New Journal Pages

I just wanted to share a couple of recent journal pages with you.They are similar colour tones but created in two very different ways.

 I usually start with the background and build the page up but this page started out with the sketch of the three mushrooms. I then went in with some distress stains in broken china and peeled paint. The mushrooms were coloured with distress inks and more ink was layered through stencils on the background. A very quick page.

The second page started out totally differently. I used various different washi tapes to cover the page vertically. I really wasn't sure what I was going to do with this background at first, but then I started to see the shapes of the New York skyline in the page.I outlined various shapes in black permanent marker and the 'city' started to come to life. I let the patterns of the tape dictate the shapes and locations of the windows in the buildings and coloured the buildings using black Inktense block. For the sky I used the Inktense blocks also. I scribbled graded colours up the page to create a sunset and then applied water to blend. I love the effect I got. Hope you like the pages. 

The Secret Garden - Journal Page

This is my latest journal page. I started with the idea of trying an image transfer. The base page and border were already done when I did a previous page opposite. If you want to check the post out it's here. Well the image transfer went totally wrong, so I ended up printing the image again and colour tinting it with Distress inks. The roses were cut from some old wrapping paper. The leaves were drawn on and coloured with Derwent Inktense blocks. The quotes were taken from the book "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This has to be one of my all time favourite

This is a close-up of the image and text. I have to apologise about the bounce back from the flash. The days are so dull here at the moment there is no decent light to take photos!

SImon Says Stamp and Show

This is a mirror that I started a long while ago and have just finished. It is a 20th Wedding Anniversary gift for my DH. I am entering it into the wonderful challenge at Simon Say Stamp and Show. This week is T!m Holtz inspired! As he is my absolute crafting idol this was no trouble at all.

I covered the frame with paper which a friend gave me. I made some flowers from grunge paper. The large one was embossed using one of Tim's texture fades, sprayed with a mixture of tattered rose and vintage photo  from a mini-mister, then swiped with fired brick and finally touched with Perfect Pearls gold. BTW the ticket says Trust not Rust. I added a photo from our wedding day into a memory frame and added a metal tag.

In one corner I added a metal picture corner. I just love these and use them sparingly. You can just see in the corner of the mirror a little fragment with a calendar from August, the month of our wedding.

I then added some of the lovely metal numbers. I used tea-dye and vintage photo distress embossing powders  to these to give them an aged appearance. I also added a Love key and some butterflies. Et Voilà, a Tim inspired mirror frame.

What's on your workdesk. Wednesday.

I have decided to join Julia today. I love seeing what people are up to and how messy their desks can get. As you can see I am really untidy. I have been trying out my new distress ink colours and some crackle paint and corrugated cardboard. Behind the inks you can see the paper flower wreath that I am working on. I have also just finished decorating my ink storage tin (see picture below).

You can just see my little tote which has some of my re-inkers in.

I pasted various bits 'n' bobs onto the tin and then dragged some 'Lettuce' paint over the top.

I couldn't resist taking a photo of all of my inks together.

Tuesday Taggers -Time

This is a tag I made for the Time challenge over on Tuesday Taggers Blog. The background was an experiment with some distress ink re-inkers in tattered rose and vintage photo mixed with water in mini misters. I sprayed them onto my craft sheet, then pressed the tag on top. I then stamped lots of clocks all over in Frayed Burlap and edged the tag with Walnut stain. 

 

The pocket watch was stamped onto kraft cardstock and triple-embossed. I then tried to dust some mica powder onto the edges, but as you can see it ended up being blown across the surface. The cogs are ideology and the little flower is from the stash, (of course the flower also got a quick spritz with the mini-misters too).

This is a better angle on the flower.

Using up those paper scraps

I have been inspired by Deanne over on Quirky Boots, ( http://deezkatz.blogspot.com/2010/02/offcuts.html) to use up those scraps of paper that are lying around. As I have a big thing for Tim Holtz and his Grungepaper roses, I thought I would use the scraps to make some of these.

The cherries and orange tinted one are grungepaper covered with Jenni Bowlin paper and edged with distress ink. In fact I distressed all of the edges. The other flowers were old K & Company papers.

I can't remember where the reddish papers came from. I have lots more flowers punched out ready to be assembled.

My Funny Valentine

This is my entry for the Creative Scrappers Challenge sketch #89 and Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge. I have used the 'Bloom and Grow' papers from My Mind's Eye and some free My Mind's Eye papers that I got with a magazine last week. The image is stamped with Vintage Photo distress ink and lightly water-coloured using the same ink.

 

I have added a little lace trim here and there. The little wooden hearts are coloured using Tattered Rose distress ink and stamped using Vintage Photo. The paper hearts are cut out using Nesties and my Cuttlebug.

I have distressed all of the paper edges to give it a more vintage feel.

Bah Humbug Challenge #3

This is my entry for the latest challenge from Bah Humbug, 'All that glitters'.
The image is stamped in black and then glittered using my Quickie Glue Pen and some ultrafine glamour dust.
I have inked the edges of the card with worn lipstick and peeled paint distress inks. The papers are I think Fancy Pants from last year.

A card for a teenage boy

This is a card which I made a while ago. I had a few scraps of paper left over from a LO and thought that they would be perfect for a boys card. I can't remember the name of the Paper Company but the papers were; Factory, Warehouse, Cog, Market street and Industrial Loft.. I also used some cream cardstock which I distressed with 'Mustard Seed' and 'Scattered Straw' distress inks.

The numerals are from the same range and I also used a rub-on for the wording. The envelope which you see in the background was distressed using   'vintage photo' ink and the fab Tim Holtz masks.