Typography with a Twist

Hello!

Today on HOCHANDA Leonie has 3 shows with her latest Typography collection.  This time though there is a twist using some of the Shabby Chic collection as well as the Pebeo foils.
The shows are at 7am, 10am and 5pm and here are my design team samples...

 

  Plaque using the Fly Free stamp set and lily and rose dies from the Shabby Chic collection.

 

 An easel card using the Rag Doll stamp set with the frame and rose from Shabby Chic.  The frame was also aged using some of the Pebeo mixtion fluid and foil sheets.

 

 

Tent card with the Funky Tree stamp through the shabby chic window die.  The 'wallpaper' is made using the little embossing folder from one of the coordination collections.

 

All the samples use lettering from the Typography dies which are an ideal size for putting through smaller die cutting machines, so really handy for adding quick wording.

 



Thanks for looking and I hope you get a chance to catch some of the shows!

Jane x

Hello to Cupid's Bow and more!

Hello!

Another Crafter's Companion launch took place last night and so today to coincide with the shows at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm I thought I would share some of my favourite design team samples.

You can watch on...

SKY 663 (24/7)

FREEVIEW 85 (24/7)

FREESAT 817 (24/7)

or online at www.hochanda.com

I used 3 of the new dies, Cupid's Bow, Countesses Crown and Delicate Trellis, here is a selection...

These dies were lovely to work with and really have an intricate and elegant look.

I hope you get a chance to see some of the shows to see them in use and also to have a look at all the samples made by the whole design team.

Have a lovely Easter weekend,

Jane xx

Mixed Media Die Cards

Hello!

I am back today with some design team samples using the Crafter's Companion mixed media dies.  These dies are thicker than your usual metal dies which means they can cut through thicker and different materials to.  Previously I have used these dies to make a range of home décor and jewellery projects but today all my samples are cards to show that even though they are called mixed media they can be used easily within card making...

This aperture card used the Twit Twoo owl die, cut out using felt attached to card with a fabric adhesive.

The Penant die and Cogs in Motion were cut out of mount board to create the focal point for this tent card.  Some of cogs were also cut from card to create some background interest.

This easel shaker card was made using the Blossoming Tree die.  It was cut out of normal weight coredinations card, but as the die is thicker I was able to cut multiple layers of card for the blossoms and leaves at the same time, making it much quicker to create my shaker pieces!

My final card was made using one of the Maple Leaves dies through shrink plastic which was then shrunk down with the heat tool and coloured with alcohol markers.

These dies are really good fun and open up so many more possibilities within both card making and other areas of crafting.

To see demos and all the design team samples the shows are on today at 8am, 11am and 3pm on HOCHANDA...

SKY 663 (24/7)

FREEVIEW 85 (24/7)

FREESAT 817 (24/7)

I will be back again tomorrow as tonight is the launch of a brand new Fancy Edegables die collection that I was also lucky enough to work with.  These will launch tonight on HOCHANDA at 8pm and I will show some of my samples tomorrow at 9am as the shows continue throughout Friday as well.
Enjoy the rest of your day,

Jane xx

Creative Artiste - Art Journal

Hello!

I am here today as it is the first Friday of the month and so a new challenge over at the mixed media challenge blog Creative Artiste, if you click on the link below it will take you straight over to the blog where you can read all the guidelines for entering and see all the design team projects for extra inspiration...

http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

The prize for the winner this month is really exciting as this months sponsors are Decoart!!!  Here is a picture of the prize you could win, well worth entering...



I love Decoart products, in particular the media line and regularly use them within my mixed media projects so I was really excited to create my project this month, here it is...

I bought this art journal kit from IndigoBlu a little while ago and have been waiting for enough time to get the covers decorated.  Because I wanted it to be something really special to me I wanted the cover to reflect all the elements of crafting that I love plus the chance to use some of those really special embellishments that I am always saving!
The covers are a good quality thick chipboard so I knew they would be able to take the products plus the weight of the metal embellishments and I wasn't disappointed.

I started by coating the covers with Decoart white gesso, then added some stencilling using Decoart crackle paste through the Andy Skinner French Elements stencil, plus some Decoart sand paste through a Bee Crafty distressed diamonds stencil.  Then I added some Tando grey board pieces that I had coated in gesso to form the base of my journal...

Once this layer was dry I added the main colours that I wanted, these were the Decoart fluid acrylics (cobalt teal hue, phthalo turquoise and cobalt blue hue)  they were also mixed with some of the tinting base to create different tones...

I added some stamping using the IndigoBlu script stamp and archival sepia ink (I had meant to do this at an earlier stage, which would have made it a bit easier!!).

To create a rusty look to the cover I used quinacridone gold and payne's grey (an Andy Skinner 'dirty wash') along with extra water, and dripped some from the top of the board allowing it to find it's own direction around the embellishments...



Once this was dried I added Decoart crackle glaze to areas and allowed it to dry overnight.  Once it was ready I used the Decoart raw umber antiquing cream to highlight the crackles...

Once I had completed the base it was time to use lots of my gorgeous embellishments that I am usually too scared to put on anything!  These were mostly from Prima (Finnabair collection), and I added some paper to the inside of the pocket watches from the Madame Payraud collection by Papermania...





 I did not want the cover to be too dark and grungy so I added some Pebeo gilding wax and also teal glitter, splash and copper micro beads and turquoise glass beads (all from Finnabair) for a bit of sparkle and shine...

Using a stamp from Bee Crafty (Wordage), I added a sentiment to the cover that I thought went well with the theme.  I toned it in with some of the acrylic paint and gilding wax...

The final finishing touch was to make some embellishments to hang from the book rings using fibres and charms that I had from the monthly craft boxes by Anna Hersom.

I absolutely loved creating this journal cover and am really looking forward to getting into art journaling properly so that I can fill it with lots of crafty goodness!

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges...

* ARTplorations Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes

* CountryView Challenges - Theme: Rust

* The Artistic Stamper - Theme: Backgrounds (including rubber stamping)

* Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes (Altered Art Challenge)

* Sandee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenge - Industrial/Steampunk

Thank you for looking and I hope you are inspired to have a go at entering the Creative Artiste challenge and possibly winning the fantastic Decoart prize!

See you soon,

Jane x







Altered Eclectics: Shadow Frame

Hello!

It is the first day of April and I am here with a design team project for Altered Eclectics and HERE is the link to head over to the challenge blog.  This challenge is for altered and mixed media projects, the only projects not allowed are cards and ATC's.

This month I decided to put together and alter a chipboard shadow box that I purchased from Craft Box and is made by Snipart.  It was very simple to put together and I was impressed with how sturdy and able it was to take the weight of the products and embellishments that I added.  Here is my completed project...

 

I love to watch mixed media videos on Youtube (although a terrible time waster and usually ends up costing me money due to then buying the products used!) and a few of the people that I enjoy watching use papers and embellishments by 7 Dots Studio.  Recently I bought a couple of sets of the range as I really love the style, but I especially liked the word stickers that match the sets.  I decided to use one of the sets (Lost and Found) as the basis for my frame...

 



After painting the frame using Decoart paint and adding some Pebeo gilding wax, I used a piece of script paper to create the background layer of the frame.  I then randomly (and it really was random!) took some of the tags, embellishments and stickers from the set and started to staple and stick then together to form the centre focal point of my frame...

On the main paper I used an IndigoBlu script stamp and splat stamp with staz on ink, then stencilled some diamond starlight paint (Imagination Crafts) through a Bee Crafty dinky diamond stencil.  I also aged the paper slightly using some vintage photo distress ink.  Then I attached the tags and embellishments using 3D glue gel...

I then used a selection of metal embellishments from my Craft Boxes (from Anna Hersom)  to create extra interest on two of the corners, and also added some gems and pearls...

Finally I added two of the word stickers and some splashes of gold with some watered down acrylic.

Once the box had been put together this was actually quite a quick project to complete and I was pleased with how it turned out as it is a bit different to what I would usually make.

I hope reading this will encourage you to have a go at entering the challenge over at Altered Eclectics, it would be lovely to see your projects!  I will be back again soon with another mixed media project, have a lovely weekend.

Jane x