Hiya, still on day 6 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes and I again chose this lovely Mpress stamp set. I used Hero Arts white embossing powder, Distress Inks in Seedles Preserves, Mustard Seed, Festive Berries and Ripe Persimmon, a waterbrush, sentiment from TPC Studio and a corner rounder to add some interest.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Stretch Your Stamps 2 Resist Part 2 Bonus
So the last card was resist and not wanting to waste the negative I decided to use it to make another card. Waste not want not lol. Along with some of the products I used on the last card I also added a Kaisercraft Stamp and some I Am Roses coloured with distress stain.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Friday, 13 June 2014
More of My First Mini Part 5
Getting there :) The next images we got a little Australian followed by a lil camp :) lol
Ok so we started with Prima and KaiserCraft papers, spellbinders butterfly circles, a tag cut with my ecraft and some brads and pearls.
Flowers close up ;) I added white adirondack paint dabber around around the edges of the mini albums mini album lol
The first page flips open for some journalling with some more flowers and brads. The darker pages you see here are from a magazine from years ago lol.
The lace holds the book in place as it is fully removable.
I guess this is where we get camp haha. I used Lifestyle Crafts dies for the lettering and corner flourish. I love this KaiserCraft paper, all the white lines are flocked.
A little Priscilla with both my girls.
And some Dame Edna for the Aussies and Brits who know who she is lol.
And then we went a little Gaga. The panel that says Gaga is actually a little teeny pocket to hold the tag that's behind in place.
The tag has a Lifestyle Crafts Tab It Kit tab on it.
The back was done with Distress Stains and edged and stamped with distress inks. Hopefully all these journalling spots have been put to good use . . .
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Ok so we started with Prima and KaiserCraft papers, spellbinders butterfly circles, a tag cut with my ecraft and some brads and pearls.
Flowers close up ;) I added white adirondack paint dabber around around the edges of the mini albums mini album lol
The first page flips open for some journalling with some more flowers and brads. The darker pages you see here are from a magazine from years ago lol.
The lace holds the book in place as it is fully removable.
I guess this is where we get camp haha. I used Lifestyle Crafts dies for the lettering and corner flourish. I love this KaiserCraft paper, all the white lines are flocked.
And some Dame Edna for the Aussies and Brits who know who she is lol.
And then we went a little Gaga. The panel that says Gaga is actually a little teeny pocket to hold the tag that's behind in place.
The tag has a Lifestyle Crafts Tab It Kit tab on it.
The back was done with Distress Stains and edged and stamped with distress inks. Hopefully all these journalling spots have been put to good use . . .
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Easter Magic With Lifestyle Crafts Bunny
This week at Eclectic Ellapu the challenges are Easter for Purples and One for the Boys for the Pink team :) I'll add in some more detail tomorrow. It's really late right now lol... So here's my Easter project . . .
I'll be back with all the details tomorrow :) Meanwhile there is a list of what I have used in the tags.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I'll be back with all the details tomorrow :) Meanwhile there is a list of what I have used in the tags.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Flowers On The Beach With Some Beach Cottage
Ok so I have been a little slack on the blog front for the last couple of weeks. I need to have a day where I just write blogs and have them all nicely scheduled! lol That being said this is just a quick fly by post today of my daughters birthday card from last year.
I used Creative Imaginations Beach Cottage 6" stack.
Connie Fongs Flowers on the Beach by Sweet Pea Stamps with a little tearing for a distressed look.
Archival ink and Distress Stains
Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Mini Tickets by Sizzix and foam tape.
I Am Roses rose coloured with Broken China Distress Stain
Crafty Secrets Bouquets of Joy sentiment stamp
And to finish it off a cute little random fishy charm I had in my stash.
I didn't want to add too much to this card as I wanted the mermaid on the pp to be visible too.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Monday, 24 February 2014
Revisiting My Butterfly Canvas
Ok so last year I did a post Here about a butterfly canvas... What most people didn't know was that I wasn't wholly happy with it and the butterflies and bling weren't stuck down! lol. I had known all along I was going to give it to my friend for her birthday which was last week. So yep, you guessed it, I pulled it back out again and set to work
I added a stencilled border around the outside with Royal Purple Stazon and Tim Holtz' Honeycomb stencil, changed the lighter butterflies bling to a pale pink as well as the antennae and blinged out the background for a more finished look!
Hope you enjoyed the revisit!
Purple
I added a stencilled border around the outside with Royal Purple Stazon and Tim Holtz' Honeycomb stencil, changed the lighter butterflies bling to a pale pink as well as the antennae and blinged out the background for a more finished look!
Hope you enjoyed the revisit!
Purple
Labels:
distress ink,
distress stain,
fanciful stencils,
honeycomb,
in flight,
iridescent medium,
miracle beads,
monarch,
promarker,
see dee's,
stazon,
tattered angels,
tim holtz,
triple thick,
watercolour paper
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Kissed By an Angel with KaiserCrafts Made With Love
It's the Purple teams turn over on Eclectic Ellapu and this weeks theme is use a die cut heart. Mine ended up getting very hidden so I added some extras lol. I used a whole bunch of die companies on here . . . Hope there is no rule against mixing them up!
I started with KaiserCrafts Made With Love Collection (I snapped this up on clearance at a LSS), selecting the papers I wanted to use. I then did some colour matching with my Copics and Promarkers and stamped Connie Fongs Kissed By An Angel Sweet Pea stamp with Memento ink onto Neenah Solar White.
I then die cut the image and my first two layers using Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents. Now here is where I go into trouble as you will see in the pic. I hadn't actually crafted at home for a while and didn't realise my craft sheet wasn't totally clean :( As I edged my image with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink I swiped up some blue off my mat :( For the bottom layer I snipped off the long end pieces before I inked the edges as you can see in the pic. I used foam tape on under the image and double sided tape under the matting piece.
Next I die cut Lifestyle Crafts Heart Insert surrounded by a Nesting Lace Heart die from red foil cs. I saved all the little hearts for other projects as well as adding some to this one. I had to use the metal shim in my Ebosser to get this die to cut through the thick card stock. I glued the heart down with Matte Accents.
Next I used a Sizzix Sizzlit die called Ribbon Insert. My cat loves Sizzlis, if she sees one around she thinks it's fair game and claws it! Good thing they still work with claw marks in them :)Very hard paper to take a pic of! I inked the edges of this piece with Milled Lavender. I used foam tape on this layer as well.
To hide my mess I grabbed some I Am Roses flowers and coloured them with distress stains in Milled Lavender, Wild Honey, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade and Barn door. I then spritzed them with homemade pearl mist (come on a girl's gotta have some sparkle, right?).
Next up I cut a piece of pp for the background and rounded the corners of the pp and the card base as well. I inked the edges of both with Milled Lavender and adhered the background with doublesided tape. I used matte accents to adhere my flowers and twizzles to the card as well as the cute lil hearts I saved from earlier.
Not totally sure how I feel about this one. I do know I think my colouring is coming along nicely :) Practice makes perfect right? Well till I kill it by swiping the wrong colours about the place! Flowers make everything better is becoming my motto I think . . .
Anyhow Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I started with KaiserCrafts Made With Love Collection (I snapped this up on clearance at a LSS), selecting the papers I wanted to use. I then did some colour matching with my Copics and Promarkers and stamped Connie Fongs Kissed By An Angel Sweet Pea stamp with Memento ink onto Neenah Solar White.
I then die cut the image and my first two layers using Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents. Now here is where I go into trouble as you will see in the pic. I hadn't actually crafted at home for a while and didn't realise my craft sheet wasn't totally clean :( As I edged my image with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink I swiped up some blue off my mat :( For the bottom layer I snipped off the long end pieces before I inked the edges as you can see in the pic. I used foam tape on under the image and double sided tape under the matting piece.
Next I die cut Lifestyle Crafts Heart Insert surrounded by a Nesting Lace Heart die from red foil cs. I saved all the little hearts for other projects as well as adding some to this one. I had to use the metal shim in my Ebosser to get this die to cut through the thick card stock. I glued the heart down with Matte Accents.
Next I used a Sizzix Sizzlit die called Ribbon Insert. My cat loves Sizzlis, if she sees one around she thinks it's fair game and claws it! Good thing they still work with claw marks in them :)Very hard paper to take a pic of! I inked the edges of this piece with Milled Lavender. I used foam tape on this layer as well.
To hide my mess I grabbed some I Am Roses flowers and coloured them with distress stains in Milled Lavender, Wild Honey, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade and Barn door. I then spritzed them with homemade pearl mist (come on a girl's gotta have some sparkle, right?).
Next up I cut a piece of pp for the background and rounded the corners of the pp and the card base as well. I inked the edges of both with Milled Lavender and adhered the background with doublesided tape. I used matte accents to adhere my flowers and twizzles to the card as well as the cute lil hearts I saved from earlier.
Not totally sure how I feel about this one. I do know I think my colouring is coming along nicely :) Practice makes perfect right? Well till I kill it by swiping the wrong colours about the place! Flowers make everything better is becoming my motto I think . . .
Anyhow Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Labels:
connie fong,
copic,
disstress ink,
distress stain,
ebosser,
foam tape,
kaisercraft,
kissed by an angel,
lifestyle crafts,
made with love,
matte accents,
memento,
Neenah,
sizzix,
sizzlits,
tim holtz
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Creative Chemistry Monoprint and Brayering
Wowser it's hard work trying to get some of these finished off to upload to the gallery but anyhow here we go with techniques from days 2 and 3 :)
I like this one! Simple and pretty :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I like this one! Simple and pretty :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
A Little Mom's Garden With Some Antique Rose Thrown In For Good Measure!
So my mum hasn't been feeling to good lately. A couple of months ago she had a spell in hospital and since then she hasn't felt the best . . . I wanted to make her something to cheer her up, raise her spirits a little. I could have just bought her a bunch of flowers but I like to make her things she can keep because she really appreciates them and likes to keep them on show :)
I was lucky to get a smile, she doesn't like having her pic taken much lol. I used the roses in the Mom's Garden svg kit from SVG Cuts, click the link to go right to it :) Mum loves turquoise and red. Not an easy combo for me! lol I used my Ecraft to cut all the roses and leaves from Canson cs in red, cream and green. I then cut 3" stars from fundamentals 1 to add to the bottom of the roses to give them a bit more greenery. I edged the cream roses with peacock feathers. I then used clear Smooch Spritz for a little sparkle.
My ecraft blade was getting quite blunt after all that cutting so when I tried to cut the vase it kept pulling at the perforations. So instead of making the vase I bought one and covered it in pp from KaiserCrafts Antique Rose 12" paper pad. I inked the edges with some more peacock feathers and added some pretty lace trim tape I coloured with peacock feathers distress stain. I used some metallic trim for some bling bling bling!
My mum loved it! She said it's Beautiful, but she kept asking me what the occasion was lol. I said it's just because! lol Anyhow I hope you like my first go at the Moms Garden Flowers :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I am entering this at:
Make It Monday - Anything goes
Challenges4Everybody - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
I was lucky to get a smile, she doesn't like having her pic taken much lol. I used the roses in the Mom's Garden svg kit from SVG Cuts, click the link to go right to it :) Mum loves turquoise and red. Not an easy combo for me! lol I used my Ecraft to cut all the roses and leaves from Canson cs in red, cream and green. I then cut 3" stars from fundamentals 1 to add to the bottom of the roses to give them a bit more greenery. I edged the cream roses with peacock feathers. I then used clear Smooch Spritz for a little sparkle.
Mom's Garden Roses |
I then grabbed a bunch of I am Roses well roses of course ;) I tried several mediums for the red, smooch spritz, dylusions, stains, in the end I went with the distress stains. I added a good amount to each one then I spritzed with the clear/pearl Smooch Spritz to get the colour to move and blend. I adhered them with matte accents, added some bead sprays and some twizzles... It all sounds rather simple but let me tell you it took quite a few hours to make!
My mum loved it! She said it's Beautiful, but she kept asking me what the occasion was lol. I said it's just because! lol Anyhow I hope you like my first go at the Moms Garden Flowers :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I am entering this at:
Make It Monday - Anything goes
Challenges4Everybody - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Creative Chemistry 102 Day 3 Girly Grunge Style
Hi, back again! Not sure I need to split this post as I struggled today and I also couldn't get any glue n seal but I can tell you it s very high on the want list now! So here we go again :) I have two for the first one as I killed my first attempt and you know... I like to share ;)
Jury is out on this one! I did this quite a few times lol. I like the last one I did. The first couple . . . Not so sure! Kind of like my leaves though :)
Ok last one for today is glitter! Who doesn't love glitter! Ok well some people don't but it's soooo sparkly! Yep I love it!!!
Ok well I have another post to write up for my DT then maybe if I am not too tired I can give the day 4 techniques a go! I have mot of the supplies assembled lol.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Smudge Stamping Take 1 |
Smudge Stamping Take 2 |
Jury is out on this one! I did this quite a few times lol. I like the last one I did. The first couple . . . Not so sure! Kind of like my leaves though :)
Brayered Stains Take 1 |
Brayered Stains Take 2 |
Ok last one for today is glitter! Who doesn't love glitter! Ok well some people don't but it's soooo sparkly! Yep I love it!!!
Glitter |
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Creative Chemistry 102 Day 2 Part Two Girly Grunge Style
Wow is it ever hard work trying to keep up... Falling more behind by the minute haha! For this next technique I need a stencil with a bit more open space . . .
Not sure if this was supposed to be as beaded up as it was... Might have been the stencil I used? It was a KaiserCraft one.
I really like how this one turned out :) Can't wait to finish it off! :) It is my second attempt though because I kept mixing up the instructions! Now I take my pad to the table so I can watch and do at the same time haha :)
Stamping |
Ink Monoprint |
Paint Monoprint |
Ok time to get cracking on day threes post. I am struggling with day three... Have yet to attempt day four and day five is up! *insert swear word of choice here!* ;) lol
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Creative Chemistry 102 Day 2 Part One Girly Grunge Style
I love how much we learn in Creative Chemistry! So many awesome ideas. Some of the designers really kick it up a notch too! So without further ado lets get the first technique happening! This is my second attempt as my first didn't go so well lol. I used 3 sizes of punchinella for the spots. Crafters workshop and Prima stencils for the rest.
I hunted high and low for something I needed to do this technique in the end I winged it with my ebosser! lol Again my first attempt was a major fail!
Mixed Media |
Embossing Take 1 |
Embossing Take 2 |
I didn't flick oops...
Embossing Through |
Ok so that's it for part one :) Part two coming up shortly
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
Friday, 19 July 2013
Purple Tattered Angel Butterfly Canvas
Hi everyone :) This week it's my turn to host the Eclectic Ellapu challenge. My challenge is shades of PURPLE with the main focus being butterflies. I would also like to see one of the following, brads buttons or bling. Bling can take the form of anything from shimmer mists to rhinestones and anything in between :)
I started by grabbing my purple distress supplies. I used Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves in both stain form and ink pads. I also used Brushed Pewter Distress Stain for some sparkle. Onto some watercolour paper I used Royal Purple Stazon to stamp my Tattered Angels In Flight Butterfly. I used a distress stain bottle to shape the wings.
I then used the stains on my craft mat with a spritz of water to colour the butterflies with my Tim Holtz waterbrush . The lightest colour is milled lavender, the middle colour is dusty concord and the outer colour is seedless preerves. I used my gathered twigs ink pad to colour the butterfly bodies.
For the canvas I laid down my five stains randomly and then spritzed with water. I used paper towel to blot the excess and lighten the background up a bit. The paper towel helped to give a nice texture as well. I then used dusty concord and seedless preserves around the edges.
I then used the butterfly stencil from Tattered Angels Fanciful Stencils and a sponge dauber with milled lavender and inked the inside parts of the stencil. I then used the stamp again with the milled lavender to stamp over each butterfly. I wasn't looking to line things up perfectly, just to add a bit of interest to the background.
I used See Dee's Monarch stamps over the background. For the large flourish I started with my lightest colour at the top (lilac) then added dusty to the middle and seedless at the bottom (worked lightest to darkest). I then stamped some of the butterflies with seedless.
I used a home made glimmer glaze all over the butterflies for some serious sparkle. It consists of iridescent medium, triple thick and a little water.If you ever need more sparkle try some iridescent medium! Love that stuff. I then did two coats of triple thick over them and left them to dry for 24hrs.
I used some beading wire and 2 or 3mm Miracle Beads to make antennae for my butterflies. I used some tape to hold them on the back. I added some rhinestones to the butterfly wings and some dangly butterfly charms from the body. The charms were coloured with promarkers and copics.
I wanted to add words but have hit a brick wall lol . . . I know where I want to add them but am not sure if it will ruin the piece or even really how to add them in so they don't. For now I am leaving as is and if I get a brainwave I will add them if not, well I guess it's done lol.
Hope you enjoyed another canvas. Next week will be something different, promise!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I had to add this pic so you could see how the iridescent medium sparkles! It doesn't show up so much in the other pics. You can also see a lil of the sparkle on the canvas itself from the brushed pewter stain . . .
I started by grabbing my purple distress supplies. I used Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves in both stain form and ink pads. I also used Brushed Pewter Distress Stain for some sparkle. Onto some watercolour paper I used Royal Purple Stazon to stamp my Tattered Angels In Flight Butterfly. I used a distress stain bottle to shape the wings.
I then used the stains on my craft mat with a spritz of water to colour the butterflies with my Tim Holtz waterbrush . The lightest colour is milled lavender, the middle colour is dusty concord and the outer colour is seedless preerves. I used my gathered twigs ink pad to colour the butterfly bodies.
For the canvas I laid down my five stains randomly and then spritzed with water. I used paper towel to blot the excess and lighten the background up a bit. The paper towel helped to give a nice texture as well. I then used dusty concord and seedless preserves around the edges.
I then used the butterfly stencil from Tattered Angels Fanciful Stencils and a sponge dauber with milled lavender and inked the inside parts of the stencil. I then used the stamp again with the milled lavender to stamp over each butterfly. I wasn't looking to line things up perfectly, just to add a bit of interest to the background.
I used See Dee's Monarch stamps over the background. For the large flourish I started with my lightest colour at the top (lilac) then added dusty to the middle and seedless at the bottom (worked lightest to darkest). I then stamped some of the butterflies with seedless.
I used a home made glimmer glaze all over the butterflies for some serious sparkle. It consists of iridescent medium, triple thick and a little water.If you ever need more sparkle try some iridescent medium! Love that stuff. I then did two coats of triple thick over them and left them to dry for 24hrs.
I used some beading wire and 2 or 3mm Miracle Beads to make antennae for my butterflies. I used some tape to hold them on the back. I added some rhinestones to the butterfly wings and some dangly butterfly charms from the body. The charms were coloured with promarkers and copics.
I wanted to add words but have hit a brick wall lol . . . I know where I want to add them but am not sure if it will ruin the piece or even really how to add them in so they don't. For now I am leaving as is and if I get a brainwave I will add them if not, well I guess it's done lol.
Hope you enjoyed another canvas. Next week will be something different, promise!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
I had to add this pic so you could see how the iridescent medium sparkles! It doesn't show up so much in the other pics. You can also see a lil of the sparkle on the canvas itself from the brushed pewter stain . . .
Labels:
distress ink,
distress stain,
fanciful stencils,
in flight,
iridescent medium,
miracle beads,
monarch,
promarker,
see dee's,
stazon,
tattered angels,
tim holtz,
triple thick,
watercolour paper
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