Day 25 - MDF Tags

I firstly gave them all a coat of white gesso followed by a coat of white tinting base. Then I applied a few colours of DW paint.

I added some stamping with black and red stazon and white gesso.

Next I added an image, but I didn't want to cover the whole of the backgrounds.

Finally added a bit more colour and some fibres.

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.

Packaging Tape Tag

I cut some images out from my magazines and printed images and made a tag shape with borders and added a few images in the middle. They are loosely glued together at the edges with prit stick.

The same was done for the other side and then the two were sandwiched together. Any white patches that I didn't want to show I coloured with Zig brush pens.

I added clear packaging tape over the top of one side.

Flipped it over and covered the other side, cut off the excess around the edges and used a bone folder to smooth it out. It still creased in the bottom panel, but that's okay, as it provides some texture.

This was inspired by a FB post by Julie Ann Lee who followed a tutorial in Somerset Studio, but I found this blog link by Kim Collister who wrote the original post in the magazine.

Tags & Atcs

Had a play with some backgrounds today and made these tags. I coloured the images with my zig pens which I haven't used for a while.

A couple more with Lynn Perrella Paperartsy stamps and a compass stencil I bought ages ago but hadn't used until now.

And finally a couple of Atc's. I cut the Teesha Moore boy with the hair image in half and used one for each atc.

Two Atc's

A couple of weeks ago when I was much worse for wear, I managed to create this background using a handful of DecoArt media paints and Kate Cranes new to me hand carved stamp set.

These are the stamps I bought from Kate's Etsy shop.

Well today I needed a play and now feeling much better and able to move boxes, I ended up with these two atc's.

Lin had kindly stamped me some of the TM boy images and I found him a brass pan for a hat and did some further doodling.

And I had sooo much fun with this one. It started out as a black and white stamped Dina Wakley image, again I added doodling and hat which was incidentally, half of a bikini top!

And from the off cuts of card I made these very mini cards which are approx 1.5"s.

Another Couple of Pages

More magazine and Teesha Moore images to play with

Left page coloured with pan pastels and doodling with zig pens

Right page coloured with pan pastels, sectioned off and coloured with sharpies and bic pens

White sharpie pen used to hi-light the white of the eye and the teeth

Blocks of colour to create a maze effect

Entering into the PaperArtsy challenge, paper piecing.

Teesha Moore Style Pages

Playing with images from magazine, some stamped images and some collage sheets.

Did start off in the garden, but sun went in and wind got up and stuff started blowing around, so came back in.

Next for some borders

And alterations to the faces

Coloured the backgrounds in with portfolio pastels

More portfolio pastels for these backgrounds too

Doodling with white pen and stamping in cactus stazon 

Doodling with a black pen and hearts stamped in red stazon

Smile, on safari!! Doodled some map lines in the background

Dotty doodles in white pen

PaperArsty have a theme of paper piecing, so I'm entering my pages.

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.

Another Birthday Card & Envie

And today is Chris's birthday and this is the card that I made for her.

Close up of the bottom right corner.

And the front of the envelope.

And lastly the back.

Birthday Card & Envie

It's Lin's birthday today and this is the card I made for her.

Front of the envie.

And the back.