Make your own Background ~ Try it on Tuesday Guest Designer

 Hello creatives 

It's always an honour to be invited to be Guest Designer  

@ Try it on Tuesday. I have known these lovely creatives 

for quite a number of years now and every fortnight they 

NEVER fail to inspire me with their dedication 

to create challenges for us every two weeks. 

I hope I can inspire you with this fortnights theme 

*Make your own background @ Try it on Tuesday*

Using recycled packaging this substrate is ATC size, 

covered with a layer of gesso, I smudged on acrylic 

paint using my finger then scribbling on some text..  

Gluing washi tape and a torn TH mixed media die cut 

I smudged acrylic paint again blending those raised 

areas in with the background... 

Dots of embossing ink sprinkled with gold embossing powder 

are heated with a heat tool.. how I love watching that 

embossing powder melt and rise. 

Edged with very messy machine stitch and a strip of old 

lace a Penny Black Bird from the singsong set is stamped 

and coloured with alcohol markers, pencil and paint. 

Cut and layered on the ATC along with a TH sentiment sticker 

this completes my *Backgrounds* make for Try it on Tuesday..

Please pop on over HERE and visit the 

inspiring Try it on Tuesday Team. 

*Thank you Lovely ladies for inviting me*

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx 

Sharing today's creativity with: 

We love Stamping ~ April Challenge Spring

Tag-along (and ATC's) ~ Blossoms, Butterflies and Birds

Stamping Sensations ~ April Challenge/Inspired by Nature/ATG 

Creative Artiste Anything Goes ~ May Challenge #93

Hello crafty friends

A warm welcome to Creative Artiste's May Challenge #93 

where our theme is always *Anything Mixed Media Goes*

This May I share three ATC's created using paper collage 

and fabric scraps. Each fashioned into a mini scene with 

beads and die cuts, fabric paint washes, posca pen doodles 

along with hand sewn and free motion embroidery detail.

If you like to mix up your media do come and share 

your creations with the Creative Artiste Team HERE 

Wishing you all a happy, safe and creative month ahead 

Hugs Tracey xx

Guest Designer @ Try it on Tuesday

 Hello everyone 

I'm extremely honoured yet again to be invited to be a

Guest Designer @ Try it on Tuesday where this fortnight 

the lovely TioT Design Teams Theme is *RECYCLE* ..

Today I'm sharing the beginnings of my June Junk Diary..

With it's splash of red, white and blue a nod to the nations  

June celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

During 2022 I've been creating a new Junk Diary every month 

gathering left overs and scraps from previous projects, salvaged 

packaging, found objects and ephemera with the potential to 

be something other than what they may have previously been. 

Collaged onto recycled cardboard to create journal covers, this surface 

also makes a fabulous substrate for pasting, die cutting and painting on.

Filled with papers, packaging and recycled envelopes each page makes an 

alternative surface for mark making, writing, drawing, painting and documenting 

colour swatches as well as collecting and collaging pictures from old magazines.

These Foxgloves are from a torn cross stitch magazine cover, 

over painted then simply edged with pencil..

a gentle reminder of the Foxglove cross stitch kit tucked neatly 

into the journals back pocket, saved for a free creative day.. 

Thank you so much to the wonderful TioT Design Team for having me as 

Guest Designer and allowing me to share my recycled June Junk Diary. 

I hope you have been inspired by my sneak peep today, 

please do pop on over to see more recycled inspiration 

from the Try it on Tuesday Design Team HERE 

You will not be disappointed..

Stay safe & creative everyone

Hugs Tracey xx 

It's a funny old world..

 Happy Halloween everyone.. 

I know Halloween is not everyone's cup of tea so 

here's a couple of pumpkin funnies for Michele's

TAG TUESDAY's *All Hallow's Eve* theme 

as we wind down October.. 

and just a handful of ATC cards..

Have a happy safe Halloween, 

see you all in November. 

Creative wishes 

Tracey xx

Stencil it..!!

Hello Creative friends,

I'm sharing a sneaky peek today as i'm over on the That's Blogging Crafty Blog site
with the full How to do's over HERE using some of the latest products from That's Crafty.

Until next Thursday

Take care & stay safe everyone.

Crafty Hugs

Tracey xx

Tyvek *Shimmering Butterfly* ATC

Morning Crafty Friends, I hope you had a great weekend ?

 Mine was full of creative disasters spiralling from one mistake to another, 

but Thankfully it came and went in a flash and I find it's Monday again 

and I'm here sharing a Tyvek covered ATC over on the That's Crafty Blog.

Here's a little sneaky peek but if you'd like to see a little more 

please pop on over HERE to see the full picture and *How to Do's*

Thank you for stopping by 

I hope to see you over there.

Take good care everyone and I look forward to sharing 

more creativity with you again very soon.

Crafty Hugs

Tracey xx