About Town

About Town

Hi There!

We're nearly through the month

already.............Where has the

time gone?  I reckon there must

be a big black hole dedicated to 

time - it sucks in as much as it

can and leaves us with as little

as it can.................!

Moving swiftly on......... here

is Hazel Harler to share her

journal with us:

"Hi everone, I've had lots of fun playing 

with the Tim Holtz Cityscape dies and 

have made a journal page with them.

I've had my Distress Oxide ink pads for a

 while now but not had time to play with them 

so I decided to use them to colour the card 

for the buildings. 

I pressed the ink pad onto my craft mat 

and sprayed it with water then I pressed the card 

into the ink.

I dried the first colour and then repeated 

the process with the second colour.

I repeated the process a few more times 

drying each coloure before adding the next. 

This is the finished card and the inks that I used.

Some more card that I coloured.

I used an old credit card and some 

Fresco Finish paint to colour the page.

Some of the die cuts.

 I was going to paint a couple of roads 

but decided to use tissue tape instead, 

then I started to add the buildings

 I used a black marker on the edges of the

 buildings before adhering them to the page, 

I used dimentional tape to adhere the buildings, 

trees and cars at the bottom of the page

and I added some remnent rubs and word stickers.

I found the quote on the internet."

"Every city is a living body"

(St  Augustine)

Items used:

Journal.
Distress Oxide ink pads.
Watercolour paper for the die cuts.
Fresco Finish paints.
Tim Holtz/Sizzix Cityscape Thinlits dies.
Tissue tape.
Glue.
Dimensional double sided tape.
Black marker pen.
Remnent rubs.
Word stickers.

Thanks Hazel - no pun intended

but this is right up my street.

The use of the tissue tape to

form the road is brilliant

I am certainly inspired to get my dies out

not to mention my bit box - have you

got one of these?  It is full of bits of

paper and card that are too nice to

throw away but not always big enough

for a project.  

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx