This week at Vera Lane Studio

 Hello everyone, 

Happy Thursday!

For today's project I have made a postcard. As some of you might know Janet has been visiting London and Paris recently and brought out some digistamps to celebrate. I did London last week so today it is Paris' turn. I have never been to Paris; I wonder if it is nice?

Isn't he cute? 

I made the background by cutting a piece of card stock to 4 x 6 making it a postcard. I then searched my stash for blue and red pieces of leftover paper. I found some! Yay! The blue has been colours with what looks like Distress ink and there  is some embossing over the top. The red is a gelliprint I made with Copic Refills and a feather stencil. I added some stamping, a French postage stamp, some washi tape by Janet from AALL & Create with French words and the sentiment was made with a tape embosser. The little guy was printed, coloured and cut out and adhered onto the card. I added a post mark stamp to the postage stamp. 

You'll find this cute little guy together with a cute girl and some accessories HERE. 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

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

For more information about all the fabulous AALL & Create products and a list of international 

stockists, please visit:

www.aallandcreate.com/stockists

Thank you for stopping by ! 

This week at Vera Lane Studio

 Hello everyone, 

Happy Thursday ! For today's Vera Lane Studio project I have made a journal page. 

Meet 'Fowl Dee' ! lol

I printed Miss Dee and the chicken, coloured them with my Copics and cut them out. I then worked on the background. I did this straight in my 8 x 8 Dylusions journal. I put paint on the gelliplate (6 x 6) and printed it in my book. I added some stamping with AALL & Create stamps and stuck down some washi tape, also by AALL & Create. I placed Miss Dee her chicken and the sentiment on the page and glued them down. 

You'll find Fowl Dee HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

A touch of Psycho!

 Hello everyone, 

For today's AALL & Create GDT post I have made a postcard with another Miss Dee. I can't get enough of her and this one is very much like me in the morning ! lol

Here's how I made it:

For this project I dusted off my Distress Oxide Sprays. I forgot how messy sprays are! lol I used Cracked Pistachio, Fossilised Amber and Iced Spruce. I kept spraying water on it until I was happy with the result. I then rubbed the Black Soot Distress Oxide ink pad over this stencil and sprayed it with water. I then printed it onto the card. I thought this cobweb would set the mood for Dee. 

After the usual toning down with brayer and white paint I stamped the card randomly using stamps by Janet Klein.

More stamping as I wasn't quite happy with the background and then some washi tape. Also by Janet. 

I stamped Miss Dee and a sentiment from set #771 which I think goes very well with this Dee. 

I coloured her with Copic Markers and then cut her out. 

Here is the whole thing put together.

I have used the following AALL & Create products:

Stencil:

#146 - Reverse Cobweb by Bipasha Bk

Washitape:

#18 - Poets by Janet Klein

Stamps:

#338 - Background Noise by Janet Klein

#339 - Colour Theory by Janet Klein

#758 - Hidden Words by Janet Klein

#771 - Dee Quips by Janet Klein

#737 - A.M. Dee by Janet Klein

For more information and a list of worldwide stockists, please visit:

www.aallandcreate.com/stockists

Thank you for stopping by today !

Watching and waiting

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Today a new challenge starts over at Country View Challenges. The theme this month is 'Tags' and is hosted by the lovely Jo. So the idea is to make a stand alone tag. Here's my first inspiration piece:

Here's how I made it:

I first cut the tag out of watercolour paper. I didn't measure but went by the size of the stamp I was going to use. I then dunked it in these Oxide inks until I was happy. 

I used a Tim Holtz stencil to add some interest and then, of course I toned it down with white paint and added splatters with pink, orange and white paint pens. 

Stamping randomly using the same inks and black. I used the black ink pad to go around the edges too. 

The focal is this adorable rabbit from Katzelkraft. I watercoloured him. I also stamped a carrot from the same set. 

Here he is.. so cute. 

And here it is all put together. I added some washi tape for him to stand on. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker from the Halloween set. 

We hope you will play along with us ! You could win a £20 voucher for the shop. Just make sure to read the rules first. You'll find them HERE. 

I'll see you soon with another tag ! 

This week at Vera Lane Studio

 Hello everyone, 

Happy Thursday ! For today's Vera Lane Studio project I have a postcard to share. It is a postcard from London as our Janet Klein has been visiting London and brought out this set for that especially. 

I made the background with a years old stencil by Visible Image which I think fits perfectly. I coloured the images and cut them out then adhered them to the card. I found a postage stamp that worked well colour wise so I decided to use that. I used an AALL & Create stamp by Tracy for the postmark. I stamped it around the edge here and there and added some more stamping with a text stamp by Janet. 

The sentiment is London Slang for a cup of tea and I thought that was quite funny! 

I added some shading under her and Big Ben and that was that !

You find the London Goofball HERE. 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Confident

 Hello everyone, 

For today's AALL & Create project I have made a card with all Tracy Evans stamps. Just the stencil is by Abs. It came out exactly as I wanted but this was the second attempt as the first background was too dark. 

Here's how:

First I used a scoreboard and a scoring tool to make the ridges in the card stock. I then swiped Distress Oxide ink over it to give it some colour and visual texture. I used Fossilised Amber. 

Next I stamped the flower on it. I was worried it wouldn't stamp right because of the texture but it was not problem. 

I had already coloured the flowers for the other background that is now in the bin, but I decided to add some more colour. I painted them with Distress Oxide inks; I used Fossilised Amber, Rusty Hinge and Cracking Campfire. I also coloured the buds on the card. 

I added a little bit of stencilling to add more interest. I used Oxide Ink in Rusty Hinge. 

Some stamping, of course! 

I went around the edges with a blending tool and Distress Oxide ink Ground Espresso to give it a bit more of a vintage feel. I also stuck the flowers on, I used dimensional adhesive. 

Next I stamped part of this stamp and heat embossed it with ochre yellow powder. I then cut the sentiments apart, putting the ones that I wasn't going to use away for later. 

I splattered some white acrylic paint on the panel using a Posca white paint pen and added the sentiment

. 

My white card base was too stark for this card so I took my Ground Espresso Distress Oxide Ink and went around the edges. 

When the ink had dried I glued the card panel to it.   

I have used the following AALL & Create products:

Stencil:

#45 - Digital Bubbles by Autour de Mwa

Stamps:

#304 - Heartfelt by Tracy Evans

#350 - Splattered Numbers by Tracy Evans

#752 - Elegant Stems by Tracy Evans

#754 - Power Of The Word by Tracy Evans

For more information about all the fantastic AALL & Create products and a list 

of international stockists, please visit:

www.aallandcreate.com/stockists

Thank you for stopping by today!