Sense of Time

Have no idea why but I'm on a box fetish at the moment!!  I just used the inner part of this box, ie not the lid and sort of used it as a shadow box. I painted it in silver lumiere paint, along with the embossed die cut wings.

This is the same thing laid on the desk. Middle is a clock face with spinners and a gear and fixed together with a brad.

I stamped the script from LP28 in black stazon on the sides of the box, and here you can see all the layers.

Artful Times have a theme of box clever.

LP Limited Edition Tags

For the base of the tags I used the cardfrom the PA chipboard shapes.

I gave them a few coats of snowflake then brayered on 3 of the new LB limited edition colours, tikka, seaweed and chartreuse.

Using the mini diamond stencil I put light gold (910.5) pan pastel on the left tag and diarylide yellow extra dark (250.1) on the right tag.

I stamped the new PA LP028 image directly onto each tag with black versafine ink, but they were way too dark.  I think I'd over inked them trying to get the detail, so I inked them in brown stazon, stamped them onto a separate piece of card, cut them out and stuck them over the top of the black images.

I added gems and used a red and yellow posca pen to add hi-lites. 

I used a white, orange and yellow posca pen for hi-lites on this one along with some gems. I die cut the heart from the LP030 stamp plate which I'd stamped in black stazon.

I am entering this bottom tag into ABAC using the middle line 2-recycled, 5-heart, 8-black

Mini Chest

Over at the PA blog this week Julie Ann has been making a project using a suitcase which you can see here. I decided to play along with a little paper mache box.

Left is the inside of the lid and right is the inside of the box. The box was painted in a mix of mocca mousse and chocolate pudding fresco paints and the script was added in ice blue.

These are what I made to go inside the box. The tags were made from some of the images on LP030 and stamped in timber brown stazon.

And finally, here are all the bits inside the box.

I'm also entering into the Artful Times box clever challenge.

Limited Edition Heart

I just had to have a play with my new set of LB limited Edition fresco paints and my new LP stamp plate. I used 3 of the 4 colours. I coloured the heart mdf shape with snowflake as the chartreuse which I used as the base is a translucent paint. I then used seaweed which again is translucent and finally around the edge I used chutney which is semi-opaque.

I used the main image from the new PA Lynne Perrella range of stamps, this is from plate #28. The script around the edges is from the same plate. Due to the very fine detail in the stamp, I found that the versafine ink pad gave the most crisp image as opposed to stazon and archival.

These have sooooo much potential, can't wait to have a proper play with them when I get back from my hols!!!

Country View Crafts have a theme this month of painty pleasures, and this really was a pleasure!!

Oriental Configuration Boxes

One of my prizes from the Arty Inklings December challenge was a configuration box. Unfortunately the first parcel went astray, but Anita kindly sent me another package which arrived yesterday.

Two lots of the inside boxes are exactly the same size. So I painted them in haystack fresco paint and stamped LP images onto pre-cut canvas panels in black archival. 

Attached the boxes together with a hinge and a couple of brads.

And at the front I attached a clasp.

And the tops.

And one side.

And the other side.  

Artful Times have a theme of box clever this week.

CAS Kraft Cards

I ordered this fabby brand new, just out PA mini by JoFY, it's #38 and I ordered it from Country View Crafts. I've used it to make some mini cards.

Over at Our Creative Corner this month, they have a tri colour challenge. Shades of brown, blue and purples and NO black allowed anywhere, so with that in mind I set to making these CAS cards. The image was coloured with faded jeans and seedless preserve distress markers and spritzed to give a water colour effect. The sentiment is from hero arts and stamped in royal purple stazon.

I used distress markers on the JoFY image and spritzed again but this time I pulled off 3 stampings, you can see the ghost images to the left and right of main image. I used seedless preserve, gathered twigs and salty ocean markers. I stamped the sentiment in royal purple stazon and mounted onto a piece of hessian and matted onto a piece of dark brown card.

I used the same colours as above to stamp the main image. The Hero Arts sentiment is stamped in dusky teal, one of the fresco paints in the new JoFY limted edition set. Salty ocean distress ink was used to edge the kraft card, gems and ric-rac added in brown.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday has a theme of 'get krafty' ie using Kraft cardstock and these fit perfectly.

Oriental Stitched Tags

Over at the PaperArtsy blog, Clare was back this week and for her first project she did some machine sewing on a tag which you can see here. I used a brayer to create the first couple of background layers using stone, guacamole and vanilla, then stamped some PA images from Lins LB04 plate in Spanish mulberry and eggplant fresco paints.

I scrunched up a piece of heavy weight paper, flattened it out and rubbed crushed olive distress ink pad over the top, dried it off and then ironed it flat. Stamped the LP oriental image in black stazon over the top. I used the sewing machine to do the zig zag stitch around the outside in purple and the main image in a black straight stitch.

I did exactly the same for this one except used milled lavender distress ink. I used a black straight stitch both around the outside of the tag and the image. I then went back to both tags and added the oriental image to fill in some gaps.

Queen of Hearts

Over at the PA blog, Helen Chilton is back with a coaster which you can see here. I decided to make a tag, which I did slightly differently to Helen's technique, but ended up with the same results. I used haystack for a base layer and then guacamole and south pacific.

I added some Hobby House gems from the green to go pack, to the bottom of the image.

Close up of the stamping in the heart using script from SN03 PA plate and olive green stazon ink.

I'm also entering into this months Hobby House challenge and this weeks Simon Says Wednesday challenge which is Have a Heart.

CAS Plaque

Over on the PA blog Joanne Wardle has made a guest appearance with a clean and simple card which you can see here.  I took the same approach but instead of a card, painted an mdf plaque and as you know, I don't do flowers, so chose the image off the PA I&D one penny #2 plate.  I used Irish cream fresco paint for the background, I stamped the PA mini bricks in French roast and the splodges in a mix of mocha mousse and little black dress.

I found it really hard not to do anything else to it, but now I've left it and gone back to it, I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

ATB - Love theme

Having looked around a few challenge posts, the theme for February seems to be moving towards 'love' what with valentines and the like, so I decided to have a go at another ATB. So after measuring, cutting and scoring, I started by colouring some packaging with a mix of barn door, festive berries and seedless preserve distress paints. For some reason after this photo they went a bit orangey as opposed to the true colours as above.

I stamped the edges of each panel with PA minis, flourishes, script and splodges in black archival ink.

I decided to use the same type of feet for the base as they are very stable and easy to attach!!

And the rest of the sides.

For the top I dyed a piece of white lace with festive berries distress stain and added a couple of small chipboard hearts.

I used little black dress and blood orange fresco to colour the Sizzix chipboard heart, covered it in a layer of rock candy crackle paste. Added a piece of hessian, tulle, a glittered heart brad and a couple of eyelets.

Wooden heart coloured with metallic distress paints and stamped in little black dress fresco.

Heart covered in a layer of rich red ranger embossing powder, then a coat of pomegranate wow powders. Wings embossed, painted in little black dress and ruby TG rubbed over the raised areas.

Two hearts mounted on a piece of black tulle and ric rac. Hearts painted in blood orange and little black dress. Two gems from Hobby House from the ruby mix selection added to smaller heart.

So the challenges I would like to enter are - 
Arty Inklings - love theme, dimensional and some stamping
Hobby House - anything goes but at least 1 item from Hobby House
ABAC - Tic Tac Toe - choose a line - I have used all items except #6
Simon Says Stamp Monday - love notes

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Happy 18th

It's my nephews 18th soon so I decided to make him a card. Background is embossed cogs on black card coloured with all the metallic colours of pan pastels. The image is embossed using wow powders in platinum and blueberry. The 18 is coloured with lumiere blue pearl and black fresco paints.

He won't take any notice of the front of the card, he'll just want what's inside!!!

I'm linking up to the PanPastelUk challenge which is celebrations using metallics.

Tag Trio

Over at Artful Times they have asked to see something a la T!m style. Left tag was pulled through distress inks, middle tag was a mop up of the first one. Right tag is distress paints.

I used the layering stencils and distress inks to add more interest in the backgrounds, stamped various TH images in black stazon onto each tag and embellished with idea-ology pieces.

Over at Tag Along they want us to show our favourite technique. Well one of my favourite things to do is to take a white posca pen and pick out parts of the images to hi-light.

I used a pen nib for the body, and the word art was covered in glossy crackle and of course the white pen hi-lights.

And finally the spinners for the bodies and a spinner mounted on a couple of cogs and the white pen.

PanPastelUk are asking us to use stencils in our projects this week too.