Brayering with Ellen Vargo

We had another new guest over on the Paper Artsy blog this week..Ellen Vargo. She did some lovely pieces for us and you can see them all here. I have had a brayer for a long time and usually use to make sure something has stuck down properly. But inspired by Ellen I thought I would have a go using it with my frescos. I started out with an A4 piece of card.
Using guacamole,limelight,pumpkin soup,smoked paprika and a tinsy bit of snowflake I just kept adding very thin layers until I liked what I saw. I cut 4 pieces and stamped with various stamps, paint and my white shaprie just played around with them. They are all mounted onto black card and don't ask me what I am going to do with them because I don't know lol!!!

                                                                                       

                                

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christmas card

Well I have made in total 4 Christmas cards lol!! Really need to get my act together..this is one of the first one's I made but didn't photograph the other one before I gave it away doh!!!

So here it all white on white.....

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Clean and simple

Joanne Wardle was back on the Paper Artsy blog this week some more of her clean and simple projects. This card was inspired by day one which you can see here..so pop on over and have a look.

This has to be the quickest card I have ever made but I really enjoyed it!! I followed along with what Joanne did. I used two of the new fresco colours..caramel and toffee along with chocolate pudding and brown shed. I then added a thin layer of pearl glaze..

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#3up challenge round 2...

As it is the 10th anniversary over at Paper Artsy this august Leandra had another cunning plan up her sleeve!! Round 2...
This time she invited more people into the challenge..about 40 of us I think....so once the list was closed we all received an envelope and a double side set of instructions!! A4!!!

As far as I can gather everyone got different bits in their envelopes and as Leandra put it you were either going to love what we've got and others are going OMG what do I do with THAT!..Well let me tell you I definitely fell into the OMG category lol..and no Leandra I did not find myself making something better than anticipated!!!


                                     Our instructions

I have to admit I sat there for ages and had no idea what to do with the things I had been sent but as Leandra says 'no wimping out'. I knew that whatever I made would not be to my taste as the things were so far away from anything I would usually do. So in the end I thought just get on and do something...and here it is...

                               The contents of my envelope

                               And this is what I came up with

I took white smoothy card and stamped the elephant directly onto it. coloured it using prismas and a touch of fresco paint. I used three of the eyelets in the opposite corner with a little bow made from the ribbon. I didn't use the hanging board as I felt the images were too big,so I cut off the string and used it for the elephant to walk on lol!!

This one was made in the same way apart from the string was tied to make a little bow tie for the Lion.
















And lastly this one..
After stamping the elephant I placed a mask over it and stenciled the swirls with guacamole fresco paint. I also masked a ribbon shape using post it's and again stenciled the swirls in the top left hand corner...





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