Waxy canvas!

Hello!
For my Creative Expressions DT project this week, I've made a canvas. Lots of flowers...

I've called it my 'waxy canvas' because there's a lot of beeswax on it! Not something that is obvious in pictures, but its there!
The flowers are from the gorgeous Heartfelt Creations plate " Mini Vintage Floret". I stamped each of the three designs onto cardstock that I had painted first. I used three colours of paint, Eco Green colours Ocean, Lime and Waterfall. Once stamped and cut out, I dipped each flower into melted beeswax. This gives a nice thick flower, with a matt finish. Very tactile!

The canvas itself was painted with the same three colours, along with a touch of white! Once dry, I added some white stamped tissue, using the fab chicken wire background. I also added the quote from the Special Sentiments Umount plate...

I stamped the flourish from the Funky Floral plate onto acetate, then added them to the corners of the canvas....

I added feet to my canvas too...rolled up spirals of paper covered with text paper....

A little door knob to the top, and it was done!

See you again next week with another flowery project!
Love Trish xxx

Free!

Hello!
Friday already! Hurrah!!!!
Today it's my turn over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination, and I'm sharing another panel where I've gone a little overboard with the texture!

Please go check out the blog HERE, there are lots of closeups so you can see whats going on!
love Trish xxx

Ten Minute Tuesday

Hello!
Vicki over at The Biskit Barrel has a great play along challenge on a Tuesday....simply share something you've created in just 10 minutes. Great for when you have just a smidge of time, with no concrete ideas of where your muse will take you! I just used up some stuff that was on my desk (instead of tidying it up, I used it again!!)

I cut some white card into a tag shape, then very quickly and randomly scraped red paint over it. Where it ended up fairly thick, I used the tip of my palette knife to score more random lines into it...

Once dried, I gently brayered with black paint, then used two stamps for some detail. A script stamp, and a circle stamp...

I had cut out the girl for something else, but decided to go with another image, so she was just waiting to be used! I placed her over the circle to give a halo effect....

The heart panel was a scrap of card left over from some punching. It got the same painty treatment as the tag, then I sewed it to a black scrap and glued it to the tag...

I really had fun with this, just using leftovers on my desk was very liberating! It normally takes me more than 10 minutes just to decide paint colours....
Hope everyone is having a nice week...hailstones and pouring rain here in Blackpool today, and an extra jumper needed for the school run! Flipping freezing!
Love Trish xxxx

Daisy!

(yes I know its supposed to be an aster....artistic license?!)
Hello! This weeks project for Creative Expressions features the same stamp I used last week. I wanted to show you just how versatile they can be, simply by switching colour schemes you get a whole new look....

 

The layout is very similar too, but just look at how a fresh and clean image can look against a grunged up tag!The daisy (or aster!) is from the Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters set, and was very simply stamped onto white card with black ink. I coloured the centre with yellow paint, then cut it out.

The tag background was created by scraping layers of paint onto the white surface. I used yellow first, then the blue. Once those layers were dry, I lightly brayered the surface with black paint.
A little painty stamping, namely the plaid background and the chicken wire background, then I splatted it with black paint!

I did a little stitching around the edge of the tag to frame it.....

and I also used some random stitching as the stem of my flower..

Some 3D letters formed the word, then it was done!
You may notice the orange bits...... this was an accident, the brayer got smeared with orange paint before I used it! Not what I had intended, but could have been worse!!!
See you next week with another make featuring these fab stamps!
Love Trish xxx

Follow your heart....

Hello!
I've been playing with inks today over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination... only a teeny bit of paint!

Little teaser pic there....please pop on over to the ASOI blog to see the whole thing!
Love Trish xxxx

Live Laugh Love

Hello!
I've been playing with a Tando arch set for Calico Crafts today...

I'd love it if you could pop on over to have a proper look, loads more pics and a 'how to' explanation!!
love Trish xxx

Blue?

Happy Weekend!!!
Sooooo glad to see the back of this week....one word.... Ofsted! (School inspectors for those not sure!)
Wouldn't want to repeat the last few days for a good long while!
Anyway... I want to share a tag I've made for my DT project over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination today...

I've done a full step by step with lots of pictures, so I would love it if you popped on over here to have a look!
Have a nice relaxing couple of days (or three in a row for those that get the bank holiday too!)
Love Trish xxx

Krafty Daisies!

Hello!
My Dt piece for Creative Expressions this week features these gorgeous daisy stamps by Heartfelt Creations (well actually they're called Asters..but I've never been one for knowing my flower species!!)
I've used them in a simple way today.... but brace yourselves for some all out flower explosions to come, these just lend themselves to being used LOADS on a project! Anyway, I made this.....

Very simple in terms of colour palette, and a nice simple background too!
I took a size 8 Kraft tag, and did some stitching around the sides, and a little in the middle..

I smeared cream paint in places, and splattered black paint over it. That's the extent of the background, told you it was quick!
There are four sizes of lower on the stamp plate, but I chose just three to use this time. I stamped them onto book pages using Archival ink, cut them out then adhered them to the tag...

The stem of the flower is twine, very in keeping with the Kraft look. I also threaded twine through the hole in the tag..

The final tough was a tiny Remnant rub on...LOVE these!!!

Hope you like it, a muted start to what will be a very colourful month with these stamps I think!!
Love Trish xxx

Bluebirds

Hello!
My last jewellery piece today over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination... next month I'm heading back to the messy painty stuff! I have made a mental note to share more jewellery makes on the blog though, I think it makes things more interesting to have a change now and again!
Anyway..... this is part of the necklace..

Please pop on over here to see the rest of it!!
Love Trish xx

Free to Fly - The butterfly version!

Hello!
You know when you get some new stash, and you then want to use it all the time? I got some of the Tim remnant rub ons...... how fabulous are they?! My fave phrase is 'free to fly', and this will be the second time this week I've used it!

This time I've used butterflies to go along with the 'fly' theme of the rub ons. The butterflies are wooden pieces by Studio Calico, I've painted them, did a little stamping then applied some rock candy crackle paint....

The gold is Treasure Gold wax, the bestest stuff ever for rubbing over crackles to emphasise them!
The background was given texture before painting. I glued on leftover strips of card that I had used to punch circles from....

And used texture paste through a fab dotty stencil...

I then used green, turquoise and white paint to add the colour. Bits of stamping and printing to give visual texture, then I added the butterflies. The image is one of my favourite Stamping Bella figures...

I've used paint and gilt wax to colour this piece, so I would like to enter it into the Simon Says Stamp And Show challenge: Colour
As there are a few butterflies involved, I think this piece qualifies for the Country View Crafts Challenge : Butterflies as well!
Love Trish xxxxx