Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Hi There!

How's the week going?

All good I hope and

there is always the

weekend to look forward

to but first, take a seat

and have a look at what

Hazel Harler has brought:

 "Hi everybody, 

today I'm sharing a card with you

I started by making the background 

using Distress Oxides.

The next step was to stencil some hearts

 and diamonds using Distress Oxides.

I stamped the Paperartsy/Zinsky images 

onto white card and coloured them

 with pencils, then I cut them out. 

I also die cut a heart with a 

Sizzix Thinlits die. 

The images were glued to the 

background, then this was matted 

onto some mauve card and then

 onto a white card blank

I stamped some flowers and a bird, 

coloured them and cut them out and

 glued them to the card, then 

I stamped the sentiment and scribbled 

round the edge with a black marker."

Supplies:

White card blank.
Mauve card.
White card.
Paperartsy/Zinsky stamps.
Black Archival ink.
Distress Oxide.
Coloured pencils.
Sizzix thinlits heart die.
Sentiment stamp.
Glue.

You have really brought 

the cats (?) to life Hazel

Thank you for a lovely

cheery card

Think these two are going

to find their way into my

shopping basket ........

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Better & Better

Better & Better

Hi there!

Are you on your holidays?

If so, you will be well chilled

if not, try this card today, it

is so relaxing to do.........

Here's Helen Chilton to show

you the way.....

Step 1: Stencil in gesso onto part of your card.

Step 2: Then stamp the fancy clock over

 the top in black.

Step 3: Colour in with pencils - 

I used Derwent Coloursoft. 

I like the way the stencilling

 shows through.

Step 4: To make the stamped image pop,

 add highlights with a white pen.

 I tend to put the pen on the craft mat 

and then dip in a bamboo skewer/cocktail 

stick as you have more control 

over the flow of ink.

final pic"

Supplies:

Stamps used:

Pencils:
Stencil:
Gesso:

white paint pen
rub ons

A nice quick project -

thank you Helen

The white paint pen really

does make the image appear

three dimensional

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Up the Wall

Up the Wall

Morning!  How's it going?

I know, some of you won't see

this until evening!  I just feel

if I say Good Evening it will

seem as though I've only just

remembered to do the blog

...............ooops!

Craftyfield is here today with

a super card reminiscent of

travels to sunnier climes.....

..........and times.....

"Despite the many options available to create a wall texture,

 I chose to represent the rendered walls so popular in Europe.

 Shame really as The Craft Barn has many stencils and stamps

 to fake the look of bricks, stones, wood and more...

 It could have been so easy... 

But no I persevered!

To complete the look I needed to create a window 

for my wall and some sort of gate, maybe with a bicyle...

To create my window I cut 4 rectangles from

 a piece of white cardstock. 

I then used an embossing tool and a foam mat 

to emboss lines around the frame

For colour I settled on a blue base, 

which I distress in the next step.

I mixed the colour from Frescos in 

South Pacific and Lavender.

I applied a thin layer of diluted crackle and

 overpainted with white paint

 I used double sided tape to affix a piece of 

acetate for my window panes

The wall texture was built in layers.

 I started with a layer of gesso and painted mixes of colours

 over the top to establish a background colour. 

Then with a sponge and tinted Grunge paste I "stamped" the stucco texture. 

I must say I wasn't sure if this would work, but it does, brilliantly in fact!

 I considered giving my window some curtains

but decided a dark colour would leave more to the imagination. 

I roughly drew in my panes with Inktense pencils 

mixing the colours on the paper. 

I then applied (a little) water with a wet brush.

To distress my wall I added some crackle, 

mixing grey and black ink directly on the stamp 

on top of Antique linen Distress ink.

 The Distress allows the inks to mix more 

readily with each other.

Finally the garden was stamped, fussy cut 

and coloured with Inktense pencils.

I tried to take some picture in natural lighting 

and this one does show the wall texture, 

very true to life I think

And another close up showing the subtle crackle 

and my impulse addition of a flowering branch 

coming down the wall, 

which I also painted with pencils."

Supplies:

Acetate:
Ultra clear double sided tape: 
Fresco paints: 
Crackle medium:
Grunge paste:
DecoArt paints:
Garden stamp:
Inktense Pencils: 
Crackle stamp:[I used an old stamp from my collection, no longer available]
Memento inks:

That stucco effect is amazing Craftyfield

Thank you for showing us how to do that

Think I'll go and see if I can

achieve at least a reasonable 

resemblance to stucco

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

3D Bloom and Texture

3D Bloom and Texture

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all wrapped up

warm and cozy on this fine

chilly day!

We have Hazel Harler to talk

us through her stunning canvas

so get yourself a cheery cuppa

and prepare to be A-mazed....

"For my project I used a 6" square canvas board

First I cut some vase shapes out of corrugated card 

having the ridges go different ways, 

then I glued some wooden shapes and pearls to them.

The vases then had a coat of gesso

I coloured the vases with acrylic paint.

 then sprayed gold foil Color Bloom on the blue vase, 

brimstone wings on the pink vase and 

dragonfly blue on the pale blue vase

 I used my finger to spread some Treasure Pewter over the vases

I stencilled some modelling paste through a Dreamweaver stencil 

and gave it a coat of gesso when the paste had dried.

 I watered down some acrylic paint , dabbed it on the canvas 

and sprayed with water letting it run down. 

I put the paint on one colour at a time drying it between colours

I thought it was a bit pale so I added some yellow 

paint and some red Gelatos I also splattered some frost Color Bloom

 I used my finger to spread Treasure Pewter 

over the modelling paste and went round the edge with black ink.

 I stamped some Paperartsy tulips.

 I coloured the flowers with pencils and cut them out

 I'd stamped extra flowers so that I could 3D the central petal. 

I glued all the pieces to the canvas."

Suplies used:

6" square canvas board.
Corrugated card.
Gesso.
Decoart acrylic paint.
Color Bloom - frost, dragonfly blue, brimstome wings and gold foil.
Treasure pewter.
Decoart modelling paste.
Dreamweaver stencil.
Gelatos.
Coloured pencils.
Wooden shapes and flatbacked pearls.

Thank you Hazel for your lovely canvas

giving us spring flowers and cheer

I'm thinking this will look lovely on my

mantel shelf and remind me that

spring really is just around the corner.......

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx