Down in her Garden

More than half way through January and another new challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow. The theme is 'Fibres and Textures'. [not just ribbon and lace].
This time I decided to look in my material scraps box to see if any could be used as a layer for my card.

Well its not very square, but it was just what I had in mind for a background layer.

Next came the muslin , closely followed with some waste scraps.  To make the bow, I sprayed the honeycomb waste with gold, this made it quite stiff and easy to gather up in the middle.
The rose is made/molded  with wax and coloured with mica powder.  I have made a promise to myself to get more use out of my melt pot this year, it has been gathering dust for months on a shelf.
The little girl  is from Graphic 45 Secret Garden stack.
All the layers were stuck down using a  material spray adhesive, its great stuff it even worked with the card stock.

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Fly

Last week, while visiting blogging friends, I came across this Art Journal workshop. It is called Journal 52
So I went to find out more. Every week there is a prompt for you to interpret and some inspiration.

The prompt for Week 1, was 'Up, up and away'.
It is a real family joke, when one of us says, ' pigs  might fly'.
Especially  if it refers to anything or an event,  that would be hard to imagine ever happening.
Materials used-
mesh from a fruit carrier, grunge paste, jar tops, spray inks , stamps and cut out pigs.

The prompt for Week 2, was, 'Somewhere a simple place'.
For me, I like nothing better than being away in our caravan.
You can be relaxed, there is practically no housework, the scenery is wonderful, the company is great,  of course the craft stash is smaller but I do fill the nooks and crannies with as much as I can.
Materials used-
Cuttings from a caravan magazine, Graphics 45 paper trimmings.

One of the things I have never liked is seeing my own writing, I hope these workshops will help this mini  phobia and get me  out of my comfort zone.

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Appreciate what is.......

Been using up some cut out scraps, mainly from Graphics 45 paper pads and decided that the best way to use them was in my journal book

There is not much  I can tell you about the backgrounds other than, they are mopped up and blotted inky  papers and stamps
On the left I've enlarged the words so you can read them.

Here are the completed pages,  I had to stop myself from adding more.

I used a Wendy Vecchi stamped  images on this one.
Now I know why I didn't put them away from another project, she was just right for this page.


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Listen to your Heart

'Hearts and Flowers', is our first challenge of the year over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges.
Please pop over to see what my design team sisters have been making and get all the details, including the generous prize offered by Flonz Crafts.

This time, I  decided to make a small hanging. There is always bits of old packaging in my craft room, this corrogated piece was painted with acrylics and sprayed with  a little gold mica spray.
The next layer was another left over piece that had been dry embossed in a rose Embossalicious folder.
Both the heart and wording  stamps I used were from  a  Wendy Vecchi-Studio 490 set. . I used a Cosmic Shimmer green,  heat  embossing powder for them both. All the extra shading was Bundled Sage and Antique Linen distress ink. Trimmings all came from my stash.

I hope to share this with
 Ali-Craft, - monthly challenge #8 is Anything Goes
The Artistic Stamper -January Challenge- Love is in the Air

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Follow your Heart.

Before Christmas I found out that I had been awarded a Top 3 place over at Country View Challenges for my entry to the November Typography Challenge. 

 Then thrilled to be asked to be a Guest Designer for their  January  'Monochrome' challenge.

 Find all their information here.

I thought about lots of colours before deciding  on Black and White and giving this a romantic look.

The card is made using lots of layers.

 One base layer is dry embossed with butterflies, layers of patterned paper and a black doily. Then the main image, the 'Post Card Couple', by Queens Dresser Drawers, stamped up using Potting Shed Archival ink. As I love making things with a shabby chic/vintage look, the edges were simply torn and tattered. 

The stamped sentiment seemed appropriate to go with this Happy Couple.

Just read about the Monochromatic challenge that started today over at Fussy and Fancy  I will pop over and join the fun there.

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January

The first challenge of the year over at 'Try it on Tuesday's', is

'In with the New', this could be a new product or a new technique .

As I love Graphics 45 products this  flip easel block was one of my lovely crafty gifts .

I have decided to make a page for each month of the year and use  papers from the Place in Time G45 collection

So here is the first January.

I added some  embossed stamping to the base paper. This photo was taken before it had my favourite   Vintage Photo distress ink liberally applied and a bit more random stamping. 

A few more additions from the scraps box together with some cut outs from the paper pad.

So below is the first page  completed.............

.................only eleven more to go.

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Something new for SCH

The first challenge of the year over at  Sugar Creek Hollow is  'Something new'.

We ask that you use a new supply piece or  try a new technique, and remember our Vintage Shabby Chic style.

I was lucky to have  some new Tonic  Studio die cuts to play with,  so I used one for my circle layer, on this card. The fashionable ladies are from Graphics 45 papers. All shading is Vintage photo distress ink. I was lucky to have some ribbon in my stash a similar shade to the base card.

Sorry I haven't been around visiting you all lately,  sadly  we lost  a close family relative  on the Sunday before Christmas.  So, a New Year has begun and I am slowly getting  back to my routines, where crafting as always  will feature higher on the list than the dreaded,   'house.....work'.

I know this is late but I hope you all have a healthy, happy  and crafty 2014.