Peace On Earth

Good to be Crafting again xx

Still need to enhance my blog but I am leaving it until I have more time......

And I shall be saving it lots as I do!

Update...
Thrilled to be a top pick at the Mixed Media Challenge at Stamplorations 
and 
Spotlight Artist at City Crafter Challenge...Thank you so very much x

I am so glad that I can join in with Loll's 12 Days of Christmas Event with this tag.

Loll and her friends have provided amazing tags for inspiration 

and there are stunning entries in the gallery.

http://www.stampingwithloll.com/2016/11/day-one-twelve-tags-of-christmas.html
Linky open until the 25th November

I had hope to enter the Stamplorations Tag Event however I had missed it ......

but thank fully it has been extended to the 28th November....

I started by stamping the poinsettia row from Stamplorations 

on the tag and then on a post it note for masking.

I popped a stencil over it and mixed clear embossing paste with gold mica 

to produce the horizontal gold lines.....icicles the wrong way!

I fussy painted the flowers with red and gold paint 

and stamped over it again using the Misti.

Frantage was heat set to add more texture, detail and snow like over the flowers.

The die cut sentiment also from Stamplorations was cut several times.

The tag has been layered and gold and red paint used on the edges.

The Mica and Paints really do look shiny.

City Crafter Challenge is Gold Finger ..............

So I will be popping my tag over to join there fun challenge 

as there is certainly lots of shiny gold on my tag x

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter........

Loll's 12 Days of Christmas Event - Mixed Media, to include stamping plus two mixed media elements.....I stamped the poinsettia, used a stencil, embossing paste and heat embossing, die cutting and Frantage....

Stamplorations Tag Event - Create a new holiday Tag

Stamplorations - Mixed Media Challenge- Anything but a Card and use a stencil

The poinsettia stamp and the die cut sentiment are from Stamplorations

City Crafter Challenge - Week 339 - Gold Finger

Stamplorations - Anything goes using their products

Explore....

Today's tag was inspired by .....

the theme of Travel at Art Journey...and Stamplorations - Mixed media challenge

I wanted to make the tag with a friends theme...

their travels, their journey, their exploring and their memories...

I have used distress inks, stencils and stamps on the background.

I have also stamped with white gesso and used clear embossing paste with a stencil.

I have used a white gel pen for hi-lighting

and heated copper frantage, which adds gorgeous texture and dimension.

Thank you for stopping by today, 

I have changed back to Blogger today (from Google+), so that I am no longer a no-reply blogger...

however...... as a result I have lost my google+ followers.......

So I will see what tomorrow brings.....

Need to think about this!

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Art Journey - Travel theme

Stamplorations - Mixed media challenge - Anything but a card and using a stencil 

Hugs.....

Today's card has been inspired by die cutting.....

I started by stamping the seagull scene stamp but masking off the top half.

I wanted to use dies instead of the seagulls flying, at the top of the stamp.

I heat embossed the stamp with white embossing powder.

The flying seagulls have been die cut with white card and inlaid back into the kraft card.

A bit tricky but I enjoyed doing it.

I have heat embossed Frantage shabby white powder around the edges.

The white fluffy cloud has been stenciled with white embossing paste

and a hint of white glitter. 

I popped on a few white frantage pieces and coloured the bottom sea gulls 

with watered down white acrylic paint.

I finished off with die cutting the Hugs sentiment in white and kraft card 

and inlaying it back into the card.

Thanks for stopping by...

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter....

CAS Mix Up - Stamp + Heat Embossing + Die Cutting + Stenciling + Embossing Paste

Happy Little Stampers - CAS - In Laid Die Cutting

Happy Little Stampers - Anything goes with die cutting

Memory Box - For the Birds

AAA Cards - Inlaid Dies

Tic Tac Toe - Right hand vertical line - Things that fly-White Space- Scene

STAMPlorations - CAS - Anything Goes

Life is an Adventure.....

I am delighted to be a Guest Designer at STAMPlorations ......

for their Sketch and Theme Challenge this month.

The Design Team is fabulous and always come up with the 

most original, creative and stunning inspiration. 

STAMPlorations have a very active Blog, if you've time pop across and take a look....

They also have great challenges, incorporating lots of different crafting styles.

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to Guest with you this month.

The Challenge for May is.....

Use The Sketch and....or The Theme

I have used the Sketch and the Theme...

This is my card.......

I have used 'Born to Roam' and 'True North' stamp sets for my card.

I have stamped, sponged, masked, blended, coloured 

and used Frantage heat embossing powder, which I love!

I had fun making the card and I thank you once again for the opportunity.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter......

CAS Mix Up - Stamping + Heat Embossing (Frantage) + Masking/Blending/Colouring

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I have gone for the diagonal line....Things that fly..Sponging.....Masking

Addicted to Stamps - Make Your Mark

STAMPlorations - On Going- Anything Goes using their products

Hero......

Today's card......

I was inspired by three challenges to make this card....

I started by using a couple of shades of red Brusho's and spraying water.

The boots where stamped in black ink ....I used water and a brush to take off most of the red.

The sentiment has been die cut and another layer of black foam added for dimension.

The bottom of the die cut sentiment has frantage heat embossing on it.

I love this stuff as it adds interest and is dual colour.

The black horizontal lines on the left have been stenciled and gold embossing added.

I was inspired by Simply Less is More challenge - Hero

And.....

Freshly Made Sketches 

and

Stamplorations CAS -Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs x

Coffee Lovers.....

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.....

I made a similar tag at the end of last year but wanted to make it again 

as a birthday tag, which holds a coffee credit card....

I have used stamping, stenciling, frantage embossing powder, eyelets, E/P, 

fussy cutting and die cutting on this tag.

The arrow points to the pocket that contains a coffee card with credit on it.

The coffee cup has been stamped and fussy cut out..

I have then stamped a 'Love' sentiment on it.

The frantage embossing powder gives the tag great texture and interest.

I think this is a novel way to give a coffee credit card and I hope you'll agree?

I had fun with this tag and it was much quicker to make this time ......

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter my tag into.....

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Stamplorations is a sponsor for the Coffee Lovers Challenge....

Stamplorations - Mixed Media Challenge - Anything but a card

Stamplorations - Ongoing - Never ending..Anything Goes

I have used Stamplorations Coffee Mug stamp and the Happy Birthday sentiment

Fashion ........

Today's Project.......

Took quite a few days to complete but I enjoyed learning what mediums re-acted to each other.

I wanted the project to represent France and this gave me the inspiration to use 

the colours of their flag...Red, White and Blue.

The background has been sprayed with several shades of Blues and Reds 

and some with Mica in them.

After masking the 'spotlights' I lightly brushed with Gesso, stamped with text 

and different sizes of butterflies in both blue and white.

The hearts on the left have been stamped, masked and heat embossed.

The Red hearts have been fussy cut, blended with red inks and hi-lighted with Glossy Accents.

The models have been stamped and hi-lighted with white gesso (several times) and a black pen.

I have used enamel powder with glitter on the top and bottom of the project.

The photo never does this justice as its so textural, bright, grungy and yet sparkly all at the same time.

So very messy to use and so worth it.

The 'Fashion' letters have been stamped, heat embossed, cut and layered up onto foam.

France...Paris...Fashion

Learnt lots with this project and had lots of fun along the way 

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter my project into.....

Stampinback - February Challenge is France

The challenge is through Face Book - Here is The Link

Mixed Media MC - Monthly challenge - Use Glitter

The Mixed Media challenge - Red-Option  Hearts

Stamps and Stencils -Splatter-Spritz-Smoosh - Anything Mixed Media

Tuesday Throwdown - Create your own background

Fun in The Snow

The theme over at Cardz4Guyz is ..... Fun in The Snow.

I am fortunate to be their guest designer again this week.

I was struggling with this one as I don't have Animal/People/Fun/Cutey type of stamps etc 

and haven't ventured into the Digi world, so I have come up with this idea.......

I made a templates with card to do the hills. They have been mounted onto foam to give dimension.

The blue embossing is Frantage Shabby Blue.

The icicles have been stenciled with glitter paste.

The clouds are stamped and Glossy accents added to them.

The snow ball has been covered with white puffy paint and heated...such fun!

The tag holder is parts of a cocktail stick, with silver embossing on each end.

The Elf's legs have been stamped and painted with starlight paints, which are super shiny.

The tag has been edged with silver EP.

The layout is a sketch from Happy Little Stampers

Crafty Hugs x

I am entering the following challenges....

Happy Little Stampers - Sketch Challenge

Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media Challenge - Tag

Mixed Media MC Monthly Challenge - Texture

Lisa B Designs - Christmas with Starlight Paints

Stag Tag........

I had fun with this one, using lots of different mediums.........

Here is my Stag Tag
Absolutely delighted, Amazed and thrilled to be a top three in Loll's Christmas Tag extravaganza-
How Lucky am I xx Thank you very much xx

I have used..........

Inka Gold in Platinum and Mint Green for the 'sky' and some of the flowers.

Starlights paint in Silver, Platinum and Menthol for some of the flowers, some of the leaves and the Stag, Wood embellishment.

Frantage Shabby Green and Shabby White for some the leaves.

Finnabair Snowflake Dimensional Paste for the snow Mountains.

Imagination Crafts Diamond Sparkle Medium for the shards of Icicles, through a stencil.

I liked how the Inka Golds blended when swooshed for the 'sky' and some of the leaves.

I also added texture to the 'sky' using a palette knife.

The Poinsettia flower and leaves have been die cut from Card, Mirror Card 

and Vellum to give different textures.

I drew in the pine trees and hi-lighted with a white pen.

The stag is a wood embellishment painted in Silver Starlights, which covered really well.

I popped in shiny beads from my stash to the centers of the poinsettias.

The corrugated card was finished off with silver embossing around the edges.

There's lots of texture, shine, different mediums, time and fun that went into this tag.

I loved the tone on tone colours of the tag and how the different mediums played well together.

I thought the Stag was looking at the star and was making a wish x

I wanted to show you this photo of the first background I did out of the Inka's...

It ended up looking like a scene, maybe a tree trunk on the left hand side?

Absolutely purely accidental after doing the swooshing!

Anyway....I couldn't use it as I thought I may use it another time as a starting point for a card?

I recently bought a Stag for Christmas and thought these where fun photos to pop on my post x

                               Crafty Hugs x

Loved this project and will be entering the following challenges...........

Stamping with Loll-12 Tags of Christmas Event

This is well and truly a Mixed Media Christmas Tag

Stamplorations-Mixed Media Challenge

Anything but a Card and Using a Stencil-I used a stencil for the Icicles

Mixed Media World - Anything Goes

Loved getting  inky and had fun making the tag

Happy Little Stampers-Christmas Challenge-Tag

Happy Little Stmapers-Mixed Media Challenge-Tag

Lisa B Challenge-Christmas with Starlights Paints