Alpha/Dictionary Challenge - B Is For Bird

I enjoyed doing the Craft Barns Calendar Challenge last year and have decided to join in with this years Alph/Dictionary Challenge. I'm into postcards at the moment and have decided to use postcards for the challenge - I'm hoping that's okay as there was no mention of postcards in the brief.

The first challenge is to use the letter B.

I used a brayer to apply acrylic paint onto the background, then I stencilled the leaves with green paint. I stamped the bird [Sheena Douglas stamps] onto the postcard and also onto white card, I coloured the bird on the white card with pencils, I also added colour to the leaves and went round them with a black pen. I cut out a piece of card for the branch, coloured it with pencils and glued it to the postcard. I cut out the bird and glued it over the image on the postcard and added part of a dictionary with the word bird on it. I painted the postcard with Multi Matt Medium and when it was dry I added more colour with my Pitt pens. The letter b was stamped.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

Fire And Flames

Fire and Flames is this weeks Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme. I wasn't sure what to do for this challenge, in the end I decided to draw the word fire with flames coming out of it.

I started to colour it in with pencils but the colours weren't strong enough, so in the end I used my Pitt pens.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

SPA Challenge - Comedy/Humour

Comedy/Humour is the theme for this weeks Sunday Postcard Art.

I have a few humorous stamps but the one I've used has been in my collection for years and only used once.

The background is a Gelly print. I stamped and embossed the Eve and words and stamped the apples. I drew the snake and everything was coloured with pencils.
Stamps used.
Stamps Happen - Eve and words.
Innovative Stamps - Apples.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

SPA Challenge - Men In Hats

Men In Hats is the first challenge of the year for the Sunday Postcard Art.

I'm a bit short for time at the moment so I had to do a quick card. The background is a Gelli print that I made a few months ago. I stamped the Stampers Anonymous men images onto card and coloured them with pencils. I cut them out and glued them to the card. I wrote the Walt Whitman Quote on white card and drew some lines round the edge of the postcard.

Thanks for looking.

xxx Hazel.

First Post Of The Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone, this is my first post of the year and it's my DT piece for the Mixed Media Mojos January challenge, The theme is Winter with Glitter as the twist.

My project is a journal page.

I'm linking my page to the Art Journal Journey challenge - Winter Wonderland.

I covered my page with a very dark Gelli print, using a palette knife I spread some gesso that had gone very thick over it and added some white acrylic paint, I stamped the Artemio trees with Archival ink.

I covered the snowy area and parts of the trees with Imagination Crafts Sparkle Medium.

I stamped the Personal Impressions images onto white card, coloured them with coloured pencils and cut them out. After gluing them to the page I splattered some white paint over everything. The words are PaperArtsy stamps.

Here is a close up of the snowman showing the glitter. Sorry the photos are so dark, the light wasn't very good when I took them.

Thank you for looking, enjoy your day.

xxx Hazel.

December Calendar

I've just made it for the Craft Barns December calendar challenge, the theme is Gold and/or Silver and Christmas Trees. December has been a bit fraught and I've not been able to do much crafting or blog hopping, things seen to be getting back to normal so I will be visiting you all in the New Year.

I used Brushos for the background, I sprinkled them onto card and sprayed with water. The PaperArtsy tree has been stamped onto coloured card, I cut out the pieces and glued them to gold card and then cut out the whole tree. I spread some gold Stickles onto the card and then glued the tree and presents, the presents and star have gold Stickles on, I also added red glitter glue dots on the tree. The calendar page and dates have been matted onto gold card.

A close up of the tree. The calendar is a lot more glittery than it looks on the photos.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

Happy Christmas

Wishing you all a very

Happy Christmas

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.

SPA - The Holly and/or The Ivy

I'm happy to be hosting this weeks Sunday Postcard Art challenge. The theme that I've chosen is The Holly and/or The Ivy.

I sponged distress ink to colour the background and stamped the Crafter's Companion Holly Fairy stamp with black Archival ink, I also stamped some ivy leaves round the edge. I coloured the image and ivy with watercolour pencils and a brush. I put some gold foil round the edge, it doesn't show up very well in the photo apart from a little bit in the right hand corner.

Have a lovely Sunday.

xxx Hazel.

SPA - Books/Reading

Today I'm sharing my postcard for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, the theme is Books/Reading.

I looked through my old dictionary for the page with book on. I tore the page out and adhered it to my postcard, I sponged some vintage photo distress ink over it and drew some lines round the word book. I stamped some small holly leaves round the edge of the card. The image is a Gecko Galz digi stamp, I printed the image, cut it out and glued it to the card, I coloured it with pencils. The words were done on my computer.

Thank you for looking, have a good day.

xxx Hazel.

Sunday Postcard Art - Trees

The theme for this weeks Sunday Postcard Art challenge is trees.

For the background I used Brushos with a stencil and sprayed water on it, when it was dry I stamped some trees [Crafty Individuals]. I coloured a piece of copy paper with Brushos and stamped and embossed the trees [Hero Arts], Instead of cutting round the image I cut a strip and glued it to the bottom of the postcard. I added the quote, no idea who made the stamp.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

Another Christmas Canvas

It's time for the December challenge at Mixed Media Mojo the theme is Sentiment and the twist is NOT to use red of green.

For my DT piece I've made a Christmas Canvas.

I used the same technique as the canvas on my previous post.
I covered the canvas board thickly with gesso and made marks in it, the tiny stars were made using a very small star icing cutter.

I scraped acrylic paint over the dried gesso.

I used my finger to spread some Treasure Pewter over it.

I decorated it by gluing some gauze to the bottom. I embossed the edges and the gauze with shabby white Frantage enamel, I also used it on the star. The words were done on the computer and die cut, I went round the edge with some distress ink and matted them onto die cut black card. I edged the canvas with Gelatos and a damp brush. I added some glass stars.

Here is a closer look at the star.

Thank you for looking at my project, please take a visit to the Mixed Media Mojo blog to take a look at the beautiful things that the rest of the DT have made.

Christmas Canvas

I can't believe its December already and it's time for Altered Eclectics last challenge of the year and as always the theme is anything goes as long as it's mixed media/altered art. This challenge will last for two months.

For my DT piece I've done a Christmas canvas.

I thickly covered a canvas board with gesso and used a pokey tool to make some marks, they're supposed to be holly leaves.

I scraped some green acrylic paint over the dried gesso .

Then I spread some Treasure Pewter over the canvas.

This is a close up of the canvas.

I decorated the canvas with die cut holly leaves and handmade roses and a decorated ATC size piece of stampboard. I covered the leaves and flowers with stickles.

Here is a close up of the roses.

For the centre piece I used an ATC size stampboard. I stamped the image [The Artistic Stamper] and coloured it with felt tips. I covered it with crackle paint and embossed the edges with gold embossing powder.

This is a close up of the crackle.

I hope you'll be able to join in with the challenge, the rest of the DT have made some fabulous samples and they would love you to take a look.

Thank you for looking.

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.

November Calendar Page

Grey and Owl is the theme for the Craft Barns November calendar page.

I brayered the acrylic paint on the background and splattered some white paint, I stamped the Indigo Blu owl onto white card and cut it out. I die cut the moon and painted it with silver acrylic paint. I added some die cut leaves and bits left over from when I frayed some burlap,

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.