Stencil it for Countryview Challenges

Hello everyone, welcome specially also to new followers, it's wonderful to have you follow along for my crafting journey.

The first of the month is always terribly busy as several challenges start on that day, so this is one of two projects showing on my blog today.  This one is for the Countryview Crafts Challenge blog. The theme there is Stencil it, so make sure to check it out. All you need to do is click HERE

Stencils are so popular and I had great fun creating a special card and matching envelope, using both inks and texture paste.

I started by making an inky background using Dylusions Inks and then sprinkling them with kitchen salt when still wet. When the salt crystals have dried you scrape them off and get this:

Don't you just love it, - and it's so simple!
Next I added some subtle background stamping using the text stamp from the Mercantile set with some teal Stazon ink.

This was followed with some stenciling using some of Tim's Layering stencils using Archival Ink:

This was followed by some further stenciling with texture past through a Crafters Workshop stencil (not available from Countryview Crafts but Dylusions do a very similar one which I will link below. The texture paste was coloured with Distress markers and I also added some more stenciling with a Layering Stencil along the side.

The final touch to the card was to stamp and fussy cut the 3 butterflies from the Classics 17 set and to adhere them to the embossed vine

The card was then mounted first on some white and then olive green card.

The envelope was made with an envelope punch board out of green Core d''nations Kraft core papers and stencilled and stamped in a very similar way:

The bee was stamped separately (it's an Artjourney stamp) and fussy cut.

Hope you like this little set, not sure who it is going to be for yet, but I am sure it will come in handy at some point.

Thanks for dropping in and have a good month!!

Dylusions	Dylusions	Dylusions	Layering Stencil Honeycomb
Layering Stencil Measured	Layering Stencil Cargo	Layering Stencil Shattered	Leaf Flourish stencil
Classic 17	Tim Holtz Mercantile	Archival Ink Coffee	Archival Ink
Texture Paste	Distress Markers

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Summer Wings...

Hi everyone and thanks for dropping in possibly even for the second time.... Just another preview here just now I'm afraid to say, this time for The Artistic Stamper.

Hope you'll take the time to have a look at the full project and thanks so much for visiting!!
Have a great day with hopefully some creative time!!

Dragonfly Fly Free

Hello everyone and lovely to have you visiting again!
Today I am sharing the details of a tag which was shown yesterday on the ARTISTIC STAMPERS BLOG, where our challenge this month is Texture and Embossing.

This is the second of a series of three tags that I will be sharing this months. All of them will eventually  be included in one of my journals.
For this one I started by doing some background stamping with the Swirls, Splats and Dots stamp set, to form a kind of resist to the rest of the background. You can't see much of it any more, but here is just a little glimps:

Next I added some texture with the help of one of the new Crafters Workshop stencils. This one has already become a firm favourite. You can see a bit of it here

and here:

The actual background was created mainly with Dylusion Sprays, the colours I used were Vibrant Turquoise, Melted Chocolate, Black Marble, and a colour called Cyan, which dates back to the time before Dyane started to produce her sprays with Ranger. It's probably not that different from London Blue. I also added some Bundled Sage Distress Paint and some Picket Fence here and there and blended it all with a baby wipe.

The dragonfly which can be found on the Insects and Butterflies Plate,was stamped on some smooth card, first of all in Forget me not Archival ink I covered it in Clear embossing powder and embossed it. I then cut it out, inked the stamp in Jet Black and very carefully laid the central part of the cut out dragonfly onto the stamp to colour the body part black but leave the wings more blue. Next I covered it in Glue n Seal and when dry coloured it further with Distress Markers. Finally I spritz it with some home made Gold glimmer spray, for some shimmer.

The final touches were to add some label letters to spell my sentiment.

I also added some shadows still around the dragonfly and the words with a black Distress Marker and a water brush. The final step was to highlight some of the raised bits with my beloved Treasure Gold in White Fire.

Well, hope you like my tag and of course it would be wonderful if you decided to play along with our challenge. You could win a great price of an Artistic Stamper stamp set of your choice!

Hope you'll have an inky day!!

Feeling honoured

Today my wonderful blog friend Buttons told me that one of my projects had been chosen by Tim Holtz to receive a Blogworthy Link.

Am I excited, - well yes, who wouldn't be right? The link actually goes to the Snazzys blog, as it was one of the DT posts I did for them. As I only showed a sneak peek here, I now feel I want to show the full project here and how I did it, so here goes:

 I started with three colours of Distress Paints, Antique Linen, Bundled Sage and Frayed Burlap. I layered on a good layer of paint, spritzt a bit with water and then dried with my heat gun. I then played around with some Tim Holtz Tissue Tape  and Prima Washi Tapes. I also used some stencils and masks  from my stash,Next came various background stamps and the main stamp, (La Blanche) stamped on Tissue Paper, just to make sure it would land up exactly where I wanted it... I glued that onto the canvas and dabbed some Distress Inks over and around it.

I made a cluster from various bits and pieces and adhered it with Gel Medium.  I also added some Prima Flowers. I masked the main image with a damp baby wipe and some kitchen roll. I then painted the cluster with Gesso and when that was dry took a deep breath and spritzt it with Dylusions Sprays in Melted Chocolate and Black Marble. Oops, a bit dark, so White Linen came to the rescue... I also rubbed some Treasure Gold over the flowers.

Next came some of the wonderful  Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs. I added some crackle to the corners, did some more background stamping and added the sentiment, (a Tim Holtz stamp which I cut into strips and stamped on to some scraps of left over Prima Tea Thyme paper). A bit of shading around the words, and voila, project complete. Here are a few close ups still:

Well, I hope I have not bored you by showing this project for a second time, but, - not everyone hops over to another blog, and like I said, I had not shown it here. 

So thank you for visiting, for your support and for your lovely comments, you are all wonderful!!
Have a great creative week!