A vintage beach scene....

....for today's Creative Expression make.....

A nice simple monotone make, simply stamp the two figures.....'Beauty and the Beach' and 'Treasure Seeker' onto a piece of white card using Pumice Stone distress ink. Then using a damp paintbrush pull out some of colour from the stamped line, adding more colour where necessary by picking up ink from your craft sheet. Continue until the image is painted and then blend a bit more Pumice Stone around the edges using cut 'n' dry foam.....

Mount onto a piece of white card leaving a narrow border. Then take another piece of card slightly larger and add some Pumice Stone just round the edges. 

Wrap some woven hessian style ribbon and some white seam binding around the middle of this piece and then mount onto a white card blank. 

Then mount the picture onto this using some 3D glue gel/silicone.  Add a bow and some stamped seagulls to finish .....stamped and coloured same way as main image.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your week :)

Donna xx

This weeks piece....

....for That's Crafty is a tag the full details of which can be found on the That's Crafty blog.......thought it was appropriate on the weekend following the commemorative events to mark the 70th Anniversary of the D Day landings, there was certainly a lot of Bulldog Spirit shown at that time........

......Lest we Forget

Donna xx

More birds and....

....a cool use of your Gelli Plate. Here's another of my samples for today's launch of the bird stamps by Sheena Douglass.

So background for this was just distress ink and a bit of faux bleaching and then I simply stamped, coloured and cut out elements from the new bird stamps and from the Always Floral set.  

However the bird on the stamp sheet faces right and I wanted another one to face in the opposite direction. Now I know you can use a brayer to get a reverse image but my gelli plate was sitting on the side so I thought I'd use that.  Firstly I inked up my stamp with Memento and stamped it onto my gelli plate.....

Then I laid on a piece of card and pressed firmly and then peeled off the card and hey presto I had my reversed image......

As you can see from the picture below there is a slight difference in quality of line but not enough to be worried about and by the time its all coloured you can't really tell the difference at all. 

See you again soon,

Donna xx

Another little birdy number...

....featuring the new Sheena Douglass bird stamps which will be launched on Create and Craft on Friday with shows at 11am, 4pm and 7pm........

....it started out as a plain wooden screen which I painted with gesso. Then when that was dry I lightly painted it with a couple of colours of Silks, now the Silks do dry quite quickly but before they were completely dry I used a slightly dry baby wipe to wipe off some of the colour to let some of the gesso show through. I used elements from the Ageing Beautifully set and the big swirl stamp from Flying Colours to add some more interest to the background before adding the birds and flowers.  I stamped these onto tissue, coloured with Spectrum Noirs, lightly painted the reverse with white acrylic and then glued in place.

I'll be back tomorrow with another little peek at one of the sample I've made for the shows.

Donna xx

Do you like bird stamps???

.....Well Sheena's got two fabulous new stamp sheets out at the end of this week.  Some great birds.....I'm totally in love with the 'chicks' stamp.....and some great words and quotations as well. Here's an oval MDF hanging I've created as a sample for the shows on Friday 6th June on Create and Craft.

The plaque was painted with distress paints and stamped with the crackle stamp from the Ageing Beautifully set.  I stamped the birds, branches, flowers and leaves onto Neenah card and coloured with a mixture of Spectrum Noirs and Promarkers before adding some extra depth of colour with Spectrum Noir pencils.Then it was just a case of stamping the quotation and then gluing everything in place. 

Don't forget to tune in to the shows on Create and Craft this coming Friday at 11am, 4pm and 7pm......if Sheena's around there's bound to be lots of lovely dems and tips and my fellow Inkoids have created some gorgeous samples so make a date in you diary!!!

Donna xx

Summer Fun Tag....

.....using one of the stamps we got given to 'play' with for our June pieces for Creative Expressions.  The little girl on this tag is called Beach Bucket Bliss...

The little girl was stamped, cut out and painted with distress inks... 

Then I embossed a piece of white card using the Lighthouse Couture Creations embossing folder and then trimmed it down and shaded with distress ink.... 

I mounted this onto a large tag cut from a bit of recycled corrugated cardboard packaging. Glued the girl in place, added a few stamped seagulls and some words and then finished it off with a bow.of mesh and seam binding.

Donna xx 

Workshop....

....I'm going to be doing a workshop for Keep on Crafting in Bury St Edmonds on July 19th.  Going to be doing a door hanger using texture paste, paint, stamping etc.........should be lots of fun, so if you're in the area why not come and join us.......booking is via Keep on Crafting's website.