My Top three and Two of yours

 A card for a friend this was the most viewed
post on my blog
Compass

This piece was the second but actually is now the most viewed.

Gothic lady

These are my three favourites

Butterflies and Tags

Steampunk

The little book of Halloween 3

Well a big thank you to all of you for following my blog this year

I hope to be back blogging more frequently soon.

I would love to know which ones are your favourites

please leave me a comment on your favourites.

                                                                   Happy New Year 
                                                                      Cheers Dee x

Artistic Stamper Top Three

We have been asked by the lovely Jennie at The Artistic Stamper to 

pick our top three

These are my Three

Copper Birdz

Measured Time Part Two Time flies

 & finally The Book Of Halloween

If you pop over to www.theartisticstamper.com

the full details are on the blog.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Don't be shy leave a comment.

see you in the new year!

Cheers Dee

Old Copper Chest

Hi everyone I am sorry its taken so long to do a new post but

I have been crazy busy at work. I hope you 

think it is worth the wait.

I received the lovely Deco art products and for any of you

who have not tried these you must as they are amazing!!!

The antiquing creams and media line mediums are the best the results you 

can achieve with them really appeal to my style of work. 

Firstly I wanted a wash so I watered down Raw Sienna in a mini mister

and sprayed it over the card, I repeated this with watered down 

Burnt sienna from the Decco Art  Media line range.

I used a mix of stamps from my stash Tim Holtz classics, La Blanche, Art Journey,

and a background script stamp.

I coloured in the images with watered down Phatholo Turquoise, Quinacridone Blood Orange,

Interference gold from the media range and white. finally sealed with

 Deco page matte Medium.

Firstly I got a cardboard chest from a craft shop to which I glued black card 

that had been embossed with a swirl pattern.  I then applied Media 

crackle paste to the edges and into this i pressed small glass beads. 

Next I gave it a coat with gesso and allowed to dry.

This was followed with a coat of copper from deco arts dazzling matallics range.

Once dry i covered the chest in Carbon Black antiquing Cream knocked it back with a damp cloth and coated it with Deco page Matte medium. This was followed with Patina antquing cream.

I wanted to highlight the detail again so dipped my finger into the copper paint and 

rubbed the paint gently over the surface.

One last coat of matte medium.

I attached the clasp to the front.

I am very pleased with the result this truly is an amazing product.

I hope you have enjoyed this project and forgive me for the delay.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year. Thank you all for your 

support over the last six months,  I hope that you all continue to follow me

 into the new Year as your support is what drives me.

As always please leave me a comment or two.

Cheers Dee

Trio of Christmas Tags

Here is a sneaky peek at my latest project for the Artistic Stamper

creative team blog.

Pop over to see the result.

Please feel free to leave a comment or two!

Cheers Dee x

Beads

Hi everyone glad you have popped by I am very busy at the moment in 

my proper job so my post's are going to be a bit hit and miss

over the coming weeks. 

 I have always like home made beads and wanted to have a go 

at making my own.

 This is photo's of my first

attempts.

I am very pleased as they look very hippy.

I think I will be able to use them as embellishments.

This is a close up.

and another!

Well That's it for now. I would welcome your feedback 

to let me know what you think. As always please 

feel free to leave me a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

Wooden Christmas Wall hanging

Hi all this is a sneaky peek at my project over at the 

Artistic Stamper Creative Team blog.

Pop over to the blog to see how I created this project.

Please feel free to leave a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

Compass and Cogs

I bought myself some new Tim products and had a play

this is the result.

I used Deco Art paints and Tim's crocodile stencil.

I have a cog die that cuts the most amazing cogs.

these I embossed.  

I stamped the 'A' stamp of Tim's classic plate on to my

 textured beer mat.

this had been painted with deco art paints.

I stamped the compass onto white card and glued

 it onto the beer mat. 

I stamped the 'A' onto deco art painted card and ripped 

it and glued that onto the beer mat.

Treasure gold was applied to the textured piece's

Three brass sequins from my stash were applied to the 

right hand corner. 

Deco Art crackle paste was applied around the edges, 

painted then knocked back with black.

I hope you all like it. Thank for popping

 by please feel free to leave a

 comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

So Sorry!

Not sure what has happened here think it must be little gremlins  in my computer that have re published an old blog. so sorry this is old but still amazingly good of course!!

       A brief discription

I am thrilled to confirm I am one of the lucky ones chosen to join the artistic stamper creative team call out. I have waited until this could be announced by Jennie on her blog and as this is my first time doing anything like this, so please give me feed back if you feel there is any way I can improve my blogging. Below are a few cards that I have done in the past, as a sample of my work. As you can see I am partial to the odd dragon fly and clock and this is still true of my recent work. A good friend of mine discribes my work as elegant grunge.

Enchanted Christmas 'The Holly Fairy'

Hi everyone I hope you are all well! I have a Christmas fairy for you

 today. 

The background for this was very simple and only used a few products.

I used delusions spray in ground coffee and a sprinkle of brusho

in Prussian Blue.

The Fairy is a Papermania stamp from Enchanted christmas the

Holly Fairy this was stamped in Stazon ink.

I also used the small ripple stamp from Art Journey, which I inked up 

with Chipped Sapphire distress ink and lightly stamped.

liquid pearls in platinum was used over her dress.

The ribbon on her dress was Painted with interference gold from Deco Art 

Media fluid acrylics range.

Deco Art Media Crackle glaze was applied over the top. Two self adhesive crystals 

were fixed top left and bottom right. 

 I am going to enter this into 

The Fantasy challenge at Art Journey. 

Please feel free to leave a comment or two.

have a great weekend

Cheers Dee x