Music Deco Pages

Good morning, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Today I'm sharing some more pages that I did for KCUK's deco book swap, the theme was music.

I used Pan Pastels for the background, I also used Pan Pastels with the Tim Holtz stencil, the stars [Stampers Anonymous] were stamped with Distress ink. The main image and words are Graphic 45 stamps and were stamped and embossed. I stamped the music around the edge - I'm not sure who made the stamp.

The background was coloured with Distress inks and sprayed with water. I stamped the music - not sure who made the stamp. I stamped the main images [PaperArtsy] on to white card and edged them with distress ink.

Thank you for looking, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

Africa and Egypt Deco Pages

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

I'd like to share with you a couple of pages that I made earlier in the year for the KCUK deco book swap.

The background is acrylic paint swooshed with water. I stencilled the Tim Holtz rays stencil with glass bead texture gel mixed with orange acrylic paint, when this had dried I stamped the tree and animals. The figure was stamped onto white card, coloured in and cut out before glueing to the page. The letters are sticky backed ones from my stash.
All the stamps used are Clarity Stamps.

The background has been coloured with Gelatos. I stamped the main image onto the page and onto white card, I coloured the figure with felt tips and cut it out before glueing to the page, the beatles were stamped onto the page and coloured with felt tips. I coloured a piece of Stampboard with Versa Magic chalk ink and stamped the image.
I've no idea who made the stamps.

Thank you for looking, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

The Butterflies and the Bees

Hi everybody - I hope you are all well.

I thought it was time I posted something on my neglected blog.

I'm sharing with you a couple of pages that I made for the KCUK Deco Swap, my swap partners theme was Anything That Flies.

I used Brushos on the background and stencilled the mesh with Distress ink. I stamped the Jofy quote and small Stampotiqe bees. The large and medium Stampotique bees were stamped onto white card and coloured with Pitt pens, cut out and adhered to the page. I put stickles on the wings.

I coloured the background and stamped the butterflies with Distress ink and stamped some script. The large butterfly was stamped and die cut with a Stampendous stamp and die. The Quote is a Hobby Art stamp. The butterfly and quote were stamped onto card that had been coloured with Brushos.

Thank you for looking.

KCUK Deco Swap

These are a couple of deco pages that I made for the KCUK Deco Swap. They were made for Janice, the theme of her book is Nature.

I coloured the background with Pan Pastels and stamped some pink flowers and birds, then I stamped the leafy branch, I also stamped some leaves, flowers and squirrel onto white card, I coloured them with Inktense pencils and a water brush, I cut them out and adhered them to the page. The quote was stamped onto card that had been coloured with Pan Pastel.

Stamps used:
Sheena Douglas - flowers.
Stampers Anonymous - birds.
PaperArtsy - quote.

I coloured the background with Pan Pastels and stencilled some leaves, I went round the stencilled leaves with pen. I stamped some wild flowers on the background. I stamped the rabbits and flowers onto white card, coloured them with Inktense pencils, I cut them out and adhered them to the page. The quote and butterfly were also stamped, coloured and cut out. I added some orange stickles to the centre of the flowers.

Stamps used:
Crafty Individuals - rabbits and background.
Hobby Art - quote.
Unknown - flowers and butterfly.

KCUK Deco Pages - Spring Flowers

Good Morning, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend, after yesterdays beautiful sunshine we have rain today and it looks like it's not going to stop.

I'd like to share with you a couple of pages that I made for the KCUK deco swap.

I stamped the background with an Impression Obsession stamp and Distress ink. I then stamped the PaperArtsy/Jofy flowers onto the page and onto white scrap card. I used Inktense pencils to colour the flowers and stems then I cut the flowers out and glued them to the page and added some dew drops. I then stamped the Hobby Arts quote directly to the page and drew lines round the sides.

I coloured the background with Distress ink and stamped the Joanna Sheen lily of the valley stamp with Archival ink. I stamped the main image [ I think it's a Hero Arts stamp ] onto white card with Archival ink I cut the image out and added some ribbon and die cuts.

Navy Blue and Cream Deco Pages

Today I'd like to share with you a couple of deco pages that I've made for the KCUK swap, I made the pages for Dot, the theme of her book is Children in Navy Blue and Cream.

For both pages I used chipped saphire distress ink on cream card.
Stamps used:
Impression Obsession - the background.
Flower Soft - the image.
Oxford Impression - the quote.

Stamps used:
Flower Soft - the image and jars.
La Pashe - the sign post and quote.

Time Deco Pages

Good morning everyone and a big welcome to my new followers. I hope you are all having a lovely Easter weekend.

The KCUK 2015 Deco Swap is well under way, there are ten entrants this year, these are the pages that I made for Wendy, the theme of her book is Time.

For this page I coloured the background with Gelatos and stamped some clocks and script.
I die cut the Weathered Clock out of one of my mono prints and spread some DecoArt crackle glaze over it. I glued it to the page when it had dried and added the main image.
I used Creative Expression stamps for all the stamping.

I coloured the background for this page with acrylic paints and stamped the Crafty Individuals image over it. I stamped the main image [unknown stamp] onto white card, coloured it and cut it out. I put glossy accents on the face and added a clock charm. I added the sentiment [Creative Expressions].

Bird Deco Pages

KCUK's 2014 deco swap is almost at an end, I've done everybody's pages apart from mine, these are the pages that I made for Dot, the theme of her book is birds.

I'm entering this page into the Stamping Sensations Things With Wings Challenge.

    
For the background I used one of my mono prints and stamped a couple of Dina Wakley's Scribbly Birds. I also stamped some Hero Arts feathers with a sticky embossing powder and covered them with gold foil. I used a Sheena Douglas stamp for the bird image and sentiment, I coloured the image with watercolours.

For the Background on this page I used Adirondack Brights inks splashed with water. I stamped the Stampers Anonymous flying birds and Sheena Douglas tiny flowers.
I stamped the branch and leaves and watercoloured them, I also stamped extra leaves and cut them out and adhered them to the branch.
The bird was stamped onto white card and watercoloured, after cutting him out I adhered him to the page. The bird and leaves are Sheena Douglas stamps.

Black and White Deco Pages

Here are the latest deco pages that I've made for the KCUK deco swap, this time the pages are for Anne C. and her theme is Black and White.

I love this Crafty Impressions Doo Lally Pip stamp set, they're not the usual stamps that I go for, but there's something about juggling blackbirds that appeals to me.
I used a mono print for the background and stamped a kaisercraft alphabet stamp with white gesso over it.
The main image, sentiment and chipboard bird were stamped with black soot distress ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I'd like to enter this page into the That's Crafty Challenge - Birds

For the next Page I used PaperArtsy/Lynne Perella Stamps.

I used a Kaisercraft stamp to stamp the crackle onto the white background.
I added some striped ribbon, tissue tape and a Sizzix die cut.
The main image was stamped using black soot distress ink and clear embossing powder.

Bird Deco Pages

I'd like to share with you the two deco pages that I made for Wendy in the KCUK deco book swap - Wendy's theme is birds.

 

I used a mono print for the background and stamped the flying birds and some twigs, for the cockerel I used Distress ink with a Dreamweaver stencil. I stamped the main image onto coloured card and again onto white card, then I coloured the birds on the white card with coloured pencil, I then cut them out and adhered them to the main image. The image was then matted onto black card and then adhered to the background.
Stamps used,
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Stampers Anonymous for the flying birds.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
Sentiment - unknown.

Again I used a mono print for the background and stamped the feathers. I stamped the peacock onto white card and coloured it with watercolour pencils then cut it out and adhered it to the background.
Stamps used,
Chocolate Baroque for the peacock and feathers.
Dina Wakley for the sentiment.

Nature Deco Pages

The deco book swap at KCUK is well under way and I'd like to share with you the two pages that I made for Wendy, the theme of her book is Nature In All It's Glory.

I used one of my Gelli prints for the background and used watering can Archival ink for all the stamping apart from some black script on the background. I coloured some card with distress ink and stamped the main image and sentiment. I coloured the butterflies with picked raspberry distress ink and used some black ink on the edges. I stamped the butterflies and diecut them and added some pink gems.

I used the following stamps.
Stampers Anonymous for the main image.
Darkroom Door for the sentiment.
I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch that comes with some stamps.

For this page I used a Gelli background. I stamped the flowers onto the background with coffee Archival ink and used a clear glaze pen on the centres. I stamped the main image and coloured the flower with distress ink. The single flowers were stamped onto white card and coloured with distress ink, I used the clear glaze pen on the centres. I adhered the image and sentiment to the page, then I cut out the flowers and adhered them and some die cut leaves to the page.

I used
Crafty Individuals stamps for the flower image and flowers.
PaperArtsy for the sentiment.
Tattered Lace for the die cut leaves.

I would like the enter the flower page into the
Crafty Individuals Natures Beauty Challenge.

Bird Deco Pages

The 2014 deco book swap is well under way at KCUK - these are the pages that I made for Sandra, the theme for her book is Birds.

I used a Gelli background.
I stamped some images on the background and stamped the duck image onto card and cut it out then matted it onto some black card, I did the same with the sentiment. For the embellishment I painted a wooden bird and stamped on it.

I used the following stamps
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Stampers Anonymous for the flying birds.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
Time To Stamp for the sentiment.

I stamped some music notes onto a Gelli background and added a Martha Stewart birds on a wire die cut. I stamped the main image and sentiment and matted them onto black card.

The stamps that I used are.
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Everything else was stamped withTJ Design stamps.

Two More Deco Pages

These are the deco pages that I made for Cynthia in the KCUK deco swap - the theme of her book is Vintage Travel/Steampunk.

The background was coloured and stamped with Distress ink, the two images were stamped with black Archival ink, I watercoloured the bus and edged the two images with vintage photo. I stamped the car onto shrink plastic and reduced the size with my heat gun. I embellished the page with a charm and staples.
The stamps that I used are.
Stamps Away for the bus.
Katzelkraft for the car.
Stampers Anonymous for the globe.
PaperArtsy for the gears and dots.
I don't know who made the collage stamp.

Again I coloured and stamped the background with Distress inks. I stamped the wall with black Archival. On white card I stamped the man on the bike and masked the man, then I stamped the wall over the image so that it looked like the wall was showing through the wheels. I removed the mask and cut the image out and adhered it to the background matching the two wall images. I added the sentiment, gears and charm.
The stamps I used are.
Katzelkraft for the man on bike, wall and plane.
7 Gypsies for the cogs and butterfly.
PaperArtsy for the dots.
I don't know who made the sentiment.

Tea and Cake Deco Pages

Hi everybody, I hope you are all well, before I show you my pages I must apologise for my lack of commenting - I've got behind again and hope to catch up at the weekend.

These are the pages that I've made for Anne in the KCUK deco swap - the theme for her book is Tea and Cakes.

This is the tea page. I covered the page with some teacup peel offs before colouring it with picked raspberry and squeezed lemonade Distress ink, then I removed the peel offs. I then stamped the background.
I stamped the main images onto white card and coloured them with Promarkers then I fussy cut them and adhered them to the card and added the sentiment.
The stamps I used are
Character Construction for the main images and background.
Papermania for the sentiment.

This is the cake page. I used the same coloured distress inks for this background and stamped some hearts. I stamped the cakes and coloured them with Promarkers and I also used glitter pens to colour them, I then fussy cut them and adhered them to the card, then I added the sentiments.
The stamps I used are
Personal Impressions for the cakes.
Molly Blooms for the hearts and banner.

Butterfly Deco Pages

I'd like to share with you the pages I made for Linda in the KCUK deco book swap, the theme of her book is Butterflies.

I used Distress inks to colour and stamp the background. I stamped the butterflies onto card that I'd previously coloured and cut them out, I put stickles on the wings.
The stamps I used are
PaperArtsy for the background.
La Blanche for the butterflies.
The Artistic Stamper for the sentiment.

For this page I coloured and stamped the background with Distress ink.
I stamped the butterfly image onto the background and a separate piece of card. I coloured the butterflies, cut them out and put stickles on the wings. I stamped the Butterfly Legend onto card and matted it onto some black card. I added a charm.
The stamps I used are
JustRite for the background.
Crafty Individuals for the butterfly image.
Wendie Rhodes for the butterfly legend.

I'm entering the top page in the Ali-Craft challenge - the theme is an Open theme.

Vintage Children

I'd like to share a couple of pages that I made earlier in the year for the KCUK deco swap. I made the pages for Wendy, the theme for her book is Vintage Children.

 I coloured the background and stamped the images with Distress Ink. The main image was stamped with black Archival onto glossy card. The dress was stamped onto white card and cut out.
The stamps I used are
Oxford Impressions for the main image and dress.
Invoke arts for the little dolly background stamp.

I used Distress ink for the background. I stamped the main image onto the card and again onto a seperate piece of card and cut out the the image. I adhered the cut out image to the card.

The stamps I used are 

Lost Coast Designs for the main image.

Invoke Arts for the background.

Steampunk Deco Pages

I'd like to thank my new followers for following me - I hope you enjoy looking at my work.

Today I'd like to share with you the two pages that I made for Wendy in the KCUK deco swap - her theme is steampunk.

I used Distress inks to colour and stamp the background. I stamped the flower onto gold metal and embossed it then cut it out and attached it to the page with a game spinner and brad. The light bulb was stamped onto card, I cut it out and covered it with glossy accents. I added a few metal cogs.
The stamps I used are
PaperArtsy for the background and flower.
Stampers Anonymous for the three gents and light bulb.

I used distress inks to colour and stamp the background. For the glasses I stamped the image onto white card and acetate - I cut them both out and adhered the acetate over the stamped image. I adhered them to the page and added some chain. I embellished the page with cogs and some gems. I stamped the words and cut them out before adhering to the page.
The stamps that I used are
Karantha stamps for the background and main images.
Stampers Anonymous for the background.
7Gypsies for the background.

KCUK Deco Swap

The KCUK 2013 Deco Book Swap is well under way and I'd like to share the pages that I made for June - her theme is Steampunk, in fact steampunk is the theme for a few of the members in my group.

I coloured the background with old paper Distress ink direct to the card and used dusty concord and vintage photo to stamp the images.
I covered some card with aluminium foil. I stamped the main image onto card and coloured with Promarkers and stamped it again onto the metal card with black Stazon. I went over the stamping with an embossing tool and then cut out parts of the images and adhered them over the coloured image. I did the moth in the same way. I embellished the page with cogs and chain and I gave her a hat cut out of the metal card.
The stamps that I used are
7Gypsies and Creative Expressions for the background.
Non Sequitur for the main image.
PaperArtsy for the moth.

I coloured the card with spun sugar Distress ink direct to the card and used victorian velvet and vintage photo to stamp the background. The flower and leaves were stamped onto the metal card with black Stazon and cut out. I stamped the lady and coloured her with spiced marmalade then cut her out. I embellished the card with cogs.
Stamps that I used are
Scrolls Work, 7Gypsies and PaperArtsy for the background.
Stampington for the lady.
PaperArtsy for the flower.

Vintage Deco Pages

We've started a deco book swap at the KCUK Yahoo group and these are the pages that I've made for Ann. Her theme is Vintage using browns and creams.
These are the pages that I made for her.

The stamps I used for this page are
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Elusive Images for the background.
The Artistic Stamper for the flower.
Stamps Away for the butterfly.
I used vintage photo and walnut stain Distress ink.
I used an old book page, pearls and some lace to embellish the page.

The stamps that I used for this page are
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Stampers Anonymous/Wendy Vecchi Sentimental Art set for the background.
I used vintage photo and walnut stain distress ink.
The embellishments that I used are a doily, an odd scrap of patterned paper, some roses, pearls and I made a couple of stick pins.
I don't know who made the beauty stamp.

I also made her a bookmark using vintage photo and walnut stain Distress Ink. The background stamp is by Inkadinkado and the main image stamp is by Crafty Individuals. I covered the bookmark with acetate.

Cat Deco Pages

There's a Deco Book swap going on at KCUK and I made these pages for Anne's deco book, her theme is cats. The stamps that I used are by Craft UK. I coloured the Siamese cat with watercolour pencils and a water brush. I also used distress ink.

Again the stamps are by Craft UK and I coloured the tabby with watercolour pencils and water brush. I put stickles over the letters that spell purr. I used distress inks as well.