Challenge 49 at Artful Times

Hello and a Happy all be it very wet Valentines Day to one and all


At Artful Times we are challenge you so make or decorate a box, so a good excuse to eat those choky's if you were lucky enough to receive some.


My little box came from the charity shop  and has gone back to the shop for there Valentines window display.

First I painted it pink, then stamped with a script in grey which shows nicely through the transparency, for the sides I've added stickles to some recycled metal butterflies also from the charity shop and added some die cuts which have been embossed with a white glitter powder

Neet and Chrissie and I look forward to seeing what you do with your boxes

Challenge 22 at Artful Times

Hello and sorry for not being around much over the last week, sometimes life just takes over, but on with the challenge at Artful Times which is Asian, as this is the month for the Chinese new year (the year of the snake)

I have decorated a box which was a pressie for my friend Becky. Nothing to complicated simple but effective I thnk :) first paint your box I used a black dabber, cut out your image could be  stamped or as in my case a collage image and make a mask of it, I then  used a background stamp and versamark and stamp the sides and the top and used the mask where I didn't want the embossing (if you don't use a mask you will have the embossed texture  coming through your image) and emboss with a colour of your choice, next glue your image to the masked area and to finish apply a few layers of varnish to protect the embossing.

 

The inside has been finish with more paint and paper from my stash and the Chinese character for love made from friendly plastic in a mould

 

 

Hope you will enjoy playing along with us over the next fortnight

 

Blog candy and a box

I am so happy to have hit 50 follower this week, so thank you Marita for following me :) I thought I'd have a little giveaway and hope there is something here that will please all of you and one lucky person drawn at random next Thursday from all comments between now and then
Tuesday Taggers want you to alter a present and The Craft Barn are all about Tim Holtz , so I have painted a pencil box in my 3 favourite shades of distress stains Sugar spun, Dusty Concord and Weathered wood and stamped with a selection of Tim's Visual Artistry stamps.

Thank you all for popping by

First for Christmas

Long time no blogging sorry folks but me and the new laptop are now getting to know each other better after the old one frooze locking everything up but thanks to a lovely young man most has now been added to the new one but windows 7 has rearanged all my files in it's own style not mine lol .

So here's my offering for Christmas at Penny Black Allsorts and  Sir Stampalot challenges. The snowman is Penny Black I got it at the NEC and the text from a clear set I have, so I have made a card some gift tags and boxs. I have to say that the white WOW embossing powder is fantastic so fine :)

A box, braclete and cards

Where have I been ? well I spent a lovely day with Lucy I enjoyed watching her work on some canvas using the tissue paper and she gave the courage to decorate my little box which I took with me :) I've used brilliance reinker and distress inks, the images are then stamped onto tissue paper and applied with modpoge I then finished with a coat of spray varnish

Oh I have been busy and not uploading slap hands :) I've been playing with my bird stamps again all the backgrounds have been stamped with versamark and chalked makes such a lovely soft background.

The single owl (free with an issue of Craft Stamper) was stamped onto paper coloured with distress ink along with the accent leaves .the bird was embossed direct on to the card and then stamped again onto another hand made paper and cut out and pieced on. Hope you like them as they were quick and easy to do :)

I finished off another 2 bracelets and I used snap fasteners that I got from the haberdashery shop,again I have use acrylic paints perfect pearls and heat embossed . Oh and a lesson learnt when punching the holes with the crop a dile make sure it's you haven't got the other half under the other hole punch lol hence the eyelet in the middle :)