Darcy's Calendar Challenge

Got round to my January page at long last.  I've learnt 2 things during this challenge - my small calendar doesn't in fact make the transformation easier (harder in fact as it's more fiddly) and I'm a messy worker who had paint on January to April so I had to tear out my page !

Darcy's challenge see here for details was to use crackling and book text - I've decided to use both on the border of the page.  I painted on an orange base coat and French roast  FF over the crackle glaze.  I then washed the book text with Chutney FF and cut out 1cm edging strips and punch a stack of little flowers to frame the main picture.

thank you for looking xx

Fragile Papers

As soon as I saw this challenge from Paperartsy details here I knew I wanted to make something fun with this old copy of Alice in Wonderland I picked up in a charity shop.  As well as the lovely old text pages this has a few illustrations in it as well. I taken one of these as start point for my piece. The queens face really makes me smile - she looks cross but is almost crossed eyed lol

I used a piece of corrugated card as the background as I love the peeled back edges this gives.  This was painted with green olives FF paint (not seen in he finished piece at all !) crackled glazed and painted in nougat.

After that I went a bit mad with a spray of this, a hint of that and a splodge of the other as I couldn't get the right colour to tie into my main image.

Got there in the end I think. I've added a grunge paste heart to tie in with the Alice theme, a burlap square and some die cuts. The final touch is a couple of LB flowers with button centres.

Masterboard number 2

I enjoyed making my blue and green masterboard so much I decided to do another with different colours  - think I may be addicted lol.  You can see the original masterboards from the 3UP post on Christmas Eve here.

Masterboard inspired by Paperartsy 3UP Christmas Eve post

There's been so many inspirational posts in the last week it's hard to choose what to try first - I wanted to do something I could work on on my lap the other evening so a masterboard was perfect. I quickly stamped out a random selection of JOFY stamps and set to work with my promarkers.

Here's the finished A4 sheet...

and here's the cards I made the following day ......

Thank you for looking xx

Background inspired by Anneke de Clerck

Anneke created a lovely Christmas wooden panel which you can see here.

I decided to create a journal page using the similar techniques and colours for the background as Anneke used so I wont go into step by step instructions.  But here are the steps in pictures instead......

I chose this particular project as inspiration as it takes me out of my comfort zone colour wise - overall I'm quite pleased with the end result.

Instead of a Christmas tree for the main image I stamped some JOFY flowers onto to scraps of patterned paper and fussy cut then out.  I stamped the stems directly onto the page in olive ink and glued on my flowers with a few little leaves.

thank you for looking xx

PaperArtsy 3UP

Tonight was my first post for a PaperArtsy 3UP week - for "cracking" posts by Deborah, Margaret and myself please see here

 

Here's my finished project xx

CC3C Challenge 16 Layering Stencil Embossing Technique

I meant to try and enter as many challenges as I could - think this is my second, times flies with all the other everyday things that need fitting in.

This month's challenge is based around page 50 of volume III of A Compendium of Curiosities - layering stencil embossing. This months fab prizes are a selection of goodies from Tim & Mario and also The Funkie Junkie Boutique, see here.

I've taken a large tag shape and painted the background in dark purple, I decided to follow that colour for my whole scheme. Next I created a panel using the layering stencil technique with my newest mask "measured". This is also stamped in grey using the same stamp I've used on the dress form.

Next followed a mannequin die cut which I also painted and then embossed with some gorgeous sparkly powder in a swirly pattern to give the idea of a dress. To add a touch more sparkle I've also added some silver wings.

A touch of lace and a flower finish the tag.