Dinosaur Hanging on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's unblogged make is a hanging that I made for Leonie Pujol's TV shows featuring her mixed media dies.

When I was looking at all the little triangles in Leonie's Mosaic set they brought to mind the spines on the back of a stegosaurus, so I thought I'd have a go at making a little dinosaur.  After looking at some 'how to draw' sites for children I sketched a dinosaur body onto white card and then scanned it in to my computer so I could resize it.  [If you would like a copy of this for your personal use please see my new Freebies page]

I printed it onto some watercolour card that I had coloured with Brusho crystals and then cut it out.

To decorate his body I inked up one of the stamps from the Gimme Texture set with Vintage Photo distress ink and stamped along the neck, back and tail.

For the spines I coloured some Sheena stamping card with distress inks and splatted on some water

then used several of the small triangles from the Mosaic set to die-cut the spines. These were then glued onto the back of my dinosaur cut-out.

For the background I painted some Kraft card with Titanium White acrylic and sponged on Forest Green paint at the bottom. This was then run through an 8"x8" Pebbles Embossing Folder

I sanded it back a little and smudged some Pebeo Empire Gold Gilding Wax around the edges before glueing it to a chipboard rectangle - this was a page from a Papermania Bare Basics Chipboard Album which I put new holes in so it would hang the other way.

For the wording I brayered distress inks onto some Clarity coated card, then cut it into strips

and stamped each part of the vertical sentiment from the Hey There Dreamer set, adding doodled lines around the edges of each strip.

For finishing touches I made a little red sun and a leaf for him to chew on using the Floral Bursts dies

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Monochrome Heart for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Today I've got an MDF Heart to show you, decorated with dies and stamps by Leonie Pujol.

First I cut some flowers and leaves from black card using the Flower Bursts dies and rubbed on some Pebeo silver gilding wax.

For the centres I used this one - I snipped into the die-cuts and rolled them up with a quilling tool.

I shaped the flowers on a foam mat with a large ball tool 

then glued three layers and one centre together using a glue gun

To decorate the heart I took some ivory card from my stash and traced around an MDF heart with a pencil.

After cutting the heart out and glueing it to the MDF using Mod Podge, I sanded the edges to get a flush finish. Before splatting on some black ink I covered half of the heart with some kitchen roll.

To get the splats I pressed a black Memento inkpad onto my craft mat and picked the ink up with a large wet paintbrush, then tapped the brush over the top of my project.

Next I took one of the stamps in the Gimme Texture set and stamped around the edge of the heart, starting at the top.

Oops, missed a bit - I'll fill it in with a black fineliner at the end :o)

The sentiment is from Leonie's Hey There Dreamer stamp set.

For hanging the heart up I poked a hole through the card with my pokey tool (from the back first so it lined up with the hole in the MDF), and attached a loop of black spotted organza ribbon by knotting it at the back. I attached three of the flowers with a glue gun then after a bit of umming and aahing I tucked a couple of leaves in at the top to finish it off.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Artistic Stampers  Black and white
City Crafter Challenge #369  Black & White
Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations #76 Monochrome
613 Avenue Create  #199 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Monochrome
Southern Girls #163 Ribbon or twine
Craft for the craic Handmade flowers, not a card
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge July

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Hey There Flower for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in with a card that I made with Leonie Pujol's Flower Bursts and Bark Texture dies

First I covered a 6x6 card with one of the papers from Sara Davies' Shabby Chic collection - printed from the CD that came with the Crafters Inspiration magazine issue 14.

Next I dabbed some Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto my craft mat and spritzed with water before dragging some Inkylicious paper through it. I then cut this out with the Bark Texture die and then snipped into it with scissors to make stems, leaves and grass.

To make the orange paper I used the same technique as above but used a few drops of the ink from Leonie's Amber Glitter Pen. I cut one of the flowers from Floral Bursts from this and added a face using shapes cut with the Suffixes die in Leonie's Typography range.

For the sentiment I stamped the 'Hey there' from the Hey There Dreamer stamp set onto a scrap piece of the background card in Black Memento ink. The 'flower' letters were cut from white card using the Typography dies and attached with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

I used the same glue to attach the 'grass' that I'd cut earlier and add a couple of tiny orange flowers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Glitter n Sparkle #245 Anything Goes 
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Allsorts #421 Flower power
Always Playing with Paper  #88 Keywords

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Bubbling bottles for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used Leonie's In a Spin die in two different ways.
First I cut several of them from Sheena stamping card and glued them to an A5 piece with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

Next I dragged some Distress Oxide inks over the top

and spritzed with water.

I repeated this a few times to build up the colour, drying with a heat gun in between each layer

adding a bit of Fossilized Amber into the mix

The die-cuts were starting to lift away in places by the time I finished because of the heat so I just needed to stick them back down in a few places before trimming the excess off.

For my topper I die-cut some Apothecary Bottles - this is a Bigz Die by Tim Holtz.
I coloured these up with the Distress Oxides again, using some applicator foams and spritzing/drying between layers of colour.

For the corks I stippled on Ground Espresso distress ink with a stencil brush

I inked and distressed a rectangle of white card to layer the bottles on top of and added highlights to the bottles with a white gel pen.

For the bubbles I cut the In a Spin die from clear shrink plastic and gently heated it to shrink. There was a bit of a hairy moment when it curled over and stuck to itself but I managed to pry it apart :o)

It's finished off with a sentiment from the Hey There, Dreamer rubber stamp set

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

Deep Ocean Challenge #157 Die-cuts/chipboards and/or punches

Sisterhood of Crafters Use your imagination

Creatalicious Challenges #117 Anything Goes with optional Diecuts/Punches

Crafty Purple Frog Make it manly

The Mixed Media World Challenge MMW#26: Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create #12 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Creative Artiste Challenge #27 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Hey There for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I have another card from Leonie's TV shows to share today.

First I made the card background by sprinkling Violet, Purple and Rose Red Brusho powders onto some watercolour card and spritzing them with lots of water

For the top layer I arranged all of the heart dies from the Lots of Love set onto a magnetic sheet and ran them through my Ebosser with white card.

I stamped one of the text stamps in the Hey There Dreamer set with Black Memento ink all over the card and scribbled outlines around each heart aperture with a black fineliner pen.

I glued the Brusho background to an A5 landscape card and then attached the stamped card over the top with 3D foam pads.

The main sentiment is also from the Hey There Dreamer set, which I stamped onto a rectangle of white card and then drew on a black border. I covered the back with strong double-side tape and attached a length of black fibres all the way around.

If you like these stamps and dies then you might want to catch Leonie's shows on Hochanda on Thursday 15th June at 10am and 3pm. Just saying :o)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Rusty clock for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower :o)

There's a 'better than half price' One Day Special on Hochanda tonight and tomorrow, featuring Leonie's Mixed Media dies, Entwined Heart dies and associated stamps. The team* have made some new samples to inspire you.

*We have some new additions - please welcome Anne Dimitriou, Anne Richardson, Diane Ingram and Nicola Clegg. I hope you will spot their work on the TV shows.

Nicola doesn't have one yet, but I have added everyone else's blog links on my sidebar ------>

For my first sample I've 'rusted' something.  Ever since Andy Skinner was on Hochanda a few months back I've been dying to have a bash at this, and I'm quite chuffed with the result.

The clock started life like this:-

but I've made it look a bit different with the aid of these

First I painted three coats of white gesso on, to smooth out the texture a bit and hide the markings. The fourth coat was Titanium white mixed with a smidge of Buff Titanium acrylic paint.

Next I splattered on Payne's grey and Quinacrodone Gold mixed with Payne's Grey

While that was drying I cut Leonie's 'In a Spin' die from grey card and slapped on a bit of Matte Medium. I put this aside to dry as well.

I randomly painted on some Quinacrodone Gold and a bit of Transparent Yellow Oxide then sprinkled with a bit of table salt before allowing it to dry.
 

I glued the die-cut onto the clock base using Collall Tacky Glue

The clock hands were painted with white gesso to prime them and then I painted on watered down Payne's Grey and sprinkled on salt. Once this was dry I rubbed off the salt and added the Quin Gold and Yellow Oxide paints.

Now for the outside frame...

I cut another 'In a Spin' die-cut from card and used it as a stencil. I sprayed Stick and Spray over the back and placed it over the frame before stencilling Matte Medium through.

Sorry for the pictures at this point - the sun was streaming through the window.

Once this was dry I painted on Paynes Grey and a smidgy of the Yellow Oxide, then sprinkled with salt.

I added Quin Gold and salt to the inside edge, let it dry, then covered with more diluted PG and salt.

For the 12/3/6/9 o'clock positions I stamped and embossed the screwhead from the Gimme Texture

Mixed Media Stamps with Versamark and black embossing powder.
I also stamped one of the sayings from Hey There Dreamer around the frame with Black Archival ink.

To finish off I added a thick coat of clear crackle glaze to the clock face. I'm not sure why there's a little bit of white 'bloom' in places - maybe the glaze reacting with traces of salt? I couldn't do much about it and I guess it adds to the aged look so I'm calling it a happy accident :o)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Left of Center Creative Challenges #156 Inspired By (Andy Skinner's rusting technique)
A Vintage Journey - Cracking Up (inspired by Andy Skinner)
613 Avenue Create  #191 Anything Goes
We Love 2 Create #23 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Creative Moments #105 Anything Goes w/optional twist Thanks
Creative Artiste Challenge #20 "Anything Mixed Media"
Just Us Girls  #369 trend week - metallic
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge November 

 Leonie is on Hochanda this evening at 8pm GMT and again tomorrow (Thursday 17th November) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm.

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 85 or Freesat 817.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x