermania Forever Friends Handscript Alphabet, Numbers & Months, miscellaneous stamps
Dies & Stencils etc: Prima Finnabair Stars, Bubbles

Ink: Stazon Jet Black

Paper: Journal

Highlights: wink of stella, gold, silver, white & black gel pen, stickles, glimmer mist, glitter paste, white gesso. 

Colouring: Gelatos, Distress Inks

Hopefully you've enjoyed your visit and are not experiencing Arthur Dent's world. Life has been very busy & full of family fun so I've not had time to enter the long dark teatime of the soul, but I do remember adolescence and how some days time would drag!

Bokeh Birthday

I've wanted to make a bokeh background for ages so the Lawnscaping Challenge and Yainea's card provided the incentive and CCEE Stampers the tools. 

I've blended distress inks on watercolour cardstock. Then stencilled white ink circles and daubed white gesso (faux acrylic) for more vibrant foreground circles, some gold splater and glittery sentiment to finish.

I love all the dimension created within the bokeh background. The diecut letters are layered and coated with glitter paste adding to the texture, sparkle and dimension. Just right to make a late entry for Virginia's View Challenge.

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers CCEE1520:Acrylics & Ink

Lawnscaping Challenges #106: Try a New Technique

Virginia's View Challenge #14: Layers and Dimensions

Supplies

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs, Quinn's 123s, Circle Stackers

Ink: Memento Luxe Wedding Dress, Distress Ink Cracked Pistachio, Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone,Ripe Persimmon, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade 

Paper: White & watercolour card from stash

Highlights: Heidi Swapp Gold, Bo Bunny Double Dot Gold Glitter paste, gesso.

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Quilled Shamrock

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! Hope you are having a wonderful Paddy's day and are revelling in the green. For this special day, I've had another go at quilling with my toothpick. This is so much fun, if there were a few more hours in the day I could spend my time quilling landscapes! It's very relaxing and simple to do.

This card would fit under a few of the choices for BINGO at Craft for the Craic. I chose the central column, even though I don't have any chipboard, because I wanted to make faux-chipboard. This is great for adding dimension by using any of your dies or punches to fake chipboard embellishments. I diecut the happy sentiment three times and stuck them together, you could use even more layers for chunkier chipboard. And yes I did spot the P in need of more adhesive just before it was posted, but not in time for more photos!

I wanted to keep the white spaced uncluttered as the shamrock was very detailed and also stick to the CAS(E) this Sketch. Instead of stamping on all the layers I used sequins on all the layers and positioned some of them half under the layers similar to the sketch.

Challenges:

Addicted to CAS Challenge #59 Codeword: Green

CAS(E) this Sketch #114

CCEE Stampers CCEE1511: Go Green

Craft for the Craic Challenge #14: BINGO [Central Column: Sentiment, >2 Layers, Chipboard]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Violet's ABCs
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Happy die.

Ink: Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black

Paper: White & green card from stash 

Highlights: wink of stella, quilling paper, NT birthday sequins.

Happy Paddy's Day! Hope you all get a chance to enjoy wearing the green and have fun!  See you soon.

Note:

Paddy is the diminutive form of Patrick taken from Padraig (Irish for Patrick). Pat is also used, I've even known a male Patsy but I don't know any males who use a double T in their pet name. Some Patricia's do use it along with Trish.

Get Well Inlaid Diecut

This card owes it existence to something akin to the chicken and the egg debate. Inspiration from The Card Concept, Paper Smooches Sparks and CCEE Stampers Challenge blogs. I've used the PS Sparks February sketch, inlaid diecutting from CCEE Stampers and the colours, textures and multimedia style from The Card Concept inspiration photo.

I've stamped with distress inks and pigment ink. The background is watercoloured with distress inks, with aqua dolce gelato blended with my finger and more distress ink around the edges. I've covered the embossing paste with stickles and splatted some distress paint. I've white washed the wooden vase with distress paint and a white colouring pencil to mimic the white wood in the inspiration photo. The central vase is a homage to the vase I instagrammed a few weeks ago and is coloured with brushed pewter distress spray stain. The third vase is velum, coloured with a Sky Blue ProMarker and I've added seed beads to look like the decorative glass beads that can be added to vases. 

Perspective is a tad skewed with the sliver vase and it appears to be floating a little. My die cutting was a little high and I only noticed it as I  edited the photos, when it was too late to start again. I don't know if I would have started again anyway, as the die cutting was quite intricate and this is a piece of art where the rules of physics don't need to apply!

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers CCEE1509: Inlaid Diecuts

Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Drafts February Sketch

The Card Concept #29: Get Well Soon  [Photo Inspiration- White wood, Stitching (wool) Colours: Blue, Green, Red, Orange; Style: Multimedia]  [Winner]

Media: Distress inks, pigment inks, gelato, ProMarker [alcohol marker], colouring pencils, distress stains & paints; cardstock, wood veneer & vellum; embossing paste, Stickles, glimmer mist, wink of stella & glass beads.

Supplies

Stamps: Paper Smooches Crystal Clear, Chit Chat
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Paper Smooches Crystal Clear 3 dies

Ink: Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Ripe Persimmon

Paper: Card, vellum & wood veneer from stash

Colouring: Sky Blue Promarker, White & Green Colouring Pencils, Aqua Dolce gelato, Distress Markers- Firebrick Red, Festive Berries, Ripe Persimmon, Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Salty Ocean, Weathered Wood.

Highlights: Stickles, wink of stella, seed beads, embossing paste, brushed pewter distress stain, picket fence distress paint, glimmer mist 

 

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.