Blue moon tag

Hello , Happy New Year and welcome to the first challenge at  Artful Times, where  shades of blue is the order of the day,  you can of course make what ever takes your fancy I have gone for a tag but do check out what Chrissie and Neet have made

 

I have used 3 shades of blue paint a stencil from Dylusion  and arch stencil from Stamps Away.

The face is paper clay painted blue with mica powder mixed in to give a clam serene look, a piece of dried foliage from the garden painted blue with distress stickles and an old text stamp from Tim Holtz embossed with blue powder

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit

Hope you are inspired to join us at Artful Times

 

Artful Times for Christmas

Hello and it's lovely to be back with Neet at Artful times and Chissie of Jumbled Crafts who will be helping us as well, so between us we hope we can get your creative juices flowing and inspire you to join in.
A very easy challenge so no excuses, we would like to see your favourite Christmas card you have sent or received.

For my offering two CAS card with the same snowman from Gorjuss stamps borrowed from my friend Becky

 

 lots of masking and the fab free stamp from Novembers Craft Stamper, the glasses and tash have been embossed the cap stamp unknown stamped and cut out and an other unknown little birdy stamp just for the fun of it all coloured with distress markers

 

 

 

Same stamp but a different hat from PSX embossed in sparking white and coloured with white acrylic paint  and H2O's lovely and sparkly

So there you go folks nice and easy for Christmas

Have fun and we look forward to seeing your favourite

 

Merry Christmas

 

I'd just like so say blogger is still playing me up and not publishing it's been like this since reader changed any suggestion as to how to fix this annoyance would be very much appreciated

 

Thanks for popping by

 

 

 

White on White

Heavens to Betsy it's been a while since I last blogged, so hope I find you all keeping well now the days have got colder.

This is a tag made for Ali craft and Try it on Tuesday , with corrugated card partially stripped back, de-bossed  and embossed with paste and die cuts added .

 

Distressed and spooky

Artful Times are all about distress this fortnight and Ali Craft are after your Halloween creations a perfect match, not that mine is anywhere near perfect.
I've used my new favourite, distress paints wrinkle free as you would for the inks

Also Tag Along, a haunted house

I can't believe how luck I was to see these toadstools on the grass just outside my house, it must be at least 40 years since I last took photos of some in a wood

 

Please feel free to save the photo's and use as you like
Have a good week all and thank you for popping by :)

Autumn tag

I love autumn not just for the glorious colours but for the fungi, yes I collect mushrooms and toadstools,wood ceramic glass you name I've probably one.
This tag started with the distress paint resist one of the tags from the first day of Tim's 102

 The colours I have used are bundled sage, mahogany, dried marigold and peacock, don't you just love the richness of the mahogany .
If you haven't noticed Artful Times want to see your autumn colours so you have just a couple of day left to enter 

Almost tag 12

Whilst looking for some inspiration I decided to have a go at Tim's tag 12 but only  got half way through as I  then went off on a tangent and made a topper for a birthday card for a friend whose lost a lot of weight ( well done Karen)

 

Now it just so happens it fits into the Fashionable Stamping challenge ... use a stencil or mask
Thank you for taking the time to visit :)
Right  back to stalking my mail box waiting for the start of Tim's 102