Plant a garden, plant happiness

 Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my blog where today I am sharing a set of three ATC's made with products by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create. 

Here's how:

I dunked the cards in Distress Oxide inks and when dry added some stenciling.

Next, stamping. Not too much.

The image and sentiment I stamped to use. 

I decided to keep the flowers light. I added yellow, white and orange dots to the hearts as they are almost black when stamped. I used Posca Paint pens for this. The petals are a very pale blue to suggest that the flowers are white. 

Added a few pieces of washi tape. 

Lastly I matted the cards on black card stock. 

All products I have used are by Tracy Evans:

Washi tape #41 - Kaleidoscopic

Stencil #178 - Crisp Tulips

Stamps:

#262 - M E S H 

#757 - Tickets

#978 - Hexapetalistic

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Take flight

 Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my blog where today  have a journal spread which I made for the new challenge over at Country View Challenges. The theme this month was set by Rachel and is 'Things with wings". 

I really like how this came out! 

Here's how I made it:

First, I chose one of the Found Relatives by Tim Holtz and gave her a tiny bit of colour using colouring pencils. 

Next I cut her out. 

I then used half of a butterfly from Tim Holtz' pack of 'Layers". I gave that a little colour too, this time with Distress Oxide ink "Vintage Photo". 

I used these two inks and a blending tool to add colour to my pages, I did also drip some water on it but you can hardly see it. I suppose it depends on the quality of the paper how much you can achieve. 

 

Next, I stamped the background randomly using these AALL & Create stamps and the same distress Oxide Inks and a VersaFine Clair Nocturne pad. 

The sentiment is from this stamp set by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create. 

And here it is all put together. I really like it ! 

We would love for you to play along with us but before you do, make sure to read the rules. You'll find them HERE. 

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Wild and Free

 Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my blog where today I am sharing an artjournal page for AALL & Create. I try to give all designers the same amount of attention throughout the month and today was Tracy's turn. 

Here's how:

I started with a piece of 6 x 6 water colour paper. I made a gelli print with this stencil. First, roll yellow paint on your plate and pull a print. Then roll over turquoise paint and put the stencil on the paint while it is still wet. Put a piece of paper over the top and roll your brayer over it to take all the paint out of the holes. Then take stencil and paper off and put your yellow print on the plate. (You have to be reasonably quick so the paint doesn't dry.) Pull your second print. 

After toning it down with white paint and the same brayer I stamped the background randomly. I used whatever ink had the right colour, some Archival, some Distress Oxide and a Versafine Clair. 

Next some washi tape. I did tone that down with white paint as well. 

Next the focal. I stamped it on my page and on a piece of watercolour paper. 

I used my watercolours to give him a bit of colour. I then cut him out. 

Here he is in all his splendour ! The last thing was adding black splatters and a sentiment which came from the same stamp set. I matted the sentiment and the page on black card stock to make it pop. 

I have used the following AALL & Create products:

Stencil:

#30 - Autour de Mwa

Washi tape: 

25 mm by Autour de Mwa

#7 - WInged Friends by Tracy Evans

Stamps:

#625 - Vine by Tracy Evans

#350 - Splattered Numbers by Tracy Evans

#304 - Heartfelt by Tracy Evans

#751 - Fully Fledged by Tracy Evans

#563 - Follow Your Own Path by Tracy Evans

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stockists, please visit:

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Create happy memories

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well.
For today's AALL & Create project I have made a little tag album. I used just inks, stamps and stencils. Oh, and a tiny bit of white paint for the inside of the album.

And here is how I made it:

First I took a piece of Mixed media paper from one of my A4 pads. I didn't measure it because I didn't think that was important. I folded the paper up about a third, again I didn't measure it. This flap is to become pockets for tags. 

To decorate my album I used two stencils and three colours of Distress Oxide Inks (Broken China, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry). I used the stencils to print. This is a very effective but easy technique where you rub the ink pad over the stencil and spritz with water, you then put the inked side onto the paper and blot with kitchen paper. 

After it was all dry I added some stamping. I didn't realise that the bottom right 4 would be upside down as soon as I folded the flap up. Oh well... lol 

This is the inside of the album and I added some more ink this time by putting the ink on my craft sheet, spritzing with water and dunking the paper in it. I repeated this until I was happy, drying the layers in between. I then added a bit of stencilling with white paint. I only decorated the top because the bottom will fold up over. 

I then used the same colours of ink to dye a piece of ribbon. 

Next I folded the 'pocket strip' up and folded the whole thing into four the other way. You can see my upside down 4 here. I then took it to my sewing machine and stitched over the fold lines to create pockets. I stitched the ribbons inside of the pockets left and right. 

That was my album done ! 

This is how it looks on the outside folded out. I did add some doodling as well. 

Now to work on the tags that will go inside the pockets. 

I decided to used the same stencil and the same colours of ink. I mixed the blue with the yellow for the second tag to get a greenish colour. I used the same technique by rubbing the ink pad over the stencil, spritzing with water and printing. 

When dry I stamped the background and did some doodling along the edges. 

Next, I stamped the focal images for the tags and coloured them with Copic Markers:

SO cute ! 

The finished tags. 

Here is what the book looks like closed (front).

and the back.. 

The inside with the tags in the pockets.. 

The girls peeking out.. 

I have used the following stamps and stencils:

Stencils:

#90 - Elegance by Olga Heldwein

#105 - Lotza Trianglz by Autour de Mwa

Stamps:

#350 - Splattered numbers - Tracy Evans

#366 - Roundly - Autour de Mwa

#376 - Recerse Triangles - Autour de Mwa

#354 - Bunny & Bunnies - Janet Klein

#358 - Paw Prints - Janet Klein

#379 - Party with me - Janet Klein

#380 - Rapunzel - Janet Klein

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Limited edition

Hello everyone,

For today's AALL & Create GDT post I have decorated a MDF Monolith using all Tracy Evans stamps. I also used a stencil by Olga Heldwein.

And here's how I made this:

First I gessoed the MDF stand and then sprayed them with Dina Wakley's gloss sprays. I used Lemon and Lime. Later I added a touch of Cheddar. 

When this was all dry I stamped it with Archival inks in roughly the same colours. 

Next I added black paint along the edges and used this stencil to add some modelling paste. 

I did the same to the back. 

Next I sprayed some card stock with gloss spray, using Cheddar, Turquoise and Ocean. After drying I placed these pieces in my stamp platform and stamped the butterfly. 

I cut it out and added the yellow pen nib to add some contrast. I also doodled along some of the lines of the butterfly with a white pen. 

And here it is all finished ! I added a word chip by Tim Holtz on which I added some of the turquoise spray along the edges. I also cut it in two pieces. 

The back of the stand.

I have used the following stamp, all by Tracy Evans:

#267 - Nature Elements

#304 - Heartfelt

#302 - Going postal

#307 - Overlapping texture

and a stencil by Olga Heldwein:

#2 

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