A speedy card

The Speed Craft Challenge has another Anything goes theme this week. 

You have 15 minutes to make something, the good thing is that you can assemble the ingredients first.
On the left are my stamps [Clarity], inks, muslin. button and card stock.

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Phew did the time speed around the clock, I am so glad I picked out a coloured paper for a layer.

The distress ink blending looked a bit rushed when I looked at my ??? finished card , so I grabbed a pencil with seconds to spare to give the poor bloke with the umbrella somewhere to stand on.

I think it could have done with another layer and some extra background stamping,

 but  I did manage the stick to the time.

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Inspired by Auguste Renoir

Could you imaging cutting up a real Renoir masterpiece to make a Mosaic.  Well , I have just, sort of  done that , but mine were prints copied from a book and are guilt free.
This journal page  is made  with two things in mind.
Art Journal Journey who want us to be inspired by the Masters

Also, for  Journal 52  week 41, the prompt was mosaic inspired.

This is another of my Journal 52 pages from week 38, when the prompt was 

Rhyme Time. I am nearly up to date now, and will share a few more in the coming days.

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A Vintage Dream

Our new challenge theme over at Sugar Creek Hollow is to ..

make a Vintage Christmas card.

Please pop over for all the details and see what we have all been making.

The main stamped, embossed  image here is an old favourite, lightly coloured with water colour paint. I added some chunky  white embossing powder [Stampendous] to represent snow in front of the church.. 

I have layered it onto an embossed and a plain base card The die cuts are Memory Box and Spellbinders.

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Home made Backgrounds

It is my turn to write the Exchange post today over at the Artist Trading Post Exchange Blog.
I am always quite last minute for making Christmas cards, so my exchange is,--- How to make fast and easy backgrounds. I would love it if you popped   over to see how I made the  backgrounds for these Christmas cards.

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Stencils

Two more cards that I made at the weekend using Sheena's stencils

No stamps for this one just Aquatints, stencils, texture paste, a touch of black soot and some gilding wax.

Added one of Sheena's stamped  sentiments to this one.

The times of the 'inky' shows are at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow on Create and Craft.

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Sheena's Wednesday show.

Sheena has a One Time Only show on Create and craft this Wednesday  -

 'Painting with Sheena'.

I am sharing with you a couple of cards I made at the weekend using Sheena's Stencils ,

   Spectrum Noir Aqua tints and  a few of images from her range of stamps..  I hope you will be able to catch her shows and see her fantastic ' inky', demonstrations.

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Journal Pages.

Inspired by the Masters is this months theme at Art Journal Journey.

Oh dear, where to begin, there are some fantastic pieces of inspiration over at AJJ.

Anyway after looking through some old books  I came across Van Gogh's painting called 'The Starry Night'.

I printed out a copy as I intended to use part of  it on my page, but first of all I got out the paints and had a go at my version of the  sky and background hills. Then a bit of fussy cutting of the print out to add to the bottom of the page.

 This  is not one of my comfort zones, but I enjoyed the challenge to try.

I am slowly catching up with my Journal 52 pages,  this one fits the prompt for Week 44 Skyline.

For week 40  at Journal 52 the prompt was Experiments.

I used one of my  first Brusho try out/ experiments pages  and this was  the end result.

  

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