Maybe it's my style?

Maybe it's the paper, but I seem to choose paper where I can use doilies and roses.

Do some stamping and add a little seam binding ribbon.

A soft grey ink is ideal for the stamping on these cards.

To create the butterfly, cut two different sizes butterflies and chalk the edges.

Only colour the top butterfly with a bit of purple Distress ink.

Score and fold the wings of the small butterfly. Glue it together with 

a bit of Mono Multi Glue.

Benice suggested the purple colour that I used here for the card, and it 

worked perfectly. 

The measure tape element was created with 

Tim Holtz's Layering Stencil. First I used a light coloured Distress ink pad,

picked up some ink with the blending tool and applied it over the stencil. 

Then I moved the stencil a bit, picked up a darker Distress ink and applied it

over the stencil. That is how you get the shadow or misprint effect.

For the bow, I took a long piece of ribbon and folded it a few times.

Then I took a short piece of ribbon and tied it together with 

a double knot. 

 Cut two of the same butterflies and dry emboss the top one. 

Then spray the top one with  glimmer mist. 

Use the blending tool and some purple ink to highlight 

the swirls on the butterflies.

Glue together with some Mono Multi Glue.

Nothing fancy on this card. 

Tip/Trick #7: After applying the Mono Multi glue, 

wait for it to dry, then position it on the card.

(All my different Tips and Tricks are called: Trick #7!)

Keep well.

Le Bleu, my blue garden chair.

My old, new chair.... yes, this chair is probably as old as me..

Ok, maybe a bit younger, but it belonged to my grandmother!

I repainted this chair when we got back from holiday.

I could not wait to start painting.

Normally the Annie Sloan look is an aged look, 

but I wanted this chair to stand out and be bright.

Before I painted the metal part of the chair it had to be sanded it a bit.

Not to much. 

Then two coats of Pure White on the metal and two coats of 

Greek Blue on the wood.

I sealed it with a layer of Clear Wax and it was ready to go !

(before I started, the metal was beige and the wooden slats were brown)

I feel like I will be busy for life.. all the pine furniture in my house will be painted.

If you come and visit, and you look like pine or stand still for to long...

you will be painted too!!  

Card Class Saturday 18 January 2014

Dressing up is always fun! Finding embellishments for
a card is also fun. It is the same as dressing up.
Can I add this..., will this go..., is this to much...?
All the same questions.

Saturday 18 January we will be making 6 Cards.

As always learning, relaxing and creating.
Book your class at
 Carla: 0123299175

88 Today

I need to say a special Happy Birthday to my mom who is turning 88 today.

Yesterday we had cake and tea with her, my dad and the rest of the family.

My sister baked a Carrot cake, using a recipe my mom once won a price with.

It was delicious!

My niece and I made her a 3-D birthday card which she enjoyed a lot.

After the party I took out all the hearts and flowers and stars.

Tied it into a bundle and she took it home.

Happy Birthday Mom, we love you lots. x

Cards with Doilies and Roses.

This was the last card class for 2013.

One of the cards will be published in a magazine, so I will not have a picture 

of that card until it was published.

If you count the layers, you will see that there are 5 layers of paper.

I think that is enough to give you space to work with color,

texture, pattern, shape, contrast and dimension.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and may all your New Years wishes come true.

Saturday is our first class for this year and I still need to work on those cards.

May you all have a very creative year!!

xx

Glitter on my sneakers

Last night I painted the sneakers and it was a surprise to see them this morning. 

Normally I use Dala Sun paint on the sneakers, but I wanted this colour 

and couldn't figure out how to mix it. So I used Acrylic paint.

 Dala Sun paint is very fluid and the canvas of your sneakers doesn't

become hard or stiff when it is dry. 

I used the excess paint to stain the laces.

They have a very distressed look to them.

Now I need to do the bling!! 

I like the colour and the glitter. 

Shiny but not to shiny.

Cotton Canvas Sneaker Trouble.

Glitter, the trouble is glitter!

You need sparkle in your life and you need to

 leave a little sparkle where ever you go!

So the next thing is glitter for my tekkies.

I am still figuring it out how to get the glitter to stick to the tekkies

so that my you won't be able to follow my glitter trail all the way home.

Fabric medium or Gel medium will surely do it.

I hope to get them done before next week.

Will keep you posted !

French Blue

Any one that knows me, knows that I love blue.

Quite a while ago I made three cushion covers, but I still need two more

and I had to use blue. Blue Stencil paint and blue lace This colour was the closest to 

Woad and to me Woad is the perfect colour blue.

 

I could really sit and do this for hours, I just need someone to bring me 

some coffee once in a while! 

 I added a little bit of silver on the crown.

Then I took another design and did it in red. 

This is all the same colour red. Just add more or less paint.

 I will cut these two designs smaller and stitch them onto the bigger covers. 

Then I will add some ribbon and lace.

OK, now for the confession.... they are still under construction

and when they are done I will post the pictures.

What I have done in the meanwhile.... baked some Ginger biscuits,

some Soetkoekies and Lebkuchen. 

Completed the last card class for the year and wrote two 

articles and completed the two projects for magazines

 that are to be published in 2014.

That is why there were no blog posts.

Sorry guys!