Romance and Fantasy

Hello Everyone, Hope you are all managing to get some crafting done this weekend. Yesterday, I was over at my favourite craft shop, Craftworld, near Glasgow for a class on Mica powders which was most enjoyable and afterwards went out for lunch with our friends. 
The challenge at WLVC, this fortnight is 'wood' and unfortunately I just seemed to have run out of time to do something in time. So I thought I would enter a wooden heart I decorated earlier last year for my bedroom when it was being updated. I wanted to put a few home decor pieces on my walls that portrayed a little romance and fantasy. So apologies of no ongoing pictures of this as  it was made before I even had my blog. The wall hanging heart was purchased from the B and M stores. You find great things in here to alter at reasonable prices. I also have a few other things ready to be altered from the same store.

 

I don't have a list of all the products I used as I can't remember all the colours that were used. But it was a mixture of Paperartsy paints, Frantage and Archival inks with a variety of stamps, sizzix die cuts and craft stash. I also have another heart that sits next to this heart in my bedroom that I will share with you at a later date. If there is anything you would like to know about my project please feel free to drop me an email. I'd love to hear from you.


Julie x

I would like to enter this in to :

Stamping Sensations February Challenge *** Wings,Fantasy and Fiction ***

WLVC Challenge Number 19 ' Wood '

Fossil Butterfly Art

This weeks inspiration came from looking at various blog challenges and the super talented Julie Ann over at Magpie Heaven with her use of paint. So I was now inspired to get my paints out and try a piece of Altered Art for a change this week, also using my melt pot. 

Unfortunately, I don’t have pictures of different stages of my canvas in progress as my ‘Photographer’ was at his work !!! Anyway, I’ll take you through my project. First of all, I die cut and glued my CL frame onto the canvas and then gave it all a coat in Gesso. I started to then blend 3 colours of paint with cut and dry foam onto my canvas and a piece of white cardstock to use later. I chose a selection of stamps to use on my project and stamped without mounting them onto a block, with a selection of inks and paints. This would stop me having bold lines and give a more aged look. I rubbed paint around the edges of the canvas, this then draws your eye into the artwork.

My Butterfly Inspiration sprung into my mind when they were talking about Fossils on the TV. I had bought my meltpot over a year ago after seeing a demo at a craft fair pouring utee onto a rubber stamp and had used my meltpot for other techniques but not specifically this. I inked my Butterfly stamp with Plum Archival and Versafine Imperial Purple. I then poured utee over it. Once this had set I peeled it off my rubber stamp and rubbed some more ink over the raised surfaces and rubbed gilding wax onto it. I painted the reverse with some White Gesso to make my colours at the front 'pop' more. The plum colour at the base of my butterfly is photographing more pink looking than it is in real life.

Using the sizzix tattered florals die, I cut out some calico. I sprayed the material with a water mister to dampen and then pressed into it the remaining paint I still had on my pieces of cut n dry foam. I scrunched the material up and pulled at the fibres, finally leaving them in little balls to dry. Once dried I teased the petals back out and using my leaf stamp I stamped some Plum Archival on for more shading. Finally, adding my little embellishment

My leaves were stamped onto the piece of paper I had applied paint to earlier. I inked various Archival ink colours on my stamp as used earlier to bring the canvas together. I cut them out and pressed into my versamark and embossed with a thick embossing powder to keep texture. I scattered Rock Candy distress glitter over them and reheated the utee to set, and edged with Treasure Gold.

Finally, I placed everything on my canvas and edged my lattice frame with 2 colours of distress glitter and rubbed in some Treasure Gold.

 
I hope I have inspired everyone to get their melt pots out.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post and I  would love if you left me a comment.

Julie x
 

I would like to enter this into :

Cheery Lynn Fame It Challenge
Our Creative Corner - A Three Colour Challenge
Stamping Sensations - Wings , Fantasy and Fiction
Country View Challenges - Painty Pleasures
PaperArtsy Weekly Challenge

Products Used - Paperartsy Paints - Pansy, Eggplant, Chocolate Pudding, Stone, Nougat and MudSplat. Treasure Gold White Fire.

 Dies used - Cheery Lynn French Lattice Frame Small FRM132, Sizzix Tattered Florals

 Ink Pads - Archival Deep purple, Cornflower Blue, Potting Soil, Plum. Versamark and Versafine Imperial Purple. Distress Stain Picket Fence.

 Stamps used - Large butterfly Indigo Blu and various from my stash.

Ballerina Girl.

                                                       

Hello Everyone. This week I had my Mum’s birthday card to make. Usually I make her a card with Magnolia Tilda on it, but she had noticed my Pion Toppers in my craft room and admired them on several occasions, so thought would be nice to use instead. I wanted to do a style of card I hadn’t made before, so it was something she hadn’t seen me make before. I thought the little girl pictured on the topper looked like a little Ballerina and would blend well with some depth to the card and give a stage like effect, so I decided to make a 3D recess frame card.  After trying to get my sizes correct for the window, I wished I had never had this idea, but would not let it beat me. Eventually after several attempts, I got there and my idea was starting to take shape.

I had started off with white card, blending Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet Distress Inks to shade the paper. This was to reflect the colour of the  Ballerina's shoes. I stamped text, number and flourish stamps with the same inks to add more texture and interest to my paper.

I punched out 2 strips of paper and shaded one with Victorian Velvet and the other with Tattered Rose. Glue one onto the front and other to the back to give another feeling of depth. 
I die cut my rose and stamped on the flourish stamp in Victorian Velvet and blended Tattered Rose in parts of the die cut assembling my rose. I added a little cheesecloth and pearl stamens to it. My curls of paper are created by winding a strip of paper around a cocktail stick and shading with distress ink before releasing it. 

The glitter around the frame was all edged with Copper Stickles and whilst still wet I scattered some Pumice Stone distress glitter into it. I was really pleased with this result, as it ended up a mixture of a matt and sparkly colour contrast. My corners were created using CL tiny flourishes. I interlocked the die cuts together, swiped through distress stain and only placed glue on some areas so it didn’t lie flat on my paper. I then placed a tiny pearl onto accent.

I used the waste from cutting out my flourish die to use as a stencil with distress ink for more textures.

Photos around the card.

Hope you have enjoyed my post and have a lovely creative weekend.

Julie x

I would like to enter this in the following challenges :http://cheerylynndesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/cheery-lynn-designs-challenge-118-add.html  - Add a Flourish Challenge.

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/challenge-192-birthday-cards-for.html

http://craftyhandsdevon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/shades-of-same-colour.html

  http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/week-204-all-that-glitters-in-love.html


Products used : Cheery Lynn Dies Large and Medium roses, Tiny Flourishes Left and Right.Other products used : Martha Stewart Lace Doily punch, Distress inks, Colour coordination card Pion topper and craft stash. 

To share with you all.

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Today is my Mum’s Birthday - I’ll keep her age a secret !!!  But I thought it would be nice to share photographs of her craft work with you all. She has crafted for many years and used to make her own clothes and garments for my sister and I when we were young. She also used to do 3D decoupage, cutting out very intricate pieces of paper, as back then there were no die cutting machines or popping out of paper. She had to learn how to roll out silicone into balls with cocktail sticks onto a piece of polystyrene and how to work out what came next in the layers of paper. She used to sit up until the early hours of the morning crafting like many of us do. Getting her homework ready for the class the following week. It was all rather ‘old school’ teaching back then for this craft.

Her love now is Pergamano or as some of you may also know as Parchment Craft. It can take her a couple of weeks to do some of her projects, mapping her pattern out, embossing, piercing needle tools through the vellum and then cutting into the vellum with tiny little scissors. The vellum then looks like a piece of lace. She has been to a few classes in the beginning. Otherwise has self taught herself this craft as unfortunately there are no classes in Scotland.

Mum made this clock for her friend mounted it onto black card and then into a black shadow frame. Its stunning !

This basket is very intricate work as it only measures about 3 inches at its widest point.  

This is the Birthday card she made for me last year. I put it into a frame for safe keeping and to display in my craft room.

The beautiful fan at the top of the page was made for my Christmas. Another treasure.


Happy Birthday, Mum.

 Love you, Julie x

Hope you have all enjoyed looking at something different. Thanks to everyone who has left comments on my posts, they are always so appreciated.