I discovered today that my little Christmas box (3 inch square) won the Readers Challenge in Papercraft Inspirations! I gave this box to my Mother for Christmas and filled it with lip balms and little chocs.
I made the box some time ago with some beautiful Forest Magic stamps which came with the magazine. I wrote a few words about it here.
My talented friend Sandra's gorgeous card was published too!
Thank you so much for visiting. May you have many happy days in 2017!
The main image is by Crafty Individuals, I chose this stamp after I was luckily chosen as winner in one of their challenges.
I stamped and water coloured the images. I fussy cut them out and detached the umbrella from the children. I made a snowy background with Watercolours and adhered the children to the texture paste and glitter snow. I used foam pads to hold the umbrella in place to gave it some depth. The Let it Snow stamp is from IndigoBlu's stamp set Sparkle and Glisten
Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope to see you again soon.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
Penny Black and More Anything Christmas
Fashionable Stamping 'Tis the Season
A Bit More Time To Craft Anything Goes
Do you have a folder of backgrounds which you have created but haven't used? I know I do so I pulled a colourful one of them out to use as my base for this picture.
I firmly taped my elephant stencil down with some masking tape. I swept some texture paste over the stencil with a palette knife, I wanted to give the elephant a cracked rough elephant type skin so I used a sponge (an inexpensive make up sponge) and pressed it into the paste and then quickly lifted it up. I have never used crackle paint, but you could probably create the same appearance with that.
When the paste was completely dry. I put the stencil back over the paste and carefully stuck it down. I used Rangers Cool Graphite dye ink to colour the elephant. I really should give him a name.... I think I will call him Bernie. I dabbed a sponge into the ink and dabbed it all over until Bernie was a glorious grey colour.
Now Bernie is often hungry so I quickly painted him a few apples, and coated them in glossy accents. When nice and dry I cut them all out.
I stamped a bird on a little piece of card and cut it out and sat him on Bernie's back. I added few green stamped branches and leaves, and glued the apples amongst them.Now Bernie is ready to have a feast!
Please join in the fun and add your project to this months Mixed Media Mojo
Challenge Harvest with a Twist of Fruit.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
Artistic Stamper Anything Goes
Stamps and Stencils Take Flight, the bird is getting ready to fly!
For this months challenge at Mixed Media Mojo I decided to create this simple little 6 x 6 chipboard mini book.
I used watercolours to go over the sea and waves and added some sand texture paste to the bottom of the cover to create the beach effect. When the sand was dry I painted over the top of it it with watercolours.I also glued some real shells onto the beach.
You may like to try a recipe by Tim Holtz to make your own sand. I don't have any of the products he used so I couldn't do it, but if you have those items you may like to give it a try as it looks interesting!
I stamped my sentiment over the sky in Archival ink, and finished the book by adding lots of threads and ribbons to the bookrings.
I love Phyllis Harris stamps, and this lovely little girl is another of her wonderful creations! I had a lot of fun creating a Summer Meadow for her to wander in. Craft Stamper have very kindly published it in there August edition, so the details about how I made her meadow can be found in there.
Let's hope the sun starts shining for real soon!
I love water colours they give such a delicate look, and are so easy and quick to use.
I used a Santoro stamp which I found in the sale at Hobbycraft! I then coated the Tando Creative butterfly with gesso and coloured with water colours.
Thank you for visiting today
I would like to enter this into the Tando Creative Watercolours Challenge.
and Stamping Sensations Challenge One For the Girls
This week I have been busy making 50 identical invitations. I have done about 14 so far, and well they are not all quite identical!
I took a break from them, to join in the Unity Challenge on Facebook which is to use the colours Teal and Grey. These are not my most favourite colours so this was a real challenge.
I cut the butterflies out of some very pretty tissue paper.
Thank you for visiting.
Don't forget there is plenty of time to enter The Mixed Media Mojo Challenge which this month is Recycle with a twist of using Metal.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges
Stamping Sensations Challenge One For the Girls
I stamped Forest Friends by Penny Black with black Archival ink onto water colour paper. I love water colours and I used them to colour the beautiful deers.
I created a background with dye inks and stamped a tree branch, then added some pink flowersoft for blossom.
Thank you for visiting.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges.
Penny Black Featrue a Creature
All Sorts Challenge Spring Is In The Air
