How to - quick card

Hello everyone here’s another addition to my how to blog posts, and today I’m showing how to make your very own birthday card without stamps.

So I started with my background (I have limited supplies at this house, as most have gone to the new one) 

I taped a piece of mixed media card to my mat and blended some colour using Dyan Reaverly paints. Once this was dry with a Tim Holtz stencil and white paint I added to form my background.

I painted a piece of card white, dried it and then drew my flowers. This didn’t take me long as I’ve been drawing this style of flower since I was a child. Who knew 50 odd years later I’d still be using it to make a card. There are lots of tutorials on how to draw simple of flowers and I really encourage you to have a go.


I coloured them with my new Brush Pens from Fabre Castell, I have the big Brush Pens and love them so thought I’d invest in the smaller nibbed ones for the smaller projects. They work fabulously over any painted surface, as you have a couple of mins to blend but once dry they are permanent.

You can see that I didn’t mind going over the edges as I was going to cut them out (which wasnt the greatest cutting in the world as I had to use kitchen scissors)

Next I cut my sentiment using my cricut but a die cut or stamped one would work, or if you were really brave a hand written one would be perfect!

I covered mine with sparkles.

Some close ups

As previous stated the cutting was not good lol, but I tidied  up with a black pen as you can see on the finished card.



And another look at the finished card

I hope you are inspired to have a go yourself, how lovely to create something that you designed, this is going to my Mum who I know 

Will love that I drew and painted it. 

Hugs to you all xxx

Quick how to for birthday cards

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and looking forward to some happy crafting. This year I’ve promised myself to spend moe time creating for myself. I struggled last year to find my muse and often found myself just getting stuff done for the design teams I’m on. This year I want to focus more on my art and so to start off here are some birthday cards created  with just a couple of things, Brushos and Watercolour Paints, both Senellier and 

Kuretake Gansai Tambi(which I love btw) links are down below

First one 

Sorry about how dark the photos are, even in daylight it was dark!

So I sprinkled,  sparingly,  red and green crystals and gently spritzed to activate. I then dried.

Then with the watercolour paints I picked out the flowers and leaves. Once dry I flicked some gold paint and added a few touches to leaves.

Some close ups!

Lastly, I edged in black (not sure which I prefer)

No 2

Made the same way, except used a looser style pen work

I haven’t actually mounted these yet, but I’m sure you know how that. You can of course try this with any colour crystals such as Infusions, Bisters or Magic Powders. I Hope you have enjoyed this ‘how to’ for quick cards, please click the follow, to make sure you know when I next post, and if you have an questions please leave in the comments below.

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Brushos - ColourCraft

Infusions - Paper Artsy

Busters - Powertex 

Magical  - Lindys Stamp Gang 

How To...

Hello Everyone, hope you are all well and enjoying your weekend. Today I’m over at Rubber Dance with a How To on using Clear Acrylic with stamps and alcohol markers. Here’s a peep but all the details can be found here.

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Journal inspiration

Morning everyone, today I have a journal page to share with you. 

I don’t have any process shots but ill walk you through it.

I started with a background of blue and white acrylic smooched together with wet dry foam. Next the stencilling is one of my own (Pattern) used with VarsaMark and sparkling white Embossing Powder from Stampendous. This was heat set.

I then used Vintage Script in dark Blue archival Ink randomly over the page. Once it had been heat set I started to stamp the

Roses from Blossoming Rose around the page.

And lastly Beautiful You was stamped

I drew in some more hair as I wanted her to spread to the next page and gave her a cloak, as I didn’t want her just floating.

I used Sennelier watercolours for hair and cloak, and originally her face, but I didn’t like the script showing through on her face 

As it just looked dirty, so I repainted her face, first with white acrylic and pale flash tones.

To finish, I couloured the flowers with Signo Mettalic pens and added some pearls to hair. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz Christmas words.

Let’s have a last look.

All stamps are from Rubber Dance

That’s all for today, but I will be back soon

Take care

Hugs

New challenge at Rubber Dance

Hello Everyone it’s new challenge time over at Rubber Dance and what a fun theme we have to delight you and get those creative fingers itching to get in the craft room. So the theme is Inspired by a Movie.

So can you guess what the movie is? 

Stamps I used were the small Rosies from Blossing Rose and the leaves from Crazy Flowers2

All from the fabulous Rubber Dance Shop

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You will get free shipping 

Take care everyone 

Hugsxxx

How to...

Hello everyone today I’m over at Rubber Dance with  how to create a still life from your stamps. All the details are on blog here

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Garden Journal

Hello everyone today I'm over at Rubber Dance with a journal cover I made, here's a peep but all the details are over on the blog.

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HugsXx

Today a Tag

Morning everyone today I'm over at Rubber Dance with some inspiration to get your creativity flowing.

You can read how I created this over on the blog 

See you all soon

Take care

Hugsxxx

How to paint onto Acrylic

Hello everyone, welcome to my second piece for this month's challenge over at Country View Crafts,which is Wings and Things. Today I'm sharing an acrylic Butterfly Stack with easy tips on painting on acrylic.

The stack - That's Crafty has 4 layers but I only used . Th last piece is Mdf board which I covered in Multi Matte Medium - 13Arts and Dutch Gold Leaf, which comes in sheet form. I've actually had this about 10 years. I put it away safe, and then forget where I've put it, I've done that three time to my knowledge. Lol. Anyway I know where it is now.

I left it quite crinkled as I liked the look but with smoothing you can get it crinkle free.

On one piece of acrylic I stamped the tiny flower from Beautiful You - Rubber Dance. I coloured it with the chalk pens from Jane Davenport.

Stamp one side then paint on the other, you can then see what bits you missed as above, I did go back and correct them but forgot to take another photo.

On the last piece of acrylic I stamped the large flower from Power Flower - Rubber Dance randomly over the shape.

I used Fresco Acrylic -Paper Artsy to paint the flowers again on the backside. Once dry I used the same Gell Medium on the pieces 

To join them together. They do come with four screws and predrilled holes, but I want to use the top two to hang it and the bottom two I will add studs.

All the stamps used are from Rubber Dance designed by me, and you will soon be able to buy them from Country View Crafts.

Take care

Hugsxxx