Birthday card with crazy dog and crazy bird

I didn't want to miss the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week where the theme is Happy Birthday. So I made this:

For the background, I used Weathered Wood and Stormy Sky Distress ink, then I spritzed with water. 

Next, I took the Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink and the Numbered layering stencil and stencilled some numbers.

I inked the edges with Frayed Burlap ink, then I stamped the text and the bird's outline with Jet Black Archival ink. 

To protect this background, I took a plastic sheet and spritzed Distress Resist Spray on it. With a piece of sponge, I dabbed the liquid onto the surface. With this technique, you can put an even layer without smudging the inks.

After drying it looks like this, a little shiny.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Things (CMS237)

Stampers Anonymous, Mini Bird Crazy&Things (CMS250)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Dogs (CMS271)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk (CMS236)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky, Frayed Burlap)

Ranger Distress Oxide ink pad (Faded Jeans)

Ranger Distress Resist Spray

Ranger Archival ink (Jet Black)

I hope you like it!!! Happy crafting!!!

With this card, I would like to join the August TIMI Challenge of the Craft Stamper Magazine: Anything goes

Mixed media journal cover with dragonfly

This is my second project for our August challenge, Texture. As for the first time, again, I have made a mixed media journal cover. The process - how I altered my IKEA notebook, how I wrinkled and glued the tissue paper onto the surface -was the same. So if you want to see that, please click here.

When the tissue paper was dry, I painted the cover with Schminke Indigo blue acrylic paint. 

Then, with a sponge, I smudged the surface with diluted Whispering Turquoise paint.

Then I spattered with DecoArt Americana Glorious Gold paint.

Then I glued the cutouts which were painted with gold paint.

I used the following Sizzix Thinlits die sets: Geo Insects, Script Friendship Words.

I hope you like it! And if you have a project with some interesting texture, please don't hesitate to join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

Canvas - Halloween ghost town

Let me show you my latest project, a little canvas (10x20cm) with a Halloween scene. For this, I used only Sizzix-Tim Holtz dies.

The canvas was painted with black and grey acrylic paints. My favourite technique is to add and disperse the paints with a sponge.

I cut out the houses, the tree and the little fence from black cardstock, then I heat embossed them with Black Soot embossing powder by Ranger.

Then I glued grey cardstock pieces behind the houses.

All the other elements were painted with acrylic paints. The ghosts with white, the moon with grey, the bats with black acrylic paints.

The text is stamped and white embossed onto black cardstock.

I adhered all the elements to the canvas and in the end, I put a coat of Distress Resist Spray. I did the following: I sprayed into a plastic tray and then I tapped the resist medium with a piece of sponge onto the canvas, the whole surface.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Frightful Things

Sizzix Thinlits die, Ghost Town

Sizzix Thinlits die, Haunted House

Sizzix On The Edge die, On The Fence

Stampers Anonymous, Pumpkinheads (CMS309)

Ranger Distress embossing powder, Black Soot

Ranger Distress Resist Spray

acrylic paints

You might ask why I applied Resist Spray on a canvas where I used acrylic paints. Acrylic paint doesn't need protection, right? Well, when I finished all the glueing, my canvas was full of tiny shiny areas, mainly around the little and delicate diceuts like tree and bets. But when I put a coat of Resist Spray, these annoying things were disappeared.

I hope you like it!!! Happy crafting!!!

P.S. I'm sorry guys, I have to boast about this. When I woke up on Monday morning and visited my Instagram page, I saw this:

What a great start of the day and the week!!!

Mixed media journal cover

Hello everyone, here is my first project for our August challenge, called Texture and the lovely Miriam will be your hostess.

So I made a mixed media journal cover. A long long time ago I bought a very cheap notebook in the IKEA and lately I decided to use it for journaling. So this will be mine :-)

I like nice but practical objects, this is why I wanted this cover to stay 2 dimensional, I didn't want any protruding or standing out 3D elements. I wanted a flat, 2D surface only.

My IKEA notebook looked very silly with a green weird face on the top. I sanded the surface first then I tried to place the cutouts on the top.

For the cutouts, I used the following Sizzix, Thinlits die sets: Script, Friendship Words, Script, Holiday Words 2, Mini Detailed Butterflies.

Then I wrinkled and adhered a tissue paper to the surface with decoupage glue. When it was dry, I covered the surface with white gesso.

After drying, I coloured the cover with the following DecoArt Americana paints: White Wash, Sweet Mint, Spa Blue.

I heat embossed the cutouts with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

I smeared diluted Toffee and Mississippi Mud to the surface, then I spattered the cover with diluted Burnt Umber colour.

I inked the edges with Ranger Archival ink (Potting Soil).

I glued the cutouts onto the front and the back, then I stamped and heat embossed some circles to the empty places. For this, I used again the Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

Here you can see the back:

And a close-up of the front:

Unfortunately, the photos don't do justice. Because of the metallics, it was very hard to take photos. The colour, for example, more turquoise in real life.

With my journal, I would like to join the challenge of the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog: Marvellous Metallics

I hope you like it! And if you have a project with some interesting texture, please don't hesitate to join our August challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!