Indigoblu, PanPastels and Kromer Crackle

This project has been made using Indigoblu Live, Laugh, Love stamp set and the free Craft Stamper stamp - Elizabeth Bennet.

I painted the hearts with Pink Iced Gem Cottage Garden Acrylic paint and once dry I added a little Kromer Crackle.  When this was dry I touched over the crackle with silver gilding wax.  

The Elizabeth Bennet stamp was used with Versamark and Wow Platinum Embossing Powder.

I coloured the flowers, leaves and birds with PanPastels and then sprayed with Spray and Sparkle.

I so enjoyed making this project and hope you like it too.

I would like to enter this project into the Indigoblu Challenge Blog (Shabby Chic) and the Panpastel Challenge Blog (Pastel colours)

http://community.indigoblu.com/?p=4303

http://panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-34-pastel-colours_25.html

Splodgeaway Design Team Samples

These are the samples I made for Splodgeaways two shows on Create and Craft today.

I loved working with the new Splodgeboard - not surprising as I love working with all the Splodgeaway projects.

Splodgeaway Free Range week

It's Free Range week on the Splodgeaway blog this week for the DT.

Why not pop along to have a look at all the lovely projects by all the DT.

Using a Manilla tag I put Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Barn Door onto my Splodgemat and sprayed it with water - picking up the ink with the tag.  Then I sprayed with water and left to dry naturally.

Once dry I stamped the diamond argyle pattern with Spiced Marmalade - I held the stamp in my hand, not using a block.

With Walnut Stain Distress ink I inked through the Country Cottage Stenscape mask the small flower border at the bottom of the tag.

Then, using the Butterfly Creator mask, I spread iridescent paste (which I'd mixed with Spiced marmalade DI, through the top two butterflies.  Once they were dry I sponged through the markings section of the butterfly creator with Walnut Stain DI (this looks very subtle!).

A few gems, words and seam binding finished it off.

                                 

     

Tim Holtz embossing folder

I recently spent a day, along with friends, at an Eileen Godwin workshop.  What an amazing lady she is!  Not only is she a brilliant crafter she's a lovely lady too.

This was a project which was started at the workshop by inking the embossing folder with Distress Ink on the back of Centura Pearl.  Unfortunately I put my card into the embossing folder the wrong way round!!!  Soooo when I got home I turned it over and blended Distress Ink onto the Pearly side of the card.  I was really pleased with how it turned out especially when I rubbed over some gilding wax.

Waste not want not .............

                               

Indigoblu

This is a simple card I made recently by masking off a section of the card with torn copy paper and colouring with Distress Inks.  The stamps used are from the Indigoblu Nature 1 set.

I stamped (lightly and randomly) the branches in the Distress inks used for the background.  I then stamped the main image in black Archival.

The sentiment was stamped onto a separate sheet, cut out and edged with the co-ordinating Distress inks.

Matting and layered onto co-ordinating Bazzill Bling card stock.

Distress Ink Storage

A couple of weeks ago I popped into our local Craft Shop and saw one of these storage units decorated and looking very pretty.  I couldn't resist taking one home with me to construct and decorate (it's made by Tando and comes "flat packed"!)

I adore teal but thought that it needed to have the little compartments in a light colour.  I had visited the Indigoblu Open Weekend and bought some of their English Cottage Artist's acrylic paint, one of which was Townhouse Teal, I used this for the frame, white for the compartments and I covered the back in a sheet of Tim Holtz paper.

A final bit of stamping with flitterglu and gilding flakes - job done!!

Clarity stamp August Challenge - Animals

Morning All and thank you so much for all your fantastic entries on the Claritystamp Challenge Blog.

Good luck to all our entrants - some lucky chickadee is going to win a £50 voucher to spend at Claritystamp.

My project for this month uses a heart shape hanger.  It all started with a wooden heart I bought from. My local Craft Shop.  When I got it home I wondered if it would work on grungeboard (I had some grungeboard which I'd never used!!) so I drew round and cut out the heart.  It's sooo flexible - I love it.

I then painted the grungeboard with gesso and English Cottage Artist's Townhouse Teal.  Then using the Claritystamp alphabet stamps and Black Archival Ink I stamped my wording "Home is where the ...... is.  I had a Clarity cat stamp in my stash (sorry to all the dog lovers) which, I thought, went well in this project.  Finally I had some newly acquired Kromer Crackle which I couldn't wait to use.  This dries white so mix it with a small amount of acrylic paint for a better effect.  One thing I wasn't prepared for was how long it takes to dry - DAYS - so I would advise you leave yourself plenty of time.  I was so pleased with the effect so it was well worth the wait.   Then I rubbed over the crackle and round the edges of the heart with Treasure Gold.

A piece of toning ribbon and all was complete.