Smash book from gelli prints

As promised from the last post, here are the photos of the finished smash book - just asking to be filled. The front cover on once stamping and embellishments were added. The bottom layer is a yellow and green acrylic with gold 'Golden' paint to give a sheen:

 

Inside front cover:

 

 

Gelli printing experiments!

This Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a workshop at Art From the Heart on gelli printing, run by the very talented Kate Crane.

It's a while since I've been on any kind of workshop and although I haven't got a gelli plate I wanted to do something that would fit with my current favourite branch of crafting....art journalling. And what can I say - it was ace!

Working in a pair with craft pal Catherine, we got to grips with how things worked and got a bunch of good (and not so good) prints.... but what a great learning experience. After lunch we turned our faves into an item of our choice. I created a smash book.

So, now for the onslaught of photos. You have been warned!

Ready to go:

First prints - using sail boat blue toned down with another colour I can't quite recall.

Adding a second layer to two of those first prints.

Going for a striking one layer look on textured card:

This one I love!

 

 

Cogs on top of trees - honest!



And then I cut down and mounted one as a cover.... added stamping and embellishments. Really trasnforms it.... oh dear....can't insert the image. Well, more on this later folks!

A few projects...

Here's a selection of the projects I have been working on recently. I was so taken with the canvas techniques I was introduced to at Craftathon and intrigued by the world of Art Journalling a la Kate Crane that actual cards have taken a bit of a back seat.

So this is what has been on my workdesk....

A butterfly inspired canvas:

A fairy canvas

A card using an acrylic block as the 'stamp' - just stamp on distress ink direct to the block, spritz with water and stamp (as featured in Craft Stamper magazine). It took a few attempts!

(Oh dear, can't get it landscape....it is a landscape card!)

Again inspired by Craft Stamper - experimenting with acrylic paints:

Craftathon 2012.....and a new direction!

This afternoon I got back from "Craftathon 2012" where I met up with some CMLI pals for the weekend. What a great trip and I got to try out a whole bunch of techniques I've never tried before. Thanks to Kathy, Cherry and Clare for being patient whilst cries of "I'm stuck, what do I do now" were uttered from my direction.

Here's the canvas panel I made using distress inks, gesso and loads of 'found' objects. I am itching to have a go at another panel so will probably be purchasing some supplies very shortly. This is a new direction I'd love to go in....

We also made charms using shrink plastic. It's totally scary the way it shrivels up under the heat gun and I just know if I had tried this on my own at home I would have thought I'd done it completely wrong rather than needing to heat it MORE!

Kathy has a full run down on the weekend on her blog.

Back with a bang...or should that be sparkle?!

Well hello there everyone! I hope you had a lovely summer, it certainly feels like there's an autumn chill in the air in our neck of the woods.

This week sees the restart of Bows and Berries challenges and CMLI on Craft Bubble. So Robin set us a nice and easy one for B&B - just use glitter!

I've used this new digi called Hilly Neighbours and coloured with Promarkers. BP is My Minds Eye with a frame from WhichCraft. The glitter swirl was freehand glossy accents sprinkled with 3 different glitters in silver, grass green and burnished gold.

The DT (and we have some new members!) are all on top form this week so pop over to have a look and show us your glittery creations :)

DT call for Bows and Berries

I have the exciting priviledge to be on the Bows and Berries design team. We have a new 'term' starting in September and Robin's looking to add to the team so has put out a DT call. Let us know if you're interested! I always find the challenges a ton of fun :)

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Here's the message from Robin's blog.


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Design Team Call!

We have a talented bunch of girls on our Design Team already and we would love to add to our brilliant bunch!! If you would like to be a part of this team, we would love to hear from you!

To Apply for a position on the Design Team

-Send us an e-mail telling us about why you would like to be on the team and add a link to your blog so we can have a peak!

- Be happy to meet a deadline bi-weekly, post comments on players entries{we divide the comments between DT memebers}, blog about the new challenges and releases, or any special sales Bows and Berries is having.

-We would like to spread the word about Bows and Berries Digital Stamp Shop, so would be a bonus if you like to enter your work into challenges!

-You will receive free images for Bows and Berries challenges.

- This term commences in September and ends in January.

- DT call open until Sept. 9th. We will send confirmation emails to new team members on Sept. 10th

You can email applications at bosenberries@gmail.com

Look forward to hearing from you!

Nautical Tilda

I got this nautical 'Dangling Sea Anchor Tilda' image as a little pressie in a birthday card group and this week's nautical theme on CMLI was the perfect opportunity to use it. I was also dying to use the new additions to my Promarker collection, et voila!

Craft pal Jan recently did a card with a spine which reminded me that I hadn't done one in a while, so partly inspired by her too.

Details: Tilda coloured with PMs as mentioned, die cut and layered onto bazzil with Nellie Snellen oval set, background versamarked with stamps from Little Claire's beach hut set and chalked over, with eyelets and ribbon from stash. Anchor buttons from Mei Flower at a recent craft show.

Entering this into:

Craft Us Crazy - Anything goes August

Cooking it up with Katie - old, new, and favourite (old = ribbon, new = image, favourite = chalking)

Truly scrumptious - buttons and bows