I’ve been
playing dress up this week with this mannequin that I cut out of one of the
12x12 Stamperia Brocante papers. I’ve added a pleated skirt made from a strip
of the same paper, some lace, some cut out spoons, some cut out flowers plus
ribbon and gems. You can really go to town. It’s all layered up on a size 10
tag.
A Splash of Colour
My Art blog by Helen Chilton
Saturday 13 April 2024
Brocante Mannequin
Saturday 30 March 2024
A little bit of Chocolate!
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I hope you have a lovely bank Holiday weekend.
Helen
Saturday 23 March 2024
A Card for Spring
The
background is by Stamperia, from the Atelier des Arts calendar which is at sale price – even though
it’s for 2022, you still get the papers, so it seemed a good deal to me. I’ve
used some of Marlene’s stamps and layered pattern onto pattern, which I do like
doing just to see if I can get away with it!
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Saturday 16 March 2024
It's today!!
At 2pm and 6pm Samantha Jane Laing will be on HobbyMaker TV with lots of lovely stamp designs so I thought I'd show you some of my makes in full.
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-sets-by-melina-dahl.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-satin-inks.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-6ins-x-6ins-stencil-big-flower-tc66078.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-6ins-x-6ins-stencil-honey-bee-tc60055.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-mdf-faux-embroidery-hoops.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-mdf/page/3/
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Saturday 9 March 2024
My Art...
A card this
week - I wanted to see if I could create something reasonably colourful on
kraft cardstock. Distress Oxides are good for this, so I stencilled a
background first, going over it several times. I then stamped over that and
also on another piece of card. I found the best way to get some colour on was
with pencils. The text is stencilled onto gold card in black paste.
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https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-oxide-ink-pads.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-a5-mask-all-circles.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-a4-stencil-words-tc40001.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-black-texture-paste.html
Saturday 2 March 2024
Be Creative…
I’m making a tag this week combining bright flowers with what was meant to be a snowy background – a bit quirky, but I really like it! The background is kraft card sprayed with Distress Oxides and then at some point I’ve used the tree masks – can’t remember when as I dug this out of my stash. The flowers and bird by Melina are painted with Satin Inks – I’d forgotten how much I love these – they mix and mingle and give a lovely glossy, quick drying finish.
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https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-melinas-sketched-birds-branches.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-a4-stencil-trees-tc40011.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-satin-inks.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-oxide-sprays.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/stamperia-create-happiness-contour-liner-white-katn03.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-whitegreyboard-tags-pack-of-6-10.html
Saturday 24 February 2024
Watch the
Birdie
I was
playing around with this leaf stencil this week. I sprayed it first of all with
Distress Oxide Spray and then replaced the stencil and scraped through some
modelling paste – I wanted to see if it would take up the green colour. It did
very slightly. I added definition to the stencilling with a Distress watercolor
pencil.
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https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-6ins-x-6ins-stencil-leaves-tc66001.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-oxide-sprays.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-fine-texture-paste.html
https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-watercolor-pencils.html