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

 

♥ Venice

Good morning everyone! Today at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a cinnamon colour recipe challenge. Just use a combination of the following colours.

I started out with these colours on my image and then it just kind of evolved!

I created a background with distress inks and water stain. Then I stamped it with Penny Black ~ Venetian Summer. 

The heart was a grunge board which I inked with black ink and the letters were diecut using the Sizzix Tim Holtz Wanted Alphabet die.

I then painted the whole piece with Distress Crackle Paint ~ Clear Rock Candy.

Papers: Cosmo Cricket ~ Circa 1934.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

bo bunny enchanted ~ wedding love

Hello there! Well we have a fabulous challenge this week at Cupcake Craft Challenges this  week, which is sparkle ... how easy is that? 

I have a wedding theme going on with the Bo Bunny ~ Enchanted papers. Again. Just can't get enough of these! All of these papers are embossed sparkly!

My main image is a Penny Black~ Bride & Groom stamp which I embossed with black glitter embossing powder, for extra sparkle, and added a hinge!

Opening the hinge, you can see on the left side, a place for journaling.

On the right is a mega large tag, add a photo or journal.

And that is not all!

On the right, I have a hidden tag.

Tag pulled out front side.

Reverse side of tag.

Notice how I have embossed the edges of everything with black glitter embossing powder for that extra sparkle.

I am entering this in at:

• add ribbon or twine ~ The Ribbon Girl
• all that glitters ~ The Corrosive Challenge 
• flowers ~ Vintage Udfordring
• love is in the air ~ Totally Papercrafts   

Thank you for looking.

Keeley 

London 2012

Hello, here we are once again at Monday and the start of a new challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenges. The challenge this week is the best of British and we have this photo inspiration for you.

 

So many possibilities, there are a gazillion ideas contained within these photos. I went for the top left corner photo, with famous British landmarks and came up with this.

This is London 2012!! LOTS going on in our capital city this year.

I've kept with the red, white and blue theme and have used Bo Bunny ~ Liberty papers and even though these are American themed, have used the fireworks papers to celebrate all things British. 

I created a tag using the distress ink water technique and stamped the Penny Black ~ London stamp onto it.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Distressing & diecuts/punches ~ Truly Scrumptious
• Use Tim Holtz products ~ The Corrosive Challenge I have used distress inks for the London tag and Sizzix diecuts on the fireworks strip.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

a Royal wedding

Today at Crafts 4 Eternity the theme is anything goes.

In honour of the Royal Wedding today, I have made a Royal Wedding album. 

The binding looks a bit funny as I haven't done it up properly yet or put pages in there.

Papers: Teresa Collins ~ Freestyle.

Image: Penny Black ~ Bride & Groom which I embossed.

I bought the keyring from Westminster Abbey, where William and Kate were married today. 

I am going to pop this in at the following challenges:

'royal or patriotic': Daring Card Makers.
'pile it on (at least 5 layers): Stamptacular Sunday.
'a right Royal knees up': A Spoon Full of Sugar.
'use an object not intended for crafting': PaperPlay Challenges. I have used the keyring.
'happily ever after': Penny Black Saturnday Challenge.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

angels

Hello, I've been a bit of a bad blogger lately. It's been a bit hectic round here to say the least. 

So firstly I am catching up by showing you my entry for this week's challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity. Why not pop over and join us? It's not too late.

As usual we have a fabulous sketch, plus the recipe calls for an angel or fairy image.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

'holiday fun': Simon Says Challenge.

'something cute': Stamp Something.

'shine or sparkle': Oh, Alice!.
 

Papers: Basic Grey ~ Eskimo Kisses.

I've machine stitched the edges, sewn on some buttons and the star is a Tattered Angels ~ Glimmer Chip which I misted with Glimmer Mist before adding some stickles.

I love these new cute Penny Black images. This one is taken from a set called Candy Cane Wishes. I coloured them with Copics and added some stickles.

Thank you to all those who left such lovely comments on my gents loo banner in my last post. I will get round to you all just as soon as I can. As a result of that I have been drawn to be this week's home page artist at Gingersnap Creations, woohoo!! and thank you!!

I will be posting my ladies loo banner in the next few days and it is much more exciting than the gents one, so keep your eyes peeled! 

Thanks for looking.

Keeley

amour ~ Holly in Paris

There is a fabulous sketch by Karen over at Dottie's World this week and also a {prize} which is well worth playing for.

This is my third week as guest designer and I got a chance to play with the fabulous new designs by Louise from Holly and Madison's World Tour.

For the sketch 'The scalloped edge merely depict some sort of fancy edge. It doesn't have to be scallops but you MUST provide a fancy edge of some description, this is not an element that can be changed.'

Here is what I came up with:

The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye ~ Beats of my heart. I cut a fancy heart border with my Fiskars border punch and layered it in two colours, before adding a little ribbon trim. The heart is a piece of grunge board which I had made for another project and hadn't used.

The image is Holly in France and I coloured her with my copics.

Well on this particular day she is visiting Paris. The Eiffel Tower stamp and sentiment is by Penny Black, which I embossed with my Tim Holtz ~ Distress Powder.

All other brads and ribbons were from my stash.

Thank you for looking.

Kat

having a {me} day