Just a little scrappen

I spent yesterday trying to make a few pages happen, but ended up so frustrated as I simply couldn't get my head around, working with bright colours.

I have new Photos of Holly laying on a bright green play mat and try as I might , I wasn't able to put a page together that pleased me. 

 I wonder if other people struggle to make a layout when they are working in bright paper.

So I ended up throwing my attempted page into " the too hard basket" and managed to make a few layouts with-in my comfort zone.

when I make " Off the Page " project , I don't mind how much time I put into them and happily fiddle around for hours or even sometimes weeks,

but when I scrap, my layouts are fairly simple and quick to do. So I am able to churn out quite a few in a day ( that's when I'm on a roll).

It looks as though I had a bit of a circle theme going -

so I'm not sure if this post is about the pages I did

 or the one I failed at miserably

but thanks for visiting

Jan

Collections elements

Here are two more projects , using the Collection Elements papers and transparencies.

My Dad-Inlaw makes wooden toys and often makes me little things from left over scraps. This little bird house is one of his creations. 

I embossed the paper and lightly inked and glimmer misted.
The base was was covered with ribbon (from Hobbysew) the flowers are Floral Embelishments by Petaloo. The clock face is from The girls paperie by Margie, the paper, Merchant collection 6x6 paper  and butterflies are from Collections Elements.

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I was struggling with what to do with my transparency sheet for quite a few days, after a chat on the phone to a dear friend ( my secret muse) she suggested making a canvas card..... so thank you again Marcia Smith , I think I would still be sitting here clueless if you hadn't helped me.

the chipboard was painted with black nail polish .... yes nail polish

                         and I burnt the edges of the music sheet.

I made the flowers by die cutting, then softening the transparency with my heat gun and shaping the petals in a jar lid. the brad in the center of the flower was also painted with black nail polish ( sorry the flowers haven't shown up well in the photos, but the drawing pins I used to hold things, while the glue dried, showed up a treat...oops). The edges of the canvas where covered with impasto and I used plasterers tape to imprint the corse texture, then they were painted with acrylic paints.

 I glued some old fly wire to acrylic ATC cover, and added a stamped polymer clay tile that I had made.

 I love the work from Altered Alchemy,  the jewellery and wearable art is so wonderful.

                                            so this is my "Inspired by"Altered Alchemy.

 This was a little project I made for a gift , with some metal elements and die cuts and a USB.

so again

thanks for visiting

Jan

My latest DT Pack ...

To say I was just a wee bit excited about my new DT pack, would be a wee bit of an understatement.

I'm not sure if it was a happy coincidence, or if my small obsession with butterflies was considered when my pack was chosen.....but I was over the moon when I peaked in my pack.

 I have wanted to decorate a print tray for ages, but never got around to doing one. I have seen  so many beautiful examples of altered mini trays of late , from the lacy romantic styles, to steam punk and eclectic collection shrines , so here is my version .

 I painted the tray with a mix of Pine green and Australian red acrylic paint ( this mix gave it a deep charcoal grey colour)
I used a different section of the Merchant collection 6x6 paper in each compartment of the tray,
 my fairies are from a vintage beauties collage sheet ( I have had these in my stash for a few years now and Im not sure if you can still buy them) and they are winged with Collections Rose butterflies,
 a Tim Holtz ideologies keyhole, some very old pen nibs from my stash and two metal butterflies , the smaller on is tucked behind a piece of the Calligraphy transparency.

 The " if you can dream" is stamped black polymer clay with a little "old gold" Rub n Buff
 and I tore the edges of the clay for effect.

 I really loved making my little book, it was a photo copy of  an old book cover ( scaled down on the home printer)and printed on some parchment paper - normal copy paper doesn't work as well as the parchment paper, to make the book to look convincing.
 I glued the cover to  a piece of cardboard , heavily distressed and inked the edges. Then made pages from a music sheets to fill the book.

 I used Dusty Attic Fancy corners and painted over them with Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
( Im still undecided weather I will use a little gold Rub n Buff on the corners yet) I wonder what you think .

thanks for visiting...

Jan

I cant believe a month has slipped by since I last posted anything

I cant believe a month has slipped by since I last posted anything. I haven't done a lot of craft in that time,

 just a few quick layouts to put into my  grand babies albums
and some little gifts for different people,
 so the blog entry will be a short one.

Riley's two layouts were made with plain white card-stock, which I stamped to add a little interest .

 Wetting the edges of the white card stock , I quickly ripped crumpled and rolled then inked.

 Placing it on patterned paper(which I had laying around in my stash , for far too long).

 The lollipop flowers in the "little Angel " layout were made from an old dress of mine ( I like to repurpose things, when I can)

Elizabeth's page was super quick

 as I used Cricuts paper lace for the back ground,

 so it was just press a button and all the work was done

and for this ,was a stitched on layer for the back ground,

punched lace and a few layered  flowers,

 again super quick to do

but I will add a little Nana brag with some photos of our beautiful grandchildren

Introducing Miss Holly Jayde, who is now two months old ( that may have a little to do with my lack of blog entries)

thanks for visiting

When its cold you think about chocolate

Today it was cold and raining and I was looking for something to do indoors, I rummaged around in my stash and found an old chocolate box left over from Easter . I thought the box was quite natty the way it opened, so I had " saved it for a rainy day" ( sorry that was terrible )

I rolled out some air drying modeling paste and stamped into it, then coloured the paste with some alcohol inks and then misted with black gold Tattered Angels. When that was dry I used a little black rub n buff



 In the center I used parts from an old belt , I had been hording along with some Kaisercraft  pearls and Prima Vintage Trinkets.

                 So what will I use it for ? To store my bling bits in . 


thanks for visiting
Jan           

My little book project

I thought I would add a few projects that I have done lately, this is a little altered book I finished a few weeks back.
I used a second hand book I found at an opportunity shop for .50 cents, the painted background was painted with acrylic paint, the chipboard gate is from Scrapware and the tree with the little bird house is also Scrapware, the gate was  embossed with copper embossing powder.
And the paper  is some of the Graphic 45 " Once upon a Springtime" collection

Up to now, I have had a " Blog Fairy" (which I am extremely grateful for) enter my posts, so this is my very first .. all by myself entry..so far , so good.
All I need to learn now is how to reply to comments and I might be able to enter this new blogging world
thanks for visiting
Jan

All dressed up .....

I started out by applying air drying modeling paste to the top of the form ( you could use impasto, but I wanted the imprint of the stamping to be bolder)  you don't need any special treatment for the modeling paste to adhere,  its fine to use straight onto the form.

Then with a silicon stamp, press firmly into the paste, I allowed about 15 minutes before I painted the paste with acrylic paint and allowed this to dry over night ( this gave the modeling paste time to dry out completely)

There were a few cracks that developed over night - that's not a problem, you just use a little modeling paste to fill them in so they are not so noticeable, then a quick cover up with your paint on the repaired cracks.

Next  I used gold rub'n buff all over the surface, then sprayed a generous amount of black/gold glimmer mist over the top of the rub 'n buff ( having the rub 'n buff under the glimmer allows the gold to show through the glimmer) , but if you want a bolder gold - glimmer first.

Next I dressed the form with the Glitz Design Afternoon Muse paper and handmade paper flowers.

Thanks for looking 
Jan