dragonfly by Joanne Wardle

This is my final water themed piece this month.
I really like dragonflies when they hover over water, and that was the ideas behind this one layer card.

 I masked off a square and inked it with tumbled glass ink. I then positioned a mask and inked again. I splashed water onto the square and dabbed it off and left to dry. I then just stamped the dragonfly from Stampotique, and addded some stickles to the winds and randomly spotted the background witch stickles.

products used
prima masks
stampotique dragonfly stamp
stickles
tumbled glass distress ink
black stazon

Ceci n’est pas un homme - Canvas By Moira Sutton

Made using one of the great selection of canvases available in the shop. The background has been created using a selection of Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints. It has been finished with Viva Croco Crackling Colour
Don't forget the current challenge is April showers. For all the details and how to upload your entry to the blog have a look at the Post here.

Dancing in Time .......by Annette Goatley (nettyscraftings)

Hi, today am showing you what can be achieved with a little water.............

Now I expect you are wondering where the water was used ................or do you know already?

Products used:
Canvas Board, Texture Paste, Distress Inks, Inka Gold and Copper, Olive Green Stazon and Water from the Tap.....
Stamps include: 
Lost Coast Designs

Have you guessed yet...........of course you have.  The water was used to wet the background stamps so they could easily and cleanly stamp into the Texture Paste.

Have created this to be the front cover of one of my Art Journals.  Hope you like it and have to say it was great fun to do.  Thank you for visiting and hope you have your entries in this month as there is yet again a fab prize to be won.

Take care of yourselves, Hugs Annette x

Blockheads Chunky ATC By Carol Fox

I am developing a serious condition concerning these chunky ATC's and of course there is no hope for me now that Moira stocks them in the shop. This is the link for them.
I love the fact that you just just shove loads of stuff on them.
For this one I have used the Icarus stamp by Lost Coast (he is one of my favourite stamps of the moment). The background is one of the new Blockheads range (Stargazer) that are now being stocked.

All my cogs are die cuts mounted onto wooden spools. I was trying to get the feel of my Icarus trying to reach the handle to turn off the crazy machine before it turns night into day and burns his wings.

Carol x

Vintage Tag by Annette Goatley (Nettyscraftings)

Hi, am so thrilled with my new set of Harpers Women by Lost Coast Design and used them many times.  Today I would like to show you a Scrunched Tag using Mistress Grace from the set.  I call her that as she reminds me of my great great Aunt Grace who was a very stylish lady and a wonderful dressmaker.

Products used:  Broken China and Tea Dye Distress Inks, Copper and Cobalt Bleu Viva Inka Gold.
Stamps by: Lost Coast Design

Have to say these ladies from the set are fabulous for crafters that love vintage and am sure you agree.
Have a great day and take care of yourselves.  Hugs Annette x

Untie your Wings by Samantha Read

I honestly cannot put into words how excited I was when I found out that Happy Daze are stocking all the new fabulous Suzi Blu stamps!! They are so hard to find here in the UK I thought I would never get my hands on them.

As soon as I saw the Fly Free stamp my creative mojo started singing and the stamp was talking to me. . . 

. . . I immediately reached for a canvas and turned it the wrong way round, scrunched up some tissue paper and pva'd to the front edge for texture. Then I randomly discovered that 6in x 6in paper fits neatly in the recess, result! I toned down the pattern of the paper a little by applying a very thin layer of gesso with a baby wipe, I then painted the green, pink and blue and again toned it down with a touch of gesso. Then the fab part, I stamped the Fly Free girl once onto white card and once onto some patterened paper for her dress. I acheived the textured hairdo with modelling paste. A Claudine Hellmuth craft stick was perfect for the title. A bit of wire, a few beads, flowers, a bit of sparkle and some nik naks that were lying around finished the piece.


I used:
20cm x 20cm Canvas

She art paper

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Craft Sticks

Fly Free stamp by Suzi Blu

Prima Crystals and Pearls

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints, Painterly Pink, Sky Blue and Landscape Green

Artistic Outpost Serenity stamp sheet for the flourish and
Claudine Hellmuth Gesso

Wishing you a lovely, happy day, Sam xxx

Twit - Twooooooo baby canvas by Julie Dandy

This was the canvas I decorated for my beautiful Great Niece Emily Rose as a christening present.

This month over at the Happy Daze blog the challenge is based around water themed or technique projetcs - now this might leave you a bit confused by my project???

Well the main technique I used was image transfer with Claudine Hellmuth's sticky backed canvas and patterned papers detailed on my blog HERE.

the canvas was panited with acrylic paint using a baby wipe and blending two contrasting colours. 

I then added a crackle glaze and the top coat of cream acrylic paint. 

I spritzed  my bacground with a combo of cosmic shimmer mist and a mist of distress re-inker with perfect pearls mixed in.

The shapes were cut by hand to co-ordinate with Emily's super cute bedding, and everything was adhered to the canvas with Claudine's multi matte medium.

To finish off I added distress and glitz stickles to add a pretty highlight :D

Her Mum loved it so much I made her cry - oops!!

here's a couple of close-ups ....

I hope it doesn't make Emily cry :-O

hugs'n'snogs,

Julie xx