DREAM Book Cover

The challenge over at Crafty Individuals is BRIGHT and BEAUTIFUL so I thought I would get in touch with my more feminine side for a change.

I decided to create a book cover from a sheet of canvas.  The image I thought was perfect for the BEAUTIFUL side of the challenge, plus she appealed as she has red hair just like me LOL.  The image is from a post card that Crafty Individuals sent me with an order so I have image transferred her onto a piece of Calico and added this to the canvas.  The canvas sheet was coloured with lovely BRIGHT colours using DI worn lipstick, mustard seed and spiced marmalade as I felt there was a real ZING to these three colours.

I gathered a piece of fabric and machine sewed this into place along with some co-ordinated wool fibres. I added a lovely brass heart charm to the centre of the fibres to add to that romantic feel. My flowers are once again from GERRI, thank you, a perfect match for this creation.  DREAM was added to the top of the cover using an alphabet set from Papermania.  The stamped floral images at the bottom are from Crafty Individuals CI-262 again stamped onto a piece of canvas using coffee archival ink.

I enjoyed making this piece and it made a lovely change to move away from my more grungy side for a while.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to comment, much appreciated.  Enjoy your week, Tracy x x

Handsome Hares

I thought I would have another try at Art Journaling for my 100 Proof Press DT piece this week.

I decided to use the Large Handome Hares (a favourite of mine from 100 Proof Press) along with the Angle Pocket Watch for my journal page. The background has had Gesso applied and then been coloured with Distress Inks tea dye and vintage photo and then had water spritzed over the top to blend the colours and to give some splatters. I have used the Time Travel Crafters Workshop template to add the clock images, again using Distress Inks vintage photo and black soot.

The Hares have been coloured with Distress Ink and then I have added water with a paint brush to remove some of the colour from the handsome jackets, giving white highlights.

I have coloured a piece of white card with DI vintage photo and stamped the Angle Pocket Watch onto the coloured card with black archival ink, cut out the images and then added to the top of my page.  I have added HANDSOME HARES using an alphabet set of stamps from Papermania and added the dictionary definition of Hare to the bottom of my page.

Handsome Hares has been hand written with a Pitt pen around my clocks.

Mmmmm may try this Art Journaling again!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and thank you all so much for the lovely comments regarding my DT position with Creative Expressions, I appreciate them all.  Tracy x x

The Beauty Of Dreams And Blowing My Own Trumpet

I have been using the colours over at The Play Date Cafe as my inspiration for a card this morning using images from Darkroom Door.

This is our weekly colour inspiration and not ones that I can say I have ever used before so this was an interesting challenge, if only to see how the colours worked together and I am quite surprised that they all blend beautifully.

My card is 6" x 6" and I have cut panels 1.5" in width and 6" in length to fit my card and embossed each strip with an embossing folder and sanded the raised areas. I have added a stamped floral image from Darkroom Door which I love and works perfectly with this weeks colour palette. My lime flower was from a blog candy win from Gerri, THANK YOU just what I need for this creation. All my stamping including the sentiment, again from Darkroom Door have been stamped onto BASICGREY papers.

I have distressed all the edges to my card and stamped images using Tim's paper distresser.

I also had to take this opportunity to BLOW MY OWN TRUMPET, well someone has to LOL.  I was absolutely thrilled to receive fantastic news at the weekend, I am now officially a new member of the CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS Design Team, they are a fabulous manufacturer and distributor of the latest craft products and I am looking forward to working with the team.  I would like to thank everyone at Creative Expressions for this opportunity.

Thanks so much for stopping by and indulging me as I blow my own trumpet.  Enjoy your week. Tracy x x

The Altered Alice Chapter 6 Challenge: Painting The Roses Red!

'A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go splashing paint over me like that!'
 -- Chapter 8, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

The cards were painting the white roses red to avoid angering the Queen of Hearts, so your challenge is to use PAINT on your creation! Of course you can paint it RED like the Design Team will be doing, but you can also use other colors. You need to tell us what item was painted, what technique you used, and give us a mention and a link of course!

We are sponsored this month by Creative Inspirations [Store | Blog], makers of wonderful shimmering paint which comes in almost 60 colors, including clear iridescent Fairy Dust. They also carry hot fix Jeweled Inspirations and Metallic Inspirations;  The Altered Alice Design Team will be using Garnet paint, a bright sparkling red. The winner of this month's challenge will receive five colors of their choice.

The background on my card has been coloured with Distress Ink and splattered with water to give the effect of paint splatters. My character is cut from one of my Alice in Wonderland books, I thought he was perfect for this months challenge.

My roses have been painted with red paint from Creative Inspirations, with one rose still awaiting the red paint to be applied by the gardener. I have added the text from the Alice and Wonderland book and a stamped text piece using an old PSX stamp.

I also created a second piece using papers from BoBunny and images from Artistic Outpost.

I also created a co-ordinated tag.

Be sure to enter by 11:59 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC -4:00) on Friday, August 26. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced the last Sunday of the month on August 28. I always enjoy looking at your creative pieces which you can link HERE at The Altered Alice blog.

Thanks for stopping by, Tracy x x 

BIRD Song

I have had a few hours to myself today so decided to take the oppotunity to create a little something for Simon Says Stamp and Show a TAG and Grungy Monday using Tim's technique HERE. I decided to create a tag card.

The first side of my tag folded card has the Caged Bird, cut using Tim's Alterations die, but of course I could not cage the bird so I set him free, breaking a couple of the cage bars. The cage has also been embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder to give the appearance of wood.  I cut a flower using the Tattered Florals die from kraft glassine which I absolutely love especialy when you scrunch it up before cutting your flowers, it looks great. I have added a metal wing charm to the centre of my flower and one to the bottom of my cage along with a bird cage charm. My tag has been coloured with DI vintage photo and I have used Tim's technique throughout the tag.

From this angle you can see the folded tag in more detail and the added dimension throughout.

The inside of my tag highlights Tim's technique a little more and I love the sentiment which is a new purchase. I have added a large wing cut using a Sizzix die from music paper to represent BIRD SONG. The small acrylic bird charm is one of Darcies and I have added fly to its wing along with a crown embellishment. I have added BIRD to memo pins along with some music ribbon to the bottom corner.  The mini bird and cage complete this side along with a copper key and small wing charms.

FLY has been added to one of my wings using Tim's Alpha Parts.

The back of my tag card has a second large wing and the aperture I had left over from cutting the mini bird and cage.  This time I have added the word SONG to memo pins and a large wing embellishment to my wing.

I have really enjoyed making this piece and love how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.  Enjoy your week.  Tracy x x

POPPIES

I've been using the Opium Poppy and Calendar Blocks from 100 Proof Press to create a couple of cards.

I have used Tim's Ornamental die as the background piece and stamped the Calendar Blocks in the background and added the Opium Poppy over the top with archival ink. I have added gold beads to one of the poppy heads for added dimension and texture.

I have added POPPY to jump rings and added a bird using Tim's mini bird and cage set.

I created a second card with the same image, both of which were inspired by the colour palette over at The Play Date Cafe.

I have added the Opium Poppy to the inside of my second card.

POPPY text, heart pins a bird and bow complete my creation.

Thanks for stopping by, Tracy x x

Sizzling Halloween

The Stampotique challenge is to use Red, Yellow and Orange in our artwork, so I have decided on a sizzling HALLOWEEN card.

I have used Stampotique images Halloween Cube, Tree and Swirl Stalks (all available from The Stamp Attic).
My background has been coloured with DI fired brick, spiced marmalade and mustard seed, applying the colour direct from the inkpad and spritzing with water to blend the colours.  I punched out 9 squares from the coloured card and stamped each square with an image.

I have added letters to copper jump rings, adding glossy accents and added to my card along with a skull embellishment.

To complete I have added the images to co-ordinated card stock.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy what's left of the weekend.  Tracy x x