Destination inspiration ...- its the small things ..sneak peak

Well it is my turn over at A Vintage Journey today to have the #3 post for the Destination Inspiration posts, these have taken on a new look and now each week of the month one of the team uses the same recipe and provides some inspiration , using that recipe.

So it is my turn today and the recipe is :

Product - Distress Paint

Substrate - Canvas

Technique - Grungepaper flowers (Vol 1 of Tim's CC3C Book, page 65)

Colour  -  Picket Fence

and here is my sneak peak

...I used two small canvas and joined them together to create a hinged piece, allowing me to design on the inside and the outside of the two pieces..so plenty of space to play!

If you would like to see the finished piece please hop over to A Vintage Journey to see all the details of how I created my piece xx

keep those fingers inky!

trace x

Painty pleasures for Country View Crafts DT

Well here I am with painty pleasures piece #2 for Country View Crafts challenge DT. There is still plenty of time to get playing with paints...So for this piece , it will come as no surprise that I went for Distress paints and that I went for browns...but I played a little more...so here is my make : ( not happy with this one but here it is warts and all!)

I wanted to see if the lovely spritzy effect could be created with the yummy denser nature of the distress paints so set about making myself some distress paint spritzers...and sure enough they worked! How cool is that...

I started with a mountboard piece...I know how very predictable..and set too glueing die cut pieces and adding embossed pieces and texture paste through stencils to create layers and texture...all covered with a layer of watered down gesso.

I then set too painting, spritzing and layering more painty and wateriness.

The sentiment was stamped on a piece of cardstock given a painty spritz...

The flowers were painted with painty spritzers too...

To complete the piece some rusty wire twists, some butterflies and some walnut stain ink and treasure gold around the edges.
If you want to join in all the painty fun then hop across here...there will be plenty more inspiration for the rest of the month too....

keep those fingers inky!

trace x

Valentines with a twist for Frilly an Funkie DT

Well it is half way through the next challenge over at Frilly and Funkie and the theme is valentines with a twist ... so here is the lovely Cec to explain the details :
We want to see vintage or shabby chic projects in the traditional red, pink and white but the twist is that there can be no hearts.

Reminder - to enter you must create a new project, link it below and make sure you add a link in your post back to this challenge. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to qualify. If you are chosen as our winner you could be invited to be the next Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie. There is also the chance to win a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique for one lucky entrant chosen at random. so here is my make using one of Linda's fab #10 tags :

Now as most of you know these are not me colours so this was a bit of a challenge and with the added twist of no hearts it was certainly a put my thinking cap on moment. But embrace it I did and here's how... I started by making the background for my tag by smooshing some sugar and picket fence distress paint together. then when dry I stamped the fab Tim flourish down the left hand side in picket fence, dried and then blended some distress ink across and flicked with water .

so now for the decoration..... I used one of Tim's blueprints and stamped in watering can archival and then scuffed the edges and added some ink in aged mahogany..and a bit of barn door for good measure!

As no hearts were allowed I went for lots of idea-ology and a love quote from a Tim set (love struck).

I also made some flowers from tattered floral die too...so here are some close ups of the details...

The seasonal chit chat stickers are perfect for adding whatever you want to say...I chose soul mate but there are so many words to choose from..

So make sure you pop across here as there is still a week to play along...and also pop across and see all the other fab DT makes .

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Spun Sugar	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Picket Fence	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Aged Mahogany	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Watering Can	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Valentine Blueprint	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Fabulous Flourishes	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12
Rayon Seam Binding	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chit Chat Stickers - Seasonal	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Plaquettes	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Baubles	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Type Charms	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trinket Pins	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings Philosophy Tags

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 keep those fingers inky! trace x

The Secret Garden for countryviewcrafts challenge blog DT

Well it is time for a new challenge over at Countryviewcrafts Challenge blog and the theme this time is Painty Pleasures, so we want to see lots of painty fun! Now when it comes to paints they are not my go to product, but when the Distress paints came out I knew i had to have a play and wow i was not disappointed! they are the most wonderful addition to the distress range and work alone or so well with all the other yummy distress products. 
I think the thing I love more than all is how you can play around when they are wet, then when dried its like they are frozen and all inkiness and water can be applied but the paints stay as they dried....just too fab!
so enough..here is my make :

I wanted to create a kind of rusty neglected, secret garden feel for the piece...not sure if I did or not? But I sure had some fun! I started with a piece of mountboard and glued on some die cuts.

I then added some Wendy Vecchi embossing paste through a stencil and left too dry. Now for some painty fun.
I added some distress paint in rusty hinge and black soot...and lots of smooshnig and water later...here's what I had :

Loved this so it took some nerve to cover it up! that and fingers crossed.... I then added paint in peeled paint, broken china....more water and voila....

I really like how the colours from beneath come through creating...well in my mind a rusty patina ish effect!? 
I added some trails of hot glue gun inspired by pieces from Vivian Keh ( believe me I have been playing with this a lot and had lots of fun so expect to see lots more hot glue soon!) and lots of mini tattered flowers and some garden greenery ..oh and some rusty wire.

Some chit chat stickers finish the piece.well I hope you like it and we all look forward to seeing your painty pieces over at CountryviewCrafts this month. Make sure you hop across to see the fab Dt inspiration too....

words, words, words..

Before I start my post I want to say welcome to my new followers and thanks to everyone who takes the time to visit and leave a comment, it mean a lot...so thanks xxx

Well here I am with my 2nd piece for Countryviewcrafts this month where the theme here is Quotes and Quotations. So here is my make this time, a mini quote book:

 

and inside some of the pages :

I started by creating the backgrounds for all the tags using distress paints, did I say still LOVE these!

 

I then inked with frayed burlap and got to work stamping lots of different stamps to build up interest and detail..some tiny pieces stamped in frayed burlap, these fab splatters stamped in vintage photo. Then pen nibs and my favourite flourish (this is same flourish just smaller) all stamped in coffee and black archival. This helps some of the stamping to appear softer. ( click on the words to be whisked off to relevant stamp sets x)

 So this is one of the blank pages...then I collected together lots of my favourite Tim quotes that make me smile or make me think...or I just love . I stamped them all in black archival, tore out and then inked with brown distress in vintage photo, frayed burlap and walnut stain.

 

I then added them to the pages..

Then onto the cover,

 I stamped the word for the cover using the fab new letter set , worn text from Tim Holtz here..and lots of my favourite idea-ology..tissue tape, film strip, numerals, pen nib, mini vials and philosophy tag.

I bound the mini tag book using hitch fasteners and tied the book using seam binding dyed with distress stain.

I added a quote on the back cover:

 Well hope you like my make, there is still time to play along in the challenge here..

Thanks to the lovely Anne reminding me I would like to enter this for the following competition:
words, words, words @ http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/words-words-words-part-2.html

 

have a fun and inky day!

trace  x