spring has sprung over at tando.

A big thank you to Gez who post her lovely project yesterday to help me

out as we had lost our internet and I couldn't load up

my post. Pop over to the Tando blog to see the how to.

That's all for today folks thanks for popping by.

Cheers Dee X

Kate Crane inspired art Over at The Artistic Stamper

Hi Everyone I have for you today a sneak peek of

my latest post over at The Artistic Stamper.

It is inspired by Kate Crane's art work,

Why not pop over and check it out also the dates of her 

workshop. 

That's it for today folks.

Cheers Dee X

Anything goes over at Tando

Hi everyone Dee here with my next post over at the 

Tando creative Blog & For those of you

 who were at ministry I apologise that you 

are seeing this piece again.

Why not pop over to the Tando blog and join in with
 this months challenge,

Cheers Dee x

Saturday Afternoon's play

Hi everyone had a play yesterday afternoon after coming back

from Ministry of Mixology and had a lovely time

using Kate's technique's.

 I was very lucky to do the running in her class on the Sunday

so listened very carefully and hoped that my mind would 

behave and remember how she created her

note book.

I must add that in itself is no mean feat as my family say I 

have a memory of a goldfish "How Rude" I alway's think

 while secretly agreeing with them.

 But luckily while waiting for my train home from Coventry 

I jotted down the steps.

 Kate gave me a page from the notebook that she had been demonstrating 

to the class for me to refer to how lucky am I.

So now I have A Any Skinner original and a Kate Crane original 

in my art room.

Well that's it for today hope you like my efforts I think it might

 be a bit busy but I like it anyway and loved the creative

 process it is very therapeutic.

Cheers Dee x

Watercolours Over at Tando

 Hi everyone Dee here with my piece for this weeks challenge

use water colours over at Tando Creative. 

Thats it for today why not pop over to the Tando blog to see the
step by step and join with us in the challenge.
Cheers Dee x

An Altered Box For The SASPC Challenge

Hi everyone Dee here with my latest post for the SASPC monthly 

challenge. I have an altered wooden box from left over

Christmas Confectionary.

I started by gessoing the whole box followed by stencilling the 

words & pattern to the corner of the lid with with modelling

 medium next a coat of black acrylic paint.

Once dry I applied weather wood in area's this is done to increase 

the size of the crackle.

Next a coat of crackle paint all over the cover and put

aside to dry

Meanwhile all the Boozybear pieces I coated in powdered rust.

apart from the clock which I used Deco Art texture 

sand paste on.

I left the numbers untextured and coated it all in a coat of Paynes Grey

and Raw Umber Deco art media acrylics,

Once the crackle paint on the box had dried and crackled I applied

very watery washes of Prussian Blue Hue till I was happy 

with the colour.

A further wash of Andy Skinner's dirty wash was applied over the top.

I set the rusty clock on a background of a circle and painted it with

Tourquoise and covering in Deco art Liquid glass.

Inside the box I used about 5 different techniques one would

develop into the next then the next till I was happy 

with the result.

You can just make out the stamps that are used on the base of the

box prior to being painted with crackle paint.

Prussian blue hue was spritzed and run down the sides.

It was all finished off with treasure gold. I hope you have 

all been inspired to join us this month

the challenge is anything goes.

That's it for this month from Sandee & Amelie's
steam punk Challenges.
Cheers Dee x

Triple Embossing with Dee

Triple Embossing with Dee

CAUTION THE MOLTON EMBOSSING POWDERS MAY BURN YOU.

1. Swipe your substrate/card with embossing ink then pour your chosen powders over the area.

2. Tip the remaining embossing powder back into its pot & heat set your embossing powder with your hot air gun until melted.

3. Follow the above steps with chunky clear or ultra thick embossing powder.

4. Follow the above steps again with your base colour this will be your final layer of embossing powder.

5. Ideally you will have picked out your stamp that you want to emboss with and will have inked it up with a pigment ink pad I tend to use versa fine.

6. For this step you need to heat the embossing powder until it is molten you will be able to see this and working quickly press your inked stamp into the molten embossing powder & allow to cool prior to peeling your stamp off.

7. If working on a substrate it might be best to paint it or colour it with your chosen medium.

As promised Cheers Dee x

Distress Elephant.

Hi everyone I hope you are well I have a sneak peek for you on

my latest post over at the Artistic Stamper.

Why not pop over to the blog and see how I made this card.

Thats all for today folks hope you like my card please

feel free to let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

AS Distress challenge

Hi everyone Dee here with my latest post over at the Artistic

Stamper for this months Challenge Distress.

So with this in mind I used some of The Artistic stampers

 new stamps and a old background Stamp.

I seem to be having a problem with centralising my 

words. I used the distress splatter tool.

It all looked to pale for me so I sprayed with vintage photo

distress stain spray.

A little triple embossing and a sprinkle of white embossing 

powder.

Distress marker in spiced Margold was

used to colour in the flowers.

That's it folks.

cheers Dee

1 stencil 2 stamps 3 flowers by Dee

Hi everyone hope you are all well Its my turn

over at Tando creative.

here is a couple of photo's.

Pop over to Tando to see how I created 

this piece.

Cheers Dee x

anything goes

Hi everyone Dee here is a sneak peek at my latest post for

Tando Creative.  This weeks

theme is anything goes.

Why not pop over to the blog and join in with us.

Cheers Dee x

Kiki

Hi everyone I have a new project over on the Artistic Stamper Blog.

Why not pop over and see how I created this piece.

Its an unusual twist on the Neil Walker Kiki stamp.

Cheers Dee x

Anything goes over at SASPC

 Hi everyone I hope you are all well and joining in with us
over at SASPC

this month for a chance to win some seriously

awesome mixed media supplies.

 I have a journal page/spread (new to me but seem to

be doing a lot of them) to inspire you this month.

This layout was inspired by France pappilion and an article she did 

in craft stamper magazine.

So I started with a layer of Deco Art gesso, a layer of gel medium, another 

layer Of gesso on card. 

Next I took my heat gun and heated the mediums till they bubbled 

up and created a lovely texture.

 I used black modelling paste put through a 

distressed harlequin stencil.

The above pic shows the tag with my acknowledgement to France Pappillion

 for the inspiration I got from her art. 

I sprayed the surface with distress stain sprays till I was happy with 

the results

While the black modelling paste was still wet I used powdered rust

A stampers anonymous classic script stamp inked with black

archival ink and stamped randomly over the two pages.

Vintage photo distress stain was used to colour a piece of 

cheese cloth. 

Treasure gold in spanish topaz was used to highlight

the bubbles created by the heat gun

Deco arts black modelling paste was used through a CWS 

Some ideology tissue tape was used under the dyed cheese cloth.

a few die cut cogs were used to finish off.

Thank you for popping by today why not

 come and play in a world of 

steampunk.

Cheers Dee x