Back to Basics

Created myself a masterboard.  I just kept going until I was happy with it.

I cut it up into two postcards, two tags and two atcs.

They looked a bit plain, so I added some dymo words and they are now finished.

Another Couple of Jump Start Gelli Journals

I made these journals for two young ladies that I've not met but they are very special to someone that I have met. The only problem was, they both love pink!! So we settled on a pink and purple one and a pink and red one.

I was quite surprised how many pink beads I had - lol.

Inside pages of the pink and purple one.

The idea is that you leave lots of white space so they can be used a journals.

So they can be doodled, drawn, painted and stamped in.

And the pink and red one.

Again lots of white space for them to fill in.

All I ask is that they both enjoy them and I want so see evidence of them being used.

I also made them a pink keyring each, but I forgot to take a photo of those!!

I'd just like to mention Patti Tolley Parrish again as she was the original inspiration for making them.

Money Wallets

Made a few Christmas money wallets today.

Close up's of some of the stamping on the front.

Second Gelli Plate Book

This is the second book I've made in exactly the same way as the first one.

This is the back cover and the canvas was painted in a bright lime green and stencilled with white diamonds and scalloped the edges.

And from the top with the four signatures.

Front and back cover with the canvas and binding.

A couple of the covers of the signatures inside.

The back of the fourth signature and the inside of the back cover.

Gelli Plate Prints

Been playing with my gelli plate again today, as you can see, it's very easy to get carried away!!

Some of my favourites.

And some more,

And some more!!  Shall be back later to show you what I made with them xx

A Play with Tags

I'd been playing with brushos, bondaweb, bleach and straws to make different backgrounds. Here are a few I wanted to share.

The two on the right were created using the TH distress marker spritzer tool to blow the ink.

And this is what I did with them, stamped in bleach and black versa fine ink.

Purple and turquoise brusho on the tags.

Stamping with TH and Paper Bag Studio images, colour removed from the eye with bleach.

Love how the bleach showed on some of the purple splodges. Went backin with the bleach and removed the colour off the face and hands.

Another couple of background mop ups with the brusho.

The left is a tag I painted with silks last weekend, but I wanted to find out how they stamped on, and they are fabulous.  Other 2 are brusho and bleach backgrounds.

And again I went back in and took some colour from her eyes and legs.

And finally for this post, the background for the tags middle and left are created from the excess paint from the deli papers and simply stamped with LP & TH images. Tag on the right is some sort of bondaweb with a fabric texture as I painted brusho onto it and ironed it onto a tag. The ink looks dull as it soaked into the fabric.

This is the tag once it was ironed on.

And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know, that's it for today.

Deli Paper Prints

Darcy very kindly sent me some USA large sheets of deli paper. It'd been wanting some for ages to try out something that Patti Tolley Parrish did a few months ago on a UStream which you can see here.

I stamped onto them, this one is white and gold circles.

There is a shimmer in the Pebeo paints, but I'm not sure if you can see it here.

More white and gold circles or parts of.

Again with a shimmer in the background paint.

This one had gold and silver printed images.

Silver and white stamped images by Ellen Vargo and N Studio Stampendous.

Now you can see the shimmer in the pained background on this one, it's just how the light's caught it.

And finally I stamped in black paint using images from Hero Arts grunge and graffiti sets and a couple more odds ones.

Haven't decided what to do with them next, but when I do, I'll let you know!!!

Craft Extravaganza.......

The lovely Darcy very kindly sent me some fab pieces of proper USA deli paper as I was longing to try out something that Patti Tolley Parrish did on a Ustream a few months ago.

Next I started to stamp images onto tags and piece of card that I'd made the previous day using brushos, bleach, bondaweb and some of the samples we did last week at the workshop, but mainly I thought I'd show you that I can actually make a mess!!

Here are some of the finished pieces. Well when I say finished, they still need fibres and some embellies.

And for the last couple of hours I got my melt pot out and set some metal pieces into melted UTEE using Ranger frames.

I'm going to pick a few pieces out and show them to you in more detail over the next few days if anyone is interested.

It's a Small World

Over at ABAC they have a mini spotlight challenge of it's a small world. My box is 2" square and the panels measure 1 & 3/4".

I coloured the box in red and the panels in orange.  I wanted to keep it fairly plain with the squares being so small.

So I used oriental symbols on each of the sides.

And a PaperArtsy wooden stamp symbol for the top. Finally I edged the sides in black.