Foxy card

Hi guys,

The last few weeks has been super busy. I had the great joy of going away on a retreat to the beautiful North Stradbroke Island where I enjoyed three days of crafting and eating with some amazing women  and I made four amazing creations.... however this is what I made when I got back home :)

Today I have a card to share with you.
The digi stamp is by polkadoodle stamps and is called Mr Foxy.

I hope you guys like it... Until next time.

Clarinda xx

Dusty Attic Challenge - July mood board

Hello guys and girls!!

Well it has been ages since I have posted up on here and I really want to make it a more regular occurrence, so I am looking into entering some competitions.... This is very exciting and a bit nerve wracking as I have never done anything like this before.

So first up is the Dusty Attic challenge for July. I absolutely adore the colours in their mood board, and as I am a major Dusty Attic fan anyway, I thought this would be super easy, lol.

Ok so here is my take on this. The photo is from when I was at Uni and I was asked to cut the Harmony Day cake to celebrate cultural diversity.

I used a sheet of paper by American Crafts from their confetti collection - I am a bit of a paper hoarder so will often pull out papers that are from some ago. The orange flags were from the bottom edge of the paper.

I stencilled the design using modelling paste. I then made the flags and ribbons and added flowers to match. The Dusty Attic chipboard I used was Geometric Border which I cut to fit and embossed.

I then added sequins in turquoise and silver to finish it off. 

I hope you enjoy my first ever entry to a challenge!!

Till next time,

Clarinda xx

Pretty Layout

Hello everyone!


Below is a layout I made for my daughter, Jocelyn.


The first this I did was choose the photo and the paper. This paper is by Lemoncraft. I then stamped randomly around the page with a music themed stamp using brown distress ink.

I then tore up an old page from a music book into strips and glued it down using a thin coat of 3D matte gel. I then used a mandala stencil and white texture paste to create texture to under and around where the photo would be. You can see in the photo below, while it was still wet I carefully dripped some pink ink into the paste to die it and added glitter on top.

Next, using Lindy's stamp gang's Moonshadow Mist spray in Violaceous Violet I dripped the ink from the top of the page. I love these sprays as they look vintage brown from one angle then when you tilt the page they have a shiny secondary colour, this one is purple (you will see it in other photos.

Once this was done and while it was drying I picked out some emphemera to match the colour scheme. I then inked all the emphemera with Walnut stain Distress Ink and Colorbox chalk ink.

When it was all dry I moved things around until I was happy with the layout and stuck them down with 3D matte gel. I wanted flowers coming out of the jar of hearts, so I stuck down some leaves and an emphemera flower as the base.

I then added flowers over the top. I wanted the hearts to stand out so I glued some tiny gold hearts onto the jar as well.

To finish it off I distressed the edges of the paper and added extra prima flowers.

I hope you enjoy my layout as much as I enjoyed making it.

Hugs

Clarinda xx

Using stencils to make a card.

Hi Guys,

This month I have been playing with stencils. I hope you enjoy the card I have made :)

I began with a blank craft card and my stencil is called favourite lace by Joanna Sheen. I always write the names of the stencil on the stencil so I don't forget what they are.

 

When I am stencilling onto a piece of card that is smaller than the stencil I like to tape it all down so that it doesn't move around. I use washi tape to do this as it is easy to remove and doesn't damage the paper.

I used three different dimensional colour pastes to do this - Dazzlers - lemon drop; Color burst - tangerine dream; and Myartc - platinum. They were applied with a spatula. The Myartc is grainy and dries rough with a beautiful shimmer that looks like it has tiny glass beads in it, where the other two are smooth and glossy.

You can see here how the washi tape held it nice and still so I could get good coverage with little mess.

While the paste was still wet I smoothed off the edges, then I allowed it to dry. Once dry I decorated it with cut cardboard, one piece in white which I stamped and then I stamped a happy birthday stamp onto white cardboard and cut it out. 

I layered these and attached with foam tape to lift them. I then added flowers and ribbon from my stash using Prima 3D dimensional paste.  And here is the finished card......

Thanks for visiting.... See you next time

Clarinda xx

Shabby Tags

Hi everyone,

I hope you all have had a fantastic and safe Easter!! I am back at work now after a lovely and relaxing short time off work. I have been really busy the last few weeks so I apologise for not posting anything for a while. My eldest daughter just turned 18! I can't believe I am the mother of an adult...

So, as I haven't crafted in a while I thought I would have a play with the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks and see what I could come up with. This is the result.....

I used the Oxide inks to create the backgrounds. Once dry I stamped them and hand painted the images using a range of acrylic paints. I then allowed them to dry and stamped Tim Holtz sentiments on each card. Next I decorated with sticky back crystal flourishes and ribbon.

Thank you for visiting,

Clarinda xx

Easter Greetings

Hello everyone!!

The biggest belated HAPPY EASTER greetings to you all. I have been super busy and have not had a lot of time to craft *sad face*... but I do have something that I think is beautiful to share with you today and another that is going live on Friday....

This is a page from one of my journals. This one was painted a couple of years ago and was one of my very first journal pages. I was painted freehand without even sketching first. I love how it turned out..... Let me know what you think......

                                    

The beautiful butterfly's were decoupaged using paper napkins..... some of the flowers and dandelion were painted from flowers in my garden.

                              

I hope you enjoy my creation.... Please leave me a comment and let me know :D

Clarinda xx

We are all mad here!!

Hello peeps!

Welcome back for another instalment! I have a fun layout to share today and something that you don't see everyday. I spent New Years in Las Vegas, which is an amazing city. Even more amazing was this photo that I took of the lawn outside Caesars Palace. Just in case you can't quite work out what is happening, they are literally "painting the grass green".... It reminded me of Alice in Wonderland, painting the rose's red....

I began with a beautiful piece of paper by Fancy Pants - Charming which I stenciled  using Prima modeling paste. Once dry, I used Brusho in olive green and lime green and sprinkled them over the stenciling. I then sprayed with water till I was happy with the result.

Again I needed to let it dry... I helped this along by using my Heat it tool by Tim Holtz. Next I hand painted the chipboard using Dylusions paints. 

I then layered different washi tapes in a criss cross pattern under where I was going to place the photo. I also stamped and cut out the mushroom image using a Dylusions stamp set - Doodle parts. I had used it as a mask for a journal page and really loved the green leafy pattern that was left on it. I thought it fitted in well with Wonderland theme so I layered it under the title. I then roughened up the edges of the page and added some 'bling' in the way of sequins.

I hope you enjoy my layout.

Till next time

Clarinda xx