CAS Tags

I sprayed my DecoArt media misters in orange and yellow green onto separate tags, let them drip and dry.

Stamped the Harajuku image in black stazon, masked her off, stamped the script at her feet and another of the gothic arches also in black stazon.

Exactly the same for this one except I carried on the arches with black pen and stamped the faces in the circles.

It comes in 3's

Over at stamps and stencils, they are asking for 3 of a kind. How many triples can you spot?

Close up of the main focal images.

Paris Memoir

Over at A Vintage Journey, they have a great theme this week of use every stamp in a set, the whole stamp or just part of it can be used.  I chose the TH Paris Memoir set. Background is coloured with weathered wood and vintage photo distress ink and images masked and stamped in brown stazon.

Bleach Block Tag

Over at the Craft Stamper Magazine blog they are sharing a technique called bleached blocking, which basically means removing ink from a water based background using damp foam distress ink pads.

I used seedless preserve, picked raspberry, faded jeans and broken china distress inks on the background, then took some of the colour out using a damp blending pad. As I haven't used lonely girl for ages, I decided to give her an outing.

I didn't feel that much of the ink had lifted off on the first tag, so I tried it again on a different type of paper, and this one definitely did take ink off, although I forgot to take a photo as it looked pretty good!! Again another Dina W stamp that I've not used for a while and the Traci Bautista one in the background over some tissue tape.

Summer of Colour - Week Two

It's week two of Summer of Colour over at Twinkle, Twinkle like a star's blog. The two main colours for this week are coral and dark teal, and the pop, smudge or splash colour is bright white.

As I enjoyed the background of my graffiti tag so much I decided to use the same technique using pea coat fresco paint for the dark teal and I had a really hard time deciding if coral was a reddy pinky colour or an orangey pinky mix.  So I used a mix of both, the red version on the tag background and the orange on the 3 hearts.

Hope it fits the bill!!

Leporella Accordion Book

Over on the PA Blog Liesbeth is back for her second project which you can see here. I pretty much followed her techniques. I went with greens and a crackle stencil for the covers.

Then I added French roast and lots of different colours of treasure gold, olive bronze, aquamarine, indigo and renaissance.

I used the same colours of distress ink for the inside pages.

Added various LP images.

Stencilling with distress inks.

Used a posca pen to hi-light areas. I did try the bleach on the spare side piece, but as you can see, it had no effect.

I still felt the pages needed a little more

So I added script in black stazon

And a LP stamp as a border in timber brown stazon.

Here are all the finished pages joined together before I attached the covers.

And finally the finished book complete with sari ribbon.

I'm also entering into the That's Crafty challenge this week as they are asking to see texture paste in the project.

Over at A Vintage Journey, they would also like to see some texture.

UnFinished Gelli Print Page

I first saw this technique on Helen's blog, which then lead me to the PA Blog and Darcy's Month 3 journalling. I decided to use one of my gelli plate pages I created using layers and layers of paint and a Stencil Girls stencil as I don't have, or want, a journal.

After stamping the Ellen Vargo arch in snowflake paint I went back and blocked them in.

Then as Darcy did, I mixed some beach hut and some south Pacific paint to make a bright blue.  Painted several coats over the white, and stamped the EV arch over the top in black archival ink.

And then I went in with my fave, the white pen!!!

Close up of the white pen effort.

Then I stamped some of the other Ellen Vargo stamps onto leftover pieces of gelli print pages, cut them out and went in with the white pen again.

And this is my finished page. I was going to cut it out and edge it in black, but then because the prominent word is 'unfinished' I just decided to leave it looking unfinished!!

I hope this is allowed as I'm not sure if it has to actually be a journal page or if you can just take inspiration from it and make what you want. But I'm sure Darcy will put me right.

And as I mixed far too much blue paint, I covered a tag and continued with the arch theme as a border.

Dots added with white pen and PA Mini #72

More Ellen Vargo images stamped in black archival onto scraps of gelli plate pages.

More white dots added to the splats and the middle EV square.

Black, White & a Splash

Over at That's Crafty, they have a theme of black and white with a splash. This gave me a great opportunity to use my new set of T!m stamps, classics #17, along with a wooden text stamp I picked up in Hobby Lobby and the stazon red blaze splatters are stamped with one of my purchases from Paris.

Oriental Tag

Another tag using my very limited supply!!

Queen of Hearts

Over at the PA blog, Helen Chilton is back with a coaster which you can see here. I decided to make a tag, which I did slightly differently to Helen's technique, but ended up with the same results. I used haystack for a base layer and then guacamole and south pacific.

I added some Hobby House gems from the green to go pack, to the bottom of the image.

Close up of the stamping in the heart using script from SN03 PA plate and olive green stazon ink.

I'm also entering into this months Hobby House challenge and this weeks Simon Says Wednesday challenge which is Have a Heart.

CAS Plaque

Over on the PA blog Joanne Wardle has made a guest appearance with a clean and simple card which you can see here.  I took the same approach but instead of a card, painted an mdf plaque and as you know, I don't do flowers, so chose the image off the PA I&D one penny #2 plate.  I used Irish cream fresco paint for the background, I stamped the PA mini bricks in French roast and the splodges in a mix of mocha mousse and little black dress.

I found it really hard not to do anything else to it, but now I've left it and gone back to it, I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Frayed Dreams

Sue Carrington is back this week over on the PaperArtsy blog.  I've loosely aimed my piece around her first project, taking inspiration from the colours and the stamps.

I crackled the jigsaw piece, bottom layer, French roast, top layer snowflake.  Stamped the main LP image and the row of flowers.  Masked them off and added London bus, limelight and zesty zing to the background.  The zesty zing over the London bus created the orange!!

The flowers are coloured with watered down blood orange and haystack, with a touch of eggplant in the centre.  Eggplant was used to colour the words and the banner was coloured with blood orange.

Anything but a Card have a theme of Summer Fun and PanPastelsUk have a theme of flowers.

Stampotique have a colour challenge, shades of yellow, orange and purple.

Tag Screen

For Sue's final PA project this week she decided on a tag screen, to find out how she made it check here.

Stencilling on the tags with snowflake fresco paint.

Coloured with autumn fire and smoked paprika and wiped back with a baby wipe.

All images are stamped in black stazon and are from the PA Ink and the Dog or minis range.

Just by pure co-incidence each tag had a prominent word on it, so I used a white posca pen to hi-light it.  I mounted the tags on black card to create the screen.

Oh What a Lonely Girl

June's theme over at Our Creative Corner is a recipe.  There are 3 lists and you have to use at least one ingredient from each list.

I chose A - ribbon, B - mdf, C - paint and I also used ink too.

The base is one of the mdf plaques I got last week from the MDF Man at the Lincoln show.  I painted it with nougat, stone, Irish cream and chocolate pudding fresco paints.  Stamped the Dina, Lonely Girl image in timber brown stazon. Masked her off and used the timber brown for the background images too but just swiped it over the stamps so as not to pick up as much ink as I wanted the main image to be bolder. I know it looks black on the photo, but it really isn't!!

And as I was looking through my ribbons the dark brown loopy one fell along side the plaque and I quite liked the look of it, so I set about attaching it!!!  I also used a piece of ribbon for the hanger.

Text, Text, Text

This week on the Stampotique challenge blog they have a theme of text.  I really enjoyed making this hanging and to be honest I think it's one of the best things I've made using the Stampotique stamps.

The flower was coloured in mustard seed and ripe persimmon distress ink and spritzed with water before stamping, this blended the colours.  The flower was masked off and Versamark was used to stamp the script and covered with sunflower UTEE.  Again I masked the flower and covered the card with festive berries distress stain. I buffed it up and the script has really popped through.  

I stamped the dragonfly in black stazon onto white card and cut it out. I stamped it again in ultramarine onto acetate, cut it out and stuck it over the top.  It still needed a bit more colour, so I stained the wings on the white card with peacock feathers distress stain.  

Really love how the whole thing came together.

***Edited*** Festive berries is red NOT pink!!!!

It's all about the Squares

Over at Stampotique this week Val is asking for squares.  I masked off a buff coloured tag and painted green lines over the uncovered areas.  I've never used Claudine Hellmuth studio paint before but it really is nice.  I picked up the landscape green out the half price basket at AftH.  I stamped my new Stampotique 'oh tree' stamp in black Stazon.  I stamped the row of faces, cut them out and hung them on the tree.

I added a bit of red pepper and a coating of rock candy distress stickles.

Cards

Same technique as the previous cards but used Newt with Lunch Box character.  Again embossed and coloured with perfect pearls.

Heartthrob was stamped onto the card, masked off and Hero Arts birthday surprise stamp was stamped in salty ocean distress ink.  The same stamp was used in the panel of blue to lift off the ink.  The happy birthday is also a Hero Arts stamp.