Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ #86 Animals/Pets

Happy Friday Creative Friends,

There's a new challenge theme over on the Paperbabe Blog  

with this fortnights theme being Animals/Pets. 

I couldn't resist using the White Rabbit templates for this challenge.

Traced onto a canvas sheet I stamped those Rabbit Face features and used the 

Cat template to give the shape of the body.. The Rabbit ears I traced separately.

Poppies are so relevant this time of year this napkin adhered 

to the Ornate Frame made the perfect backdrop.

It's hard work using pencil on canvas sheets, I lost count of the amount of times 

I had to sharpen those pencils.. but it gives an alternative effect to paints. 

A wash of blue helps create the skyline with left over poppies 

mounted onto card waiting patiently to be layered on top..

I cut a boarder around the Rabbit and ears so I could pull the canvas edge apart to 

create the appearance of fur tufts. Now to decide exactly where those ears will go..

With those Rabbit ears tweaked into position and wire whiskers glued into place, 

those left over poppies are layered up to complete this idyllic scene.

I do hope you can pop over and see what the Design Team have been up to. 

Come and share your Animal or Pet designs over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog 

you may just be the Lucky winner of a Paperbabe prize.

Wishing you all a Peaceful weekend.

Creative Wishes

Tracey xx

I'm sharing today with..
Kristin & Eva over at PPF, 

A Bit More Time to Craft ~ Challenge #79 ATG

and

CED ~AEDM

Paperbabe *Anything Goes* Challenge #84

Hello Creative Friends

It's Anything Goes over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog this fortnight 

and we'd love you to share your creativity with us over HERE.

Pop on over and see what the Design Team have been up to.. 

There's a prize for one random winner every fortnight..

Here's what I got up to one rainy play day.

As Halloween and Dia de (los) Meurtos approach I chose to mix and match 

the male, female and sugar skull stamps as they all work perfectly together 

alongside those Paperbabe Portrait templates.

The daisy stamp from the sugar skull set was used to create a lace effect.

With the outer edge of the torso template acting as a mask it keeps 

the stamp within the lines... such a time saver..

Again those template edges act as a guide but this time helped me add those 

darker areas whilst still keeping the shape of the Blunt Bangs hair style.

Adding my favourite shades of watercolour pencil and paint, I find a good 

gesso invaluable as it not only adds those important highlights but also 

tones down over worked areas with what ever medium you choose.

Keeping those colour tones similar a dot of black diamond glitter glue 

has been added to the centre of each flower to bling it up just a little.

The rose from the sugar skull set has been stamped onto a colour wash background 

and coloured with watercolour pencils. Cut out they are ready to add to my page.

Used to embellish the hair and garment those final 

gesso highlights complete my Paperbabe Journal page.

I'm very much in my comfort zone with portraiture but 

the Paperbabe face stamps and templates give me the confidence 

to share the magic they can create, much more than my own sketches.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Wishing you all a super weekend.

Creative Hugs Tracey xx

I'm happily playing along with:

Art Journal Journey ~ Creature Comforts hosted by Linda

and Paint Party Friday ~ Courtesy of Kristin & EVA

Creative Supplies:

Paperbabe Stamps ~ Standard Male and Female portrait torso templates 

Standard Male and Female Face Stamps and Standard Sugar Skull stamp set.

Paperbabe Stamps Red Rubber ~ Comfort Zone quote

Caran D'Ache Neocolor II's ~ Supracolor pencils and Indigoblu paints

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

Paperbabe Challenge #82 ~ THEME *STARS*

Hello Creative Friends

It's Friday and time for another Paperbabe Challenge.
This fortnight the theme is *STARS* we'd love you to share

your *STAR* creations over HERE on the Paperbabe Stamps blog.

There's a prize for one Lucky random winner so pop on over, 

read those rules and see what the Team have created just for you.

Here's my take on the Theme *STARS*

On to an A3 Journal page I traced around the Standard Torso and Fairy Wings 

templates, lay down lots of colourful Neocolor II's and spritzed with water 

to help those colours mix, move and merge around the page.

The Head template was traced, features stamped, coloured and cut out.

The Curly Hair and fringe template has also been traced separately 

ready to be fussy cut.

Stamping the Doodle *STARS* onto the background I rubbed crystal stickles glitter glue 

over the page with my finger to add some sparkle. I then used the Curly Fringe Hair

template to manipulate exactly where I wanted the hair to be before tracing around.

Those traced areas of hair behind the face were painted with white Gesso

and a hairline drawn onto the face making it easier to position those hair strands.

With those hair strands cut out and glued into place 

the pointy ear is lifted up peeping out from the hair.

Paper napkins have been collaged to the base of the page with 

extra's backed onto card and layered on top to add dimension.

Drawing in those finer details of my Fantasy Fairy using Neocolor II's, 

a fussy cut crown (included in the Fairy Wings template) along with 

beaded string adds that final detail.

I really enjoyed losing myself creating this piece and with limited craft supplies

at the moment due to a little home improvement it really does set those

creative cogs in motion.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead

and Thank you so much for visiting.

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

Paperbabe Stamps supplies: Standard Head and Torso  ~ Standard Curly Fringe 
 Left facing Profile Stamps.  ~ Winter Fairy mixed media template ~ *Doodle Stars*

I'm playing along with:

Kristin & EVA over at Paint Party Friday

Craft Stamper Magazine~ Take it Make it

Art Journal Journey ~ A World of Fantasy

Ultra Violet Paperbabe Postcard: Challenge #65

It's time for another Challenge over at Paperbabe Stamps

with this Fortnights theme being a Picture Inspiration Challenge #65 

inspired by the Pantone colour of 2018 Ultra Violet.

Described as provocative, thoughtful and a dramatic shade of purple

I have tried to introduce each of these elements into my project.

Here is my Ultra Violet Papebabe Postcard and those How to do's

Using the mini portrait template, face stamps and hair template I positioned,

sketched around, stamped then lay down my dominant water soluble colours 

scribbling them onto watercolour card and activated with water.

Building up the detail of the eyes, skin, and hair more colour was added to the background helping define the hair. Rubbing a wet wipe over a stencil I had placed over the background area I lifted off some of that dark colour leaving the impression of the stencil behind.

Lilac Glitter lips and eyelashes adds a dramatic touch!

With the final detail added using a fine liner.

An embossed rose embellishment gives her a corsage choker

necklace with those final hair highlights added with a white pen.

My Ultra Violet Paperbabe Postcard is complete..

It's Friday and the weekend awaits, hopefully with lots of 

spare time to craft away those chill out hours?? 

I hope you can find time to pop on over HERE and see the Design Teams

Super inspirational makes and hopefully join in with the challenge too!

Hope to see you over THERE.

Have a wonderful weekend

Creative HuGs

Tracey xx

                                                                  

Paperbabe Supplies:

Paperbabe - Mini Face Stamps

Paperbabe - Mini Face & Torso Template

Paperbabe Mixed Media Template - Blunt Bangs Long Portrait

Winter's Day..

*Happy New Year from all at Paperbabe*

Today see's a new challenge over on the Paperbabe blog

with the theme being *Anything Goes #64*

My piece was inspired by the snow fall we had over the Festive Season

a scene we only seem to see on Christmas cards during winter time now.

Here is my Winter's Day How to do's..

Using a sheet of 10 x 7 watercolour card I sketched around the main standard 

Flick & Fringe hair template placing the small face template in the centre and 

drawing around it along with the torso included in the template set. 

The markings for the facial features are all marked out on the Face templates 

making it easy for you to trace the lines and stamp those features in. I moved the 

fringe template down to slightly cover the eyes and traced the outline on.

Using water-soluble wax pastels I first laid down the skin tone colours,

building up the surrounding areas with colour and shade activating it all with water.

White Gesso helped to cover up any stamped areas I no longer required.

Hiding the eyebrows now gave me a full fringe to work with again using 

water-soluble wax pastels along with water-resistant pencils to add the finer detail.

Inking through the herringbone stencil added interest to her garment.

Snowflakes from the Peaceful Flurries set have been stamped and embossed on the 

background with gel paste pushed through the mini dots stencil randomly across the page.

adding dimensional dots almost replicates snowfall.

Mounted onto black card my page was edged with machine stitching. 

Peaceful Flurries substrates were stamped and embossed using their sister Peaceful Flurries stamps and adhered to the page adding a button or two for embellishment .

My Winter's Day portrait is complete.

Thank you for stopping on by, 

Please pop on over HERE to see the fabulous creations from Kim and the Design Team

and share your creativity with us all by joining in with the *Anything Goes #64 challenge*

It's open to everyone and there's a prize to be won for one lucky winner!!...

Hope to see you over there..

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

Paperbabe Supplies:

Paperbabe Standard Head and Torso  Portrait template

Paperbabe Standard Flick & Fringe Portrait template

Paperbabe Standard Female Face Portrait Stamp Set

Paperbabe Herringbone Stencil

Paperbabe Mini Dots Stencil

Paperbabe Peaceful Flurries Stamps

Paperbabe Peaceful Flurries Substrates

Water-soluble wax pastels & Water resistant pencils

Don't be afraid to Sparkle*

Hello creative friends,

I'm sharing a postcard sized creation today that i've put together whilst watching 

paint dry *literally* I've been working on so many different projects recently, to be able to just sit down and create this from start to finish was a breath of fresh air. 

Using some postcard sized watercolour card that i'd previously edged with stitching

I used my Paperbabe face templates to draw the outline of the face, marked out where the facial features would go and then scribbled randomly with Caran D'ache neocolor water soluble pastels.

Activating using a paintbrush and water I stamped those facial features 

using the Paperbabe Mini Stamps with Versafine smokey grey ink.

Using a selection of the hair templates I drew the hair outline applying

 neocolors where I wanted light and shade to be.

With the facial features coloured, blended and activated with water I wasn't convinced about the hairline shape I had created, this may have been due to the smaller area I was working on which seemed to kick the perspective out..

So using a fine wet paintbrush I dragged out the colours, creating a fringe/bangs and filling in the gaps by adding more colour dragging out again with a wet brush to create wisps of hair. Outlined with a fine liner the facial features really do come alive.

The Paperbabe sentiment fitted perfectly stamped in the open space.

Mounted onto black card I added dabs of distress glitter glue and a 

sprinkle of gemstones and sequins to add to her sparkle.

My Don't be afraid Postcard is complete.

I felt quite relaxed after creating this and have a handful of #WIP

similar to this just waiting for some more downtime.

Thank you for sharing your time

Until next time

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

I'd like to enter this into the *Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ #60 Anything Goes*

Paperbabe Sketch Challenge #58

Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well??

I've been busy with Christmas this week (YES....!! I know) but I have so many 

Christmas cards to make I have to say I am shamefully behind with my makes this year. 

Today I'm sharing a card created using Stamps from Paperbabe 

which I am entering in the Paperbabe Challenge #58 Sketch

Here is my *Christmas is the day..* card with quick and easy How to do's..

Using a left over piece of mop up paper from a canvas paper pad,

I stamped the snowflake star from the Frost Fairy stamp set with versamark 

all over the paper and gently dusted with the delicate oyster colour mica powder.

Distressed the edges using old scissors and added faux stitching with my tracing wheel.

                                   

Stamping the Frost Fairy in black onyx versafine I coloured the image in Caran D'Ache supracolor pencils, washing out some of the colour with a water brush.

I used a large circle die to cut out the image, added gemstones to highlight her snowflake stars and edged her wings with glitter glue to give her an extra sparkle of magic..

Using a verse stamp by Card-io I stamped directly onto the background surface 

and layered up all the elements required in the Paperbabe Sketch Challenge 

My *Christmas is the day...* card is complete.

I think the Frost Fairy has definitely cast her spell and my 

Christmas mojo seems to be returning..

Fingers crossed she stays right where she is as there's busy times ahead 

with no Santa's little helpers for me..!

Thank you for stopping by.

Take Care Everyone

Until next time.

Creativity & Warm Hugs

Tracey xx