Napkin Background Tags

Spritzed a layer of plain napkin with water and added droplets of distress re-inkers.

Once dry, I stuck it to a piece of card.

Used gesso to tone it down a bit.

Chopped it up into tag sized pieces.

Added various colours of gelatos and distress crayons.

Cut them into tag shapes and sewed around the edges.

Added some tissue papers to the top two smaller tags.

Next I added some script stamping in timber brown stazon.

Added various embellishments and a paper doll.

And the same with this one.

Finished tags side by side.

Inspired by Andrea at ARTYmaze - thank you.

Journal Pages TM Style

A couple of weeks ago I cut out some magazine images and stuck them in my book. I used gelatos on this page with white pen.

I used zig pens for the background on this page.

I used zig pens and decoart translucent yellow iron oxide media on this page with black pen.

The yellow background is gelato and I used zig pens over the top.

I used sharpie pens on the background for this page.

And this one I just stuck the images down and left it, until today.

And this morning I added the background using a wash of cerulean blue premium decoart paint and then in a darker shade I used Kate Cranes hand carved stamp for the circles. Once dry I added some white paint dots. And after seeing it here, I think I am going to add the word, floating to the page.

Again, this was another page where I just stuck some images down and left it.

And I simply added a strip of red and blue gelato to finish it.

This is another page which needed finishing.

 A wash of primary magenta premium acrylics and some stamping with black stazon using Seths border stamps and some white dots with a pen.

Then this one I made this morning using an old credit card and decoart premium paints which I scraped on the page. I used bubble wrap with the pink and then white paint and pen tops for the circles. The pink and white lines were created using the edge of the credit card. The words were stamped in black stazon.

Lynn Perrella is coming to town

Using my PA stamps designed by Lynn Perrella I created this collage. Once I'd completed the stamping, I coloured them in with gelatos and smudged and blended the colours. This is because Lynn Perrella is coming to the UK in September to take a 3 day workshop in Scotland so I thought I'd get in the mood.

Atc's

Made a handful of Atcs this morning, I think I was half inspired byBecky and half by Chris. Becky for the atc's and Chris for the tag she did at a make and take on Saturday.

The background for these ones are earthy colours of pan pastel. I sealed them with DecoArt matte spray before I stamped on them. I dug down deep and found my box of wooden stamps that I've not used for a while, it was great to get them out again.

The two purply / blue backgrounds are again pan pastels and the one on the right is gelatos. The images are all stamped in versamark and heat embossed with WOW embossing powders.

And finally, these backgrounds are all gelatos and all the images have again been stamped in versamark and heat embossed with WOW powders.

50th Birthday Cards

I was asked by my netball captain if I could make a card, the brief was, Rainbows as in Brownies and Guides, chocolate, especially cake, and taxi. So this is what I came up with.

And this one is just to prove that it does stand up!

It's my BIL's 50th next week too, so I made him this card. He loves rambling / walking, weight lifting and my sister has organised a flight on a bi-plane for his birthday.

And this is what it looks like folded up.

Atc's for That's Crafty

That's Crafty wanted to see some atc's this week.

Another Dabble

I felt the need for another play when I got home tonight, this is what I ended up with.

Just Doodling

This really is nothing more than a chilling out doodling page. I opened a page in my buried journal and just wanted to get my fingers messy. 

PA challenge is hearts.

The Little People

More Teesha style tags using little people.

Dylusion paints in the background, Teesha images and doodling.

More of the same thing. Dig the white hair!!

She really needed a hat!

I used gelatos on this one too as well as everything else.

Just had fun playing and doodling with these.

Journal Page Mop Up

When Em came over one of the purple paints exploded when the lid was popped, so journal to the rescue to pick up all the excess paint. A few circles and arrow heads stencilled with white gesso. Circles created with various sizes of lids in dazzling metallic black and teal paints and white chalky paint. Circles coloured by blending gelatos and portfolio pastels.

Circles is the theme over at PaperArtsy this week.

Teesha Moore Style Atc's

Using some Teesha Moore images I created these atc's. This time I coloured the backgrounds first!!

Gelatos on the background, image added and doodling to finish.

More gelatos, a bit of stamping for the tiny black dots from a PA hot picks plate and outlined in posca pens.

Gelatos again with PA mini splats stamped image doodling in white sharpie pen.

More circles for the PA challenge.

The Eye of the Flower

Yes, it's okay, you have come to the right blog! Over at PaperArtsy they have a theme of flowers and Leandra and Helen decided to rib me about pink flowers, so here it is. It's part of a journal I'm making but I just had to show this page, it wasn't deliberate but I just happened to stumble across this pinky / purple coloured flower. So there you go ladies, don't say I'm not up for a challenge!!

Purple and Circles

Even though this looks pink, it really is purple. Bottom layer Fresco Spanish mulberry paint, bottle tops stamped in purple Dylusion paint and over stamped with white eco friendly paint. Insides of circles coloured with shades of purple gelatos. TH quote stamped in purple stazon, cut into strips, edged and glued on.

Dragons Dream TIO have a theme of purple and circles. You have to use a tag and at least one real stamp.

Hot Pink & Orange

This page fits nicely into this weeks Artful Times theme. Unfortunately it is their penultimate challenge, which is quite sad as I was one of the founders of the challenge site way back in March 2012. Please pop over and join in if you can.

Tattered and Torn

Over at Artful Times they have a theme of tattered and torn, so I'd like to enter my journal page.

Here you can see the torn dictionary pages along with the tattered tissue tape.

And more of the pages in the top left corner. I've used pan pastels, gelatos, gesso, paints, distress ink and sprays on this page!!!