To Give

I randomly applied grunge paste to the background, painted it in various colours of fresco paints. Coloured the arch with the bronze metallic pan pastel and then decided to rub over the grunge paste with it too!! The LP image was stamped onto crackly tissue paper in black stazon and glued with mod podge. 

The reason I chose the words 'to give' is because Susan at Stamp Diva sent me the hand stamp (left) by mistake, but had missed out one I did order, Goddess Cartouche (right). So I contacted her and she not only told me to keep the one she'd sent by mistake but sent the one I did order free of charge ie no further postage costs.

So I used parts of the new stamp to randomly stamp in the blank spaces on the background.

Creating Faces

I loosely painted a piece of chipboard with ice blue fresco paint, and once dried randomly slapped on some grunge paste and scored and prodded it to create some texture. The grunge paste is coloured with sapphire treasure gold to bring out the texture. The Hampton Arts image is stamped in black stazon onto crackly tissue paper to allow the texture and the colour to show through.  Finally a piece of coloured acetate was added to the eye.

Close up of the grunge paste and treasure gold.

The background of this piece was painted in stone fresco paint. Using the largest face from my new classics #5 plate I stamped in black stazon again onto crackly tissue paper and used mod podge to glue it to the background. I coloured a piece of acetate with eggplant, sail boat blue and juniper and placed it over the top.

Remember when I was playing with Utee here, this is one of the pieces I made which I've used as an embellishment.

Changing Faces

Another piece of chipboard randomly covered with grunge paste, painted with various colours of fresco, haystack, Spanish mulberry, stone and cinnamon.  I stamped the image in black stazon onto crackly tissue paper. Using my new spellbinders sprockets set I cut the gear from very thin cardboard. I coloured a piece of acetate in latte, ginger and caramel, ran it through an embossing folder and attached with T!m's tiny attacher.

I added another of my Utee embellishments.

Close up of the grunge paste texture on the background and the embossed acetate.

Have a Heart Canvas

Taking another of my new stamps 'Have a heart' by Lynne Perrella for Stampington & Co. I stamped onto crackly tissue paper with black versafine, which incidentally took absolutely ages to dry. Coloured the heart with festive berries distress paint as I wanted it really red, turned it over and pained the back with snowflake fresco paint. I cut really close up to the tissue and glued it onto the canvas with mod podge. Using little black dress fresco paint I stamped directly onto the canvas with my favourite and one and only Traci Bautista stamp.

Close up of image and painted heart.

One of the side panels.

And another.

Silence

This was a WIP Atc, as you can see on her nose, it's not dry properly and she has wrinkles from the mod podge where she was stuck on. Images stamped on crackly tissue paper and painted in frescos from the back.

Once completely dry I tided it up, added some Dylusions flicks of white spray ink and finished the edges in a red sharpie pen.

Forward Motion

More playing with AI's, sticky silver foil and texture fades. This time I used latte and ginger with the snowcap. Spacer beads and washers were added. The corrugated was painted with little black dress, and the main piece was mounted onto another piece of mesh.

Close up of the image which is from PA and was stamped in black stazon onto crackly tissue paper and a square of wire mesh was placed over the top.

Simon Says Stamp Monday are asking to see tissue in our projects.

The Green Goddess

Over on the PaperArtsy blog Liz is back and on day 3 created a background using cling film. I used sage on an mdf plaque.

Don't know if this shows up very well or not, but this is after the cling film has been removed and the paint dried.

Close up of the cling film background.

I then mixed sage with grunge paste and applied through a stencil.

Using my new wooden TH stamp I stamped in olive green stazon in opposite corners.

Now this 'was' my last piece of crackle tissue paper which I was saving for a very special moment, but.....

look what popped through the letter box earlier this week from Emma - ooooooh, thank you xx

So I stamped my LP Acey Duecy image onto the crackle tissue, turned it over and painted the back.

Once dry, I painted the whole of the back in snowflake.

Cut out the pieces that I needed.

Used satin glaze to stick them to the background. Added extra stamping in black archival and green stazon, applied treasure gold to the raised GP areas, the middles of the flowers and around the edges. I also applied 3 layers of gloss glaze.

And it still needed something else, so I put gem stones in the middles of the flowers and on the darker sides of the symbols.

And randomly dabbed on some peeled paint distress stickles.

And finally added a piece green of fibre.

I'm also entering into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Monday, who have a theme of it's a mystery.  My mystery is the cling film and distress stickles.

Think Monday, Think Atc's have a theme of all one colour and my colour is obviously green!!

And finally Tag Along have a theme of bling this week, so with the treasure gold, the gems and the stickles, that's my bling!!

An Oriental Delight

It was my friend, Neet's birthday in March and I missed it due to just getting back from holiday.  She is a designer and demo-er for Oyster Stamps who run the Sincerely Yours craft shows.  She is demo-ing today at the Lincoln show.  So I decided to surprise her by not only going but also giving her this make as a belated birthday pressie!!!  She should like it as her favourite colours are purple and lime green and she loves anything oriental.  

The main image is from the new LP #23 plate and stamped in stazon on crackly tissue paper.  Fresco paint colours, eggplant, guacamole, pansy, hey pesto, snowflake and limelight.  The frame is built up of a combination of lots of the newer TH alteration and movers and shapers dies.

Beaded Hanging Board

Over on the PaperArtsy blog it's Carols turn to wow us this week.  To find out what she made and follow along, click here.

I painted the board in pansy and my lovely mate Emma kindly sent me some of the Golden coarse fibre medium that she picked up from Cass Art when we were down at Ally Pally.  So I used this through the harlequin stencil as Carol did.

Now to my beaded trim, well it actually started off white as above, and after I'd had the alcohol inks to the beads and the French roast fresco to the ribbon, it turned out like the top photo.

And here is the finished piece. I pretty much followed what Carol did except I added some script in black stazon and over stamped in versamagic cloud white to fill in the gaps and used ribbon on the hanger as I couldn't face stringing fiddly beads!!

#3UP #PAtwit

Now this is a long story but it has to do with Twitter, PaperArtsy and Ally Pally!! Say no more I hear you cry!!  We were asked to hash tag 3UP and PAtwit. No-one knew what 3UP was but the PAtwit was a PaperArtsy Twitter follower. So I did my duty and hash tagged and these turned up in the post after receiving a DM via Twitter. I was asked to make something with them by 26 April and email a photo for the PA Blog.

I sponged the wooden plaque with cut n dry foam in various colours of fresco paints, vanilla, limelight, zesty zing, smoked paprika, pumpkin soup, london bus, eggplant, beach hut and probably some others!!

The rough diamond stencil was sponged through with Baltic blue and bumped with stone fresco paints.

My lovely and now real friends, Helen and Carol, both very kindly sent me some crackly tissue paper as it's now discontinued as Leandra can't find anything as good to do the same job! So I stamped these 3 images in black stazon as I wasn't sure which I wanted to use and the crackly tissue is so rare, you can't waste any!!

Then onto my favourites the crocheted flowers (not), and the Tando chipboard key and I also threw in an ornate frame from my stash. I coloured them all with eggplant and south pacific fresco paint.

I turned the stamped images over and painted them from the back in fresco paints. Once finished I completely covered the backs in snowflake.

After playing about with the images I decided on this one. I painted golden matte medium on the wood, laid the crackly tissue image on and painted the matte medium over the top whilst smoothing it out at the same time. Once dried I blended in the edges with fresco paint.

I stamped the script from the ink and the dog background #2 plate in black stazon and white versamagic ink randomly over the background avoiding the main image. I took this photo outside when the sun was out. The colours are a truer reflection.

And finally I added one of the flowers to which I added a brad and coloured it with the vintaj patina paint. Stamped the word admire from the ink and the dog vintage nudes #2 plate and mounted it in the ornate frame with a couple of yellow brads and stamped the frame with script in black stazon. The key looked totally lost in the background, so I painted it black and stamped it in white ink to give more definition.

It has been showcased on the blog here.

Natural Arches

I recently ordered some card and from the photo it looked like ribbed kraft card, when it arrived it was actually a pattern printed onto white card, so I decided to use some of it up and die cut these arches.

The image was stamped onto crackly tissue paper and coloured with the browns of the fresco paints, Irish cream, cinnamon, chocolate pudding and nougat. 

I added square gold gems and the strip across the bottom is a Bo Bunny rub on.

And this was it this morning in it's more natural colours out in the sunshine!!!

Oriental Paradise

Again more playing with the same sort of things, namely my new LP oriental stamp plate #23 and my TH dies to make up the frame.  This frame has 4 layers, 5 if you count the two end pieces.  

I played with baltic blue, guacamole and south pacific fresco paint for the main frame, haystack, pumpkin soup and Baltic blue for the end pieces and zesty zing, London bus and snowflake for the LP image, again stamping it onto crackly tissue paper.

This is a close up of the image and I love how the snowflake just makes the whole thing pop.

And this is a close up of the Baltic blue stamping on one of the end pieces.

Stampotique have a theme this week of trimmed images.  You have to use at least 3 and they can be the same or different.  Now I know my trimmed images (the 4 Asian symbols) aren't that exciting, but I did stamp them and cut them out by hand, so I am hoping they will qualify as trimmed images!!!

Framed Lady

I used one of the pieces of wood I picked up at the local timber yard a few days ago to make this. The frame is made from chipboard and embossed in a script.  Painted in baltic blue fresco paint and hi-lighted with pewter treasure gold.  I painted snowflake directly onto the wood, applied the LP main image with matte medium.  The image was stamped onto crackly tissue paper and painted from behind with fresco paints.  Once it had all dried I painted the background in beach hut fresco paint.  The scroll type things are rub ons. The top one actually brought a lot of the paint off when I rubbed it on, but I simply went back in with beach hut and because it's translucent, it covered the white but let the rub on show through.