Frosty Autumn

Hello everyone!

     
 Last month I was thrilled to be chosen as the winner of the Left of Center challenge 'Use something metal'. The creation I entered in the challenge was the 'Wings of Love' altered matchbox. As the winner I was asked to make something as Guest Designer for Left of Center challenges for their new challenge which is -

No Designer Papers

I am still caught up in the Autumn mood here and I can't wait for those beautiful frosty days! So I would like to share with you a very Autumnal tag with a subtle frosty tinge that I made this challenge.......

      I wanted to use the Tim Holtz Clockwork stencil and decided just to have a mess around with some Autumn colours.

    I applied Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs and Antique Linen to the mat and spritzed with water. Then after doing a bit of wrinkle free distress I had a gorgeous pale brown speckled card. I decided to keep it quite pale because I was going to add more detail as I went along.

      Then I used the Clockwork stencil dabbing Vintage Photo around it.

   I dabbed a text stamp with Potting Soil archival ink and applied it randomly around the tag.

     Then I stamped some leaf shapes onto a piece of card using Gathered Twigs, Fired Brick and Rusty Hinge DI and then cut them out. Then I stamped on these leaf shapes with my favourite script stamp in Potting Soil Archival Ink

      On the tag I stamped some of the same leaf shapes in Gathered Twigs DI. I then used a hedgerow stamp and but did this with the Potting Soil Archival ink for a more vibrant effect.. After this I dabbed some Walnut Stain around the edge of the tag to give it a very grungy look. I thought it then looked a bit 'flat' and too dark....so to give it a further grungy look I spritzed the tag very lightly with White Dylusions spray - which is my new crafting best friend - the effects it gives are amazing!

      I curled some rusty wire and draped it along the tag, attaching the leaves which had been given a coating of Rock Candy Glitter glue.

      The label was cut from mount board and covered with Vintage Photo DI. The word Autumn was a Chit-Chat sticker, again inked with Vintage Photo.......

     .......and two copper screw style brads attached it to the tag.

           The tag was finished off with raffia and twine

            I hope you will pop over to the 'Left of Center' challenge to have a look at the wonderful DT work over there and perhaps you can enter too - you might be the winner and be Guest Designer for them too!

        Thanks so much to all of you for all your lovely comments and thanks so much for popping in to see what I have made...



              See you all soon!

 

Birthday Blooms

      It was my birthday yesterday and I had a wonderful day - my husband took me out for lunch and in the afternoon when the kids got home from school I got some presents! A few weeks ago I had sent my wonderful husband off to the PaperArtsy website with a wishlist - I think he looked at everything (he must have been there for hours!) I got lots of gorgeous stamps and my collection of Fresco paints has grown to the extent that I need shelves for them now!

   Don't tell anyone but I have been a bit naughty today....There are so many other things I have to do right now - but I couldn't resist taking just a few hours to sit and relax and try out just some of my birthday stash - so armed with lots of new stamps and a huge collection of Fresco paints, I decided to have some fun making something, a last bit of birthday celebrating........before getting back to work and life......

     Featured on the PaperArtsy blog this week are instructions to make your own tissue tape - well, I had to try that! So first things first got some Micro Pore tape and painted it with Pansy and Eggplant paint and stamped it with a PaperArtsy mini text stamp.

   I used a Kaisercraft album board as the tag and painted it with French Roast and covered with crackle glaze and then painted Nougat Fresco Paint over the top once the glaze was dry.

       I stamped all the images with black archival ink on tissue before sticking to the board

   After they were dry I painted the flowers with Pansy, Eggplant and Hey Pesto Fresco paint. I painted the text with very watered down Nougat paint because the black looked too harsh.

     I dry brushed Mocha Mousse and French Roast all over the edges of the board. Then I stamped some of the text stamp over the tag with black archival ink. It was 'missing something' but I wasn't sure what - I wanted more texture on there and on the stamp set was a little dots stamp.

      I dabbed some Nougat Fresco Paint on there and lightly dabbed around the tag. Then I added the same stamp but using French Roast as a contrast. I dabbed some Hey Pesto paint around the tag which had a gorgeous effect - because it is transparent it adds colour without covering any detail. So I did some light blending with a sponge and heavier streaks with a brush.

    I added the homemade tissue tape at opposite corners.

I finished this creation with a light dabbing of Nougat paint on a sponge - making sure the sponge was still quite dry, around the edges
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A piece or twine wrapped with raffia and a Dusty Concord DI dabbed rose was used to make the hanger and here is my birthday tag!

     Thanks for being here - I do hope you like it! See you soon!

 

I  would like to enter this in the following challenge -

PaperArtsy - Tissue Tape

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Show us a new style/ Show us something new - I used all new paints and every stamp on here was new...and to add to the firsts - I have never made my own tissue tape!

Anything but a card - Get Messy