PaperArtsy Topic #13 – Time

 I just love love love the sets of stamps just released. I bought the JOYF37 and wanted to use it for the challenge. Now how do I get a mushroom and caterpillar to correspond with time! Thinking cap on and the sun shining outside I thought of SUMMER TIME and a clock face could be the sun! So I set to work. My inspiration came from Keren Baker as she used pastels for her blog post. I haven't used my PanPastels for a long time so I dug them out to use for this challenge. 

As I was designing this time piece I clicked on the PaperArtsy blog and low and behold Leandra had used clocks as flowers in her blog post!

Firstly I used a paper with clock faces printed on it but it was green and I wanted a summer feel to it so I painted over it with a diluted yellow submarine.

 Applied grunge paste through a stencil to give the effect of sun rays and whilst still wet sprinkled glitter over it.

 On a piece of smooth card I stamped the images with Versamark and heat embossed. Embossing the images makes it easier to colour as it prevents colour bleeding over the lines but also if you happen to colour the emboss line it will wipe off as it acts as a resist. 

Coloured with PanPastels. They are really easy to work with. So that I didn't smudge them as I was applying the colour I firstly applied Versamark all over to give it a key. When finished I sprayed a glitter varnish all over them so that the pastel wouldn't rub off. 

Cut them out but before sticking them to the background I went around the edge of the background with a ruff it tool then applied distress ink.

Applied glaze medium to the sun. 

Once dry I stuck the mushroom, caterpillar and circles to the background and added some moss/ grass stuff for more texture. 

I will be using these stamps a lot. I've already stamped and coloured a few already! 

Materials used; 

Paperartsy – JOYF37 stamp, grunge paste, yellow submarine fresco paint. 

PanPastels – various colours. 

Crafters Companion – glitter varnish, stamping card. 

Docraft – steampunk papers. 

Distress Ink – Vintage photo. 

From stash; 

Form pads, glue. 

Grass/moss. 

Glitter. 

Challenge entered; 

Paperartsy.co.uk 

Steampunk flowers colour palette

I did the Gelli plate print a bit back. It's one of them crafty techniques where you have to do a batch at once cos you can't just do one you are compelled to do loads and loads!

·         I cut down the Gelli print to fit the card then,

·         Stamped flowers with Versamark and then embossed them.

·         I used a Versamark pen to fill the flowers.

·         Applied PanPastels with the plastic knife tool from PanPastels.

·         Used a die cut cog as the sun with PanPastels applied to it.

·         The petals on the 3d flower are made from brown paper packaging. I stuck them to a small round cardboard base, glued the petals to it then added a cog as the centre.

·         Sprayed with cheap hairspray to fix the PanPastels.

Materials used

PanPastels - turquoise, copper.

Embossing powder - Stampendous - aged copper.

Gelli plate.

Crafters companion - Kraft card, Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Make a Wish.

From my stash

Silhouette cameo cogs and petals.

Acrylic paint.

Versamark.

Printer paper for Gelli plate printing.

Challenge entered;

Chocolate Baroque

Christmas in July

I must admit I did find this really hard because I'm not really a Christmas person. It's not the same when you don’t have any children. Mind you my great nephews ages 3 and 6 tire me out!!!! And fill that void of missing out of having any children.

I looked at the challenges I wanted to enter and decided I could kill three birds with 1 stone!! As the saying goes.

Challengers are Indigoblu - Christmas in July, That's Crafty - use a stamp, PanPastels - bold and bright.

Firstly I folded A4 card for the base, then cut a black mat and a white mat. I gutted the black card, for any new people starting to craft this means I've cut out a rectangle within the mat but made sure that there is enough 'frame' to show when the white card is stuck on top.

On the white card mat I randomly stamped snowflakes with Versamark and then brushed on PanPastels.

I felt it needed to be brighter so i randomly stamped with distress ink. I didn’t bother to put the stamp on an acrylic block as this would have showed where the edges of the stamp would be.

I spread some Decopatch glue on my non stick craft mat then dabbed my stamp in it taking care not to dab too much glue because the imagine floods when stamped. I stamped onto some scrap card several times and heated with my heat gun to dry. It did bubble a bit but the snowflakes looked ok.

Once dry I applied PanPastels.

Then I die cut 3 baubles. My new crafty toy! I've been cutting all sorts of things.

Ruffed up the edges of the card and baubles with scissors.

Applied PanPastels to the edge of the baubles and white card.

On some scrap card I stamped the xmas tree with Versafine and applied 2 different embossing powders but you can't really see what I've done, I should have used a pigment ink that stayed wetter for longer.

To brighten it up I used PanPastels and then cut it out.

I edged the tree with the maker pen so that it lifted it from the background.

Before i stuck the pieces of card on the background i applied the liner to the baubles and tree and left to dry.

I then stuck them on the card.

Then used the green liner to make the baubles look as if they are hanging.

Voila my 1st Christmas card of the year! This is a 1st for me; I usually leave it till at least December or 1 week before Christmas!

Materials used

Indigoblu stamps

PanPastels - pewter, magenta, bright yellow green.

Waco glamour liner - green, crystal.

Versafine - Spanish moss

WOW - regular green, lime light.

Sizzix - big shot, bauble framelits.

Distress ink - picked raspberry.

Distress marker - crushed olive.

From my stash

Decopatch glue

Centura pearl card base

White and black card

Pva glue

Heat gun

Challenges entered;

Indigoblu

Thats Crafty

Panpastel uk

Stencil Tag

The technique I have used is by Tim Holtz. Challenges are; PanPastels - Inspired by Tim, Thats Crafty use stencils, masks or templates, I've used my own stencil made with the silhouette cameo. The Craft Barn a quote with the words IMAGINATION & LOGIC, I found on the internet for challenge.

·         Start by tapping distress inks on my stencil.

·         Misted the inked stencil with water so to react the distress inks.  

Placed it on to watercolour cardstock. Tim's instructions - While the stencil is on the cardstock, press down over the entire design using a paper towel to print the colour as well as immediately absorb any ink that might seep out inside the stencil openings.

·         TOP TIP don’t use a stencil that has a tacky surface that helps it stay in place because i had inked the other side so when I placed it on the cardstock my fingers kept sticking to the stencil so I wasn’t able to press on it to achieve a clear pattern! 

·         Lift the stencil off, dried with a heat tool.  

·         I Cut the cardstock to fit the tag and distressed the edges with PanPastels

·         I used the same stencil. Used Versamark and dusted on PanPastels then adhered watercolour cardstock to the tag.

·         Stamp the dragonflies using black archival ink.

·         Then I stamped the dragonflies a second time on the watercolour cardstock and cut them out. I didn’t have to colour then as there was some colour from the previous stencilling so that's where I stamped them.

·         Wrote the quote, then cut them out separately and coloured with distress ink then adhered along side of the dragonflies, slightly bending the wings to create dimension.

·         Embellished with a small butterfly on a head pin and curled the wire using my pocky tool.

·         I Applied distress inks to craft sheet and Misted the inks with water

·         Cut 2 pieces of ribbon and rubbed them into the inks until covered.

·         Dried with a heat tool.

·         Tim's description of the bow - Start by inserting the short ribbon through the hole in the tag.

·         Take the longer ribbon and secure one end under your thumb.

·         Wrap the remaining ribbon around your fingers until you run out.

·         Slide the loop of ribbon from your fingers and pinch in the centre to hold. Place the loop on to the top of the tag and tie the short ribbon around the loops to hold. Tie again to create a knot.

·         My doesn’t look as good as his because he used crinkle ribbon and I haven’t got any so made do with satin ribbon which didn’t absorb the inks a good as crinkle ribbon.

That's something else on my 'I WANT' list of craft goodies!!

Materials used

Stencil - made with my silhouette cameo

Distress inks - crushed olive. Spiced marmalade, picked raspberry.

Archival ink - black

PanPastels - pink, green, orange.

Versamark

Viva decor 3D glitter stamp paint - silver.

Papermania rubber stamps - dragonflies

From my stash

Watercolour card

Ribbon

Water Mister

Challengers entered;

the craft barn

thats crafty challenges

panpastel uk

Roses on the Horizon

This felt like my hardest challenge. I couldn’t really think of any techniques for this one.

My mind has been a little distracted this past two weeks with the diagnosis I got from my knee operation, thankfully everything went ok. I will leave a short post about my experience.

After racking my brain I came up with this design. I thought 'right' just get some materials out and go with it! My only problem is I want to use all my crafting stash all at the same time; I have too many mediums to choose from! I'm sure there are many of you out there with the same problem. No not problem but CHOICE.

·         Firstly I applied metallic PanPastels to card, the card at first seemed too smooth and the colour wasn’t as vibrant as I wanted but eventually I achieved a good coverage, it did help when I switched my daylight lamp on and saw the shine! Lol

·         I randomly stamped the large rose with Versamark and brushed PanPastels over it, repeating with a smaller rose and different colour of pastel.

·         In my stash I had some shaped card so i used that for the quote. I applied Versamark all over it then brushed on PanPastels but was left with lines where the pad had been placed so using the splat/blot stamps I randomly stamped them all over the card. I didn’t apply any PanPastels to these because as I stamped it pulled some of the colour off and I liked the effect.

·         I wrote the quote freehand.

·         Back to the background, I randomly stamped splat/blot stamps with Versamark between the roses. The stamps somehow managed to pick up some of the magenta PanPastels so that when I stamped them on the card it left a faded purple look which I actually really liked so left it like that. My Versamark pad is a little grubby to say the least. I must have had it a few years now and it's still going strong and I've used it loads of times.

·         I ruffed up the edges of the background and quote and stuck the quote onto the background.

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Materials used

PanPastels - phthalo green, magenta shade, metallic's

Versamark

Nikki Hall stamps - roses

From my stash -

Super smooth card

Soft brush

Challenges entered;

www.thecraftbarn.co.uk

panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk

Ozzie Owl

I've had the owl a while in my stash so when I saw the challenge for PanPastels and that's crafty I thought I would decorate my owl. I had been tempted to do him blue and white after my beloved footy team but those colours wouldn’t suit my home decor. So in honour of my fave team I've called him Ozzie owl!! Lol he's now perched above the table which is much more than I can say for the league table the footy team are in.

·         Firstly I drew around Ozzie onto the back of the card, cut him out and sanded the edges to take on a distressed look and also it neatens the edges of my cutting.

·         I applied Versamark to the eyes, beak and chest.

·         Using a soft brush applied the PanPastels. I did spray with hairspray when I had done them and I managed to get finger prints on it so then I remembered the hairspray!!!! I do it all the time and then wonder why my work is smudged!!!! Lol

·         I used the scallop stencil as i thought it looked more like feathers so then applied the gel with some PanPastel mixed in it. I'm a little disappointed that the metallic of the PanPastel didn’t shine through the gel when it had dried but I was still happy at the result.

·         I glued everything in its place. I felt the branch needed some decorating so in my stash i found some paper flowers and leaves.

·         Then added glitter glue to the flower centres and eyes.

Materials used

MDF owl from Anna Marie Designs

Co-ordinations cardstock

PanPastels - metallic's

Maimeri - modelling paste

Stencil cut on silhouette cameo

From my stash

Paper flowers, leaves, glitter glue, twine

Challenges entered;

Panpastel

Thats Crafty