The Craft Barn and Index Cards

Hello Everyone

I hope I find you well, and managing to stay warm or cool, wherever you maybe. We have been enjoying some seasonal weather and with much needed rain, mainly at night time, making sleep a little more comfortable. 

Today we have more index cards to share with you, but first of all I would like to share my July page for The Craft Barn's Calendar Challenge.

The two words we have to use in on our page this month are

Turquoise and Beach Huts

Because I want to use my Gelatos on all my pages, I wondered what I would do about the colour, so I looked up how to create the colour turquoise, and after mixing Butter cream & Cotton Candy, I was very happy with the resultant colour.  

I drew my bunting and beach hut with pencil then went over it with a silver pen. When that was dry I coloured everything with my turquoise mix. I then added the words, washi tape, the month and days of the week. Et voila!

If you would like to see what others created for this month, then simply click on the Calendar Challenge link above and you will be whisked away to lots more beaches.

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Now here we have days 33 and 34 of my and Wee Man's index cards.

Day 33 from Wee Man

was created with a large XCut butterfly punch, some Wink of Stella to colour their wings and some small stamps in the background.

My Day 33

'I Love Lucy' drawn with Pitt pens and coloured with pencil crayons.

Day 34 from Wee Man

is Happy Teddy Bears, punched from a paint chip strip.

Day 34 from me

was created with used postage stamps and Wishing a safe and Happy Independence Day to all my friends who celebrate it.

Until next time

Take care, be happy.

{{Hugs}} Mo :o) x

And Wee Man of course :D

Two new Index Cards And a Tag

Hello Everyone

Wee Man and I have used some of the index cards we covered in spray and splat the other day, for a couple more of our Index cards.

Day 29 from Wee Man 

And from me

The prompt is Ice Cream so I used the blue inky splat and added a cone, coloured with a gel pen. I also wrote the words, I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream - which  is a song written by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, and Robert A. K. King. It was sung in the episodes "Hi, Neighbor!" and "Oh, What a Day!" (info from google)

For Day 30 Wee Man has stamped some letters

(Psst! He says I have to tell you that I helped him with this one a lot because he fell of his swing and hurt his arm) 

He is okay. Had a shock, got winded and has a rope burn in the crook of his arm, but he was back to it later on :D

My Day 30 is a silly one based on the Telephone prompt.. 

I started with the intention of just using my mobile phone number but then I wanted to add a couple other things so I used other numbers too. 

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Now as it is Tuesday, over on Tag Tuesday the new prompt this week is Faces.

I used a circular tag from an old gift wrap pack, and glued a whole heap of postage stamps on it and then used my face stencil over the top. 

I thank you for your visit. For all of your visits. Both Wee Man and I appreciate them very much and we always enjoy reading your words. 

Take care. Be Happy.

((Hugs)) Mo :o)) x

And Wee Man of course :D

A Tag for a Dance

A'Rubber Dance' to be exact ;) Rubber Dance Art Stamps are holding their first Monthly Colour Challenge. And the owner of Rubber Dance Art Stamps, Bibi, is generously giving away some of her beautiful stamps as the prize! Woohooo! Thanks Bibi :D

But to be in with a chance of winning such an awesome prize, then we have to create something - anything - but we must use the set palette, which this month is the classic Autumnal colours, warm golds, oranges and reds. Yum!

I have a number of Bibi's deep etched, red rubber stamps and would love to increase my stash, (who wouldn't?)!  So without further twaddle, here is my first entry to the challenge.

A tag.

And a close-up.

I used two different stencils and dabbed red and yellow paints through them for the background. Then I used a leaf stencil and an orange paint, over which I rubbed red oil pastel and antique gold rubbing wax, (such a shame the glimmer doesn't show up here). 

I stamped #CE1-2E Bohemian Woman, and embossed her using a gold glitter powder to make her twinkle. (like me, hehe)

Fianlly I added a quote and coloured my ribbon using the same paints as on the tag. If you click on this Rubber Dance link then you will be able to read all about the rules for the challenge and see some amazing examples by Bibi's design team. I hope to see you there, and good luck if you decide to take part.

Closing date for entries:

Midnight September 30th, Central European Time (= GMT+1 or EST + 6)

I'm also linking this tag to Tag Tuesday's ' Stencils'.

Until next time.....

.........thanks for popping by to say ' Hi' (( hugs)) :0) x

The Craft Barn's Q & L Challenge #11 Mountain & Mistake

The Craft Barn has given us Mountain and/or Mistake to use in the Q & L challenge this time around and we are to use a lyric or a quote.  I used a quote, but I'm afraid I cannot find any attribution for it, so perhaps I created it myself; I do hope that's ok.

I created the background using a doily stencil and various paints. Then I did a bit of stamping and a bit of colouring with other paints.  I wrote the quote, cut it out and outlined it with some ink. This isn't what I set out to do, but I think I like it.

I'm looking forward to seeing all the other entries; the diversity is always so inspiring and everyone is always so supportive. If you would like to learn more about the Q & L Challenge just visit here for the rules and how you can participate.

Until next time...............
..........thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Altered Cereal Boxes

I wanted to make a magazine holder and chose to use an empty cereal box.  I covered it in some old notepaper, gesso, die-cut flowers, hearts, leaves & butterflies all stuck with matt-medium and outlined with a black pen.

Actually, instead of magazines, I've got my decoupage kits in it. I got fed up with them slipping of the shelf; but now they're neat and tidy :)

A certain wee man asked if I would do one for him as well, so we set to work, (with the box I was going to make my own, second one with ~ ahh, the sacrifices, haha). I had very specific instructions, with no deviation from the plan allowed.

I gave the box a couple of thick coats of gesso and left it to dry thoroughly whilst he was at school. The stencils, colours and some of the stamps were chosen by him and I used acrylic paints for the colouring.  I had forgotten about the ticket stamp from the train set, but luckily he has a terrific memory.  He's very happy with it, bless him, and it is already in use.  Our special children find pleasure in the simplest of things.

I had another idea to collage some of his, extensive, collection of bus tickets and train tickets onto two more boxes for his train and bus magazines, but that produced a very intense, negative reaction, soo.... I think I shall shelve that idea, lol.

So, until next time................
.................eat cereal,
and thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Rubbings Take2 and A new sketchbook page

I enjoyed doing the leaf rubbings so much the other day, I wanted to do some more, and after a few folk mentioned bark rubbings, I wanted to have a go at that.  But - not being a spotlight person, I couldn't bring myself to take pencil & paper out to any local trees with me.  So, whilst on my walk yesterday I kept my eyes open for fallen bark, which I pocketed and collected a corresponding leaf.  I only found three, from an oak, a lime and a cherry tree, so I pocketed a few different leaves as well to fill up my page.

I really would like to get better rubbings of bark and think that would be better acheived on bigger bits of paper, so I've decided that the next time I go through the woods at the river, I am taking pencil and paper with me :D

My next bit of craftiness from last evening was a sketchbook page.  I had the page completed up to the orange/pink flowers, waaay back last year, and flicking through my book I decided it was the best background for a couple of my gorgeous new stamps from Rubber Dance.  ((Happy jiggy dance))  :D  I used the Robin, a seagull, the vine and some of the words from the sheet named #B3-M: A little Birdie.

They are gorgeous quality and stamp beautifully; so crisp.  I treated myself to a whole host of these new stamps and look forward to playing with them.   Psst - throughout May, there is FREE shipping wolrdwide too!  You can follow Rubber Dance here on Facebook for news, chatter and to keep up-to-date with all their new releases.

I went over some of the background with oil pastels to bring out the colours a little more, and apart from the stamping on my page, which I coloured with a mix of watercolour pencils and Neocolor 2s, I just added some butterflies from a napkin.  Oh yeah, the black leaves are stamped with black archival ink and were made using a piece of scrap rubber, from the edge of my birdie sheet, cut to shape, and then I made the veins with white neocolor and a waterbrush.  Et, voila............. I hope you like.

Well, I hope you have a crafty day, and until next time...............
..............thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Craft Barn Q & L Challenge #9 Unique & Fame

Hello again ~ I do hope you don't mind another post from me today.  I also hope that my muse stays for a wee while and I can continue to create just as much, for - oh - at least a hundred years or so!  Lol ;)

This post is for the Quotes & Lyrics Challenge at The Craft Barn, where the words this time around are Unique & Fame.

I chose to use Unique and my quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde ~ A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I used a page that I had been playing about with some homemade stencils on, an age ago, and just added to it, using various stamps, tissue paper, mulberry paper, inks, acrylic paint, oil pastel, white pencil and a wee gem for the large birds eye.  Finally, I did the writing with a Faber Castell pen.  Oh, and the greeny/blue dots were made with my finger in some paint.

To see other takes on this weeks theme you can find lots of links here.

Until next time.........
..........thanks again for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*