Letter D winner and Wall of fame

Helloooo,
Here we go again for our winner and Wall of Famers.
Quite a few Dancers with the letter D, which I expected.. and one Dictionary.. I thought there would be more.
Once again, you all did a fantastic job with this letter, so thank you.

ok, my little random human generator (i.e my daughter Melissa) has picked number, so the winner is........

JOOLS !!

Congratulations! Please get in touch so I can send you the code for the £ 20 voucher you won

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Now for the Wall of famers this fortnight... 

Helen chose DRIP

Barnie chose DICE/DE

Chrissie chose DONKEY

Keren chose DANCE

and Frea chose DRAGON

Congratulations to all of you. 

If you want a logo to display on your blog, please get in touch and I'll email it asap. 

See you tomorrow

Saturday Savers and lettering - Neil

I've used a chocolate box for my upcycle project.

  I began by covering the box with a layer of gesso and then with a layer of dark blue paint.

To add interest to the outside I coloured some Dreamweaver Pearlescent paste with the same paint and used a mask to add the texture. I love the way this gives a lovely shimmer while keeping a very similar colour.

 For the lettering I used Tim's Inside Out die and cut it out of both black and white card.

I coloured the white card with Distress Inks.

 I really like this alphabet, it seems fiddly to use but it isn't really! I've found the best way to use it is to spread a layer of Studio Matte Multi Medium onto the surface

 Add the whole black letters to this

 Then, separate the inner letter from the white card and adhere to the top of the black lettering and when everything is dry you won't see any of the excess medium.

 Inside the box has been decorated on the left by cutting a piece of black card (That I had used to clean off the excess paste from the previous masking) to size and gluing down and then adding the lettering.

 In the box section on the right I stamped the image onto a piece of card and added the word to the base. To finish I added some mesh to create the cage.

Neil used

Chocolate Box

Americana Deep Midnight Blue paint

Pebeo Gesso

Neelzexpressionz/Tando Creative Winged Pattern Mask

Inside Out Strip Alphabet die

Black and White Card

Distress Inks - Stormy Sky, Fired Brick and Walnut Stain

Matte Multi Medium

Lynne Perrella Stamp 

Dreamweaver Pearlescent Paste

Cobalt Archival ink 

See you tomorrow

Lettering week - Sylvie

Hi, 
Sylvie has altered one of the Home Decor piece by Tando Creative: The Home Hanging kit
using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints and glaze, transfer foil and other techniques she describes below.
One of the ways to use chipboard letters on your projects.

Apply the Guacamole Fresco Finish with the grey side of the Cut n' Dry foam.
Add some "Hey Pesto" on the edges, and then touches of "Mermaid"
Paint the letters with Fresco Finish South Pacific, still with the grey side of the Cut n' Dry foam. 
Paint the sides of the letters with a brush

Paint the butterflies and flowers with Haystack and Smoked Paprika

Stamp the PaperArtsy script onto the butterfly using Stamp and Bond powder. Heat it and then apply gold Transfer Foil.

Edge the letters with Gold Encore ink

Heat emboss the letters with Versamark and clear UTEE

Using two circle punches, make 2 stencils with a Post-It note

Apply paint (Mermaid) on the Kaisercraft stamp and stamp through the circles stencil. Repeat with the orange paint.

Trace a circle with a permanent black pen

Use the punched circles as masks to cover what you have just done and stamps the PaperArtsy script on the chipboard using Spiced Marmalade Distress ink. 

Dry with a heat tool.

Apply the Fresco Finish Metallic glaze all over

Edge with Broken China Distress inks.

Add some little Tando Creative chipboard hearts painted with Fresco Finish paint and glaze.

Attach the 4 panels with a string

Details

Sylvie used

Distress Ink pads ( Broken China, Spiced Marmalade) 

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints (Smoked Paprika, Zesty zing, Mermaid, Guacamole, Hey Pesto, South Pacific)

Encore Metallik ink pads: Gold

Tando Creative : Home hanging kit

Stix2- Shiny transfer foil-set gold

Stix2- Shiny transfer foil-set blues

Tando Creative Mini range: hearts

PaperArtsy stamps - Eclectica Sara Naumann n°5

Kaisercraft texture clear stamps: alphabet

UTEE : clear

PaperArtsy Fresco finish paints : Metallic Glaze

Kaisercraft Paper Blooms : Buttercream

See you tomorrow