Paperbabe rag tails

Good morning friends.

Last night I decided to have a go with a Paperbabe stencil. I got a few early this year and apart from having a quick go of 2 of them, I never seemed to find the time to try out the others. 

So when I found I had a couple of hours to do some crafting, I couldn't wait to grab a stencil and some acrylic paint and start to play.

I didn't have a plan, just went with the flow, and this is what I came up with, I really enjoyed using these incredible stencils.

  

Once I had taken a photo, I decided to have a play with it in the photo editing suite on my phone. I really like this negative effect, its cool.

I am entering this into paperbabe stamps challenge -63 - anything goes

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue xx

Festive makes ...part 3

Here's a few pics of some Christmas decorations I made this year. I actually made lots more, but forgot to take photos before I took them to sell at this years craft fairs.

Thanks for looking and I will see you all in the New Year

Hugs Sue xx

Festive makes...part 2

As promised, here's some more of my festive makes from this years collection.

Countdown to Christmas chalkboards, these are just some of the designs that I hand painted onto wooden hearts that had been painted first with 3 coats of chalkboard paint.

This is a wooden advent that I bought the blank from Hobbycraft last year, but didnt get round to decorating till this year. It has 24 little drawers that you can put a little treat in and reuse year after year.

I painted with white paint, then a coat of crackle effect, followed by a pale blue paint. For the drawers I used the same paints and crackle just the opposite way around and added a mix of silver foiled and glitter number stickers. 

I added a little corner display of flowers, leaves and berries and some snowflake jewel designs. 

The santa sleigh and reindeer were painted with Viva decor ceramic white and edged with a touch of blue. I layered up the base with scrunched up tissue, pretend snow, mini balls and loads of sparkle. 

I'm really pleased with the finished piece, very pretty and sparkly.

Thanks for looking
Hugs Sue xx

Festive makes

Here's some of the projects I've been making over the last couple of months. They were very good sellers at my Christmas fairs and also in the craft shop were I display some of my makes.

I named the range Winter Woodland. It consisted of various designs on slate hearts, log slices and wood hearts. Lots of woodland creatures, robins, squirrels, deer, fox, and other birds. 

Thanks for looking, come back tomorrow to see some more of my festive makes.

Hugs Sue xx