Silhouettes

Silhouettes

Hallo there!

Another lovely day

and I hope, a happy one

Certainly Claire Jackson is

set to make us smile with her

beautiful project, so let's get

going........

"Cut a piece of yupo 10cm x 10cm. 

Use a piece of masking paper or a post it

to create a mask for the moon. 

Using a felt applicator dab spots of aqua alcohol ink 

over the entire piece of paper. 

On a clean piece of felt pad put a few drops 

of blending solution and go over the aqua 

to create a mottled background.

Tear a piece of card to mask off the upper part 

of the square and create a hill line. 

Apply turquoise ink below the mask. 

Go over with blending solution. 

Move the mask down and add purple twilight 

around the bottom. 

Remove the moon mask and add a mixture of 

turquoise and purple alcohol ink around the 

edges of the square. 

Make sure a few dots overlap the moon

 to create the impression of depth.

 Stamp the rabbits in black Archival ink. 

(Touch up any pale bits with a black Sharpie.)

 Along the bottom, stamp the fairy buttercups

 in cobalt and deep purple. 

Stamp the mini leaves around the sides 

and top in cornflower blue and cobalt. 

Add a couple of drops of aqua ink to a baby wipe 

and gently dab onto the moon to create depth.

Add black stems with a fine permanent pen 

and white highlights with a gel pen. 

Add a very pale grey edge to the moon 

with an alcohol marker.

Stick the top layers of the printer tray together 

and paint the tray and stand in Fresco Finish eggplant. 

When dry, stamp the tray (not the stand) 

with small flowers in mermaid and sherbet. 

Wait for it to be completely dry and paint 

a thin layer of translucent blueberry over the top. 

The flowers will just show through. 

If it’s too thick just wipe it back with a baby wipe.

Rub on a thin layer of pink tulip Alchemy Wax, 

again using a baby wipe to take off any excess. 

It’s hard to see in the photos but it adds a delicate shimmer.

Run a clear embossing pad along the edges

 and emboss in silver embossing powder. 

Cut a piece of patterned paper to go on the back of the tray. 

Assemble all of the pieces together"

Materials used:

Yupo paper

Alcohol ink: purple twilight, turquoise, aqua

Archival ink: jet black, cobalt, cornflower blue, deep purple

Lavinia stamps

Tando mini printer tray

White gel pen

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint

Alchemy wax: pink tulip

Detail embossing powder: silver

Clear emboss ink pad

Thank you Claire for such a fun project

Another for my 'To Do' list.......

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Silhouettes

Silhouettes 

Hallo there!

Hope you have a happy day

Jane Castle has dropped by today

with a beautiful cheery project

that's sure to bring a smile or two

"I am a big fan of Lavinia Stamps so was very delighted 

when this topic came up. 

The card I'm sharing with you today 

is fairly simple to produce but has 

a girlie magic about it.

To begin with I stamped Believe onto a piece of shrink Plastic 

in Brilliance Pearlescent Olive and Starlite Black. 

This was then cut to size and 2 holes punched 

at the top before heating to shrink.

This was then threaded with some bakers twine 

and set aside whilst I continued with the card. 

For this I started with a blank DL sized card 

and coloured the background with Distress Inks

 and a blending tool.

Then using a small sponge and a torn piece of paper 

added cloud/mist hi-lights before stamping the bottom 

and sides with the flower border stamp and Starlite Black ink. 

Whilst the ink was still wet I brushed on some 

mica powder to give the fairy dust feel.

The fairies were then stamped in black and as there are 

just 3 dancing fairies on this stamp I positioned the second set 

of 3 so the ribbon at the top entwined to give the appearance 

of it just being one continous stamped image.

I then added detail to the ribbon with a fine black pen and tiny dots. 

Lastly I stamped 2 clusters of stars each side of the Believe banner 

and brushed them with perfect pearls.

The nice thing about cards like this is they are suitable 

or any age group young or more mature!"

Items Used

Lavinia Stamps

Shrink Plastic

Distress Inks in Faded Jeans, Wild Honey, Victorian Velvet, Twisted Citron and Pumice Stone

Brilliance ink in Pearlescent Olive and Starlite Black

Cosmic Shimmers Mica Powder in Black Pearl

Ranger Perfect Pearls

Ranger Blending Tool

Archival ink

Bakers Twine

A delightful card Jane, very many thanks.

This would be a good one to

have as a standby I feel so guess

what I'm going to do this afternoon?!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Silhouettes

Silhouettes 

Hallo there!

We're nearly a quarter of

the way through the year!

Spring is sprung and the

grass is riz................

So with faeries in mind

here is Angela Radford:

"Hi all, Angela here to show you how I've used 

these gorgeous stamps with my Gelli Plate. 

To begin with I used distress ink with a brayer 

to cover the Gelli Plate. 

I know what you're thinking, 

where is the ink but just wait and see

Place the card over the plate and smooth 

with your hands or a clean roller

 And here is what it should look like

Next cut a circle by hand or with a die and place it in position. 

Brayer over this with your next colour and place the card 

over this and smooth again to transfer the ink

You may wish to turn the Gelli print before stamping 

to get the moon in the position you prefer which I did here.

 Now it's time to stamp.

I continued stamping with coloured distress inks 

until I was satisfied with the coverage 

and then inked the edge by going over it 

with a blending tool

Now I added the Silhouette stamps. 

For these I used a black ink pad, 

first and second generation stamping for 

the flowers.

Rip a piece of paper to cover the bottom section 

to create an area for the fairy and toadstool to stand on 

otherwise they will look as though they are floating. 

Go over this area with Archival ink using a blending tool

I completed the card by stamping with silver ink 

onto a black card blank and added touches of white highlights 

and Stickles Glitter Glue to the stamped images 

before matting and layering

 I couldn't resist adding a little stamping inside. 

Hope you enjoyed watching me make this card. 

I so love Lavinia stamps and I'm sure you will too. 

Happy Crafting

Angela xXx"

Products used:

Lavinia stamps :

Fairyweb

Toadstool

Bluebells

Freya

Zen Single Grasses

Fairy Orbs

White card.

Green card.

Card blank.

Distress Inks.

Black Ink.

Silver Ink.

White pen.

Stickles Glitter Glue.

Thank you Angela for a

lovely card

I do like a bit of magic.............

speaking of which, I wonder where

the winter faeries go in springtime?

Anyone?

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Blog Candy Winner

Blog Candy Winner

Hallo Everyone!

It is a beautiful day out there -

the sun is shining, the sea is a

beautiful mix of sparkling

colours and it seems everyone

has a smile to share

The clocks went forward an hour

very early this morning and we

are now in British Summer Time

Woohoo!

Today in the UK we are also

celebrating Mothering Sunday.

Happy Mothers Day wishes to all you

mum's out there from all of us -

Enjoy your day

Here on the Blog it is

Winner's Day

We asked our Followers to link up

with us for a chance to win a set

of the new colours of Infusions

Twenty-five of you entered and

as we always do, we gave the

numbers to 

The Random Generator

who clicked, whirred, buzzed

and announced...................

No 19

Janes Journal

Congratulations!

Please email me with your

postal address so we can

get your set of Infusions

off to you straightaway

Thank you to all who took part

and I'm so sorry that there can

only be one lucky winner

Better luck next time....

'Till Tomorrow

Mickie xx

Up the Wall

Up the Wall

Morning!  How's it going?

I know, some of you won't see

this until evening!  I just feel

if I say Good Evening it will

seem as though I've only just

remembered to do the blog

...............ooops!

Craftyfield is here today with

a super card reminiscent of

travels to sunnier climes.....

..........and times.....

"Despite the many options available to create a wall texture,

 I chose to represent the rendered walls so popular in Europe.

 Shame really as The Craft Barn has many stencils and stamps

 to fake the look of bricks, stones, wood and more...

 It could have been so easy... 

But no I persevered!

To complete the look I needed to create a window 

for my wall and some sort of gate, maybe with a bicyle...

To create my window I cut 4 rectangles from

 a piece of white cardstock. 

I then used an embossing tool and a foam mat 

to emboss lines around the frame

For colour I settled on a blue base, 

which I distress in the next step.

I mixed the colour from Frescos in 

South Pacific and Lavender.

I applied a thin layer of diluted crackle and

 overpainted with white paint

 I used double sided tape to affix a piece of 

acetate for my window panes

The wall texture was built in layers.

 I started with a layer of gesso and painted mixes of colours

 over the top to establish a background colour. 

Then with a sponge and tinted Grunge paste I "stamped" the stucco texture. 

I must say I wasn't sure if this would work, but it does, brilliantly in fact!

 I considered giving my window some curtains

but decided a dark colour would leave more to the imagination. 

I roughly drew in my panes with Inktense pencils 

mixing the colours on the paper. 

I then applied (a little) water with a wet brush.

To distress my wall I added some crackle, 

mixing grey and black ink directly on the stamp 

on top of Antique linen Distress ink.

 The Distress allows the inks to mix more 

readily with each other.

Finally the garden was stamped, fussy cut 

and coloured with Inktense pencils.

I tried to take some picture in natural lighting 

and this one does show the wall texture, 

very true to life I think

And another close up showing the subtle crackle 

and my impulse addition of a flowering branch 

coming down the wall, 

which I also painted with pencils."

Supplies:

Acetate:
Ultra clear double sided tape: 
Fresco paints: 
Crackle medium:
Grunge paste:
DecoArt paints:
Garden stamp:
Inktense Pencils: 
Crackle stamp:[I used an old stamp from my collection, no longer available]
Memento inks:

That stucco effect is amazing Craftyfield

Thank you for showing us how to do that

Think I'll go and see if I can

achieve at least a reasonable 

resemblance to stucco

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx