vintage love mixed media canvas

Good morning! This week I have been asked to guest design at Try It On Tuesday, where the challenge this week is include a photo, vintage or modern.

I have created a canvas and used as my centre piece, a napkin which contained a vintage photo as part of it's pattern. I just decoupaged it onto the canvas.

I then rubbed gelatos all around the outside of the image to the edge of the canvas and smeared it together with a water brush.

I then stamped the words 'love' around the image and added texture paste through a stencil to get the dots. I finished off the bottom of the canvas by wrapping around some ribbon and lace.

The top is finished off with some netting and flowers.

The netting is held in place with some buttons on each side of the canvas and one on top, which are glued into place.

I am entering this in at the following:

• love is in the air ~ A Vintage Journey; Vintage Udfordring
• C is for cupid ~ ABC Challenge 
• flower power ~ Allsorts Challenge 
• Valentine's Day/Love ~ C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 
• use flowers ~ Cards & Scrap 
• all about love ~ Natalie & Amy 
• paints, stamps, stencils ~ Our Creative World 
• love is in the air ~ Quirky Crafts 
• anything goes ~ Sir Stampalot
• love ~ The Artistic Stamper; Crazy Challenge
• think pink ~ Mixed Media Monthly Challenge

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

today is the day I fell in love

Hi there! I can't believe it's been two months since I blogged!

I have been making a few things, so will be share them with you as soon as I can get them photographed and written up!

Today I have a little KaiserCraft album to share, which I have altered up, all ready for a few photos to be added.

Papers: Little Yellow Bicycle ~ Love Letters. Love how these work so well together. 

I have finished the edges of each letter with a silver wax patina.

Lots of buttons with silver Kreinik thread.

Notice the little word stickers at the foot of each letter. Together they spell out 'today is the day I fell in love'.

Thank you for looking!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• anything goes ~ Creative Inspirations; Dream Valley Challenges
• love is all around ~ My Time to Craft
• love ~ The Pink Elephant

Keeley

love is all around ... mixed media hanging heart

Good morning! May I wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

Today is my first challenge of the New Year and we are looking for VERY VINTAGE at Crafts 4 Eternity.

I've created another Mixed media piece, this time a hanging heart.

I have used an mdf die cut heart as the base. It is quite big, 12 inches high!

I started off by adding some music themed cardstock, which you can just about see peeking through.

I've added lots of layers with distress stains and paint. In the above photo you can see a bit of vintage netting.

The image is by Pion Design. I've added some stamped layers and rub-ons with some Prima decoration. You should be able to see a bit of doily as one of the layers.

I have just used letter stickers for the words, which I just distressed up a bit. 

More netting.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• anything goes ~ C.R.A.F.T. Challenge; Crafty Creations; The Pink Elephant 
• use flowers ~ Card & Scrap 
• love is in the air ~ The Artistic Stamper

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

♥ swalk ♥

Hello ... today I have to share with you this little cutesy for this week's challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity, where we want you to feature bears on your project.

Well I'm not normally a teddy bear kind of person, nor a sticker person, but I came across these cute Tatty Teddy embossed stickers</u> from the Me To You collection at <u>Do Crafts and just had to have them.

Dies: Xcut ~ Hearts and Spellbinders ~ Grand Decorative Ovals One

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• hearts and flowers ~ Papertake Weekly and The Corrosive Challenge
• love &/or hearts ~ Crafty Creations 
• letter 'B': I have bears & bling ~ Deep Ocean Challenge 
• love is in the air ~ The Pink Elephant 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley  

special delivery

Hi! I hope you've had a great week. Mine has been fraught with computer mishaps and then crashes, on a brand new machine?! Hey ho! Live and learn and put it behind us. My crafty head however, is going full tilt! So go on, bring me a computer crash any day! I will, of course, learn to regret my words....

This week at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a Valentine/love theme. How easy is that at this time of year!

I lurvve a Valentine's theme, in fact I do the love theme all year long.

 

I've used Bo Bunny ~ Love Letters papers on this, combined with my Spellbinders ~ Grand Labels 23 and X Cuts Filigree Heart diecut.

Image: Some Odd Girl ~ Crushin' Gwen, isn't she cute? I added some Bo Bunny chipboard pieces to my project.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• valentines or love ~ Totally Papercrafts
• love is in the air ~ Daring Card Makers 
• anything goes ~ Papertake Weekly 
• use your oldest bling ~ Shopping Our Stash 
• hearts ~ Everybody Art Challenge     

Thank you for looking.

Keeley    

you have all of my love

Good evening! Today sees a new challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity where we want to see some kind of musical element on your project.

I was going to make a whole batch of similar cards, but that idea fizzled out after two. LOL!

Here is the first:

Papers: Teresa Collins ~ Noel. I have tons of this paper, it is gorgeous.

Here is the second one.

Love these wooden hearts which I sprayed with glimmer mists.

Thank you for looking.

keeley 

smitten

What a beautiful, gorgeously sunny day we've had here today. Always makes me feel good! I am a bit late with our challenge this week at Crafts 4 Eternity where we have a HEXAGON challenge.

Also, don't hold your breath, but this is the first time I've coloured up an image in forever!! I had to check back and the last time I posted with a coloured image was 20 Feb, that's over three months ago!! I think I got out of the habit and then got too scared to do it!!

Papers: My Mind's Eye ~ Love Me

Image: I masked the Magnolia ~ Tilda in Havanna with the Cafe Chair and coloured her with my Distress Markers and added some stickles.

The jury is still out for me with the distress markers. I bought the whole set and now I wonder if I should have done. They were easy enough to colour with, but I didn't like the way the colours kept drifting where I didn't want them to go. Also I don't like the tube they come in. Means I have to keep sorting out the colours everytime I want to use them. They are not refillable either, another negative in my book. You are wondering why I bought them? LOL! So am I! I'll let you know if I learn to love them, but right now I prefer my copics.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• it takes two ~ My Time to Craft I have two brads
• pretty in pink ~ Truly Scrumptious

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

note: I love you!

Hello! It's been a while. Since I last wrote, my Sweetie broke his ankle and ended up in hospital for five days. Then just as I got him settled in at home, I came down with flu. So if I have neglected you with my commenting, please bear with me and I will catch up soon as.

Today we have a new challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity, which is lock and key.

 

I have used these beautiful papers from My Mind's Eye ~ Kraft Funday 6x6 pad. These papers are very 'me'. I have glitzed the edges with distress ink and stickles.

OMG! Am sooo in love with these new gorgeous stamps I have just discovered. Need some more in the physical stamp variety please!

Image: Some Odd Girl ~ Love Letter Kaylee. I coloured her with copics and added some stickles.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

Here is my lock and key.

 

Lock: Melissa Frances ~ Vintage keyhole.

Key: 7gypsies 

Also don't forget the February C4E inspired by this is packed full of inspiration if you need a prompt or some help with your mojo, you will find it here.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Quirky Crafts - love story with ribbons & charm
• Prairie Fairy Fridays - let me call you sweetheart
• Fussy & Fancy Fridays - with all my heart
• The Crazy Challenge - Valentine's Day

and linking up to Some Odd Girl who are looking for Valentine's projects. 

Thank you for looking.

keeley.

sMoochable

 

Here at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a fabulous sketch for you to follow.

Here is my take.

Papers: Bo Bunny ~ Smoochable

I also used chipboard stickers from the same set.

Image: Make It Crafty ~ Geeky Love coloured with copics.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• Stitching ~ One Stop Craft Challenge
• Valentine's ~ Copic Marker Norge
• People ~ Shopping Our Stash
• Love & hearts ~ Truly Scrumptious 
• Love you ~ Deep Ocean Challenge
• Hearts/Valentine ~ Creative Belli Blog
• Love is in the air ~ By the Cute & Girly

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

all the ways I love you

 

It's Monday and a new challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenges this week the theme is all you need is love. Just perfect to get cracking on those Valentine gifts.

I have made a mini album.

 

  

Papers: Webster's pages.

I've done lots of gold embossing around the edges and also gilded the edges of the pages with gold to give it a vintage look.

Decorated simply with a bouquet of six red roses ...

 

...and a single red rose on the binding.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Valentine - Crafty Creations
• Ribbon - PaperPlay Challenges
• Distressing - Craft Your Days Away
• I {heart} you - The Corrosive Challenge
• Anything but a card - CES Challenge

Thank you for looking.

keeley

love ticket

I'm a little late with my posting for this week at Crafts 4 Eternity where we have a colour recipe challenge and we want to see projects featuring these colours:

Although these are pretty wintery colours, I wanted to make it into more of a Valentine theme.

All papers are Basic Grey from various collections.

Image: La Blanche ~ Kissing Lovers.

Using up a Pink Paislee ticket. I have a whole roll of these which will last me forever!

Finally, another view.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• lace &/or pearls - The Crazy Challenge
• XOXO hugs & kisses - My Time to Craft
• swirls & pearls - Creative Inspirations
• in stitches- Paper Play Challenges
• anything goes with blue - Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge
• bingo: I have used flowers, ribbon, swirl - Challenge Up Your Life
• monochromatic in blue - Crazy 4 Challenges
• ribbon - Gingersnap Creations

Thank you for looking.

Keeley