Up The Wall

Up The Wall

Hi there!

I'm so excited - just realised

that coming Sunday is not

only Mother's Day in the UK

but it is also the beginning of

British Summer Time!

Woohoo! 

Right.  Calming down......

......now...

Angela Radford is with us

today with a tag to make

you smile.......

"For this project I started with a white tag 

and using a Tim Holtz stencil, 

I applied the Grunge Paste

Once this was dry I replaced the brick stencil 

and secured it down with masking tape.

Over this stencil I placed the Cobweb.

 Next I used a variety of distress inks

 to build up the colour of the bricks

 

Once I had achieved the colouring I wanted

 I removed the stencils and allowed the ink to dry

 I replaced the stencil on the right side to complete the wall.

 Now it's time to add more colour to the textured section

 adding darker colours to make the bricks stand out.

 I completed this with some black which I think 

gives a more realistic effect to the bricks and also edged it too.

And here is the tag completed and ready for the detail to be added.

 I used the Tim Holtz Wild Flower die and some 

odd bits of sprayed paper from my stash 

and attached these to the tag

And here is the finished project. 

I completed the tag by adding the Tim Holtz Crazy Cat, 

a spider from one of Tim Holtz stamp sets, 

Stickles glitter Glue, and a ribbon.

Here is a close up:

 Hope you enjoyed watching. 

Happy crafting, Angela xXx"

Products used:

Grunge Paste.

Distress Inks.

Tag.

Tim Holtz Dies - Crazy Cat Dies.  Wild Flowers.

Tim Holtz Stamps.

Tim Holtz Stencils.

Stickles Glitter Glue.

Oh what fun!  Really made

me smile all over my face!

Thank you Angela for a super start to my day

 'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bokeh

Bokeh

Hallo Everyone!

Our current theme has a bit of a

magical flavour to it and here is

Jane Castle who has given bokeh

a fairyland twist

Sit back and enjoy:

"When the theme Bokeh appeared on the list of topics 

it was something I had not come across before 

so I had to do a little bit of research first 

but now I'm afraid it could become a little addictive! 

To begin with I started with 2 pieces of A5 white card 

and coloured them with Distress Inks and a blending tool.

The first was a collection of various shades of green.

And the second piece I decided to combine different colours 

but also graduate from light to dark down the length of the card.

Next comes the fun part ---- I cut some different size circles 

out of a piece of ordinary copier paper to use as a stencil 

and with a clean round blending tool started to add circles of

 Brilliance Moonlight White ink.

I didn't reink the pad every time I made a new circle as I wanted to give the appearance of depth to the background.

I also wanted a few much smaller circles so masked off parts of the sequine waste stencil by Tando Creative

The 2 pieces of card then had to be left to dry completely

 before adding any stamping etc.

With the green background I decided to cut a square 

to use with some Lavinia Stamps and for this 

I just stamped onto the card with black archival ink, 

matted this onto a piece of yellow card and then a piece of green. 

The 4 corners were cut from matt black card 

using Tim Holtz ATC and Corners die.

The paler end of the other piece I really liked 

so cut a tag from this and stamped another Lavinia image 

using archival Watering Can ink.

This is such an interesting way of producing great backgrounds 

that can be varied from the quite subtle to bold and vibrant 

depending on your colour pallet.

if one had a session of making several Bokeh backgrounds 

to have as a stash they would be a great stand-by 

for making a quick card which we all need sometimes"

Materials Used

Distress Inks

Brilliance Ink

Archival Inks

Lavinia Stamps

Tando Creative Masks

Tim Holtz Dies

Ranger Blending Tools

Thank you Jane - I think it would be
lovely to while away an afternoon
making backgrounds in all
colours to add to one's stash

In fact, I might just do that on
my next free afternoon!

'Til Tomorrow

Mickie xx