Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone,

As expected I failed to see midnight again this year. At least I'm keeping up with tradition lol.

One of the many jobs that I have been tasked with since moving in with Mum, is finding the necessary paperwork to apply for help. In so doing I have come across numerous cards that I have sent her over the years. So I thought that I would start 2023 with a look back at just a few of the ones that I found.

A bit of mixed media.

Very 3D.

Alcohol inks and Lift ink, definitely a favourite technique.

More Alcohol Lift ink here.

Mop up background with Distress inks and a fabulous Jane Gill floral stamp.

More florals and background papers.

I hope that you liked my walk through some past treasures.

Have a wonderful day, whatever you are doing. Here's to a brilliant 2023 for us All.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Sam Poole's Beautiful Things

Evening All,

Oh boy, February already, which means that we must have made it through January, hopefully unscathed.

Here are another couple of cards made using Sam Poole's fabulous stamps and dies.

This is really quite mixed media for me, not my usual style really. 

I never think of myself as a mixed media person although Dorothy at Woodware always used to remind me that I use card, inks, dies etc which are all mixed media products, so I must be without realizing it lol.

I used the Dappled ovals die to make a stencil, 

and then when I had finished with it on the backgrounds, I added more ink and tore it up to place behind the stamped main panel.

I used the Tattered Tags die to create the focal panel on this card,

and a couple more pieces of the Dappled Ovals stencil behind it.

I had such fun making these, and I have to say that it finally kick started my mojo which has been missing for quite a while.

Have a great evening.

Stay safe. Hugs

Kimx

A canvas. This is so outside my comfort zone..

Evening Everyone,
I'm sorry my posts have been so infrequent, but things have been a little hectic here of late.
I can't believe that it is well over a week since I spent an amazing weekend with Hobby Art Jenny and some of my wonderfully talented team mates.
We all shared ideas and did a little bit of teaching, lots of eating, and then on Sunday we were treated to a class with Christine Dark, who stepped in at the last moment to help us create a canvas.

I have to say that this was way out of my comfort zone, but the more I look at it, the more pleased with it I have become.
I'm not sure that I would rush to make another, but there are elements of it that I would happily incorporate in to a card or two.

I'm afraid that the pictures are not the best, but it is rather hard to photograph as it is quite large.
Now I just need to get a picture frame for it as I am planning to use it as a Christmas present, although the way things are going I might have to save it for next year.
I can see that I may well save my cards for then.
I haven't written a single one yet and the list of things that I have to do before I get around to that task is getting ever longer.
Oh well at least I will be well ahead of myself if that is the case lol.
Knowing my luck I will forget where I put them for safe keeping.
Hugs Kimx

A wall hanging for Woodware and the Mirror Crack'd

Hi All
It's my turn to post for Woodware again today and I'm VERY, VERY late.
This week we are taking our inspiration from The Mirror Crack'd a Mixed Media challenge which Woodware occasionally sponsors, and this time round the challenge is 'Wall Hangings'.
Now this really took me out of my comfort zone as I don't think of myself as working with mixed medias, but after a trip through some fabulous clips on You tube, and the arrival of some canvas from Woodware, I took the plunge and started to play.

I'm actually rather pleased with how things turned out.

The central panel has been created using my Creative Palette, acrylic paints, stencils, translucent texture paste and gilding wax.

I also burnished through the Bubbles Doobadoo stencil with some Mixed Media Ink and Glitter Glue.
I hand stitched the canvas onto a frame made from a piece of purple card and white card stencilled with more texture paste and gilding wax.

The flowers have been punched from one of the pieces of 'practice' card before I risked pulling a print using canvas.

I attached them using silicon and added some gilding wax, glitter domes and die cut leaves.
I think that it needs to be put into a box frame when I can find one.
I do hope that you will join us this week. Try challenging yourself to something new, it can be great fun after the initial panic has subsided lol.
I would like to enter this into the challenge at The Mirror Crack'd  - Wall Hanging or Tic Tac Toe.
Have a good evening.
Hugs Kimx