My First Christmas Card!

 I had a quick play today and got a couple of backgrounds made - I managed to finish one card using the ink box technique. I do have a few distress inks but not many in the colours I want to use, hopefully my delivery will arrive in the next day or two so I should be able to get some more done.

I used Scorched Earth for this one, with the stag, dragon thorns, tumbleweed and a Christmas sentiment. Finished off with some gold foil, I used some gold card to layer it onto a white card base. The finished size is 4 1/4 inches or 11 cm so very cute!!

A Few Lavinia Projects

 As I said previously I'm addicted to Lavinia Stamps - I've always loved fairies and dragons (what's not to love?) so it's a given I would love these stamps!

I recently has cataracts removed from both eyes so my vision has been a bit of a struggle and these are a selection of projects I've made through my cataract journey, some are not "in the lines" but heyho!

These are some tags that I have been experimenting with, the first uses dinkles and water to create the background, then it has been stamped with a sentiment stamp and flower stamped in pink then I added some teal foil dots - quite effective.

The second was a try at a tutorial by Tracey Dutton, who is the creator of Lavinia, using watercolour pencils and inks, certainly made me use my pencils that have been gathering dust for 6 years!

The third was created using Distress ink sprays, the tree is from the latest collection and is heat embossed in white, I need to work on the technique more but it could be very pretty!

These are ink box cards, the central frame is created with the lid off a distress ink pad, you ink up the edges of the lid then stamp it onto your card, then using a wet paintbrush draw the ink down to create your background, I love these as they make the cutest cards (I love little cards), the next will be to experiment with some Christmas cards but first I have to invest in more distress ink pads!!

And finally some inking and stamping, with a bit of colouring too!!

I'd love to see you over at the Outlawz Challenges, come and play anytime we have lots going on!

And so to Begin......

After a long time of not being able to create much at all I am back with a new blog and hoping to share some of my crafting creations!

Any one that knows me from the Outlawz Challenges will know the journey I have been on for the past few years but now I look forward to being able to create some new projects.

I particularly love Lavinia Stamps and spend a lot of time trying to make things that are worthy of the beautiful artwork that is shared by so many!

I also love to crochet and enjoy other crafts so I will add a variety of projects here.

So what have I been working on recently?

This is a little set of drawers that I have decorated. I base coated with gesso then added a chalk paint. I have used a lovely little stencil from Creative Expressions to add a layer of Opal Polish in red pearl. the drawer fronts have been stamped with some metallic ink in shades of pink using some peg stamps that I have had forever!