Starlight Express

Starlight Express

Morning all!

Getting excited now -

local folklore has it that

come the second Saturday 

in February you will have

your tea in daylight......

....Bring it on.........

Yes, ok, that's enough

Back to today and here

is Helen Chilton:

Hello everyone, Helen here with a post using 

the beautiful, shimmery Starlight paints.

Paint the papier mache house with gesso..

And then in Jade and Apple Green Starlight paint.

Stamp the Kaisercraft script stamp all over in 

Archival Watering Can grey.

Stamp the Four Poppies from Imagination Crafts in black. 

As the house has some 'give' in it, the easiest way is 

to not use a block so that you can really press down on the stamp.

Overpaint liberally with Emerald, Orange Oxidised and Bright Fuchsia

 paints and then heat to get them to bubble up.

Stencil over in Chartreuse using the Tim Holtz stencil Bricked.

Repeat over the top with Turquoise.

Cut a strip of card for the roof and, using Grunge Paste, 

stencil using the Kaisercraft Geo Quarters template.

Paint the roof with Chartreuse and Turquoise paints 

and add embellishments to finish.

Materials used:

Imagination Crafts stamp: Four Poppies
KaiserCraft texture stamp: Script
papier mache house
Starlight paints: Emerald, Orange Oxidised, turquoise, Apple Green, Chartreuse and Bright Fuchsia
Stencils: Tim Holtz Bricked; Kaisercraft Geo Quarters

Thank you Helen -

it really is a lovely project.

For anyone who has not tried

these paints please be aware

they should come with a health warning

as they are highly addictive and

you will want to use them everywhere!

There is a huge colour range and the paints are easy clean up too.

What more could you want?...............!!

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx

Twelve Month Challenge

Twelve Month Challenge

Hallo Everyone!

It is the first Sunday of the month

and that means it is a Challenge Day!

Yayyyy!

As you know, the challenge is based

on Sara Coleridge's poem:  The Months.

This month's verse, which must be included
in your project, is:

February brings the rain,

Thaws the frozen lake again

Here is Claire Jackson's

February canvas:

And the challenge is ...........

you must include a heart and a cherub

Remember your project can take any form you like
and must include the verse

and 

a heart and a cherub

You have until midnight on 26th February

to enter as many times as you like

via the link

If you are unable to use the link then

please email your project to me and

I will put it up for you

Have fun and I look forward to seeing
your lovely projects

'Till Tuesday

Mickie xx

An InLinkz Link-up

Buildings

Buildings

Hi There!!

Here's Hazel Harmer with 

a gorgeous Canvas, set to

make us all feel happy and

smiley

"My canvas is nothing like what it was going to be like, 

it was going to be a snowy winters night - 

all shimmery and glittery, 

but our boiler packed up in the

 middle of November and wasn't fixed 

until December 23rd. 

The first week we had no hot water either and because 

we'd been so cold I decided my canvas had to be summery!

 used the Carabelle Studio house stamp.

 stamped the houses and coloured them with felt tips.

I used a Memory Box stencil and modelling paste 

to stencil the sun in the corner of the canvas.

I gave the canvas a coat of gesso and 

when it had dried I used a sponge to colour 

the sky and greenery with Fresco Finish paint

The sun was coloured with yellow and orange acrylic paint.

These are some of the embellishments I used, 

I coloured some of the dried flowers green and left some white, 

I die cut some leaves but didn't use them. 

I cut the strip of paper because I liked the scalloped edge 

and thought it would make a good fence.

I glued the dried flowers to the canvas and 

attached the houses with a dimentional double sided tape 

then I drew pathways from the doors. 

I used a white pen to turn the strip of paper into a fence. 

The fences are attached to the canvas with a thicker 

double sided tape than I used for the houses. 

The birds were stamped with Stampers Anonymous stamp, 

I had to go over the birds with a black marker as they didn't 

stamp very well on the canvas.

I added a heart shaped balloon and wrote "Home is where the heart is".

Because I used a deep canvas it meant that 

I could carry my design round the edges."

Supplies:

A deep 6 inch square canvas.
Carabelle Studio stamp.
Black Archival ink.
Felt tip pens.
Memory Box stencil
Modelling paste.
Fresco Finish paint.
Stampers Anonymous bird stamp.
Black marker.
White pen.

Thank you Hazel - I'm so glad you didn't

go the winter night route - maybe you 

could give us that one for the next heatwave?

A really super, smiley, proper like canvas

for a winter's day - what a brilliant idea!

'till tomorrow

Mickie xx