Autumn Colours - Lavinia

I've fallen in love with zentangle!

So, I was trying to figure out how to incorporate it into  'Autumn colours' for this months challenge.

What do you think?

I started off  by stamping and heat embossing, with copper, the glorious dancing fairies.

Then I drew in the 'beams' coming from their hands and feet.

Then came the tricky part, I had to cut a positive and negative mask! 

wow that took a while

Then I used a yellow distress ink to highlight the beams,

used the other mask and a stencil I had made and added the leaves and then the sky with more distress inks

then I had great fun deciding which zentangle patterns to use and filling the beams with them. 

I did highlight the fairies and beams with a white pencil, because before I did that everything seemed to merge together a bit. 

It seemed to work 

so that was fun :)

Making Pretty Things.

So today I decided to make some pendants using Pebeo Fantasy paints.

What I like most about them is that every one pretty much comes out different.

You just take a tooth pick, dip it in the paint, drip it onto the pendant, use as much or as little as you like add another colour or type - they come in Moon or Prisme - stir or don't 

and boom you have a unique work of art in miniature!

I tend to stick them to a board with blue tac so that while they are drying they don't get knocked over

they do take a while to dry (24 hours to be safe) and they also change as they dry, developing new interest. 

Beware they can become obsessive, both while making them 

and also for checking back to see what's developed

 

I can't decide which one I like best.

What do you think?

A little bit of Sheena

 So Sheena!

 

well I do love her stamps and ideas and tutorials. she is my biggest graft hero :)

although I am not really a big flower fan and a lot of her stamps are flowers I do still have most of them! after all flowers always sell!

but I love it most when she brings out stamps that are not flowers! 

the mystery stamps I love the best :)

one of the things I like the best is that Sheena has a gallery of inspiration for all of her stamps and I must admit I do copy (with the odd change) a lot of her inkoids cards. see below :)

 

my favorite of the mystery stamps is this fantastic goblet/ glass also the swirly, leafy corner  stamp

A wedding card perhaps? Or just a declaration of passion!

Its Christmas! - with shaving cream

A couple of weeks ago Caron and I were playing on our craft night - Caron's turn - and she thought we would play with shaving cream, we tried this a year or so ago to mixed results. Some were fantastic! others, well we just over did it in our enthusiasm! too many colours and too much stirring!

This time I think we did it right :)

and to top it off Caron produced some double sided sticky sheets and glitter. Yummy

When we had finished it was, well how to make a card with this as backing paper? 

no way I'm going to hide it by covering it up with a topper!

Hello the Cameo! 

I did go around the edge of the cut outs with an alcohol ink pen just to make them pop a bit

  

I think they came out quite well :)  

What do you think?

 

and what about that fortuitous bit of accidental pink pollution which just happened to land in the perfect spot! 

Add a flower - Lavinia Stamps Challenge September

Well I started a blog so that I could enter the Challenge but I discovered that I only had one flower stamp from Lavinia which is the tiny flower group so having brought the zentangle butterfly at the Ally Pally show last week I decided to use this to make my main flower

 

I stamped and heat embossed - in black sparkle - 16 of the right wings!

Then I cut them out and painted them with H2O paints

 

I then arranged them in a circle and using pinflair glue angled them at a slight tilt - all of this on a small piece of acetate which once it was set I stuck to the backing paper.

 

I made the backing paper by heat embossing the small flower group onto white card in a variety of different colours. 

I then used distressing ink to make the paper blue and sprayed the card with water to give it a slight (and in the photos invisible) mottled look.

I then used fine holographic glitter to pick out the centre of each flower and used a slightly larger grained holo glitter to make the centre of the butterfly wing flower.

Oh, I edged the background with an x-cut punch and square gems and corners with heart shaped ones

this weekend

I went to Alexandra Palace, Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show. it was great.
I discovered glitter paste stenciling :) and once again was tempted - and resisted - a gelli plate. I'm just not impressed by the price! a similar case is pan pastels, if they last so long why can't they make a smaller - and cheaper - pot, or even a starter set at a reasonable price!
Anyway that's not what this is about !
I also went to see Kris Kristofferson the first time I have seen him and I have loved his music since I was about 14. was sublime.

I made a new style card yesterday with some stamps I bought at Ally Pally.

 I used various green distress inks.
Stamps from inkilicious and indigoblu
A couple of embellishments made with images from Craft Artist Professional put in a bottle cap and covered with UTEE and popped out of the bottle cap.
Some green glitter paste over a dandelion stencil
and some organza ribbon coloured with distress ink and threaded through holes made with a ribbon punch.
was quite chuffed with the result and Steve liked it. Still it was green! lol

OK so this is making a blog!
Be nice when I can figure out what I'm doing!!
Reading instructions, trial and error will be the order of the days to come no doubt.
So why am i doing this you or I might ask me or myself.
Well an awful lot of people are writing blogs so why not hop on the bandwagon?
Caron keeps telling me that I should, to show off the cards I make hmm ......
and frankly why not?
Ok so I make cards, among many other things, but 'making things' sums me up pretty well as I am always making something unless I'm reading. which doesn't happen so much as it used to as now a days I'm -you guessed it - making something!