tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76541515635025991032024-03-13T01:54:47.891+00:00Arty Creation Inspiration sue :)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13671438523010153871noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7654151563502599103.post-54939147350098561402018-01-12T17:34:00.001+00:002018-01-12T22:45:52.197+00:00Life<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An extension, 5 months or more of dust, mess and lots of disruption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not to mention water leaks, from storms when there was just a piece of tarp covering the roof to leaking pipes which weren't connected properly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The school holidays came and went with not a lot of decorating taking place. Then the shock of my dad being diagnosed with esophogus cancer, less than 3 months went by and my dad is no longer with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a month to normalise the house before Christmas, the tree and decorations came home from where they were stored at grandma’s and put up. I even managed to make a few special cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I’m planning on joining in with a few challenges, the first one of this year is Paperartsy and the first topic is ATC’S (Artist Trading Cards).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I've created a few of these little works of art about 10 years ago, I didn’t actually swap any as I wasn’t sure on how, when, where etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then lack of motivation hit, as I sat in the dining room staring at my craft mat and stamps, I'd hit a wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I was emptying the fluff from the tumble dryer I was draw to the colour and texture of it, there was a fine purple base from my daughters bedding and pale turquoise lumps from a pair of fluffy socks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted, more like needed to save the, um," fluff ". In an effort to preserve the fluff I placed it on a non stick craft mat and gently/generously covered with clear sculpture medium, this took several days to completely dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Amazingly it worked! I decided to go along the fabric route to be a tad different. ATC sized fabric rectangles measuring 3.5" x 2.5" were used to create a base, the fluff layer was cut slightly smaller and glued onto the fabric with regular PVA glue. Using a few stamps from PA Eclectica range by Tracy Scott ETS01/02 the images were stamped onto canvas and cut out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Stitches in different coloured threads were used to attach the stamped images to the ATC bases. To complete the card a few small talk phrases were added from Tim Holtz Idea-ology range were trimmed and glued into position. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, a few of you may have picked up on the fact we've had some building work done, it began on the 18th January 2017 and ended the middle of May 'ish'. How ever, the redecorating is taking a little while longer. As with all builds little snags rear up and then because the builders have moved on the next job it's a bit of a mare getting them to come back and sort those pesky snags out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now only have one "Snag" outstanding, Yeah!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Upstairs spare room was painted Wednesday and Carpet for Master bedroom and spare room is coming a week on Thursday. Upstairs will then be complete. Downstairs next, no holidays for us this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paperartsy have had a new challenge on for the past 2 weeks, Books. Check out their blog post </span><a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2017/08/2017-topic-11-books-introduction-and.html"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to make a book occasionally, I love the example by Megan Winn of a small leather book with a key to act as a fastener and having finished painting another room, I had a need to make something. That something being the in the form of a book that can double up as a record of what paint colours were used in which room, excellent idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I began by putting holes in concertina valleys of the card, one in the middle and one either end approximately 1" from the edges. An extra hole was punched in the middle of the top ridge on either of the ends too. Torn ledger papers were glued randomly on the visible side of soon to be book. The edges were then stitched with old faithful-the sewing machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can just about see the holes for stitching in the valley folds and the top peaks on the two ends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here we are again, it's been a little while due to on going house alterations. Don't ask!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Anyhow, I've managed to squeeze this little number out for a class I'm running at Sunrise Crafts at their new home in Wordsley, Stourbridge, on Saturday April 8th 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using an MDF Driftwood Circle the large one out of a pack of two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To begin I didn't want the project to be too big and bulky, so instead of using the backing strips I created a backing from thick A4 card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next came the initial layer of brown paint on the right side, this was applied with a brayer and gave a nice even layer which dried quickly. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vaseline was streaked onto the brown paint from the edges inwards to act as a resist for the paint. A mixture of cream and white was brayered over the brown and left to dry, the excess paint and vaseline was removed using a baby wipe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now to the decoration, the fence was created first by stamping on tissue paper, this was then flipped over onto the wrong side and coloured with paint then dried gently with a heat tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once dry the tissue was torn closely to the fence and arranged onto the MDF, painted side down to show the stamped image on right side. A layer of decoupage glue was spread onto the MDF, followed by the tissue paper stamped image. This was gently smoothed into the glue, a good dollop of the glue was gently rubbed over the top to help dissolve the tissue paper and leave the stamped/painted image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They house was next, 4 pieces of card were cut to the same size. Each piece was a different colour. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, cream/white. Second, white/blue. Third, blue and finally Yellow Ocre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once dry they were each stamped with the same house image, using the lighter tone as a base, Windows and doors etc were cut from the coloured images to create a decopatch house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Home sweet home was stamped on white card and cut out, a pencil was used to add a touch of colour and distress ink used to darken the edges. This was layered onto a further piece of white card and lightly coloured in brown to blend in with the project.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">All the elements were glued into position and a further addition of green paint around the bottom edges of the house and trees.</span><br />
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Week 7 on wanderlust is the turn of Clair Bremner, check out her blog <a href="http://www.clairbremnerart.com/">here</a>. Also, its not to late to join in Wanderlust check it out <a href="http://www.everything-art.com/Wanderlust2017/">here</a> if you fancy experiencing a range artistic experiences. </div>
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This was my first effort and was/is very addictive, if you use the right brushes for the different techniques life is a lot easier too.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And this one was just for fun, the cat went out this morning in the dry a few minutes later she returned and sat on the step. It obviously began to rain and well she didn't move until I let her back in. This is what remained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last week Nola and I popped to a local craft shop and collect a few supplies, we came back with an MDF window shape to decorate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point we had sandwiched cheesecloth between the 2 pieces of shaped MDF, Structure medium was used to glue the fabric into folds to give the impression of curtains and the 2 MDF shapes were glued together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have to admit I did pencil in a few flowers to go over, as I wasn't relaxed enough to go full hog straight off, however once I got into the flow there was no stopping me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aim of this weeks Wanderlust class was to let go, paint without inhibitions, not over think the process and continue building layers/texture until the picture reveals itself to you. The reveal being the magic, scary thought as I normally go with, "Stop before you over do it".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It was an extremely long recording showing many layers until the artist was happy/satisfied with the result. Having experienced the process of getting lost in the layers I now understand why the video is so long, I began on the evening of Friday 13th and have only just finished it today, Thursday 19th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We began with a layer of blueberry paperartsy paint followed by a layer of crackle glaze then a top layer of white. We sat back had a cuppa and watched the magic happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found some Xmas napkins with vintage pictures on buried deep in the depths of my craft box and so decided to decoupage them onto the sledge. They were 3ply tissues, after a few minutes spent separating the layers we tore around the image and manipulated it to fit on the project. Using soft mat gel applied thinly to the project with a finger then we gently lowered the image in place. This was smoothed over and left to dry, a layer of mat gel was added over the top to protect and seal the image. Distress ink was added to the sled too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moving on, hubby not only bought me a wallpaper stripper for Christmas, (I did really want one) but also a subscription to an online journaling course. You may of heard of it, Wanderlust 2017 check it out <a href="http://www.everything-art.com/">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My only problem was re-sizing the photo to load onto the gallery on Wanderlust, but thanks to an online video I found an alternative, quick easy way to change it to 600 x 800px, so apologies if my first photo file was er, too big and the wrong way round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I've just done 12 days of card making but I still need more, famous last words!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I began by making a few background, to honest I didn't want to cover them up, but in the end I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They were made by putting light modelling paste through a variety of masks making sure to miss areas with the paste to add interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Infusions powders were then sprinkled over the dried texture paste patterns and misted with water then dried, this made the most amazing backgrounds effects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After lots of die cutting, inking and layering this is my final card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I began by stamping a Christmas background with embossing ink and heat embossing with a lovely pale blue Wow powder. Weathered wood distress ink was smooched over the card then misted lightly with water then the excess was lifted off with kitchen roll. Distress wax was used to seal the card. This was mounted onto patterned card stock to make a base to work on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">You guessed it, gelli print background (told you there was a theme) stamped and cut out grumpy penguins ( Yes Rebecca I'm owning up, its a new stamp. Had it a couple of weeks, that's it though just the two this year.).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> A touch of texture paste for the snowflakes followed by a die cut sentiment, a little stamped grounding for them to stand on and all layered up to make day 10 card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Leftover gilli prints were used to make a patch work background, the edges were inked with distress ink and layered onto card to create a base for the snowman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The snowman was stamped onto white card and his head/hat stamped onto gelli print paper, these were cut out and layered up a die cut sentiment was then added to complete the card.</span><br />
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The 1st of December bought a number of complications with it.</div>
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This was the day my crafting buddy and I had arrange to meet up and have a play, however, hubby decided to book the cats in at the vets, Penny for flu injection and Tom to have a few lumps checked out, poor lad has to have a little op to have them removed in the new year.</div>
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Daughter no.1 spent night throwing up and had to have the day off school, fortunately hubby was working from home, so that was sorted I could still go out. She spent it in bed and didn't get up until I got home. Next was a family visit to the dentist. All good there.</div>
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This is what we made today.<br />
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Rebecca's version.<br />
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I'm really sorry but there are no how to photos (too busy playing), however I will be doing another and then I'll take a few snap shots.<br />
First we decided on a theme beach huts or boats, we opted for a light house on an island, or sea breaker on a beach ( however you want to see it).<br />
A large lollipop stick was cut in half and painted in chosen colours then sealed with a touch of Matt medium.<br />
We began by using 2 layers of fabric laid over the inner ring of the embroidery hoop to create a base to work on, using layers of lace ribbon and threads we built up the ocean foreground. The lace etc was saturated in sculpture medium and twisted into place to create movement, once all of the fabric layers were in place the top hoop was lowered into place and tightened, the light house was glued in position with a blob of 3D gel medium, this was then heat set which hardened the structure paste.<br />
Light paste was used through a stencil to add texture to the sky line.<br />
Paperartsy paint was used to colour the piece, adding white to give the impression of waves and sea foam. Shells were glued using 3D gel along with art stones, (now known as kitty litter! Rebecca you know why). Small Tilda sequins were pushed into the gel and stones randomly to add yet another visible embellishment.<br />
That's where we got to, crafting buddy Rebecca was then given strict instructions to sit and finish it.<br />
I had to wait for hubby to finish his work off before I could do mine. I added a seahorse charm which I found whilst rummaging for a metal birdcage to make the lighthouse top. I used my Tim Holtz scissors to disassemble the cage by cutting out the middle section with the bird in, this was glued into position with glossey accents which hopefully gave the effect of glass.<br />
Mini glass beads in pale blue also added a visual bit o bling, its still lacking a little something but I will sit and look at it and maybe something will jump out at me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, you know when you've made something and you know you don't really like what you have done or, it somehow doesn't seem finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well that's how I felt about these two cards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And so, I changed them slightly, I am now a little happier sending them out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What can I say gelli print background, stamped stiches and die cuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All layered up to make a quick easy card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ho Ho Ho, Another easy one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This time the gelli print was made using the small shaped gelli plates creating an interlocking pattern in different colours, with the snowflakes stamped over the top to add interest. White paint was also brayered along the edges to lighten the colours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Die cuts added the finishing touches, a little colour was added to the die cuts using gelatoes before it was all layered with black card and stuck into position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This card was made using a gelli print for the background then layered up with die cuts which were cut from white card stock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Colour was added with weathered wood distress ink along with a touch of sparkle glitter to make it pop a little. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This was all layered up and stuck into position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This card was made by stamping the image onto cardstock then colouring with distress ink used as a watercolour, a touch of glitter was added to make a little more Christmassy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A die cut sentiment was added, and layered up with patterned card and a touch of black card.</span><br />
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sue :)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13671438523010153871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7654151563502599103.post-24193789924472080482016-12-04T16:00:00.000+00:002016-12-04T16:00:12.252+00:00TCC 2016 - Day 4<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twelve Cards of Christmas 2016 - Day 4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Easy cards, do you see a theme here? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The background was a brayered version of pinks, buff and white which was stamped with white paint using snowflakes from JoFY as is the snowman. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">More stamping in pink archival ink of the holly to add yet another layer, and the stitches stamped in watering can. The edges were distressed wit black soot distress ink and it was mounted onto a white card base.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The snowman was stamped onto white card and the hat was stamped onto pink patterned paper, both were cut out and layered onto the card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The sentiment was die cut from white card which had been coloured with pickled Raspberry distress ink, to make the Christmas part stand out a little white card was added to the back of the die cut before gluing it into position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Day 4 complete!</span><br />
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