colours of autumn for Frilly and Funkie DT make

As we have a new challenge and another great new feature over at Frilly and Funkie here are the details in Sue's own words :

Hello, it's Sue here and it's my turn to host the challenge for the next 2 weeks. Before we get in to that, there's also some news to share about a small change we're making here at Frilly and Funkie. As you know we always have 2 winners for each challenge, one chosen at random and one chosen by the Design Team. From this challenge we will be inviting the winner chosen by the Design Team to be a Guest Designer for one challenge! So, now there's even more reason for you to join in!

Now onto the challenge, I love the colours of Autumn they are so rich and warm. The colours of the leaves are gorgeous, the golds, reds and rusts are just beautiful! The challenge is for you to create a project using these wonderful colours with a small twist, you must include some leaves on your project.

So here is my make for this challenge ...

I wanted to make a hanging piece and used lots of yummy distress goodies..all listed at end . I started by a piece of cardstock cut to fit my hanging board and applied Distress paints to my craft sheet and covered the background and also some spare card for the sentiment to be stamped on. 

When dry I applied some texture paste (white ...coloured with a bit of distress paint) thorough a new Wendy stencil. 

I also added some layers of distress ink and also some distress ink through a leaf stencil. When complete and dried I added to the hanging board which had been edged with the new crushed olive Distress paint .

Now the sentiment was stamped onto the spare piece of card in black archival...a gorgeous sentiment , don't you think ?

I inked the edges with walnut stain distress ink ...now onto the flowers and leaves all made using tattered floral and tattered leaves die, coloured with distress inks, spritzed with water and scrunched up...left and then unfurled, inked and spritzed with peeled paint re-inker in a mini mister with water .

Maybe they need some aged mahogany next time?

Well hope you like my make , make sure you pop over to Frilly and Funkie to see lots more fab makes .

NEW Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Crushed Olive	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Spiced Marmalade	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Fired Brick	PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Bundle of 6 New Colors	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - White
Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - 2 Fancy Flowers Stencil	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Lovely Leaves	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves Die	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Fired Brick	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Crushed Olive	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Forest Moss	Ranger Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink Reinker
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Good Thoughts	Ranger Inkssentials Cut n Dry Foam

have a fun and inky day!

trace  x

Pure Chemistry for Country View Crafts DT

Well it is time for another challenge over at Country View Crafts and the fab new theme is Layers... right up my street..and my fab new Tim Holtz set designed by the talented Brett Weldele came out to play. 

Do you ever get a set of stamps that you want SO much and they just seem to be made for you! Well this set are so up my street and I certainly enjoyed my creative journey with these....LOVE them! 

So here is my layered make :

 I was going to get carried away and make a darker coloured piece but wanted to play at building up layers in a different and softer way, got carried away though.... So below are the step by steps of how I made this piece, you made need a cuppa...or stronger...lots of pictures...please feel free to scroll to the end if it is too much!!

I started with some fab Tim Holtz die cuts and glued them to my base of mountboard.I used gears, mini gears, tattered banners strip die, ticket strip die and mini ticket strip die and hardware findings.When happy I glued them down using glue and seal. then added some white Wendy vecchi texture paste through a script stencil.

Then painted over in nougat paint, then added some frayed burlap distress paint watered down.

I then set too adding highlights of ink and building up the colour using frayed burlap, pumice stone, vintage photo and walnut stain DI.

Then I started adding subtle stamped layers that eventually build up the whole, this really was a journey of exploring and playing...I used warehouse district ( totally love this set!) and my yummy new sets : poisonous, The Chemist, Laboratorie and also apothecary sets.

Now onto the details...you still there ?

The poison labels (poisonous set) were stamped onto a paper with a sticky back and spritzed with vintage photo re-inker in a  mini mister..
 

 I then cut them out and used ranger glue stick to add to mini vials..adding little labels using tiny tabs die and rusty wire..

now the fab Chemist himself, coloured using distress markers and waterbrush..I just LOVE this stamp...can you tell?! and the laboratory stamps and poisonous stamps combine so well........pure chemistry you could say!

I added one of my all time favourite quotes from Tim Holtz set...lots mote idea-ology..oh and I did highlight a few areas with treasure gold...so lots of layers .

just a few more..honest!!

 

So there you have it , make sure you pop across here  and see what my fab team mates have created for this layered challenge and hope that you have time this month to pop in a layered make yourself!

Hope you like my make I had a ball making this and you can be sure these stamps will be getting inky again very soon!

have a fun and inky day! 

trace  x

Designer of Dreams for Creative Expressions DT

Well it is time for  another Dt make for Creative Expressions today but before I do have you seen that Creative Expressions have a design team call...all the details can be found here. So onwards ...

Here is my make for this week, a hanging piece that could easily be adapted for a card front. So here is my make this week using the garden twist set of drawing inks :

The inks are a great selection of blue and green tones, but I wanted to play a bit with the colours..so I wondered if they could be combined with picket fence distress stain to create softer tones ... To create the background I scribbled some of the stains across my craft sheet and also swiped some picket fence stain, spritzed and the dragged my piece of mountboard through.

I then heated and dabbed more colour.....hopefully you can see some darker mottled areas where less of the picket fence was picked up.

 

Once sure this was totally dry I inked up the text/numbers piece from Wendy Vecchi set love to make art with broken china and embossed using clear detail embossing powder...( can you spot my mistake?!). I then added these gorgeous leaves from Wendy Vecchi , inked in evergreen bough. The sentiment is stamped in olive archival and clear embossed a trick I saw over at the lovely Alison's blog here.

I also randomly stamped the chicken wire stamp, such a hugely useful background stamp...Now onto the flowers. these are from Hearfellt Creations delicate aster set and make amazing blooms!

These were coloured by making a sheet of dappled cardstock with the drawing inks, randomly dipped into left overs on craft sheet and then stamped in olive archival. I could not resist adding some wire for stems and these cute bells for centres!

So make you sure you also hop over to the Creative expressions news blog, which is now reguarly updated with all the DT makes, also Creative Expressions is now on pinterest and creations are also updated on facebook. 

well have a fun and inky day!

Trace x 

summer sizzler part two for country view crafts challenge

well it is time for my second make this month for the country view crafts challenge site, where the theme is summer sizzler...and you may need your shades for this one! I certainly went for bright...scared myself! I wanted to reflect the gorgeous rich bobbing poppy heads and the gorgeous turquoise hues found in the sea and sky............so here is my make :

I started with another piece of mountboard to make a hanging..I then added some torn book pages and some grunge paste through tiny dots stencil. When dry I set too spritzing with calypso teal and vibrant turquoise. I dried and layered more water and spray until happy and then did Dyans' faux bleaching technique with the disco stencil. I love how this creates layers on a flat surface..

When dry I added some aquamarine treasure gold to highlight grunge paste texture and to frame the piece .

A Tim sentiment completed the main piece....now for the flowers........

I cut the flowers using the tattered floral die and shaped petals , then went to town with the super bright Dylusions spray in squeezed orange...dipping and spritzing until happy and shaping petals. The centres were washers and the small flower painted with black soot distress paint..

some rusty wire and voila!

Well after all that colour I may need a lie down! There is still plenty of time to play along and you never know you could be the lucky winner of a top 3 spot and GD place, or be the special mention and also a DT spot, or be picked for £20 to spend at Country View Crafts, a real treasure trove of goodies, fab service and free P and P.

have a fun and inky day!

trace x

sports day today, so off to cheer James and Oliver off. x

Daddy and Lucy are coming too , so looking forward to it and hope James manages to do all the races he wants too!

sizzling summer for country view crafts challenge blog

well the new challenge has started over at countryviewcrafts challenge and the theme is sizzling summer..so sorry I am a day late ...but was so lucky to be guest designer for Simon Says Stamp and show..so the lovely Chris said it was okay to be day late with this...so without further ado here is my summer sizzle...hold onto you hats, its bright!!

well the challenge was so far out of my comfort zone, but i went for it sizzling summer colours and all! We may not have seen much summer sizzle here but you can always make up for that in summery colours for your entry..

I started by applying texture paste (white) you could also use grunge paste through Dylusions number stencil..then when dry got inky!

 

.So I started with pure sunshine, bubblegum pink and funky fushia Dylusions sprays....spritzed my piece of mountboard with water and got spritzing!. I dried and then dabbed into some of the excess on the craft sheet until I was happy.

Then came layers of spritzing water through stencils for faux bleaching..

 I then added stamping using mixed media set and picked raspberry and wild honey distress inks...to create layers of interest...boy this is so bright for me...almost scaring myself!!

the flowers were cut using tattered floral die and cut from a piece of cardstock coloured with same Dylusions sprays..

I edged them in walnut stain ( back to comfort zone on that colour!) and then added a rusty bell centre. Now for the stems I curled some fab paper coated wire i found and added some fab idea-ology flowers...so I did use some home comforts..

Make sure you pop across and see the other DT members fab makes and remember you have a whole month to play and could be the lucky winner of a £20 voucher for country view crafts or be picked for our top three or special mention and get a GD spot x

Thanks for everyones lovely and hugely kind comments yesterday...it meant a lot! 

James continues to make only small and very slow progress so if I miss a few days commenting I may just be a bit preoccupied but will catch up...and thats my job for this afternoon!!This CFS is going to be a lot of a longer haul and far harder for us all than I had hoped ...but in pink fluffy bubble land....hopefully it will all be gone soon!!!(sadly reality may be a bit lesss pink and fluffy!) hugs James is trying a whole day today xxx fingers crossed for him xx And Oliver and Lucy are doing great xx

have a fun and inky day!

trace x