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 #103 Challenge ~ Anything Mixed Media Goes

Hello Creatives 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's Monthly Challenge 

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes... 

My April mixed media journal page is created around a focal 

stamped image surrounded by textured glitter paste scraped 

through a stencil. Tracing around the hexagonal honeycomb 

using a 3D Gold glue pen I also enamel embossed those 

background ovals to add extra interest.

Stamping the image out multiple times colouring with pencil 

and alcohol markers this enabled me to cut and layer up extra 

leaves and flowers along with giving me the ability to recreate

 a fluffy Bumblebee by cutting and sticking a bright yellow 

pom pom and eyelash wool, a fun Spring time project... 

We hope you will share your own Mixed Media Makes 

this month with the Design Team HERE  

We look forward to seeing you this April @

Creative Artiste #103 Anything Mixed Media Goes Challenge

Stay safe & creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's Theme Geometric Forms  

Four Seasons ~ April Anything Goes Spring Challenge 

Traditional Christmas ~ Guest Designer @Try it on Tuesday

 Hello Creatives 

I'm blessed to have been invited to be Guest Designer 

@ Try it on Tuesday, their theme this fortnight is 

Traditional Christmas.. 

 

Today I share a Christmas Card a tradition to correspond with family 

and friends to send love and best wishes for the festive season. 

This one displays a Poinsettia sometimes known as the 

*Flower of the Holy Night* for it's star shaped flowers. 

Stamped coloured and fussy cut, displayed on an embossed acrylic 

painted background, I added a jumble of threads, gold lace and 

glittery stickles glue for extra detail and dimension.. 

Handmade Christmas cards are extra special and a wonderful way 

of staying connected with those dear to us both near and far.. . 

Thank you to the TioT Design Team for inviting me this fortnight

please don't forget to pop on over to see what the talented team 

have created to inspire your Traditional Christmas creations ..  

Creative wishes 

Tracey xx

Anything Goes ~ Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #130

Hello everyone, 

*Anything Goes* this fortnight over @ 

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #130 

A chance to win a *gift voucher* to spend in the 

Paperbabe Stamps Etsy Store come share your 

crafty creations HERE...

Today my Anything Goes creation is a Triad of ATC's

Using the Sugar Skull Stamp Set and Portrait Templates. 

Coloured with alcohol markers, embellished with enamel 

accents and a dusting of glitter, in honour of

Dia de los Muertos ~ Day of the Dead.. 

What could you use them for..??

Look forward to seeing your 

*Anything Goes Creations* 

Stay safe & Creative 

Tracey xx

Good Morning Flower.

Good Morning Flower!

I couldn't wait to use this Rubber Dance Bonny Bunny Stamp again, I've used it so many times this year as it resembles "Bingo" a Bunny my Daughter was given on her 8th Birthday. Everyone who every met him can recall his cheeky character and mannerisms.

Here is my "Good Morning Flower"

In words and pictures..

Stamped three times I painted the Bonny Bunny Stamp with a mix of 

black and white multi surface That's Crafty paint.

I painted a 5 x 3" plywood art pallet in Almond and Antique Mum 

acrylic paint and distressed with a hammer (Very therapeutic!)

I added back the finer detail I lost whilst painting by laying over the cut out images 

onto the stamp loaded up with archival ink. I could now begin to layer up the Bunny.

Layered and given threaded whiskers. I stamped and coloured two of the Rubber Dance Textured Flowers. Cut out I used a ball tool to add a little shape to the flowers.

After a quick fix with panel pins as the pallet really did fall apart,

I adhered the flowers around the Bonny Bunny.

  My "Good Morning Flower" project is complete.

I'm not sure how long this piece will sit on display before it is discovered by my 

Daughter but I must admit it brings a smile to my face every time I look at it.

Thank you for hopping on over.

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday.

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

I'd like to enter this into the 

Rubber Dance Stamps September Colour Challenge

Crafty Supplies:

Art -C Plywood Pallet
Rubber Dance Stamps: Bonny Bunny UK Supplier
Rubber Dance Stamps: Textured Flowers UK Supplier
Alcohol markers
DecoArt Outdoor Patio Paint

1, 2, 3 ATC

WELL..!!  I can hear you all say "What's all this Mess?" 

Grab yourself a cuppa and i'll tell you all about it..

Well this project all started with the words *Found* a Theme given for an ATC Swap I contribute to each month. I have so much stored away in pretty jars but the majority of it has little or no importance, just odds and ends hidden away with the hope of discovering that hidden gem each time I rummaged through it...

The Blog Challenge Theme for the next fortnight over at That's Crafty is *Anything Goes* and these little ATC's seemed to fit the bill nicely, showing that you really can create something from nothing.. 

I hope you can pop along and check out all those inspirational makes from the DT and maybe join in as there's a chance to win a £20 voucher to spend in the That's Crafty Store.. 

Here in words and pictures is my 1,2,3 ATC

Covering an MDF ATC in a layer of lace I Gesso'd over the top and added some of those 

bits and bobs, sticking them down with lots and lots of heavy body gel. 

I added micro beads into the exposed gel and then left them for 7 whole days.. yes 7!! 

As the amount of gel used was so thick and I knew these would be travelling to a new destination I needed to make sure that the gel had cured properly and also that those items would stay where I had put them..!

..One week later.

All dry and stuck down firmly.. so time to play.

I coloured each ATC differently using neocolor pastels and covered with mat medium to protect any further movement of colour. These colours were my base coat on which I could build up with more colour.

Now this is my favourite bit, bringing out all the detail by using raw umber paint and coordinating coloured alcohol markers around each element. Creating depth, shade and highlighting those prominent areas with bronze, antique gold and antique silver shimmer paints to give the appearance of reflection of light with a dot and dab of white Posca Pen.

Each ATC is finally edged with a little gilding wax.. and my ATC's are complete..

You really do need something substantial to adhere so much onto as you do not want them to buckle or bend whilst on their travels. The MDF ATC's are fabulous surfaces to work on and I believe they have now found new homes.. hopefully well received.?

Thank you for sharing your time, I hope you have been inspired.

What ever you are up to this week I hope it's a crafty one.

Stay Safe.. Creative Hugs.. Tracey xx

That's Crafty *Anything Goes* Blog Challenge

Crafty Supplies:

Bits and Bobs from my own crafty stash!
 Alcohol markers (Browns/Greens/Blues) Not my best ones.

That's Crafty MDF ATC's 
That's Crafty White Gesso
Heavy body Gel
DecoArt Matte Medium
Carn D'ache neocolor II water soluble pastels
DecoArt Raw Umber
That's Crafty Shimmer Paints
Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy Metallique Wax
White Posca Marker Pen