Where There's Light, There's Hope...

Hello! :)

Thought I'd share with you today, 

the lantern that I altered as a gift to a special friend of ours. 

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 I forgot to take a 'just bought' picture...but it was plain...soooooo....

I gesso'd it...

added lots of DecoArt products:

Texture paste...

Crackle paste...

Media Fluid Paint...

Wethered Wood and 

more paint...

Sanded a bit here...

painted a bit there...

Added a laminated sentiment...

Or two...

and...

Ta daa......

There we have it!

I so enjoyed altering this, mainly because of the sentiment behind the project... but I just loved watching the transformation as I went along.

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 Look! I also have a matching drainpipe!! lol I'm not taking any credit for that though...that one's down to Mother Nature ;) x

I'm entering this into:

Pile it On - Your First Initial (L - Light/Lantern)

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Anything but Cute - Ring out the Old, Bring in the New (New lantern

That's Crafty - Winter but not Christmas

Take care all...

Happy Crafting

Lydia xx

"If You Don't Change It, It'll Stay The Same......."

Wow! It's a breezy day out there thanks to 'Barney's' visit! Who names these storms...and why do I automatically think of a purple dinosaur?? Haha

Anyway, here in the warm, I thought I'd share with you a Christmas lantern that I had a great time altering. It's inspiration came from a fantabulous weekend retreat in Coventry, with Andy Skinner/Michelle Webb and Tando Creations.

This started off life as a nice, cream coloured lantern from B&M. But...Pah...I don't want nice and clean...I wanted wicked and rusty!! :) 

Before I got my hands on it ....

...And after!!!

Along the way I gesso'd it...

...added some texture paste...

...some DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint...

... and ...

DecoArt Dazzling Metallics 

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 I also used 'Merry Christmas' wording and a 'Christmas stocking' from
Tando Creative x

Well...hope you like it. I thoroughly enjoyed making it :)

I'm entering this into:

Our Creative Corner - Topsy Turvy  - I made something new into something old, instead of the norm... something old into something new!!

SanDee & Amelie - Steampunk Winter Special 

Mixed Media World - Anything Goes 

Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes

Anything But Cute - It's Ornamental

Thanks for visiting

Happy Crafting

Lydia xx

IndigoBlu Demo Inspiration - Autumn Days....

Hello!!
Woah...where did October appear from??  

One minute it was summer holidays...I must have blinked...and here we are in Autumn!
But Autumn (so long as it isn't wet, yukky and miserable like today!!) has got to be THE nicest season EVER!!
It's beautiful...and so full of colour.

Which leads me on to my inspiration piece for the IndigoBlu Challenge today...
... Autumn Days ...

I think I have just found a new addiction!! Art Journalling!!!

This is my VERY FIRST art journal page!!!!

This started as a blank double page, in a journal that I have been wanting to 'play in' for ages.

Using IndigoBlu Black Gesso as a base...a couple of paint brushes...and IndigoBlu Cottage Garden Artist Quality Acrylic Paint...I hand painted this...can you spot my little bunny?  :)

I have used the following IndigoBlu products to create this page:

Poppy Meadow - The beautiful sentiment

Nature II - The birds & the squirrel

Black GeeSoo Good Gesso

Cottage Garden Artist Quality Acrylic Paint:

Hot Cocoa

Postbox Red

Banana Custard

Burning Bonfire

Emerald City

&
Miss Moneypenny

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Other products:
Black Archival ink pad

White Charcoal Pencil

What is your take on Autumn? We would love to see! :)

The fabulous winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.  As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1:   2 Large stamp plates

or
2:   4 Small stamp plates

or

3:   1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog, and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post. That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post that now goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,  the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs above. 

I'm entering this into:

Craft Stamper - Technique - Paint

Mixed Media World - Anything Goes with Autumn Colours

Fussy & Fancy - Autumn Colours

Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Words

Good Luck...and 

Happy Crafting 

Lydia xx

IndigoBlu !!!

Good afternoon from a VERY sunny South of England!!! :)
Exciting stuff because it's soooo nice to have more than one day of sunshine....BUT....even more exciting  than that is my news that.....
I am now a fully fledged IndigoBlu Demonstrator!!! 
I applied at the beginning of June to their demonstrator call...and a couple of weeks later had an email saying I'd been selected for the training days!!!! Whoop!!
Well...I traveled up last Tuesday to the Hotel... armed with a few projects (samples sounds sooo wrong!! lol).  On Wednesday I headed across to IndigoBlu HQ  and met up with a few other girls on the same mission! I think I probably speak for us all when I say that we had THE most AMAZING two days of solid, hard work (well...I mean, how can I write TOTAL FUN?? ;) ) ...getting messy...drinking lots of coffee...learning heaps...spending time with wonderful crafty friends...eating gorgeous food...being totally looked after...... and then being told........ WE MADE IT!!!! Wooohooooooo!!!!!! :)

Kay is such a wonderful, bubbly, yet down to earth person (even though she locked us in the car park!!! Lol)  ...and along with her lovely hubby Alfie, I will be very proud to wear my badge and work my little socks off for them! x

This is one of the 'projects' I took with me..I just love the Alice range of stamps x

And...........
................. for Kay and all the girls....a track that will forever remind me of a fantabulous time, shared with awesome company xx


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Mess and elegance with Heartfelt Creations

Morning world...oh no wait....it's now afternoon!! Eeek...where did my morning go?? O.o
This is the third and final project that I submitted to the Heartfelt Creations DT call. I had a wonderful time playing in the world of girly grunge :)

Voting...HERE... is open until the 18th Oct and I really appreciate your time...and vote x
Thanks for looking and have a fab day xx