Seasonal Colour

Seasonal Colours is the theme that Zoe has chosen for the latest Craft-Room Challenge. She has given us an Autumn colour palette and a Spring colour palette - you only need to choose one but can do both if you wish.

Our sponsor this fortnight is Rogue Redhead Designs

For my DT piece I thought I'd have a go at some leaf printing. I've had a book for years and years called Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruit and Flowers by Laura Donnelly Bethmann, I thought it was time to read it properly.

This is the end result.

I sponged distress inks onto the backs of the leaves, sandwiched them between two sheets of watercolour paper and put them through my Big Shot.

This is the original print, I thought it was a bit pale so I lightly added some coloured pencil.

This is one of the prints that I decided not to use, I used a lovely juicy chrysanthemum and it made a bit of a mess which was a shame as the leaves were nice.

I used a cheap frame from a local charity shop.

I coloured it with black gesso and red and green emulsion paint. 

I covered the frame with Weathered Wood Crackle Medium and when it was dry painted over it with a light coloured emulsion paint. Here is a snippet, you can just about see the colours showing through. I gave the frame a couple coats of matte varnish. The print was matted onto a piece of coloured card before framing.

As usual my teamies have made some fabulous samples and they would love you all to visit the Craft-Room to take a look,

Craft Room Challenge No 4

Thank you everybody that entered our Summer Birthdays challenge, the entries were fabulous.
It's now time for the new CRAFT-ROOM CHALLENGE and the challenge this time is BUTTERFLIES.
I decided to do a canvas for this challenge.
I painted the canvas with antique satin and oak leaf emulsion paint and coloured parts of it with dried marigold distress ink. Because it's difficult to stamp onto canvas I stamped the background images onto some tissue paper and attached it to the canvas. We had a parcel delivered in a fabulous green box, so I tore away a piece of it, peeled back some of the green covering to reveal the corrugated card underneath, before attaching it to the canvas I coloured the edges with the dried marigold. I attached some lace to the top and bottom of the canvas and I covered the sides with tissue tape, you can't see this on the photo. I stamped the main image onto some mountboard, coloured the edges with dried marigold and then triple embossed it, then I attached it to the canvas. I attached some butterflies that I'd stamped and cut out, some flowers that I'd made, some pearls and some leaves.
I used olive Archival ink for all the stamping.
The stamps that I used are
Stamps Away for the background and butterflies.
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous for the main image.