A Textured Mixed Media Project for Art and Soul Studio

Today is my turn to showcase what I made with taking inspiration 

from the January Mood Board over at

 Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog

As you can see I honed in on the Deer and Trees.

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I started my project by choosing the

Memory Box Garden Birch Landscape Stencil

then started sponging with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Faded Jeans/Spiced Marmalade/Fossilized Amber

Pealed Paint and Vintage Photo

Then with the stencil still in place

 inking my trees in a variety of colours with

Memento Pistachio/Olive Grove/MementoLuxe Northern Pine

Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Checking out to see where to place my Deer

This is part of the Tim Holtz Great Outdoors CMS321 set

I purchased from the Art and Soul Studio as are the trees above.

Removed the stencil then

I heat embossed him with Ranger Copper and a second time

with Ranger Potting Soil.

 

Next came texture to the trees with DecoArt Crackle Paint

allowing it to dry naturally.

More texture was added for the ground using

Artisan Powder in Parisan Rosewood

Tim's Distress Stain in Gathered Twigs 

and VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves

mixed with DecoArt Texture Sand Paste.

and stenciled with Scratchy Stencil by Kaisercraft

Inked the edges then attached to a blue back.

Decided to add a backing with brown card stock

with a Stamperia Formato D (KSD282) stencil

using Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse.

(Still not sure if I like it)

Added touches here and there for effect on the trees

and on the ground.

The trees were also coloured with an Antique Linen Pen.

Finished with distressing the background .

Main image is popped.

Sentiment is die cut from MFT Stitched Die

heat embossed in white.

A few close ups!

The Art and Soul Studio give away

$50 vouchers to their store for Australian Residents

as prizes and overseas contributors are

invited to be Guests. Why not come join in 

 our Soul Sister's Facebook Group

and add your creation Here

this month and you could be a lucky winner!

Products from Art and Soul Studio are

Tim Holtz Great Outdoors Stamp Set

Stamperia Stencil

Kaisercraft Scratchy Stencil

Artisan Parisan Rosewood Powder

DecoArt Texture Sand Paste

Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse

VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves.

Hope you liked my project.

Till next time Cherrio!

There's No Place Like 'Home'

Hello and Welcome to Today's Post.

It's time for a new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers.

It's a new month so it's our 

Anything Goes with Watercolours

with the optional twist of  'HOME'

I had a hard time photographing this so

 please excuse the quality here.

To start I watercoloured my background with

Tim's Oxide Inks adding drops of water

and touches of iridescent medium.

I then cut out part of my HLS House die

and a stitched slope where I placed my

heat embossed sentiment from STAMPlorations

then framed and popped it.

Finished with some Liquid Pearls 

in front of the house and pearls

beside the sentiment.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS 

AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, 

YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

That's it for me today.

Don't forget to pop over and see 

what my Team Mates created

then come join in the fun this month.

Hope to see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in.

Canvasing 'Happy Thoughts'

Hi there and Welcome!

Today's post is for the current challenge

of Felt/Cork or Canvas etc over at CAS Mix Up Blog

All the details are Here

You will have seen my first entry using cork.

This time I thought I would play with canvas.

It really is a fun paper and gives a great

texture look to your project.

I started by spritzing some Turquoise Brusho's

onto my canvas then decided to add a bit of texture

with Mont Marte Pearl White Acrylic Paint

then some White DecoArt Crackle Paste - 

I should have added more but was just an experiment.

I left it overnight and was happy with the result so continued

by cutting out 2 Spellbinder Butterflies in canvas.

 Attached them to my background and adhered to white card for stability.

Mixed up a little more of what I used for the background,

covering both cutouts and attached an oval gem.

Added some splatters and finished with my sentiment

from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy in Oxide Salty Ocean.

To blend with my pearly background I chose some

Pearlescent Textured card stock.

Here is a close up of the shimmer/texture - 

My Mix is Canvas, Stamping, Die Cutting, Mixed Media.

Thanks for dropping in today

Till next time - Cherrio from 

I'm Hosting this week at Just Us Girls

I'm Hosting over at Just Us Girls for Colour Week.

and chose these colours as they just scream

Tim's Oxide Inks to me.

 I decided to make a fancy fold to show off
the beautiful butterflies from the latest
Stamp Set/Die from STAMPlorations called
Fluttery and Fluttery Dies
These were inked with
Spiced Marmalade/Fossilized Amber
and Peacock Feathers with an extra one
cut and added to the middle.
I sponged the edges and then added
some random stamping from
SU Timeless Textures.
Added a butterfly to the inside with
a sentiment from STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies 2
and there you have it.

Now pop over to Our Blog to see what our
January Guest Cathy and the Team created.
Hope you find time to join us this week.
Love to see you in the Gallery.

As this is the first time I have used this stamp/die set
I am adding it to the Gallery at
Just Add Ink Check it out  Here

It's Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

A Guid New Year tae ane an awe

And mony may we see!

( A wee bit of Scotland coming out here)

Hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas
and now we move on to 2018.

The first Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers is our
Anything Goes Watercolour Challenge
(and I'm part of the New Look Team)
with the Optional Twist to use Sequins.
I'm sure we all have lots of little containers
full of these little treasures.

My watercolour background effect was the result of
spritzing water on to my craft mat after I added
Tim's Oxide Inks in Mermaid Lagoon & Salty Ocean
then spread with an acetate sheet.
The feature of my card is of course the feather
which is a stencil by TCW. I added texture paste
and once dry inked with Mermaid Lagoon.
It needed a little something so I put my stencil
back over the feather and versamarked it
then heat embossed the glitter.
Added some tiny text for interest.
Sentiment is from HLS Thinking of You
which unfortunately is retired.
Finished with HLS Blue Sequins and
a few gems and cut with a stitched die
adhering to metallic card stock.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 
Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!
How good is THAT!

Thanks for dropping in. Please check out Our Blog
to see what the Team have created
and come join us this month.
Hope to see you there.

May Your Days be Merry!

Hello Crafty Friends - so glad you popped in.

Today's post is for the current challenge over at

CAS Mix Up and the November challenge is

I have stamping - my sentiment

Glitter - Leaf

+ Choice - Splash Water Colouring

Die Cuts & Shimmer.

and over at Stamping with Loll

Loll has a splash Water Colour Challenge Here

so will pop this card over there also.

I love that easy peasy technique (Thanks for the tutorial Loll)

and is  perfect for leftovers which I have once again used here.

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My water colour splash was inked with Tim's Oxide Ink

in Abandoned Coral cut out from

CUTplorations Crazy-Double-Running-Stitch-Rectangle-Nesting-Dies

attaching a white frame behind it and popped.

Added my glitter leaf from Kaisercraft.

Sentiment is from

STAMPlorations Merry Stamp Set

Added a touch of Nuvo Shimmer to the sentiment leaves

and my card is done.

We have a whole month to play with this CAS Challenge so

I am sure I will be back with more Glitter - after all

Christmas is all about glitter isn't it?

then again I may go a different direction.

Till next time