Kaleidoscope of Colour

I know, another post already!

This week, Linda and her talented team are showing colour and lots of it, over at Simon Says Stamp and Show - and ask us to join in.  So, I took my fabulous Dylusion sprays and stencils and my journal.....

I've used distress inks for the stencilling - walnut stain for the letters, and seedless preserves for the border.
I really need the rest of the sprays now!!! (may just have to go shopping...)

Compendium of Curiosities 2, challenge 4

On Friday, Linda published her latest challenge from the 2nd volume of Curiosities (available from Tim here)
The technique is called Faded Layers and is on page 43 - can't tell you more, you'll need to check the book!

This is my second effort as the first one didn't come out how I wanted and I'm still not sure! If I get time before next week I may try again....

 I used the new shaded lilac (fast becoming a favourite!) bundled sage and vintage velvet, with pumice stone for the over inking.

Thanks Linda for hosting another great challenge - despite my frustrated efforts I enjoyed this one!!

An unexpected afternoon off

I was given the afternoon off today, quite unexpectedly so it meant I had time to play - and it had to be with the new spring edition distress inks again. First off I was asked by a twitter friend Anna, to use the purple again. I made some ATC's:

 The one on the left is shaded lilac onto the atc, then the circles (crafters workshop template) are seedless preserves.  The bird and the text are stamped on white card which I coloured with shaded lilac under a light layer of peacock feathers - love this colour!!
The ATC on the right is coloured with the same two inks, only the blue is underneath (and it's a cream coloured atc blank not plain white) and I threw some drops of water at it.   Apart from "she flew" (Wendy Vecchi) all stamps are by Paperartsy.

 Then I used the squeezed lemonade ink onto a tag, shaded the edges with the lilac which blends to a bluey greeny colour. which I quite liked - but then I used Dyan's luscious leaves stencil with the peacock feathers and it's hidden most of the other colour!

The Paperartsy stamp is stamped onto one of their kraft paper bags that I brought home some show stash in, I added a few touches of twinkling h2o's on the label and the dragonfly, not sure how well it shows up.

This is a journal page I started yesterday, first used Dyan's alphabet stencil with the lemonade ink (it is very pale on the page) added the same leaves as above - inks are iced spruce and bumping done with evergreen bough. The flower stencil has wild honey.

The Paperartsy stamp was done in black archival and I've added pan pastels for some colour blending.

Finally, I was taking a break and got up to make a cup of tea, when I saw this chap in my downstairs neighbour's garden, typically he turned as I took the picture and by the time I got to a different window to try again, he'd gone!! They are as bold as brass, aren't they, urban foxes!!

A Purple Passion for Paperartsy

The title of this post is a bit of a laugh, because Leandra (Mrs Paperartsy) doesn't like purple and we like to tease her on twitter... however, I was keen to carry on playing with my new distress inks - this time I've just used the shaded lilac one (with a bit of dusty concord for contrast)

Anyhow, I made a tag.... all stamps are by Paperartsy (for which I have a passion!)

I started by smooshing the  shaded lilac ink onto my craft sheet and spritzed it with water, then dragged the tag through it several times - it is a very pale colour this way of using it, (but has a very dreamlike quality to it); so I also inked the edges of the tag with my blending tool.

Stamped the flower several times over the tag with dusty concord, spritzing with water for a faded, watercolour effect.

Roughed up the edges with the paper distresser, and inked the edge of tag with black soot distress ink.

 The flash bounces a bit, but as it's pitch dark there's not a lot I can do...






Finished off with a Paperartsy moth stamped in black archival on silver metal on card (also Paperartsy) but the flash in the top photo makes it look a coppery colour, the one below sort of shows it's true colour!

I finished the journal page..

that was on my "desk" for WOYWW.

 this is how I left it yesterday...

 and this is it, finished (probably!)  I added the spiral  (free from the Craft Stamper for June, courtesy of the Artistic Stamper) and it's a fab spiral!!

the sentiments are stamped on scrap of white cardstock, and edged with the new peacock feathers spring distress ink.................

 which arrived with me today!!! These pics show them on a manilla tag, and white cardstock....LOVELY colours...

and this is my finished tag.
stamps by Tim Holtz (of course!)

I know this will be my THIRD post today, but - there you go!!
I had to use these new inks, didn't I!

Behind the Mask - DD Tag It On

Hello and welcome to another round of challenges from Dragons' Dream. Thanks for playing along in our Secret Garden last time.  This time for your tags, we are setting you recipes and our teamie Elizabeth, has given us this one:  Stencils, paint and script.  You have to do a tag, and you must use at least one real stamp and the ingredients - but other than that - get cooking!

 These are my ingredients - tag, Crafters workshop 'brick wall' stencil, Paperartsy Fresco paint 'mocha mousse' Wendy Vecchi's running man (though he's climbing the wall here!) idea-ology from Tim Holtz. The script stamp is by 'a bird in the hand' and is still my favourite script.









I sponged the paint through the stencil with cut and dry foam, dried it and them placed the stencil back to mask it so I could stamp the script (the failed side is on the reverse where more script ended up on the mask rather than the tag!)

I then outlined the bricks with my white gel pen.

WOYWW 152

Happy WOYWW to you all - thanks for dropping by last week. I've had quite a busy week craft-wise and have been playing around in my journal again (see previous post). It's also the day for our next Dragons-Dream Tag it On challenge - but you'll have to come back later to see that one!

So, what do I have to share with you today? No Distress Spring inks cos they are in transit to me as we speak.. but I can't wait to get them - what gorgeous colours they look! No Altered Book homework (again!) as it is still no further ahead than the last peak...oops!

I had Tuesday off work to wait for British Gas to come and do my annual boiler service - cue "it's getting old the parts are hard to get we recommend you get a new one" speech... so I had some time to play...

A partly done journal spread - and if you look closely you MAY see a WOYWW anniversary ATC that I started today - but it's shy and in hiding!!

Methinks I need to re-organise my die storage box - this is down by the sofa, in the doorway and in the way full stop! also it's over full (hence the handful as I try and find the one I want... it's always the last one I check as I usually forget to store then name upwards in their packaging!


So, have a good Wednesday (or whatever day you get here) surfing the craft spaces of the known universe.