Guest Designer......

Thrilled and Delighted to be asked to Guest Design 

for this Fun yearly event, organised by the lovely Loll....

Loll is always inspiring, always so helpful and one of the nicest blog friends....

Hop across and join in the fun...
12 Tags Of Christmas...

Your tag must be a mixed media Christmas Tag.

Any style or any size, which includes stamping, plus two mixed media elements, 

which can be techniques or products.....

This is my Tag.....

The background has been sprayed with several colours of Lindy sprays 

and stamped with gold text.

I used a stencil for the two black poinsettia and black paste.

The large poinsettia has been stamped, heat embossed and water coloured.

After adding a lacquer to it, the colours re activated and
I had to use a cocktail stick to re emphasise the veins and expose 

the gold embossing.

This created a lovely texture and quite a life like poinsettia.....

Yey .....to Happy Accidents....

The edges of the tag have heat embossed frantage around them.

The centres of the flowers are green Novo drops.

Again ....re-activating the sprays, so they where done quite a few times!

In the end I used black acrylic on them first and then the drops,

which thankfully worked.

I finished with some splats and hi-lighting with a gold and sparkly pen and brush.

I had so much fun making this tag and learning about what re-actives with what....

Thank you so much Loll for the privilege of guesting today....

Come and join in the fun 

and be inspired by Loll and the other amazing guest designers.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would love to enter....

Country View Challenges - Stencils

Stamplorations - Anything Mixed Media - Except a card

Update....Top pick at Stamplorations....Thank you so much x

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Challenge Anything goes with the twist of a Tag

Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media - Tag

Delighted to have won with my tag....Thank you so much

Craft Stamper - Take it Make it Challenge - Anything Goes and you must use a stamp

Sending Love and Hugs.....

Inspired by the sketch over at CAS(E) this sketch....

to make my card.....
The guest designer is TaeEun and she was inspired to do an alcohol ink background
and that was good enough for me.....

I rotated the sketch and this is what I came up with......

I enjoy playing with alcohol inks and learning how to control them a little better.

I used several colours, with blending solution and a puffer.

The vein leaves have been stamped and white heat embossed.

I have not heat set on glossy card before, in case it bubbles 

but it played really well.

It took me ages deciding what to do with the 'end' of the sentiment strip.

Sequins, novo drops etc and in the end I stamped the end with the leaf...Happy...

I finished off with gold embossing powder around the edges of the card.

I enjoyed the sketch very much, as I thought it lent itself to the alcohol inks,

which I enjoyed x

Thank you so much for stopping by, I really do appreciate it.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would love to pop my card into....

CAS(E) this sketch by Leigh Penner number #246
Thank you for the Honourable Mention x

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge

Addicted to CAS - Leaves

Craft Stamper - Take it Make it - Anything goes and must use stamping

What if I Fall?

Today's card has been inspired by Loll over at 

Stamping with Loll...

Here is a video link to The Splash Water Colouring Technique...

This technique would be great for backgrounds 

but I wanted to try it in a different way.

As soon as I saw, a new to me technique, I'm in....

I started by cutting a stencil with a die cut 

and then had fun splashing my distress inks, 

drying in between, which the masking paper did not like and kept creeping up...

 I popped the fairy mask on and hi-lighted the wings firstly with gold acrylic paint.

I then spread some gold  stickles onto my mat 

and using a paintbrush hi-lighted further. 

I always forget to use the stickles this way.

I stamped the crackle effect at the bottom of the card and heat embossed in gold,

finishing with stamping the sentiment in black first and then gold on top.

I have had this sentiment a little while and not used it

but when I got this new die, I thought they went so well together....

I was quite surprised that I only had some seepage, 

especially with the masking paper creeping up.

I had fun with this technique and thank you Loll for the inspiration to give it a try.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would love to pop my card into....

Stamping With Loll - Splash Water colouring Technique Challenge 

CAS Mix Up - Stamping, Glitter and my choice....

Heat embossing, die cutting, masking, stencil and The Splash Technique.

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge - Anything goes without the optional colour twist

The sentiment stamp is Stamplorations

Water Cooler Wednesday Challenge - Gail's Feminine Anything Goes

Craft Stamper - Take It Make It Challenge