October 31 halloween mixed media canvas

Good morning! Today we have a HALLOWEEN themed challenge starting at Crafts 4 Eternity.

I have made a mixed media canvas.

The witch I cut out freestyle and her hat was made from a Tim Holtz Blueprint stamp. Her legs drape over the bottom edge of the canvas.

The fence on the right is a Memory Box~ Estate Fence die.

The 31 is a Sizzix die.

The spiders web was made with a Memory Box ~ Haunted Webs die. The spiders are stickers that I had in my stash.

The pumpkins up the left hand side were made with Rusty Pickle papers.

I've made a YouTube video, which goes into more details of the products that I used to build up the layers on this.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Halloween ~ C.R.A.F.T. Challenge; Shopping Our Stash; Dream Valley Challenges; Make My Monday
• Happy Halloween ~ Creative Inspirations
• Anything goes ~ Simon Says Monday Challenge 
• Anything goes/Fall colours ~ Love to Create Challenge
• Spooky ~ That's Crafty
• Halloween to Die For ~ A Vintage Journey
• The Body Beautiful ~ The Mirror Crack'd
• Tricks & treats ~ Art with Heart Challenge

Thank you for looking.

Keeley  

creepy crawly chilling thrilling HALLOWEEN

Good morning! This week at Crafts 4 Eternity our theme is creepy crawlies.

I've made another mixed media canvas.

I've got lots of layers on this: Gesso, Dylusions ink (cut grass), liquitex ink (vivid lime green),  crackle paste through a stencil, clear tar gel through a stencil, some stamping and rub ons. Phew! And that's just for starters.

The words: creepy crawly chilling thrilling Halloween, were part of an old stamp. I just stamped out the words and then cut them up.

The spiders webs are a Memory Box die which I die cut five times and placed around the canvas, wrapping them around the edges in places. The spiders were little stickers I had in my stash.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• V is for vibrant ~ ABC Challenge 
• anything but a card ~ Dream Valley Challenges 
• Happy Halloween ~ Fairytale Challenges 
• Spooky spooky ~ Little Red Wagon 
• Halloween ~ The Corrosive Challenge 
• Spooky ~ Try It On Tuesdays 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

how long will I love you?

Good evening! I am very late posting this week for the sketch challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity. I was a bit late starting this project, but really wanted to use this week's fabby sketch.

For my project I have created another mixed media collage. Expect to see LOTS of these in 2014, as I am loving doing them, although I am still experimenting, so it will be interesting to see what my work looks like in a year's time. Sorry, my photo is a bit blurry.

For my base, I started with a sticky backed canvas sheet. I will mount this onto chipboard, but haven't done so yet, hence why it looks so wonky.

I then covered it with cardboard scraps, but even I am struggling to see those now.

Mediums used: distress paint, distress stain, gold gelato.

I have used a Memory Box ~ Butterfly Vine stencil, combined with texture paste at the top.

The dimensional butterflies were stamped from the Tim Holtz ~ Papillon CMS106 stamp set and cut out.I have also used these stamps as part of my background.

The image was created from a Penny Black ~ Melle Papillon stamp. Creating that dress, very nearly drove me crazy!

She is set onto a Spellbinders die cut. 

The sentiment: How love will I love you?

When I showed it to my other half, he said: 'that's a bit pessimistic isn't it?' Well it comes from a love song of the same name, by Ellie Goulding. 

Go check out the song if you don't know it:

Ellie Goulding: How long will I love you?

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

 

let the music play on

Good morning. Today at Everybody Art Challenge our challenge is for a man or boy.

I have actually made another collage using the same techniques that I learned when making this collage: Follow Your Heart. As soon as I had finished that collage, I had this one in my head, so decided to go with it straightaway.

I've now invested in some Artists' Canvas Board. So much better to be creating these collages on a solid surface that doesn't curl all over the place!

I had a bit of a problem with the blending on this one, especially that tree! Not quite sure whether I have pulled it off. I wanted to give it a feel of a Victorian park at night time.

For my night sky, I created stars using the Tim Holtz Stars Layering Stencil. I created a layer of stars using modeling paste and then later, I created another layer by tracing through the star stencil onto cardstock and cutting them out.

For the lamp post, I stamped the lamp post from the Tim Holtz Festive Sounds set in Versamark onto a sheet of cardstock, embossed it with black glitter and then cut it out.

I love this fence! Very Victorian looking. I made it using the Memory Box Estate Fence die.

OK, over to my little man. I created him with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Victorian Carolers die. I tried to create the feel of movement with the swirls of rub-ons around him.

I created the tree with a Memory Box Tree of Wonder die.

More fence!

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• open theme ~ Collage Obsession 
• tantalizing texture ~ Unruly Paper Arts 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley.

by the seaside

Hello and a Happy Monday to you! Today we have a new challenge from Cupcake Craft Challenges where we have a get wet challenge, so would like to see any water themed project.

I've created a sunny(!) seaside picture, well we can at least hope!

Sorry, cannot for the life of me reproduce the cropped version on here. Computer failure ... or me ...
 

Papers: Basic grey ~ June Bug

Image: Magnolia ~ Tilda in Key Largo.

Tilda is on Spellbinders ~ Decorative Labels Twenty-Two

Used a Magnolia ~ Simple Tag for the little tag sticking out.

The sun is shining with this X-Cut Doily. Added a >La La Land Banner die cut.

Some clouds  using Magnolia dies.

And my waves were created with a Memory Box die.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

you are the song in my heart

 

Hello, today's challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity is a colour challenge of cool greys as the predominant colour.

For the winner of last weeks blog hop, please scroll to the end.

This was a good excuse to dig out my Bo Bunny ~ Enchanted papers. I used the 6 x 6 papers on this as I'm still stroking the 12 x 12's!!

 I cut the hearts out of glitter cardstock with the Memory Box ~ Twirled Heart Border die.

The butterflies are from the Tim Holtz ~ Mini Butterflies die.

I've brightened it up with some turquoise pearls. 

Here is the inside, which I also decorated.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• Things with wings ~ PaperPlay Challenges and Totally Papercrafts
• Anything goes ~ Prairie Fairy Fridays 
• Song Inspiration ~ Deep Ocean Challenge

 

Now for the winner of last week's blog hop. Thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to enter.

The winner of the Bathtime Sam digi is:

VIXEN 

Congratulations Vixen! Please contact me at the email address in my profile (top right) and I will email the digi files to you.

 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley