JUST PLAYING..

 Hello everyone,

Been having a play with dies and just making things simple for masculine cards..although I love the fuss and bother better, the layers and grunge and all that stuff, especially nautical style, but just wanted to keep playing and simpler way..lack of mojo I think..

anyway inked up this panel with a lot of Bundled Sage Distress ink..

It's not really this dark, I'm only showing it because you can see the water splatter better..

then I stenciled texture paste, love it..

Monte Marte texture paste, it is really good..

After adding the die cuts showing a little dimension, not much..

I really like this one..

the I glued and stuck down on dimension tape the sentiment...

WHY???

I wasn't thinking too hot and I don't like it off to the side..

I then squirted Nuvo black crystal drops on and

gave it a whack or two the flatten them out

and sort of liked it a bit better..

then did the whole thing again with the top hat die that I bought last week..

and added the sentiment along the bottom without the red backing..

here they are together ready for the shop..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

hope you have a great weekend, mine is underway..

still mojo less..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter....

Crafty Catz  ( Anything goes )

Creative Fingers   ( Anything Goes )

Craft Rocket Challenge   ( No Designer paper )

Krafty Chicks Challenge   ( Masculine )

SQUEEZING IT IN..

 Hello everyone,

I have a tag to share today after finding an old die in my stash, slipped inside another set and I was so happy I just had to play..BUT!!

I struggled..

Here's the die and I planned on a shaker

so cut it out and glued acetate behind the openings..

so far so good..

then I fished out these papers and I have a huge amount of them..A5's.

This is where it went belly up..

I die cut the paper and added on top, over the glass..

added beads and shook  it, and the beads went all over the place..ha ha ha..

I sealed it wrong.

so here the beads were gone, so I added the die cut of the glass into the gap..

added a top tab and some inky edges with TH Ground Espresso ink..

then some glass bubble beads were glued on

the outside of the glass and on the tag..

So finally it was done...

with only minimal ear shattering curses..

Thank you so much for stopping by,

see you soon..

luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter....

Tag - Along ( and ATC's )   ( Drinks or Anything goes )

 

WATER PAINT IT..DT

 Hello everyone,

The week has flown by and it is time again for Little Red Wagon

 challenge and this week I'm your hostess and my theme is - Water paint it..

Water painting is easy, you don't need to think, you put some paint down and add water, easier than making scones...in my world it is, I'm not a scone maker at all..

I'll show you what I have been playing with..

All these critters and plants were painted with water paints..

Nothing was neat and tidy, just paint and add water..

for my project I used this new die set with these adorable little mice..

paint with a little water to start it off..

add water..see, blotchy and shaded all the same time.

if it gets too dark in some places just add a little water and blot gently..

and little gems for eyes..

inside the card..

little mice getting into their places..no pushing please, one at a time.

A birthday die cut sentiment and done..

so do come and play HERE

Oh, dear, I should be scrapbooking and all I want to do now is water paint, good old messy water painting..

thank you so much for stopping by

I'll catch up again soon..

luv CHRISSYxx

I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE...

 Hello everyone,

I do, I do like to be beside the seaside and I'm not very far away from it as I live on a coastline in NZ..inland a bit but not too far at all...

So, I made a simple little tag with dies and scraps of cardstock, just for fun..

Blank tag, covered tag with papers  from Francheville called

Modern Coastal

this is going to be my challenge to use a very busy dark background..

dies at the the ready..

and die cutting in white and have to colour everything..

except for the cork sand.

clouds too..

clouds glued down and trimmed..

and white paint foam added to the sea..

die cuts just simple coloured..

and done....

then I had to mess around with it when I was already satisfied with it, but, I found a glitter pen in my draw, and thought it would be such a good idea to add onto the cork..mmm..

it does not look too bad in real life, just hard to capture it on camera..

Anyway it is done, I had fun, and now back to the scrapbook for a minute or too, I'm onto great,great great grandparents..I thinks cameras had just been invented, ha ha ha,,hard to work with..

Thank you so much for stopping by, be back tomorrow sometime with DT project, so see you then..

luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter,,,

Crafting Uncles   ( Summer )

The Four Seasons challenge   ( Summer)

Allsorts challenge   ( Seaside or anything goes)

 

A LITTLE STEAMPUNK..

 Hello everyone,

Hope your weekend is going great with nice weather whether you are winter or summer, I'm winter and loving it, frosty mornings and beautiful sunshine days, so can't complain.

I was playing the other day with a distress oxide I bought called Bundled sage and Weathered wood and tried a little something new for me...........a one layer card, inked straight onto the card base..and I think I held my breath all the way!!

But first, my new die..could be Steampunk...Easter...Madhatter....Christmas....the list is endless..

I went Steampunk..

So here' s the hat with hat band and buckle from Temu..

and I mad ethe first hat, and loved it..

made a second one and added a gear.

then no band and a shiny gold gear..

Then nail art gears..and white shadows..

a few more gears and I was happy with this one...

so here's the ink, bad lighting, dull day and very bad editing..

then wet embossed this lovely pattern stencil...

Then this idea came about while paste was wet..

On went the hat with a good bit of dimension..

one layer and dimension..

and done ..

with a scattering layer of gears, these nail art gears are perfect..

So there we go..

Thank you so much for stopping by, see you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Bragging rights...

Challenges to enter...

Alphabet challenge   ( E for embossing wet or dry )

Cut it up   ( Masculine )

Craft Rocket Challenge   ( No patterned paper )