Long To Reign Over Us

I have made this very special crafty cake to celebrate The Queens 90th Official birthday this month. Happy Birthday Your Majesty.

God Save Our Gracious Queen

Long Live Our Noble Queen

God Save The Queen

Send Her Victorious

Happy And Glorious

Long To Reign Over Us

God Save The Queen

 

 

I hope you will take part in this months Challenge at Mixed Media Mojo. The theme is Fit for a Queen in honour of the Queens official 90th birthday this month. The twist is to use Gems/Jewels.Please take a peek at the the design teams wonderful creations for more inspiration.

I look forward to seeing all of your beautiful projects.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper Lets Get Inky I used 5 different colour inks on this project.

Artistic Stamper Red Blue and Yellow

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #21 Glitter there is a lot of glitter on this special cake!

 

Winnie the Pooh and the Queen !

I Love, Love, Love, Classic Pooh by A.A.Milne and E H Shepard. Today a story has been released where Pooh meets the Queen. He  reads her a special hum, which he wrote. It is just wonderful!
Of course on 14 th October this year Pooh himself will be 90 years old.

Here are some of the many Pooh Creations I have made over the years.

Clumber Park

 

I was surprised and delighted to have won the Indigo Blu Challenge. I was invited to be a guest designer for this months theme which is "May All Your Dreams Come True"

I used the lovely Clumber Park set for this scene, which I choose for my winning prize!

In my dreams I am healthy and able bodied and my beloved dog Tammy would still be with me. We would be walking together through this beautiful park. That really would be all my dreams come true!

 

I used a lid from a round box for the base. I stamped the lovely dog, ducks and the reeds, and carefully cut them out.

I added some brown fun flock to the top of the reeds, to give them a more realistic look.

 

I die cut a tree and covered it in gesso and painted it with water colours. I also coated the box lid with gesso and painted it. I made a little lake on the top of the box, and filled it with glossy accents to give it a watery glossy look.

 

I glued the flying ducks onto some thin wire and poked the wire into the top of the lid, so they could fly happily over the lake.

A view from above.

 

Thank you for visiting.

I would like to enter this into the following challenge

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

 

 

Alice in Wonderland Swap

 

These are the lovely Alice in Wonderland ATC's I have received. I have thanked everyone individually, but many thanks again.

Thank you to Marion for organizing it!

 

Two page spread in Craft Stamper !

Today we went to W.H.Smith and I picked up Craft Stamper !

Party in the Forest

Yipeee it's party time in the forest and crowns are the order of the day. And of course no party is complete without balloons !

I used a circular box lid for the base which I covered in old book pages. I also cut thin strips from the book to make the tree.

The Crowned Bunnies stamp by Crafty Individuals is just adorable, I coloured them with water colour paints.Some white flowersoft gave them a nice little bunny tail.

I used Magic plastic to make the balloons, that was an experience!

Thank you for joining the party in the forest today.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

Crafty Individuals Anything Goes

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations Anything Goes

 

Amazing Nail Art

My goodness can you believe this! Beautiful detailed scenes painted onto nails! With my eyesight problems I don't think I could even see that little brush ! My favourite is the snow scene.

Magic is Something You Make

 

For the canvas I used a chipboard backing from a paper pad and coated it with gesso.

I glued layers of tissue paper on the top part of the canvas. When dry I used watercolours on top of the tissue and then stamped the sentiment. The remaining canvas was coloured with dye inks and splattered with watercolours.

I made the flowers with strips of fabric which I rolled around and around into a circle. Some twisted green net became its leaves.

I finished by adding a little sparkle and some cross stitches in a silver thread.

Thank you for visiting.

Please take a look at all the fabulous projects from the Mixed Media Design Team we have a fabulous guest Designer this month Ingrid. I hope you will join in with the challenge this month, have fun!

 

Happy 9Oth Birthday Your Majesty

Created by Jane Perkins

 

Long May You Reign Over Us !

This beautiful art work was created by Jane Perkins who recycles old items and creates something new and beautiful with them!

I am planning to make something special for the Queens official birthday in June. So I must put my thinking cap on!

Have a Happy and Glorious Day everyone.

 

Create an Acetate Overlay Frame

 

 

Beatrix Potter would have been 150 years old this year, so I decided to mark the occasion with this overlayed framed picture.

 

To create the overlay I used alcohol inks onto an acetate sheet. I wanted to be careful to frame the picture, so I traced around the outline of the key points of the photo. Because the alcohol inks go on the back of the acetate, I flipped over the tracing.

 

 

Place the acetate over the tracing and hold in place with masking tape.Alcohol Inks give a random pattern especially when used with blending solution. I used an ink blending tool and added a felt piece, select the colours you wish to use then dab them onto the felt in your chosen pattern. Add a drop or two of blending solution so the colours blend together.

 

You can create patterns for flowers, leaves anything you can think of.

 

 

The colours blend nicely with the blending solution and give random effects, some are nice some maybe not so good ! You can always wipe away any parts you do not like with some solution on a clean cloth and gently wipe.

You can use the same colours, the same photo and it will come out very different every time.

When you are finished and the inks are dry remove the tape, and turn the acetate over and place it ink side down over your photo.

Did you spot the little Peter Rabbit I added ?

 

I hope I have inspired you to create some overlays. They are fun and easy to make.

Below is another picture I created using the same method.

 

 

Don't forget to add your art work to this months challenge at Mixed Media Mojo which is Recycle with a twist of using metal. Everyone of all experience levels is more than welcome to take part.

Most of all Have Fun ! I look forward to seeing your creations.

 

 

Dreamy

 

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

Flutterbye

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

That's Crafty Face Value

Tando Creative Watercolours

Stamping Sensations Challenge One For the Girls

 

Guest Designer Craft Stamper spring Flowers

Today I was fortunate to be a guest designer at Craft Stamper Magazine. Thank you so much.

I created this spring meadow of flowers for their Spring Flowers theme. I stamped the grasses first, then stamped and water coloured the flowers before cutting them out. I curled up some of the petals to give them more of a realistic look. Then I attached them with a 3D pad.

Thank you for visiting today.

Alice in Wonderland

I made this especially for this months challenge at Artistic Stamper which is All Things Distress. This lovely Alice in Wonderland stamp is made by Artistic Stamper,but it is several years old so I am not sure if they still make it.

I water coloured the images, and placed them on an Indigo Blu vintage paper with a pocket watch on it. I ran an emery board around the edges to give it a more distressed look. I think the poor creature being put into the pot is very distressed indeed !

Must dash I'm late for a very important date ! : )

George picking flowers

 

Created by Jannet Blay http://gillslap.blogspot.co.uk/

It was a lovely sunny spring morning, so George picked up his basket, and skipped into the garden. He wanted to pick his Mum some flowers, because of course he had the best Mum in all the world.After he had picked a few George felt sleepy and gently snuggled down on the soft grass for a nap.....

I started making George's garden with a biscuit box and I covered the sides in lovely Indigo Blu papers. Green felt made the grass , I just scratched it up a bit to make it more fluffy.

 

Well no garden is complete without flowers, so I die cut a few. I then used water colours to add some colour to them and added a pearl dot in the middle.

I made the stems and leaves with some green wire.

 

Now George needed a basket to carry the flowers in, so I plaited some paper together to make a basket.

I put some lovely yellow ribbon with tiny pom poms on around the top of the sides.

 

 

George was getting impatient so I quickly coloured him with some watercolours and placed him on top of the grass. I then added lots of the flowers around him, so he was very happy and content.

This is going to be a gift box so I covered the bottom with some more Indigo Blu papers and cut a little door into the bottom. I think some chocolates or a gift card etc would fit inside ok.

I used an array of different medias to create this, I hope you like it.

Thank you for visiting George today, he loved seeing you.

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I would like to enter George Picking Flowers into the following challenges

Indigo Blu Challenge Yellow, Pink, Green

That'sCrafty All Things Bright and Beautiful

Creative Artiste Anything Goes

Vintage Journey Spring Is In The Air

 

All Things Alice ATC blog swap

 

These are my three Alice in Wonderland ATC's for the All Things Alice blog swap, being run by Marion.

I hope all the Alice fans will like them !

I printed out a page of text from the story which I found here and lightly coloured it over with several different colours of inks. This became my background for the ATC.

I decided to use the new Alice stamps by Carabelle Studios, which I love! Water colouring is my favourite way to add colour to stamped images. I much prefer it to pens or pencils.

I added some white pearl spots to the toadstool, and stamped some more images onto the background.

Thank you for visiting please let me know what you think.....

 

Tammy

Today it is 16 years since Tammy died, I still miss her everyday. She helped me to cope with all of my health and disability problems. Life is much harder without her by my side.