GRUNGY MONDAY 21 FINISHED AT LAST

Hi grungy world
grungy monday is taking a bit of a break in September but fortunately Linda gave us more time to make challenge 21. (Sorry if this is a long post ..... you dont have to read it, but I need to write it!)
Anyway this was lucky for me as I didnt have any fragments. Take a look at studio L3 to see what it's all about.  GRUNGY MONDAY
I had to make a special trip to hobbycraft to get the fragments, It's all about Tims Transparent Illusions which was silly as they were £2 cheaper online! BUT  if I hadn't gone there I wouldn't have brought the wooden word that was the inspiration for my piece. (a bargain at 49p)
I wanted to make a special mixed media canvas for my newly decorated craft room.
 I liked the  mini canvas that Vicky at work made for another colleague's birthday Something Arty Farty   I wanted to make something similar.
The piece I have made is full of all the techniques I love to do, plus the new ones using the fragments.

The first thing I did was paint the word with metallic white acrylic paint and Ranger crackle paint. then I sprayed it with cosmic shimmer .... a lot, so the colour seeped into the cracks.
 Not sure if it shows up but it is quite shimmery. Then I used  a Tim 'mask' and colourwashed the swirl.
The little butterfly is a piece of broken jewellery glued on with glossy accents.

 Next I made  the fragments; top left is the faux etching, I manage to glue this on using glossy accents in the embossed areas. The 'ghostly' face is Piccasso, The hummingbird is stamped with a fragment glued on top. The text is made with the sticky tape transapencies method.

 The words live, love, laugh are stamped on to  the top of the fragments with stazon and backed with patterned paper.
 The silver fragments top left are pieces of PMC that were left over from other projects.

The button at the top is embossed with UTEE, it is quite textural see the the crafty robin's   photo frame.
 The leaves are embossed with various colours onto card.
Everything is 'glued' on using an art modelling paste with acrylic paint added for colour, This was lovely to use, I just splodged it on in a random way, like you do ! great fun but messy!
Finally I inked the edges with distress inks .... well we cant leave those out now can we LOL.
This is the finished piece, I am quite pleased with it, not too bad as a first attempt.

I am also entering this piece in the craft room challenge (but cannot seem to get the side bar working (doh!)  but do take a look there are  some lovely 'home decor' pieces.
CRAFTROOM CHALLENGE thanks to zoe at the craftroom I have sorted the link thanks Zoe, see the shop here www.craft-room.co.uk/

barely there

http://stylesink.ca/2011/01/12/one-layer-wednesday-36-barely-there/here is a challenge i found on joanne wardles blog, some lovely simple cards on one layer wednesday. the theme was bare trees or foliage. i made some cards the other day that fit so i thought i would enter one.. have a look at the other cards in the challenge they are really good

the sunset is very simply sponged with distress inks on to shiney card. i hope this qualifies as one layer.the foliage is from a german set i brought at the artisan show last year. the dragon flies are from a set i brought recently at a shop near me in their sale for 10p for a set of 6 oriental stamps what a bargain. i think the quote is from crafty individuals.

congrats gary

hi world
what's happened to my blog?
dont know what everyone else can see but i seem to have lost the pictures,
not sure how i got them back, so i hope the stuff i am putting on here is ok!!
i actually managed to play with some of my new crafty stuff today.
my daughter's partner has a new job in london, well done gary!

here is the card i made him

the background is sprayed with cosmc shimmer and a music mask ( you cannot see much of it). the stamps are from crafty individuals (i brought them at artisan show), time to celebrate is a free stamp from craft stamper a while ago.
the label is covered with distress inks and stamped with other stamps i brought at artisan. there is a real stamp on the label. i hope it goes well for him.

i also made another card for my daughter's work collegue.

the background is distress inks, mustard seed, rusty hinge and barn door, the same process as the ones i did before, very quick!!! i stamped the cat on the card and on another piece of card and then cut it out, i layered it with foam pads...simple.

 this is the first time lucy has asked me to make her a card , she usually buys them, hope she likes it, it will cost her £1 for breast cancer research.