Paperbabe SKETCH Challenge ~ #83

Hello Creative Friends,

It's a SKETCH Challenge over on the Paperbabe stamps blog.

Use it's shape to inspire you and the image to represent your design.

Mix it up, be creative, it's really up to you how you interpret it.

Time has been very limited for me this week so I set myself a 

personal challenge to see what I could come up with in 1 hour.

Here's what I got up to and those simple *How to Do's*

Using the leaf and conkers from the Completely Conkers stamp set, 

Distress Oxides were my choice of ink to stamp onto both Kraft and white card.

Onto an A6 card I stamped one of my favourite stamps from the 

Spritz & Speckle set along with the completely Conkers sentiment.

5 leaves and 5 conkers were fussy cut and teased into shape ready to assemble.

Glued down using 3D Gel my CAS card is complete.

It's really that simple ..

Hope you can find a moment to pop on over HERE and join in with the challenge.

There's a prize for one lucky random winner.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.

Creative wishes

Tracey xx

Creative Supplies:

Paperbabe Stamps ~ Spritz and Speckles and Completely Conkers 

A6 Card & Distress Oxide Inks

#WOYWW 486

Hello Creative Friends

Happy WOYWW 486 a place each Wednesday we share whats on
our work desk and visit other creative work spaces giving Thanks
to our host Julia over at her stamping ground.

First here's that Kitchen 95% finished...

Flooring down & those Kitchen essentials slowly being put back in place.
You may or may not be able to see my dog camouflaged against the floor
waiting for her breakfast and making the most of that floor space
before the kitchen table goes back in.

This was the Creative Corner on Sunday.

As I unpacked those needful things butterfingers had a mishap with an
ink storage unit and watched it fall in slow motion helpless to save it.
Now in pieces it's a jigsaw no one wants to put back together
so i'm waiting on a replacement to arrive.

Here's what I got up to with one of those leaves last week.

It's HERE if you want to take a closer look.

Those berries I picked up from my lawn, such a deep orange colour. 

Maybe dropped from a butter beaked bird with eyes too big for it's belly.

Look forward to seeing WOYWW this week.
I'll be round to visit when my care duties are
complete and time is my own.

Take Care everyone
Creative Hugs
Tracey xx

Hello Autumn

Hello Creative Friends,

Can you believe we are on the brink of Autumn.

Already the leaves have started to change colour and fall.

Here's a little Autumnal creation created during a much needed play day.

I found this wide rimmed wooden frame in a charity shop, painted in gesso 

and applied sand paste through AALL & Create stencils. 

Embellished with a strip of tapestry canvas & parts of a plywood frame 

I then painted it all in gesso again.

Found leaves have been glued onto a recycled envelope to

hold their shape and to stop them from drying out so quickly.

Filling in the gaps of the frame with art stones a third coat of gesso is applied

Drops of alcohol inks are spritzed with water and white gesso 

used to knock back the brightness of the colour.

Stamping a versamark embossing ink pad onto the leave and embossing 

with clear embossing powder help to preserve those beautiful leaves.

Time to start layering those natural elements.

I chose to use just one of the leaves and team it up with some fallen twigs,

Added a whimsical word from Paperbabe stamps, a dot and dab of

liquitex gold ink and a flick of white paint.

My Autumnal box frame is complete.

I do love the warmth of colour that Autumn gives.

Thank you for sharing your time.

Wishing you all a super weekend.

Creative Hugs & Wishes

Tracey xx

I'm sharing this with ...

A Vintage Journey ~ Back to Nature

More Mixed Media Challenge ~ Anything Goes + Optional Brown

Try it on Tuesday ~ Slap it On

and Kristen & Eva over at PPF