Happy Easter

Hello dear friends and followers. Just a little post to wish you all a wonderful Easter and to thank you for all your support!!

I made a quick card and will do a short step by step of how I made it.

I started by cutting two large tickets with the Tim Holtz large ticket die by Sizzix.

I cut one of the dies from the Mixed Media 2 set by Tim Holtz out of the first ticket and then coloured it with Distress Spray stains, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Ground Espresso and a tiny bit of Antiqued Bronze for some subtle shimmer (can't see it on the photo).

On the bottom ticket I glued a piece of old book paper, darkened it a bit with Vintage Photo and then glued the two tickets together. Finally I added some splats with Ground Espresso.

I stamped one of the Dina Wakley Scribbly small birds, coloured it with my Derwent Inktense pencils and a waterbrush and then fussy cut it. As you can see I cut off the feet, - too fiddly and easy enough to draw in later.....

I also cut some of the Tim Holtz Wildflower dies, coloured them with various colours of Distress inks and then glued them together at the bottom.

Now all I needed to do was layer it up, first I tied some twine around the card, added a little Ideaology heart charm and then matted it on white thin card and a top folding card blank made from dark brown Core d'nations card. 

I added some white shading with a Stabilo All pencil to the top of the flowers to make them pop a bit more.

I re-drew the feet and adhered the bird with some foam squares.

And here a close up of the heart charm, fasted with a jump ring.

Wishing you all a very happy Easter if you celebrate it, and may you all feel alive and well!!!

Thank you for your visit

xxx

Colour your world for Our Creative Corner

Hello everyone and thanks for dropping in. Happy April and happy April Fool's Day to you.

This is my second project for today, the first one can be seen HERE.

As it so happens, this will be my last project for OCC, as I have decided it is time for me to move on. But if you visit the blog there, you will see there are many amazing design team members, old and new left!

Well, there you are, - April already, and for us in the Northern Hemisphere that means Spring should be well and truly on it's way.

The lovely Laurie is our host at Our Creative Corner, and this is what she had to say about her challenge:

Here in the United States we are coming into spring - the season when nature comes forth with new life.

Soft green grasses grow in the fields and the trees bloom in glorious colors with the promise of fruit.
Tulips and daffodils emerge from the soil after a long winters nap.
The colors of spring, the sights and sounds of nature at this time of the year renews my soul.
In the spring time the colors of nature are different around the world.
For my challenge this month I want you to

Color Your World

For this challenge create a project with the colors of spring time where you live.

Show us what colors renew your soul

Well, for me the colours I associate with Spring are green and yellow with possibly a hint of blue and purple, and I decided to make colour the main focus of my project:

It's a large card for my best friend, whose birthday is on the 7th of April.

The background was created with a piece of watercolour paper and Tim Holtz Distress Stain Sprays, some Aquatint Gold and I used the clingfilm technique, a favourite of the moment.

The focal images are created with a scrap of a paper serviette, adhered with matte gel medium,

 and one of the two butterflies from Tim's new Butterfly Duo that come with their own embossing folder.

It too was cut from water colour paper treated with the same technique and then I darkened it a bit with Decoart Quin. Gold fluid acrylic paint.

What I like about the cling film technique is that it often creates leaf like patterns, and no two pieces are ever the same.

The sentiment was stamped on a scrap of scrapbook paper with the help of the new Ken Oliver peg stamps. These are so clever as they click together, making it much easier to get the spacing right.

Here in Scotland, April often only gives us promises of Spring to come, so it seemed like an apt sentiment.

Well, that's it for now, but I will be back later in the day with my third project. These firsts of the month are always busy with so many new challenges starting.....

Hope you will have a great month, and thank you for visiting!!