Stencils/Masks at Craft Room Challenge

Happy Tuesday everyone.......a warm welcome to new  and old followers.  Today I am sharing a sneak peek of my first project as a DT member at Craft Room Challenge. I can't tell you how thrilled I am :-)

This fortnight Esther is the challenge host and our sponsor is Stamp Addicts. The lucky challenge winner will receive a gift voucher from Stamp Addicts to spend in their store.  

You can view the whole project  over at Craft Room Challenge Blog by clicking HERE. 

You will also be able to view the other inspiring makes of my DT Roomies.

I shall post the 'How to'  and recipe for this project later this week.

Take care and thank you for visiting.

Crafty Hugs xx

Anything Goes.....As long as it features Wood for Craft Room Challenge Blog

Hi Everyone.........Its lovely to have you join me once again for the next fortnight's challenge theme over at Craft Room Challenges HERE

This fortnight our Hostess is Zoe and the challenge is Anything Goes as long as it features Wood. The sponsor is MDF Man and the prize is some wooden elements :-)

Hope you can play along x

My GDT make is a small pine box, which was painted with Distress Crackle Paint in Vintage Photo and Weathered Wood. 

First of all I removed all the metal hardware then coated with the paints using the Vintage Photo for my base coat

Once dry I painted with Weathered Wood. 

Around the sides I used some TH Stamps and tissue tape, which I adhered with gel medium.

You can see the wonderful crackle :-)

I then distressed some paper, edging with TH Distress Ink.....in my favourite Vintage Photo !!!

The Wooden Heart was purchased from Depot, Hamburg and I adhered a lovely cameo purchased from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I may have bought the scissors from FJB too. 

The gorgeous fabric Rose was from my stash

Another picture of the completed project x

The DT have some fabulous inspiring  projects for you to view HERE and It would be wonderful if you can join in the fun.  

Best wishes for a wonderful week and catch up soon

Crafty Hugs as Always

xx

PS Like quite a few of you I have had problems on Bloglovin and Blogger, which wont seem to publish some of my comments on visited blogs......really frustrating !!!  

Whimsical Canvas Make

Hi dear crafty friends. I hope you have had a lovely weekend whatever you have been up to :-)

The weather this weekend has been lovely, which was quite important in relation to a local Marymass Festival. This is an annual event which started in the 12th Century in relation to  the Christian Feast of Assumption, ( Mary's ascent to heaven)  Since the 15th Century, following  a visit to the Town by  Mary Queen of Scots,  who spent the night at Seagate Castle in Irvine, accompanied by her four Mary's. Local  girls, who have the town's postcode are elected by their peers  to take on these roles and the coronation takes place at midday, in front of the Town's House. There is a lot of work goes in to organising the festival, which lasts 12 days, so its always a bonus if the weather is at least dry.

DH and I went along to the coronation and watched the Parade, which was quite amazing this year. Its also nice to catch up with some old acquaintances too, who like us, made the effort to attend.

Today I finally finished a canvas mixed media project that I started a couple of weeks ago when Rita ( my mammy)  and I met up with our crafty friend Astrid, of  Astrid's Artistic Efforts blog. 

Whilst i have dabbled in this crafting style previously I was not too sure of some aspects so it was great to have Astrid on hand to provide advice and guidance during the making. I did not finish it off until now  as I knew I wanted to add some stamping and other embellishments but was not sure where I was going.

Hope you like it..........there are some things that I wish I had done better but hey..........that's how we learn. 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and have a fab week.

I would like to enter this make at Our Creative Corner Challenge - Words Words Words as well as 

Inspire Me Fridays, which is always Anything Goes

Crafty Hugs xxx

Dare to Dream

Good morning everyone.......................weather not very nice her at present.....I do hope that the sunshine returns soon. Almost need to put the heating on as its a bit cooler this morning. 

Today I am sharing a wall hanging that I made for my sister's  recent birthday :-)

Just a quick post as I have several things to do today. The recipe was more or less the same as the previous make. I used a paper distresser to age the edges on the corrugated card. On the cardboard I used my TH scissors to distress the edges. I also used gilding wax on the corrugated card.

I am entering this make at the following challenges:

Sugar Creek Hollow, where the challenge is Mixed Media

Card and Scrap, whose challenge is Use a Text Stamp

Crafting Musketeers, where the challenge is Use a Stamped Image

Seemacrafts, whose challenge is Mixed Media.

Simon Says Stamp and Show, where the challenge is Kraft

'THank You' so much for popping in and if you have time please leave a comment. I can then return the compliment by visiting your blog. 

Crafty Hugs and have a lovely Sunday xx

Renaissance - Correggio

Hi Everyone.............I thought I would share a piece of recycling with you. This is a piece of shelving that was left from some recent DIY in my craft room. With some fabulous challenges in mind I decided to create a piece for Frilly and Funkie, whose challenge is Renaissance Men.  I was inspired by  Italian Artist Carreggio, who depicted cherub type images. His most famous painting being " The Holy Night"

Over at the Sunday Stampers Hels challenge this week is Patterns. Having used crackle distress paint to create an aged background  and embossed patterned corners the patterns fit this challenge too. 

 Challenge 16 at Studio L3 this week is Tim Holtz Perfect Pearls Mists.  I  used this technique from CCO2, page 54,creating the corners of this piece, which gives a  faux metal effect.

  As the challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges is Anything Goes this week i shall also enter this challenge having stamped several images.

Having  recycled this piece of shelving, framing it with stamped and embossed corners, I am entering the challenge of Anything Goes -Frame It over at Recycle, Repurpose and Re-Invent Challenge.

As you will see below I applied Studio Multi Medium, enabling the paint to adhere to the surface. I used a paintbrush and acrylic paint from my paint dabbers. I used Sail Boat Blue paint for the first coat, then applied Picket Fence Crackle Paint, twice. Once dried I sanded the surface and then blended in Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I framed the edges in Rub'n' Buff Grecian Gold, which I applied using my fingers.

Using Jet Black Archival Ink I stamped images from Stampers Anonymous TH Classic Favourites 

( SCF 007 & SCF 008) I then stamped the large image on to vellum, using DI's to age it. I also took my waterbrush and some DI to colour some of the stamped image, then layered it over the main image below, keeping some of the edges slightly upturned to create some dimension.

These corners were created using Tim Holtz technique on page 54 of CCO2. 

This is the completed piece, which is really delightful and is part of a birthday gift for my son's partner, Jennifer. They both went to Rome for Jennifer's 21st birthday several years ago and fell in love with it.

(As the main stamped image has the  french word Patisserie on it I used alcohol ink on the metal key to alter it and cover the word. )

                                  Have a fabulous Sunday and I hope to catch up with you soon

                                                             Crafty Hugs Annie xx