tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68906470066303646532024-03-05T16:50:32.267+00:00Craftin-ArtasiaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446562082115097465noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890647006630364653.post-27507725378726561412016-07-11T19:00:00.000+01:002016-07-11T19:00:11.657+01:00#3UP Challenge July 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's that time again and I was lucky enough to have my name pulled out of the hat, I love these challenges but as usual always struggle with time (not matter how long we are given!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So my challenge was Ink & the Dog stamps with infusions!! Yay what joy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well the stamps speak for themselves, as usual top quality and PaperArtsy always seems to something for everyone. Then there are infusions.... these little babies are soooo versatile and as I love to create backgrounds I am sure they will be used on a regular basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First up I sprinkled Blackcurrent and A Bit Jaded (fab names as ever!) infusions onto water colour paper and spritzed with water, I then mixed some of the infusions with fresco snowflake and used it to stamp on the background, and painted a little on to some scrap water colour paper and stamped the focal image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I then coloured some ribbon, bias binding and crinkle paper with the infusions, love the way you get bits of the walnut showing through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During this process (which took for ever as I just couldn't make up my mind what to do LOL) I also created this little card topping, love this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and I was gutted I couldn't work this technique into a design but I will!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So anyway that's me done go take a look at all the other loveliness on the PaparArtsy Blog <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O my this will be the quickest post ever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'll edit and add details later!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O my that was close....just 3 minutes to spare for the deadline but linked it was LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So mono printing, how exciting I thought, I used to love lino printing when I was at school, so I purchased a cheap kit with the bits and bobs and eventually last night gt round to carving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so thought I would keep it simple and make a background to a card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wasn't sure the best way to make it multi-coloured, co cut my lino in half to make two so I could layer up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I then had a play around with colours, I was gutted as I couldn't get my fresco paints to work as they just dried as soon as applied to the lino. I didn't think about mixing with anything till after the event LOL so opted for ink pads but the purple was just too strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the background was quite busy I needed something bold to sit on it and came accross my ELB13 stamp set, perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SO a nice simple card and these are the two lino blocks, I really enjoyed this.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446562082115097465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890647006630364653.post-72483639300575091532016-05-08T15:24:00.003+01:002016-05-08T15:24:35.262+01:00Let there be light...plus one!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here we are again, twice in two days whoop whoop!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This journal page started a couple years ago when I attended a France Papillion and was one of my mop up pages from the messy table! I have done other pages in there since but not this one, it's taken a while and I've been adding layers over the lats few weeks when time allows and I have 5 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently I found some IndigoBlu stamps in a sale bin which prompted me to finish it and I raided my stash for other stamps with a light theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So April has been and gone... always a busy month for cards..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now this next card started life as the PA 'white space' challenge but didn't quite make it and I feel really bad as it still hasn't made its way to my sister in-law, although she has been away for a couple weeks but I'm not keen on how it turned out, maybe I'll make her a wall hanging instead LOL.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446562082115097465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890647006630364653.post-69852070337701434112016-04-14T14:20:00.000+01:002016-04-14T14:20:00.709+01:00Play Date...Altered Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To cut a long story short...having been made redundant at the end of March and getting a new job I have been left with a week in limbo between the two....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mean what's a girl to do other than contact her craftin mucka and say 'lets get together!' I'm sure we have both mentioned before that we had an evil plan to get together for a crafty session each half term but as I will be working more hours in the new job this might be harder work so we took advantage...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You know the scene out of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTWmrnPdgk" target="_blank">The Jungle Book with the vultures</a> (which I still say to this day are The Beatles! Warped mind I know) 'What we gonna do?' 'I dunno what do you wanna do?' etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sue said how about an altered book, O Yeah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So off I went and after what seemed forever we had cut an aperture from the middle of the book to add a little something and start decorating. Although we started on the same vein somewhere along the line we ventured along different paths and at one point both sat there, (probably with an inane grin on our faces) bathing in the silence, just happy in our little craftin world and thinking how lovely it was that we were both doing the same thing completely different LOL. O joy! There's only craftin people that will understand these ramblings of a mad crafter LOL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I used <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">PaperArtsy Fresco paints</a> slate and claret to dry brush some colour onto the pages and then added some fabric and beads and stuff to the corners of the aperture and eventually decided to paint the whole of the aperture in claret and adding my heart locket and silhouette. I also stamped multiple rows of the houses from my PA challenge winnings <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/hot-pick-1601-6181-p.asp" target="_blank">HP1601</a> onto tissue paper and stuck those on the opposite page. Unfortunately the picture showing both pages together won't rotate no matter what I try!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I adhered some angel hair paper to the front for texture and Sue being Sue had die cut some bits and bobs that we might be able to use so I coloured one with more slate and stamped brick effect with PA mini <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/mini-95-4226-p.asp" target="_blank">MN95</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I added some more fabric and hessian lace and colouerd it all with claret, fortunately my book was already red so it didn't matter that this is translucent. I coloured some more fabric in the slate to bring it altogether added some glass beads finally added my street sign and lamp and rubbed a little Ruby treasure gold to highlight some of the texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I still have 4 cards to make during April so I better get a lick on then as I need to start decorating the living room with the rest of my week 'off'!! and maybe the hubby will take pity and help even with his bad shoulder!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">March brought two anniversaries (one, a big achievement) and one birthday, now I really struggled with the first one, it was my friends 13th wedding anniversary so I had 'teenager' going through my mind (I remember this well as I was 8 months pregnant at their wedding with our youngest who will obviously be a teenager this month). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I'm thinking Stampotique buddies and grungy, I chose purple as a base as that was the colour of the invites I made for them...probably too much thinking a not enough just getting on with it me thinks, which is what was making it hard work but I got there in the end by NOT thinking about it LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the card I made a pretty pink and purple master board, not my usual colour scheme but it was pretty. Now some of the more observant will notice the typo on the card, I couldn't believe it, never even noticed until my other Aunt pointed it out!!! O well just makes it more original right!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well Hello! How are we all this fine Friday evening, had a glass of something yet?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyhow, over on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/03/2016-topic-5art-dolls-challenge.html" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> blog the latest challenge is Art Dolls, now I must admit when I saw this I rolled my eyes and squirmed, I'm sorry but some of these you see on the internet really FREAK me out. However, having read through the blog post and after watching the first video I felt quite inspired, which at the end of the day is what it's all about isn't it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So a quick get together with my mucka Sue and last Friday we set about making an art doll based on the idea in said video, go check <a href="http://artycreationinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/paperartsy-topic-5-art-dolls.html" target="_blank">Sue's</a> out it's awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now a couple or three Christmases ago we started a clock project but never finished them so decided to utilise these within our art dolls. When I grabbed mine I wasn't happy with it though so set about painting with fresco paints and crackle glaze, I went a bit subtle for this (not the norm for me).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Silence fell as we contorted with the wire as it really does have a mind of it's own! Sue went for the tall and slender look whilst I went the short rotund look (I'm saying nothing!) mine reminded me of the Robot film, you know the one with the big bum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now Sue finished hers quite quickly at home after leaving, whilst I still had loads to do but I did eventually finish but had to keep waiting for glue to dry the heavy items in place before moving onto the next stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now Sue being really organised made us some faces from paper clay using her daughters old Barbie dolls as the mold, I inserted mine into a Tim Holtz pocket watch (that I bought years ago and never used but it keeps it in the theme of time) and added accent beads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If my dad were still with us he would have been 79 Tuesday so I thought I would use his old pocket watch (it's not valuable</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and not worked for years) as the focal point inside the clock and popped one of Lin Browns flowers as a back drop having stamped it onto my paint mop up paper. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enough waffling here's a pic of the final project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So that's me done, I survived what has been a crap week and a big thank you to my mucka Sue as she popped in yesterday with some flowers... arr bless!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well it's been a bit hard work here the last couple weeks, you know how it is sometimes things don't wash over you the way they should. So what's a girl to do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CREATE that's what. Now I've been to a couple of France Papillon journal classes and she really lives the emotional side of crafting, now I've never quite got there but I think she would have been proud of my thought process with this LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For anyone who knows me I don't 'do' black, either in my crafting (other than bits of accent you know!) or clothing, I find it a depressing colour and always try and be colourful in crafting and thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SO I started this with a layer pf black gesso because that's how I felt but as soon as I started to think about what I wanted to do I had to use colours but still wanted to show some black as that's where I'd come from (does that make sense?) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I used a stencil to ink up and heat emboss in clear embossing powder then as this stencil reminded me of peacock feathers (it probably isn't that but what the heck!) it had to be blues and (my favourite) greens with PaperArtsy fresco paints China & Granny Smith. I then wiped the paint from the embossed areas to show the bits of black!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A bit more stenciling with some grunge paste too ad some highlighting and shadowing with pencils, but I needed it to say something and came across a JOFY sentiment on a scrap of tissue paper however the text says 'hear the song within the silence' but I changed silence to chaos (as you do).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyhow I'm not sure about the emotional side but I certainly felt better after creating this, I really think it's the time spent just thinking about something else though but hey jump in and enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oooo hark at me! Two posts in one month, how about that then!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/02/2016-topic-3-wax-challenge.html" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> blog is a new challenge...all about wax!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, many many moons ago whilst in Richmond visiting my brother we happened across a craft fair in the town hall (I think anyway, it was a long time ago).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyhow, there was this artist chappy selling and demoing Caustic Art with little blocks of wax and an iron... how strange I thought, but I was hooked and bought a starter kit and as I was his only customer all day he threw in some beeswax too for good measure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did play at the time and made a few projects but since then said kit has been sat longingly just waiting to be played with again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My mind was racing when I saw the PaperArtsy blog 'Where O where is may wax?' I found a couple books with bits of waxy delights in and obviously there was the design team inspiration on the PaperArsty blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now the kids are off this week but my working from home job as been inundated, poor kids have been left to their own devices, not that they are moaning as I've been a taxi to the big un and the little un has been happy on his X-Box with the odd nag of getting some fresh air to come along on dog walking expeditions!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I melted some beeswax onto my travel iron! and scraped across the surface, then dipped some paper in the wax still on the iron to adhere this to the board. Now some people might be a bit daft and get wax on their fingers here!!! I tried to iron over the layers but they just seems to slip around a bit. I decided to add some colour, with yellow, green then a few drops of blue and a dash of red. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a while I used the white wax to colour in the petals and used the tip of the iron to melt this which diluted the colours, I liked this a repeated a couple more times and thought I'd leave this experiment there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you saw my last post I made a Birthday/Celebration Board to keep tabs on card requirements, so I thought it would be a good idea to post when each month activities were complete (in an attempt to blog more frequently) well can only hope! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First I thought I would catch up on January and just a smidge of Christmas (how long ago does that feel!!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When me and my mucka Sue go on craftin-tour her hubby on one occasion referred to us as Thelma & Louise so I made her this little wall handing for Christmas (wishful thinking on the Goddess front with the chosen images LOL) but it made them both laugh and was greatly received.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So all that was left for February were the dreaded Valentine cards. Now me & the hubby have never been big on Valentine not even in the 'heady' love struck days but we normally manage a card each. Well I make both of them as no-one in the household is aloud to buy shop bought cards LOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ...but some how ended up like this after finding some sprays I hadn't used yet and almost entirely utilising a load on mop up papers and bits of grunge paste but I must admit I like what it evolved into LOL AND I have a background for my next card/project...perfect!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SO... have you been hooked on all the Paperartsy new product launch this week and Leandra's Periscope demoing, it's been a blast, go take a <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">LOOK</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway the good news is that because of this busy week the latest <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/01/2016-topic-2-hearts-challenge.html" target="_blank">Blog Challenge</a> was extended by a week, Yay! so this gave me more time to get sorted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now in the past I have made my own photo calendars but the online template I used to use disappeared which meant having to change all the dates etc... myself and proved too time consuming so for the last two years I haven't had a calendar up so I'm really not sure how I've managed to survive and I have been late for birthdays on a couple occasions!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when my craftin mucka Sue came up with an idea for a </span><a href="http://artycreationinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/new-supplies-on-way.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">birthday calendar</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> this set my little grey cells 'a rocking an a rollin!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I usually pop into The Works when passing (as you do) and they had these lovely little wooden hearts attached to pegs and some larger wooden hearts, the plan was there...I had a tag swap display board in front of craft desk (I mean dinning table, well on special occasions anyway!) and thought it was time for a make-over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To start I squirted a little, <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">Fresco Paints</a> Nougat, Chutney, Turquoise and Pumpkin Soup onto my craft mat with a little water, creating a marble effect with a cocktail stick then tapped, swirled and splatted the hearts in the paint to create a variety of painted hearts, once dry I gave them a 'white wash' using diluted Nougat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just before I go, I cleaned the back of my cut and dry and was left with this amazing crackle effect, now if only I could produce that on my projects LOL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wanders will never cease, so how are you all? Merry Christmas...Happy New New Year and all that jazz, hope everyone had an amazing time and if not hope you just survived!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll do a separate post... maybe even this week </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for a catch up (</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">not promising tho LOL) but for now I'll submit this card I made for my brothers birthday to the <a href="http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/sdc226-trees.html" target="_blank">Stampotique Designers Challenge</a>, which is trees this time round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now my Stampotique collection is growing and I had a few lovely new men in my life for Christmas as I always struggle with mens cards (aren't they just awkward?). However the only Stampotique tree stamp I have is a Christmas one. So I thought I would initially use this in the background and have one of my new beaus as the feature but as usual I start with a plan and it evolves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Righty tighty...I created a background using said tree stamp on beautiful <a href="http://paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> paper with fresco paints, stencils and stamps, but it seemed a little harsh so on half (just in case I didn't like it) i toned it down by over stamping with a text stamp which still didn't quite do it so I brayered a light covering of limelight fresco paint over the top and that worked, here are the two different backgrounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So there you have it! Blog Land I have arrived in 2016! </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446562082115097465noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890647006630364653.post-10662123191662173872015-10-18T19:47:00.005+01:002015-10-18T19:47:54.371+01:00Paperartsy 2015 #19 Faces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well hello! How the devil are you, long time no see, I have been up to stuff but not as much as I would like!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So the current challenge on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/10/2015-topic-19-faces-challenge.html" target="_blank">Papertsy Blog is 'Faces'</a> Awesome! Don't you just love faces, they say so much but when it comes to capturing them on paper that's a different matter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple years ago I attended a Dina Wakley workshop to draw faces which eliminated a lot of the 'fear' about drawing them in a fun way. I now find myself doodling them when I'm hold on the phone at work but they all tend to look the same and someone suggested I should make them more 'real' so I had a go and typed in grumpy old men on google and up popped a picture on Sir Ian McKellen it took a while as as I only did the odd 10 mins here and there in my lunch break but was surprised at the result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So back to now again I googled people to to draw and saw a sketch of Daniel Craig Ooo I thought I could do something with that!! LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The likeness isn't that great (it's generally too thin) but as an experiment I like it.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446562082115097465noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890647006630364653.post-60461379403165774462015-05-04T13:51:00.001+01:002015-05-04T13:51:05.877+01:00France Papillon Workshop with Wynyard Warriors <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope this Bank Holiday Monday finds you all well? It's not even raining (well not here in the Midlands anyway) I've put 2 loads of washing out...amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On to the important stuff now. Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a workshop by the lovely <a href="http://www.france-papillon.com/" target="_blank">France Papillon</a> thanks to the the Wynyard Warriors in the North East.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The basis of the workshop was to create a coptic bound journal book, now my craftin mucka Sue was supposed to come with me but that didn't quite happen now some of you may recall I had a go at a coptic journal back in January and made Sue a book for her birthday. This advance play really helped with the binding bit yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we set off with the covers using loads of <a href="http://tworzysko.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Finnabair</a> products and various sprays followed by lots of tearing, folding and hole punching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">France is an amazing teacher and should you get the opportunity you should attend one of her workshops. Here are my completed pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what have I been up to? Well! My friend Sue and I decided it had been far too long since we had a craftin session together, way back in January in fact for her birthday so we decided a little me/us time was in order as neither had created anything just for ourselves or for the fun of it for ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We started by scarping some PaperArtsy fresco paints over a canvas with an old credit card, mine was all abstract and messy like while Sue's was more subtle and controlled LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sue had some new PaperArtsy JOFY stamps that she needed to ink up so they came along on the play date too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although we used pretty much the same stash we managed to produce very different final artwork, you can see Sue's <a href="http://artycreationinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/jofy-inspired-canvas.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Just awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we had a lovely session and I look forward to the next. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's my finished piece in various guises.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now sometimes you just have to take photos of things that make you smile and this is one of those quirky moments when I just had to stop the car get out and take a pic whether people round thought I was bonkers or not who cares!! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well it's been a while so thought I'd bring you up to date with my little creative madness!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't quite make it to the last batch of PaperArtsy challenges...life kinda got in the way as it does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So these first two are the valentine cards I made for myself and my hubby (I know it's not romantic making your own card but no-one is allowed to buy cards in this house!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then came March and I was invited to a 21st (I know at my age LOL), the background was made with my trusty PaperArsty fresco paints, I went down the traditional route of the 'key to the door!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now the plan was to make something for Leanne but as usual I didn't give myself enough time to complete what I thought was a simple little book and ended up being a monthly late but hey I got there in the end LOL. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally...thank goodness I hear you say I made this for my great nephew which made me chuckle anyway (if you look carefully you'll see a pic of him in the hot air balloon), the background again using PaperArtsy paints the block design was a variation of Dyan Reaveley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So to coin a phrase...'That's all Folks!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here we are again, two posts together in no time at all whoo hoo! This is the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/02/2015-3-repurposed-vase-by-wanda-hentges.html" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> blog by Wanda that got me painting bottles, I haven't really done it much justice but practice makes perfect I reckon LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I said in my last post I would paint a jar but not in time for the Sunday cut-off well I managed it, it's not the best in the world but I tried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a base I gave it a coat of iced blue then from the bottom I used Jade blending to Eastern Skies to the top, I gave it a coat of satin glaze but I'm not sure what I did wrong and it seemed to take some of the paint off but gave a rather nice effect so I went with the flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I then stamped the shadow stamp from ELB13 using prawn and eastern skies and over stamped with the house, I missed the line up slightly but hey hoe but the paint wasn't how I wanted it so I painted the colours, blending the blue just under the roof to give the effect of shadows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stamping the grass tufts around the bottom and the twinkles around the top, painting these with banana over a base of chalk to give more of a true colour (note to self next time ordering remember snowflake!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I used the left over banana on some mop up card and stamped the words cut these out and stuck them on, now I'm just debating whether to risk the satin glaze again or not?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pics aren't brilliant as it was night time but it's so dark today I don't think I'll get any better ones. I'm still thinking about about what to tie around the top and a label maybe but I have time yet as it's not mothers day for a few weeks yet LOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well over on the PaperArtsy blog there's another challenge go take a look <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/02/2015-topic-3-paint-challenge.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. This 3rd challenge is all about paint, and why wouldn't it be with the <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">PaperArtsy Fresco Paints</a> to play with and have you seen the new limited edition colours...Awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I don't 'copy' very well what others do as it doesn't usually turn out very well but I thought I'd have ago at Leandra's brayered background as I just LOVE creating backgrounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check out Leandra's video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KaciWl6rI" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what did I make? My daughters friend's granddad has been in hospital recently and they had purchased theatre tickets which obviously weren't going to be used so they kindly passed them onto Emily. As a 'thank you' I thought I'd make them a birthday book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Using a rather well known directory cover, for the cover I gave it a layer of chalk and then brayered away, using these colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I used a mixture of stamps and stencils to create the pattern, this is the outside of the book cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the inside I used the same colours but the opposite way round using the pinks as the base and the greens/blues as the focal point, it's amazing how different a piece you can create using the same colours. To finish I gave the covers three coats of Statin Glaze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the inserts, I used a piece of card just smaller than the book cover and folded it concertina style making sure there were enough folds for the twelve months and gave it a wash of colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each insert is made from a C5 envelope, (good quality ones that are a little over-sized so you can still fit cards & envelopes in) again brayered, stamped and then I printed the month and event table for the birthdays etc... to be written on. (The new PA months stamps would be awesome here). Then you just keep the cards in the appropriate envelope for when it's needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a jar ready to have a go at painting that but doubt I'll get it done before the deadline for the link on Sunday but I'll do it as I think it would be a nice extra for mothers day for my mother in law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well here we are again 2 posts in one night...now that doesn't happen very often!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now my mate Sue is going to be sooo impressed with this and I'm sure she'll make a comment or two...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why? do I hear you ask! Well back in Nov 2013 for my birthday Sue gave me this wooden arch and some craft stash to make something...well here it is... a little late but hey it's here LOL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In line with the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/01/2015-topic-2-shiny-stuff-challenge.html" target="_blank">Paper Arsty Challenge</a> I thought I needed texture to have some highlights on and some metal, first I stuck some lace flowers down and before going to bed decided to add some Texture Paste so it could dry and crackle over night. In hindsight it might be worth applying a base coat first as the paste bled into the wood a little.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I painted a piece of sewing ada (think that's what it's called) in Little black dress then added some gold-leaf (although it's multi-coloured) and then some more Turquoise to bring it all together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I stamped my images from <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/lynne-perrella-collection-003-3246-p.asp" target="_blank">LPC003</a> onto metal and embossed some of the areas to be raised (not sure technical term here) knowing the larger images was going on the ada I stuck this to a piece of card to make it easier to stick later. It took me a while to sort out the layout as originally the outside was going on the inside but I didn't like it and had to go back to the drawing board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eventually I assembled a load of metal embellishment and coloured them with the Turquoise, Chutney and Little black dress and treasure gold and stuck them on as the main pictures with a little bit of stamping to the outside too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's tiring this blogging lark, need to do housewifey duties or they'll be going to work and school in their birthday suits tomorrow, LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well! This is amazing, two challenges on the Paper Artsy website and 2 blogs by me, wanders will never cease!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So this next challenge is all about <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/01/2015-topic-2-shiny-stuff-challenge.html" target="_blank">'Shiny Stuff'</a> now I really like metal but don't always to seem to get the results I want with it but thought I'd give it a whirl as I had a card I needed to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off I mopped up after my daughter had been spraying her cotton wall ball trees for a school project which created the green background, I then ran this through a embossing plate and inked the raised sections with black soot distress ink and rubbed up to soften.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Using more of the mop up card I cut tattered flowers and again ran the larger layer through the embossing folder but this time I created a metallic look using Brushed Pewter Distress Paint, and <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">Fresco Evergreen, Hey Pesto and Green Olives</a>. This was mounted with some metal embellishments in the centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The main butterfly image was heat embossed with copper again on the mopped up card and coloured more with Pine Needles and Black Soot distress inks. I also coloured some butterfly ribbon with the Pine Needles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The card base was stamped with <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/hot-pick-xtra-01---backgrounds-3030-p.asp" target="_blank">HPXT01</a> & <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/hot-pick-1107-3134-p.asp" target="_blank">HP1107</a> dried and painted over with the Brushed Pewter paint as it was a too stark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did created another project on the same theme so I'll post this in a mo, see ya later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well this is only my second post on my new blog which time wise isn't that bad for me LOL!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In short I had to create a new blog as my email provider is no longer compatible with Google, I might be able to gain access to my old blog one day if I sit and take the time to find out how!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/01/2015-topic1-fragile-papers-challenge.html" target="_blank">PA Blog</a> they have started the new year off with a bit of a change in proceedings and the first challenge is all about 'fragile papers'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In May I am going to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">coptic stitched journal </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">workshop with the superb <a href="http://www.france-papillon.com/" target="_blank">France Papillon</a></span> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unfortunately</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> my best bud Sue can't make it to that one </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I thought I'd have a go at making one for her birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having found a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue52htX3j0k" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">You Tube video</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I cut and folded all the card and papers before Christmas with a view of doing the creative stuff over the holidays...but that never happened</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when I saw the PA Blog I thought...now there's an idea...this is the finished front and back covers which I must admit, I was eventually quite pleased with and Sue loved it which is what is was all about :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I did have a few problems on the way though, you know how it when you have an idea of what you want to do but half way through you're thinking Arrrh why did I start this? This was one of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So a quick reworking of the front layout and the back would just have to be the wrong way round! As we all know this is the beauty of hand crafted items...right? Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it LOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's all a bit long winded but hey ho that's the way it goes sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one’s all about techniques, we were asked to be
creative with our favourite technique. Now I love to try all sorts of
techniques and can be a little fickle and just tag along with the current
trend…but I do love to create backgrounds, to the point that I think it’s a
shame to cover them with a focal point LOL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had planned to do something Christmassy with a mosaic theme and use colours
that you wouldn’t normally associate with Christmas BUT then I saw this fat
quart bundle which really caught my eye and it was half price to boot and
everything was turned on its head!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But what was I going to do with it, it took me a while and
time was creeping ever closer to the deadline, so I just sat there for a while
then thought…stencils. A sort through of
my PA stencils found <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/paperartsy-stencil-001-elb-4684-p.asp" target="_blank">PS001</a> <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/paperartsy-stencil-002-elb-4685-p.asp" target="_blank">PS002</a> & <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/paperartsy-stencil-005-elb-4688-p.asp" target="_blank">PS005</a>, and then off to my stash of
<a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">Fresco Finish paints</a>, I wanted something that would complement the grey/blue of
the fabric but also something that would jump out and shout too and used
Marlin, Nougat and Blood Orange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Firstly I created a shaded effect with the Marlin &
Nougat using the leaf stencil from PS005; I was really pleased how this turned
out as I wasn’t sure I would be able to create the shade on the fabric. Then
came the Blood Orange with the wispy leaf from PS002, now I really liked this
and as it’s transparent you could just see the fabric pattern. As it had already
worked I created shading again using all 3 colours using the gorgeous flower
head and just had a play, finally I filled the gaps with the PS001 and a honey
combe stencil mixing Marlin & Nougat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and thought what to do next as a finished product, so I scanned it, as you do! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I scanned it producing a PDF and JPEG version and printed
the PDF onto normal card but I wasn’t happy with the colours so tried the JPEG
on matte photo paper and that was much better, I think it might be worth
putting a piece of white paper on top before scanning to get a more ‘true’
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily it’s my brother and sister in-laws wedding
anniversary in a couple of weeks so I thought I’d make a quick card. I used a
section of the scanned fabric as the background (you can always add more stamping etc... here if you like it a bit busier!) and stamped the hearts from
Darcy’s <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/eclectica-darcy-01-4326-p.asp" target="_blank">EDY01</a> with the Blood Orange onto an off-cut then mounted them on some
rich velvet paper and adhered them to the card in a cluster hanging from some
ribbon and sponged the edges with more Blood Orange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fabric from the bundle and applied a thin layer of Satin Glaze to make it a
little stiffer and easier to die cut, using a selection of PA Grunge <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/index.asp?function=search" target="_blank">Flowerdies</a> #1, #2 & #3 I die cut various flowers and created a 3D flower to
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