Sun, Sea and Sand .....

Sun, Sea and Sand

My entry for the Hobby Art July Challenge.

Stages of preparation and bringing together the finished product.

Gesso all the mdf.

Cover the front,back,sides and doors with Wood paper.

Paint with the lightest of your choice of colours.

Randomly go over the top of the lightest colour with a darker shade to give a streaked effect.

When this is dry put all the pieces together and assemble onto the base. 

The ' sand ' effect has been made by firstly using texture paste over the base then with a mix of glitters and a small amount of yellow flock  I sprinkled this over the texture paste pressing it in to the paste very lightly. 

I then painted the palm trees and used them as posts to secure the banner in place with Sun,Sea and Sand words stamped onto it along with some seagulls.

The surf board was simply painted and then using a stencil decorated and placed in front of the Trio of Beach Huts.

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen 

Lavinia Challenge #7

Add a Flower or Flowers

Products used in the making of this Brush Pot were

Stamp by Lavinia 

White Gesso 

Indigo Blu English Cottage Acrylic Paints colours :

1. Frosty Sky 

2.Park Lane

Archival ink pad Hydrangea

Clear embossing powder

Both front and back are the same but the 2 sides are as above.

Thanks for looking

Love Doreen

Seaside Challenge for Hobby Arts

Beach Hut Drawers

Using Hobby Arts Stamps 

Front view

 Left Side

 Right Side

I have entered this into the Seaside Challenge this month with Hobby Arts.

The drawers are MDF and firstly gessoed and then stamped and painted using Pebeo Acrylic and Pebeo Dyna Paint.

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen

2nd Entry for Chocolate Baroque Challenge Twelve

2nd Chocolate Baroque Entry for Challenge Twelve

Products used for this entry are as follows ;

Chocolate Baroque Pretty Poppies stamp set 

Texture Paste

Centura Pearl Card

Pan Pastels Bronze and Phthalo Blue Shade

Wink of Stella Brush Pens

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen 

Lavinia Stamps Challenge #6

Lavinia Stamps Challenge #6 

Using Watercolour card 

3 of the new coloured Distress Ink re-inkers ( Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral and Hickory Smoke ) 

Wink of Stella 

White Posca pen

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen 

Chocolate Baroque Challenge Twelve

Chocolate Baroque Challenge Twelve

Just a small tag using Distress Ink Pads using stamps from the Sunburst Scenes set and the Landscape Edges set . 

Hope you like the first of my entries for this months challenge.

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge Eleven

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge Eleven

Products used in the making of this card were :

Chocolate Baroque Mermaid Queen stamp set

Spectrum Noir Aquatint inks

Versafine Onyx Black ink pad

Clear embossing powder

DecoArt Media Liquid Glass

Clear Wink of Stella brush pen

Thoroughly enjoyed making this card and I am pleased with the end result.

Thank You for Looking

Love Doreen

Lavinia Stamps Challenge #5 Blue or Pink or Both

Lavinia Stamps Challenge #5 

Blue or Pink or Both 

Products used in making this were : 

Dylusions spray inks 

Micro Beads 

Stickles 

White Acrylic paint

Piece of Ribbon 

Jet Black Archival Ink Pad 

Clear embossing powder

Thank you for looking

Love Doreen

Northern Lights technique using Chocolate Baroque Stamps

Northern Lights

  

Products used in the making of this card were :

Silhouette Stamp ... June's Fairy by Chocolate Baroque

Distress Ink Re-Inkers colours used : Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Dusty Concord, Weathered Wood and Black Soot.

2 small square pieces of Cut and Dry Foam

A5 piece of Watercolour card (this will be cut down slightly for matting and layering) 

A5 piece of coordinating colour card for matting and layering

Blank Card for mounting

Goosebumps Clear texture spray

 Clear embossing powder

Black Ink Pad

I was asked to do a blog on this technique so will explain as well as I can.

1. Firstly put a couple of drops of each colour of the distress inks onto a white tile, as they are very concentrated I leave the re-inker bottle behind the drops and end up with the different colours spaced out with the drops around the top and right hand side of the tile. 

2. Stamp and emboss main image. 

3. Spray goosebumps the bigger you want the drops the closer you need to be to the card when you spray. In the above picture I held the card at arms length to spray. Leave to dry or you can use your heat gun to speed this along.

4. Use any other silhouette stamps to help make your background scene you can leave these as they are or emboss them.

5. Working from the main image take a piece of cut and dry and pick up some of the ink of your choice, taking care not to wet the sponge as it is so easy to use too much and ruin your work, work in a circular movement around the main image,  then gradually work your way out until you are happy with the result. Use the weathered wood to make an illusion of hills etc. Then at the very final stage cut the piece down to the size you desire and use the black soot to go all around the outside of the card and to tone down any areas you are not happy with. I used a a seperate piece of the cut and dry for this. 

Before I go here is the disaster that happened when I added ink to the card before checking the colour and getting rid of some on a scrap of paper ..... I couldn't rectify it so it is now in the bin !! lol

Thanks for looking and I hope this is helpful 

Love Doreen

Hobby Art  " Wings Challenge "

Products used in the making of this card

Hobby Arts Floral Bird House set

Versafine Onyx Ink Pad

Brusho's

Distress Inks 

Watercolour Card

Firstly I sprinkled a mix of brusho's onto the watercolour card and misted with water. Leave to dry or blot with tissue and dry off with heat gun.

Stamp Birdhouse and butterflies and using just a dot of inks ( I used Mermaid Lagoon, Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber ) and water mix colours to the shade you like and paint as normal. 

I then decided I would like a border so used the small individual stamp from the set and stamped randomly round the edge and off the edge to form the border. 

Matt and Layer in the usual way. 

Thank you for Looking 

Love Doreen 

2 Chocolate Baroque Cards

2 Chocolate Baroque Cards

Both cards were made using Distress ink pads although the 2nd it a lot brighter it is purely the amount of ink applied as the same inks were used in both pieces.

I was entering these into the Chocolate Baroque Challenge but have had difficulty accessing it. Maybe I will try on another occasion. 

Thank you for looking 

Love Doreen 

Clarity Challenge #26

The Wee Folk

Using The Wee Folk Elves and Fairies,

I stamped onto shrink plastic and cut out close to the stamped image then using a heat gun carefully shrank them in turn, 

Using theuva card I stamped and embossed the treehouse, masked it off to colour and make a scene.

I coloured the treehouse with wink of stella brush pens, stuck all the shrink plastic onto the house and around the toadstools. To add a little extra texture I used some shrink plastic and stickles. 

To finish I stamped and embossed the sentiment. 

Thank you for looking

Love Doreen

http://claritystampchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/challenge-26.html