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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Challenge #50 Choose A Movie

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #50
Choose A Movie


This fortnights challenge of Choose A Movie has been chosen by Hazel.  For my DT creation I have created a tag and used the movie theme 'Peter Rabbit'.

I have had a book of Beatrix Potter decoupage sheets for many years so what could be more perfect to use here.  It is so much fun using up bits and bobs one has and in ones stash for ages and this gift tag really has been one of those creations I could do that with.  The white embossed paper is from scrap sample paper pad I must of had for at least ten year.  The papers inside are awesome which is why I never seem to use them and also they are small sheets too.  Using a highly textured white sheet I cut my tag shape which I then mounted on green and trimmed round the edges.  It has been such a long time since I did any decoupage so throughly enjoyed doing this Peter Rabbit sheet, and although Jemima is there and not in the film I used to be called Jemima Puddle Duck when I was a wee kid many moons ago.  To finish off the tag I added an eyelet, ribbon and a metal brad tag which I removed the metal fasteners from the back.  The metal tags brads were bought in a sale many years ago, a bit of a mistake as I think over the years I have only used a couple of them. To the metal brad tag I added the Happy Birthday sentiment using peel off sticker.



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Sunday, January 6, 2019

Cats and Dogs

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #49
Cats and/or Dogs


For my design team creation I have used a red rubber stamp which I must have had for about 10 years and never used.  Why some may ask lol.  I bought a bunch of rubber stamp sheets which were on offer with some great images but my stamping technique was useless and I never got good results until I bought a stamping platform about 18 months ago, what a difference that has made.  For my card I stamped the image and stamped a mask for it.  Using three colours of ink I randomly stamped the corner of the card base and the image layer with a stamp from the Sheena Douglas of Crafter's Companion Textures set.  Next I coloured the image with Promarkers.  Finally I stamped the Birthday greeting on some spare card.  The card topper and the sentiment were layers onto black paper, then a light turquoise paper and finally a second black paper.  Once all the sections were complete I assembled the card.  Hope you like it :)



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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Dachshund




Challenge 116
Animals



Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)


What a lovely challenge to begin the year, animals, mans best friends :)  For this card I used Ike's image DACHSHUND.  I have always loved this image but only used it a couple of times as I don't know anybody with a dachshund lol.  The creation of this card was a wee bit different.  I used a famous painting for the background!!! and then modified it a bit with blurring techniques in Photoshop.  Next I added the dachshund image and printed using acetate.  The image was then coloured from behind so the card top has a wonderful shiny layer.  The colouring of the image was far from easy, using several brown shades of my Promarkers but I couldn't get any depth of colour so I then added some Tim Holtz Distress Oxides applied with a paint brush to create the shadows, not a great success but the overall card turned out OK.  Once the colouring was done I mounted it on my matting and added a copper Thinking of You peel off sentiment.

Ingredients:-
  • image - DACHSHUND by IKEsART
  • colouring medium - Promarkers, Distress Oxides and digital background
  • other items - acetate and peel off stickers
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