So a few weeks ago I shared a post using up some of the Venetian Romance failed One sheet wonder i had found when clearing up. Well today I used some more of the paper… junk journalling!
Well I am not sure if this is junk journalling… its just making a mixed media page but hey ho!
Its a page to go into the journal I am doing under the title of junk journal!
Can you spot the patterned paper piece? I actually used the reverse of the paper in the grey and yellow rather than the coastal cabana … I thought it worked better this way!
I also added lots of other stuff from the junk journal box, including gelli prints, book print and played with plenty of fun mediums like paint and distress crayons.
If you fancy watching how this came together check out my YouTube video here…
Super happy with how this page came together… and two more pieces of the paper used! I still have a fair amount left to use… wonder what else I will make with it?
Today I have done lots of SU crafting as I spent time with some of the team I belong to, crafting on zoom together.
I grabbed some of the forever greenery papers and die cuts leftover from the zoom session I had done months ago and made up three cards whilst we chatted and shared info and our lives via zoom. It was great fun.
Here are the cards I made…
The gold and the patterned papers work so well and I love the patterns so much I wanted them to fill the cards. The cardstock I used were just bits and pieces from the scraps folder.
I love the gold twine too… in fact I may have to order another of those in my next order as I’ve come to the end of my stash of it and it works with loads of different projects!
As for the other things we made… my upline Valerie did a little tutorial on the corner bookmark… so I used the same papers and some stamped and die cut images for mine…
And then Sue showed us a very intricate multi layered card… I’ve turned mine into a Mothers day card so you’ll have to wait a while before I share that!
As for the rest of my day, well I treated myself to a lie in, then did the food shop, then cooked brunch and now am just chilling. The teenager is in charge of tea so the only task I’m giving myself for the rest of today is clearing and cleaning the desk ready for turning it back into a workplace tomorrow.
OK so today’s blog is actually a project I started way back in November (as in that’s when the swap should have happened and I gathered the supplies and the idea) but only finished last weekend.
The postcard art swap group I belong to on Facebook had the theme of unicorns and rainbows for November but due to a busy old time, and then Covid and then Christmas my recipient Pat only actually got my postcard this week. Ah well better late than never!
I also forgot to take a pic of the postcard before I sent it… so this pic is the one Pat posted when she received it!
I took some cardstock that was a bit glossy and used both Dylusions spray inks and distress stains to add the colourful background. Once it was dry I added texture paste and black gesso through the stencil (aall & create) to create the rainbow arch.
The unicorn is from the Magical Day set and after colouring with promarkers I added wink of Stella and glossy accents.
Once dry I adhered it on the panel and then chose the sentiment from the Art by Marlene sticker book which I mounted and also added the glossy accents to.
I then double mounted the panel to make the postcard nice and sturdy.
Love this colourful and whimsical postcard.
Now for my slice of life… brunch, meal prep, a walk in the ice and snow, crafting, tea time and Wandavision… a fab chilled out day! Need I say more? And I’ve made this months postcard swap before the month ends ready for posting tomorrow and blogging next week. Result!
Well that was a rather busy 24 hours… after a busy night cooking and eating tea, helping the hubby with something ‘secret’ and a zoom call with my weightloss ladies, we discovered it was snowing “big style” so at 8.45pm the teenager and I got ourselves all wrapped up and went for a magical walk in the snow.
It only lasted an hour and then rain arrived again to get rid of it so I am glad we made the most of it!
This morning an early dart across town as hubby’s car needed a service and then back to working in the spare room, then another trip back this afternoon to pick the car back up again, with a detour to the hospital so hubby could get his blood test done.
Back home, back to working as needed to get some stuff done for tomorrow and the mad dashes across town had cut down on the time I had had to do it. And before I knew it, it was time to do tea and then come and update the blog… but I did sneak in this little bit of simple crafting first!
After all it is Thursday so why not continue with the tag theme on a Thursday? So I found some bits and pieces on the side of the desk so thought I would finish off these tags and make a start on the stash of tags for Christmas 2021!
The three tags and the patterned paper were already set up but never got round to finishing them off.
I delved into the stash of precut die cuts and started adding bits and pieces to each of the tags.
Love how cute these are and how simple they were to make! And now they’ve been added to the box in readiness for December!
Sorry I have been AWOL the last few days… I really need a big crafting session to make lots of things I can then post about when I’m too busy to craft that actual day. The past few days, including Sunday ended up being exactly that … so fortunately this project I finished on Saturday has been delivered to the recipient so I can blog about it now.
So why so busy? Well Sunday actually turned into a proper steps competition with the hubby (I won) plus I got the urge to clean which is a rarity and needs seizing on when it happens. Then back to work Monday and so crafting becomes harder as I never want to clear the desk, make it messy and clear it all again in one night… plus I got all the ironing done so go me, housewife of the year for those two days!
And work… well I’ve had some fabulously productive days but they have been a little on the long side! Next two days will hopefully be a bit shorter so I might, just might get some crafting time in!
Anyways… let’s get to the crafting shall we?
My friend Chris challenged us for this month to make a house themed something that is no bigger than 6″ and when I saw the challenge I knew immediately what I wanted to use… the Art Parts shapes that has been sitting in a box in my craft room at least 3 years if not more!
I got them out immediately and added gesso to each of them… plus a canvas board I was inspired to make a start on too!
Next day I added paint and stamping and stencilling and texture paste and ended up with two little houses.
So then I left them to sit for a week in plain view where I could decide what was needed to finish off.
I decided some definition on edges, a sticker sentiment and some tiny bits of doodling with paint pens. And then done!
Absolutely love both of these… decided to send the big one and keep the small one as a keepsake of the swap for now… it may end up as part of something else eventually, you never know?
Hope you enjoyed this little foray into mixed media and the little houses.
Hi lovelies… hope you are well this Sunday morning. I am fine, may have consumed a little more wine last night than strictly wise, but after a face mask this morning I at least look hunan again!
This morning I am contemplating exercise…. I think the hubby has popped for a walk after his trip to the tip this morning to dispose of excess boxes from our house. We are doing a step challenge again this weekend so I think he is trying to compete with the fact I was several thousand steps ahead at the end of yesterday… I don’t mind if he wins this weekend… if it means he actually got off his bum for a while and did a bit of exercise! So maybe I will sit and drink my coffee and not do a little workout whilst he is out? Decisions, decisions!
This afternoon the teenager and I are going to watch Anola Holmes. She’s already seen it but I want to watch it to, so a bit of a blanket session on the couch is planned, before hubby then gets the couch and TV for some football match… I think at that point crafting may happen! Talking of which…
Today I have three ATCs I made yesterday for the UK stampers forum swap using the fab Saleabration Berry Blessinga stamp set.
The theme of the swap was the blues and it had to be using shades of blue with black and white.
I chose to coat the ATCs cut from packaging with some Baltic Blue paperartsy chalk acrylic paint and then dragged the Mermaid colour over the top using a fan brush. Once it had dried I did a bit of stamping in a bright turquoise ink over the top but it didn’t show up very well.
Next I took pieces of scrap fabric and stapled them together with blue staples. I also had some blue and white twine I added into the mix.
I then stamped and cut out three sprigs with blueberries from the stamp set, just using the shading stamps and Night of Navy ink.
I added these on top of the fabric to create a cluster and adhered it to the ATC background.
Next I stamped from the Itty Bitty Sentiments set the little sentiment panels and added ink to the edges and a glossy accents top to give them dimension.
Finally I grabbed some gems from the stash to add to the background.
Love how these turned out… a really enjoyable play with blues!
OK I’ve an odd little project to be blogging about today, mainly because I completely forgot about it before Christmas like I had planned and came across the pic in my photos and thought ooops!
Sorry I didn’t get around to blogging last night… it was another crazy work day and once again no crafting done, instead watched the two WandaVision episodes that have been released on Disney+ which I enjoyed… they are weird, but riveting!
Today there are plans for shopping and some household chores but hoping to also get some crafting time in the bag! But now let me tell you about this project I actually made in November!
So I bought a box of three beautiful soaps from Temple Spa which I wanted to split up as little gifts for my Auntie’s and my Mum… and so I needed a box for each of them.
I made three boxes using Soft Sea Foam cardstock using the Crafters Companion tool so it was easy and no real measuring required
Then I cut papers for the tops and used some paper twine to tie them into more secure packages.
Of course I added tags to them too… and used the beautiful Joy dies to create a dimensional embellishment onto them.
Quite simple (the box making tool is what makes it simple!) But effective prettily packaged gifts. Oh and the smell of those soaps is divine!
Today’s tag… I’m thinking Tag Thursday may become a regular thing… is actually two tags using the lovely Playing with Patterns paper and a whole host of die cuts I had cut from scraps of cardstock.
So it started as a pile of small scraps (less than 2″ wide) which I did a mammoth die cutting session to end up with a whole pile of die cuts. I used forever flourishing, everything is rosy and wreath builder dies to create this little pile of loveliness.
Next I took another couple of scraps of Purple Posy cardstock and cut it into 2″ strips and punched them to create the tags using the Scalloped Tag Topper punch. I then added the dsp.
I chose different green sprigs and then the purple posy large flower and some of the Bumble bee smaller flowers to make a pretty cluster on each of the tags.
I decided to emboss an old sentiment from the stash and cut a little banner sentiment to sit over the flowers. I also chose some cord from the stash for the top.
The finishing touch was to add the little enamel gems.
Love how these little tags came out… a and check back tomorrow to see the matching card I made.
But first my little snippet of life… tiredness is still a thing I can’t quite shift and the last few days of work have been super busy. Crafting in an evening on a work day currently out of the question as the two things mentioned above don’t make a good combination. Hence no blog post yesterday. In other news the brown hair looks fab and cheese is still my healthy eating nemesis … but hoping that the cheese bake I ate for lunch is the last of the Christmas cheese fest!
Oh and after checking with a friend how old her son was I worked out hubby and I have been together for 18 years as of yesterday… both of us forgot yesterday, but with the help of working out how old our friends son is (she was pregnant when we got together) we now know! So well done us!
Saying howdy always reminds me of my friend Julie who I used to work with… miss her loads.
Anyways … today’s slice of life is …
The Serpent… who has watched this on the BBC, and how addictive is it? My word, not sure I will sleep until I get to the end… wow!
And in other non TV news:
1) the hair is back to being brown, the teenager did a great job of helping me dye it.
2) I exercised a bit last night, back to being knackered again tonight but going to push myself to do a bit more tonight.
3) my friend Michelle has got me all motivated to lose weight so I am tracking all food again.
Now onto the crafting.
Today I have a long YouTube video to share from the weekend as I ended up doing a One Sheet Wonder using the Berry Delightful dso and the Berry Blessings stamps. It was lots of fun… but even speeding loads of the process up it was over an hour long. Well I know some people find watching the long videos relaxing… but I really need to learn how to do a quick project! 🤣🤣🤣
So here is the template I used for cutting the 6×6 piece of paper …
And here is what I made…
Loved playing with the stamp set and this gorgeous paper…
In fact after I gave up filming I also decorated the inside of the cards with strips of paper …
And the envelopes I added the paper to the flap and stamped on the fronts…
… once I had done that it felt like the project was properly finished. Eight cards and envelopes beautifully decorated!
Love these freebies from Saleabration and looking forward to playing with them again!
