Altered Eclectics - December Challenge......

Hi folks and welcome to the last challenge of 2015 at Altered Eclectics. 

I have loved this year being on this team. The girls are great and the Boss is just amazing. It's such a lovely team to be part of. 

For the last challenge of the year, I decided to just have a play and see what came of it. 

Here is what I created...

I found an old wooden mini frame in my stash that I had painted but never got round to doing anything else with. Then I spent the next hour sieving through my jars of bits and bobs. We all have them - those jars full to the top of metal embellishments, charms, buttons, old jewellery, beads, and anything else we find along the way. I tend to shove them all in overly organised jars.

I found a few interesting pieces and started to build them in to the frame. 

After arranging and rearranging I decided to adhere them using a gel medium and painted the whole thing with white gesso. 

I mixed up some DecoArt paint with DecoArt Tinting Base and gave everything a good coat. 

I then used the 'ink in a bottle' sprays from Oak House Studio over the top to create different tints of colour and the super shimmer.

As this is the last Altered Eclectics challenge of the year, it is open for two whole months so you have plenty of time to get crafty. 

I hope all our lovely Altered Eclectics challengers have a lovely Christmas and I wish you all the best for 2016.

Merry Christmas

Toodles for now, Lisa xxx 

I would like to enter this creation in to the following challenges:

That Craft Place - anything goes mixed media

Totall Gorjuss #246 - "bingo"

B-I-N-G-O BINGO!!!! Yeyyyy, this week at Totally Gorjuss we are playing bingo. For this challenge I chose flowers, ribbon and buttons to make a line on our bingo board. 

You can check out the challenge blog here. 

Here is what I created...

I used Oak House Studio products to make this creation which were the Walesby Heart stamp and the fabulous Ink in a Bottle ink sprays which I am becoming addicted to!!! 

I used a ready made paper mache box and gave it a couple of coats of gesso. I sprayed it with French Lavender and French Wine Ink in a Bottle ink sprays from Oak house Studio. I left it to air dry rather than force it to dry as I wanted to keep the large splodge marks that the spray had made. I really loved the coloured splats against the pure white when it was dry. 

I stamped the Walesby Heart on to the top front corner of the box and heat embossed it using Oak House Studio gold detailed embossing powder. I stamped the image on to all the sides of the top of the box but used it as a background stamp so the heart shape was distorted and again embossed it. 

I stamped the heart on to white linen card and heat embossed them using the gold powder and punched them out using a scalloped heart punch. 

I inked and heat embossed three paper flowers and dyed some ribbon using the metallic gold ink spray from Oak House Studio. I arrange the ribbon, flowers and punched hearts in the opposite corner and added a metal heart button in the other corner on the top of the box to create the bingo line.

Thanks for popping by today, leave a crafty comment if you wish. Toodles for now...

Inspiration #4 for Oak House Studio July Challenge

Hi folks, here with some more inspiration for the July challenge over at Oak House Studio.

The challenge finishes on the 31st July. Pop over the the blog for some more inspiration.

For this creation I used the clematis corner stamp. This is a beautiful stamp to add detail to corners. 

I chose the wine Oak House Studio Colour Chemistry purple ink pad for this design. 


Here is what I created... 

I sprayed white card with french wine Oak House Studio 'ink in a bottle' spray just once. (How yummy is that one spray??!!)

I lightly stamped the clematis corner stamp in the two corners. I wanted a soft, distressed image on the bottom layer. 

I stamped it again twice on a separate piece of card and watercoloured the flowers. I cut them out and decoupaged them on the stamped images. 

Have a look on the website for all the products I've used. 

Thanks for popping by - toodles.

Inspiration #3 for Oak House Studio July Challenge

Hi folks, here with some more inspiration for the July challenge over at Oak House Studio.

The challenge finishes on the 31st July. Pop over the the blog for some more inspiration.

For this creation I used the double daisy stamp set. I love this stamp set as you get both stamps and they are huge. Great for background and fabulous if you just want that one daisy flower to stand out. 

I chose purple for my colour theme so used the Oak House Studio Colour Chemistry purple ink pad.

Here is what I created... 

I sprayed some white card with Oak House Studio french lavender and delicious damson 'ink in a bottle' sprays. 
I stamped the open daisy in black ink then stamped the block daisy, off-set over the top in purple. 

I cut the design approx 3/4 of the way down, opened it to leave a gap and adhered to white card. I then stamped the sentiment in the gap. I finished by inking the edges of the card. 

Have a look on the website for all the products I've used. 

Thanks for popping by - toodles.