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!