My Blackboard

Hello, once again I should be doing something else buy I am here instead - on hols tomorrow so I am taking a sneaky time out to show you the card I made last Sunday for the Paperartsy blog challenge.

Darcy made a stunning floral blackboard piece which I loved and I have made my version.

First I die cut the "black board" and painted with little black dress Fresco paint a couple of times. I use 1 flower die I got with my Monday Madness Mystery box and some leaf dies coloured them using Frescos and stamped with a script stamp, I decided they were a bit bright so covered with a light silver paint.

I have been wanting to do a background with the treasure gold, so I used by brickwork and ledger Stencil with grunge paste, and mixed 3 colours together, I left the middle as this was covered up.

At this stage I couldn't find my chalk so used more grunge paste the an alphabet stencil instead, and made some paper chalk.

Finished card!

I would like to enter into this weeks challenge at http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2013/08/challenged-by-darcy-wilkinson-and.html

I hope you like the project, please leave a nice comment.

Thanks 

Jules x

Fish Tank

Well I should be cleaning as we are away next week and my niece is housing sitting but I am here....

I loved the Paperartsy blog this week, and decided to use Leandra technic of mixing paints to make metallic ones. I won the new fishy minis last week so had to use those and I was also inspired by the blog from Suzz Czosek where see took a block of wood and turned it into this fab project 

http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2013/08/suzanne-czosek-special-10th-birthday.html 

So here is my very quick attempt

I used a block of wood which has been in the bathroom for months now - no idea why - and made into into a fish tank.

I made a card base. Mixed my own brown paint as I don't have that fresco colour yet and painted a little cabinet. Making some cupboards and draws and using treasure gold to highlight.

I also punched circles into card for my on template to use with the grunge paste as again I don't own one of them yet either it worked well but can only be used once.

Using beach hut and a silver paint I made this lovely shimmy blue wash added a few "ferns" using my JOFY stamps. 

If I had more time I would have made a lid as well but I like the result.

I would like to entry this into this weeks blog challenge over at 

http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2013/08/challenged-by-carol-quance-winners.html

Now on with the cleaning Booooo!!

Dare to Dream

Morning, I have been inspired to create this card after watching Leandra at Paperartsy's new video. I have also mixed in Michelle Webb's white lines and I love the results with that. 

I have gone darker and mixed a real blend of Fresco paints as the background, then 

I used a piece of grey board and grudge paste through the harlequin mask and used a selection of small stamps to create the extra texture effect, over the top I used the blend of fresco paints again and silver embossing power, this was sanded back to reveal the pattern.

I stamped 2 Lynne Perrella stamps and coloured to match added a few embellishments and

Finished card 

I would like to enter the card into http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/ blog challenge for this week!

Mannequin Tag

Hello
I have had a great Sunday which has involved not leaving the house, sorting craft things and of course making a few things.
Hope you like:) 

 I started with a large white tag and die cut some Tim Holtz Tattered Florals flowers. I then stuck these down and using my ledger mask covered with grudge paste, dried and painted white.

I used a craft work cards pre cut mannequin and covered in with a script stamp and coloured with inks.

I used a wash of orange, pink and red paint to cover the tag and then sanded back. I stamped out a key and covered in gold flake. Then added a greeting, metal embellishment and some ribbon.

Finished project!

I hope you like this and will leave a nice comment.

Thanks 

Smiles

 Smiles 

Hi welcome to my  first ever blog, I decided to do a fairly quick and easy card as my first project. I hope you like it!

Above are some of the materials I started with, a pretty 6x6" sheet of paper, Craft work cards die cut birdcage and bird, Tim Holtz tattered florals die cuts. 

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First I inked and stamped the bird with distress inks and glittered the edges, I also did the same with the birdcage. Next I took a sheet of white Craft style white circle embossed card and used the die to cut some of the smaller flowers and used distress dies to bring out the embossed circles.

Matt and layered the paper on to Kraft card, cut and ink a paper dollie and stick onto the corners on the card, layer this onto a white 8x8" card blank. Distress more using a script stamp randomly over the page. Ink and glittered the kraft card.
Punch small circles for the centre of the larger flowers, add these to the top left hand corner and one at the bottom.
Stamp the sentiment again onto kraft card and ink the edges, I find the best way to add ink is with a blender tool or cut & dry foam.

Add the bird and cage with a small flower and gem. Metal embellishment is used at the top to fill a blank corner. 

Finished card.