31 Days of Halloween - Day 9

Hi - thanks for joining in with this great month long blog hop!

So yesterday I promised I would be sharing snippets of a larger project and today is the first part of that.

I'm fairly sure you'll be able to guess what it is but today I'm only sharing a picture of these stamped tickets which I've fastened together with a Prima brad. When I was rooting these stamps out I was shocked to realise I've actually got at least 12 ticket stamps!! And there is another set I want too - I wonder if that signifies an addiction - lol!!

The tickets were stamped on white cardstock, cut/punched out and then coloured with Distress Inks.

Thanks for reading - I'll see you for more tomorrow - in the meantime remember to visit the other Wicked Bloggers. 

Stefanie x

Amazing Finnabair workshops

Hi, thanks for visiting :o)

As an extra post to the 31 Days ones I'm sharing this month I just had to share details of the wonderful workshops I attended over the weekend.

Sue Tucker (Art Workshops - on Facebook) had organised for this lovely, talented lady to share some of her techniques with us. I had booked my place on 2 half-day sessions months ago, and as the time got closer I was just hoping I'd be well enough to go (I have had some really bad episodes with the Fibro over the last month or so - but enough moping - on with the show and tell!!)

I'm sure if you are into Mixed Media and/or Scrapbooking you will have heard of Finnabair or at least seen her amazing creations.   If not, do please take time to visit her blog : http://tworzysko.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 you won't regret it and that's a promise!   She also has an online shop : http://www.mixedmediaplace.com/ that's well worth a visit.

The first workshop was titled Tea for Two and as well as gaining some understanding of how Finnabair builds up the layers of embellishments she also shared a way of using tea staining.   I've always loved how this looks but been nervous of trying it myself.   Finnabair is such a good teacher that she inspires self confidence and here is the result

I just love it!! I keep looking at it and can still hardly believe that I did that!! The photo is of my parents on their wedding day, and despite being one of the few photos I have of them together (my father died when I was 10) it has mostly lived in a drawer instead of being out on display.   I decided it was time to change that and so chose this photo to take on the workshop. It was a bit scary at times - all that ink and glue flying about (not literally) - but I'm so glad I braved it out! The colours fit in perfectly with my front room so this will be on my wall :o)

The second workshop was titled Imagine.   It was another amazing experience.   We worked with creating texture and more embellishments before turning to gesso and inks to finish our pieces.

Again I am stunned with what I managed to create!!  Little old me!!

So I want to extend a massive 'thank you' to Sue, to Finnabair and also to the wonderful fellow crafters I met. These are the photos showing some very happy crafters :)

Thanks for reading
Stefanie

31 Days of Halloween - Day 8

So it's the beginning of week 2 :o). Thanks to all my visitors for your comments - I will pop by and return the favour shortly.

Today I'm sharing another card - this time I've used a premade green card base which had three little windows.   I thought these windows were just perfect for sharing some more Dilly Beans images. I printed these off at the same size as the windows and coloured them with promarkers, then stuck them in place.

Across the front of the card I stuck two strips of washy tape and then layered a Tim Holtz die-cut '31' cut from glittered cardstock over that.

Short and sweet today as I'm planning a bigger project to share in stages over the next few days.

Thanks for reading :) please remember to follow along to all the other Wicked Bloggers who are listed on the blog roll on my sidebar.

Stefanie

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :

A Step in the Darkness - Challenge 12 - here http://a-step-in-the-darkness.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-12.html?m=1

And
Left of Centre - 3 or more layers - here http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-48-3-or-more-layers-with.html?m=1

31 Days of Halloween - Day 7

Wow - we're a week in!! I'd say well done for sticking with it but there's been so many marvelous makes on the hop it's probably not been that hard!!

Today I am sharing a Halloween/Dia de los Muertos door hanger.

It started as just a plain chipboard hanger, but here I've covered one side with StampinUp papers, and the other side is painted black.

On the papered side I've added a coloured MDF cat and ghost (from That Craft Place)  and a handwritten quote.

On the reverse I've added a digital stamp Sugar Skulls Stacked (from Dilly Beans) a small piece of washi tape and I've written Dia de los Muertos down the side.

As always, don't forget to visit the other Wicked Bloggers using the blog roll on my sidebar, have fun!!

Thanks for reading

Stefanie

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Hiding in my craft-room - challenge 168 - Halloween Colours - here:  http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2014/10/himcr-168-halloween-colors.html

Come and Get it Challenges - It is Halloween - here:  http://cagichallenge.blogspot.ca/2014/10/it-is-halloween-challenge.html

and

Corrosive Challenges - 209 Halloween Colours - here:  http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-209-halloween-colors.html

31 Days of Halloween - Day 6

Today I thought I'd share some more spooky ATCs with you, as everyone seemed to like yesterday's.

These have all been created using Stampotique stamps - I have to admit to developing a bit of an obsession with their stamps!

I just love their quirky characters :o)

These were all made for swaps within the Stampotique group on Facebook.   These are the ones I've received in return

Aren't they fab?!

As always don't forget to visit all the other Wicked Bloggers from the list on the sidebar.

Thanks for reading 

Stefanie 

31 Days of Halloween - Day 5

Hi - I was panicking that I might not get this posted! As I said in yesterday's post I've had a few days away - and had pre-written some of my posts but not today's and we had very poor Internet where we were (!) Luckily I did get a little colouring done - so when we got home earlier today I set too and wrote this.

I've chosen to use a Dilly Beans digital stamp - they've so many great images to choose from - luckily at the minute there is an offer on - 10 for $25 so I stocked up a little!

I've made this cute little monster into an ATC and after colouring just added a little black, die-cut bat :o)

I do hope you like him!

Thanks for reading (sorry just a short post!) don't forget to check out the other Wicked Bloggers, following the blog-roll on my side-bar.

Stefanie

31 Days of Halloween - Day 4

Hi - so here we are again! :o) Day 4! Hope everyone's enjoying all the projects!

Today I'm being brave and sharing my 2nd colouring project - if you don't count playschool - please be gentle with me!

The two images are digi-stamps, the witch was a freebie from Rick St Dennis via the Kit & Clowder Facebook page & the woods are from Delicious Darkness. This is them printed before I coloured them.

I printed them on some medium weight cardstock.   Initially I wasn't actually planning on teaming them together - I just print several images together to reduce wastage (although I still use all the snippets left over!) but after colouring the witch quite brightly I thought she'd look good with a darker background and the woods were just the right sizes.

I used Promarkers to colour the images trying out a bit of blending in the folds of her skirt the trees and the path. I know I've got a long way to go, but am fairly happy with the results.

Once coloured and trimmed I fastened her into place with some little 1mm foam pads I wanted to lift her slightly from the background.   I then placed this on some light green fibrous material (a bit like Tyvek or Spiders Web but more dense) which I'd stuck to a black base card. The green only shows as a small 2mm border but it seems to just work and tie it all together :o)

And there you have a little Halloween postcard!  

My posts so far have all been relatively simple as I'm actually enjoying a week gadding about with Phil who's off work until Monday,  but I didn't want to 

miss posting!! This is also the reason behind some delayed replies as I'm chasing wi-fi signals!  I'm planning come Tues/Weds I'll lift things up a little back to my usual messy altered art style - although I shall also share more colouring (I've taken some digi-stamps away with me!)

Don't forget to visit the other Wicked Bloggers - the list is on my sidebar.

Thanks for visiting - until tomorrow 

Stefanie