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Birthday Card

Made this birthday card for my aunty today, really liking this style as everything on the card was altered in some way before adding it, with paints, distress ink, stamping, sprays etc, and it just seems to give it all more depth, I really love this card, and it's not often I make things and say that!!

 

 

 

close up of the details...

 

 

thanks for looking, hope you have a lovely weekend. :)



Paperartsy 10th Birthday celebrations- 3up challenge piece

This is my piece for the Paperartsy 3up challenge which you can find on their blog

 

I was sent this.....

 

 

and these...

 

 

along with a few other bits and pieces and a colour swatch to work with.

I couldn't really think of anything to do with the canvas in a frame combo, I actually have a couple of these collecting dust in the craft room somewhere, then I thought about the box idea, and it just so happens the size was perfect to fit on the top of an MDF tissue box cover I had lying around waiting to be decorated....or rather it fit on the bottom as I flipped the box over and covered the tissue hole!

So I made it into this.....

 

 

kind of looks like a tea caddy, I like it....

I decided to make it like an "Inspiration Box"- you know when art journallers make a little box or book with word prompts in, and if they have a creative block they check it out? Kind of like that, with all different techniques and products most of us have lying around but forget to use cos we're too busy only using whatever is in arm's length (me). So I just went for it with the techniques and this is the result...

 

the whole base of the box was painted with the colours on the swatch, fresco paints applied with damp cut'n'dry foam to mix it from the dark raspberry colour at the bottom through to the nougat at the top.

 

side 1- stamping, masking, colouring with distress markers, crackle accents, rub ons, german scrap, treasure gold, rub ons, multi medium.

 

 

side 2 - frames were coloured with distress inks, treasure gold and paints. inside the frames on smoothy card (awesome) I've used parts of the stamps as well as other stamps in the Squiggly Ink range and coloured them using pencils, crayons, inks, paints, pens, and covered them with sepia accents, glossy accents and crackle accents. the little rub on is a Tim Holtz rub.

 

 

side 3 - you can't even see the base paint any more on this side, but I love it. I used a stencil, grunge paste, versafine onyx ink, lots of lovely treasure gold and a grungeboard heart coloured with fresco paint then crackle accents on it.

 

 

side 4 - my favourite- grunge paste through a stencil then stamped into (tutorial from Leandra here) and sanded, painted over with the same as the base colours, then added stamping, versafine and archival, couple of rub ons from Tim Holtz again and finally a stamped piece of tissue coloured and glued on the top, "amore" :)

 

 

Inside the box is more inspiration.... a little bookring thingy with different techniques used on the cards, so you can flip through them when you have that creative block and get ideas and inspiration!!

 

 

and not forgetting the underside of the canvas lid.....

the blue paint and stamping is the canvas underneath, and the centre of that had the little screw from the handle, it was too long so I made use of it and added all the ribbon, different charms, tokens, grunge and glittered tag, and a bamboo tile with an image transfer of Edgar Allen Poe......how random....lol I used to love doing image transfers but it's one of those things I am lazy about!

 

 

last but not least is the lid itself.... canvas was coloured with fresco paints very roughly where I knew the image would end up, the image was stamped onto 1 ply of a cosmetic tissue and then applied to the canvas with beeswax a la Hels Sheridan on C&C a few weeks ago!! I'm not keen on the lumpy bumpy beeswax so I zapped that with a heat gun and while it was drying I dropped some Tim Holtz dry glitter into it, it's really sparkly irl but you can't really capture that can you? Well I can't...lol

 

 

so that's it, I hope you like it and I loved making it, hope to get into the next 3up challenge and see what comes my way!!

 

Kaz :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Christmas Card

Hello bloggers, I've started early (for once) and made my first Christmas card!!

 

I've used distress inks, distress pens, tissue tape, ribbon, seasonal charm, perfect pearls, brads and the stamps.....I'm not sure who makes the main image stamp as I've had it so long it's just red rubber and no markings on it.

The background snowflakes are from an acrylic cylinder set by Majestix and you get five or six different snowflake stamps in it, very cool for making backgrounds or snowflake wreaths or whatever accents you want to add, I love them and they're very versatile.

 

 

Hope you're all enjoying the lovely summer everyone seems to be having, but remember, not long till Christmas!! lol :)

Happy Anniversary to my Mum and Dad!!

46 YEARS my Mum and Dad have been married today, FORTY SIX YEARS!!

I made this card using distress inks, Tim Holtz dies, grungeboard heart, real flower and jewels to finish off.

Mothers Day & New Challenge Blog!!

Hi Bloggers, today I found a new (ish) challenge blog- Country View Crafts Challenge Blog.

And since I am about to blog my Mothers Day tag I made for my Mum I thought I'd enter it into the first challenge which is "Pick and Mix"

 

I've used salty ocean distress ink on this, and then swished some picket fence and broken china distress paint over the top of it.

I added some tissue at the top, the music one...and smooshed over that too

 

Then I stamped with picket fence distress paint using indigo blu honeycomb background and dried with the heat gun.

I edged the tag using inka gold in blue...added the die cuts, millinery flowers, beads at the bottom and the pendant thing at the top. I collect old and broken jewellery for things like this, love using them on tags.

Hope everyone is having a fabby day, and it's not too snowy and icy where you are, cos it is here!!!

 

Kaz :)

 



March Tag

This is my effort for the Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2013- March.

I don't have most of the stuff Tim uses so just had to do my best!

 

I used the movers and shakers loveheart instead of the bunny, and I hand cut the grass at the bottom. Painting the flowers with distress paint is something I will do again, love the look it gives- it really does look like enamel or something.

Don't have the tattered banner die (yet) so just used a cardstock phrase at the top instead.

This was made into a card for my Aunty's birthday so was put to good use!

 

Kaz :)



Sunday Stampers and tattered florals anyone?

Hello lovely blog people, I have finally managed some crafty time and made a tag for two challenges!!

Sunday Stampers where the theme is TEXTURE and also a Tim Holtz blog challenge that you can find HERE

So I started with my tag and painted it with Distress Paints in Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed and Barn Door.

I edged the tag with Picket Fence distress paint and stamped with it too, using the Tim Holtz stamp with the criss cross pattern on...

I then spritzed from high up, just a touch of Dylusions ink in Black Marble.

I stamped the Artful Sillhouette in Black Archival Ink, then I overstamped it with white Distress Paint, just a touch, to give it a shadowy feel and take away the flat matt black look.

Now for the tattered florals!!! LOVED this part, I die cut these flowers from everything I could find, material, acetate, paper, grungepaper, vellum, handmade paper, glitter paper, acetate with glitter on, everything!! I also did the same as Tim and covered my grungepaper with tissue, I used the musical tissue he has.

 

I ended up with 13 tattered flowers, all waiting on the right project!! There are only 12 in the pic though cos one was on the floor!

I decided to paint some of Tim's flowery ribbon stuff, and also a piece of ribbon for the top of the tag, so I spread some distress paints onto my craft sheet, spritzed it all with water and smooshed the ribbons through it, dried it with a heat gun so it didn't blend too much and look muddy. Customised accessories for my tag!!



 

 

 

So I added my accessories, added the tattered floral and decided to add texture onto the lady sillhouette (scaramoosh scaramoosh...)

I painted some Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint onto the lady using a small brush. The brush inside the jar is a little too wide for this.

 

Whilst waiting for that to dry (or start to dry so I could blast it with the heat gun) I stamped Tim's ticket stamp and the phrase "Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking" which I thought was perfect for the shadow/sillhouette stamp! I distressed it and added it to the flower using a pin.



 

 

Once the crackle paint was dry I gave my lady a crown, made her a Princess...and added some gold rub 'n' buff to the cracks to accentuate them

I also added some black german scrap pieces to the sides of the tag.

 

 

So that's my tattered floral, I chose this one cos you can see the musical notes, which I like, loved the colours in this one too.

 

 

And my texture is the lady sillhouette princess person......crackly texture....lol

 

et voila, the finished tag.

 

 

I have LOVED this challenge, and getting messy with the distress paints was fab, I can see me needing every colour of these, they are just SO versatile!

Hope everyone is well and good :)

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Kaz :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Twiddlybitz!!

This is a Twiddlybitz shadow frame I've made for my Mum's birthday, hope you like it. :)

 

 

Kaz :)



What's on your workdesk Wednesday

This is my lovely tidy workdesk today.....lol

The wooden thing is a drawer from my "Book of Secrets"- online workshop that started today (check it out on my sidebar)

And the blue thing is a twiddlybitz shadowframe I am making for my Mum's birthday on Friday, dunno what's going in it yet but I'll worry about that later....

click here to see everyone else's workdesks today!! (LOVE looking at other people's craft spaces!)

 You can click on the image for a more detailed view of the mess! lol

 

Happy Crafting!

Kaz :)