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Tuesday 28 April 2020

Start Something New for That's Crafty

Hi Everyone
I hope today finds you all well and staying safe. This is just my regular Tuesday post to let you know that I am over on That's Crafty blog sharing some art and this weeks make is an altered art piece.



To read all the details just jump over to the blog HERE.
Have a great day
Love
Amanda X

Sunday 26 April 2020

Day 30

Hi Everyone
Hope that you are all ok. Over here in the UK I read today that we are on our 30th day of the current lockdown which prompted me to record that in my art journal. 


This had been a part finished page in my Dylusions A5 journal for at least a couple of years but leaving just the stamped houses I totally changed the colours of the background with acrylics paints and just kept reaching for different stencils and adding to the background using several stencil techniques along with a mixture of mediums which included acrylic paints, Decoart paint misters, Dina Wakley gloss sprays and archival ink. The female image I cut from a magazine and added to the page. 
Stencils used are mostly That's Crafty Stencils but I have used AALL & Create as well. 
I seem to be getting an urge to create in my art journal prompted by the current coronavirus situation across the world I suppose because it it fuelling so many different emotions for us all for many different reasons. 
Stay safe everyone we will get through this
Love
Amanda X

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Snarky Box for That's Crafty

Hi Everyone
Today, as it's Tuesday, I'm sharing some art over on That's Crafty blog and for this weeks make I have an ATB (artist trading block). I have also used more of the fabulous new stamps from Carabelle Studio designed by Kate Crane to make this fun, snarky box.




To see each side in full and read how I created it, you just need to pop across HERE

Have a fabulous day
Love
Amanda X

Sunday 19 April 2020

Tag Play

Hi Everyone

Hope that you are all having a lovely weekend.  I'm sharing with you today a tag I have made for no other reason than because I can. My arty motivation has been somewhat lacking these last weeks and other than creating my weekly DT piece for That's Crafty I haven't really felt like doing anything else. Having finished my DT make for this coming Tuesday I decided to continue to play, just for fun and have created a tag using some stamps that have been gathering cobwebs, not literally lol.


I had some gelli print scraps that were really of no use so I glued them onto a black tag and added some machine stitching to link them together. 
The image is from my collection of Teesha Moore stamps that I've had years and I remember first seeing them used and then spent months tracking them down from the US, I should really use them more considering the trouble I went to getting them but ownership is part of the fun in fact sometimes I think that's the most important thing and using them is secondary lol.
The quote is from Inkadinkado, another collection of stamps that I had to track down many years ago and is from a wood mounted collection, I can't remember the last time I used a wooden mounted stamp. 
The stamping on the circles are all from AALL & Create.


Whilst not my best piece of work it is at least a piece that I have made purely for fun, something that has been lacking for these past weeks if not months.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy what's left of Sunday
Love
Amanda X

Tuesday 14 April 2020

Freedom For That's Crafty Blog

Hi Everyone
I hope you enjoyed the sunshine over the weekend and are staying safe. 
Just a quick post to tell you that I'm over on That's Crafty blog sharing my regular Tuesday make and this week I've gone all rusty and grungy and have had a first outing with Tim Holtz embossing glazes.



To see it all and read the how to details please just pop across HERE

Have a fabulous week and stay safe
Love
Amanda X

Tuesday 7 April 2020

Art Journal Play for That's Crafty

Hi Everyone
I hope you are all doing ok in the current situation. That said I'm fine but my crafty mojo is another thing, I've no idea where that's gone. So for this weeks post over on That's Crafty blog I have an art journal page to share with you, it's one of those pages where I had no idea where I was going with it, just played till a direction found itself.



 For all the details just pop across HERE

Have a great day and stay safe
Love
Amanda X