Second Patchwork Page

 

I changed it up, this time I used patterned papers to create the patchwork shapes.

I mounted it on some of the card I got from the scrap store and also made use of the frame I picked up there too.

Another Book Page Play

I made a few more embellishments as I'd not done anything previously in green. I also played around with some layouts.

And another layout using my new to me spellbinder border dies.

And another one with a few alterations.

Then when I went to stick it in my black book, I realised that I'd made it the wrong way round. Sums up the day I had really!

Fabric Tags

I collected a few bits of scrap fabrics together last night which is why the photo is dark. Played around with them seeing what went together. 

This morning I switched them around a bit and glued them down onto card.

Once stuck, I cut the fabric around the card.

 

Next I added some trims.

These are my finished fabric tags.

Close ups - the butterfly is cut from a piece of fabric.

I used a playing card for the focal point on this one.

I changed this one up as the original piece of fabric I wanted to use was very bulky.

Created a frame for this image.

Another framed image.

Finished tags on the grass.

A vintage tag

There's a new tag challenge started last Thursday called Tag Along, and you all know how much I love my tags.  They had a theme of vintage for their first challenge.

Also PanPastelUk have a theme of spots and dots and if you look carefully you'll see I have dots as one of my many layers.

Country View Crafts have a new challenge theme today which is layers and I have lots and lots of layers on this tag.  Firstly lots of colours of PA fresco paint layers, snowflake, Irish cream, nougat, French roast and mushroom.  Next the circles stencilled in Frech Roast, then a whitewash of snowflake to knock them back a bit and finally a layer or script stamped in timber brown stazon.

The image and the music script is covered in a layer of ice resin and the image is framed in a photo mount coloured with French roast paint housing a piece of card cut from T!m's lace strip die.  Pom-pom lace and gems added to finish the frame.

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I wasn't happy with my first effort, as it just looked like the frame had been plonked on the tag.  So I went back in with a white ink pad and stamped some script over the flourishes and the frame.  Also added oxynite treasure gold to the trimmings so they didn't look so stark.  Think it blends in much better now - am a happy bunny again!!!

Paris is Calling

Paula kindly sent me some of her recent gelli plate background makes and here is one of them.  I stamped over it in the large background stamp from the Papillon TH plate.  I used the leftovers, if you will, of the postage stamp die, so I have in effect used the negative.  I coloured it with various blues and greens from the fresco range after applying grunge paste through the diamond stencil and finished it off with treasure gold.

Simon Says Stamp and Show have a theme of passport to fun this week!!

Chris's Birthday

It's my friend Chris's birthday today. I made her this frame from pieces of cardboard Maz gave me. I used juniper acrylic paint to cover it and then spritzed it with a perfect pearls, gum arabic and water mixture to give it a bit of a shine. I distressed each of the tags added stamping, embellishments, crackle glaze to them, rolled the string in walnut stain distress ink, added a few washers to the edges of the frame which I coloured with alcohol inks and stamped the phrase 'where has the time gone?' a couple of times on the frame - I'm sure she'll thank me for that!!!!!

Hope she likes it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS - xxxxx

I am also submitting this piece for this weeks Tuesday Taggers, as Zoe who belongs to the Lotstodo Forum, has become a DT member and this week is her first week so I wanted to support her. The theme is 'time'.

Happy Birthday Hilda

Remember the background from earlier, well this is what I did with it.


I made this frame from pieces of sturdy card that Maz gave me. I glued strips around the edges, painted the whole thing black and when dry spritzed with a mixture of gum arabic, perfect pearls and water. I then made 3 black and white atc's to fit into the frame.

These are what I made for Hilda as it's her birthday today - hope she likes them

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HILDA - xxxxx

White All Over

Over on Lotstodo this week the challenge is to make something where 'white is the main colour' - so here is mine

The base is corrugated cardboard, covered in a couple of dictionary pages and white washed with snowcap acrylic dabber and then some white tissue paper dotted about over the top to give some texture. White lace down each side, buttons on the right, flowers on the left, including a dictionary paper rose (have to say, it's much easier to do with grungepaper!!!). A nesties frame housing a printed image and white liquid pearls to decorate. Printed words 'free my spirt' and a white bow to finish

Winter Wonderland

The first challenge of the new year over on Lotstodo is 'Winter Wonderland', so here is a photo of me skiing in my winter wonderland. The background is weathered wood and broken china distress inks with snowflakes stamped in metalic acrylic pearl dabber. The edges of the tag have been distressed with the paper distresser and inked with walnut stain. The black frame was embossed with diamonds through the BigShot and cloudy blue acrylic paint was applied.

Suspended Utee

Finally got round to playing with my melt pot today. A few weeks ago I picked up a tin of very mini cookie cutter shapes and I've been dying to try them out. Well here they are. I've cut two of the same shape and suspended them on wire and cotton twill in aperture frames, so no matter if you look at them from the front or the back, they are the same, as I've decorated both sides of the frames. They actually look better in real life as they have been photographed on a flat surface instead of hung up. Anyway, you get the general idea.

Bits and Bobs

I had a few bits and bobs lying around. Well actually I covered the two frames with metal foil, alcohol inked them and then wondered what I was going to do with them!!! The piece at the back is grungeboard cut in the shape of a film strip but then turned on its side. I coloured that with frayed burlap distress ink, sanded it down and went over it again with timber brown stazon. I attached a piece of wire mesh to the back using raffia to hold it to the grungeboard, added a button in the middle and a piece of chain, oh and also added the images and then stamped the words into the frames.

Jigsaw Piece

I've had this jigsaw piece hanging around for a while but haven't really known what to do with it due to the shape, as in, there are lots of holes cut out of it and not much space to work on. But then I came across a lovely little image on Junes blog which she'd used from a digital challenge. I don't know how to do digi-art so I just printed him and cut him out. He's the little guy on the right. And as they say, the rest was history!!!!

Apologies for the location of the photo but it was the only place I could hang it and get some light on it!!!