Finger Painting and Scribbles for That's Crafty

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Just to a quick post to let you know that I am over at That's Crafty blog today playing with Dina Wakley products

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Thanks for stopping by and have a fab day

Love

Amanda X

Bring on the Girls for That's Crafty

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I hope you have all had a fabulous Easter weekend.  

As it's Tuesday you'll find me over at That's Crafty blog today sharing some art and I have another ATB (Artist Trading Block) for you.

To find out more just pop over HERE

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week

Love

Amanda X

Elegant for AALL & Create

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I'm sharing with you today my latest make as a guest design team member for AALL & Create. I have a DL card for you this week.

I have used 1 stamp and 1 stencil, stamp #163 Elegant Peacock designed by Tracy Evans and stencil

#67 Brocken Circles designed by Autour de Mwa.

I started by creating my background with Distress Oxides

Picking the ink up from my glass media mat and then adding the detail of the stencil by using it as a stamp, adding the oxides to the stencil, misting it with water then laying it down over my background.

I then lightly stamped the image whilst it was in a stamping platform and leaving it in the platform painted in the 2 clock faces that are within the stamp.

Once the paint was dry I then stamped the image again much bolder this time using a Versafine Clair black ink pad.

I coloured the peacock using Zig real colour pens and added touches of foiling to add a little bling to him. Unfortunately I cannot seem to capture the foiling on a photograph which is a shame as it is quite prominent when you see it for real.

I then trimmed down the stamped area and matted it onto a piece of Tim Holtz foil card in a co-ordinating colour I then used the remaining background as another layer on the card. I stamped the word Elegant onto white card choosing just this section of the stamp to ink up and cut out to add to the card.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous Easter and I will see you all next week.

Love

Amanda X

I Lied .................... for That's Crafty

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And for this weeks post over at That's Crafty blog today I have completed another MDF ATB (artist trading block) which are great fun to decorate.

To find out all the details just pop over HERE to check it out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day

Love

Amanda X

Cherish Every Moment for AALL & Create

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I'm back this Thursday to share a mixed media piece that I have made for AALL & Create. For this piece I have used the A4 stamp #160 Pencilled Flower designed by Tracy Evans.

I have used a That's Crafty 6" x 6" MDF chunky to create on.

My piece started by creating some gelli prints in my chosen colour scheme and I have gone with a selection of pastel colours because I wanted it to have a light springtime feel to it.

I needed a couple of gelli prints to cover the entire chunky and did several pulled prints to be able to choose the best two. Once having selected my prints I stamped the image on both of the 2 prints. To stamp this large stamp I used a Versafine Clair ink pad, which for me gives the best transfer of the image onto the acrylic paint gelli print, I also used the A4 acrylic stamping block that AALL 7 Create have made to use especially with these large stamps. The acrylic block offers lots of flex to allow you to get a good print.

The next step was to cover the MDF chunky and line up the pieces so the colours matched and glue them to the MDF and trim the pieces once they were adhered to the MDF. 

Then comes the fun bit to colour the sections that I wanted and for this I chose to use some coloured pencils. I also wanted to add some texture and chose to fill up some the circles with co-ordinating seed beads which I added by first putting on some heavy matt medium and then sprinkling the beads on top. Needless to say this wasn't easy and I ended up with beads everywhere, I'm still finding them all over the place lol. To added further dimension and a different texture I added glossy accents to some of the other circles.

Next was to use the main flower and make it look like it was growing on the piece by making it 3D. I stamped the flower part of the stamp onto white card and cut it out. To make it mirror the flower on the stamp I used a piece of black wire to become its stem and then added it to the panel. The flower head and it's leaves are both covered in glossy accents. I decided to leave it black and white so it stood out from the panel.

I then doodled in every enclosed part of all the letters and number detail within the stamp on the panel to add a little contrast to the piece. I added some more seed beads to the bottom right side to add some grounding for the flower and edged the panel with distress ink. The final addition were the words "Cherish Every Moment" which are within the details of the stamp, so again I just stamped a section of the stamp that held this statement onto white card, cut it out, covered it with glossy accents and added it to the panel.

I love these A4 stamps to use as one large stamp or alternatively you can just use certain parts of them on your projects.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Love

Amanda X

Efilumps Never Forget for That's Crafty

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As it's Tuesday I'm sharing some art over at That's Crafty blog and for this weeks make I have a card for you using the Fabulous Elenazinski Art Eliflump stamps from Paperartsy.

To read all the details just pop over HERE

Have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Silly Hat Day

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It's my Dads birthday this Friday and what better excuse do I need to ink up 'The Professor' stamp from Tim Holtz, it's been hanging around for a while now unopened until today! 

All Tim Holtz products on this one. 

I started with covering a piece of white card with the collage paper Typography adhering it to the paper with vintage collage medium. Onto that I then swooshed it through vintage photo and cracked pistachio distress sprays. To build up the layers I stamped the cogs from the 'Inventor' stamp set in vintage photo distress archival ink.  I stamped the circle behind him with pistachio distress oxide and then heat embossed with clear matt embossing powder. The numbers stamped down the left hand side again using vintage photo distress archival ink are from the Mail Art stamp set. I then machine stitched all around the card.

I then set about stamping and cutting out all the elements to add from The Professor set. 

I also had my first cut with the Alphanumeric Label dies, now they are fiddly blighters, but well worth the effort I just wish I had got my L's straight and that's with the sticky sheets!!

Happy Birthday is from the Hashtag set but I cut off the # my Dad wouldn't get that. 

A couple of Idea-ology pieces, arrow and stars finish it off.

I've given him rosy cheeks to add a bit of fun to him, I actually think though that he's been on the Birthday sherry!

Thanks for stopping by I appreciate your visit

Love 

Amanda X

It's The Little Things for That's Crafty

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Time has been against me this last week so for this weeks post, over at That's Crafty blog, I had to resort to raiding my UFO (unfinished objects) box to create this week make.

to see fully what I put together from my UFO's just pop across HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous week

Love

Amanda X