Multi media scrap canvas.......

Morning fellow crafty bloggers, I had a day off yesterday and went to a class at Pink Tulip Creations to create this canvas, the tutor was Fran Westmoreland who is on the Prima design team, we had a fun day spraying, slodging, painting and sticking lots of layers using various Prima products, various gels, paste, gesso, paints, mica powders and sprays........a lovely messy day.

Have a fun filled day

hugs n smiles

Riding High........

Evening fellow crafty bloggers, hope you are all having a lovely start to the Bank holiday weekend, I spent today at a crop, doing a lovely workshop with Morag Cutts, another couple of techniques I've not tried before, love the distressed ink background done on gesso for added texture and then the shaded inky resist embossed background for the bottom photo. We took our Grandsons to a local farm called Ashend Farm near Tamworth, its a great place to take children as its very hands on, but their favourite had to be the horses, Zachary who is only 2 and a half didn't want to sit on the small miniature ponies, oh no he chose a big one.

No day off for me tomorrow but I'm off the next three which will be sent with my Grandsons another visit to the farm on Tuesday and probably Twin Lakes on Wednesday which is another favourite place of the boys.

Fun times ahead, then I will need to go back to work for a rest.

hugs n smiles

Music to my ears........

Evening and welcome to another project for the Crafty Individuals challenge this month, the theme is Music to my ears and is open to interpretation, perhaps you have a favourite song, just remember that you need to use at least one crafty Individuals product and then you can claim a code for a whopping 25% discount off their website. I have created a small hanging measuring 10 x 10 ins. truth be told I did make this panel for a recent DT call but didn't make the grade but I thought I'd share with you the instructions to create this. So warning this is a photo heavy post so grab a cuppa and read on........

List of materials needed

Aspire Dekro Mount frame & ATCS

Basic tool kit

PaperArtsy Fresco paints:

Nougat, Guacamole, Wisteria, Snowflake and Antarctic.

Crafty individual stamps : CI-206, CI-366, CI-194, CI-432

CI-393, and CI-346.

Wow ultra fine gold embossing powder.

Pearls, strips and individual.

Lace,

Gems various sizes

Prima micro beads copper

Dble sided tape, foam pads

Zig wink of stella brush in clear

Ribbon or seam binding

Stickles in Gold and Stardust.

White embroidery floss

Black archival and Hydrangea ink

Versamark.

Colouring pencils or markers

Step 1

Paint blank frame and ATCs with Nougat paint for a base coat, then using Guacamole, wisteria and Antarctic dab on paint all over frame using a wet wipe, making sure all of the background is covered. To lighten colours use Snowflake and wipe over with a wet wipe again.By using a wet wipe it softens any edges and helps the paint to blend.

Step 2

Using CI-366 stamp, the lady on the piano, violin and CI-346, Dancing Lady, CI-393 fans onto white card, also stamp out the fan again using Hydrangea archival ink, colour in the images, cut out the lady dancing, piano, violin, some of the butterflies and the fan, as well as the teapot from CI-432 stamp set.

Step 3

Using black archival ink stamp onto the background the music advert from CI-366 onto the bottom left of the frame, the lady dancing onto the bottom right, tea for two tag top left and the butterflies and fan to the top right

Step 4

Remove the ATCs from the frame and put to one side.

Step 5

Randomly stamp the Music sheet stamp CI-194 onto the background using Versamark,then use gold embossing powder and heat set.

Step 6

Now you can start to build up the layers on the ATCs using foam pads to build up the layers of the images.

Step 7

Using CI-206 Flower heads ( I used 3 different sizes) and stamped onto patterned paper with Versamark and embossed in gold, I also stamped again on Vellum using white embossing powder and coloured in with pink markers.

Step 8

Decorate the ATCs, stick lace to the back, add gems and pearls, a bow, stickles, wink of stella brush to the butterflies, dress and tea for 2.

Step 9

Cut out flowers and shape on the back with an embossing tool, I snip in between one of the petals and stick overlaying the snipped petal so that the flower has dimension. Layer up three flower heads to form the large flower and keep some flat, add micro beads to the centres. Glue in place and add any finishing touches making a mini tassel for the fan adding gems.

Finished panel

Close ups of finished areas

Hope you found this useful 

hugs n smiles.

Kraftyhands......

Evening to all my fellow crafty bloggers, phew what a week, my Grandson Zach picked up another bug from nursery last week and then passed it on, to make matters worse apart from feeling ill myself I've been looking after him and then his brother and then hubby, so my house has been like a hospital ward, I haven't been back to work yet but thankfully I will be going in tomorrow for a rest now that we are bug free.
Apologies for the late posting of my card for the new challenge this month at Kraftyhands, the theme this month.......Lace and pearls. For my card I used one of the Basic Birthday sentiment toppers that have recently come out, I used distress inks and glimmer mist for the topper and then the background paper is from the Picnic Time Cd.

added pink and gold frantage to the edges of the topper

then finished off with cream pearls

hugs n smiles

Sports Shirts.......

Evening fellow crafty bloggers, hope you have had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, I must admit I was looking forward to having a couple of days off for Gardening and crafting and I've spent both days ill, so nothing really done except a lot of sleeping. Today saw the launch of the new Cd from the Kraftyhand guys, a perfect Cd for all those male sports fans in your life called Sports Shirts . Here's three cards I made with the Cd. I did add sparkle in the form of a Wink Stella clear pen to the sentiment and golf ball.

stepper card using one of the card sets and backing papers

an A5 card using the tag from the card set and left over paper

Another card set on the Cd

Hugs n smiles

Crafty Individuals......

Welcome to the new challenge at Crafty Individuals, we have a musical theme for you this month ......Music to my ears so lots of scope for you to join in the fun, with all your entries you will also get a code for a whopping 25% discount from the web site and there are some lovely new stamps just released to pop in your basket.
For my card I have created a painted background using PaperArtsy Fresco paints, I have used a wet wipe scrunched up and layered up the following colours......Guacamole, Wisteria, Antarctic and Snowflake. For the background stamp I used CI  194.......music script stamp embossed in gold. I then stamped out CI 346......dancing lady and then again to add dimension to the image which I coloured in with Polychromos.

Have a great weekend

Hugs n smiles

Challenges

Allsorts.....April Showers bring forth May flowers

Crazy 4 Challenge......the eyes have it

Brown Sugar......anything goes

Creative Fingers.....anything goes

Fussy and Fancy....lots of flowers

Simply Create.....pretty woman

Crafts Galore.....anything goes

Our Creative cnr.....april showers bring forth may flowers