Zoe - Challenge # 1 "Add some Glitter"

Happy New Year Lovelies! I hope you've all had a wonderful and healthy Christmas and New Years Eve?

I've scheduled my post as I'm flying home today from Canada, having spent Christmas with my beautiful Daughter and her boyfriend! I don't know about you? But as much as I adore my daughter and loved every minute spending precious time with her, there's nothing like getting home to my own bed.

So New Year new Challenge with Lavinia Stamps, our theme this month is "Add some Glitter" oooooooo who can resist a little sparkle? Something to brighten up January is always welcome in my eyes.

If you don't have a blog, don't worry you can enter by Email now, so what are you waiting for? Can't wait to see some wonderful work, now you have no excuses lol xx

If you not tried Lavinia Stamps shop here you really are missing out, such gorgeous designs, created by the wonderfully talented Tracey Dutton. She is offering a whopping £40 voucher to spend on Lavinia Stamp products to the winner of the challenge, so why not have a go? Just follow the theme, and please include Lavinia Stamps in your project, apart from that you can do what you like xx

So here's my card, I created it using Acrylic paints, a technique I copied from the lovely Sheena Douglass. on centura pearl card, the shimmery side for a change, I brushed on Maemeri clear gloss gel medium working quickly so it doesn't dry I then quickly applied the paint, once dry I then stamped my images using black Archival ink and Green for the Willow foliage at the top, I stamped my tall Zentangle mushrooms onto card and lightly coloured with Coloursoft pencils, added some glitter here and there and adhered using pinflaire glue gel for some dimension, with a fine paintbrush I painted in the leaves and added some colourful dots to the foliage to look like little flowers with acrylic paints, I stamped the fairy onto acetate and added glue and glitter to the wings, once dry I cut just the wings out, again to add some dimension, I added some liquid pearl dots and glittered them for even more sparkle, I really enjoyed making this card, I loved this technique, it doesn't show well in the photos but the centura pearl shimmer shows through the paint technique, it's really subtle but pretty.

 

 

 

I hope you like my card and it inspires you to join in the challenge? Thank you so much for visiting and all the best for 2014 xxxx

 

 

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Zoe - Challenge # 23 "Going Dotty"

Good morning Lovelies and a Very Happy New Year, let's hope it's a healthy one?

I'm travelling home today from spending Christmas in Canada with my Daughter so my post has been scheduled.

This fortnight Rhedd and Rosie's theme was picked by the lovely Becca and it's "Going Dotty" you can make whatever you like as long as it's Dotty!

Here's my card, it started off as a tag but I stamped the sentiment Austrailia stylie lol so tore the bottom off inked it and used it as a topper lol, the leaves and butterfly stamps are Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 the Sentiment is Tim Holtz, I used DI to create my background with splashes of water and dried and then inked through some sequin waste. I hope you like it? Thank you for visiting today, have a great day xx

 

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Zoe - Week 52 "Happy New Year"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas? The weather has been pretty ghastly I hear? I'm in Canada until 1st January, having spent a wonderful White a Christmas with my daughter, it's been the best Christmas ever and I don't want to go home!

So here is my DT sample for Premium Craft Brands

I used a black tag, I inked the whole tag in versamark and used the golds, metallic Pan Pastels, I then embossed it with a star stencil after I'd sprayed with cheap hairspray, I added bronze PP over the embossed stars, my star embellishments I made using Maemeri light modelling medium in silicone moulds, which were left over night to dry then coloured with orange Pan Pastel, I wrote the sentiment!

Happy New Year, hugs, Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - Week 51 "Make a gift using fabric"

Good Morning Lovelies! And a very Merry Christmas one and all! Today is my birthday, rather a large number 52 eek! I'd rather forget lol, we are in Canada for Christmas with our beautiful daughter, we just returned there on Friday having spent 5 days in New York, wow what a place, really not for me, Too big, too crowded, too busy, very unfriendly and I found it a bit scary, I guess it's not for everyone? Lol however we visited some interesting places. We did so much walking I've returned with a bad knee. Now I'm back with my daughter I'm trying to rest it and it is starting to feel better. Most of the snow we had before we went to NY has melted but they said we are due more yesterday (scheduled post by the way) I hope we have a white Christmas. We are spending Christmas Day at Keenan's parents (daughters boyfriend) which will be great, lots of fun, food and laughter, they are great people.

Anyway less of my rambling on, here is my DT sample for Premuim Craft Brands! I have made a wall hanging out of mini canvases, I have attempted to make multi media canvases with White Maemeri Gesso, coloured in places with Magenta Tint Pan Pastels, the photographs are of each of our little fostered girls that have all gone on to adoption! I hope you like it?

This top one is Angel, we had her from 4 days old until she was 17 months old, she was 4 in September.

The second one is Millie, we had her from 12 months old until one month before her 3rd birthday which was last February.

And finally our last little darling Ruby, we got her at 4 and a half months old, she moved the day after her 1st birthday, on the 9th November, so we have done 2 adoptions this year, a roller coaster of emotion I can tell ya! :,( it's true what they say though! "Time is a healer" although I never get over them going, but the pain does ease in time!

 

All my special baby girls, I love them so much and miss them, there's never a day goes by that I don't think about them!

Hopefully we will return in the New Year refreshed and ready for a new baby? :)

I hope you like my Wallhanging? Merry Christmas and hugs, Zoe xxx

 

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Zoe - Challenge # 22 "Let it Snow"

Good morning Lovelies! I'm in Canada spending Christmas with my beautiful daughter, I'm not back until New Year, I've scheduled my blog posts, so I'll wish you all a very merry Christmas, I hope it's happy and healthy to one and all.

Our theme this fortnight at Rhedd and Rosie's was picked by our lovely and very talented teamie Wendy "Let it snow"

Rosie is sponsoring this challenge and is offering this fab prize for the winner!

 

I made 2 cards,my first very simple card, is a Sweet Poppy stencil and sparkle medium.

My second I used a multi layer technique using a music background and script stamps and a combination of Distress inks and Distress paint, the stamp is of course Tim Holtz, as you can see I painstakingly fussy cut the snowflake and decoupaged it.

 

I hope you like my cards, thank you very much for taking the time to visit and make a comment xxx merry crimbo xxx

 

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Zoe - week 50 "Make Snow/Snowflake"

Good morning Lovelies! A quick post today as I'm away in Canada until the New Year!

So we had to make Snow or Snowflakes using Pan pastels this week at Premium Craft Brands

I had a lovely friend Karen Willis cut me a 3D snowflake on here Cameo, I coloured it with blue Pans and stamped over with Versamark ink then platinum Metallic Pan Pastel

 

 

Thank you for visiting! Zoe xxx

 

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12 Tags of 2013 1st December tag

Good morning Lovelies, I'm on a roll lol.

Heres my version of Tim Holtz 1st December Tag, absolutely adore Tim Holtz style, I've made a few of the tags from 12 tags of 2013 and thoroughly enjoyed it,

I haven't got any of Wendy Vecchi's clearly art heatable plastic so I used Vellum, it's not the same, but it looks pretty good.

I'm entering this into Craftyhands Challenge Blog the theme is "Seasons Greetings"

I hope you like my tag, thank you for spending the time to visit and comment xxx happy Wednesday xxx

 

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