Creative Expressions - Mum

Good morning, It's Monday which means it's time for my creation over at the Creative Expressions Blog and this month we are playing with Sparkle Texture Paste and Stencils, I am loving July lol.  I get to play with the awesome Dina Wakely masks, and today I made a card for my mum's birthday.  Now you may be thinking blue and purple again, but this card set off the weekend makes not the other way around lol.  As always I shall highlight all the products of Creative Expressions :-).
I would like to enter the following challenges -
The Pink Elephant Challenge - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps Challenge - Make your Mark (sewing and texture)
Crafty Sentiments Challenge - No Designer Papers
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge - Anything Goes
Fantastic Tuesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Loves Rubber stamps Challenge - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

I so love this card, I never thought I would be doing a clean looking Mum card

with Dina Wakely stencils, but here is the proof :-)

Lots of close ups :-)

Doesn't the sparkle look fabulous, and it dries really fast as well.

And now for the step by step ...............

I cut a circle from acetate using Spellbinders Circle Die.

I used some Creative Expressions Coconut Card Stock and added some tape

around the outside for a border, I then sprayed a little bit of adhesive to the back

of my acetate circle and added it into the middle.

Next I taped down Ranger Dina Wakely Stencil Plastic Canvas

Then I used my palette knife and spread a mix of Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle

Texture Paste Lavender Mist and Perrywinkle.

I peeled off the stencil and cleaned it straight away.  I normally can just use

Creative Expressions Boss Wipes, but I also had to rinse under some warm water

to rinse all that glitter, seriously this paste is packed with gorgeous glitter :-)

I took the acetate circle away and the tape around the edges and left the card

to dry.  I have saved the circle as it looked awesome covered in the paste, I didn't take a

picture but I'm sure you will see it soon on some creation lol.

I lightly sponged Distress Ink Dusty Concord and Chipped Sapphire,

it may not look to blended but I knew I was going to be using some mist on it.

I sprayed a lot of Cosmic Shimmer Mist Pearl over the

above card stock and left dry.

Next I stamped Creative Expressions Lilly Spray with Archival jet black ink

and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Detail clear powder.

Sorry not a good picture, I highlighted them using my coloured pencils

(details at the bottom of the page) and edged with Distress Maker
Seedless Preserves.  I then added drops of Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle

Texture paste on the tops, as if I was using a glitter glue.

I added a stencilled Mum with the sparkle paste and did some

stitching around the edge.  I then matted on some Creative Expressions Navy

Card Stock and then on a card blank.

I coloured the backs with some promarkers and then layered the flowers around

the circle to look like a wreath.  I then added some Creative Expressions Heart
Embellishments.

I hope you like my card, my mum loved it, to finish it off I did add a lovely verse inside on some nice paper and more navy card stock.  Simple but looks effective I think, I shall definitely try this again, it makes the background look great with just an acetate circle, some gorgeous sparkle paste and a fab stencil.
Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kezzy xxxxx

Used from my Stash
Faber Castell Polychromas pencils - indanthrene blue, mauve, violet, delft blue, blue violet, purple violet.
Tando Creative Stencil - alphabet.
Promarkers - Purple, French Navy

Paperartsy Inspiration - Journal

Hi ya, as you know this morning I posted the bag I did using Fresco paints, and I had took a picture of the journal page that I had tested the background on?  Well over at Paperartsy Inspiration Blog,  Ellen Vargo did an awesome journal page, well because I had already got a background that I had used my brayer on (full post of fabric bag with exactly same colours and some of the stencils is HERE) I thought I would join in.  I love Ellen's stamps and I hope she will make plenty more with Paperartsy :-)

 This is the background I started with, all products

are at the bottom of the page, apart from the journal pens and the ink pad

all of it is Paperartsy :-)

It's all done apart from a title, I need to go and have a think, I want

a Lin Brown saying, but I need to work it over two pages, so 

I have left it for the moment.

Some close ups :-)

Bugger, just noticed I went over the Fresco, in the dictionary it

had the word fresco and I got carried away and added the stamp and lines

over it lol.

Right I better go before the linky finishes.  I really have enjoyed yesterday with the bag, and then taking elements from Ellen's journal but adding the twist of the same flowers from the bag that I also enjoyed doing.  Of course it's because of my favourite paint, you really neeeeeeeed to try Fresco paints they are lush.
Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kezzy xxxxx

Recipe
Paperartsy Fresco paints - snowflake, pansy, guacamole, bora bora, eggplant, mermaid
Paperartsy Stencils - PS007, PS003, PS004, PS001
Paperartsy Stamps - EEV01, EEV02, EEV05 and the script from HP1304
Archival jet black ink pad.
Montana black and white paint pens

Stencil that Bag!!!

Good morning, I know, where have I been all week, I have my injections next week so I have been catching up with all my DT work, plus doing some playing.  Good news is I have a post everyday up until Wednesday, all I have to do is type them all up lol.  Today over at That Craft Place Challenge Blog the new challenge is Decorate a Bag, so I decided to get painty and decorate a fabric bag with Paperartsy Fresco paints and stencils, I can then take my crochet into the hospital and still see lots of paint lol.  As always I have done a step by step which will hopefully inspire you to have a go :-).
I would like to enter my bag into the following challenges -
Country View Crafts Challenge - Stencil It
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Altered Art
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Flowers
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Show us what else you can do
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Oddball Challenge Blog - Alter something

Now initially I was going for nice and clean, sort of less is more,

with only the saying and flowers, I always admire when other crafter's do gorgeous

but clean looking art, BUT I couldn't stand it, I got to that point and thought, I need

more of me, so I decided to carry on.

The thing I like most about this, is I get the best of both worlds, the gorgeous

simple look flowers with a funky arty layer on top :-)

Of course I just had to test it out, you should have seen me, I wrapped my

crochet in a plastic bag, came upstairs, took the photo and then took it back 

downstairs with it's new bag.  You see I like paint everywhere and bringing my

crochet upstairs is always a mega risk of being splashed with paint lol.

I am planning on making some small crochet flowers in these colours to add

to the bag :-)

Lots of pictures showing close ups

And now for the step by step, all products are at the bottom of the post :-)

To start with I found a piece of cardboard to put in my bag to protect the paint

from sticking to the other side.

These are the colours I planned.

To start with I tested it out in my journal :-)

As you can see, the wool that inspired me lol.  I added the paints

onto non stick mat and added fabric medium.

My first layer was Mermaid, all of the paints was added with my brayer.

then guacamole

snowflake

bora bora

guacamole

mermaid

finally pansy.

When I am using part of masks I like to tape up the area I am not using,

it also means that the sticky part helps the stencil not to move.

I used eggplant though a Crafter's Workshop Stencil and my stencil brush.

Next I used guacamole with Paperartsy stencil 

I then added the flowers in mermaid and pansy

At this point I had to charge my camera lol.  All I did was add some more

leaves at the bottom and then using my Montana black paint pen to go around

the edges.

Next I used eggplant with some fabric medium and used my brayer to spread

it out on my mat so I could use it as an ink pad.

I stamped the scrip from Paperartsy HP1304

I then repeated the process with bora bora.  Next I used bora bora and pansy

mixed with fabric medium and snowflake though the Dot Fade stencil.

I stamped the line stamp from Paperartsy EEV05

and used a pencil with the three colours to add dots.

I made this stamp from spare rubber and stamped the circles with the three colours.

Also before the above I had added white pen highlights.

I took a pen top and used it to make circles and cover some of the above

circles with south pacific, little black dress and eggplant.

I then added snowflake paint dots in the circles and then added black dots with my pen.

I hope you enjoyed my crochet bag, and I shall be back tomorrow (maybe this afternoon as I'm planning on playing lol) with another creation.
Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kezzy xxxxx

Recipe
Paperartsy Fresco Paints - little black dress, snowflake, mermaid, bora bora, south pacific, pansy, eggplant, guacamole.
Paperartsy Stamps - EEV05, HP1304
Paperartsy Stencil - PS003
Crafter's Workshop Stencil - mini live, love, laugh
Tm Holtz Stencil  - dot fade
Montana black and white paint pen
Archival jet black ink pad
Fabric bag
Liquitex fabric medium