A Finer Crafty-Ness...

HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

Witches Brew Halloween Card Halloween Card Fright Night ! ATC To Crow about... Card 31st October of Never... Card Halloween card... I will be looping the loop on my broomstick later :)

Encaustic Art. I hate ironing... however melted wax on the iron is a different story ! The effects never fail to amaze me :)

Handmade Card, Stamps I used - by Indigo Blu.

 Romance:-                                                                  Stamped Tag: Stampington Company stamp Distress inked background                                No Matter What... Stamped tag: Indigo Blu stamps Promarkers used for the background.                                         

Out with the old tin can lids again - hey  great for recycling...! I love using these - perfect circles and can colour them really well with alcohol inks. I used some images from http://freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.co.uk,to stick on to them.  Then a cropadile  to punch holes & add eyelets, then finally some chain links to make it into a wall hanging. 

Thought I'd share with you my husband's attempt at hand crafting a stick... a bit of old blackthorn branch he found in the woods , let it dry out for one year...( fancy waiting a year before you can do anything with it ... patience !) then he attached some antlers, an end piece & varnished it. hey presto an altered stick X 

Long rectangle canvas, painted with Acrylic paints- the shells plucked from the beach /fake seaweed were stuck into the texture paste, & as yet not fallen off :) Oh to be on a nice hot meditteranean beach now..... !

Acrylic Painted  back ground & paper artsy stamps... Whilst I had the paints out along came same ATC's with more paper artsy stamps... all stamps by paper artsy.

Bird Life - Canvas This didn't turn out how I wanted it to turn out... however I think I'll try again & do another version of this another time to see if I can get it better.   I wanted to use some texture paste ( never used it before ...) so I plonked a very small amount on here to see how would work... all the beads have stuck on well & hey this stuff is brilliant. Adds texture -like it says on the tin.. great for 'cementing ' things on to the canvas & I think I'm going to have a go soon at stamping in it  & see what that turns out like...I 'm in the process of working on another canvas & so far I've added some shells in this paste & they've stuck fast & not yet fallen off... Lets see when I've finished it!  Any way for this practice  - Materials I used : Small square white canvas Blue Acrylic paints Tissue paper Multi Medium Texture paste Inca Gold paint Thin gold colou...

Small box , covered in crumpled up tin foil painted to look (almost) metallic ... Materials used :- Small cardboard box with lid Tin foil crumpled up - enough to cover the box & lid Starbucks Coffee holder - a ripped off  bit enough to go accross the lid of the box. Black Acrylic paint Inka Gold Paint Glue Flower Metal flower - used tattered floral Tim Holtz die Gem stones To make :- Paint crumpled tin foil with black acrylic paint. Sponge some off before it dries so some tin foil shows through. Allow to dry. Adhere peice of coffee holder paper on lid, and then cover the lid with more crumpled tin foil. Press foil down over lid and press down carefully so that the ridges are more emphasised from the  paper underneath. Add inka gold paint haphazardly over the box, Embellish as required.

 Stamp board Mini Booklets 1.By the Sea :- mini booklet stamps by crafty individuals. 2. Summer Day:- mini booklet Stamps by crafty individuals & Tim Holtz 3. Memories:- mini booklet Stamps by crafty individuals & free stamps from Craft stamper magazine Today was a stamping day, stamped & coloured in lots of stampboard tiles. These are FANTASTIC to stamp on I love them & use them a lot. Adding a glazed varnish makes them look like ceramic tiles.  I usally add them on to Cards, ATC's or make little stampboard booklets from them. 

Altered Sardine tin mmm back to the old sardine tins again today :). covered it in tissue tape & trapped a stamped bird behind the bird cage die so it kinda looks like prison bars .... sort of !!! oh well my husband thinks I've gone mad  hee hee !! What else am I going to do when its pouring with rain all day outside ... any excuse !

Stamped TAG, Stamp by PaperArtsy.