Jofy Flower Card

Today I'm sharing my latest project for the Craft Barn Design team, you can see how I made the card here.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely weekend.

xxx Hazel.

Altered Playing Cards C and D

I've just finished the next two cards for the Maremi's Creative Cafe Facebook group challenge. For the letters C and D the words we were given were coffee and dragonfly.

I used an Impression Obsession stamp and Kaleidacolor inks for the background, I flicked water on it. I drew the mug and coloured it with felt tips and stamped some hearts. The mug stains are a Stampers Anonymous stamp.

I used a stencil and modelling paste on the card and painted it with gesso. I coloured it with Gelatos. and spread some micro bead gel, when this dried I used my finger to add some gilding. The dragonfly was coloured stamped, coloured with felt tips and cut out. I put stickles on the wings and a metal game pointer on the body.The quote was stamped with an Artistic Stamper stamp. No idea who made the dragonfly.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

The Age Of Aquarius

It's time for another Craft-Room Challenge and this time it's the turn of Esther to choose the theme, here's what she has to say about her choice.
This fortnight I'm asking for all things Water based as we are now in the Sign of Aquarius - The Water Bearer. This means you can either use a water based technique i.e. water colour pencils/paints, or a water themed image.

Our sponsor this challenge is Tando Creative.

For my DT piece I've made a mermaid tag. It wasn't very good lighting when I took the photo so the colours aren't as good as they should be.

For the background I swiped a Caribbean sea Kaleidacolour ink pad across my craft mat and sprayed water on it then I coloured my tag with it. When the background was dry I sprayed it with water. 

I stamped the Clarity Stamp mermaid onto the tag and also onto some white card. I coloured her body with a felt tip and her tail with Sakura gelly roll pens then I cut her out and adhered her over the image on the tag.

I embossed a mixture of aged aqua and aged marine Frantage at the bottom of the tag and adhered some shells and a metal starfish charm. 

I stamped the Hobby Arts sentiment onto card and adhered it to the tag.

Leonado Tag

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The Grungy Monday challenge at Studio L3 is to use Distress Ink and the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show  is to show a tag so I decided to combine the two challenges.
I went to the Craft Barn Extravaganza on Sunday and bought a lovely set of  Leonado Da Vinci stamps by Katzelkraft, these are the stamps I've used. The Distress inks I've used are vintage photo, old paper, scattered straw, mustard seed and dusty concord, I've also used black Archival.

Less is More Pick a Square

The challenge at Less is More this week is to pick one of 5 squares, we could use one of the 4 corners or the centre. For the first card the stamp I used was going to be used last week for the butterfly challenge but I didn't have time to join in the challenge. It's by Paper Inspirations and it's one of my all time favoretes.

 The background stamp is a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamp and the cat is by Inkadinkado.

Another Inkadinkado stamp. I used Kaleidacolor put on with a baby wipe for the background.

Another Fun Challenge Card

I've had this stamp for years and this is the first time I've used it. It's made by Stamps Happen. I stamped the image onto white card and coloured the background with Kaleidacolor pastel and I used felt tips on the woman. I've no idea who made the spotty background paper.