Circle Journal

Hi Everyone,

Our little Paperartsy themed circle journal group that was formed last year is almost drawing to a close.....only one more journal to go until we all receive our own journals back to see what everyone else has created! Really looking forward to that part!!

So I think I've got a little lost sharing the pages I've created in others journals on my blog so I'm going to try to catch them up in this post now.

So looking back I have definitely got very behind on sharing these pages lol!

Ok so here it goes - the third journal I received was Catherine's and here is the spread I did:

Next in the circle was Julie's journal:

Then back in December I did a page in Chris's journal - the instigator of the whole group!

And finally for this post, my most recent pages were created in Linda's junk/recycled journal:

I did warn you I'd gotten a bit behind!

Only one more journal to create in and then our circle is complete :-)

Thanks for looking,

Claire xx

 

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Paperartsy 2016 Topic 1

Hello everyone and thank you for visiting today.

I'm sharing my first Paperartsy challenge entry for 2016 - the first topic of 2016 is 'Transparent Art' but for more information please click HERE

I have decided this year that I am going to try to create a journal page for every topic and then bind them all together at the end of the year - Darcy did this for 2015, if you'd like to see her journal click HERE. Well that's my plan anyway - we'll see if I can keep up!

So here is my page:

The background is water, fresco paint (pea coat, French roast) and some Prima oil pastels.

I added Prima 3D gloss gel through a TCW stencil for some transparent texture.

The tree is on a piece of acetate stamped with black stazon - it's a France Papillion stamp for Stampotique.

I added the acetate with glossy accents then covered it up with some brads covered with Little Black Dress Fresco paint.

The word 'dream' is a little wooden diecut - I used some Lindy's Stamp Gang Midnight Sapphire embossing powder on it before adding it to the page.

Finally I added some black splatters with the left over LBD paint from the brads which I think tie it all together.

 

 

Thanks for looking,

Claire xx

 

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Gelli Birthday!

Hello and welcome,

Here is a quick birthday card I made for a friend:

I cut down a gelli print - it was created with a round gelli plate and the most recent paint release from Paperartsy (Teresa Green, Granny Smith, Professor Plum and Captain Peacock).

I stamped the image and sentiment from a Paperartsy JOFY plate, added faux stitching and some white highlights on the flower ends.

Mounted onto black card then extended the flower stem by hand.

Hopefully she'll like it - it's certainly unique lol!

Claire xx

 

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Merry Christmas!

Hi All,

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it!

I just wanted to pop on to share a few cards that a made this year - I only made a few for close family this year as that was all that time would allow.

I used Paperartsy stamps for all of them and coloured using Spectrum Noir pencils.

Thanks everyone for looking and I hope you all had a lovely and enjoyable festive day!

Claire xx

 

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Show Us Your Face

I had a little play in my journal the other day to join in with Kim Dellow's blog challenge - Show Us Your Face In The Style Of......

So for the month of November Kim and the community have set the challenge to create in the style of another artist - I chose Australian artist Joshua Miels. Here is a link to a little introduction to his work. He has a great loose style in a mixed media based way so I was really drawn to his portraits.

Here is my take on one of his portraits:

She was created in my journal using Paperartsy Fresco paints, a black Pitt pen and some White posca pen splatters.

It's been so dark here taking photos was pretty difficult!

Here is the Joshua Miels portrait that I based my journal page on:

Thanks for looking,

Claire x

 

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Butterflies in Blue

Hello everyone,

Today I'm sharing another three coasters I've created to make a full set of 6 as a gift - to see the previous three just click here.

The current theme for November over at Country View Challenges Blog is 'The Colour Blue' click here to pop over to see all the rules and DT makes.

So here is the finished trio of coasters:

The backgrounds for them were created by using a brayer to add Paperartsy Fresco paint and also stenciling with the paint too - I used a combination of these paint colours:Sky, Mermaid, Beach Hut, Ice Blue, Lake Wanaka and South Pacific.

I added background stamping with second generation potting soil archival ink using the lovely big text/numbers collage stamp from Paperartsy Hot Picks HP1501.

Then I stamped in the grasses along the bottom of each coaster using Cornflower Blue archival - the grasses are from Paperartsy Hot Picks HP1009 stamp plate.

Next I stamped all the main butterflies and text onto the coasters using black archival. All the stamps except one are Paperartsy from sets ID10 and HP1506. The one little butterfly on the middle coaster is from a Prima set by Finnabair.

I edged each coaster using black archival with some cut and dry foam as I still need to seal them so needed a permanent ink.

And finally here is each coaster individualy:

Not sure really if I prefer the green or blue version - but they are all going to get sealed and wrapped up together to be a special Christmas gift :)

Thanks for looking today,

Claire xx

 

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Butterflies x3

Hello,

Today has been the most awful day weather-wise! Rain, wind, dark and gloomy all day long - so this afternoon I took to my craft room to create another entry for the current Paperartsy challenge, which is Triptychs. Click HERE to visit the Paperartsy blog for all the details.

So I decided to create a trio of coasters - a little bit like Trish on the blog the other night but in a much more nature inspired colour palette:

I started my brayering Fresco Finish paint onto all three coasters in the following colours: Teresa Green, Tinned Peas and Limelight. I wanted to add the effect of texture to the coasters but not any real texture or they would be no good as coasters! So I used my favourite TCW stencil to add a textural effect and sponged Hint of Mint through it.

Here are all three coasters together:

And a close up of one of them:

Next I added some background stamping - for this I used second generation Potting Soil archival ink. I used stamps from the Hot Picks butterfly set HP1506 and also the lovely large collage stamp from HP1501:

I then stamped in second generation Olympia Green Versafine the birds and grasses stamp from HP 1009 along the bottom of each coaster.

Next I stamped all the main butterflies and text onto the coasters using black archival. All the stamps except one are Paperartsy from sets ID10 and HP1506. The one little butterfly on the bottom coaster is from a Prima set by Finnabair.

I edged all three in smudgy Little Black Dress Fresco paint.

Here are the three of them individually:

 

 

A nice little play on a very dreary afternoon :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Claire x

 

 

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