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

 

Venture into the Unknown

This is a venture into  the unknown as the Craft  Barn are having  an alpha challenge once a fortnight and I hope I have understood the instructions aghh as I haven't used a dictionary but a photo album I picked up at the charity shop, the  paper is a fab and bound in a way that there is room for embellishments and enough pages for the challenge, so an apt title for the first page.
The background has gone through many changes over the last week but I did start off with dylusion sprays and stencils and ended up using acrylic paints and archival inks.
The die cut letter from corrugated card are dipped into molton UTEE with a friendly plastic key and face and a shrink plastic stamp TH bird

 

 

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit

Tando and Fabric

I've been following the Tando challenge for a while now mainly cos I love the creations  that Karen makes, this it the first time I have joined in but I'm sure it won't be the last now I have more time on my hands.
The challenge is to use fabric, so I've used canvas for my tag (the sort you buy on a roll) and dylusion sprays in lemon, grass, london blue and crushed grape with the Tando flower mask. The flowers are out lined with dots made with liquid pearls and silver paint for faux stitching around the edge , all the embelishment are stuck down with the cosmic shimmer acrylic glue even the friendly plastic leaf .

I just had fun and made something that pleased me :) so hope you like it too

Friendly plastic

In case you've missed it Sam did a wonderful tutorial on the Just For Fun challenge blog and also there have been more super ones on the Craft Barn, boo hoo to late for their challenge but hey ho never mind .
Everyone makes it look so easy lol, they say put oil on your finger so's not to leave finger prints I'd say rub it all over both hands but them I do get in a right old mess lol

I've used Sam's instruction for making a checkered patten note how neat and tidy hers is compared to mine yes touched it with the wrong finger, no roller so cover a tube with foil and wetted that opps a bit stuck anyway is made for an interesting patten . A brooche pin has been added to the back

I've use 2 of the friendly plastic embellishments I made on these 2 atc's .

I have used chalks on the backgrounds and then stamped over the top using versamark and on the star fish one dusted with perfect pearls

Friendly plastic

What fun that was having a play with the plastic the flower mould is a borrowed one and on some I put perfect pearls in the mould before adding the plastic and another painted it with Viva precious metal colour Mother of pearl.

The sea elliments is a mould I got from the same shop as Zoe she has used it on her wax challenge , again I have added more colour to the sea horse with a gold Krylon pen the star fish was painted with alcohol ink the clam shell is as it came out of the mould. The moulds were quiet small and with a little black and white left over from the seahorse and star fish I made the marbled shell.

Practice makes perfect and they got better as I made more :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

In my garden

Well over on the lots to do challenge blog the the theme this week is wax and we were given advanced warning so have been working on it the last week, thanks for the push as I have only used it once before :)
I've use the wooden base of a brie cheese box and the image is from a paper napkin, I used bees wax from a local honey man but it's a bit dark . I added some pools of wax and stamped into it with some little hands added a little colour with perfect pearls and stickles in the center of the flower all topped of with a friendly plastic flower .

Thank for stopping by and hope you like my effort