A New Pencil Pot..

made from recycling the centres

from two empty reels of tape.

You can tell it's handmade & that just

adds to my delight!

The bottom roll was from metal duct tape

& the top was left from double sided tape.

 

 Another view of the completed article.

Embossed metal tape with blue

metallic paint on it.

 Here's what they looked like to begin.

I was working on my Tombstone at the time

& while waiting for things to dry,

I was putting this together.

I covered them inside & out with white cardstock strips

& painted them with black gesso.

 I stuck metal duct tape to thin card & embossed

them all using Tim Holtz Bingo & Fragments

embossing folders.

I then pieced them together onto the pot

as I have seen Lorrimarie Jenkins do in

many of her altered book projects.

 In the bottom corner, you can see the top reel

just painted black on the outside.

I decided to put a little paint on the finished piece

just to highlight the edges. I didn't want a thick cover.

Altered Folder

This is my first attempt at an altered folder.

The folder in question was from back in the day

when I was an agent for Freemans' Catalogue.

I kept it for years knowing I could re-purpose it!

Here's what I did.

This first photo doesn't show the colour too well.

I used black gesso over Golden Pumice Gel.

I then glued on die cuts & added pearls.

Then coated the whole thing in black gesso.

 

Next I added metallic paints - dry brushing them

over the surface. 

In the next two photos, I have altered the

shadows so the blue/green colours

will show up more.

 This is the back.

I'm not entirely happy with how it looks,

but in fairness, getting the right light might have

helped my cause!!

It looks really streaky in this picture,

but it isn't in real life.

I house all my Memory Box & Spellbinder dies

in this folder. Memory box come in such

adorable envelopes, I didn't want 

to throw them out!

 The pumice gel was applied through a stencil,

Gothic Clover by Mike Deakin Art.

I'm wishing I had the Fleur De Lis for this project.

But I'm happy with it for a first try.

 

Dina Wakley Media - Show Us Your Media Gratitude

Challenge Month Five

Grateful for Kindness

First page for 2020 of this Gratitude project.

Kindness is an important part of my life.

Without it, I don't think anyone could cope

with daily living. So for my theme I went with

a circle background. It is to signify how

Kindness breeds Kindness in an endless way.

To begin I added white gesso to the page.

I then added Golden Light Molding paste

through TCW Stencil, Ring Doily.

Once dry, I added colour.

Dylusions paint in

Peony Blush / Cherry Pie / Crushed Grape.

I sprayed with water to get it moving.

Once dry, I added the same colours plus white,

with ghost stenciling using the same stencil.

This seemed too vivid once dry, so I brayered

gesso over the top to tone it back.

Next a bit of black background stamping

with a Bo Bunny background stamp

& also some French script.

After adding some DWM Collage tissue

in circles, I stamped onto copy paper,

my image from DWM From the Past.

I stamped her again onto light card.

I adhered the copy paper version,

added brown shading around her with 

Woody 3 in 1 880/630,

then stuck the card version on the top.

I printed my quote with the dymo label maker,

added to the page & used woody 880/334

to create shadows around the words.

To finish, I wrote my journaling &

added Tim Holtz Small Talk phrases

relevant to the words I wrote.

I just put that the world can be a better place

with just a smile or a few words. They might make

someone feel like they matter, at a time when

they may well be feeling very low.

Birthday Wishes

for my friend, Colette.

Today is her birthday & here is

the card I made for her.

 

 The paper is Cardboard Patterns,

 from The Works.

The ladies are from the set,

"Beautiful You" Stampin' Up.

I coloured them with my Aldi 

Metallic pencil crayons.

I cut them out, then adhered them to

the white panel over the blue shaped paper.

The design is based loosely on a sketch 

by Lydell Quin (Quintessentially Me) 

Happy Birthday stamp by MFT as is

the shaped scalloped border die,

used to cut top & bottom of the blue paper.

Edges all inked Altenew Persian Blue. 

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Art Journal page for my Colour Exploration Journal.

A nice wintry feel to kick off the New Year Blogging.

I began this page with gesso.

Once dry, I applied my first colour, 

PaperArtsy Blue Smoke in vertical strokes,

taking care not to hit the edges.

This was overlayed with Wolf Eye.

Once dry, I added my final blue layer,

using Iceberg. I made this far more watery,

spraying it with water to create a running,

dripping effect down the page.

I dried it all well & then stamped with

a free snowflake stamp from Craft Stamper,

in Blue Smoke.

Once dry, I added Golden Light Molding paste

through the Tim Holtz Crossed stencil.

I printed my focal image, adding a light blue vignette

to it as I felt it would help it blend better

to my page than plain white.

I added text stamping with two free stamps

from Simply Cards & Papercraft issue 182,

"Let it snow" & "Walking in a winter wonderland"

I dry brushed gesso lightly to knock back the

stamping & to add splatters.

After adhering my image, I went in with

Stabilo Woody 3 in 1 pencils;

800/405 Ultramarine, 

800/470 Turquoise

this added just the right amount of contrast

& shading. To finish I added Tim Holtz

Christmas Clipping stickers.

New Year's Day Birthday

Happy Birthday to my brother in law, Martin.

Martin adores Border Collies.

As I have no new motorcycle stamps,

I figured I would make him a dog card.

These pictures were found online & neither

had names or watermarks so I can't credit

the photographer.

The papers are from out of my die cut books

I added two strips of washi tape,

in black stripes & turquoise.

I die cut the banner & added stamping.