Being inky and creating pretty stuff
Last piece for Rebecca’s journal…
This time bright and warm fresco paints over a patterned paper piece…
Lots of text stamping and some stencilling. Splatters and grungy edging to provide a graffiti style page.
Love how all of the art work works together but also are completely separate pieces.
Hopefully Rebecca likes them as much as I enjoyed working on them.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
So continuing from yesterday’s art journal page I have one of the other pieces I made which is for the back of the piece…
The rule that Rebecca had was that I should choose colours in opposition to the page before it … well I had navy and black on the page before and so I went orange and brown for my page to face.
I actually painted this onto a separate piece of patterned paper and stuck it to the page afterwards (which I had edged in black gesso).
The page itself has lots of layers of fresco finish paints … buff, mahogany, cheesecake, autumn fire and mermaid to name but a few! It then has stamping in archival and distress oxides and some embossing with clear emboss. The main image is the Darcy seed flower which I stamped in versamark and then used the Seth Apter baked texture embossing powder. I also added shading to it with a big brush pen and some white highlights using a white paint sharpie.
The bottom of the page I added two layers of the baked texture embossing powder and one of the clear emboss to create some ground.
I then added the Tim Holtz stickers that spoke to me.
So one of the princess’ best friends had a birthday party yesterday for her birthday that is actually tomorrow… and here is the card I made inspired by her lovely dog Lottie…
I had to use the Dogs Woof stamp and stamped it a few times before trimming it down and colouring with ink and a water brush.
I then stamped one of the single images and diecut and mounted this … and then inside the same image.
Hope KJ likes her Lottie inspired card. And here is a pic of the lovely Lottie dog!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Rebecca’s envelope journal was a strange but wonderful construction and she had not bound the pages which made this a lot easier to work on.
I actually videoed the process so here is the link to that.
And the page…
I had no plan before I started but wanted a page with lots of texture… and of course my medium of choice recently… Brushos!
I then decided it was the perfect canvas for Darcy’s new stamps.
What I didn’t show on the video was the stitching I did to frame the piece using the sewing machine. I used a couple of different colour threads and different types of stitches.
Also after the page was finished I had to do the flaps that fold in… so I chose to stick to the Darcy stamps but chose an older set and did some basic painting to make them contrast but work with the art on the inside.
There was also the front and back to be done… but that will have to be for another blog post.
Hope Rebecca likes the whimsical gentle page I did for her.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
A card made from scraps on the desk… and my favourite stamp set of the moment… Petal Palette.
This time I die cut some of the elements from vellum to add some softness to the otherwise quite stark card… the ribbon also helps with that!
The stamped images of the delicate flowers also added a bit of balance to that bold striped background!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
I’ve been quite determined this year to use up paper packs and card kits I’ve got with magazines… and here is one from a Making Cards magazine from a while ago. I must admit I like their kits as they are usually quite funky and modern.
I thought this one would make some fun kids birthday cards and a few hello cards too.
I ended up with 8 6×4 cards and 1 4×4 card in total, supplementing the papers and images with some cardstock that I felt coordinated perfectly.
On most of the images I also added some touches of wink of Stella to add subtle shimmer and then either added sequins of card candi to embellish. On all of them I also added either the happy birthday from Panda Party or the Hi from Tap Tap Tap to add the sentiment.
Quite a simple cut and stick project but I enjoyed it… probably aided by the fact the images and papers are so cute!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
So I had a little bit of playtime using the distress resist spray and distress oxides on glossy cardstock.
I created this fabulous textured and marblised background.
I put this to one side and then needed to clear up the craft room and sort out some random bits and pieces.
I ended up grabbing some stamped images I stamped about 3 or 4 years ago at a crop and never ended up using and also a cute little image from the winter friends set that I was obsessed with in the run up to christmas.
I layered these onto a canvas tag I had painted some turquoise on previously… and then layered it onto a pale green background. I love the colours and the images together.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
My final swap for this month for UK stampers forum was the inchies… and of course I kept to the brushos theme!
I cut the mountboard to size and stamped the cute little seahorse from the Magical Day stamp set and the little bubbles and then coloured the board with brushos in sea green and turquoise. I then flicked some art alchemy sparks paint onto them.
Then I stamped and die cut the seahorse onto white and used gamboge and brilliant red to water colour him in before sticking him down.
Once he was dry I added a layer of clear embossing to give them some shine.
Super happy with these cute little inchies.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hello.
It’s been a little while since I shared a video with you… so today I have one making three ATCs for the UK stampers forum swap. And as per the theme of the last few days I have been a bit brusho mad!
So follow along with my process on the video.. and here is the final results
Really happy with all of these and how bright and cheery they ended up.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
I decided to use the fabulous Sheena Douglass Hare stamp again and brushos to create this month’s postcard. It is very similar to the ATC I made… just bigger!
I added more orange tones to the hare itself and the background is the light brown brusho. I love this stamp and how easy it is to create some stunning artwork.
Now part of the challenge for this swap is that you have to be able to post the postcard so I had to seal the brushos.
I decided to give the full postcard a couple of layers of clear embossing to do the seal. This gives the whole piece a glazed appearance. Love it.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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