New Lavinia Stamps Challenge Starts Today - "Add some Gems" !!!

Morning All

Well where did that Month go..... It's March already and the evenings are getting so much lighter, it will soon be Spring, Yippee !!! I do love Spring one of my favourite Seasons !!!.....

Anyway today is the start of a NEW challenge from Lavinia Stamps......" Add some Gems "......

You could win a Voucher worth a WHOPPING £40 to spend in the Lavinia Stamps Web shop.....
http://laviniastamps.com/

Please visit our Lavinia Stamps Challenge Blog and see the super inspiration Art Work created by the Design Team and get creating your entry so you can to enter into this Month's Challenge !!! http://laviniastamps.com/blog/lavinia-stamps-challenge-3-add-some-gems/

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Here are my two Cards I created for this Month's Challenge and I hope you like them..... I also love creating cards using the Lavinia Stamps as they take me to the Magical Fantasy World with all the Fairies.... Yes your right she's away with the Fairies, Haha ha !!!

My first Card below I used "Fleur" to create it...... I fussy cut her out and decoupaged the pieces onto a stencilled background and the colours I used to paint her and the flowers with using the Distress Pens in Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw and for the Green on the Fairy Wings I mixed the 2 colours together.....

Well here she is..... Meet Fleur !!!

For my second Card this time I used the beautiful "Lilly" Stamp and onto again a stencilled background I repeat stamped Lilly and then coloured the flowers in using various Pinks, Purples and Lilac shades in Distress Pens..... You can see I do love these pens very much !!!

Well here is my Lilly Card.....

Nearly forget on both my cards  I added some gems so don't forget to do this !!!

Really hope you have enjoyed taking a look..... so get creating your own cards and go on enter it into the Challenge as you never know you could be this Month's winner !!!

Enjoy creating and see you again soon

Love to you all and thanks for stopping by

Marianne xxx

Bleeding Tissue ....Oh Boy was it messy !!!

Evening All

Yesterday I went off for my monthly fix of Eileen's Workshop..... Boy do I wish this was weekly !!!

It really was a good day we played with Bleeding Tissue and you may ask what's that...... Well Eileen spotted it on a Children's Site and it took her fancy so she tried it and there our February Workshop was born.....

Bleeding Tissue is a Tissue Paper loaded with Ink / Dye once it's made wet the colour bleeds from the tissue..... We all loved it and all the Ladies made some stunning Art Work which if you go to Eileen's Blog you can see some of their work......    http://eileenscraftyzone.blogspot.co.uk/

Anyway..... I made the background using various die cut pieces of Bleeding Tissue in two layers..... 
The first layer needs to dry before going on to layer up the second layer. Then with a couple of Sweet Poppy Stencils I layered the background and then stencilled the main focal image and isn't she just so beautiful !!!..... I love this stencil so much !!! I then stamped the sentiment and heat set it so it didn't smudge. I then hand finished it with some White, Black, Orange and Gold Pens........ and my Canvas was finished and I am really pleased with it...... Think I must away to make another one now.....

Hope you enjoy checking this out and don't forget if you want to see some beautiful Art go check out Eileen's Blog !!!

Nighty night xxx

More Coasters.....Lol

Morning All

Woke up really early today and was wide awake not knowing what to do so I thought I would share my latest set of Candy Box Crafts Coasters with you. I have made these again for Oyster Stamps so they can display them at their Shop and Shows.

This time I used Designs By Ryn - Sea Creatures Set 1 and 2 and also the Rising Bubbles from the Water Effects Unmounted Stamp Set. I coated the Coasters with 2 thin Coats of White Gesso and then I gave them 2 Coats of PaperArtsy Fresco Paints. The Colour I used was Snowflake which is a beautiful White and it then gives me chance to use a Stencil to layer over the top with pale colours so it isn't too dark for me to stamp over and colour the images with Distress Pens........

See you again soon xxx

Hobby Art Workshop - Oh what fun we had !!!

I went to the first workshop of 2015 for Hobby Art and I really had a good day......Such a wonderful bunch of people......Jenny and her Daughter Becki and her Son Pete and the Team are just so lovely and we all had a great time..... Met up with a couple of friends Doreen, Michelle, Karen and Fizz just to mention a few...... Here are the cards I made and also a little Printer Tray Booklet...... I loved making the little Printer Tray Booklet as it involves a lot of fussy cutting which is right up my street.

All coloured with distress Inks, Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers which are to die for and Distress Markers my favourites......... Hope you like my makes....take care and I'm now off to make some more sample......Enjoy your Day !!! xxx

New Lavinia Stamps Challenge Starts Today - "Bright and Beautiful" !!!

Hi All

Today is the start of a NEW challenge from Lavinia Stamps......." Bright And Beautiful "........

You could win a Voucher worth a WHOPPING £40 to spend in the Lavinia Stamps Web shop.......

My DT projects features the following stamps......I have used Zen Flutterby and the Zen Mini Stamps on my first card.....My second card I used the beautiful Extra Large Harieta Stamp. On both my cards I stamped in Archival Black Ink and the coloured using Aqua Markers...fussy cut out and decoupaged to give a 3D effect, then I used a glitter Gel Pen to enhance.......

 Please visit our Lavinia Stamps Challenge Blog and see the super inspiration from the Design Team and get crafting!

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Back soon... with more things to share with you.

Thanks for strolling over to my Blog today.
Marianne, Lavinia Stamps DT Member xxx

Still can't believe I am doing this but here are my first Month's Challenge Samples for Lavinia Stamps and I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I loved creating them..... This is the first on many and I do so love taking a stamp and fussy cutting the images to decoupage them and using bits to make other bits that enhance the card...... Enjoy !!! xxx

Now off to make some more.......Whoopie !!!

Just Finished........ Octagonal Coasters using Designs by Ryn Rubber Stamps "Faeries"

Boy....... never have thought that I would get this all done today....... not 1 post but 4, just how good have I been, lol...... I promised a few that I would do this so here you all are my last post for today, I promise........

I started this set once again for Oyster Stamps as they are at a Craft Show in Exeter next Weekend......
I have finished these just in time and will get these into the post first thing tomorrow so they can take these with them to display on their stand......Just hope they like them !!!

Oh and I hope you do too !!!

Thanks again for popping by and I may leave it a few days till I post again otherwise you may get fed up with reading my waffle, lol xxx

Marianne xxx

 

 

More MDF Coasters using Designs by Ryn Rubber Stamps....."Flowers"

This is the second set of MDF Coasters that I made and these are for Oyster Stamps and I have been so lucky to have been given a place on their Design Team !!!

On these I have used a variety of colours and have used my Tim Holtz Distress Markers to colour the images once I had stamped the images on the Coasters.......

I like these a lot and hope you do too !!!

Thanks for stopping by today

Marianne xxx