Paint fusion play

 I've had a little play with the paint fusion technique and practiced a fair bit before committing my self to a project as I knew I want to do the butterfly, I tyred it on watercolour paper regular card stock and even photo paper liked the look of that :) wasn't my idea but my friends hubby said try and see .

So here's the finished atc

It's on watercolor paper that has been ink and coloured with water soluble crayons

Hope you like my first effort it's very additive lol

Week 7 Just for fun

I  do enjoy visting your blogs to see your take on the on the Just for Fun Challenge and this week Zoe wants us to try a new format . There's plenty I haven't tried, mainly cards but still didn't fancy doing one of those so thought I'd do a triptych, mine is tiny, as you see by the atc in the background, I like little things lol. It's made from MDF that I have hinged it with paper on the outside.

Don't forget to check out the challenge to see what Zoe Sam and Neet have come up with :) at Just for Fun

Metal flower

The Craft Barn have challenged us to make concertina flowers with out the die, I don't have it anyway and have done them before with paper . I loved the one done in metal so took that as my inspiration. I've used the paisley die from spellbinders to make my tag , inked with briliance ink pad and embossed with a pearl embossing powder. the flower is coloured with alcohol inks and the small one left plain

Just for fun week 6

Well Zoe had us scratching our heads with try a new technique to You and it isn't until you see what someone else has done that you think owww never tried that !!! and I saw my idea on another challenge where someone had used gilding flakes in a distressed manner so had to think how could I do that .So on my card I have used an old 2 way glue marker that didn't flow nicely anymore and put the glue done in a haphazard way and then added the gilding flakes, the mask I drew and cut out by edged with a gold pen.
I'd also like to enter this in the Gingersnaps Creation Mardi Gras Challenge

This card has already been swapped, so I have made an atc but this time using a 2 way glue pen and brushing the glue with an old toothbrush and used some hot foil instead just to compare the two :)

Week 5 Just for fun

We have grown by 1 Neet has kindly agreed to join the team with her unique style of crafting and knowledge,  an asset to the team for sure :)
So here we are and Zoe is choosing the themes for the next 4 week and first up is Mixed Media we all do it with out thinking about but there is more to it than adding  buttons and bows .
So how many ingredients will you use to make yours ?
I've used watercolour paper, gesso, colourwash, gell medium which I added some sliver sand granules ( made for standing candles in lol ) worked a treat for the texture, gold colour spray, stamped in veramark and embossed with black soot distress embossing powder. Topped it off with a friendly plastic head and couching braid.
Tip of the week is if you want to coil the braid first punch a small circle add some glue and make your coil on that then you can place it where you want on the finished peice

Less is more

I love this style of card and enjoy doing them so decided to join in the Popular Less is More Challenge this week :) it's difficult to come up with something that hasn't all ready been done but here's my 3 squares