Hey you

Good morning all, hope you are well. Today's card is made using our very first Studio Calico kit. I must admit to being completely stumped as to what to use the plastic word 'Hey' for, so I looked online for inspiration, and I found that some had used it as a mask/stencil.

I wanted some texture to the card so I dug out some white corrugated card and cut it down to fit on a standard 6 x 4 card blank.

Then I used a mixture of Cosmic Shimmer spray inks in Patina Vintage Mist and Mango Blush, then I added some Mr Huey's spray ink in Classic Tan. 

Once this was dry I removed the plastic word and sprayed lightly over the top with iridescent glitter spray. 

I used part of a 'Thinking of you' die from Taylored Expressions, to add the 'You' underneath, then I used one of the stamps that came with the kit to add the 'Get well soon' sentiment. I used a Memento Bamboo Leaves ink for this.

I stamped the little frog from the set on to green card and then cut him out by hand, (gosh that was fiddly lol.) Then I added a couple of leaves for him to sit on and a few coordinating flowers to finish.

It's not my usual style of card but I quite like it, hope you do too. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

More Placemats

Good morning all, I have been working on some more placemats, this time for Mum. She had some old ones that had seen better days so asked if I could do something with them. 

I started by giving them a good sand and then cleaning them. Then I added some decorative card from the stash with spray adhesive. 

Once that was stuck down and dry I gave them a good coat of spray varnish. Unfortunately this took an absolute age to dry and even then stayed quite tacky, so I had to give them another sand down and this time sealed them with some Ranger Glue N Seal. 

the edges needed some tidying up, so I went round them with Treasure Gold - Classic. 

Then on one of the mats I made a border with Redline tape and put some gold leaf flakes on top. Then I sprayed over the whole mat with a gold shimmer spray. 

On the second mat I went around the edge with a gold marker pen,

and then gave it a light coat with the gold shimmer spray. 

I just have a few more to do now!

Hope you like them, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Altered words.

Good morning all. Hope all is well with you. These words were plain white ones that my daughter and son in law had for their wedding a couple of years ago. 

She wanted them jazzing up a bit, so gave them to me just saying "do something with them!" Lol. Did she know what she was saying? hahaha.......

But I'm not that naughty so I did my best to alter them to something that would appeal to them both. Nothing too girly but nothing too plain. 

I have been playing with acrylic paint and Pebeo paints. These give a lovely glimmer to the surface but to cover all of the letters would have taken a lot of paint, so I used the acrylic paint to give them a base cover first. 

I did start by decoupaging the & sign but I didn't like the finished result, so I took it all off again lol. That's the beauty of a lot of crafts. If you don't like it you can start again :o))

Once I had the purple layer I wasn't sure what to do with them so they have sat in the craft room for quite some time waiting to be finished.

Then the other day I was looking for something and came across the glitter sprays that we've had for ages and thought the gold one would look good on those letters!

So they had a good spray of gold sparkle front and back and after that they didn't need much else. So the little hearts and butterflies just finished them off.

Hope K likes them now after all this time!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope to see you soon.

Take care

xxx