Merry Christmas

As it's Christmas eve I thought I'd show some of the few cards I managed for Christmas this year and take this opportunity to wish you all a

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Sorry I've been a terrible blogger of recent. Real life gets in the way sometimes. And I thought I'd killed my blog! Was starting to despair with it as the background had shrunk and could read anything on it but seems to be well for now ;-)

I have a few more Christmas Card/tag photos from the lovely day with Francesca which will have to wait for another day.

Have a great Christmas holiday time.

Karin x

Card for Penny

I made this card for my forum friend Penny.

She has been so brave in facing what life has thrown at her and I've never known her to moan about it. Wishing you a speedy recovery Penny.

Paint Fusion Birthday card

This was my first attempt at paint fusion and I turned it into a birthday card for Kym, as I thought she might like the colours of the sweet peas. I've added a second photo where the colours are more true of the flowers but the first photo shows the shades of green of the leaves better.

I'm using my new phone for the photos now instead of having to borrow a camera, so I hope to update my blog more regularly.

Faux Rubbings

I'm following the art journal full of different techniques that Roni is producing. For full details please visit her blog. I'm a little bit behind and these are the first double page spread. I'm going to do some private journalling on these before I stick them down and they will going onto a black background. I found it best to use 80g printer paper for this anything heavier the rubbings weren't very clear so then I had to be careful not to over wet the paper. I really enjoyed doing this and will try it again in the future.

Thanks Roni for the challenge.

End of summer canvas (SSSC)

The theme on SSSC is anything goes so I'm entering this canvas for that.

Last night I saw a splendid photo that my SIL took of the ceiling of Winchester cathedral and she kindly let me pinch a copy to do an image transfer, now you might just spot in under the layers of paint and ink I got a little carried away once I got started ;-)

Inkjet printed image

Mat gel medium

Acrylic paints white, green & a tiny touch of brown

Vintage photo distress ink pad

Paperartsy Hot Pick 1006 script stamp

K&Co - Flora & Fauna Die-cuts

Martha Stewart stencil

Accent beads

I took this photo late this afternoon outside and the colours are looking a bit brighter than they do now! Normally the sun bleaches the colour a bit, very odd. lol

I'm back to work tomorrow morning after having the summer holidays off but I'm looking forward to a great weekend, hope you all do too!

Karin x

Play Day Canvas

On Monday I had a play day out with the lovely Francesca who I originally met at an ArtsyCrafts weekend a couple of years ago.

It was great to craft along with someone who enjoys the same type of crafting and being able to play with someone else's stash!

Francesca introduced me to Cosmic shimmer drawing inks. Oh wow, they're fantastic and definitely need to get some of those, I used them to colour the 7 gypsies collage tissue paper birds.

Sorry about the photo quality this was the best picture that I can coax out of my backup camera and it's come out a bit darker than it should.

Canvas

I was inspired to create this canvas board after seeing Donna Downey's week of Inspiration.

Using one of the images from Day 1 for image transfer, then lots of paint and inks along with masks and rubber stamps. I've finished this off with a couple of rub ons.

Originally I was going to add some embellishments but for me this piece is in a happy place.