Vintage Journey Challenge & and Art Journal Page

My first piece of art is for challenge 2

A Vintage Journey - Say it with Words

I made my background spraying various homemade sprays

mixing distress re-inker with water.

Colours used; Broken China, Peacock Feathers,

Salty Ocean, Dusty Concord.

Edges blended with Chipped Sapphire & Archival Black ink.

Corner bird stamped - Prima-  embossed black.

Tim Holtz phrase - embossed white.

Die cut clock &bookplate.

Stamped Tattered Sparrow.

Other stamps Tim Holtz background stamps.

Spring (Birds)

 This second piece of art is my 5th Art Journal Page.

This was started over a week ago.

As I visited my sister last weekend,

today was the first chance to complete the piece.

Stencilling, dry wall tape, die cut birds

& swirls. Stamped birds nest & floral sprigs

die cut words & TH Chit Chat sticker

all make up this page.

Now it is complete, I wish I had done it

quite differently! Typical that!!

Oh well, the technique in mind can wait

for the next page.

Painted Tea Cup & Cabbage Rose Flower

It's my birthday today & so I have had

the luxury of a craft day at home!

I had been away to my sister for a long weekend

& didn't see the point in returning to work just yet!!

 

A while ago I bought a china white cup & saucer

& made a start painting it.

I used Artiste Pearl Acrylic paints & pearl medium to

create this gorgeous blue/green shade.

 

 

My next issue was, what to put in it!

So, it sat on the shelf empty for a month or ten!!!

Then, a couple of days ago, while watching a friends You Tube Channel,

I came upon this cabbage rose tutorial by this very

crafty lady, Lee (crafty loops)

Sadly my rose is not as gorgeous as Lee's but it is my first attempt!



Art Journal - Time

This was meant to be page one!

However I just wasn't happy with it,

re-created it and now it has ended up page 4.

In my first version, I coloured the faces of each clock & they just lost all definition

& meaning because of course they are the important elements.

Also the Da Vinci style wings (free cover stamp CS)

turned out far better in this version.

Finally, the original version was wild honey,

I much prefer this purple/blue colour!!!

 

 

My background was created by making up my own distress ink mists.

I used re-inkers - Chipped Sapphire & Dusty Concord (with perfect pearls)

You won't be able to see the pearls,

but I added a bit of interference blue to the purple mix.

Clock faces are white gesso & then stamped

with my Heidi Swapp clear stamp set.

Lady Time as I like to call her is PaperArtsy.

I used Tim Holtz weathered clock

plus some free cover stamps from CS

journal strips computer generated.

 

Thanks for looking hope you like it!

Happy Birthday, Dad & Vintage Journey Challenge!

Today is my Dad's birthday & I made the card below.

Typically I was quite poorly last weekend and it was a struggle to complete

& photograph. so the image is poor :(

 

This next card is for A Vintage Journey Challenge

Anything Tim!

This is a brand new challenge blog which has some very

 talented people on the DT. Go check it out!

 

To be honest, they are both totally Tim Holtz but I guess my

Dad's birthday card does not really fit with the

Vintage/Shabby theme.

 



 

I got to play here with some of my favourite techniques!

Wrinkle free distress, lemon juice distress

(to add nice aged spots to my design)

except these came out a gorgeous caramel colour.

And, I also used the Perfect Distress technique.

The writing isn't too clear  under the fragment but it says

Its the little Things that makes life big.

A TH stamped quote.

 

Thank you for looking :0)



Art Journal Page 3

Technically this is page 1. I started a page about TIME

the first week in January. However, I hated it.

I went on to make France & Butterfly House,

but kept adding to page 1 here & there.

It just didn't work, I covered it with this page instead.

 

Materials Used;

Golden Gel Medium, Gesso.

Reeves Soft Pastels.

Adirondack Die Ink Pads.

Prima Floral Stencil, TCW Mini Ledger Stencil

Stamps; Cats Life Press - Happiness Definition

& Stampotique Jo Capper - Sandon Bees

Faber Castell Big Brush Pitt Pens

Orange paint

Archival black Ink

Distress Stickles Clear Rock Candy (bee wings)

The background is made using "hand made tissue"

to do this I took white tissue paper (Crafty Individuals)

& I over-stamped with French Script & CI script stamps

it was then attached to my page with gel medium.

 

 

Finally, many people know I have a thing about clocks & books.

Few people know I also have a thing about mugs!

Yesterday while out shopping

I purchased this fabulous baby!!!!

(for just 99p I should add)

 



Second Art Journal Page - France

I am very pleased how this turned out :)

I started the page by cutting up a whole 12" sheet of paper and then sticking it to my page randomly.

The paper I used was Madame Payraud from Papermaina

 I used a sheet made up of advertisements and had the image of the Eiffel Tower.

 I put them the right way up but thought they looked better

moved around as opposed to laid down as a whole sheet.

I then applied torn pieces of the Madame Payraud Tissue over several sections to soften the imagery.

I got the idea for the frame from this Art Journal Page by Shari Caroll

The main image was printed onto a piece of canvas. I bought it some time ago from a website.

I covered the frame with the tissue paper as well and coloured it with ink - Frayed Burlap.

I added gesso circles for some interest and glued the word PARIS cut from the paper.

I then took an Inkylicious stamp to add random swirl imagery around the page.

Once dry, I covered the whole page with regular golden gel medium to seal.

The word FRANCE is die cut using Tim Holtz Chipblock Alphabet from

a piece of card covered with metal tape, coloured with Oregano & Espresso Alcohol inks.

To add a little more interest I added a die cut door hinge inked and embossed.

Shading was applied with a Pitt Pen - Big Brush in Raw Umber

and some colour to warm up the greys & browns with Purple Violet.

I

Happy Birthday, Hayley

Today is Hayley's birthday. She is my beautician.

I decided on a minimal card with a French theme.

All the products she uses for my monthly massage are French.

 

This is the front

Tim Holtz Wallpaper stamp using Picked Raspberry Distress Paint

French Stamp - B-Line Designs.

 

 

I used the same wallpaper stamp using Brushed pewter.

Heart is a Craft Stamper free stamp

second generation stamping with Grey Versafine.

 



I added the same heart on the back using the same

Picked Raspberry Distress Paint.



I LOVE stamping with Distress Paint!!!!

My First Art Journal Page

 

I have wanted to start an Art Journal for the past year and decided I would begin in 2014.

I had planned a page a week, but so far I have two started that I feel are not quite complete.

This one I feel would be ruined by anything else added & another one just begun!

I based this page on image transfer after watching this Donna Downey Video.

Materials used; Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Golden Gel Medium, Butterflies from Swirlydoos,

Memory Box die cuts, Jenni Bowlin letters. I die cut a mini house with Silhouette Cameo.

Stamps by Cavallini. My page is based on a book I read

The Butterfly House.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to share it but I am so happy it turned out well!!

Art - inspired by Storage?

You bet!!!

I just bought some new storage.

I have to craft in my living room and so I bought

book boxes and chests to disguise my stamps & dies!

 

I loved the browns and the French imagery.

So I decided to make this mini canvas to match.



 

 

I used Madame Payraud Tissue and the butterflies were

cut from a sheet of the matching paper.
I coloured it using oil pastels & painted the edges
with Burnt Umber Acrylic paint.

The Eiffel Tower was part of a wooden design

& I added a small Wood Veneer Studio Calico Bicycle.

Then while preparing my evening meal I found this little guy!

My very own Heart Shaped Spud!!!



Birthday Number Three, Happy Birthday, Rachel!

 

Crikey, three birthdays in four days. That has to be a record!!

Well today it is the turn of Rachel (aka Taniwha)

Again, Rachel,  is a scrapper friend of mine & I decided that

as she had a scrap style Christmas card, I would do a mixed media birthday card.

 

I am quite pleased with this, it turned out better than I imagined & I got

chance to play with some forgotten art materials, my soft & oil pastels.

 

 

I won't bore you too much with the detail,

 but basically I glued book text to a piece of watercolour paper.

I applied white gesso to the surface & once dry

I coloured it with the soft pastels, adding oil pastels at the edges

to give a darker frame effect.

I stamped the background with TH Attic Treasures

& Elusive Images - Paris Postcards set of 4 plates.

I die cut the bookplate (TH) & applied gesso then antique linen distress paint.

I added a touch of brushed Pewter distress paint too.

Added Madame Payraud -  Washi Tape strips

an Xcut die cut swirl & Memory Box Butterfly

which was stamped with text. Adding two brads for decoration.

Birthday Number Two, Happy Birthday Pauline!

As I said yesterday, it's Pauline's birthday today.

she is a scrapper friend of mine but I decided on a

mixed media card for her birthday.

I incorporated my fav technique of the moment;

stamping with paint!!!

 

 

 as I love the mini doily so much I made it a feature on the back.

 

I used TH Wood & wallpaper stamps

Crafty Individuals Girls on Beach stamp

Die cut circle frame

Marion Smith Designs paper

Madame Payraud paper tape

That Special Touch Stencil - Delicate

Memory Box die - Honeyblossom

TH Die cut swirl

Coloured girls with Distress Markers

 

see you again Monday for birthday number three!!!!!

hint another mixed media card....

Birthday Number One, Happy birthday to Kath!!

Kath, my aunt has her birthday today.

I am not going to tell you her age but it is a big birthday.

I made this stamping with an inked glass block using wild honey

then I stamped the Urban Stamps Madame Payraud Postcard stamp.

I then added a bit of text stamping & the die cut birds & lamp posts.

I added detail with Jo Capper-Sandon's Stampotique Bee

& the other part of the postcard set, which houses the greeting.

 

I have 3 birthdays this weekend so pop back tomorrow for birthday number 2, Pauline.

Then on Monday it is the turn of Rachel, for birthday number 3!!!

A Thank You

to my sister & brother in law for my lovely Christmas presents.

I had hoped to share with you a page from my journal but have decided I really hate the

colour.... thank crunchie for Gesso!!!

It really is the defender of all evils!!

Anyway the card above was made to send my thanks

& it was simply done with two memory box dies.

I've had a few days off work & made 4 cards for up

& coming birthdays.

I'm also off work after Tuesday for a week :) & I

have an online class lined up along with some more

craft tidying up & I have also promised myself that I will

make a few Christmas cards in readiness for the festive season.

Penny's Birthday

My craft friend Penny had a birthday on Friday.

Now to say she is an Alice Cooper fan is

not really enough words to explain her passion!

Naturally her card needed to feature the man himself

so huge thanks to Andy Skinner who just

happened to have two great images on his website.

 

Front of card

 

inside of card

 

The images were added using image transfer.

Inkjet printer and sticker sheets.

I used distress stains, inks, texture paste & stencils.

My stencils are by Julie Fe i- Fan Balzer

I only wish I had lightened the background more.

New Year, New Craft

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope 2014 will be filled with crafting delights for all my friends.

I started my first page in my art journal & this year I am going

to share each page. It strikes me the only way to be arty from now

until May when light is poor, is to create small do able pages.

More on that next week.

 

My forum friend, Carol had a birthday this week.

Normally after Christmas I am a tad rushed.

She gets a card I feel I don't put enough effort in.

So this year I started it early!!!

 

My design is based on a tunnel book.

 

 This is the inside of the front design.

The part with the girl was stuck to the card front.

Products used;

Distress re-inkers neat, swirled on watercolour paper

TH Stamp - weathered wallpaper

Corner stamps from my stash

Girl - Paper Bag Studio





This is  a canvas I fell in love with in July.

Alex Clark has an art gallery run by her mum right near my sister.

She bought me this for Christmas, I was thrilled when I opened it!!!

I love the colours, they are so yummy.

 



Last Post of 2013

I hope you all had a lovely, relaxing Christmas.

I wish you all a wonderful New Year.

I hope you all find more time for craft in 2014.

 

I will leave you with a final design of 2013.

My forum friend, Anne has a birthday on

Christmas Day & here is the card I made for her.

 

 

Paper is Websters' Pages

Stamps - Tim Holtz - Paris to London

Die - Tim Holtz Cabinet card

Technique - Shabby Chic - from

Creative Chemistry 102

Clear Embossing ink & powder

black & pink paint



Christmas Cards

Cards made using TH CC102 technique Distress Paint Resist.

Stamp by Papermania, Stars die cut & heat embossed tinsel silver.

Backgrounds;- various inks & stains.

Carol, Karin, Kaz & Penny.

 

 



 

Pictures from my photo collection.

Scrap paper - Lemon Owl - Cozy Winter

Bauble - designed & cut by Silhouette Cameo.

Katie - Labrador, Claire - Westie

5 baubles made for train gang

3 birds in snow for my scrap shoppin' girls 

More CC102 distress paint resist using Hero Arts Music Stamp.

Card die cut on Silhouette, deer - Memory Box, & Fence - DieNamics dies

using big shot & added along with stamped trees.

Bird & cages TH die. Swirls - XCut die

Merry Christmas - Cheery Lynn designs

 



Close up of cage to show it is embossed with Papermania

Gold (shellac) & while wet some gold glitter dropped into it. 



Swirls stamped with music stamp, bird covered with paper from Lemon Owl Cozy Winter.

Birds & cages - Tracy (sister)  & Hayley (beautician)

Woodland cottage in snow - Dad, Kath (aunt)  & Craig (hairdresser)

Two Birthdays

I know it seems like I have been away a long time, but I have

been very busy creating in the background.

Some things are for others that I do not wish to blog,

others are for up & coming birthdays.

I'm also busy working on two mini-books.

 

 

Anyway here is card one,

this was made during my latest Silhouette Cameo Class,

Hello There - Kerri Bradford.

I made both the envelope & the card using basic shapes!

 

This second card is my favourite!

It is a mixed media piece using inks, stains and paints,

with stencils, embossing folders and stamps.

This one is for Karin, a crafty friend, who had a birthday this week.



Products used;

Tim Holtz Retro circles Texture Fades Emboss folder

Crimson & Blake 180gsm watercolour paper

Acrylic paints - Docraft Artiste - sea spray, baby blue, soft grey

Crawford & Black - burnt umber

Gesso

Distress Stains - Salty Ocean

Distress Ink Pads:- Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot

Archival Jet black Ink

Stamps:- Hero Arts French Writing, B-Line Stamps Paris, CI Swirl

Stencils; Prima Butterfly Floral, Stencil Girls Bird in Window

I particularly love how the swirl is the birds breast. ♥ I used burnt umber on the emboss folder

& pressed down onto the watercolour paper. Dried quickly, smeared on some gesso, dried it & then applied

the blue paints. To colour up the image I dampened some folded kitchen towel, pressed it to the tops of

distress stains bottles; seedless preserves & Victorian Velvet & applied in a dabbing motion.

I inked over the prima stencil with chipped sapphire ink using blending tool, but the final image, the window & bird,

I inked over black soot. what a lovely dramatic effect it gives. ♥ ♥

Happy Hallowe'en

Crikey, two posts in two days!!!

But, I had to share this.

It is a forum challenge and obviously aimed at today!

 

First picture is a close up so you can see the headstone.

 

This next picture shows the entire piece.

It was so hard to photograph so I had to use the white shelves.

The main piece slipped as the shutter went & it is not stood as it should.

The main skeleton is hanging freely.



Materials used;

Black cardstock

TH Cabinet card die & Mini Cabinet Card die

Skeletons - Stamped by my friend Karin

Background piece is an Urban Stamp Steampunk image

inks used - Seedless Preserves/ Dusty Concord/ Spiced Marmalade

Fired Brick distress inks

Crow Fence die cut - Loni Stevens

Tombstone & Crow die cut - Loni Stevens

Coffin die cut - Silhouette America

Leafy Branch - Kerri Bradford - part of a class kit

Cobweb - dingbat free from Dafont.com

all cut with my Silhouette Cameo - Camille (pictured in the post below)

Page 1 of 3rd Album

This page is made using a brand new paper collection.



Glitz Design Finnley! ♥

I fell in love on sight and had to have it!

The bold colour works well with my page images.

This page is all about my love for my Silhouette Cameo.

(I have named it, Camille ♥)

The page is made using techniques I learned from Kerri Bradford's classes.

I have learned so much, I am so pleased I found her site ♥

I included photos from her website of two of the classes and they work so well

with the colours in the kit.

Die cut shapes all using cameo plus the honeycomb back.

Paper used;

Both sides of Drip

Both sides of Multi Triangle

Reverse of Stripe

journaling created as a print & cut file

file tab, created as a print & cut

title - Kerri Bradford

I cut it out twice & stuck together for depth.

 

I have had a few days off work as I was feeling tired and wanted to

work on a forum challenge piece for Hallowe'en.

The piece is complete and I hope to share photos soon :0)

Happy Anniversary!

Tracy & Martin. xx

 

Paper is Melissa Frances, used a TH Sun Ray mask over the top  then a cut out

swirl using Antique Linen Distress ink.

Layered my elements up (clock is Echo Park)

Butterfly- Memory Box.

I designed this card & as I like it I used part of the design

on the Golden Wedding Anniversary Card

below that I was commissioned to make.

Golden Wedding Commission

This is the front of the box card.

I created it for one of my work colleagues, Dawn.

Today, 17th October is her parents (my clients)

Golden wedding Anniversary.

 

 

This is the inside.

Vanilla cardstock embossed with

Secret Garden Folder.

 

 

This is the framed window.

I used my silhouette cameo to draw & cut

the perfect oval shape.

I then cut a second oval for the words.



 

This is the card stood up so you can see

the sides more clearly.

The cardstock used for the sides was some

hammered vanilla which was quite strong.



Finally, I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut a box

& as there is no where to write on the card

I made this tag.



Materials list;

Vanilla Cardstock

Papermania Secret Garden Embossing folder

Kraft cardstock

Box - Lori Whitlock cut file from Silhouette Store

Swirl - Tim Holtz

Clock - print & cut file - Echo Park

Ornate Tag - Bird

Flowers - Prima

Frame & tab - Xcut die

Silk roses - Make & Create

Leaves - Marianne Die

Papermania Stones & pearls

Ellison Design - Big Shot

Silhouette Cameo

Words - Computer generated

Final Page of 8x8 Album 2

 

Finally completed album 2!!

Enjoyed this one. I used my new found design skills

to create my own print & cut page accents with my

silhouette studio and cut them out with the cameo.

Materials list;

 Pink Cardstock (to match flowers)

Paper - Studio Calico English

Strip brown cardstock

Mini coloured brads

Leaves - silhouette cut - Kerri Bradford Studio

Bicycle - silhouette cut - Ashley Harris

 

My Own created Silhouette Cuts;

taught by Kerri Bradford Studio

Journal Tag

Photo Tab - Corbridge

Diagonal stripe paper strip

Min sub title banner - Tea Room

Title - Martha's - Lauren Script font

 

This next picture is a cute hand bag mirror I picked up today for 99p

I fell in love the moment I saw it.

There was a square one & a heart shaped one,

but I like the image on this one best.

It has inspired me to make a card!!!

 



 

This is inside. I have no use for

the bottom magnified mirror.

I have Astigmatism in both eyes & find looking in

magnified mirrors very uncomfortable so

I plan to do something else!!! ;0)

 

Hybrid Layout - 8 1/2 x 11 & A Card

 

This is my first attempt at designing a layout using my silhouette

studio software, following along with a class

by the Fabulous Kerri Bradford!!!

It was designed totally on computer & then once happy

with placement the print & cut items were done

& then I printed the title directly onto the page with

the date & the splatters. Finally I printed out my photos

& then cut the word "and" out of blue cardstock to match.

 

Below is a card I made for my friend, Marion.

It is a decoupage design using Lucy Cromwell.

The label which says happy birthday was printed off & cut with the silhouette.

The label was designed by Bird. I just added

the box & wording to the centre.

 

I have my 12th 8x8 page of album two ready to share,

most of it designed & done on my silhouette cameo

using silhouette studio software, but too dark for a decent photo!!!