You're Out of This World

It's a scorcher here is Hampshire today and while I love the sunshine, I hate the heat with a passion, so I kind of of wish I was in another world today ( or at least a cooler one!), Which leads me neatly into the theme for today's card I am sharing. 

I've been in a bit of a creative slump recently, and today I was itching to get crafting, and for a while it just wasn't happening ( don't you just hate it when that happens!). Then I remembered a background I made a while ago when idly playing and had an idea. I dug out my trusty box of stamps from Visible Image ( always guaranteed to inspire so check them out yourself on the link) and this card came to life. I just love these stamps , which I believe are sadly retired now. They are perfect for boys cards and artwork. 

The background was created with brushos, glossy accents, gilding wax and splatters of acrylic paint. It just screamed outer space to me when I created it. I love brushos as you never quite know what you're going to end up with, which makes the creative process so much fun!

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge- Birthday Boy

Crafty Calendar- Boys will be Boys

Send a Smile 4 Kids- For the Boys

Sweet Stampin- Creations for Children

Brown Sugar #255 Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends #45 Anything Goes

Daring Cardmakers- Out of this World

Have a great weekend

Lynda 

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Celebrating Pride Art Journal Spread

It's been a while since I've played in my art journal but this week I felt the urge to throw some brusho's about and see what happened and I have to say I am really proud of the result. The bright colours thrown out by those amazing pigment paints just sang rainbows to me, and little rainbows have been popping up all over my Facebook news feed recently in celebration of Pride month. Those little emojis.  coupled with a very unnecessary thread and predjudiced thread about the LGBT community on a creative group I belong to today, kick started my creative process and this spread somehow emerged magically.

 The main image was one I saved a while ago from a National Trust magazine. I knew one day it would just work for me, and today it did!! Point proven yet again that a crafters hoarding is never in vain!

Products used were:

Brusho paints

Dylusion Paints

Paperartsy border stamps

Visible Image stamps

Wow embossing powders and versamark

Stencils

Zig water colour pens

Charcoal pencil

Stickles

Nuvo drops

Black fineliner

Challenges:

Mixed Media World #26 Anything Mixed Media

Altered Eclectics June- Anything Goes

Love 2 Create June Anything Goes

Not Just Cards #45 Anything Goes

Thanks for popping by

Lynda 

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Creative Artiste June Challenge #27 DT Post

So I have some exciting news that I have been sitting on and I am finally able to share it with you today- yippee!! I am now a proud member of the design team over at Creative Artiste! I am SO thrilled to have been invited to join the incredibly talented ladies on the team and hope that I can do this fab challenge blog justice with my projects and inspire you to join in with your own mixed media projects. 

So, without further ado, here is my debut piece for the June challenge #27.

This month the challenge is kindly sponsored by Judy McKay, who is offering this great prize of stamps and dies, which is also the theme for the challenge this time. 

I have used stamps and dies from the new Alchemy collection by Sheena Douglass. I fell in love with them the moment that I saw them and just had to treat myself. My 11yr old daughter loves Harry Potter and wants her bedroom decorated in a magical style, so I have created a canvas for her wall. 

I used texture paste and a dragon and stars stencils on my prepared canvas to add some dimension, and then sponged a variety of dark and metallic paints over the top of the whole thing until I had a good coverage. Then I highlighted the pasted areas with gilding polish. The different elements were die cut and stamped, and coloured with dylusions inks ,aqua tint inks, distress oxides and distress pens- so a right mix! Some acetate added a real glass touch to the magnifying glass, and I clear embossed over the bottles to create the same effect on them. 

I hope you've enjoyed looking at my work and I have inspired you to join in the challenge. 

Challenges:

Crafting With Dragonflies ~82 Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft #45 Anything Goes

Altered Eclectics June Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge- June Anything Goes

Rhedds Creative Spirit- Anything Goes

Thanks for popping by

Lynda

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Crafts Galore Encore June Challenge DT Post

It's time for a new Anything Goes challenge over at Crafts Galore Encore and this month we are kindly sponsored by Sparkle N Sprinkle, 

I chose to work with the great set of coloured digital images called Espresso Yourself- they were just perfect for my coffee loving husband for our wedding anniversary recently. I kept my card clean and simple so it really focused on the lovely image and sentiment. 

We would love to see your entries so do pop across and join in if you can, and also take a look at the creations made to inspire by my talented teamies too. They are all lovely!

Challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft #45 Anything Goes
A Perfcet Time o Craft #06 Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Open Challenge June- Anything Goes
Connie Can Crop- Its a Guy Thing
Crafty Hazelnuts June Challenge- Patterned Paper

Thanks for stopping by 

Lynda

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