Inspire ----at Stamps and Stencils.

It is my turn to write the inspirational post today over at
 Stamps and Stencils

These are the finished cards.
I used an Inspired by Banksy stamp from Bee Crafty.

 I hope you will be able to pop over and take a look, I was revisiting a well known technique.

Needlework before housework.

'Sewing and Buttons '

is the new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays.

Lots of ways for everyone to interpret this theme, please pop over

 and see what we have all been making.

I used a Kraft card as my base. With some random stamping using an old hessian look stamped image,  this was also used on the tailors dummy  [A Tim Holtz alterations die cut].  A buttons stencil was used for the layers.

For  the top layer using the buttons stencil, I used a mixture of Blue  and Silver  acrylic paint  [Pebeo]with Glass Bead Gel [Golden gel medium] . The remnants of this mix were used on  the last journal page I showed you.

The trimming all came from my stash.

Thank you for taking time to stop by and see what I made,

 the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Pirates Treasure

Treasure was the  prompt for week 17 at Journal 52 

and

The Sea is this months theme at Art Journal Journey.

I did wonder at first where this page was going. I had the ship image [Sheena Douglas]

which always reminds me of the ghost ship from Pirates of the Caribbean .

I searched the net for a couple of free map images and the page just evolved.

Using acrylic paints  and Distress stains for the background as well as some stencils and some random splodging about with some silvered Glass Bead Gel.

The Galleon was stamped onto tissue, the original was well covered and could hardly be seen.

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Home Sweet Home for Stamps and Stencils

Its time to tell you all about our second challenge theme over at Stamps and Stencils

'Three of a Kind'.
Ruth is our hostess this month and gave us the theme of Three of a kind e.g. flowers, figure, quotes

Please do  pop over for all the details and see our interpretations of the theme.

I decided to use 3 frames and make a  wall hanging.

As you can see the base is a piece of partially stripped back corrugated card which needed a few coats of cream acrylic paint.

The roof went through a tree bark embossing folder before being painted with acrylics. The colours I used were  Pebeo Iridescent gold and cerulean blue

I used a couple of take away coffee stirrers to trim the roof.

To add textures to the frames and around the house base I added used  Frantage embossing powder. 

Fussy cut flowers and all stamped images are Paper Artsy, these were shaded using water colours.

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Down by the sea. for AJJ

Another page for Art Journal Journey

The theme for May is the 'Sea'.

There are  some awesome journal pages for everyone to see if you follow the link when you visit.

I used a variety of acrylic paints for the background, having used Masking fluid {Pebeo]

 to cover my stamped image of the lighthouse.

All the stamped images are Sheena Douglas and were water coloured.

The mermaids tails  does shine a bit as I  added a bit of gold mica powder to the paint. 

The suns rays were created by swiping the edges of a lolly stick through white paint and then onto my page.

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Go Retro and Always take the scenic route.

There is still another week for you to join the 

 Retro challenge over at Try it on Tuesdays.

So for this card I wanted to use my idea of colours from back then, all Distress inks.

Spiced Marmalade,  Mowed Lawn,  Mustard seed, Walnut Stain and  Abandoned Coral.

Painting the dress with red water colour.

The background is all  layers of stencils [Sheena Douglas] and the stamps are Stampers Anonymous.

Linking this to............
Mixed Media World  2nd Challenge theme is -Use Bright Colours.

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While I had these stamps, stencils etc  on my desk I  used them on this journal page.

The background had been coloured by wiping excess paint off brushes over time,
there was even a little random sprinkle of escaped  Brusho powder.
I added a leafy  stencil  at the top of the page to add a bit of texture and use up some grunge paste

Who said using left overs wasn't fun, it is for me.

Linking this to----
 Country View Challenges theme for May is Simply Scenic

Thank you for stopping by to take a look, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated

Where's the remote? for AJJ

'The Sea',  is the theme for May over at

  Art Journal Journey.

This is a digital page using some of my own stored  images

 and some found that were free to use from the net. 

 I had a story going round in my head of  a TV program showing some colourful  fish.

  The fish with the stripes,   shouting to the  parrot  [Elsie]  to get the remote control, 

then  change the TV  channel and find them some calmer water.

Strange things  can happen, when swimming  in and gazing at  the sea.

Thank you for stopping by, your visits are always appreciated.