A New Baby

I think a new baby is something that puts a big fat smile on most peoples faces..so when little Gabriella arrived I wanted to do something special. I have admired Finnabair's style for a long time but have yet to attend one of her classes. I have watched loads and loads of tutorials on you tube of pieces inspired by her so decided I would have a go..

So off to Boot's I went to get a real photograph printed. I chose one of her lying on stomach and set to work.

I took a piece of grey board 10x10 inches and gave it a coat of snowflake, then decided where to put the photograph. then it was just a matter of placing loads of embellishments.flowers, buttons,filgree wrap,die cut...what ever came to hand. The layout was inspired by Gabrielle Pollacco, you can watch here

                                             Work in progress

               Then when everything was stuck down I painted it all white.

Then it was time to add some colour so I watered down some butternut and some very berry and sprayed it randomly making sure to dry in between sprays. I added some glimmer mist in toffee apple mainly around the embellishments. Dried that and added some more very berry to the bottle and concentrated that around the embellishments.Next I used chocolate pudding to add a bit of a shadow around the raised bits and dried that off

Once that was all dry and I was happy with the colour I dry brushed  all the raised bits with snowflake to bring them all to the front again...

                                     Here are some close ups...

                 
                And here is the finished piece!! Isn't she just too gorgeous :D

I absolutely loved working on this project because there are no rules!! and I am very happy with the finished piece which is not something I often say, and the proud new parents loved it!!! and that is what I wanted..so as they say job done!!!

I will blog some more piccies of the baby and family soon...

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A couple of tags

Alison Bomber was back this week over at Paper Artsy with some stunning projects as always..you can pop over and see them here. On day one she did some gorgeous tags which is where my inspiration came from..

I used the same techniques as Alison..using frescos with stencils and stamps for the back ground. I cut the arches from a die I bought at Stevenage from once upon a stamp and painted,crackled and distressed them. I didn't have rusting powder for my embellishments so used distress embossing powder instead. Once everything was assembled on the tag I used rafia and string to tie the top. I really enjoyed this project so thank you Alison for a great week!!

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Lazy blogger...

Happy Sunday to you all!! I haven't blogged for a week which is naughty as I have been off of work so should have had plenty of time..

As a lot of you know Leandra over at paper artsy has started off a new round of #3up...so I think most of us have been playing around with that...but enough said it is all hush hush and all will be revealed at the end of the month..

So yesterday as I had finished (I think) my project..I went out in my shed to finish off some pages in my moleskine...and here are the results!

All of the pages are done using fresco paints and mainly paper artsy stamps. I must say I had a very enjoyable afternoon getting very painty and inky!! Love my moleskine!!!
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Best way to spend a Saturday

Had a lovely time on Saturday in a class with Lin Brown and a few lovely crafty ladies. We did a large Canvas..think it's A3. It's been papered, painted and inked and all sorts of lovely goodness stuck on. I can't remember who makes the arch kit but I think Lin said 7 gypsies.

Lin's one is here She got lots of request to do this as a class which got very over subscribed!! So much so she had to lay on extra dates!!!
I didn't get to finish mine in the class...now there's a surprise so got a chance yesterday to finish it off and after lots of flaffing around finished!! Not sure if there it too much on it now but I am not taking it off lol!
So here are some pictures of the finished piece!!

 

The pictures aren't that good but have tried to take close ups of different bits...

 Such an enjoyable class..there were times when you could have heard a pin drop!!!

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Thought I would add some more photos from our day..these are snippets of the Bead Scene where the lovely Steph hosts our classes with Lin...


                                                                        
                              Here's Lin sorting out all the goodies                                                  

                   This table is full of goodies and is in the same room we were in...

                    Some of the lovely ribbon and lace that Steph sells...

This is the table where all the fun goes on...you should have seen it a bit later on lol!!

This is a picture out in the main part of the shop...it really is a lovely place ...if you are close enough you really should pop in!!