Oak House Studio - Accordion Card

Hi Everyone

This is my fourth and last Guest post for Lynnda at Oak House Studio.

I made two cards using Lynnda's fabulous inks and stamps and one of  Karen Burniston's original Accordion Card dies by Sizzix.

Here is a sneak peek, I hope you will pop over HERE to see the whole card.

Thanks for looking, hope to see you again soon.

Hugs, Anne xx

Featured on Tuesday's Tutorials by Marjie Kemper !

I am so thrilled and very honoured to be featured on Marjie Kemper's

Tuesday's Tutorials today!  This is most definitely one of the highlights

of my crafty journey.... thank you so much Marjie!  I have known Marjie
through 'cyberspace' for a few years now and totally admire her wonderful talent.

Marjie ran a series of Texture Tuesday for a full year and she has been 

running Tuesday's Tutorials for a few weeks now.  This is the project that is being featured...

If you missed my original post and want to have a look to see how I achieved the finish with

 Eileen Hull dies, matboard (mountboard) and DecoArt products, you can find it HERE.

I hope you don't mind me sharing this with you, but I am so thrilled!

Hugs, Anne xx

Tim Tag July 2015

Hi Everyone

Just a quick (well reasonably quick) post from me today to share my Tim tag for July.  To see Tim's wonderful tag and how he did his, look HERE.

I made several starts on mine, I don't have the stamps Tim used, so tried lots of other designs before I settled on a seaside theme (no surprised there then!).  I used the same techniques that Tim did, just different colours and stamps.  

I also added a couple of 'altered surfaces' to my tag which falls in nicely with the lovely Linda Ledbetter's Compendium of Curiosities III challenge #33, which is to use Tim's Altered Surface technique found on Page 45 of Tim's CC3C book.  If you still need a copy you can buy one direct from Tim here.

For the base colours I used Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon.

The elements were coloured with Distress Markers.  The hanging star is one of my altered surfaces.

The number 1 is my second altered surface.  

CC3C #33 is sponsored by Inspiration Emporium and this is my DT piece for Inspiration Journal.  Inspiration Emporium are offering a very generous $50 voucher for one randomly selected individual to spend in their on-line shop.  Their shipping rates are excellent - $5 in the USA and $10 to Europe.

Tim and Mario are also offering a fabulous prize of Tim Holtz goodies to one individual selected as the favourite by the talented Curiosity Crew.

Thanks for looking, hope to see you again soon - in fact I hope you will come back

on Tuesday as I have some very exciting news!

Hugs, Anne xx

Products used from Inspiration Emporium

Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints #6

Archival Ink - Jet Black

Tim Holtz Distress Markers

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Idea-ology - various

Oak House Studio #3 - Medium Sunflower

Hello Everyone

This is my third project as Guest Designer for Lynnda of Oak House Studio.  This time I wanted to show how Lynnda's fantastic inks can be used in a different way.  I also used Lynnda's medium sunflower stamp.

Here's a sneak peek:

If you have the time I would love if you could go over to Oak House Studio blog to have a look!

Thanks so much for looking.  Hope to see you again soon. 

Hugs, Anne xx

Anything But Cute - Challenge #3 - Summer Romance

Hi Everyone

I would like to firstly apologise if I have not visited your blog during this last week, we are away at the moment, internet connections are poor and I really wanted to spend some quality time with family so I have been away from the keyboard!  Normal service will resume tomorrow!

Over at Anything But Cute Challenge Blog the theme for this month is Summer Romance with a romantic and or beach/sea theme, and as many of you know I love anything sea themed so I just had to join in.  There is a mood board for inspiration:

A while back a lovely young blog friend sent me some fabulous seaside Prima goodies and I have been saving them to make something special and they fitted right in with this challenge.

I used a 5" x 5" deep canvas as my base and after covering it with gesso I applied some DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste which I had coloured with some DecoArt Cobalt Teal Hue
Media Fluid Paint.  

I applied quite a thick coat of the paste and ran my finger across to create the illusion of moving water (well in my mind that is what I intended!).  I added some coloured sand to a line across the bottom and also painted some DecoArt Titan Buff Media Fluid to a another line to represent sand.  It does not show in the photo but the coloured sand has a real 'sparkle' to it.

I gathered together all the bits and pieces that I wanted to add to the canvas, the beautiful Prima resin pieces (which I gently coloured with more DecoArt paints in the colours shown on the mood board), some Tim Holtz leaves from the Pinecone die set and some spools for feet.  These were coloured in the DecoArt Cobalt Teal Hue Media Fluid mixed with some Titan White Media Fluid Acrylic to tone the colour down slightly.

The finished canvas again, I added some of my beloved seed beads for water bubbles and some strands of twisted card 'reeds' for the seahorse to cling too.  The Tim Holtz Discoveries word band is attached with some bakers twine.

I am entering this into Anything But Cute - Challenge #3 - Summer Romance Challenge.

Thanks for looking, I hope to catch up with you all very soon.

Hugs, Anne xxx

Oak House Studio Guest - Butterflies

This is my second guest appearance for July over at Oak House Studio.  This week I have chosen to use Lynnda's fabulous Colour Chemistry pigment inks as sprays (they are incredibly versatile) and have also used one of Lynnda's beautiful butterfly stamps.

Here's a sneak peek, I would love it, if you have time, if you will visit HERE to see what I created.

As always, thanks for looking,

I hope to see you again soon.  Hugs, Anne xx

Compendium of Curiosities #32 - Frosted Film

Apologies for so many posts this week but I am trying to play catch up!

It is hard to believe that it is Challenge #32 at CC3C already.  The lovely Linda Ledbetter and the Curiosity Crew have shown some wonderful inspiration for us all HERE.  One lucky person, chosen

by the Curiosity Crew will win a wonderful selection of goodies donated by the very

generous Tim Holtz and his Operations Director Mario Rossi!

Linda Coughlin of the Funkie Junkie is sponsoring this challenge and one randomly 

selected individual will win a £25 voucher to spend at the Funkie Junkie. 

The challenge this time is to use Frosted Film and you can find it on Page 59 of Tim's 

Compendium of Curiosities III.  If you do not have a copy you can buy one (signed) 

directly from Tim here. 

As you can see, I made a tag this time, I cannot share the technique but I did use it on the 

flowers but I can tell you a little about how I got to the finished state.

I coloured the base tag with the gorgeous Fossilized Amber Distress Ink.  The top tag has been coloured with  Mermaid Lagoon and Gathered Twigs DI and I used the Spritz and Flick 

technique before using one of Tim's Mixed Media Thinlits dies.

The flower stems were stamped using Tim's Flower Garden stamp set.  To finish off the flowers

I added some of my latest love - seed beads.  They were on special offer for £1 per pack

from a local department store (John Lewis) - I bought loads!

I coloured some seam binding with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink and I added a word 

token (dream) to finish the tag.

I am entering this tag into CC3C Challenge #32.

As always, thanks for looking, I will be back on Friday with another creation

for Oak House Studio.  

Hugs, Anne xx