The Play Date Cafe #122

I have a little something to play along with The Play Date Cafe colours this week.  Here is the inspiration picture.

This turned out to be quite a fun card to make. 

 The paper is from 7gypsies 'Avignon' collection, and I smooshed paint over it to mute it down.

Love the little hints of yellow and the glistening bee seemingly crawling off the torn page.

Thanks for visiting :)

Fiona
xx

Products Used:


Archival Black Ink
Mustard Seed Distress Ink
7gypsies Avignon paper
White Acrylic Paint
Sam & Lucy Weave Extras alphas (black)
Copic Multiliner
Dimensional Magic


Stamps Used:


Queens Dresser Drawers 'Bumblebee'
Stampotique 'Honeycomb Background'
Skipping Stones Designs (word - happy)
Darkroom Door Alphabet Medley
Darkroom Door All Occasions

Stampotique Designers Challenge #49

The current challenge at Stampotique Designers Blog is a colour challenge - pink, purple and black.

I have been struggling a bit lately with being focussed on creating.... sometimes the old desire to put colours or textures together just slips off quietly and before you know it, you haven't made anything for ages, and empty spaces are terrifying....  so I have been putting off entering this challenge because I just couldn't focus on those colours.

Anyway, last night I sat down and just had a play with some stuff, tried out some techniques, and kept my project small so it wasn't overwhelming. 

I used these stamps from Stampotique: French Text (Jo Capper-Sandon); Blocks (Maryse Carrier); 3 Hearts by Kelle McCarter.

Thanks for visiting!

Fiona
xx

Other products used:
 
Adirondack Color wash in wild plum and purple twilight
Gesso
Acrylic paint
Tim Holtz typeset die
Black archival ink
Derwent inktense pencils

Pages 2 Scrap - March

This month the team is designing with WRMK Cotton Tail papers - so pretty, with reminders of spring and Easter.

Here is a sneak of some of my projects, but you can head over to the Pages 2 Scrap blog here if you want to see them all.

Thanks for stopping by.

Fiona
xx

March calendar

Welcome back to another instalment of my calendar :)  I know many of you visiting may have spring pages, but down here in Australia, March marks the beginning of Autumn - so I tried to reflect a little of that warmth with the remaining green of summer in my calendar page.

 I really enjoyed making this months art, I'm sorry my photos don't do them justice ( a bit wobbly there... )

 Thanks so much for stopping by!

 
Of course I'm playing along with Kate Crane's Art Journal challenge.... You can read all about it here... or visit her March page here.

Fiona
xx

Stamps Used:

Queens Dresser Drawers 'Bumblebee'
Kaisercraft 'Flourish'
Kaisercraft 'Offshore Collection'
Tim Holtz 'Winter Sketchbook'
Paper Artsy 'HPXT02'
Darkroom Door 'Alphabet Medley'

Other Products Used:

Gesso
Adirondack Color Wash
Distress Inks
Acrylic Paint
Black Archival Ink
Paper Artsy Flower Die
Black Copic Marker
Paper Scraps

Stampotique Designers Challenge #48

It's challenge time again at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog!  This week the challenge is to CASE a Stampotique Designer.  How awesome is that?!  So much inspiration to choose from....

I have decided to try my hand at CASE-ing the work of the very talented Kate Crane.  I had fun trawling back through her blog to find a project that I could CASE pretty closely.  Toward the end of last year Kate made a bookmark for one of the Stampotique Designer Challenges, and I had two of the three stamps, so I thought it would be a good one to try.  You can see Kate's original masterpiece right here on her blog.

I was missing the splatter stamp, so had to make do with splats of ink from the end of the dropper.

I think mine is a little bit 'heavier' (darker?) than Kate's, and those splats are quite obviously not the same.

Overall I am pretty happy with how it turned out - but how awesome would it be to see them side by side in real life??  Kate - fancy a trip Down Under??  Just kidding...  ;)

Thanks for stopping by

Fiona
xx

Products Used:


Stamps:


Stampotique "French Text" by Jo Capper-Sandon
Stampotique "Minkygirl" by Daniel Torrente


Other Products:


Distress Inks: Wild Honey; Barn Door; Rusty Hinge; Black Soot
Adirondack Color Wash: Sunset Orange; Red Pepper
Acrylic Paint: Black, White, Pale Gold
Black Archival Ink
Old book paper
Old Plastic stamp packet
sewing machine & thread
Derwent Inktense Pencils
trim & beads

Pages 2 Scrap - February

In honour of Valentine's Day, the Page 2 Girls were creative with the beautiful range of papers from My Minds Eye 'Love Me' range.

Here are a few sneak peaks:

You'll need to head on over to this post at the Pages 2 Scrap blog if you'd like to see all the projects and their instructions on how they were created :)

Fiona
xx

Play Date Cafe PDCC#117

I have joined in on the colour fun at The Play Date Cafe this week (#117) with this beautiful soft colour scheme.

I am going to a 21st birthday party soon, and there is a bit of a vintage theme happening, so I thought I'd make a card that kind of fits in with the theme.

**Edited to add: This was chosen as a Fab 4

I crocheted this rose and leaves to be the main feature of the card - but kept it fairly simple otherwise.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Fiona
xx

Products used:


Basic Grey Cappella 'pageantry' paper
Kaisercraft Timeless Collection 'newsprint' paper
DMC #20 crochet thread
Trim
Kaisercraft pearls
Distress Inks - antique linen, tattered rose, frayed burlap
Skipping Stones Design stamps (greeting)
Sewing machine/thread

Stampotique Designers Challenge #47

The theme this fortnight over at Stampotique Designers Challenge is Altered Items.

I've had this clothing tag sitting in my bedroom for months and months (and months - the store closed down about 6 months ago...!!) and I have been reluctant to throw it out (nor the other 3 or 4 that were sitting alongside it) because you just never know when you might just need one for something.  Thanks to Stampotique Designers Challenge for providing the perfect opportunity to use one!

This is the before photo.....

 And this is the after photo....

** Edited to add: This was chosen as a favourite

Pretty cool huh?  Don't forget if you want to join in the challenge you have to use Stampotique stamps :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Fiona

xx

Stampotique Stamps Used:

Alphabitties (by Jill Penney)

Bat Like Wings (by Daniel Torrente)

Blocks (Maryse Carrier)

Honeycomb Background (Josie Cirincione)

French Text (Jo Capper-Sandon)

Other Products Used:

Clothing tag

Old book paper

Lace

Machine Stitching

Gesso

Distress Inks (shabby shutters, peeled paint, faded jeans, gathered twigs)

Acrylic Paint

Kaisercraft rhinestones

Copic Multiliner

Gingersnaps Creations GC136 Colour Challenge

This is the current colour challenge over at Gingersnaps Creations - Glorious Greens.

I had no real plan when I began this, other than my Stampotique 'Head' guy had to be green.... I have used mostly muted greens, including a couple of big paint globs down the bottom to represent, well, you know what happens when you feel THAT green.... !!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Fiona

xx

Stamps Used:

Stampotique 'Head'

Paperbag Studios 'Hole Punched' and 'Grunge Alphabet'

Other Products Used:

Derwent Inktense Pencils

Distress Inks - Old Paper & Peeled Paint

Acrylic Paints

Archival Black Ink

Colorbox Frost White Ink

Sponge

Sam & Lucy Weave Extras alphas

Copic Multiliner

February Calendar

Here is my calendar page for February.  I struggled with this one a bit.  I think I tried too hard - sometimes when I try too hard, things just don't seem to come together the way I see them in my head.  I haven't been able to get any more pages done, but I'm going to try to relax a little more when I do the next one...

I'm not using this as an art journal, just a calendar.  I'm building up to the art journal... maybe next year ;)  I'm joining in with Kate Crane's Calendar Challenge.  You can see her February post here.

Fiona

xx

Stamps Used:

Kaisercraft 'Love'

Stampers Anonymous 'Love Struck'

Darkroom Door 'Artist' and 'Alphabet Medley'

Paperbag Studios 'Journal Impressions

Stampotique 'Minky Girl' and 'Eric' and 'Daniel's Hearts'

Other Products Used:

Gesso

Acrylic Paint

Adirondack Colorwash 

Distress Inks

Black Archival Ink

Inktense Pencils

Papers - Bo Bunny 'A gift of love' and offcuts for the squares.