21st Card

After making my mums card and her asking me to make one for her friend, after I showed that, I was then asked by one of my friends if I could make a 21 card for her in the same style and colours.

From another angle, the ladies name is Eleanor and I had to use some smaller letters so I could get all them all in.

And this is it folded, or as folded as it will go!

Another Flower Card

After my mum got her birthday card she asked me to make one for her friend in the same style, so that meant more flowers but at least I got a bit of green in.

And here it is stood up.

Another Couple of Cards

It's my mums birthday on the same day as my BIL's, so I went with the same card template. I know it's not my normal thing, but she loves flowers! 

The background on this panel is a ghost print from a gelli plate print using a Prima stencil.

And I needed a quick and easy thank you card for my sister. Again I used part of a gelli print and used paint to add the marks.

Entering them into the PaperArtsy challenge again for this week.

Powertex Notebooks

Way back in November I covered these notebooks on my very first home play with Powertex to take today for a little pressie for the girls on today's Powertex workshop.

I used the ivory powertex on all of them, together with cotton fibres, fabrics, lace, scrim, hessian, mulberry bark, clay faces, shapes, paper flowers, string, dishcloths, and other bits and bobs.

This is the back of one of the notebooks.

 And the back of another of the books. 

This is the back of one of the books which has had clay pieces adhered to it and has been lightly dry brushed with DecoArt dazzling metallics.

These are the fronts of all six of the books, each with a light dry brushing of DecoArt dazzling metallics.

Close up of the purple and blue book.

And the front of the ruby red and pink book.

This is one of the finished books. It's been dry brushed with a mix of white and black pearl to make a silvery grey.

And this is the finished cogs book, it is also dry brushed with the black and white mix as I initially made too much - lol.

And another of the finished notebooks, this one has the dragonfly on the back which is why the front is a bit sparse.

I hope they like them, and I hope we all learn something new today as we are playing with Powertex and Stone Art, so I will be back later with a run down of the workshop.

Little Man

I started off with a wooden plaque, painted it with French roast fresco paint, followed by a random layer of crackle glaze and then a layer of stone, sanded it back and added more French roast.

And it evolved into this!!

Over at Hobby House their theme for July is 'vintage' and if you use products sold by them, you are in with a chance of being picked for their top 3.  The gems are Hobby House pearls from the wedding day selection.

Alison has also informed me that I can join in with Our Creative Corner challenge this month too which carries the theme of 'captured memories', where the project must include a photo.

Shades of Green

More texture paste and puff paint through a stencil onto the tag and heated.

Coloured with olive green lumiere paint.

The top section has been accented with olive bronze treasure gold and the bottom section with onyxite treasure gold.

The embellished tag.  The image is stamped onto a crackled background cut with a nesties spellbinder. For some reason the light has really picked up on the colour of the crushed olive distress stain used to colour the lace.  It's nowhere near that bright IRL!!!

Vintage Tag

The challenge over at PanPastelsUk this week is to create something vintage. I decided to make a tag.  I do feel I have cheated a bit because I haven't used any pan pastels as I don't (at the moment) have any light enough covers.  I really like to  use the medium the challenge is portraying, but it isn't a stipulation of the challenge, it's just me!!!


I stamped the flourishes in frayed burlap distress ink and stamped the main image in timber brown stazon.  I cut a frame out of a piece of material and frayed the edges.  The butterfly is a TH movers and shapers die.

Artful Times - Challenge 5

I set this weeks Artful Times topic of 'Ribbon & Lace'.  I used various different pieces of fabric, lace, hessian and a skeleton leaf to surround the main image.  I added fabric flowers and a silk rod tied with ribbon to the lace on the left hand side.   I coloured a piece of plain white twill with spiced marmalade and mustard seed distress stains.  I then stamped the word 'cherish'.  I found a delicate gold coloured butterfly in my stash which I think Sarah sent to me in an envelope swap which just fitted perfectly.  It measures approx 9" x 6".


Please feel free to join in with this weeks challenge and pop over and see what Neet and Von have made.  Leave us a comment, we love to hear from you.

Vintage Jigsaw Puzzle Piece

I made this for a one to one swap with Burn, through the PaperPlay forum.  They are large chipboard jigsaw shaped pieces approx 5" x 7".  Burn decided on a vintage theme.

Firstly I gesso'd the background then applied a few colours of pan pastel, added a napkin using mod podge and when dry stamped script over it. I found a lovely image and arranged hessian, jute scrim, fibres and lace.  I cut a flower from T!m's tattered floral dies in a cream fabric and added a vintage button, skeleton leaf and gem pearls. A strip of fabric was coloured with distressed stain and heated slightly so it singed, I tied it in a bow and attached a mini pin and a word charm faith.  I added beads to a long pin and placed it in the hessian, a cluster gem and a key.  The top looked a little bare, so I coloured a grungeboard flourish and added some small pearl gems.

The PanPastel challenge blog theme this week is 'add a flower', so I am entering my jigsaw piece. 

A Couple More Tags

Yes Kate, I know, it's pink!!!  I coloured the fabric flowers and strips of fabric with spun sugar distress stain.  The lace is coloured with vintage photo distress stain.  I added the skeleton leaf and the stapled tassel along with the image to the embossed tag.

Another tag made from the backgrounds created on the previous post.  Again I made the flower and added a couple of pieces of distress stained lace and fabric strips.

A Couple of Tags

Well I'm now able to weight bear and have become sturdier on my crutches so I've been able to do a bit of arting, although it's taken a while as getting about is still so exhausting.


I saturated different colours of spray inks onto varying pieces of card and covered them with scrunched cling film.  Once they had dried I removed the cling film.  I cut tag shapes from the card pieces and then ran them through embossing folders with the big shot.

I made the purple flower from mulberry paper and coloured the row of fabric roses with dusty concord and crushed olive distress stains.  I also stained strips of fabric to create the ribbons for the tops of the tags.

Anniversary Card

It's my mum and dads anniversary early next week and they go away tomorrow, so I made them a quick card from a piece of printed vellum, part of a napkin, a skeleton leaf and some sandpaper!!!

Tag with a Pocket

The Tag it on theme this week is pockets. I decided to leave the grunge alone for once, and went vintage instead!!  Although it's not very clear to see on this photo, the pocket is actually made from the piece with the script on.

Friendly Plastic

Thanks to the extreme weather conditions, it gave me a chance to have a play with one of my purchases from Friday.  Please don't be too harsh as I had no idea what I was doing apart from the fact that there was a lady demo-ing it at the show.  But unfortunately her expertise was very limited as she had no facilities to have any hot or cold water.  She was talking through most things, so two days later, it's hard to remember what she said and she wouldn't let anyone take any photos either!!!

As you can see I decided to try and make something with one of the above samples.  I tried to incorporate some of the items I got on Friday.  I used some hand dyed scrim, hand dyed jute, hand dyed bamboo fibres.  I peeled off a layer of one of the silk rods, added some copper shavings and a couple of skeleton leaves from my stash.  Everything is attached to a piece of green mountboard.  I did try a piece of background with a pattern but it was too busy.


Unfortunately due to the weather, I had to have the light on to take the photo and the grid looks really shiny but it is quite a matt finish.

Postcards with Stitches

I stitched this piece of hand dyed vilene which I'd previously burnt into with my textile tool and a brass stencil.  I used straight stitch first and went over it with a tight zig zag.  I left the threads long in the bottom right hand corner so that I could add some beads and sequins.  Thanks once again to Jo for this fab tip, hope I've done it ok Jo!!!!!

Again this piece of canvas is another that I'd already prepared.  I stitched it on with straight stitch going round it twice.  I added the piece of fibre down the side using a large zig zag stitch.  I was quite pleased with how this bit turned out as I've not done it before and didn't know if it would work or not. I usually stick them on first.  Again I left the bottom piece quite long to attach some wooden beads.

*****Edited***** I've entered this piece into this weeks Tuesday Taggers Challenge which is Canvas.  It is being sponsored by Art from the Heart.  Good luck everyone.

This piece is made from Angelina fibres with feathers, a skeleton leaf and wool fibres trapped between two layers.  I secured it around the edges using straight then tight zig zag stitch and randomly used a straight stitch to secure it further.  I used metaillic thread for the first time too.

All the backgrounds were brayered with ink from the big n juicy waterfall pad by Ranger.

Caught In Crystal

Whilst I was playing on Saturday I prepared a sheet of caught in crystal.  I used spiced marmalade, dusty concord and mustard seed distresses inks for the colours and red and green glitter as I couldn't find any silver!!!

A Couple of Cards

I used a piece of glossy paper from a magazine for the top one and a piece of text paper from a paperback book for the bottom one.  I coloured the papers with various colours of distressed inks and dried them with the heat tool.  I stamped the images using versamark ink and clear heat embossed over the top.  Using walnut stain distressed ink, I brayered over both pages and where clear embossed wiped away the ink.  Tore the edges, mounted, added ribbons and skeleton leaves to the top one and stamped the edges with sand eco friendly paint.  I haven't added any sentiments yet as I don't know what I am going to use them for but I was in need of a bit of a play having spent the day researching and typing up the first draft of my Equality & Diversity Assignment!!!!!

Tissue Fabric

I made this background using a couple of sheets of vliesofix, calico, napkins, angelina fibres and watered down acrylic paint.  Once completely dry I machine sewed the grid using both straight and zig zag stitch.

I used all sorts of embellishments to decorate each of the squares.  These included stamped Angelina fibres, beads, sequins, alterations dies, skeleton leaves and painted tyvek.

From Scratch - WIP

Using a piece of fabric stabiliser I created this background with fibres, ribbons and strips of fabric.  I then added skeleton leaves and feathers.

I fused some white Angelina fibres, laid them on top and fused them to the background.

And that's as far as I've got!!!!

Lotstodo Swaps - Alphabet Arches

Hilda, over on Lotstodo is hosting lots of swaps at the moment. This one is for 3 Arches which had to include at least one letter of the alphabet. I have no idea why, but I chose 'A', 'F' and 'H'. Each one is complimented with one of Sir T!m's die shapes.