Hobby Art's Funky Flowers & Funky Bird

Morning, happy Monday & happy April! Kirsten here, hope you had a nice weekend. This week sees our final Hobby Art projects, there'll be a new blog topic from next Monday. I've got a birthday card with a difference to show you today; I used Hobby Art's Funky Bird & Funky Flowers stamps with two That's Crafty! greyboard postcards..............

I forgot to take any step by step photos while making this, but I painted the postcards with Turquoise & Sand Starlights first. My initial idea was to have yellow & green flowers heat embossed on the turquoise sections, but when I did it it looked absolutely horrendous, so I immediately scrubbed it off. You can just about see some of what was left in the photo below............

I repainted with Turquoise Starlights & stamped the daisy from the Hobby Art Nature Reserve set with Banana Yellow Starlights instead. That looked much better & I liked the added texture from the remains of the heat embossing. I painted the Funky Bird & Funky Flowers with watercolour pens & cut them out...........

For the reverse of the postcards I first applied Structure Paste through the Imagination Crafts' Hanging Garden stencil & when it was dry I began dry-brushing Rustique & Verdigris Rusty Patina on top. I sanded back some of the Structure Paste & applied tiny amounts of Silver Alchemy Wax to highlight the raised areas. 

The hinges were cut from dies in my stash, I dry embossed them & painted them with Starlights & Alchemy Wax................

Some Rustique Rusty Patina around the edges to finish...................

I added the Stampendous Graceful Birthday greeting & the project was finished............

                               

                

    

***On the website, some Hobby Art stamp sets have been reduced in price by 25% - 40%.***

**Lisa is doing a PaperArtsy workshop on  May 27. For more information click HERE.**

Thanks for visiting the blog today, see you next time.

Kirsten

Dylusioned Birds on a Tando Printer Tray

Good morning blog visitors, hope you had a great weekend. Anyone get up at 2am to see the Supermoon?? This is my final blog post for September & I have two projects to show you, made with Dylusions paints...................

I began the first background by brayering Squeezed Orange & Lemon Zest Dylusions onto 

Super Smooth white card, then added White Linen Dylusions through the Imagination Crafts 

Honeycomb stencil...............

The next layers were; Fresh Lime Dylusions through the IC Bubble Background stencil, Grape Crush Dylusions through the IC Leaf Swirl stencil & accents of Rich Gold Starlights paint with stamps from the Hobby Art Decorative Backgrounds stamp set................

The second background was simply leftover paint, swiped onto another piece of Super Smooth with  mini blending foams.........

I painted the mini Tando Creative printer tray with gold Starlights & glued the pieces, together with  pieces of the masterboards, with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue. 

I stamped the Hobby Art Birds on Wire stamp with Onyx Black Versafine, heat set with 

WOW Clear Gloss embossing powder, painted them with Grape Crush & Fresh Lime Dylusions & cut them out. After attaching them to the printer tray, I covered them with Glossy Accents.............

I made a card with more pieces of the backgrounds, ussing the Floral Collage Rose Elements stamp set, designed by Lisa B for Imagination Crafts.........

 

                                          

                  

This coming Friday, October 2, sees the first of this year's Christmas project classes. We'll be making cards using Cardio Combinations stamps. You can find more information in this blog post.

  There are still a few places available, so if you would like to attend please contact Lisa, via her email; lisabaker1@btinternet.com or message the 

Lisa B Designs Facebook page.

The current blog challenge runs until Midnight on Saturday, October 3, so there's still time to enter. 

That's it from me for today, thanks for visiting the blog. Have a great week.

Kirsten