Wednesday 3 October 2018

Haunted hanging


Hello guys. Today I'm getting into the halloween spirit and bringing you a haunted hanging sign. I have been lucky enough to get hold of Kate Crane's new designs for Caravelle Studio which I have used in this project.

Firstly I took four pieces from a tango creative mini book kit. As you can see in the first picture I have four square chipboards but in the end project I only use three. I knew that I wanted to make this project to hang so I punched hole in the top left and right corner. You will need to punch two more holes in one of the chipboard which I didn't do until the end but it can be done at this stage. I then gessoed the chipboard so this gives a base for any medium I wanted to use next. The paints I used are the from the Dina Wakely range.  The colours are white, eggplant and tangerine.



I decided that for this project I wanted to do some finger painting and started off with adding white to two/three places and then adding the colour. Its best not to go too strong with the colour at first. Then you can work to a deeper colour if desired.


Then I did the same technique with the eggplant paint.


After the paint had dried a little, you can make the colour a lot darker.
So then you begin a second layer. 


I then used my gelli plate. I brayered the whole plate with white paint and used one of Kates new texture plates. 


It didn't turn out quite as sharp as I would have liked but it gave me some texture.


I did the same with the orange paint and a different texture plate.


Kate has three new stencils out and this one is one of my favourites. 


I like to use black paint around the edges which I later highlighted with white pen.


I added a bit more of the eggplant and used another stencil called noughts and crosses.


When everything was dry, I highlighted the stencil areas with a bit of pen work.  I added white on the black which makes it pop and went round some of the stencil area with the white and black and a touch of the orange.


I added some stamping using the black archival ink pad and one of Kates Stampotique square stamps. This has four designs which are designed to be used for backgrounds.




Distress crayons are amazing to add a pop of colour. This has to be used lastly as the pen doesn't work on top. It will also damage them.



When I finished the background, I worked on the main image. I still had my gelli plate out so I decided to make some backgrounds for the focal images. I continued with the same colours apart from adding Ruby to the mix.



I added more texture to the background with the noughts and crosses stencil. This is the smaller size.


After the backgrounds were dry I used my Tim Holt stamp platform and stamped some images
that I wanted to use. 


I used two of Kate's new stamp sets. 


I had so much fun making this that I forgot to take photos of the next steps. Once I stamped the images I wanted to use, I cut them out and placed them on my chipboard squares. I placed the chipboard squares in a vertical line. This is where I removed one of the squares. I used the red background that I had made and used the purple background for the roof. The head from one of the girl stamps was placed so it looked like it was hanging off the house.
 Using my type writer and some old book paper I wrote " Trick or Treat smell my feet". This is something my nephews say at halloween and I love it.  I added some more book paper at the bottom and a little at the top before I stuck everything down. I decided I wanted to make this look more 3d so I used foam tape to stick the elements down. I added black elastic to hang it.



Hope you liked my first tutorial. I would love to hear any feedback below.









Wednesday 20 January 2016

Online Classes

This year i have signed up for a couple of online classes these are mixed media ones and scrapbooking. I find online classes gd for me seeing as there is not so many in person classes near me.
 One of the mixed media class i have signed up for is a year long and its called Wanderlust and its done by Everythingart Kasia krzyminska and Jamie Avery. Here is a list of all the teacher's Starting with my gd friend Kate Crane,
Teresa Mcfayden,
Rachel Greig,
Beckah Krahula,
Joanne Sharpe,
Flora Bowley,
Mystele,
Andy Skinner,
Anna Dabrowski,
Brigit Koopsen,
Linsday Weiricc,
Magda Polakow,
Carolyn Dube,
Stephanie Schutze,
Mary Potapovich,
Jennifer Lee,
Leslie Wood,
Natalie Kalbach,
Roben-Maire Smith,
Rachel Urista,
Susie la fond,
Joanna Grant,
France Papillon and Karen Michel. How many awesome teachers are in that line up and then you also get classes by Kasia and Jamie talking about which are the best pens,paint brushes, paints and many more.

SO my lovely friend Kate crane was the first to weather her class and it was a little accordion travel book. Here are my pages so far all ready to put together and add extra bits to the inside.

Hopefully i will have more pictures to show you in the next couple of days.


Wednesday 13 January 2016

Special Visiter

I have had a special visiter into my studio tonight and that was the lovely Michelle Webb from  the hobby room uk. This is the first time i have anyone other then my family in there and it was great showing Michelle all the different things i have. Michelle is down here doing some work so we are hoping to get together a bit and do some crafting. Most of my craft friends live miles away from me so it nice to have someone visit. Will hopefully post with pictures of things we make.





Wednesday 9 September 2015

New Family Member

So we have had Tilly over two years now and she is the most amazing little girl. After Roxy past away i said i wanted to get another dog but as i still live at home it was up to the parents and they said now.
Anyway Em and G have been talking about getting a puppy for a long time and have looked online for a cockapoo like Tilly. Well Em happened to come across a post about some puppies and when she rang up about them it turned out to be the same breeder as where we got Tilly from. At this point i asked if we could get one but it was a no. Em and G went to have a look and feel in Love with a little girl. Over that weekend i bugged Mum and Dad and made posts and put them up everywhere and it worked they agreed to go and have a look. There where no girls left but lots of boys and i feel in love with the little boy with the green collar. So we had to wait two more weeks until we could pick them up.

SO yesterday afternoon we picked up these two little bundles of black fluff. From the left i would like you to meet Winnie who is going to join the Boothman family and on the right Bertie who is joining are family.

The boys had no idea that they where getting a puppy and after school they came round to our to find that i got a new puppy and then the next min another little came round the corner. The boys faces was priceless and they were both over the moon. Its Henrys birthday next week and he has been asking for a dog so its made his day.

We took the puppies into the garden so Tilly could meet them and she was very nervous and would not go near them and was jumping up at them but hopefully they will get used to each other over the next couple of weeks/months.

Wednesday 1 July 2015

Birthday Month

Yay its the first of July which means its the start of my birthday month. This birthday i will be turning 30 which is a big one. Im not having a party due to not having many friends and really its not my thing. So my birthday is on the Sunday and we have decided that on the Saturday we will take a trip to Chester Zoo and just chill out on my birthday. I have said i want to get a bounce castle which we can all go on. Im not sure if this will happen but it would be supper fun. I am also going to be meeting up with two of my friends for a day in York which i can't wait for. I love going to York and looking round the shops. You can never beat going down to the shambles and going o the fudge shop which is always on my list when we go.

I have been working on my planner and will have an update on them with pictures tomorrow hopefully.


Last month i got my paints out and worked on some panel boards which i just got. I am taking a class with Mindy lacefield and she talked about how she watched the movie big eyes and it inspired her. After watching the lesson i decided to have ago and this is wot i came up with and i just love her. I can't wait to do another one as i just love how she came out. She is going up in my bedroom when my Dad gets round to putting my picture up.


I leave you with a picture of my baby Tilly

Saturday 27 June 2015

Planner addiction

The last couple of months i have jumped on the bandwagon and become addicted to planners. I started following Theplannersociety on instagram and the person behind it is Christy Tomlinson. You may not know but Christy has an online shop called Scarlet lime which does mixed media kits and other items. Well Christy started doing Planner kits which you can sub to each month and guess wot i went and sub.

This was my first kit and it was full of good stuff. The papers as exclusive to the kit as well as a set of stickers made by therestgirl who is also a planner addict.

This was last months kit i love the little hexagon stamp we got in this kit and also the bows which i am going to make into paper clip decorations.

Also Chrsity teamed up with Cori aka therestgirl to bring an amazing online workshop. The thing which is good about this class woz they went through all the different planner out there. Also they show you how to decorate you planner from dividers to the calendar pages it self.

After looking a round i decided to order a kikki k planner which is an Australian based company. 

I can not tell you how in love i am with this planner the colour is so rich and its so sturdy so if you have it in you bag i don't think it will get damaged as much.
 i then decided a week later that i wanted to get another one. this time i decided to get a large one this is the dark cherry. I have not yet set it all up yet as i have only just got a hole punch which will work with it.

Will be posting picture of the dividers i have made and how I'm decorating the pages.

Monday 12 January 2015

Painty weekend

This past weekend i headed up north to Art from the Heart for a painty weekend with the very talented Kate Crane. I just love going to Art from the Heart and getting messy i have made so many nice friends there. Its always a gd place to relax as well and forget about everything

One of the other great things about the weekend was i had the pleasure to stay with the Crane family which was so much fun. This family is so lovely and i can't wait to stay again thats if they will have me lol
                                                  Here are a few photos from the weekend.

I never understand why people want to wear gloves when painting half the fun is getting your hands dirty.
Using one of Dina wakleys face stencils. This page is far from complete it needs journaling adding to it.
One of my favourite pieces from the weekend was this whimsical Fox.
                                                The meals are cooked by Kate and Ali

Some collage journal pages 


                    Don't you just love these tiny match boxes. We all got one each to decorate

i was so inspired when i got home that i made some more pages which i will post in the next couple of days

Haunted hanging