Donny Dome Craft Show

 

For anyone who's not been before, the show is held in one of the huge rooms in the leisure complex called The Dome. If you can make out the huge rock to the right, it's actually situated in the middle of an outdoor swimming pool.

I headed straight over to the PA stand where Darcy and Emma were demoing with Linda, Lesley and Hazel watching with intent, I was actually looking for Emma as she wasn't at our rendezvous point!

Then I caught up with her after her good samaritan act for the day. A motorcyclist came off his bike a couple of cars in front of her, so her being a nurse, put herself in danger sitting in the fast lane on the A1 keeping his head stable until the paramedics arrived, hence the reason she arrived late.

She was then in need of a sugar rush, so the lovely Linda got the cup cakes out. Look at all that pink!!!!

We headed back over to the PA stand where we found Christine and Linda. Gillian and Darcy joined us for a quick photo.

It didn't seem to be as busy as previous times, although there were a few peeps taking the weight off their feet.

But the isles were a bit sparse.

Emma took a well earned break so Gillian popped on to do a bit of demoing with Darcy.

And I managed to get a smile out of her after being told to go away a fair few times - hehehehe!!!

And Darcy on the other side.

Then we caught Mark having a crafty pink cup cake made by the lovely Linda.

I nipped off to get some stamps from Clarity and when I got back Emma was chatting to these two nutters (in the nicest possible way!!!) Apparently she did know them - hehehehe!!

Darcy taking a well earned rest and Hazel came over to say bye, so grabbed a quick photo of them both.

Then Christine and Linda came over to say bye too and Lesley had joined Emma and myself for a sit down and a drink.

And finally, the stash - 12 x 12 stencils

6 x 6 and 4 x 4 stencils

Paper Pad, Hero Arts stamps, idea-ology arrows and memory frames

PA newly sourced tissue paper, plain and script, prima findings and my go to glue, red liner tape

And lastly 4 more 6 x 6 masks.

Thanks to all for a wonderful day and it was great to catch up with everyone again.

Gifts for Donny Dome

Set off for Donny Dome this morning armed with gift boxes, as I'll be meeting up with quite a few #PATwits

These are some of the gifts inside the boxes, notelets with matching envies and a mini note book.

This is a different style of mini book, with a flap over.

This is the back, I used a stencil over a gelli page print.

Book opened out and you can see the flap, this is for Emma.

 

I saw this and bought it for Linda, as she brings home made cup cakes to the show for us all.

The stamp is red rubber and mounted.

And a lovely little paper bag to take it home in!!

Fathers Day Cards

Two simple cards for our dad's for Fathers Day on 15 June. Just stencilling and stamping.

Lots of challenges for this theme - 

Artful Times - CaS Card

PanPastelUk - One For the Boys

Simon Say Wednesday - Fathers Day / Masculine

Country View Crafts - Only Men Allowed

Butterfly Wings

I followed Tim's technique for his 12 tags of 2014 - June tag.

Also I'd like to enter into the following - 

DragonsDream TIO - Butterflies and the letter 'I'

Tag Along - Wings

ABAC - Summer Lovin

Leporella Accordion Book

Over on the PA Blog Liesbeth is back for her second project which you can see here. I pretty much followed her techniques. I went with greens and a crackle stencil for the covers.

Then I added French roast and lots of different colours of treasure gold, olive bronze, aquamarine, indigo and renaissance.

I used the same colours of distress ink for the inside pages.

Added various LP images.

Stencilling with distress inks.

Used a posca pen to hi-light areas. I did try the bleach on the spare side piece, but as you can see, it had no effect.

I still felt the pages needed a little more

So I added script in black stazon

And a LP stamp as a border in timber brown stazon.

Here are all the finished pages joined together before I attached the covers.

And finally the finished book complete with sari ribbon.

I'm also entering into the That's Crafty challenge this week as they are asking to see texture paste in the project.

Over at A Vintage Journey, they would also like to see some texture.

Inchies on an Atc

Deb also chose the ATC theme for June's Paperplay swap too, atc's with inchies.

Escape the Ordinary

Darcy is back on the PA Blog with more journal techniques which you can see here. As I used a tag I only used 4 colours of paint.

Applied a layer of stamped tissue paper with matte medium.

Randomly stamped the stampotique flower sprig in hydrangea blue stazon. Randomly applied tikka, blood orange and chartreuse through a couple of stencils after toning down the background with a layer of very watered down stone. Then the best bit, which is so simple, but so effective, creating the border, great inspiration.

I added an arch which Lin kindly die cut and sent to me. I tried to crack it using the crackle glaze but it just didn't do anything so added some guacamole to the pea coat layer.

Close up of the stamped image and arch.

Close up of the torn paper edges.

ABAC have a theme of Summer Lovin, and I thought with the bright summer colours and the flower stems and pods I'd enter with this tag.

Just Dreaming

Over on the PA blog Gillian has made a guest appearance between her studying and exams, so I thought it only right to support her. I pretty much followed what she did which you can see here, I just used different substrates, stencils and stamped images.

Helen kindly sent me some die cut petal drops by Tim Holtz and I thought one would work perfect on this tag. So I added GP through a stencil, painted the petal orange, added some stamping and rubbed over the textured areas in ruby treasure gold.

I stamped a couple of the LP oriental images onto yellow painted card and cut them out.

And this is the whole tag put together. I stamped the words just dreaming as I felt it needed something at the bottom to balance it out.

Close up of the textured areas with the treasure gold to enhance them.

Over at Our Creative Corner they have a theme of flaming June where orange has to be a dominant colour.

That's Crafty have a theme of it's all about the texture and you have to use texture paste (in this instance, grunge paste, same thing).

ABAC have a theme of Summer lovin, and thought the bright colours reminded me of summer.

Tag on Tag - PaperPlay

Deb chose the theme for June for the Paperplay swap, tag on tag, so I went with the oriental style again using the Ellen Vargo technique of adding the strips of tissue paper.

Accordion Ticket Book

Over on Simon Says Blog there is a fab project tutorial by Anna Karin using the new TH Sizzix big ticket die which you can see here. I used weathered wood, iced spruce and gathered twig distress ink for the tickets and vintage photo distress stain for the hangers.

I used frayed burlap and faded jeans distress inks to create the backgrounds using the TH classics stamp sets. I edged all the sides in walnut stain distress ink.

Added a few more elements, some tissue tape, rub ons, stamping, frameworks die cuts, distress paint, idea-ology stickers, alphabet letters and string.

***Edited*** I don't have the ticket die, I made it with my trimmer, scoreboard and punch.