My Sunday Afternoon Project - F

A similar make to yesterday but different lol.

Nice little list going on here

Chipboard large puzzle piece

foil

pen to make marks to replicate screwheads

stamp - lost coast designs

wooden bird cage green/black embossed broken up and placed to look as thhough she is breaking out.  The travel at the bottom of cage.

As she has dominos at top of head I painted two Die for the top

black cord to hang it from

wooden hand and roses copic coloured and triple embossed as the bodyform with wings on a chain for necklace

cog and bird coloured simply using stazon

Thats about it for now

Hope you enjoyed your visit and please drop by again real soon

Hugz and love

Elaine xxx

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What a puzzle!....F

Good afternoon all

I managed to come up with one of my old styles of art which I happened to think I had forgotten how to get back into.  I have done so many shabbyish projects lately I needed to do something else.  it is a birthday hanging for a man - so here it is.

Listed below are all the items used

Large puzzle piece chipboard which had been hanging about quite a while

Background - paints, vanilla, brown, red, cream, blue, green, - brayered onto the puzzle  

My new Lost Coast design stamp / black versafine and clear embossed

wooden cogs some with tim holtz powder and gold powder embossed

chain embossed with green vintage powder - not all that visible but it is there lol

wooden clock faces

metal TH clock hands

screw brads

wooden wings inked and embossed

playing cards torn/distressed with nk

vintage cuff links

th drawer pull with dymo tape - happy birthday

That's it folks and I hope you enjoyed today's visit - why not follow my blog - if you really want to that is lol

Hugz and love always from the South Coast UK

Elaine aka Ellapu

xxx

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Crafty Ribbons Birthday - F

Hi all

This week the challenge over at Crafty Ribbons is Birthday with ribbon.  Brilliant challenge as we always need Birthday cards and prezzies.  I have to say I actually made a card - first in months well a long long time.  I used Kraft card (my fave) a corner stamp that has been kicking about in one of my drawers lol and a birthday sentiment from Indigo Blu.  I coloured the flowers using wet paint brush and distress ink pads.  All three of the ribbons came from Crafty Ribbons Shop - great choice of ribbons to wet your appetite over there.

Well that's it from me.  i do hope to see you all over CR Challenge Blog to join in with the birthday fun.

Hugz and love to you all

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Card for a friend ....F

I have managed to pull a card together this evening for a friend whom I am meeting for lunch on Friday.

For this I used the following

Cream and beige card

brown and oatmeal papers

large scroll bckground stamp and embossed on the papers - barely visible

Ophelia stamp

stamped using reddy/brown archival and heat embossed - torn round the image

Papers distressed

sentiment stamp

Thats it all done.  I do hope you enjoyed your visit

Hugz Elaine xxx

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Birthday Card - F

I am well and truly making good use of my day off today - one canvas complete and now a birthday card.

For this card I used cream hammered card as the basis.  I then covered more cream card with distress inks for the initial layer.  I did the same thing to another piece of card using a lighter ink and splashed it with water - let it dry completely before stamping and heat embossing.  I used three different archival inks to colour the stamo and birthday sentiment and used clear embossing powder. Finally I coloured the image (Chocolate Baroque) using copics (using similar colours in relative to the colours I used on the stamped image).

I do hope you have enjoyed your visit and please call again.

Hugz and love

Elaine xx

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Another Bits and Bobs make....F

For this one I started off with canvas board.  Below I will list all the bits and bobs from my scrap tray - I will use it all eventually lol.

Paint

modelling paste and stencil for corners (never used this one before lol)

2 odd beads for vases and 2 odd flowers

half a glitter bird from xmas decoration

inka gold

half a cardboard jewellery box

2 leaves

books I made for my dolls house (will have to make some more now lol)

braid round the box from a dress on old bodyform

2 small doilies painted originally from a flower I had made but didn like it

an old earring for the centre.

Well thats it for my junk project

Please drop by again sometime

Hugz

Elaine xxx

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Just a card....F

Basically I made a card for a friend.  The background is stamped and gold embossed.  The image is a Muchi lady, stamped and coloured using copics and prismas.  The bow I tied myself and the letters are stamps and gold embossed.  Quite difficult to see them clearly - bad lighting but they say ANITA lol. Much better in real life lol.  I edged the black card with inka gold.  Lots of gold in it huh lol.

Thats it folks - here are the pics

Hugz always

Elaine xxx

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A quick one...F

Just another quickie - another altered playing card in fact.  I was playing about with stamps, stencils and embossing powder and here is the result.....

Hugz and love always

Elaine xxx

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Altered Playing Cards - F

Oh what to do, what to do? lol.  I think this alot when in craft room - too much stuff, need to sort it all out and get my act together so I started to sort out a drawer and come across alot of playing cards so I thought why the hell not! lol

So here are my altered playing cards.  

The pics come first with the brief details beneath for each one

This one I covered the top half with crumpled serviette just to give texture.  I stamped a ladys head and tore round the piece I wanted and stuck it onto the card after a little distressing. I wanted her to look a little more colourful so gave her some blusher! I covered the remainder of the card in a crackle paint and wiped over the entire thing with inka gold in green, turquioise and pink.  I tore a partial sentiment and stuck it at the bottom and used wooden letters to complete the word 'young'.  I used inka gold over the letters. 

This one I gessoed first.  I covered it in Distress Inks, red, green, blue and brown and sprayed with water to mingle them up a little.   I stamped a random flourish in the corner and rubbed white perfect pearls over it.I used a grass stamp, gate and clouded sun.   I think the outcome is effective but that is just my opinion lol. 

Voila! all done

I do hope you you visit again and again and again lol

Hugz always

Elaine xxx

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Coaster makeover..F

I had 2 really sad coasters in my living room so I decided to give them a makeover with some vintage papers I forgot I had, TH inks, which I then splashed with water to make them look older  and La Blanche stamps - I love these stamps real quality!  Sentiment stamps from Die'sire. I then sealed them with mod podge and rock candy - That's it all done......I hope I have managed to capture the crackle effect

Before

and after

Hope you like them just as much as I do.

Hugz and love always

Elaine aka Ellapu xxx

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