Save our bees

Hello everyone and like always, thanks for taking the time to drop by!!

Today I would like to show you a journal spread I did, on a topic that's close to my heart.
Here is a link, where you can find out more if you want: Save our bees campaign

Anyway, onto my actual project. I have been having super fun using my gelli plate together with some Decoart Media Acrylic paints. I used mainly Quin. Gold and Cobalt Teal Hue, pulling many prints and playing with various stencils too.

Next came several background layers, deepening the colours with Archival Inks (I found these blend perfectly over the paints), I used Orange Blossom and Forget Me Not by Wendy Vecchi, adding more layers with the help of both stencils and background stamping.

On this side further layers were added with the help of one of the new Paperartsy Halloween stamp sets. The bee is from an Artistic Stamper set, I added more detail to it with pencils.

I tried to create further depth by adding highlights and shadows with the help of a white and a black Stabilo All pencil.

The background on this side was done in the same way, but here I used a variety of background stamps (Carabelle Studios and Indigo Blu).

The focal stamp is a new La Blanche stamp that I fell in love with the moment I saw it.
I stamped her 3 times to add depth to her face and the butterfly, fussy cutting them and layering on top of one another.

A couple of close ups still of the background layers....

Well, that's pretty much it for today. I had not used my Gelli plate for ages, and it was great fun to play with it. Watch out for some more projects using some of my prints in the next few days.....

Thank you for visiting like always and hope you are having a creative week!!

Steampunk for Our Creative Corner

I was more than a little excited when I was invited to become part of the Our Creative Corner design team, and today is the day I will share my first project. Just click on the link to see the amazing projects my teamies have created also.

As you may know Claudia chose the theme of Steampunk Tic Tac Toe and I decided to go with the top line, wing, gears and wire. I made a wall plague out of mount board and started by making my background using Tim Holtz's Eroded Metallic technique as explained in Creative Chemistry 102.

Though I was pretty pleased with how it came out I added some Wow Blended Verdigris for some extra texture as well as some rusting powder to the corners.

Next I ran a piece of card through a Spellbinders Cogs and Gears embossing folder, layered a piece of 7 Gypsies printed tissue paper over the top and darkened the raised bits with Walnut Stain Distress Inks,

The next layer was some corrugated card, painted with Antique Linen, Weathered Wood and Walnut Stain Distress paints and then rusted with a thick layer of rusting powder.

Time for some stamping: these are both La Blanche stamps, stamped in Jet Black Archival onto smooth stamping card and then fussy cut and inked a bit with Vintage Photo DI.

Some rusty cogs (love that rusting powder, two of these are metal the other wood yet with the powder all beautifully rusted they look just the same).

A little plaque created with a metal filigree charm, treated with a bit of verdigris gilders paste, a piece of dry embossed metal and a word created with a Spellbinders die.
Ok, now for some wings..... a butterfly image with a rusted pen nib came to the rescue.

And of course no Steampunk piece is quite complete without the Victorian inventor, a vintage freebie I had in my stash.

Finally a piece of rusty wire to attach the charm to the plaque

Well, there you have it. I am not usually a steampunk sort of girl, so this was a bit of a challenge for me, but I greatly enjoyed it. Hope you like it.....

There is still plenty of time to play, so I hope you will come and join us. Click HERE to find all the details of the challenge, hope to see you there!!