Dylusional Fairies and a Sweet Poppy Mushroom Dwelling!

Good morning! October already and my last post focusing on Dylusions Paints!

 My favourite time of the year; I love this season, sunny days for walking that are not too hot and lots of leaves to rustle... Best thing though? Mushroom spotting! There are some fab areas for this, and where there are mushrooms, there are fairies!

With this in mind, for my project I have chosen to use Sweet Poppy Dimensional Paste through their Mushroom Dwelling Stencil for my card, starting off by creating a funky masterboard again...

Using Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Card Stock (300 gsm) as a base layer, I have applied Lemon Zest and London Blue Dylusions Paint using a brayer. As the colours were quite intense, I have also brayered White Linen Dylusions Paint over the top. This allowed me to add more layers to the piece that can be easily distinguished. Once all these layers were dry, I have used the Imagination Crafts Bubble Background Stencil and applied the Lemon Zest paint though this with a Tim Holtz Blending Tool. Once the bubbles were dry I have used the top from a spritz bottle dipped in the London Blue paint and 'stamped' this all over the page.

My next step was to cut a section from my masterboard, sized to fit my card blank and the Mushroom Dwelling Stencil. I have then taped this down using Stencil Tape and applied Sweet Poppy Dimensional Paste through this with a Spreader. I have done the same with the sentiment, which is another Sweet Poppy Stencil. 

Onto the card blank itself, I have used some stamps from the Hobby Art Decorative Backgrounds set, stamping them with Versafine Black Onyx Ink and heat embossing with clear detail powder. I have also used some of the same stamps on the main panel to tie it all in. Once all stuck together with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue, the final touch was to give the mushrooms some occupants, so I have used some Small Lavinia Fairies, stamping and embossing in the same way.

Quite a busy card, but I like the texture of the paste and the stark contrast with the background. I hope you like it; remember to have a play yourself and enter our blog challenge, as there are only 2 days left and you could win £20 worth of goodies!!

Love

Martina

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Woodware You Make Me Happy

 Hello lovely crafters,

Well it's nearly the weekend, do you have anything nice planned?

I'm going to be chillin out a bit and have a few crafty jobs I want to do.

I'm a bit poorly at the moment so trying to pace myself.
Must remember the clocks Spring Forward this weekend too.
 

Anyhow today I've used this cute Woodware Clear Stamp, You Make Me Happy.

Firstly I stamped with Versafine Black Onyx and embossed with clear EP.

This makes watercolouring super easy with the raised areas to paint in.

To colour I used three pink colours from

 Spectrum Aqua Pens, Floral option, Begonia, Rose Pink and Blossom.

I wanted to use this stamp in a different way from my last  post 

so chose this monochrome option.

I simply swiped the pens onto a blending mat and 

spritzed with water to colour with a fine brush.

The less water you add the more vibrant the colours are.

Dry with heat tool and cut out the three panels.

Using a tall card blank I stuck the images down one side.
A piece of Anna Marie Designs Dottie card stock in Passion Pink

 was cut for the other side of the card.

I had a piece of Woodware Pale Pink Ric-Rac 3mm finished this card off nicely.

   
    

Simple Sparkle

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Morning crafters,

Today I have a simple card to share using a technique we did at Lisa's Christmas Party Class.

The main stamp is Woodware Huge Noel, being a large stamp it makes a perfect card centre piece and not much else is needed. So it can be as plain or fussy as you like.

As we are all busy this time of year I kept my design plain and simple.

So I stamped the image on to a white die cut piece of card with Onyx Black VersaFine.

I then stamped the "O" bauble section on to green card and cut it out.

The top of the bauble is then coloured silver and twisted wire added for hanging.

Masking off the top area I brayed Pastel Green Sparkle Medium over the green section to make it glitter.

I used a piece of acetate in the centre of the bauble and dabbed Sparkle Medium on to this with my finger.

I had stuck the acetate from behind with double sided tape.

I also brayered the Green Sparkle Medium over the stamped white die cut card.

This was then layered onto another die cut green piece of card and I outlined the edge with a white liner pen before layering again on to Anna Marie Dottie Olive Green Card.

White Craftwork cards Candi finishes off in the corners.

It was great to meet so many of you at the Christmas Party Class, I really enjoyed it.

Hope your week is going well and I'll be back again next week.

Crafty Hugs xKx

        

 

Crackled and Stamped Panels

  

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Happy Thursday Post!

Good morning, today is lovely Lisa's Wedding Day so I'm sharing this before joining them for their celebrations later.
I wish her and Paul a wonderful day and many more happy memories and years together.

Today I'm sharing with you this idea I had for incorporating panels with stamping and crackle.

 

After painting and creating the Crackle on a piece of card I used the Imagination Crafts Diamond Stencil and Walnut Stain Distress Ink before cut the card into panels.

For the stamped panels I used the Penny Black Slapstick Cling Stamp - Fanciful stamped in Sepia Versafine and watercoloured.

 

Matted and layered onto contrasting card and a piece of Anna Marie DottyTeal Card before mounting onto a shaped card base.

I finished off by adding a few die cut butterflies. 

I loved creating this and was particularly pleased with the colours.

Hope you like it too...xKx