SPA - Texture

  Texture is this weeks theme for the Sunday Postcard Art  challenge.

I used a stencil with some texture paste on the background and coloured it with watered Scribble Sticks, I let it dry and built up layers of colour drying each layer before adding more colour. I painted some tissue paper with white acrylic paint, when the paint was dry I stamped some Stampendous flowers on the side with no paint. I tore round the images and adhered them to the card. I coloured the flowers with Pitt pens and coloured pencils. I added some tissue tape for the Tim Holtz paper doll to stand on, I coloured her dress with pencil. I also splattered the card with silver paint, I’m glad it doesn’t show up on the photo as it looks like snow and I don’t like it,

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

SPA - Africa

Hi everyone. Africa is this weeks theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

I coloured the card with terracotta brusho and painted the sun with yellow acrylic paint, I splattered the card with gold Kuretake watercolour paint.The zebra was stamped onto the card and I also stamped it onto white card, I cut the face out and adhered it to the card. I stamped the two silhouettes with black Archival ink. The large figure was stamped onto white card, coloured with felt tips, cut out and adhered it to the card. I doodled round the edge.

Stamps
Stampendous - zebra.
Clarity stamps - figures.

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

Artist Trading Coins

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

Today I'm sharing some Artist Trading Coins with you, both sets were made for UK Stampers swaps.

The background for both sets were made with card from my stash.
Stamps I used
Craft Emotions - Flamingo.
Paperartsy - Sheep.
Stampendous/Laurel Burch - Cat.

The stamps that I used for the birds are all Paperartsy.

Thank you for dropping by to take a look. xxx

SPA - Birds

Hi everybody, I hope you're all well and having a lovely weekend in the sunshine
Birds is this weeks theme over at the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

My postcard has an alcohol ink background. I used a Stampendous stamp and die for the flowers, Katzelkraft stamp for the black birds and a TJ Design stamp for the postmark. The birds are cut out from a paper napkin and the words are Tim Holtz small talk stickers.

Thank you for visiting my blog, have a lovely Sunday. xxx Hazel.

Spring Journal Page

Good morning everybody, I thought we'd seen the last of nasty white stuff - it was a lovely spring day yesterday and today it's snowing quite heavily.

Rosie has chosen Spring for her theme at Art Journal Journey

Supplies used:
Gesso.
Gelatos.
Paper napkins.
Hero Art flower stamp coloured with felt tip pens.
Stampendous bird stamp and matching die.
Felt tip pens to colour the bird.
Script stamp - unknown make.
Black Archival ink.
Distress ink to edge the pages with.
Matte medium.

Below are a couple of photos of my tortoise Harry, last weekend he decided it was spring and got up after his four month hibernation. Looking at the weather today I think he might decide that he got up a bit too early.

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

SPA - Springtime

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

I'm happy to be hosting this weeks Sunday Postcard Art challenge - the theme I've chosen is Springtime, with the way the weather's been this week spring still seems a long way of.

I enlarged a Gecko Galz image and adhered it to my postcard, then I stamped the flowers with a Stampendous stamp and coloured them with pencils. I stamped some green leaves around the nest with a Paperartsy stamp. The word spring is a Jofy stamp.

I'm entering my postcard in the following challenges
Country View Challenge - Postcards
Moo Mania and More - Think of Spring

Thank you for looking, enjoy your Sunday. 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.

Cat ATCs

Hi everybody, I have some ATCs to share with you today.

I used card from my stash for the backgrounds and stamped the Stampendous/Laurel Burch cats onto white card. The cats were coloured with felt tips, cut out and glued to the background. I stamped some paw prints and added sequins.

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

Butterfly Tag

Good morning. Today I'm sharing the tag that I've made for the UK Stampers tag swap.

I'm entering my tag in the following two challenges.
Go Tag Thursday - Butterflies.
Country View Challenges - Things With Wings.

For the background I used distress ink, stencils and mica sprays. I stamped the Stampers Anonymous butterflies onto the tag with black Archival ink and stamped and die cut the butterfly with a Stampendous stamp and die, I added a metal pointer for the body. Finally I added some tissue tape, word sticker and stapled some ribbon.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

A Birthday Card

It was a friends birthday this week and this is the card I made for her.

The background is a discarded one, I used a Carabelle Studio stencil with some brushos but I sprayed to much water on it and it ended up too messy for what I needed it for, but it was ideal for this card. I stamped the Stampers Anonymous flower and water coloured it with brushos. I used the same card and a Stampendous stamp and die for the butterfly. It was matted onto some black card and then glued to the card blank.

Thank you for dropping by to take a look.

xxx Hazel.

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.

SPA - Springtime

Happy Easter everyone, I hope you are all having a good weekend.

Today I'm hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge and the theme I have chosen is Springtime.

I used acrylic paint to colour the background and added a piece of tissue tape.
I die cut and stamped the bird and flowers with some Stampendous dies and stamps, I coloured them with pencil and glued them to the postcard, the word sing is a PaperArtsy stamp.

R Is For Raven

The latest letter for the Craft Barns Alpha/Dictionary challenge is R. I've gone for the word raven.
Here is my postcard.

It was a very simple postcard, I used one of my gelli prints for the background and stamped the Stampendous image onto white copy paper and tore round it before sticking it to my postcard. I added the dictionary meaning and the letter R, then I doodled round the edges.

Thank you for looking and have a good weekend.

xxx Hazel.

Sunday Postcard Art - Paris

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

Paris is the theme for this weeks Sunday Postcard Art Challenge.

I used a Gelli print for the background and all the images were stamped. I'm not sure if it was me or the Eiffel Tower that was tipsy when I stamped it. I added some white splatters and gave the postcard a coat of matte medium and added colour with Faber-Castell Pitt pens.

Stamps used:
Invoke Arts - Paris and background.
Creative Expressions - background.
Stampendous - flowers.
Clarity Stamps - Eiffel Tower.

Thank you for looking and have a nice day.

xxx Hazel.

Sunday Postcard Art - Dark

Dark is this weeks theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

I used one of my Gelli prints for the background. I dripped some purple and dark blue ink from the top of the card, it looked good but it paled as it dried and doesn't show up. I stamped and embossed the Stampendous image and added some black letters from my stash.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

Butterfly Journal Page

Last week my friend Alison came to play, we had a great day playing with our Gelli Plates and we both ended up with loads of lovely prints.

I've used one of them on my journal page.

My print wasn't big enough to cover the pages so I painted the edge of the pages with Acrylic paint, tore round the print and glued it to the pages. I used Kaisercraft, Inkadinkado and Stampendous stamps on the background and I used Versamagic chalk ink. The butterflies [Stampendous stamp and cutting dies] were stamped onto cream card, cut out and glued to the pages with Mod Podge, I also spread the Mod Podge over the butterflies so that I could colour them with Faber Castell Pitt artist pens. Spreading the glue over the images and letting it dry meant that I could colour with the pens and spread the ink with my finger before it dried. I uesd an Artistic Stamper stamp for the quote.

I'm sharing my pages with Art Journal Journey their theme this month is Time.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

August Calendar - Pink and Butterflies

My August calendar page for the Craft Barns calendar challenge is a bit grungier than my other pages.

I enlarged a photo of a hydrangea from my garden and printed it onto copy paper. I tore round the flower head and adhered it to the page. I then stencilled some modelling past with a Dreamweaver stencil and when the paste had dried I gave the page a light coat of gesso.

I sprayed the page with water and added some Dylusions ink.

I went round the edges with picked raspberry distress ink and stamped some butterflies and letters. I stamped and die cut the large butterfly and added it and the calendar to the page.

I used Stampers Anonymous stamps for the background letters and butterflies, for the large butterfly I used a Stampendous stamp and die.

Thank you for looking.

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.

Butterfly Canvas

The theme for the August Challenge over at Mixed Media Mojo is Anything Goes.

For my DT piece I made a Butterfly Canvas.

I started by sprinkling Brushos onto the canvas and spraying with water.

I then covered the canvas with tissue wrap and painted it with clear gesso.

Then I stencilled some DecoArt Media Modelling paste, let it dry and painted it with white gesso.

I then coloured it with Gelatos and sprayed water, when it had dried I stamped some script and splattered with white paint.

For the large butterflies I used a Stampendous stamp and cutting dies, for the small butterfly I used a Martha Stuart punch and stamp. For the quote I used a stamp by The Artistic Stamper.

My DT teamies would love you to visit Mixed Media Mojo to have a look at their fabulous makes.

Altered Book Pages

It's the first of the month so it's time for a new challenge at Altered Eclectics, as always the theme is Anything Goes as long as it's mixed media/altered art - no cards allowed.

For my DT piece I've altered some book pages. I've been wanting to do some page folding for a long time so I found a pattern on the Internet and found a book the size I needed. It was a lot easier to do than I thought it would be and didn't take very long.

I decided to keep the cover simple, I covered the spine with some crumpled tissue paper, painted it black and when it was dried I spread some Treasure Brass over the raised areas. I covered the front and back with some patterned paper that I'd stamped with some butterflies and postmark stamps
.

I used a Stampendous stamp for the butterfly and a PaperArtsy stamp for the postmark,

The rest of my DT teamies have made some lovely inspirational pieces so why not pop over to Altered Eclectics to take a look.