'Bokeh' Art.

This month on the Country View Challenges, the theme is Bokeh. The details can be found here. Loads of inspiration from the designers.

The background I made some time ago. I used PaperArsy Mini 69 stamp, and added my circles using PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic Paints called Cloud 9 and Calypso.

Thanks to Sue for the topic theme, had a lot of fun, off to experiment some more.

CraftaScope Blog Hop-Autumn Leaves.

Hi, and welcome to the CraftaScope monthly blog hop. This month the theme is Autumn Leaves.

I love finding different substrates to work on, so I cut out a section of fine weave hessian and positioned some leaf stamps for my design.

Some texture paste..

As this is a very uneven surface, I used tissue paper to stamp on to. I used Archival Ink Coffee for a crisp image.

Mixed up several acrylic paints and painted around each image. Added some embellishments to complete.

A great set of stamps, they can be found here

Next up is Jacqueline, here

Quilting with Card!

Here is my creation for  PaperArtsy, the current theme on the blog is Tiled/ Repeat patterns.

Pay a visit to the PaperArtsy blog!!

Craftascope Large Rose Petal Mini Book.

When I saw these Large Rose Petal dies from Craftascope, I thought they would make a cool Mini Book.

I used the largest die to make my covers from some board from a Please Do Not Bend envelope. Love to recycle!!

I am exploring earthy colours, so painted with layers of Amsterdam Acrylic Paints, Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow and Naples Red.

The inside of my covers I cut using the 3rd largest size die some pieces of patterned paper. Black acrylic gave me a nice border.

The pages were cut using the 2nd largest die, I wanted them to be smaller that the covers. Punched a whole and secured with a metal ring so I can add pages. On going project and great fun.

The rose petal dies can be found here

Collage

Playing with painted off cuts of card. 

World Collage Day

I haven't used wood blocks for ages, so to celebrate World Collage Day, I came up with this. Found image, sand paper, some packaging from a bar of soap and a blob of plaster!!

Earth Day Collage

For Earth Day 2019, an initiative run by Paris Collage Collective. I used a crisp packet as my substrate, painted with acrylics and added some collage elements.