I taught a class this week which was all about making backgrounds. One of the simplest was using magazine pages lightly coated with gesso as a collage element. Gesso takes inks differently to paper, so it can be interesting to mix and match them as I did in this tag. I’ve inked up the tag [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Distress’
In an octopus’s garden in the shade
Posted in Artylicious CDs, Colouring, Craft Stuff, Daily Life, tagged bunnehs, copics, Distress, sizzix, underwater on Saturday, July 3 2010 | 21 Comments »
I just love these underwater stamps – I think the hot weather is what’s making me think longingly of snorkelling around a subtropical sea floor. Well this is as close as I’m going to get right now. The tag is coloured with Distress inks (Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Tumbled Glass, with Brushed Corduroy around the [...]
So you like the idea of classes, huh?
Posted in Artylicious CDs, Craft Stuff, tagged Derrick, Distress, Ranger on Thursday, May 6 2010 | 20 Comments »
Well, that was an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the idea of online classes. I think I have a new project on my to do list. I found a photo of a little accordian pocket book I made with Eastern Grasses and I can’t remember if I ever posted it here? Well, if this is a [...]
Ranger Workshop
Posted in Art, tagged Claudine Hellmuth, Distress, Fragmentz, Melt Pot, Memory Frames, Perfect Pearls, Ranger, Suze Weinberg, Tim Holtz, UTEE on Thursday, February 25 2010 | 14 Comments »
OK, I finally got round to taking a photograph of the project we made on the Ranger workshop last weekend. We spent the first hour with Suze Weinberg playing with the melt pot, then an hour with Claudine Hellmuth playing with her paints, sticky back canvas, gesso and mediums, and finally the last hour with [...]
And another soppy one
Posted in cards, tagged Distress, Ranger, romance on Tuesday, December 15 2009 | 7 Comments »
I don’t know if I’ll get round to making a Christmas card for Adrian this year, but in previous years I have often incorporated hearts into my cards for him. Last year I made a red button heart. This year, I think he might get something similar to this one. 2010 will be our 14th [...]
Basement Cat turns Thirteen
Posted in Cat Stuff, Family, Glimmer Chips, Glimmer Mist, Scrapbooking Stuff, tagged Basil, Distress, Glimmer Mist, Halloween, Ranger, scrapbooking, Tattered Angels on Monday, September 28 2009 | 26 Comments »
If you are not a fan of I Can Has Cheezburger, then you might not get the joke here. Basically, the site has evolved the concept of an enlightened higher being known as Ceiling Cat, who is always a white cat and his evil counterpart, Basement Cat who is nearly always portrayed as a jet [...]
Emboss ‘n’ Scrunch
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cuttlebug, Distress on Sunday, March 2 2008 | 14 Comments »
Would you like to see how this is made? No, it’s not the result of a crafter’s hissy fit, it is actually a stage in the process of making rather beautiful embossed backgrounds – like this one: which I think is rather pretty. Like a lot of these things, it came about while I was [...]
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