Autumn Colours

 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 #93
Autumn Colours

This fortnights challenge 'Autumn Colours' has been chosen by Chriss.

I decided to go with the yellows and golds of Autumn more than the browns as I wanted to play with this Dandelion rubber stamp from Crafter's Companion which I have had for a while and not used.  The background was created using Distress Inks and then I added the sentiment in gold stamping and heat embossed it.  Next was the fun part, lots of stamping and masking, not something I am very good at but do so enjoy.  Once the images were all stamped I quickly coloured with Copics, finally I added mica flakes in bronze and gold just to bring a bit of brown into the creation.  The image layer was matted on black then orange and I covered my card base with some beautiful brown and orange wrinkly paper a very good friend gave me several years ago.  What a joy working with this paper as lots of very happy memories came flooding back.  We knew each other while our hubbies were working in Saudi Arabia, she alas, also retired now is back in the USA so we have not seen each other for 4 years.  One day I am sure we will meet up again, until then memories fill the gap :) 

• I am entering this card in the following challenges : -

Autumn Colours

 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 #70
Celebrate  Autumn

This fortnights challenge Autumn Colours has been chosen by our DT sister, Debbie, I think Debbie love Autumn lol as I am sure she chose a similar theme this time last year hahaha.  For my card I used a Cottage Cuts die for the dark brown leaves and a Sheena Douglas die - Wild Rose for the foamiran leaves and flower which I coloured with Promarkers before letting the iron do the shaping work.  Not the best of ideas as my iron needed a good scrub to get the ink off when I had finished :) :) :).  If you like making flowers and have not tried Foamiran it is an awesome product, a similar to funky foam but much thinner and die cuts beautifully.  You can colour it with all sorts of different mediums or buy the pre coloured (I just buy white and colour as cheaper that way).  The way this product holds the shapes after shaping with an iron is brilliant, alas you can't really see the true effect as I scanned the card and the lid of the scanner flattened it a bit.  The background was stamped with a large wood plank stamp and Moon Rock AltNew ink  and then I airbrushed with brown and beige Promarkers as to soften the white and add more colour around the edge. The two sentiments were  also stamped with Moon Rock ink.  I then layered the birthday sentiment and top layer on black for contrast, the bottom layer behind the sentiment and for the card base are an old bit of metallic wrapping paper :)

Challenges entered:-

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Autumn Colours

 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 #45
Autumn Colours

This fortnights challenge theme has been chosen by DT sister Debbie.  Time for me to be covered in ink with this card.  I love making my own backgrounds and my favourite mediums for creating the backgrounds are Distress Inks and Oxides. 

For this card I used Distress Oxides in Autumn shade then stamped leaves using leaf stamps from the Creative Stampers magazine again with Distress Oxides.  Next was an abundance of sprayed water to soften everything, so love how the background turned out :) :).  Once I cut the background to size I then added a simple embossed border from Crafters Companion.  The spare background I had left over was used to create the sentiment to which I stamped and Emily Bronte quote.  I finished off with some flower gems, Autumn ribbon which I stamped the leaf design onto and a very special button from my Gran's button box which I have had for years and years.  I used to play with the buttons in the button box when I was a wee girl sometime way back in the the previous century :) :) :)

Challenges entered:-

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The old oak tree

 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 #21
AUTUMN COLOURS

A simple but effective creation.  I was in the mood for stamping a silhouette image and have had this Sheena Douglas stamp for a while and not used it so today it saw the light of day.  I know I said simple but the trials and errors I had making the background ended up taking me a good 2 hours lol.  I first tried on some stamping card I got on my holidays down under several years ago (with being a useless stamper I hardly used this rather nice card so most of it has spent the last 7 years hiding away).  Anyway, one side of the card is shiny and the other matt and I had no idea which side to use.  Opting for the shiny side I set to work with distress inks and WOW what a result, mega interesting.  Then came the stamping and using a stamping tool to get everything position just right I moved on.  Grrrrrr, the shiny side of the paper kept sticking to my stamp and pulling it off the stamping too.  First attempt in the bin.  Then I tried again and I have no idea what I was playing at but that ended up in the bin too.  They do say 3rd time lucky and using my cheap white card I stopping trying to be so careful I succeeded.  So simple in reality and without the hiccups I would agree.  With such a beautiful tree and the vivid autumn colours I decided on the most minimum of embellishments, 3 black gems, just could not resist putting them on hahaha.  

Challenges entered:-

• Allsorts  W,3E  - Colours of Autumn
• Crafty Calendar M,3E November  - Autumn Colours
• Quick Quotes - M (First Friday of the Month), E1, SIO - November - No. 81 - Fall Colors
• Moving along with the Times 2W,3E #58 Trees (W1 of 2)
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge - W, E3 - #23Tic Tac Toe*
• Artistic Stampers (M, P1, E3, must use rubber stamp) November - Use a Quote
• The Crafty Addicts M, 3E, #41 - Anything Goes Autumn Colors
• Double D Challenges - 2W, 1st /3rd Wed of M, E3 - Fall/See Mood Board* (W2 of 2)
• Shopping Our Stash W, C13 - #328 Autumn Color Challenge*

Buck Wild

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 275 Theme 

'Anything Goes with Autumn Colours'

This fortnight I am working with the image Buck Wild by Reeces Scrap Pieces, a gorgeous digital image to colour or in this case work with digitally to create a needlework applique effect.  

 To  begin with I placed the image into Photoshop and by creating multiple layers added my pattern fills for each area.  Once done I printed the image and added the black stitching lines by hand.  The image was then mounted on black paper.  For the background on the card base I used the Hexagon die by Sarah Davis of Crafters Companion and scraps of brown and yellow papers I had lying around.  WOW that took me ages but I do love the outcome LOL.  To finish off I added three skeleton leaves and a die cut called Love Land Corner by Memory Box.  I kept all the hearts that were part of the cut out design (obvious in a 'use lots of scraps day today) and used them to decorate the left side of the card.  Each heart and heart cut out area was embellished with a yellow glass heart gem.  Last bit was to ad my text using the Die'sire die, Just Because.

Inside of card - saying as I had some hexagons left over and it seemed a shame to put them in the bin I used them to add a bit of decoration and finished off the edges with lines using a gold pen.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Buck Wild by Reeces Scrap Pieces
• Colouring medium - digital
• Dies - Memory Box Love Land Corner, Die'sire Just Because, Crafters Companion Hexagon
• From my Stash -  Gold pen, gems

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

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Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Marilyn

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 48
Autumn Colours

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, just remember, you must use and IKEsART image to be eligible for the prize.  Why not pop on over to the store too :), Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

Oh I have loved this challenge, I had an idea as soon as I saw it and it all came together just as I hoped.  For a long time now I have wanted to used the image Marilyn by Ike, it is not available in the IKEsART store but can be found here - Marilyn.

When planning this journal page I first hunted to find a quote by Marilyn which would be suitable.  I am trying to only use quotes or sayings for my kids journals which are thought provoking, help on the path to good living or turning a negative into a positive as I believe that is the best way to get over some of the things that really hurt us, a way to put them into a box as explained so life can continue without such heavy baggage.  I have found turning negatives into positives to be my salvation, for example :) without boring you lol - I had the most miserable time of my life in a convent boarding school from the age of 8 until I could escape aged 17.  I won't go into details but the experience left me shy, lacking confidence and really just wanting to find a hole to crawl into when I could be safe and not have to deal with life.  That however is not really me, from somewhere deep inside I fought back, that is the rebel non conforming me, the one who holds little respect for authority unless it is honest hahahaha.  Anyway, I was able after some time to look back on the experience and accept it as a positive by knowing it has shaped who I am now, how I deal with life now how I survive, how I remain unflappable and happy, yep her quote really is something I can relate to.  There are loads of other examples where I have used this technique to avoid sadness, hurt, disappointment etc, and for me it really works.

Oh dear, went off track there :) sorry.  Back to my journal, I found this wonderful quote by Marilyn which you can read further down the page but for now a quick step through of what I did.  I applied Gesso to my pages and then got to thinking about the text.  I am useless at hand writing and have been plying with ways to add text to journal pages other ways, so far having tried acetate, tissue and stamping, regular printer paper etc.  Today I have tried to print on the paper I plan to cover my journal pages with, some cheap fibre paper I picked up at The Range.  As you can see, my printer totally love it ahahaha, I needed tweezers to pull it out but was pleased to see it had actually printed the text the OK even if it would not eject it properly.  The concertina effect is quite cool but I don't want that am hoped stretching onto the glued page would sort that (I don't own an iron before you suggest I should have done that ).

 As you can see the gluing of the page to my book ironed out the wrinkles just fine hahaha.  Next I fussy cut the digi image, I am not colouring her as normal but going to air brush her when all the rest of the prep is done.  Added to the pages are skeleton leaves (Marilyn loved to go for walks in woods so that is an appropriate embellishment both in keeping with the challenge colours and the digi), metal flowers, metal LOVE tag and some silk leaves in Autumn colours.

I air-brushed the pages with several shades of yellow, orange and brown Promarkers including going over the metal embellishments.

 To the centre of the metal flowers I added crystals to represent diamonds - after all Marilyn sang 'Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend).

 Gold pen, more crystals and Crystal Stickles were used on the earrings.

 Here you can read the quote easily, I hope you will agree, it is a real cracker.

 After air brushing I added some bronze gilding wax to the edges of the pages and a blast of gold glitter spray for no other reason than I wanted to :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - Marilyn by IKEsART
• Colouring Medium - Promarkers
• From my stash - skeleton leaves, gesso, silk leaves, metal flowers, metal love, gold glitter spray, Stickles, crystal gems, gilding wax

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafting with an Attitude - M, 1st Thurs, E3 - #7 Anything Goes
• Digital Delights by Louby Loo (M, 4th Thursday of the M, E1, must use a stamped image digital or stamped) #3 Anything Goes
• Scrap & Craft Challenge - M 1st Thurs, 3E - #14 Colours Of Autumn
• Star Stampz Challenge - 2W, E3 SIO - (W1 of 2) Add A Sentiment
• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #111 Autumnal Hues (Week 1 of 2 )
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #78 Always Anything Goes/Autumn Colors (Week 1 of 2)
• A Gem of a Challenge 2W (W2) autumn 
• Allsorts W,3E  nature
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Always Anything Goes
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.149 - (W1 of 2) - Autumn Colours
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No.108 -  Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 159 - Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too - 2W - No.95 - (W2 of 2) - Autumn Splendour
• The Stamping Boutique - 2W, (2nd & 4th Friday) SIO - No.67 -  (W2 of 2) - No Design Paper
• Doodle Pantry  M,First Tuesday,1E,SIO - must use digital image -  Any Digi Goes
• {Pin}spirational 2W -   #150 - Inspiration Image* (Week 2)
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #284 Add leaves real or faux
• That Craft Place - 2W, 1E -Mixed Media anything Goes (W2 of 2)
• The Mixed Media World Challenge M, Must be mixed media  - Anything goes with autumn colors
• Anything but Cute Mixed Media Challenge (M, P5) No cute images, no 100% digital projects #5  Mixed Media Makeover
• Rhedd's Creative Spirit (M,P1,E3) Anything Goes (Mixed Media Altered Art / Mixed Media ONLY)
• SLS Lines Challenge (M, P12, SIO,E2) #13 Monochrome
• Crafting By Designs - W,F, 3E -  All About Autumn
• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #111 Autumnal Hues (Week 2 of 2 )
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #78 Always Anything Goes/Autumn Colors (Week 2 of 2)
• I love Promarkers - W - Must use Promarkers - #289 Anything But A Card
• Inspiration Destination - W, F- #54 Always Anything Goes 
• Mod Squad Challenge - W, F - Get Your "FALL" On!
• The Crafty Addicts M, 1st Wednesday of M, E #2 - Anything Goes and Autumn Color Palette
• Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (October) Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps - W, 3E, F - Autumn Leaves/Colors of Fall
• Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 2) Fall is in the air