Summer Inspiration

I'm getting lots from being outdoors, in the garden and reflecting on what summer is all about. This time of year is all about getting together with family and having some fun in the outdoors, plan a barbeque, or go away for the day and take the kids out to do some thing interesting and fun, or even let some one else do that, and hang out in the back garden, worship the sun and drink long cool ice teas. No doubt even when you do plan for a quiet afternoon you have family coming anyway wanting to share your piece of sunshine, but what ever you do let it reflect in your crafting, i have found that it makes me want to clear out the old stuff and get new stuff and organize my space, which is basically what i have been doing.

This year as you know i signed up as a demonstrator with Stampinup  and in previous years as an avid fan have collected so much, well as much as i didn't want to part with my beloved stamps have seen so much in this years annual catalogue, i don't think ill miss them. I'm so excited for you to see the new catty, you wont be disappointed at all, i have a wish list as long as my arm.

So i have been creating a few projects to wet my palate for when the new goodies arrive

I cased this from another Uk demonstrator on youtube pootlespapercraft, she is awesome, and her projects are great, so i thought i would showcase some of the new in colours from left Calyso coral, Island indigo, Wisteria wonder,Pool party and Lucky limeade,  i love these colours so much its a shame that they are going but i have fallen for the new  2012-14 in colours,

So watch this space you guys will keep you posetd till the new catalogue comes out,

thanks for stopping by

End of year show

So I finally have had the chance to update my blog it has been a busy three weeks and now  its the end of  term and I am officially on summer break i would love to show you the pictures from the final show it was so good, the  third year degree students work was unbelievable.

Here was my display before the public arrived i got a few pics and i was so pleased with the finished project my plaster cast shoes were very popular,  and as always here is a close up

This one is on the top shelf. It has  been made out of porcelain, and has been baked then glazed, and then laser transfers of feathers were applied then it was fired on a low heat.

This has been one of the many milestones that i will overcome over the next few years as, I will be on the degree course in September working towards, my BA Hons in fine art, Hooray for passing with merits, I have done all my celebrating, and now i need to prepare for September, thanks for visiting.

 

D DAY is Approaching

 

Just getting over completing my 2000 word essay on an artist of my choice and i finished by the skin of my teeth(if teeth have skin that is ) so now its finished i can kick back and relax and share  this with you my sisters birthday was a couple of weeks ago and I had made her a supernatural t-shirt and wash bag and made the boxes on my new boxer board, and here's what i come up with i used crafters companion card and paper in silver i had die cut the flower with the sizzix  tattered flowers die and my stamping up flower punch and layered them together  and added purple gems to the centres and used purple tissue on the inside of the box to co-ordinate.

 

hope you like it.

 

Gerbera challenge 114

I absolutely adore this stamp from wood ware, I made this card for my sisters 7th wedding anniversary, I loved it so much that I went and ordered the rose and lily singles from the same collection, a really nice big bloom with lovely big petals to colour in. I coloured it in using pastel pink, sun kissed, and  putty pro-markers to blend the petals, the background uses mica pigment paint to give a paler image with the same stamp.

I am entering this card in to http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-114-flower-power-floral-image.html

Good luck to all the other entries, there is some really gorgeous cards.

Coiled cherry

This is one of the final pieces that i wanted to show you this started life as a long piece of clay coiled in to a bowl shape. to execute a shape like this the two halves had to be done separately and joined together by another coil. This did actually start life as an apple but the shape was totally wrong, but with some consultation with my tutor we decided on a cherry which i stained with a velvet glaze and painted with a red oxide to give me a deep red colour, this was then highly glazed leaving the stalk as a contrast to the cherry.

And as usual here is my close up, you can see there is metallic marbling on the surface this has come from the clay and has risen through the surface.

Thanks for watching, there's more coming soon xx

I didn't know i could do that !!!

After a week of sketching everything we got to play with some mod rock which is like bandages covered in plaster, in order

to re-create a sketch we did at Cusworth house of the trees and woods there

it was a gorgeous day and the whole of our group really enjoyed it we even turned it in to a picnic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was an interesting day and it showed how our sketches can be interpreted in other mediums.

And so we continued, getting stuck in with wire and fibre board and plaster we also used a spot welder and

other various heavy duty equipment, and i come up with this.

Well that all from me for now will be back with some cards soon Half term coming up so no more plaster

 

Thanks for stopping by x

Simply convenient

Having started my design course and investing in a new sketch wallet and other drawing goodies, I thought I would doll up my case and matching tote with my favourite of all stamps Simply sassy pillow talk I have used her a lot even though I also purchased delicious and love a latte and sugar pip, this one was the one I chose to jazz up my bag.

The case and tote are made of a paintable canvas which I primed with artists gouache and then a layer of titanium white acrylic paint but not before masking off the area I wanted to stamp in I then stamped my image with Stazon black and water coloured with whispers brush markers and sealed with crafters companions clear spray varnish I must admit I went a bit crazy with varnish and it made the stazon bleed a bit but not too noticeable unless you look closely, I'm please with the result as it is the first time I have tried stamping on canvas, I finished off my edges with cosmic shimmer glitter glue, I have since die cut some flowers out of felt and attached these with eyelets.

And as usual a close up for you x

Thanks for looking see you soon x

And then there were three…….

Well am I cutting it fine, the submissions for Sugar Nellie Simply sassy GDT spot closes in 20 minutes and, me as always do not like to be late for the party. Here for my final project I have a simple door hanger it will probably end up on my daughters door by this time tomorrow, but as I was short of time CAS again, using Boho Chic, I used pro-markers to colour her in, colours were Lavender, Lilac, Tan, Vanilla, Ivory, Cool greys 1,3,5.

And a close up,

Thanks for the opportunity and, thanks for stopping by

Just a quick thanks

I just wanted to pop on and show you a couple of projects that we did in workshop, if I am honest I am not overly confident that people are going to like the projects that I do but the whole point of being a crafter is sharing what you love and I feel I have done this in bucket loads and I sincerely hope it came across.

Its a 4x4 box that can hold jewellery or pot pourri  or other special objects, I could think of loads of uses for it or you can just pop your pens in there, on your craft desk.

I want to say a special thanks to Jo for having the confidence in me to try a workshop for myself, and for the ladies for being so forgiving about my little mishaps, they are a wonderful bunch of ladies, and they are so much fun, and also a special thanks to Tracey, all your help was well appreciated and I was so glad to have it you would not believe nerves gets the better of me as I used to be a lone crafter and not socialise at all until I met Jo and the rest of the group you really have brought me out of my shell.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Yummy Scrummy

Just a quick post today its very rare that i post on a week end  but,wanted to share this with you, my partner Paul and daughter Holly have been baking so, I quickly made them up these cute cake toppers, I used cherry cobbler SU/CS and whisper white and stamped back and front secured with a hot glue gun and cocktail stick, although the cakes have not been decorated yet I could not wait for them to do that and decided to take some picks anyway, what do you think.

and here’s the back view,

Thanks for stopping by

Pick a square

 

It was such a choice, great idea for a challenge though, I actually found myself putting a glass on each corner, and centre of my card to decide where i wanted my image, excellent idea, as the challenge goes simply less is more. I am combining this challenge also with Flower frenzy over at simply stamping challenge, I stamped a Non SU stamp rose on to the right hand corner of my card,i then stamped it a couple of times with leaves on to more whisper white CS and layered it up,  at first i did it in early espresso, which i really liked, and then i thought well what if my rose was red so i then stamped in Cherry cobbler, with Basic grey leaves and this was very nice(although i say so myself) i love SU colours as they are so vivid and strong the sentiment is a retired one from SU, from my stash and i have flittered with glitter to finish. Hope you like it.

And here is a close up for you.

Thanks for passing through.

Pro-marker colour guide

I have been wanting to make one of these for some time and never got around to it but had found a challenge called stamp something and divasbydesign  figured i could combine the two, stamp something are having a third birthday and there is some awesome candy going if you do the blog hop, which i did and had loads of fun leaving the design team some lovely comments, and a great prize for the challenge too, so here’s my entry

 

And here's a close up for a more detailed image. Hope you like it.

Altered Items

Candles are not a thing i would have ever dreamed of altering but when i saw some candles my sister bought from a gift shop that had a sentiment on i thought i can do that, so i did and after trial and error here is what i came up with,  i went on various websites like split coast stampers to see if i could find some tutorials there wasn't many, but i thought i would put my spin on it, i made these for Pauls moms birthday, using SU cardstock, i think it was wild wasabi, (if you know please correct me) i made Alice bands for the outer two and the middle one i stamped a sentiment on to tissue paper, ( i mean the kind you gift wrap with not the toilet kind) and used my heat tool to kind of fuse it on to the candle, well it looked ok, i was chuffed to bits any way what do you think?

Another view

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Pampered pets

I wouldn't say I am a master of 3D projects but I totally enjoyed the let's see where this goes approach my daughter has so many bangles and rings being only two she has a pair just about on every single teddy so I thought I would make her this jewellery box and it was one of those midnight makes as I had to wait until I had peace and quite in the room and hey presto using papermania papers and pampered pets stamps and my bind it all I was thrilled with the results needless to say she has found every other use for it except a jewellery box till next time thanks for stopping by
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Note pad holder

Burning the midnight oil last night reading my docrafts magazine and I found a great project to try and it was this handy note holder so I thought I would put a twist on it and add a calendar (word of warning if you want it to hand straight put your note pad in the middle I put mine to the side and of course it hung wonky but all the same it looked good when finished I decided to use cake shoppe collection paper ans stamps from docrafts 8x8 mountboard and a small note pad measuring roughly 3 and a half inch by 5 and a half but you could use any size you want I inked the edges with SU choc chip ink but you could use tim holtz walnut stain same look after all why don't you send your versions of this theme I would love to see what you come up with x till next time happy crafting.
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