Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #142 ~ Anything Goes

 Hello Creative Friends 

Time for a new PaperBabe Stamps Challenge 

where our theme is *Anything Goes #142* 

A place to share your creativity HERE and chance 

to win a PaperBabe Stamps store prize of up to £20*

Today i'm sharing a journal book cover..

 A beautiful hand bound journal filled with recycled paper pages 

a gift given to me last Christmas from the very talented creator 

of PaperBabe Stamps Kim Costello, it's blank canvas inspired 

me to design a cover dedicated it to PaperBabe things.. 

Stitching Vintage Doll Paper to the cover an Ornate frame 

holds a die cut and stamped portrait head wearing CELESTIA 

pre cut hair all coloured using paint, copics and pencils. 

With lace added to protect it's hand stitched spine a 

fibreboard Whimsical word glued to greyboard is distressed 

and painted to compliment colours and complete it's design. 

If you love to create and join in with blog challenges, 

please do pop on over and share your marvellous makes HERE.

Stay safe and Creative everyone 

Hugs Tracey xx

Sharing today's creativity with: 

Morgans ArtWorld Challenge #4

*Art Journal Journey* ~ Inspired by

LTCCB #57 ~ April Anything Goes 

The Creative Crafters ~ Challenge #39

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Blog #04 April 2021

Paperbabe Girl in profile.

I have had the Paperbabe profile templates for nearly a year now and apart from cut them out and test how it was possible to create different profiles I had not used them to their full potential, I was over the moon when I saw that Kim had started the Paperbabe challenge blog up again so decided there was no better time than this to get them out and have a play.

Here is a breakdown in words and pictures of my Girl in Profile Canvas.

Using a 8 x 8" canvas board I pressed an acrylic prepped 6 x 6" gelli plate into the middle of the board and drew around the face template adding the long fringe hairstyle. 

The face has been coloured using Caran D'ache Neocolor and facial features created using

 paperbabe profile face stamps. Both eye and lips are coloured using Posca markers.

The hair has been created by building up colour using inktense pencils from light to darker shades and activating with water. A heavy wash of water has been painted around the outer edge of the hairline and allowed to drip by turning the canvas on its side.

Oriental Zen flowers have been stamped with mixed media glue and gilding flakes burnished on top, the flowers have been coloured using Wink of Stella brushes and alcohol markers..

A heavy wash was added around the flowers this time and again turned on it's side allowing the stained water to run down the canvas creating a delicate effect.

Stickles and Wink of Stella brushes have helped to add the final details and 

my Girl in profile canvas is complete.

I really enjoyed creating this canvas, it's been a long time since I produced something like this and does take me back to my college days. Fingers crossed these wonderful templates do not lay in wait for another year.

I'd like to enter this in the Anything goes Paperbabe Challenge..

Come on over and join in the fun...

Have a wonderful week everyone..

Hugs Tracey xx

Crafting supplies:

Derwent Inktense Pencils

Caran D'Ache Neocolor II 

Wink of Stella Brush

Ranger Stickles Glue

Honeydoo gilding flakes

Honeydoo mixed media glue

Paperbabe Oriental Zen Stamps

Paperbabe Mixed Media Mini Profile Templates

Paperbabe Mini Profile Stamps

Extra Large Mixed Media Blue & Ochre Tag..

The current colour scheme of the PaperArtsy Challenge is so Alluring, I was inspired from the onset by Chris Cresswell and her Art Journal spread. With the element of surprise behind the doors and Chris's attention to detail; something close to my heART.. I just had to create something using those given colours of Blue and Ochre.

Here in words and pictures is my creation...

For my surface I used an Extra Large Tag (147mm x 296mm) by Dali Art. 

I squeezed a blob of Midnight Blue, Indian Turquoise, True Ochre and Yellow Ochre Americana Acrylic paint randomly onto it. The paint was spread over the surface from side to side with a piece of card and marks made into the paint using a comb to create some texture.

IndigoBlu Super Thick Slapiton was pushed through a Dina Wakley Stencil.

I Stamped Kim Dellow EKD06 stamps with versafine and coloured with pencils and illustrator Pens, some of the flowers I cut, shaped and layered to change their dimension.

I chose a selection of lace, ribbon and Sari border to coordinate with the colour way and used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber to tone down the whiteness of the lace.

After the Lace, Ribbon and Sari border had been adhered to the tag I used *Deep Blue and Sicilian Yellow Inktense pencils to add light and shade to areas of the tag adding water over the pencil areas to make the ink permanent.

Flat back pearls, micro beads and wire all add to the detail.

With Glossy accents and white  Posca Pen helping to highlight the finer details 

my mixed media tag is complete.

I've really enjoyed gathering colour coordinating materials and piecing together this mixed media Tag . I hope you like my creation and entry into The PaperArtsy Colour Challenge Topic 5: Blue and Ochre

Wishing you a wonderful day what ever you are up too..

Creative Hugs from Tracey xxx

Crafting Supplies Menu: 

DaliArt Extra Large Tags

Derwent Inktense pencils

DecoArt Americana Acrylics

Kim Dellow Eclectica EKD06

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad

Dina Wakley Mosaic Swirl Stencil

Spectrum Noir ColourBlend Pencils

Spectrum Noir Illustrator Marker Pens

March Tag.. Spring is in the air.

As some of you may know each month I have been creating a Tag using the same 

prompts/instructions given in a 12 week Tag challenge last year... 

It's a *Personal* Challenge I have set myself....Here is my March creation

1:Tando Long Tag Covered with White Gesso then  layer of paint Dylusions Lemon Zest, 

2: A Layer of Blue Sky Acrylic, applied with a sponge to mark make.

3: Modelling paste pushed through a leaf design stencil (not too sure who its made by)

4: Strips of torn book pages used as collage and covered with matt medium.

       5: A layer of Diluted Lemon Meringue Acrylic paint covers the tag.
6: Dylusions Chopped Pesto dripped down the side of the tag.
 7: DecoArt Textured Sand paste pushed through a flower design stencil.

8:Coated the whole tag in clear Gesso
9: Stamped Foliage from PaperArtsy Eclectica EKD06 by Kim Dellow..
(Thank you James I love my Mothers Day Stamps)
10: Used the Large Flower head from the set as my Focal image
coloured with pencils and layered for dimension. 

11: Leaves have been coloured with wink of stella dark green,
Indentations highlighted with Inktense pencils and washed with water to fix them.
Gilding wax rubbed over any raised area.
White Posca pen highlights dotted here and there.
Distress dyed ribbon along with another coloured stamp from Kim Dellow
adds to the embellishing.

12: Words Spring is in the air are from Tim Holtz

and that is my March Tag completed following those simple instructions.

Thank you for popping by, I hope you have been inspired by my creation using those 

12 weeks of instruction.

(Thanks again Chris..x)

Creative Hugs from Tracey xx

Chalkboard Christmas.

Last Christmas I created projects very similar to these. 

Using Sweet Dixie *Christmas spent with Family* stamp set Designed by Lindsay Mason from Personal Impressions, I have replicated previous makes.

*Christmas Spent With Family*

Using an MDF tag painted in Black Gesso and sanded back I stamped the sentiment using White VersaCraft and heat embossed with Sweet Dixie Glacier White Ultra Fine embossing powder.

Trying to achieve the chalk board effect I did not use an anti static bag hoping the MDF would attract the odd speckle of embossing powder. From the picture below you can see that it does just that.

The Holly leaves did not fit onto the tag without obscuring the wording.

It is possible to get a negative print of an image if you stamp onto tissue paper. 

As tissue paper is absorbent the ink sinks easily into it, making the reverse side 

a negative image to the stamp. 

Doing this allowed me to fit the Holly Leaves onto the Chalkboard tag perfectly. 

The Holly has been scruffy coloured using Derwent colour soft pencils, cut out and adhered onto the tag using Mat Mod Podge.

Taken from Lindsay's Christmas Tweets Stamp set

I embossed both top and bottom of the tag to replicate snowfall and added 

flat back red pearls to create realistic berries. 

These tags can be Tree ornaments, or maybe add a magnetic strip to the back to create a magnet, either would make a great stocking filler.

A Tag shaped Christmas card has been made in the same way,

 this one displays two of the seven sentiments within the set.

These are very effective Christmas makes but the concept could be carried on 

all year round with minor adaptations. 

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

Creative Hugs from Tracey xx