Stamperia Lilac box

A picture step by step decorated box.

Firstly remove hinges and closure and give box a light wash of white. As you can see I painted first then remembered to remove fittings, whoops!!

Cut to size patterned paper, I used some from a Stamperia Lilac pad.

Emboss some snip art chipboard pieces, I used Luscious powders mixed with clear embossing powder.

 Edge each piece of pattern paper with a soft lilac ink. ( I decided to add lilac paint sponged around the edges later, so this step can be left out if you decide to do the same)

Glue on all pieces of patterned paper.

Glue on the snip art around a topper from the same lilac paper pad

Add a lilac pink applique to the top right corner

Re attach hinges and fastener

Embellish with a mix of mulberry flowers, foam flowers,  silk leaves,

die cut leaves, flourishes,

and lilac gem stones.

Voila!!

Challenges:

Altered eclectics anything goes

Creative artiste mixed media  anything mixed media

Make my monday - embossing wet or dry

A bit more time to craft  - anything goes

Lets create challenges - lace, ribbon, twine

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue xx

The sky's the limit...

I've created a new double page in my black journal.

I painted over with a quick coat of gesso, followed by a few splashes of Indigo blu paint in shades of brown and orange and a little green. Then sponged some metallic paint through a stencil.

Next I stamped some clocks, cogs and various backgrounds stamps all over in black, yellow and green. 

To create lots of layers I diecut some cogs out of brown and yellow card and rubbed in 2 shades of gold gilding wax and glued them around the edges of both pages.

I stamped some steampunk animals from crafters companion and coloured one with watercolours.

And the other with spectrum illustrator pens. Once stuck on the page I went round each image with dark graphite pencil and smudged it in.

Then I used a white pen to draw round all the cogs and to apply a bit of highlight to the page.

It was finished off with a stamped sentiment.

So there you are, I hope you like it.

I am entering this into these challenges:

A inky mess - #18 challenge - Anything mixed media goes

Craft Stamper - TIMI -challenge-march - Anything goes

The Artistic Stamper challenge March-stencils + masks

Make my Monday challenge  #66 - Gold and silver

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue

                          

The sweetest nectar ....

Hello,

I've just bought my first dylusions art journal with black pages and couldn't wait to have a play in it.

I had been watching Gerda Van Dijk's You tube channel and she creates some fantastic journal pages in her black journal, so I just had to get one and have a try. 

Here's my first 2 page spread inspired from her work;

The birds and flower stamps are from Sheena Douglas stamp sets, stamped onto Sheena card, coloured with Spectrum Aqua and sparkle pens from Crafters Companion, then cut out and glued on.

The background was created using gesso, paints and stamps - Limor circles from IndigoBlu and wording stamps from Visible Image.

Then finished off with some doodling and highlighting using a white posca pen.

Challenges;

Stamps and stencils - Off to collage challenge

Creative artiste mixed media - #35 challenge

Art journal journey - A-z animals ( hope that includes birds)

Make my Monday challenge #65 Messy backgrounds

Simon says stamp- monday challenge- Grunge it up

We love 2 create- Anything mixed media