WOYWW 323 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends.
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk.
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

And this is what's on my desk today...

 

 

 

Close-ups.

 

Don't you just love these funny little birds!

The wooden blocks are hand carved, this is the leaflet that came with them. These are new wooden printing blocks but I also have a collection of old blocks too, maybe I could show them to you sometime.

 

 

 The Birthday Card, very CAS, unusual for me but quite like it.

 

 

I made the balloons from this paper which I saved from the bin at a workshop I was at.

 

There are lots more yet.

Waste not, Want not!

 

 

Nice stamp on the envelope from Bridget.

Love the ATC Bridget, thank you.

I have a massive collection of stamps and must do something with them!

 

 

I do seem to have been busy this week making cards.

There are several Anniversaries and birthdays so have put a few other things on one side for the moment but can't show you them yet anyway.

 

Well that's it for today and I am off now to see what everyone else has been up to.

 

Bye for now and happy WOYWW,

 

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi everyone, I am here today to show you a new paint I have been working with called Aqua Tints.

I love the way they go on and the colours are so intense for a translucent paint. 
They are concentrated liquid water colours which can be mixed and they blend beautifully and can be used for backgrounds, stencils, stamping, resist work and more.
There are six sets available, with each set containing six individual, colour-themed bottles.

For this project I have used the Pastel set but even so the colours are still very vibrant.

• I started by heat embossing the stamped images from one of my Alice stamp sets and then added the colours.
• Allowed this to dry and then added some extra stamping using colours which would blend with the background as I wanted this fairly subtle.
• Finally buffed the embossing gently to remove any paint. This brings out the embossed areas.

 

 Here I have included a close-up.

 

And a card I have made using this Masterboard.

 

 

I stamped and coloured The White Rabbit using Chameleon pens.

 

Then completed the card with a matching bow and stamped sentiment.

 

 

I have also been altering some of these Masterboards using Picasa but that is for another posting.

 

Hope you enjoyed looking and I would love it if you could leave a comment.

 

Bye for now and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

The Mirror Crack'd Challenge.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Here we are again for another challenge at The Mirror Crack'd and this month it's Masks and you can interpret this in any way you like so let's see your ideas.
I've used an actual mask to create a canvas but you could decorate a mask or use masking techniques, it's up to you to show us how imaginative you can be.

We are thrilled to be sponsored by

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

 

Hope you like mine........ I have named it:

It's all in the Head.

 There are quite a lot of photos to help you with the tutorial.

I started this by collecting together the following and played around a little with their arrangement on the canvas.

The polystyrene balls were cut in half with a Stanley knife.

 

 

Used a stencil to create texture on the mask.

 

The same stencil and Crackle texture paste on the canvas.

 More texture with Viva Modelling Cream.

I used the cream again with a Ryn (Designs by Ryn) stencil to create the swirl and heated this with my heat gun which causes it to rise and bubble, gorgeous!

Continued to add more detail this time with tiny polystyrene pellets and painted everything with Gesso.

 

 

Then started to add colour using Crafty Notions and Cosmic Shimmer Sprays.

 

 

 

Painted Gesso onto a collection of small MDF shapes.

 

Attached some of the shapes and continued with lots more spraying.

 

And painting the small detail by hand.

 

 

Then rubbed over the texture using Treasure Gold Gilding Wax.

 

The textures by now were so gorgeous it was difficult to cover them up.

However... I did and here is the finished canvas.

 

Close-ups.

 

 

 

And the complete canvas......

 

I do hope you enjoyed looking and will pop over and see what my DT members have made for your delight.

I look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge which you will find by clicking here: challenge.

Thanks for stopping by
and happy Crafting,

 

Angela xXx

I am entering this canvas in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: Challenge 54

Use a Metal embellishment.

 

Try it On Tuesday:

Use Stencils.

Anything but Cute
Challenge 4# - August Making Magic.
Here is the moodboard for this month.
I feel there is magic and mystery to this piece which is reflected in my canvas.

 

 

WOYWW 322 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends.
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk.
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

And this is what's on my desk today...

Last week I showed you some boxes of paints, Aqua Tints by Spectrum Noir. These are still on my desk as I have been working with them since then and I have made a few samples and here they are.

 

Salt and Faux Bleaching.

 

Clingfilm and Stamping.

 Close-up of the pattern left behind when the clingfilm is removed.

Colour was applied and sprayed with water to encourage the colours to run together.

Also added some of the gold paint.

 

Here I mixed some of the red paint with Gesso to create a chalk type paint.

The one thing that is very noticeable with these is the depth of colour and how quickly and easily they cover the surfaces you put them on.
I have normally used distress inks to colour card and paper but these water colours are much quicker.

Definitely will be trying these out with more techniques soon but now I'm off to see what everyone else is up to.

 

Have a great week and happy woyww,

 

Angela x

Roses are Red? Not always, this one is Orange!

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

And here is my fourth design for :
That Craft Place Challenge Blog.

Hope you will pop over and join in the challenge and have a look at what my team members have made to inspire you.

As usual this fortnight's theme is:
Mixed Media Anything Goes!
So can't go wrong there!
And here is my project completed.

 

Stages in Making.

 

Love! Love! these, both are from

That Craft Place.

 

Started by applying dimensional paste through the stencil onto the MDF tag.

 

 

I put this on quite thick as you can see.

 

 

 

Once the paste is dry cover the whole tag with Gesso or white acrylic paint.

 

Next, prepare the die cuts for the flower.

I used the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals for this and some pieces of Graphic 45 paper left over from an earlier project.

 

 

The best tutorial for making these is to be found at Ink On My fingers.

This is the blog of Hels Sheridan and well  worth a visit.

 

I finished this by glazing it with Glossy Accents by Ranger.

It reminds me of the roses in the garden when it's rained, other than that I just like it!

 

Here you can see most of the things I used to make the flower.

If you look closely at the plastic jacket on the Spellbinders die, you can see the reflection of me taking the Photo

(sorry not very interesting really).

The Graphic 45, Distress Inks, cords and ribbons are all available from That Craft place (Bricks and Mortar shop) or (On Facebook).

 

 

At this stage I went back to the tag and painted it with Cosmic Shimmer, Matt Chalk Paint and left it to dry.

 

 

Next stage, add more crackle this time using the Cosmic Shimmer Crackle Glaze. Lisa at That Craft Place stocks lots of Cosmic Shimmer paints and mediums.

Spread a fairly thin layer in position and allow it to dry before going over with the cream paint.

 

Once the paint is dry you can see the crackles, at this stage I added some dry brushing over the tag to blend the design a little.

 

Here you can see me preparing the embellishments I used. Did these with another Tim Holtz die and blended over the card with wild Honey Distress Ink.

 

I continued by adding further colours of paint and then stamped and heat embossed this with silver embossing powder.

To complete the crazy paving, I replaced the stencil and rubbed over it with Treasure Gold gilding wax. If you like a clean finish, this is the way to do it.

 

I rounded off come pieces of the Graphics 45 papers to create my dots and placed them on the design using Cosmic Shimmer Glue.

 

These are some of the colours I used for this piece.

 

And so we get to this stage when I thought I had finished!

 

But I just kept looking at it and decided to add these.

 

So that's it really for this project and I hope you will pop over to see what my DT mates are up to and to join in the challenge at

That Craft Place blog.

 

 Leave me a comment if you have time, I will always visit you back if I know where you are.

I look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge.

Click here to enter.

 By for now

and

Happy Crafting,

 

Angela xXx

 

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

 

Our Creative Corner

Mexico Moods

Bright orange with a background of cracked stone.

 

That's Crafty!

Purple Passion

Which I've used in my background.

 

Crafty Card Makers

144 # Anything but a Card

It's a tag!