Mixed Media Postcard

At the beginning of the year I took part in a Mixed Media swap in the KCUK group, I made a postcard and never got round to blogging it as it's very similar to a canvas that I'd made sometime last year.

I started by colouring the background with Gelatos.

Then I added some cotton and painted it with gesso.

I stencilled some flowers with modelling paste and some shapes with crackle paste.

I added some colour with Gelatos and sprayed with water.

I kept adding colour with gelatos and water.

I stamped some black script and splattered some white paint..

I stamped the butterflies and cut them out after I coloured them, The small butterflies are a Martha Stewart stamp and punch and the large butterfly is a Stampendous stamp and die. The quote is an Artistic Stamper stamp.

Below are some close ups of parts of the postcard.

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

xxx Hazel.

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.

Summer ATCs

I'm sharing with you today the ATCs that I made for the KCUK August ATC swap, the theme is Summer.

I used acrylic paint and Gelatos on the background and stamped the swirls [Penny Black]. The children [Creative Expressions} were stamped onto white card and coloured with felt tips. I fussy cut them out and glued them to the ATC. The words are part of a Crafty Individuals stamp that I cut out.

                                  
The background was made with distress ink and the stamps I used are:
Stampers Anonymous - butterflies and moths.
Dina Wakley - leaves.
Craft Extensions - tiny flowers.
Unknown stamp - sun.
I used a Martha Stewart stamp and punch for the three butterflies and I put stickles on their wings.

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.

Postcard Swap

This month KCUK is having a postcard swap, this is the postcard I made for my swap partner Nicki.

I'm entering my postcard in the Sunday Postcard Art - Go Messy Challenge.

I built up lots of layers with acrylic paint, stamping and stencilling, I got messy by using my fingers to do the stencilling.

Next I stamped the flower.

I stamped the flower, leaves and words onto patterned paper, cut them out and adhered them over the stamped image on the card. I added a bit of colour with pitt pens and did a little bit of doodling.

All the stamps I used are PaperArtsy stamps,

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.

A Pair Of ATCs

Here are two ATCs that I made for a couple of swaps last month.

I made this one for the UK Stampers swap, the theme was Solitaire.

I stamped the image onto glossy card with Archival ink and added a gem to her ring finger, I don't know who made the stamp.

This ATC was made for the KCUK swap, the theme was anything goes but we had to put a feather on it.

I stamped and embossed some white feathers onto some previously coloured card. I stamped the bird onto white card and coloured it with watercolour. I glued the feather to the ATCs and added the bird.

I don't know who made the feather stamp, the bird is a PaperArtsy/Jofy stamp.

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].

Hearts and Love ATCs

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

Today I'd like to share with you some ATCs that I've made for a KCUK swap.

For the background I stencilled some hearts with gesso and when they were dry I wet the cards and sprinkled brushos over them, when this dried I stamped some script.
The word love [Dina Wakley] was stamped onto scrap card and coloured with distress ink, then I cut them out and glued to the cards.
I stamped the bird heart onto some die cut hearts, I think the stamp was a freebie on the Craft Stamper, then I coloured them with distress ink and painted them with some DecoArt Crackle Glaze, when the glaze dried I glued them to the cards.

I would like to enter my ATCs in the following challenges
The Artistic Stamper challenge, the theme is love.
That's Crafty Be My Valentine challenge.

Circle Tags

Good morning everyone.
I'd like to share a couple of tags with you today - both tags are the same just different colours. I've made the tags for KCUK's January challenge, the theme is circles.

I made the tags from a couple of my mono prints and stamped the Creative Expressions circles on the background.
I stamped and embossed the Chocolate Baroque bubble blowing machine and coloured it with watercolours, then I added Glossy Accents to the bubbles.
I added the hand written words and stapled some ribbon.

Christmas ATCs

The theme for the November ATC swap at KCUK is Christmas, these are my ATCs for the swap.

I used inks on the background and splashed with water. I stamped the Crafty Individuals image on to white card and onto card matching the background, The white image was adhered to the ATC and I cut out the coloured star and adhered it to the image on the ATC. I added some silver stickles.

I adhered some patterned paper to the ATC and stamped the Sheena Douglas image onto white card. The image was watercolured with Distress ink. I added some die cut holly leaves, beads, ribbon. and some stickles.                     

Altered Notebook

KCUK had a Butterfly Mingle a couple of months ago, we could make anything we liked as long as there was a butterfly on it, my partner was Darlene and this is the altered notebook that I made for her.

I started by brayering different coloured acrylic paint onto a piece of copy paper and stenciled some leaves with acrylic paint, I lightly drew round the leaves with a black pencil.
After covering the notebook I added some frayed fabric and a piece of a Sizzix die cut with some ribbon threaded through it.
The image was stamped onto coloured card two times and I fussy cut one of the butterflies and covered it with stickles.
I embellished the cover with a couple of stick pins that I'd made, some roses and some tiny butterfly charms.

I'd like to link my notebook to the following challenges.
Artist Trading Post Exchange Anything Mixed Media Goes.
Altered Eclectics Anything Goes.
Rhedd's Creative Spirit Halloween or Not.

This is the notebook before I altered it.

This is the background paper that I made.

I then covered the notebook with the paper.

This is the back of the book. I'm not sure who made The Indian Butterfly Legend stamp.

Spotllight Card

KCUK's two Septesmber challenges are a spotlight challenge and an Autumn challenge, I've made a card to fit both challenges.

It was my Wedding Anniversary this week, 31 years, so my challenge card is also for my Anniversary. Every morning hubby and me are out of the house by 6.30 for our two mile dog walk, we have two black cocker spaniels that's why I've added the dogs to the card. I love this Sheena Douglas image of the couple walking arm in arm, sharing the umbrella, unfortunately our walking arm in arm days are over, our walking sticks would get in the way, lol.

For the background I brayered some acrylic paint onto card. I stamped the main image twice and die cut part of one image then I coloured it in and adhered it to the main image matching the pattern.
I adhered the image to the background and added the bakers twine then I adhered it to a white card blank.
I stamped the two dogs and cut them out and adhered them to the card and added some die cut leaves and sentiments.

I used the following stamps
Sheena Douglas for the main image.
Katselkraft for the dogs.
Creative Expressions for the sentiment at the bottom.
Woodware for the Happy Anniversary.

I used a Spellbinders die for the shape and Tattered Lace Dies for the leaves.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges
Make My Monday Autumn/Fall Colours
The Artistic Stamper Autumn Colours

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.

Watercolour Stamping

Good morning everyone, I thought it was time to start sharing some of the things that I've made over the year.
These are some cards that I made for a Watercolour Stamping Challenge at KCUK.

For the background on this card I used a JustRite stamp. I coloured the stamp with different coloured distress inks and sprayed water on it before stamping it on to the card. The image is a Judikins stamp and I used the same distress inks and water on watercolour paper as I did for the background. The sentiment is an Artistic Stamper stamp.

For this card I used a PaperArtsy stamp. I coloured the stamp with distress ink and sprayed with water then stamped the image two or three times on watercolour paper before inking it again. The sentiment is a PaperArtsy stamp.

For the background I used distress ink again but sprayed the watercolour paper with water before stamping. For the image I coloured the stamp with distress ink and sprayed water on it before stamping.
The background stamp is an Elusive Images/Chocolate Baroque stamp.
I'm not sure who made the image stamp.

Reverse Masking

One of the challenges at KCUK last month was reverse masking, these are the two cards that I made for the challenge.

I have a lot of aperture cards that I never use so for both cards I've used the apertures for my mask.
I sponged distress inks through the mask and then flicked water on it. After removing the mask I stamped the lovely Inkadinkado cat and drew a shadow at the bottom of the image to ground it. I stamped the Artistic Stamper sentiment.

This card was done exactly the same way minus the flicked water.
The trees are an Inkadinkado stamp, I've no idea who made the dream stamp.

Blue and Cream ATCs

Before I share my ATCs with you I'd like to apologise for my lack of commenting on your blogs, I've been trying catch up with you all but I'm so far behind that I don't seem to be able to, but I shall persevere and you should have a visit from me soon.

Now for my ATCs, I've made them for the July swap at KCUK the theme is Cream and Navy. I used cream card and chipped sapphire Distress ink for all three ATCs.

The stamps I used for this one are Crafty Individuals for the background and Stampers Anonymous for the main image.

The stamp for this one is Crafty Individuals.

The stamp for this one is Stampers Anonymous.

The wooden butterfly and clock were coloured with the chipped sapphire and had Distress Stickles added.