A Winters Meadow

Hello , I am in full Christmas making mode! I decided to make keepsake plaques for my family this year, and this one is for my sister.She takes several holidays in the Lake District each year.When I saw this charming Hobby Art stamp at the Alexandra Palace in September I thought it would make a perfect Christmas card for her.

I watercoloured the image and flicked my brush with white paint to create the snow.I love to use elements from nature so I chose a gorgeous piece of birch bark to mount it on and then added a pine cone, curly moss and a gorgeous pink berry.

How are your Christmas /Winter crafts going?

Thank you so much for visiting me today.

I would like to enter A Winters Meadow into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper Take It Make It 

Stamps and Stencils Pastels

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Happy Little Stampers Christmas

Snowy Feathers

I was thrilled when I had the winning bid on eBay for this darling Indigoblu Robin. I knew my parents would love him so I created this plaque especially for them. For once I was actually pleased on how it turned out, so I decided to use the same idea to make a card. You can read the details about  how I made the card on the Indigoblu blog.



I hope all you Christmas craft creations are going well, thank you so much  for visiting.

I would like to enter Snowy Feathers into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper

Noor Designs Winterr

Jingle Belles Not A Creature Was Stirring

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Anything Goes

A Snowy Stroll To Church

Earlier this year I made my sister a Lake District 3D card for her birthday.She loved it and asked me if 

I would make a similar Christmas one for a friend. I have been busy creating it for the last few days, the stamps are by Crafty Individuals, and Clarity Stamps.

So I have started my Christmas crafts for this year, which of course means glitter absolutely everywhere!How are your Christmas /Winter crafts coming along?

A view from above

The card folded all ready for its envelope.

I have medical appointments this week, I seem to think up most of my crafty ideas staring at waiting room floors !

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Christmas Challenge Blog

Rudolph Days Challenge

CHNC Christmas Challenge 

An Autumn Wave

Aloysius is happily waving at you through the tumbling Autumn leaves, I hope you are waving back!

I stamped the gorgeous Aloysius and then drew him an arm as he wanted to wave at you. I gave him some colour, and then fussy cut him.I was very careful not to nip him.

To make a small exploding canvas, I painted the inside back of the box canvas, I used Indigoblu paints in Hot Cocoa and Leather Corset and I also added some Penny dreadful luscious to give an Autumn gleam.

I Used Warm Tan To paint  the front of the canvas and when the paint was still wet 

I crumpled up some copy paper and pressed it onto the paint.It left  lovely texture from the creases.

I cut the middle section of the canvas into four diagonally.

I then created a background for Aloysious using the same texture technique as before.I repeated this process again on another sheet of card to create my leaves from.

I die cut numerous leaves from the  painted card and after crumpling them up, I added flitterglu and Chocolate Box megaflakes  to make them truly shine.

Aloysius made himself comfortable on the background card, and I added some leaves  around him.

Next I adhered each of the four flaps to the front of the frame and proceeded to decorate the frame with lots of leaves, small pine cones, and twigs.

I adhered the background to the back of the frame.

 A sentiment or message could be stamped onto card and then cut out and added onto the canvas. If you do not have leaf dies or punches you could draw and then cut out the leaves.

Take a peek at the Indigoblu blog to discover what the rest of the wonderful Indigoblu team have created.

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Craft Stamper  Anything Goes with stamping.

Penny Black Close To Nature

Stamping Sensations Autumn Glory

Country View Crafts Mixed Media with Autumnal Hues 

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies

Words To Craft By Autumn 

Vintage Journey Autumn Colour 

Products Used

Nemesis

I am not sure I can call this an art journal page, as it is not actually in a journal as my journal is full! So  I will just call it a mixed media page! I have just purchased a Jane Davenport journal with watercolour pages, so I am looking forward to that arriving.

I started by browsing images of Nemesis, and then drew a very rough sketch.I used Watercolours to add some quick colour, and added megaflakes to the sword and scales of justice.

I stamped and heat embossed various branches on my background paper. I then used a wooden window stamp and stamped it twice. I should use my wooden stamps more often than I do. I have them all in a art bin and I don’t retrieve them very often.

I then Die Cut  lots of  leaves, and also coloured them with watercolours and added a dash of gold and copper megaflakes here and there to add some Autumn shine.i adhered them to the picture along with some natural elements from nature.

Thank you for visiting today, and many thanks, for all of the kind and supportive messages I have been receiving xx

I would like to share Nemesis with the following challenges.

Craft Stamper  Anything Goes with stamping.

That’s Crafty Forever Autumn

Penny Black Close To Nature

Stamping Sensations Autumn Glory

Country View Crafts Mixed Media with Autumnal Hues 

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies

Words To Craft By Autumn 

Noor Design Fall/Autumn

Vintage Journey Autumn Colour 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour twist Gold

Drifting Into Autumn

It seems my hopes for an Indian summer are well and truly over, as we find ourselves drifting into Autumn.October is full of crisp golden leaves fluttering from the trees, so I decided to try and recreate that scene for my  Indigoblu project this month. I recycled some items, and foraged Mother Nature for other Autumn treasures.

A step by step tutorial is on the Indigoblu blog.

Thank you so much for visiting, and happy Autumn !

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Craft Stamper  Anything Goes with stamping.

That’s Crafty Forever Autumn

Penny Black Close To Nature

Stamping Sensations Autumn Glory

Country View Crafts Mixed Media with Autumnal Hues

Always Fun Challenges Dies/Punches

Noor Design Fall/Autumn

Products Used

November Craft Stamper

It is always a huge honour to be published in Craft Stamper! I am thrilled to share a sneak peek of my “Everything Will Be Ok” card which is in the fabulous November issue. I used a gorgeous Phyllis Harris  Stamp, I love her art!

It looks like it is going to be another fantastic Craft Stamper issue!

You can get a copy of the magazine at  www.craftstamper.com or buy subscriptions, www.mags-uk.com for single print copies, digital copies from www.pocketmags.co.uk 

Thank you xx