70th Birthday Card - Mum

Tracey Evans reminded me in a live FB she did a few days ago about the shaving foam technique to create backgrounds. I used alcohol ink with mine.

I based this card for my mums 70th birthday on the one she made on the live feed.

Play Days

Emma came over for a couple of days to play, but first she had to have some Fraz time.

She played with the mini gelli plate as there simply wasn't enough room to get the 8 x 10 out and both of us be in the room at the same time - lol.

DecoArt multi purpose satin paints.

And can you believe, I couldn't, that she's never played with shaving foam, so off I went upstairs to find some!!

Fraz was totally worn out last night by the time we'd got back from our meal at the pub.

This morning he realised she was still here, so went and made friends again.

Today we played with tags, atcs, a mini canvas and crackled some wooden hearts.

The sides of the heart being dried after painting.

Fraz obviously wasn't letting Emma go anywhere!

This is my canvas that I did using the eye by Limor Webber, PA script and splats minis and the circles from a Finn plate with Dylusion paints and stazon ink.

View of the deep stamped edges.

And from the other side.

And then Emma painted her canvas and had me on a mission to find a stamp that said something like Home is where the Heart is. Well I knew I didn't have anything like that but I looked to see if there was anything else suitable, but there wasn't so she's taken it home to finish it.

We used some different crackle products and this is my atc using weathered wood crackle glaze.

These are the effects of the shaving foam on glossy card using alcohol inks - pretty cool hey.

She also played with DecoArt dazzling metallic paints on the gelli plate and brushos, but I didn't get any photos of those.

Funky Chicken

Another tag for the Tag Along challenge which is to feature a bird and it does state 'any bird you like'. The images are from the Ink & the Dog PaperArsty wings #2 plate.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday have a theme of animals, so I'm entering my chicken tag!!!

Playing with Shaving Foam

Suzz is back on the PaperArsty blog and she has brought back an old favourite, shaving foam.  If you don't know what I'm on about, go check it out here and also check out my other blog here.  This time I used fresco paints and not inks as in my tutorial.  I used limelight, beach hut and eggplant.

As you can see I made a tag, (no surprise there then!!), the car is die cut from corrugated cardboard and the clock is die cut from chipboard and coloured with south pacific freso paint.  The map image is from IndigoBlu and the words are from the Ink and the dog, Travel plate #1.

Rak from Mags

Thanks Mags for my lovely rak

4 x 4

Created this 4 x 4 using the shaving foam technique incorporating three colours. The image is stamped with black stazon onto a caught in crystal background which is in turn mounted on a piece of card where I have used the burnt lemon juice technique

Lots of techniques going on with this piece, check them out and more on our newly created blog Technique Zone

Atc's

I applied acrylic paint with a piece of cut n dry to create these backgrounds. I chose three colours which complimented each other for each background. I then used the tape lift stamping technique to create the images. Black stazon was used on them all

I created the background for the one at the top on the left using the shaving foam technique, just using the one colour and stamped the image with black stazon

I created the background for the one at the top on the right, using acrylic paints, by applying minimum amounts of paint on the brush and stroking the card in various direcetions. I used saddle brown stazon to stamp the image

The bottom one is created using the colour layering technique. I then added a tree image using timber brown stazon. I attached this to an atc which I had previously stamped the edges with fern leaves using saddle brown stazon

All these techniques can be found on our newly created blog Technique Zone

Autumn Covers for Hilda

Another one of Hilda's subjects was Autumn. The background of the back cover (on the left) is a splash n spin that I did a while ago, embellished with a tree and a couple of leaves. The one on the right was also done a while ago using shaving foam and page ancient re-inkers, unfortunately this square was slightly smaller, so I edged it with ribbon containing leaves, and again embellished with autumn bits. Hope you like it mate.