Some grungy fun....

Hello friends and visitors, hope the new year is going well for you so far!
My mojo has been pretty low recently, so I thought it was time for just some play time and this was the result:

This started with a manila tag. My lovely blog friend Donna gifted me loads of these (thank you Donna)!!

It was a mop up tag and had some colour on it already. I added some random strips of book paper.

Covered it with a mix of gesso and crackle paste. As I was working on another tag at the same time, some splats of ink landed on it too....

While doing the final stages of the drying process with my heatgun, lovely bubbles started to appear, - all good for this type of project.

A mix of Decoart Media paints and various sprays added colour, the art stones and threads that are all the rage at the moment added more texture.

The sentiment is also a 7 Dots Studio label.

The vintage image is from a 7 Dots Studios Cold Country collection. I edged it with Stampendous Aged Silver EP.

The sentiment is also from the 7Dots studio Cold Country collection

I trimmed the top of the tag, mounted it onto a mini canvas and that was pretty much it.

Guesting for Country View Challenges

Hello everyone, lovely to see you here and thanks so much for dropping by.

Recently I was invited to be guest designer at the Country ViewCrafts Challenge site and needless to say I was delighted to do so, especially when I found out that the theme was Quotes and Sayings, as I love adding these to my projects.

Here is a little preview, full details of how I put my piece together can be found HERE 

Hope you'll take the time to take a look, thank you for visiting today and hope you have a creative one!

Postcard Canvas

Good morning everyone, so nice to have your company here for a while.
Can you believe it is August already? The first of the month always means a challenge over at The Artistic Stamper and this month the theme is Postcards, Travel and Holidays.
Well, I have just returned from my holiday in France so decided to make another little French Themed canvas. This is the companion piece to a canvas I made earlier in the month.

I painted the background with a variety of different acrylic paints. Added some background stamping with some of the Artistic Stampers Ephemera stamps and then added a wonderful piece of textured fabric which was a fantastic gift from the lovely Annie. I then layered various elements from the Graphics 45 French Country collection, including a stamped image of one of the post card stamps. A die cut ribbon slider and some string finishes it all off.
Here are some close ups:

Hope you like it, and please hop over to the Design Team blog to see what my lovely teamies have created for the challenge. And of course if you decide to play, you are in with a chance to win one of the fab stamp sets from the Artistic Stamper.