It's never too late..

Happy weekend! 

Hi, Gez here, it's my turn to share a creation with you today.

This weeks theme is metallic.. 

I've taken inspiration from the changing seasons.. the [Spoonful of GOLD DUST] encrusted glitter and flakes by Stampendous adds the perfect golden/metallic sparkle I was looking for my [Straight edged large arch] although it's been really mild this week in the North West of England the leaves are falling!

I started out with a [Straight edged large arch] 

and painted it with a coat of gold metallic paint.

The sentiment was stamped and distressed onto a plain piece of cardstock then added to the arch.

Leaves from the [Mini - Leaves 1] set were painted and spritzed with gold spray to add shimmer

 along with leaves from leaves from the [Leaves - 2] set.

These mini's work perfect on greetings cards too!

 

 Once dry enough to handle the leaves were added to the arch along with the oh, so gorgeous [Spoonful of GOLD DUST] glitter and flakes for a finishing touch..

 I hope you like my decorated arch..

 

Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance.

 Happy Autumn/Fall if you are in the northern hemisphere. 

Gez xx

Owl Birthday Card

I made this card for our colour theme:

I mixed some of the ~{White Modelling Paste}~ with 2 drops of ~{Titan Buff Fluid Acrylic}~ then put it through the ~{Mini Brick Stencil}~.

I painted 2 of the ~{Mini Owls}~ , a leaf from ~{Mini Leaves 2}~ and a flower from the ~{Mini Flowers}~ with acrylic paint. All of these and other minis are reduced in price at the moment ~{here}~.

Once everything was dry, I used watercolour pencils and paint pens to add details, before finishing up with a stamped greeting.

Kaz xxx

Flower Power with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends!

 Welcome to Tando Flower power week. 

 Today I am going to share a wooden altered board that was made with a lot of Tando products and some techniques I tried over this altered piece.

The bare wooden board was painted with  green paint and then I added  Long Flourish Tando mask and some special shiny paint made with pigments and gel medium. This was an experiment and as you can see this paint works perfectly over the regular acrylic painted board.

The half of Tando Iron gate  was painted with white gesso and then distressed with a bit of black/grey paint over the dry white gesso. 

The chipboard flowers and leaves were painted  with the same gel medium paints as the masked swirls and I just added some bling centres over them.

For this project I used Two Paper Divas Life's little sayings  is wonderful stamp set to make a statement over this altered project.

Tando products used for this project:

Tando minis- Flowers

Tando minis- Leaves 2

Wrought iron gate small

Long Flourish mask

Art ATC

For my ATC I've done one a bit differently to how I usually do them.

I started off sticking some plasterers tape, book pages and texture paste through the ~{Dotted Star Mask}~ randomly on the ~{ATC}~ then gave everything a good thick coat of gesso. The best thing about the ATC's is that you can load them up and they don't curl up like card does.

I then added little hints of colour over the base using the Pitt Big Brush Markers, my newest love.

I've painted 2 leaves from ~{Mini Leaves 2}~ and ~{Mini Leaves 3}~ and a heart from  ~{Mini Hearts}~, then dabbed white acrylic paint over the top to make them paler.

I then stuck flowers onto the ATC with gem middles and added lots of white paint over them. Once everything was dry (and it took a while as I'd really put it on thick) I added a couple of drops of spray ink using the stem of the spray and added a tiny bit of water to spread the colour out a bit.

Finally I added a little bit more pen and blended it out and some lettering.

Kaz xxx

Brown and Black card

This colour week was a real challenge for me as it's black and brown. It seems I don't have any brown paint!  I could have sworn I did, but I couldn't find it so I had to improvise to make this card:

I started off with my new favourite stencil ~{Grid Round}~, then painted 2 leaves from ~{Mini Leaves 2}~ and a  ~{Mini Butterfly}~. I've stamped the leaves with  white paint and the butterfly with a text stamp. I added more paint over the text stamp as it was too bold.

The tag has been assembled with text paper and a flower and stuck over some washi tape. I then went mad with white and black pens and a greeting stamp.

Kaz xxx