Wednesday 30 March 2016

Tim tag for March

12 tags of 2016 - March

This is Tim's tag for this month and I'm just getting in under the wire, so pleased I found a few hours yesterday afternoon to get my one done.


I followed both of the remix techniques but used different dies and found my own design which I actually really like. 


Following Tim's steps - see HERE to see all the details, I created the top layer and used two movers and shapers dies.


Then onto the media layer (see details from Tim's blog HERE) - I had die-cut the tag once but it didn't quite give me enough of the trellis to fit under the top layer, so I turned my tag over and found I could re-cut to extend it further - great find.


Here you can see how much extra trellis I managed to get - it was enough for what I wanted.


I carried on with the process steps using the new distress crayons and oh boy this technique is fabulous.


And then I added the embellishments. This is the best photograph of the tag showing it in it's truest colours and catching some of the brown (yes would you believe brown?) foiling. Having used a small talk saying I altered the wordband to reflect the same colours, black background - archival ink - and white lettering - picket fence distress paint. The photobooth lady was raised on thick foam pads and I used alcohol inks on the mirrored star.


Yay, I got it done and what a fabulous remix - thank's Tim, I just need to pop over and link it up.


Products
Mixed media thinlits
Ranger foil sheets
Wordband
Distress crayons set 2
Distress crayons set 3
Movers and shapers ticket die
Mirrored star
Ground espresso distress spray
Tarnisged brass distress spray
Ground espresso DI
Trimmings
Small talk
Photobooth strips


I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend, we had a family outing to the local Indian restaurant Friday night, a fairly quiet Saturday, Sunday was the Easter egg hunt in the garden for the girls ....



... with a family meal later and nine of us this time.

Saturday night and most of Sunday storm Katie raged, wrecking her havoc everywhere but we kept up the family tradition of having a BBQ ...



.... but ate indoors, again the family together. So all in all a busy but wonderful time.

See you back here on Friday with two post as A Vintage Journey and Country View Crafts will be starting new challenges.

Enjoy your week.

hugs Brenda xxx

Monday 28 March 2016

Canvas board recycled for CVC

Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK and the last day of the long Easter weekend, but what a fabulous few days it has been - Easter egg hunt, chocolate and family around - what could be better?


I am sharing this project over at the Country View Crafts project Blog and have recycled a canvas board. All the full details are on the CVC page, particularly how I created the background but having got a colourful mixed media backdrop I decided to add elements so I could enter the Creative Carte Blanche Creative Adventure - Triple Trouble - to use metal. corrugated card and lace.

Starting with the metals - some were gessoed and painted with decoart media acrylics, others were given the rusting treatment again using decoart media acrylics.


Here we have lace, wooden pieces and a corrugated heart.


The arch piece has a transfer waiting to be finished but I rubbed too hard and spoiled it so had to turn over and started again.


I layered up the pieces then added the final embellishments and the pretty girl on the arch.


Really rather pleased with this and reminds me of Finnabair's style. I will put an easel on the back and use it as one of my special cards.


Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a fabulous Easter weekend, even with the horrible rain and high winds we managed  a break in the clouds yesterday afternoon which was enough to do the Easter egg hunt and later had dinner with all the family - 9 of us this time.

Take care and enjoy the week ahead.

hugs Brenda xxx



Update - copied over from CVC

HI Everyone, Brenda here. For today's make I took a canvas board I had made for another project and set about altering it. I really liked it like this but the finished article was not something I thought I would use so I took off the embellishments and set to work.


I took out my distress crayons and started smudging colours over the top ...


.... and then blended over picket fence distress paint and spritzed it with water.


I added more coloured crayons as well as white ...


... then dipped it into spritzed picket fence paint again before drying it and blending over squeezed lemonade, evergreen bough, mustard seed and picked raspberry distress inks.


Now it's completely changed we are ready to rock and roll.
Starting with the metals - some were gessoed and painted with decoart media acrylics, others were given the rusting treatment again using decoart media acrylics.


Here we have lace, wooden pieces and a corrugated heart.


The arch piece has a transfer waiting to be finished but I rubbed too hard and spoiled it so had to turn over and started again.


I layered up the pieces and began adhering them to the board using matte medium.


The sprayed with some misters and a glitz spray from my supplies.


Then added the final embellishments and the pretty girl on the arch.


Really rather pleased with this and reminds me of Finnabair's style. I will put an easel on the back and use it as one of my special cards.




Sunday 27 March 2016

HAPPY EASTER

It's Easter egg hunt day in the Brown household and a family lunch later, nine of us today - I am so blessed to have a family who live very near us and come for dinner every Sunday so I've decorated the conservatory and dining room and we are ready to go.
Do you remember my curio box? I found the duckling a few years ago and love the summery yellow yet simple carved look to it.


The sideboard is where I have cloches and change their displays several times during the year according to the season and I love the quote -
Family is where life begins and love never ends.


Lots of glass so sorry for the glare ....


... and the daffodils Ken bought me smell gorgeous.


I made a couple of simple peat pot nests, painting the eggs with DecoArt media acrylics- just soooo easy to do.


I gessoed the outsides of the pots and added the little birds.


Wishing you and your families a very Happy Easter.

hugs Brenda xxxx

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. Basil Hume

Friday 25 March 2016

Nature Walk tag

This is another play with the new wallflower stamps from Tim, I loved the wallflower stash and now love these too.

 
I began by creating a mono print using the wallflower stencil with antique linen and bundled sage distress sprays. Over the top I stamped two of the flower designs one in olive archival and the other in leaf green.


I filled in and deepened the colours by blending antique linen, shabby shutters, forest moss and stormy sky distress inks over different areas.


Using Tim's flower punches I put together two flowers made from left over inked card I found in my box, wet them scrunched them and punched some other bits from punches in my drawer ....


...  I also punched one of his birds and a butterfly - Don't you just love having mop ups ready to make embellishments like these? There was also a word band just sitting on my desk that didn't get used from another project so ....


Here you have the final tag once I had added a few more bits and altered some that I had already gathered. You'll never guess who I gave it to??????? If I tell you I made this tag in February - does that help????





Where is March disappearing to? We are nearly a quarter of the way through the year already.

I hope you have a great weekend with whatever you have planned.

hugs Brenda xxx



Thursday 24 March 2016

Wherever you go .... Exciting news

At last I can make the announcement that I have been waiting to do for a few weeks. Whilst at Stitches in February, the amazing Andy Skinner invited me to be part of the DecoArt Media Team and of course I wanted to shout it to the world straight away but I can now officially put this fabulous badge on my blog side-bar.


Thank you Andy and DecoArt for this huge accolade and invite to be part of an incredibly talented team and to share my art using the fabulous media range products.

To celebrate I thought I would share a postcard I have just finished. It strangely fits with how I feel not just about travelling the world but being on this incredible creative journey I am on and beginning this new voyage of discovery and affiliation to a world of inspiration, talent, imagination and creativity.

So this piece started whilst demoing at one of my journalling for success workshops using decoart products ......


I used the steps from recipe 2 using DecoArt paints and gesso. I can't share the steps at the moment as I still have classes booked but the media paints work so well to create translucent layers and I love the misty, moody effects of the gesso.


The globe metamorphosed into this quite naturally coloured atlas type state by accident, in fact as I was 'playing' with the media paints and gesso it just appeared. I know I dipped it into watery washes of sap green and diarylide yellow to begin with and I stamped across it but the following dipping and daubing steps weren't documented. I do however love the effects. 


I stamped and painted the aeroplane and the postcard heading which included paynes grey and quinacridone gold ....


.... and used label letters for the quote.


The quote really resonates with me as I love going back to some of the same parts of the world I have visited as I really feel I belong there, particularly California in the US and I know that being part of the DecoArt team will definitely become a part of me and my motivation and enthusiasm for mixed media art work.


 Thanks to all of you for sharing this creative journey with me, it always amazes me to see how many visit my blog when I look at the stats and many thanks for the comments, I love reading them and getting a feel for what you particularly like. I am also proud to share the start and forthcoming journey not only with the established members of the DecoArt team but with Joi at Texas Ranch Retreat who also begins this leg of her journey with me. These are exciting times Joi and as you said - hand in hand together.

Take care and listen to your heART.

hugs Brenda xxx