sheer indulgence...Tim Holtz style

Well I have been indulging in a little me playtime...more wooden houses and this time very Tim Holtz inspired... you know me well enough to know how much I love all my distress and Tim Holtz goodies but also how I have a teensy bit of a thing for idea-ology... okay maybe its a very large thing!

I have been playing with papers, some doo-dads that I managed to find and also the new photo booth...which I love and also the ephemera packs which are better than rummaging through a tin of chocolates.... and calorie free!..there's always a treasure in my box of ephemera pieces...I have emptied all my packs in and the vellum ones as well and its my little box of yummy!

So enough waffle here are my little houses for today :

Well they may be simple but they make me happy and that's what playtime is all about right? I covered all the houses ( thanks father in law for cutting from my scruffy sketches!) and then sanded and added tissue tape around the sides...so love this stuff!

I added some walnut stain distress ink around the edges and then added the ephemera and photos..spending a lot of time playing around with pieces until I was happy. All were scuffed around the edges and inked with walnut stain distress ink.

Finally I sealed the houses using decoart matte varnish .

So here is a close up of each little house :

House no 2 :

and last but not least this cheeky little chappy on house no 3 :

Well thanks for stopping by to see the results of my pure indulgence and playtime..! .. I have a few more houses on the go..so there may be more to see soon..

I would like to enter my houses into anything goes challenge @ a sprinkle of imagination  .
and Anything goes @ Mixed media world.

keep those fingers inky!

and thanks for stopping by x

trace x

some arty houses for creative expressions dt

well here I am again with another make for creative expressions  from the fab art houses set of stamps designed by Sam Poole. I have loved using these stamps they are so versatile for all sorts of projects and pop here for more fab Dt inspiration links.

So today I thought I would make a card, I know a proper grown up card! So here is my make :

as you know I love browns and blues together and also am hooked on splatting ( technical term ) my distress stains .. that and tissue tape which is another favourite of mine .. oh and some rusty wire crept in...couldn't help it!

So I started by colouring the base of the card with splats using my distress stain, broken china..such a yummy blue! then dried with heat tool.

I then applied ink using blending tool in broken china and frayed burlap and edged with walnut stain.

I also coloured another piece of card using the same method but added some frayed burlap splats too. When dry I stamped the great house image twice using black archival. I added some detail using distress markers and a waterbrush. 

 Then sentiment was stamped in walnut stain and cut into strips to fit card design and edged with walnut stain .
The hearts are cut and then coloured using same distress inks and I added some tape and some rusty wire.

I also added some tissue tape onto the card. I realised I do not make cards enough!

Hope you have liked my make , all supplies available from creative expressions liked above.

have a fun and inky day!

 

hugs trace  x