Hello,  Another workshop using acrylic paints mixing colours and patterns.

I am always encouraged to paint big expanses and I cannot quite manage it yet.

Here are some techniques paint with flour mixed in Yellow piece and lightly brushing another colour on the top with a dry brush and the white with blue acrylic dry  brushed on the top is a white tissue struck on with glue.

The yellow and red were layered and then I made some  marks-line with a fork and other examples of lines  the bottom left is stippling and the middle is stippling with a mask, so I guess there is a lot of crossover from card making and painting techniques 

I just had mad moment  with colour and a piece of scraping tool.

After I had said I could not fill up a whole page this is the result

Do not ask me to paint your home!

This is actually where we began  by painting in acrylic a small picture and then enlarging sections that we wanted to highlight in the remaining quarters.  I went mad again.

and again using a palate knife I just spread it all over... half a page

This is the other half of spreading paint I quite like the translucency effect of colour layering.

Well that is all, thanks to Gill for a good day.

special occasions

Hello

This is my latest it is a special request for a 60th birthday.

There are two layers of complimentary colours of Stamping Up (SU) card

I use the hydranger SU stamp plus leaves

The 60 is a tonic dye, My friend Jenny fussy cut the blooms for me

I used another die for the individual blooms and coloured them with purple Wink of Stella and scattered them about, hopfully decoratively.

The leaves were Wink of Stella again with a ordinary green pen to mark the veins.

This a a close up of part of the card.

Second close-up of the card showing Mondays Child rhyme  in stamp format from Crafty Individuals.

The surround was a touch of Wink of Stella.

Oh and I added three small gold butterflys, with purple Wink of Stella undercarriages using a Martha Stuart punch

This is the insert  with punched trim and verse from 'tinternet' (said I could use it free)

This is the outer last page of the card with one hydranger stamped on it (SU).

I used momento inks throughout.

and that is that a marathon.....

See you soon, hope you like it.

flutterbys

Hello, some cards and a 'thing'  I have not been idle!

This one of Tulips is a stamp and painted with Creative Expressions shimmering water colour  pastel paints.  I placed this on matching card with a ribbon and a knot.  Sometimes I prefer knots to bows.

I used my Brushos again on water colour card and cut out the Tree of Life  Die and popped it on top.

Different and quite effective.

Another one for the tinies....

I used a die for the background of hearts and placed the little chap on top in the corner after colouring him of course.  With a touch of similar coloured ribbon, there he is, he looks happy enough.

These two are the same object from different angles.  I went to a decopatch class. This took two sessions to complete as I failed to gesso the brown surface of the stand and the decopatch paper was so transparent that is showed through.  After huffing and puffing I decided it would be best if I did the whole thing again hence the two sessions.  I am happier with it now.

If you look close up you can see lots of butterflys on the top. It was very pretty paper.

Hope to see you next time, still learning my way around blogging.

back on track

Goodness its the 18th July today!

The time is flying by.

  I have had to rest as I had a couple of nasty falls, so no posting for a week or two, to make up for it I have some pictures for you..  Oh! I am on the mend.

Well, it is now 21 July and I have had to have help understanding how to get my photos from my phone using the  connecting lead  from  phone to computer.  Thanks to Darren who has taught me this and it is cheaper than sending myself e mails.

Here is my selection

This is the sunrise at 11 minutes past five on the 18th!  Lovely colours.

Jenny at Framin Crafty framed this for me.  The background is brushos on watercolour paper, the stamp is by Clarity and I  coloured in with Wink of Stella Gold and Turquoise.

This is my attempt at Art Class with sky, sea and rocks.  All watercolours and the shaping of the rocks was done by using a cut-up credit card, where the paint in scraped  to move the colour giving shading and direction.

These are my daisies in pastel colours  Art class again. Using watercolours and learning about glazes.

Well this has been quite a week  I hope you like my attempts and will call again.

sheep

I have been asked to make a special birthday card using sheep. 

I ordered a sheep die  from Joanna Sheen made by Signature.

It has not been made yet (the birthday card), however, I made a start on the following to see how the sheep worked out. Their faces lift out and I coloured their eyes.

What do you think?

Pretty simple...... and

one for a girl and one for a boy!

 The stamp of the Olive branch is from Inkylicious

some bling from my stash and the card I used is from Stamping Up. 

The size of the white card is 6x6.

and now for something entirely different

This is a stamp from Imagination Crafts,

 I stamped straight onto the card itself using black Momento ink which came out all speckled.  Not a solid black will have to try another make of ink pad next time.

I coloured the flower in Ranger Distress pens and place black diamonte beads in the middle.

This looks  darker with a richer red....it must be  my photography.  Well I am sure you have the idea.

Oh! and I  inked round the edge with a black pen.

That is all for now.

Hello.  Do you remember I was set a challenge....

Well this is it...

This is my latest purchase a Stamping Up stamp it is called Moroccan Nights.  I have used the longer stamp repeated several times to fill the page.  I used Momento Ink Pads Paris Dusk and Teal Zeal alternatively. The Lanterns  were stamped separately and cut out and coloured, Same colours except for the yellow to look as if they are lit.  I placed some 'jewels' on in the same colours as the stamped rows, put the lanterns on a pad to raise them up and there is the finished card.

I did not have much time left after a busy week, perhaps it should have some sort of a salutation on it, I cannot think of one for the moment.

Lets hope the challenger is pleased with it......

the missing cards

Hello again,  I have prepared the following once before and when near publishing pressed the wrong key and lost it all...so here goes.
Lately I have been making cards . I won't get too ambitious this time.

This is a Crafty Individuals stamp.  I cut out a few plain circles and some of the stamp clocks

and layered them all together.

This is a brushos sprinkled background on water colour card then red Stamping Up card and a Penny Black poppy die cut twice once with gold and then with red to create a shadow effect that you can see with the stems.  It is meant to be off center. 

This one again is Stamping Up card 2 circles on a white background with a Lavinia stamps using a black Momento ink pad.

I used a woodware clear stamp used twice.  The lighter circles  very pale blue and the others a medium blue.  They were painted with  Creative Expressions Iridescent shimmering  water colour paints (blue and green)  Stamped with a Momento Ink pad.

All of the card are 6x6 inches .  I will not rest them again on this coloured card to take the pictures with.

Till the next time.....

Here are three more cards to show you.

I was obviously having an Orange day, they were photographed on brown wrapping paper, a slight improvement on the puce!

The circles are evident in the next two.  Lavinia fairy stamps, a white middle  with a brusho circle and a smaller orange circle.  Stamping Up card orange and the brusho on water colour card.  6x6 white card.

An orange circle with water colour card center with a light shade of brushos a new stamp of mine from Chocolate Baroque.  the rose stamped in Red Momento is from the Steampunk Butterfly set.

Now for a square... with three feathers die cut out of watercolour card which has Yes you've guessed it's been through my brusho factory... and the side strip is from the same water colour card.

You can just make out the three small birds on the feather, the ide is a set of four by Xcut. Oh! and the water colour card was not so easy to die cut, perseverence was needed.

Bye till next time.

I have been set a challenge.......

Hello, the images did not come out well, that is because I took the photos in the bright sun.  I have taken them again and hopefully they are better to see now.

Well that's better except the second one down has a yellow background, the yellow was a brusho painted on the front after putting on the wax.

It was really annoying me that fact that I had published them and they were not right. So I hope you like them

Jay

Well you didn't think I only made two papers in the workshop, her are some more....

These have not come out so well and I have not learnt how to enhance them.  As you can see (or not) I like turquoise and all blues.  Will have to more on to another colour.

I shall be making more cards this Thursday so will  have something to post later.

Jay

my new pictures from the workshop

What a lovely day it has been.

This is my second lesson from the lovely Linda.  We were learning techniques at the workshop using wax pastels, water-colour inks, brushos, and acrylic paints.  It is fine at the time to try out mixing all the different paints inks etc: ,harder to remember what I actually did.

Just like doing this blog really.

and here is another

The workshop was called decorative papers part one, there will be more to add to this.

I do not think I have completed this in the way I was shown at least I have made another post.

Jay.

workshop at Jenny's

It's me again my first homework assignment.

Today I am going to a workshop at Framincrafty at St Anne's Chapel  to make decorative papers, Your guess is as good as mine, if they turn out to be reasonable you might see them.

Just one I made earlier. nor decorative papers involved.

A Lesson Learned with Linda

Hello Everyone,

My friend Linda is sitting beside me helping me with my weak attempts at blogging.

I am not sure how consistent I am going to be at this it is all a mystery to me and I hope I remember and get better at this.  Honestly you would think I am 90 years old but I am not.

To test out adding photos, Linda has set me small tasks.

I made this card a while ago so I'm afraid it is just for looking at........