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 :)

 



Hi bloggers, not getting much time to create at the moment due to sick kiddies, but wanted to show you my possibly finished second page in my altered book.

Paris is the theme on this one, just love Paris I do- going to Disneyland Paris with the kids in June which will obviously have to include at least one whole day in Paris and maybe a night cruise too, we'll see how tired we are at night!!

Anyway, this is page two.....

 

I've used acetate, paperartsy image from a postcard thing, stencils, paint, ink, gold leaf, distress inks, rub ons, stamps.....stamps are from Tim Holtz, and I was going to write other names there but I think they were all Tim Holtz stamps I used!

I'm hoping to sign up for a journal class Kate Crane is part of and it looks fab, 21 different teachers, imagine the talent!! click HERE to check that out!

 

this is a close up of both pages....

 

 

Oh I used alcohol inks too, on the acetate, then spilled the alcohol mixative into the middle to give it that "window" to see the french book page. I bought Graham Masterton's book, The Manitou from Amazon, and when it came it was in French! So I kept it for things like this. Can you imagine a french person doing the same? A page from The Exorcist in english......lol

Hope everyone is well and good, happy crafting!

 

Kaz :)

 

 

 

And the winner is........

drum roll.......

 

after doing a random number generator with all the names from facebook, then all the names from here.....I have a winner of the Cuttlebug, die and texture folders.

 

 

and the winner is......

 

Rosalee!

 

Well done Rosalee, if you can email me your details I'll get your prize off to you this week.

 

Thank you everyone for entering, I will be having another giveaway real soon so stay tuned, there are stamps galore to go as well as crackle glaze, utee, Tim Holtz stuff and loads more.

 

Thanks for following me too. Hope you have a lovely rest of the weekend!!

 

Kaz :)

For my Valentine...

I've made this card for hubby, and deliberately made it so I could enter it into Frilly and Funkie's challenge blog cos I love the stuff on there, the DT make gorgeous stuff and all of the entries I've seen are beautiful too. I had to make a card for him anyway, so why not make it suitable for this?!

 

 

The main image is from Stampington and the rest of it was lying around on my desk, don't feel like it's totally finished, but then I'm like that with everything!! Hopefully he'll like it anyway.

Happy Valentines day to everyone when it comes!!

 

Kaz :)

 

Altered Book, first page....

This is my first finished page in my first altered book, I have kept the book to the cover, this page, another page, and then the rest is glued together with an aperture cut out. The theme of the book is Je T'aime, just things I love, one of them being Paris (coming in page two of the book) and the main one being my kids! Hubby will have to get a place in my next book, or maybe in the aperture page, I've no plans for that at the moment!

So this is the page.....

 

 

The quote is "A Mother's love is whole no matter how many times divided" and I got that from a photo someone posted on Facebook! I thought it was fitting for someone with four kids! And it's very true.

I used the pages of the book that I had cut out to make the aperture, tore them up and made the heart, and there are so many other things I did to it, you can see that anyway, stencils, sprays, inks, paints, stamps, charcoal, you get the drift. I really enjoyed this, and hope to do loads more books; I've already thought of lots of different themes, and I have been collecting books like this to use for years! Big, hardcovered books. Fab for altering!

 

This is another view cos you can't see the gold on the first one.....

 

See it at the top left? It's gorgeous and shimmery, and the whole red part is like that. When you move it, it shimmers in the light. That was Cosmic Shimmer in Amber, just love that spray!

 

In the spirit of love and hearts and Valentines challenges....I've decided to enter this into Simply Create Too's challenge of Love/Hearts.

and also My Mum's Craft Shop's monthly challenge which is Valentines/Hearts

 

I know it's not very "Valentines" but it's a page created with much love, and there is a heart there!!

Hope you all have a fabby, crafty day wherever you are and don't forget my Cuttlebug Giveaway is drawn this Sunday, you have to be in it to win it!!

 

Kaz :)