PanPastels - Summer Time

At PanPastel UK challenge blog this week we want to see your summertime creations. I have made a  'Summer at Dusk' card using PanPastels and Distress inks.

I layered the PPs to create my landscape background using torn card and a punched circle to give me the defining lines between each section. I then inked my stamp with embossing ink and laid PPs over to give me the depth to the flowers, next I stamped with different DIs to dive me the flowers in the foreground. 

Lastly I used my TH water brush and DIs to paint in some flowers and leaves finishing off with some tiny stamps to fill in the gaps.

I am quite pleased with the look of this sunset - even though my husband told me it looked as if there was a forest fire in the distance LOL.

If you join us this week you will stand a chance of winning a fabulous et of PanPastels from our great sponsor at Your Creativity Store. Have fun with summer colours/images and link to the challenge so we can come visit you.

hugs {brenda} xox

FSC - Nature

Another Sunday and another fortnight has slipped past and we are looking for nature inspired projects for our next challenge at FSC.

I have made a piece for my glue-book this week, quite simple and a quote that I love.

The backing piece is embossed using a vine folder and I gently blended peeled paint DI over the raised parts.

The flowers were cut from a piece of designer paper and edged with walnut stain and then I stamped the bird and butterfly using Stampin' Ups Nature Walk set and the nest is a B Line Designs stamp.

The quote is computer generated.

We would love you to show us your nature projects over the next fortnight, all we ask is you use rubber or clear stamps.

Have fun and see you soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

The Stamp man - Time or Travel

The Stamp Man challenge this week is for you to show us any time or travel themed projects. I have made a mixed media card using some items from the Stamp Man Vintage Style Embellishment kits.

The background was stamped using clear EP and WW DI blended over. I made a faux leather effect tag using tissue paper and an embossing folder and it looks and feels quite realistic. I sewed around the edge and added a piece from an Egyptian bracelet to finish it off.

The stamped images are some that Jill sent me and a frame from the Vintage Style Embellishment Kit.

Supplies used -

Distress inks - Tea Dye, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Wild Honey, Stormy Sky, Victorian Velvet, Weathered Wood.

Distress Markers - Faded Jeans, Victorian Velvet, Tattered Rose, Stormy Sky

Stamped images courtesy of the Stamp Man and Tim Holtz - Travel Labels

This is a close-up of the little label, made by stamping onto painted shrink plastic.

Jill is offering the winner a £10 voucher to her store, so it's well worth an entry don't you think?

See you again soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

Vintage ladies and Tuesday Treasures

I was hoping to get a Smash Book done for today as I had seen my blogging friend Silvia make one but hopefully next time round.
So for today .....

Here is a set of four cards, all in the same design, just different images. I have made them to be part of different sets which will become presents for our hosts and family when we go to America in the summer.

 I will show you the others as they get made.

The music score is TH tissue wrap, images I found in a pack which came from a craft fair eons ago. 

I stamped the French text on the backing piece. 

All pieces were lightly edged with walnut stain.

The sentiment and insert I made myself using frames from Digital Crea. Flowers and ribbon, a heart and pearl to finish it all off.

Aren't these vintage ladies treasures?

If you have something special you would like to share this week, please link below and I will come over to take a look. This is all about sharing the good things, the treasures we have made or just something special this week. It is just for fun so thanks for joining in.

hugs {brenda} xox

PanPastels - Father's Day

OK how different is this for me? I longingly look at the LiM cards people make and wish I could do that and yes this is fairly LiM but it took me ages, and I mean AGES to make.

The panel is made with PanPastels blended for the background, a stamp by Oxford Impressions, some music paper, sentiment and baker's twine.

This is perfect for my husband for Father's Day, I hope he likes it.

I am looking forward to seeing the entries at PanPastel UK this week and there is a generous prize of a PP set from Your Creativity Store.

I hope you have been having a good weekend - enjoy Sunday.

hugs {brenda] xox

Listen to this

Helene from Lotsa Scrap shared this on her blog. 

I love Florence and the Machine and this is performed so beautifully.

I thought you might enjoy it as well.

hugs {brenda} xox

Tuesday Treasures

Tuesday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK which feels like a Sunday  and because of that I almost forgot Tuesday Treasures, but my treasure fits the theme of the weekend with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations at an end now.

These were the celebrations last night at the Diamond Jubilee Concert. The queen obviously enjoyed herself.

We had a small gathering a my neighbour's house on Saturday night and I managed to finish the bunting I was making just in time.

There are 65 finished triangles and they have been sewn back-to-back so 130 of them cut altogether. I wouldn't have got it done without Becca who cut them and started sewing them together last weekend.

Now completed this measures at least 18 metres long and went all round the conservatory and through into the dining room.

The next time it will be used is for our summer Diamond Celebrations garden party in July as Ken and I both celebrate diamond birthdays this year.

I hope you have had a great weekend and enjoyed some sort of celebrations.

If you have a special treasure you would like to share please link it below and I will be over to see you as soon as possible.

I do have to warn you that I have internet problems at the moment. There is a network fault with Virgin and they tell me it could be a whole week before it is resolved. In that time I will only have intermittent service, but I will get over as soon as I can.

Have a great week and see you again soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

PanPastels Vintage

Hello Everyone, this is my second post for today, please scroll down one to find my DT piece for FSC.

As you can see Vintage is the theme this week at the PanPastels UK Challenge blog and I have created a card using a fabulous Crafty Individuals stamp CI-056, coloured with PanPastels - turquoise shade, phthalo green, magenta, raw umber and titanium white. I sealed it with spray and shine.

I ran a piece of card through the Damask embossing folder and again swiped magenta and white PP over it and layered everything with some vintage elements and flowers.

We would love to see your vintage art this week and you do not need to use PanPastels at all, but if you enter you stand a chance of winning a fabulous set of PanPastels from Your Creativity Store.

I hope the weather cheers up a bit, we are supposed to be going to a Jubilee picnic where my son lives, but I think it will be very dependent on the weather today.

Have fun whatever you are doing to celebrate the Jubilee.

hugs {brenda} xox

FSC - Birthday Fortune

There is a new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges today with a theme of Magical and Mystical. So what are you making over the next fortnight that could link in?

My tag is around the clairvoyant, extrasensory and fortune telling aspects of the magical and mystical theme with a focus on 'Birthday Fortunes'.

My stamps are Paper Relics and Invoke with a distress ink 'spritz and dip' background. A little extra patterned and dictionary paper to create the collage effects and I didn't think it needed any other embellishments.

Have a wonderful Sunday and I hope you are enjoying the Jubilee weekend if you are in the UK - shame about the weather isn't it?

Have fun.

hugs {brenda} xox

Stamp Man ATC Swap

It's the 1st June, Jubilee month and the theme at the Stamp Man ATC swap is Diamonds for the Queen.

My ATC was made with a spritz and dip background using Dusty Concord and Worn Lipstick distress inks. I stamped a Stampendous crown and painted it in with the dusty concord DI and some silver acrylic paint. I added some silver and glittery gems and Beadazzles.

I hope you have a wonderful Jubilee weekend if you are in the UK. We are having a 'street party' style get together tomorrow night in a neighbour's garden and having 'high tea' just to be different! We also have a Jubilee picnic where my son lives on Sunday (if the weather holds).

Ken and I are having our diamond birthday party in July.

Congratulations to our dear Queen Elizabeth for her 60 years reign and many more to come.

Have fun wherever you are in the world this weekend.

hugs {brenda} xox.