A blog to share my artsy, mixed media, vintage, shabby creations. I am a teacher by heart and trade so you will find numerous tutorials and step by steps. Enjoy xx
Anything goes with Summer Colours at The Stamp Man
My DT offering for the Stamp Man challenge this week is a framed easel birthday card, Brenda style.
I started by painting the stamped image using distress stains and distress markers, leaving it to dry. I made the chipboard backboard, cutting it to the size I needed for this image and the frame to fit. I used texture paste over the frame, daubing it on using a palette knife and adding wooden and small flower embellishments. When it was dry I painted it all with gesso.
The backing paper is a piece Jill sent me, made using moonglow spritzes. I cut and tore the flower image to size, distressing the edges and using frayed burlap DI on them, then with a glue pen added the Frantage embossing enamels, a ribbon and sentiment.
Lastly I painted the wooden embellishments with Distress Stains and when they were dry added clear crackle paint and I painted the frame with DSs and greeny pearl lustre pigment powder mixed.
The frame was added and a TH easel glued to the back to make a card with a difference.
Well the air show is nearly finished for another two years, this weekend are the public days and we are having a BBQ tomorrow for friends and family to come and celebrate Ken's and my big birthdays and hopefully see some of the flying from the back garden, if it doesn't rain (again).
I told Trace at Inkypinkycraft that I needed to get a wiggle on and catch up with Tim's tags, so here is my latest one. More or less like the original which you can see HERE.
I just love the faux porcelain flowers and the half wooden spool.
Enjoy.
hugs {brenda} xox
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OK I think Summer is going to pass us by this year, unless we get a sudden heat wave. I can't remember a year when we had so much rain as we have had this past few months.
So I hope this helps us to think about what summer might be like if it were to happen.
I stamped images using Crafty Individuals plate 284 and 131, using Rose Madder Archival ink pad and coloured with pro-markers.
The background is made by sticking down masking tape, tissue paper, a doiley and card letters and numbers then covering with white gesso.
When dry I used some masks and PanPastels, spraying with a fixative before adding anything else.
(I saw something similar to this on the SSS blog and used it for inspiration).
To finish I used the images and added lots of flowers and bits and pieces using PanPastels on the die-cuts and the mould.
If you pop over to the challenge blog to enter this week you will be in with a chance of winning a set of pans and tools from Your Creativity Store.
Have fun whatever you are doing today and I hope it stays dry if you are in the UK.
Welcome to Tuesday Treasures and I am showing a book I made on Sunday at a class with Lin Brown (Formerly LB Crafts), made with one sheet of 12 x 12 card, Fresco Finish paints and Leandra's (PaperArtsy) fabulous new sewing stamps. (Guess what I have had to order them LOL).
Stamping with brown Memento ink and colouring with Prisma pencils I coloured up the images and displayed them on the pages.
The background pieces are painted, masked and stamped to create these fabulous designs.
I have added some buttons, lace and other embellishments to add dimension and detail.
I didn't get finished during the workshop but came home and worked till 1.00 in the morning to complete it. I was totally inspired by Lin's fabulous sample and just had to get mine done straight away.
My sister should have come with me but is poorly at the moment so Lin very kindly gave me her Vintage sample to do with Chris, so I will be doing another one myself too.
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Have a great week. The Farnborough Air Show starts next week and already the planes are starting to fly in. We are almost under the flight path and get a great view of everything, just a shame there is so much low cloud and rain around again.
Take care.
hugs {brenda} xox
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I rarely use a digi, much preferring real rubber, but with the challenge this week at PanPastel UK I had great fun both sourcing and then using a digital image. I found the background frame in my folders (sorry didn't keep the name of where it originally came from) and thought I would love to use this and perhaps I could layer a digital image over it. So next I found the 'Best Friends' image in my files and decided I would try and put the two together and colour with PPs. I made the digi image into a ping file, layered it on top of the frame, resized it and hey presto, just what I wanted.
After I printed it out I painted the image with the PPs (tutorial coming later).
Then cut out the frame and layered it onto some French dictionary paper adding some collage bits with the sentiment....
and also a ribbon.
As I had used a scalloped edge card I just cut around the edge once the dictionary paper had been glued on.
I really love this sweet card.
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I rarely make an oriental themed card and find them quite difficult so I chose the red, gold and black which seems to be the most popular colours and some gold embossing powder.
I stamped the flower and embossed with black EP, coloured with metallic promarkers. Having masked it off I stamped the chinese letters - don't know what they say lol, then sprayed with gold sparkle.
The red mount was stamped with a flower border and ep with gold embossing powder and the roughly added gold ep on the other edges. Some mounting, a chinese embellishment and tassle and a black ribbon finished it off.
This is the year of bunting, it has been everywhere in the shops in the UK, but particularly with the Union Jack on it to celebrate our dear Queen's Diamond Jubilee (what an amazing weekend it was and a fabulous concert outside Buckingham Palace). We also have the Olympics being held in London this summer - the irony is that I will be in the USA for alot of that time.
My bunting is to fit in with the Unruly PaperArts botanical theme this month - Buds and Blossoms.
I loved making this and the shabby chic style that evolved.
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No 'make' from me today - only photos and some special ones all from the Isle of Wight Festival at the weekend.
Now I know the TV coverage only talked about the rain and the mud and I felt very sorry for those who were camping as it must have been awful in the rain on Thursday, but for us non-campers it really didn't affect us that much. The weather was nothing like the forecasts and in fact apart from some rain over Saturday night, we didn't see any on the Friday, Saturday or Sunday, in fact I have come home with a burnt face from the sun on Sunday. The ground was wet underfoot and very muddy in places but not enough to spoil the weekend.
See - it was cool as the sun went down and then colder at night, but we had some lovely sunshine.
Bruce Springsteen headlined and was AMAZING, finishing off with his 'Born in the USA set'
The Big Wheel looked fabulous at dusk.
The next few are my Tuesday Treasures
This guy is called Terry Reid, I doubt anyone has heard of him.
Terry lived locally when I was a child and teenager and played at my Youth Club a couple of times when I was about 16 and really influenced my music style. I loved his voice and of course in those days living in a small town it was exciting to hear real bands and artists. He joined the Jaywalkers and later he toured with Cream in the USA. He was asked to join the new Yardbirds who became Led Zeppelin, but was committed to touring with Cream - I think his career could have been very different if he had done so.
Terry fell out with Mickie Most his producer and Terry has performed with a number of bands and been on soundtracks for films etc, but is again touring in the UK.
He opened the very first IoW Festival in 1970.
Terry very kindly came to meet me when he heard I came from St.Ives near Huntingdon and we chatted about the area and our memories of it. His Mum still lives in Bluntisham.
(This one must have caught me off guard with that face!!!)
Thanks Terry, it was a great afternoon watching and meeting up with you.
Terry in 1970 on Old Grey Whistle Test.
This is how I remember him - we have both changed enormously.
My other Treasure for this week. Dear Hubby catching up on some sleep during a break on Sunday afternoon.
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hugs {brenda} xoxox
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