Summer Garden for Crafty Individuals

This tag has been made using one of the new Crafty Individuals stamps - Summer Garden (CI-385) and the Alice Palace Bubble Bird (CI-371).

Challenges to have fun with -

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Inspired by - for me this is Kate Crane and her journaling style although this has more muted colours.

Bloggers Challenge - Tags

Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes

The background has DIs pickled raspberry, dried marigold and salty ocean blended over the tag, sprinkled with water and dried then bubble-wrap stamped in gesso.

I used a white posca pen to colour in some of the summer garden stamp images, then the bird and 'hello' coloured with prisma colours added to it.

I also stamped, coloured  and cut out extra flowers to create more height and you can hopefully make out four of them in the photo below.

Some doodling round the edges in black and white, some coloured ribbon and a tiny birdhouse charm on a pin finishes it off.

Happy crafting.

hugs {brenda} x0x

So excited at being a blogworthy link.

I have just seen that I am one of Tim's Blogworthy Links today along with some very talented people which makes me both very happy and humbled to be part of such an amazing group. A huge thank you to Tim for choosing me and huge congratulations to the others which includes Alison, Gillian and Candy. Yay girls way to go.

Please scroll down to see my newest piece for Crafty Individuals.

hugs Brenda xox

Plain Sewing for Crafty Individuals

This is one of the new stamps from Crafty Individuals and you know how much I love sewing themes so this was great to work with.

I used this stamp to make a book cover.

First I prepared a Tim Holtz arch using layers of Fresco Finish paint and then adhered the image which was stamped twice side by side onto tissue paper. Using the FF colours as washes I added some colour to the image and where I wanted more depth of colour I used promarkers.

The dress was stamped, coloured with FF paints and Promarkers as well and a white pen to put the spots back in and popped onto the arch using foam pads.  I cut the top piece of the arch from another one, painted it and added the sign before adding it, which makes it look a bit like a roof.

The book cover is greyboard prepared with gessso and dictionary paper and an old dress pattern glued over before adding layers of the FF paints finishing with the metallic glaze. (The back cover is the same).

I added some tissue tape and cut kraft card and watercolour paper for the pages, spritzing them with the FF paints and then used the Bind It All to put it together.

I hope you are having a good week and finding some time to do a spot of crafting yourself.

thanks for stopping by today.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Anything Goes at FSC

Well it's a challenge you all love over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges this fortnight and as long as your project includes some real stamping then it will be eligible

I would like to join in with Simon Says Stamp and Show's 'Passport to Fun" challenge with this album. Lets take a look at what I have included.

I have made a little album for my trip to California so that I can add any memorabilia I pick up over the holiday and keep all together and hopefully journal at the same time.

I started by blending DIs, flicking water and drying it then stamping using the Tim Holtz Travel Ways stamps.

The next layer included a Tim blueprint stamp mounted,  some die-cut letters and numbers and his new rub-ons. They go on so easily, by far the best I have ever used.

To give me a bit of a head start I have added some pockets ........

..... masking ........

.... tissue tape and more stamps.

So let's see if I am managing to keep it while I am away, I should be able to as we are staying with friends.

Thanks for popping in, have a wonderful Sunday and I hope some time to create.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Do you believe in fairies?

Another week has past by and I am in California, away on a break staying with friends near Los Angeles where we have been experiencing some high temperatures in the 90s.

So time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'Fairyland', I have altered a frame using some PanPastel colours, gesso and Maimeri light modelling paste all available from Your Creativity Store who is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

The dragonfly has been embossed using black EP and I have added some tiny beads and picket fence crackle paint over the modelling paste.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

How does your garden grow at Country View Challenges

It's a special challenge this month at Country View Crafts as we have the wonderful Lin Brown joining us as a guest designer and she has chosen the theme 'How does your Garden Grow'. Please go take a look at her amazing art if you haven't seen her blog before and pop over to the challenge blog to see the wonderful inspiration from the team.

My tag has a textured background using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and dried marigold, shabby shutters, broken china and walnut stain DI.

The flowers are hand made using the Tim Holtz tattered flower garland strip die and layered over some red hessian..

The leaves are metal and have been painted with distress paints as was the little bird embellishment.

The sentiment has been generated on the PC, printed onto distress inked card.

I love making these extended tags, by adding an extra layer gives it a bit more space to add a sentiment and elongates it more.

Thanks to everyone who joined in our butterfly challenge last month it was great visiting your blogs and seeing all your wonderful creations. I hope you will take part again this month with a project that follows our garden theme and let's hope the month of May allows us to get out in our gardens more.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Lighthouse for Crafty Individuals

"Time and tide wait for no-one"

Some new Crafty Individuals stamps popped through my letterbox recently and I just had to play with the lighthouse one, I have an affinity with them which I think stems from my childhood days going to the beach at Happisburgh (pronounced Haysborough!!!)

This is Grace Darling's Lighthouse (CI-384) which was stamped in Cobalt Archival ink onto 300 gms gummed water colour paper and then painted in with distress inks. Of course I had to have some red in the lighthouse as that is part of the memory.

The image is mounted onto the Tim Holtz pocket watch which was die-cut in ribbed card and given a coat of gesso, sanded and inked with walnut stain. Then CI shells from  CI-272 plate were stamped onto painted shrink plastic to make them so small.

 

Inside the seascape is from the CI background papers Book 5.

By cutting the pocket watch twice this stands and will become a card for a friend who used to be a ship's engineer.

Thanks for stopping by today and extra special thanks if you have time to leave me a comment.

Have a great day.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Daydreaming

Time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'Dreams' which I have converted to 'Daydreaming '. This is my card.

The image has been downloaded and coloured with the PPs and the cabinet card has a new PP technique I have come up with which I have called 'Cracked Glaze'.

I love the DP design which has come from a DCWV pack called The Tradewinds Stack.

Your Creativity Store is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Testing blogger app

I have downloaded the blogger iPad app and am testing it to see how it works. The reviews aren't very good. I can see how to write a post and publish it. There doesn't seem to be any way to add photos and I can't see how to publish a post I have updated. (Aha playing has just solved that problem). There are no editing tools and of course the layout is different to the real blogger on the web. However the main positive for me is that I will at least be able to edit scheduled and draft posts when I go on holiday which will be useful, but I won't be able to create a post with photos so its very limiting.
Back tomorrow with my PanPastel post.
Have a great Saturday. (Spell check works as well).
Hugs Brenda xox

Spring Into fashion at Crafty Individuals

Have you made something for the Crafty Individuals challenge this month? You still have time to enter and if you follow the theme and include one CI product you will be eligible to win a stamp of your choice and you can get 25% off any purchase at the CI on-line shop before the end of the month just for entering.

I made two DT pieces which are on the challenge blog this week along with some fabulous creative makes from some of my teamies.

This is a tag made of craft card and I used CI stamps and background papers along with some other bits and bobs. 

Alongside the tag is a card in similar colours.

This has been designed on a kraft card which has had white acrylic paint dragged over it with a credit card.

Some lace and flowers and collage pieces add the texture.

We would love to see you join us for this challenge and you have till the end of the month to take part.

I am entering these into the Simon Says Stamp and Show 'Colour' challenge this week and Bloggers Challenge 'In Bloom'.

I hope your week is going well.

hugs {brenda} x0x