Butterflies & Tags

Hi everyone! A big thank you for dropping by to read

my blog. As always with my work this piece has 

the odd clock face I think its an obsession 

now. I started with a black tag to which

 I glue some craft paper.

I then applied grunge paste with a metal spreader or

scraper down the centre of the tag.

 I allowed this to dry.

I think there may be many!! photo's of this one. 

I put grunge paste through the Tim Holtz cargo stencil 

down the left hand side.

To the top right I put grunge paste through the ledger 

stencil from CW

Out of thick black card I used the Tim Holtz pediments 

dies to cut out the topping on the tag.

I used old brass square and round sequins to embellish

 the top centre next to the clock.

The butterflies were stamped onto craft card they are

Tim Holtz stamps from the field notes plate.

They were clear embossed, then coloured

 with blue gelleto's and covered in rock

candy distress stickles.

The cargo numbers and ledger were coloured with geleto's 

and brushed gentle with treasure gold. 

The base of the tag I used the stamps from Tim Holtz 

Apothecary and steam punk plates.

The clock faces are from the artistic stamper 

time and keys plate.

The top was rubbed with treasure gold and a small clock 

was stamped on magnolia card and then a brass ring

used and filled with glossy accents. The ruler 

was stamped onto white card and is an

 indigo blue stamp.

Everything was backed onto craft card and holes were punched 

brads and eyelets used to fix the brass chain. the sides were

distressed with Vintage photo and black soot.

I hope you all enjoyed this post & don't feel

 shy let me know what you think.

Cheers Dee x

Measured Time

Hi everyone! here's a sneaky peek at a two part piece

 for the Artistic Stamper you can pop over to their 

blog, to see how.  Click on the logo on the right

hand side of this blog.

Thank you for popping by feel free to 

leave a comment.

Dee x

Gothic Icons

Hi! hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend. I had these frames in 

my stash so decided to do a project with them.

Firstly I stenciled grunge paste through a stencil.

I did this across all three stencils so the stencil pattern would

flow or line up once they were hung.

Once dry I used fresco paints over the entire frame.

Again once dry treasure gold was used to highlight the

texture.

The images were done using the same technique as my gothic lady

post.

Sorry lots of photo's.

From different angles

I have had a job fitting all three in one photo.

No kids around to show me how!!

That's it from me for today thank you for popping by

and taking time to read this post.

please feel free to let

me know what you 

think.

Dee x

Earl's

Hi everyone here is a sneaky peek at my latest project

for The Artistic Stamper design Team Blog

so why not pop over and see how.

Thanks for popping by you can access the blog by clicking on the 

logo on the side of my blog.

Happy Stamping!

Dee x

Time In Blue

A really big Hi! to all my lovely new followers and

 the same for my old followers. this is going 

to be very photo heavy post.

The blue looks radio active in some of the 

photo's.

Of coarse, I have had to have a clock or two.

Firstly I covered a small canvas in cut out card that had been

embossed with a Tim Holtz texture fade.

I had Die cut the large tattered floral and fixed it to the canvas, 

along with the clock again a Tim Holtz die.

I covered the whole canvas in gesso, then painted in a mix of stone and 

lake wanaka and dried. The top left and bottom right

 was covered in Deco Art Media Carbon black 

Antiquing cream

 which was knocked back once dry.

I covered over the panel with masking tape. 

I then sprayed tattered angles

Glimmer mist in various 

shades. 

Of blue and green.

Once happy I then removed the masking tape 

from the panel.

Which was then painted with a mix of  Bora Bora, 

Space Cadet and Snowflake Fresco 

Finish and

Clock was again the small pocket watch die from Tim Holtz

the outer frame gold embossed.  The stamp for the 

clock face is from my stash.

Once the centre panel was dry I then stamped The main lady from 

 Lynne Parrella collection 028.

A close up of the flowers.

I then stamped the middle piece of the panel with 

another image of the same plate 

and gold embossed.

And of coarse loads of treasure gold and Rub and Buff.

Well that's it for today thank you so much for

stopping by. Please feel free to leave

a comment as I enjoy reading 

your feed back.

Happy Stamping!

Dee x

Its A Boy

Hi everyone thank you for popping over to read my blog.

My neighbour has just had her first Baby.

So I have made them a card that I will share with you.

Firstly I painted the base with distress paints in weathered 

wood, sage, pumice stone and scattered straw.

I then covered some card in distress inks and stamped the teddy in black archival ink.

I stamped the letters in black archival and cut out I edged faded jeans and used a paint brush

Dipped in water to blend. 

Well thats it for today thanks for reading please feel free to leave a comment.

Happy stamping!

Dee x

Artistic Stamper BBQ's Make & Take

 Hi everyone thank you for popping over to my blog.

At the weekend I went down to the Artistic

Stamper Anual BBQ which was a 

Brilliant day.

They had various designers there including the very talented Jo Firth-Young, and

Mark Gould who were doing free Make 'N' Takes.

Well Mark Gould designs for Deco art paints and was demoing the new media 

range they have very high pigment paints and antiquing cream sorry 

 if I haven't spelt it right.

Started of with the Prussian Blue Hue mixed dried and white antiquing cream 

brushed over. Knocked back with a cloth.

Once home i used the the Medium grey around the edges and knocked back.

Dries then applied black soot and sealed with matt decoupage.

I die cut Tim Holtz heart and wings set and coloured with fresco finish paints.

Die cut an arrow and stamped a clock onto some chipboard.

I fixed a couple of metal embellishments to the top right.

So a very big thank you Mark and will defiantly be using this medium 

in the future. great if you could leave me a comment 

as I enjoy reading your feedback.

Happy Stamping.

Dee x

Journey of the butterflies

Hi everyone! Here's a sneaky peek at my next piece 

for the Artistic Stamper Creative Team 

Blog.

Pop over to The artistic stamper design team blog

by using the link on the side of my page.

Happy stamping!

Dee x

Jo firth card

Hi everyone this is my last card 

sorry for the delay.

Distress inks 

Jo firth young stamps

Fresco finish paints

bright red spray sticky fingers inks.

I hope you all enjoyed my week of cards 

I look forward to reading 

your views.

Dee x