Christmas Coasters

Good morning everybody - I can't believe that it's December already, the year has flown by and the weather has turned very wintry - it's bitterly cold and we had our first snow yesterday.

Today I'm sharing with you some Christmas coasters that I've made for the Altered Eclectics design team. As always the challenge is Anything Goes as long as its Mixed Media or Altered Art - cards are not accepted.

I used beer mat blanks for the coasters.

I was going to paint the mats but decided to cover them with some gelli prints instead.

For the toppers I used a brayer with acrylic paint to colour some card, I also stencilled some stars with Imagination Craft Starlight paint. I stamped the images with black Archival ink.

I stamped the images onto white copy paper, coloured them with pitt pens and cut them out.

I glued the toppers to the mats.

Then I glued the cut out images onto the images on the mats.

The last thing I did was to give the mats a few coats of Decoart polyurethane varnish.

I enjoyed making the mats and will be making more.

Stamps used:
Artemeo - holly.
Inca Stamps - poinsettia.
Paperartsy/Zinski - Rudolf

Thank you dropping by, why not pop over to Altered Eclectics to take a look at the wonderful inspirational pieces that the rest of the DT have made.

Colourful Tag

Hi everyone, I'm sharing a tag with you today, it's one that I made for last months UK Stampers tag swap.

I'm entering my tag in the Try It On Tuesday Colourful challenge.

The background was made by sticking bits of patterned paper to the tag, then I splattered it with white paint. The Tim Holtz flower was stamped onto white card, coloured with pencils, cut out and glued to the tag. I added the Tim Holtz paper doll, word sticker and ribbon.

Thank you for dropping by to take a look. xxx Hazel.

Anniversary Card

Good morning everybody. I have my latest project for the Craft Barn  design team to share with you today - it's an anniversary card using the lovely Crafty Emotions bird stamp and Honey Doo flower stamp. If you would like to know how I made the card you can find the instructions here.

Thank you for dropping by. Have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Paper Dolls ATCs

Hi everybody, I've got some ATCs to share with you today, they were made for a UK Stampers ATC swap earlier in the year.

Distress ink background with Carabelle Studio stamps, embellished with Tim Holtz paper dolls and word stickers.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day. xxx

Circles Postcard

Good morning everyone, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend, last night we went out for a curry with friends - had a lovely evening.

Today I'm sharing with you a postcard that I made for the UK Stampers October postcard swap, the theme was circles, I'm also entering it in the Try It On Tuesday circles challenge.

I stamped the Carabelle Studio circles with archival ink onto a gelli print background. The Inkylicious girl with balloons was stamped directly onto the card and I also stamped the balloons onto white card, coloured them with pitt pens, cut them out and adhered them to the card. I stamped the words with a finnabair stamp and added a Tim Holtz word sticker.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely Sunday. xxx

Christmas Card

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing with you a Christmas card, it's my latest project for the Craft Barn Design Team, you can find all the details about my card here.

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Altered Tin Tray

I can't believe it's November already - where has this year gone. It's time for a new challenge at Altered Eclectics, as always the theme is Anything Goes as long as it's Altered Art/Mixed Media, no cards or ATCs are allowed.

I've altered an old metal tin for my DT piece.

I gave the tray a coat of Fresco Finish paint.

I collaged different patterned papers, tissue paper and napkins, then I used some stencils with acrylic paint. I cut out the butterflies from Crafty Individuals collage sheets.

Thank you for dropping by to take a look, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Dragonfly Tag

Good morning all, I have a tag to share with you today, it was made for the UK Stampers October tag swap.

I used distress oxides on the background and added some tissue tape, all the stamping was done with Carabelle Studio stamps, the heart and dragonfly were stamped onto card and cut out, I covered the images with stickles. I edged the tag with black ink and added some ribbon.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely weekend. xxx Hazel.

SPA - Hats

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good weekend.

Hats or Headpieces is this weeks theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

I used alcohol ink on the background, for the white skull I used a stencil and some alcohol blending solution. The web, spider and words were stamped directly on the card. I coloured some white card with brimstone wings Color Bloom spray and stamped the skulls, I cut them out and glued them to the card. I stamped the hat and bow tie and embossed them with a purple glitter embossing powder, you can't see the glitter on the photo.

Stamps

Stamp Addicts - skulls, hat and bow tie.

Inkadinkado - spider and web.

Graphic 45 - words.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Zinsky Anniversary Card

My latest project for the Craft Barn Design Team is an anniversary card using Paperartsy stamps, my card can be seen here.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely weekend. xxx Hazel.

Good morning all.

Today I'm a guest designer for the Digitally Made October challenge, the theme is Halloween.

My children went to a few Halloween parties when they were younger, so I've used some photos of them on my Halloween page.

I used Craft Artist and some digi kits to put the page together.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Altered Wooden Box

The first of the month so that means another challenge at Altered Eclectics, as always the challenge is Anything Altered/Mixed Media no cards allowed.

For my DT piece I've altered a wooden box.

I took the lid of the box.

Then I painted it with Decoart paint.

I then covered it with Imagination Crafts rice paper.

I coloured some card with decoart paint and stamped some Honey Doo flowers on it, I cut the flowers out and painted some distress crackle paint over them, the wooden bird was painted with the paint, then I added a metal clock charm and some metal flowers.

The rest of the design team have made some wonderful pieces and would love you to visit them to take a look.

Thank you for dropping by. xxx Hazel.

SPA - Wonderland

Good morning everyone, I've two posts scheduled for today, this is the first one.

Today I'm guest host for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, my theme is Wonderland.

The background for my card was made using alcohol inks on glossy card.
The Alice and rabbit images are by Carabelle Studio and I stamped them onto white card, coloured them with pencils, cut them out and glued them to the card.
The Cheshire Cat is a Cherry Pie Art Stamp, he was stamped directly onto the card.
The heart, diamond, spade and club are Non Sequitor stamps and were stamped directly onto the card.
I stamped the quote [Carabelle Studio stamp] and Wonderland [Indigo Blu stamp] onto tissue paper and use a white marker on the back of the words to make them stand out more.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely Sunday. xxx Hazel.

Drunken Chalks

Good morning everyone, today it's my turn to share a tutorial for the Craft Barn design team, I've made four cards using the Drunken Chalk technique.

Here's one of my cards,  please visit the Craft Barn blog to see my other cards and my tutorial.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

SPA - Carte Postale

Good morning all, I hope you're having a lovely weekend.

Carte Postale has to be somewhere on our postcards in the latest Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

For the background I glued a napkin to the postcard. All the stamps are Tim Holtz stamps and I used Archival ink. I found the butterflies in my stash, I'd stamped them a long time ago and I think I used distress ink.

Thank you for dropping by, enjoy your Sunday. xxx Hazel.

Septembers Inchies

Hi everyone, here are the inchies that I've made for the UK Stampers inchie swap.

The backgrounds are scraps of decorated card, I used a Crafty Individuals stamp for the images and I added some Tim Holtz word stickers.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely weekend. xxx Hazel.

Friends Journal Page

Good morning everyone, I've a journal page to share with you today.

My Friend is the theme for the Try It On Tuesday challenge and Colour My World is the theme for the Art Journal Journey challenge. My favourite colour is green and my favourite colour combination is green and pink although there is more pink than green on my page.

I coloured the background with Distress Oxides and stamped with Archival ink. I used a stencil for the leaves. The stamps that I used are Paperartsy, Seth Apter and Kaisercraft.

I found some lovely napkins at Ally Pally last weekend, one of them had pink roses on so I cut out some roses and glued them to the page.

I added some Tim Holtz images and stamped some words with Art Impressions and Dyan Reaveley/Dylusions stamps.

The words are
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Girlfriends make the best accessories.

Thank you for visiting me, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Seahorse Postcard

Good morning all, today I'm sharing a postcard that I made for a swap earlier in the year.

I used Samantha Braund Arts stamps and stencils.

I used distress inks to colour the background and sprayed water over it, I also used distress inks with the stencils. I used a white pen to draw dots and a black marker to scribble round the edge. The stamping was done with black Archival ink.

A close up of the script.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

Sgraffito Art

My latest project for the Craft Barn design team is a very colourful piece using the Sgraffito technique. You can see how I created it here.

Thank you for dropping by. 

xxx Hazel.

UK Stampers July ATC Swap

It's been a while since I've done any crafting or posted anything, life seems to be getting in the way. I've got some ATCs to share with you today, they were made for the UK Stampers July swap.

The backgrounds are made from card that I'd inked some time ago, I added some remnent rubs and for the images I used Paperartsy/Lynne Perella stamps, I also added some gems.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Altered Notebook Cover

It's the start of a new month so it's time for a new challenge at Altered Eclectics, as always the theme is Anything Goes - no cards allowed. For my Project this month I've altered the cover of a notebook.

This is the notebook that I used. I started by covering the book with a gelli print and some torn patterned paper, then I added some thread. I coloured the centre panel with distress oxide and added some tissue tape. The Stampers Anonymous flowers were stamped with black Archival ink and coloured with pitt pens. I also stamped a couple of flowers on white card, coloured them with pitt pens, cut them out and glued them over the stamped images. The notebook was embellished with ribbon, metal charm, remnent rubs and word stickers.

The rest of the design team have made some lovely projects and they would love you to take a look. Happy crafting. xxx Hazel.

Precious Memories

My latest project for the Craft Barn design team is an altered book box to keep precious memories in, you can see how I made the box and the contents here.

Thank you for dropping by. xxx Hazel.

Mans Best Friend

A digital page from me today made for the Digitally Made challenge Pets/Animals.

My page features my two lovely dogs Josh and Murphy.

I used my Craft Artist programme for the border, frame, butterflies, leaves and words, for everything else I used some of my photos.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

SPA - Tropical Summer

Hi everyone, I hope you're enjoying the weekend.
This week I'm hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge and the theme that I've chosen is Tropical Summer.

I've gone digital this week, I found an image on the internet and used it for the background then I had fun using the Craft Artist to embellish it with flamingos, flowers, birds, palm tree etc.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely Sunday.

Hazel. x

Rainy Day Tag

Good morning everyone, I have a tag to share with you today, I made the tag for the UK Stampers July swap.

For the background I used Infusions and Distress Oxide. I stamped the image with an Inkylicious stamp. I stencilled some raindrops using a stencil with some Dreamweaver translucent embossing paste, unfortunately they don't show up on the photo.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely weekend.

Hazel. x

Get Well Card

Hi everyone, a quick post today to share my latest project for the Craft Barn, it's a vintage get well card, you can see my card here.

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Cats

Hi everyone, sorry I've not done much commenting lately, hopefully by the weekend I should be visiting your blogs.

The challenge at Moo Mania and More is Cats so I'd like to enter a card that I made a couple of months ago.

I matted some paterned paper onto a white card blank. For the background I used distress ink to colour a Justrite stamp, before stamping it I sprayed some water on the inked stamp. The images were stamped with Laurel Burch stamps onto white card and then I coloured them with felt tip pens and cut them out. I added some flowers and sequins.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely evening.

xxx Hazel.

UK Stampers - Inchies

Hi everybody, not been a very good week, on Monday we found out that Josh our dog is very ill - going to a specialist clinic tomorrow and on Thursday we said goodbye to Chandler our lovely cat, she had a good life and reached the grand old age of 20 - will miss her lots.

Today I'm sharing the inchies that I made for the UK Stampers July swap.

I used scraps of inked card and they were all stamped with Inkadinkado stamps except the mermaid, not sure what make of stamp she is.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

Altered iPad Cover

Hi everyone, it's been over a year since I've made anything for the Altered Eclectics Design Team, but now I'm back and for my first project I thought I would give my tatty old iPad cover a new look.

This is my iPad in it's altered case and below it is the old tatty case.

The first thing I did was to glue together all the bits that were falling apart.

I gave it a coat of white gesso and covered it with some lovely Imagination Crafts rice paper.

I added layers of acrylic paint, stencilling and stamping.

I used Stampendous stamps and dies for the butterflies. The butterflies were glued to the cover and I gave it a coat of matte medium, when this had dried I coloured the butterflies with Pitt pens and added some word stickers.

Thank you for dropping by, why not pop over to the Altered Eclectics blog to take a look at the lovely projects that the rest of the design team have made.

xxx Hazel.