Paradise Wall Hanging

Ingredients

• Chipboard
• Chipboard letters (CWC)
• Acrylic paints – burnt sienna and burnt umber
• Coloured guilding waxes
• Distress inks
• Metal brads
• Cropodile and eyelets
• Organza ribbons
• CWC stamps
• Guilding flakes and glue
• Craftwork Cards paper pad – Paradise
• Stickles glitter glues
• Sissal string
• Metal charms

I have been working on some home decor to give my living room a paradise theme so I had to get some of the Paradise papers in somehow! I cut some strips of chipboard and painted them to give a wooden crate effect.  After gluing them and adding brads and turned the the chipboard letters which were covered in papers, stamped with gilding flake glue and added flakes.  I then went around the edges with distress inks and guilding wax to hide the raw edges.

  

To finish I had glittered up a page of the butterflies from the pad and cut out a whole load with a scalpel.  They were shaped and added all over. Metal charms and some paper flowers from the same pad were added.  Finally I used my cropodile add eyelets for the string and for some ribbons.

      

Spring is Here!

Hurray the days are getting longer and the flowers are starting to bloom!  To bring the Spring indoors this year I’ve made a few items.  First up is a hanging wreath made from chipboard, craftwork card flowers and bows and candi, some ribbon from my stash and a polystyrene egg that I painted (see below)

Next up is a really low priced nest from Hobbycraft, some polystyrene eggs and some floristry wire.  I made a pale blue, yellow and green from my acrylic paints, I also had a yellow-green lustre effect and gold metallic acrylic.  Once dry extra details were added with stickles glitter and liquid pearls.

Finally I had a good play with the Spellbinders daffodil builder die to make half a dozen heads from Craftwork cards paper.  The yellow petals were made using the reverse of an orange pattern paper and coloured with squeezed lemonade and mustard seed distress inks.  Before adding the stamen I put a loop in the end of some floristry wire and poked it through for a stem.

Latest Tags for February

This month I have made four tags with the latest Craftwork Cards collections this I wanted to share..’'.

  

 Velvet Plum and stamped with ‘Love’ on candi pieces. Tag was from essentials collection and coloured with distress inks.

 More Than Words: Tag was a yellow base coat tag and elements and words were scalpled from the papers.

  Truly Scrumptious: this one was different for me and I tried to play mainly with a single element from the papers and coloured it with watercolour pencils and liquid pearls

Butterfly Parade: what a beautifully effective kit!  Tag was from the Base Coat set and the butterflies have been glittered with stickles.

Stamped Art – Sheena Douglass Magical Range and Aquatints

First up I have a wall hanging (all card and ribbon) that I am calling Four Elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water).  The stamped detail was done with black embossing powder and then painted in with Aquatints and Twinkling H2Os.

The next picture features the same angel stamp plus sentiment.  This was stamped and coloured with a single colour of aquatint.  The moon and rays (not visible in the photo) were done with a pearl blue H2o.

 

Lavinia Scenescape Door Hanger

Technorati Tags: Lavinia stamps,twinkling h2os,fairies

This one was so fun to make!  I stumbled across a magazine with a free set of Lavinia Stamps and downloadable scenescapes.  Quick, easy, free and very beautiful.  Essentially you print off your scenescape (go for a good quality white paper or card) and then you stamp away.

It was so easy that I had to add a little extra.

Ingredients

• Lavinia Stamp Set (free with magazine)
• Black matt card (for matting)
• Ink:  Archival Black and a bit of blue distress ink for the stars
• Cosmic Shimmer Glitter
• Twinkling H2Os on the wings and flowers
• DoveCraft alphabet stamps
• Diecut flowers from my Stix2 kit