DLP

As a focal point/coming into focus ....

I've gone super simple this week for the DLP challenge....used the Sizzix/TH butterfly frenzy to cut a stencil. I've sponged black acrylic, used some butterfly washi tape for the background and then used pens & black soot DI to colour the large TH layered butterfly that someone had sent me in exchange for some layered leaves.

Number 12

I cannot believe that it's all over for my participating in the http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/ challenge.

Linda's boutique kindly sponsors the challenge and she has given us some wonderful inspiration - check out the blog! So Christmas is almost upon us, only a week away now and we will all be celebrating.

I loved the wreath on the latest tag Linda created and felt like doing a more dimensional that those I've done so far this year

I've used a 5"x8" base,  embossed some cream card to get a brick wall effect & added antique linen to the raised areas, the door has been done with the same card coloured with brushed corduroy, run through the embossed with a wood grain folder & then walnut added to the raised parts.

I cut out a window and added "glass" it's actually the backing from some stickers. A LaBlanche tree is in the background.

The wreath is a ring of thin card, juniper sprigs cut with the festive greenery, poinsettias cut from tattered flower garland, tiny yellow seed beads have been used to create the centres. A piece of tartan ribbon to finish, i am in Scotland after all!

A circle stamped with a greeting & the edge stamped using a pine twig stamp and the final card is done. 

What fun I've had playing along with Linda's challenge this year, the upside of not having sloped off to the alps for the winter. I hope she'll forgive the almost identical copy....mine is nowhere as good!

Off to link to http://thefunkiejunkie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/tag-12.html

Inky part 2

Some more inking has been happening here :-) 

I have turned this

Rusty hinge & crushed olive through a stencil.....

Into this

I've die cut, using the weathered clock & added Tarnished brass distress stain, and got myself a nicely aged clock.

I die cut a Pine tree from some packaging, inked with stain, dried it and added some "snow" which turned out to be a disaster due to the fact that the stain leached into the snow & turned it lime green!!!

So I picked off the snow, covered the tree with gesso that I stipples on to get a rough finish & left it to dry....then added some green acrylic paint- definitely an improvement :-) once that had dried, I added some more gesso to the upper parts of the branches to create snow, this time it stayed white!

I've added a little black soot ink to the edges of the clock & hands, stuck the clock down, the hands have been attached using a snowflake brad & the tips of the hands are stuck down.

I die-cut some letters with the Alphabetical strip die to spell snow time and glue them onto the clock "face"- also added a plastic snowman in the bottom corner after I'd distressed the edges & coloured with some chipped sapphire ink

 

We are forecast snow next week so it would seen that the words may well be prophetic! 

There is already snow on the nearby hills and last week-end saw skiers & snowboarders out on the slopes at Aviemore so we know it can't be that long before winter starts to catch up with us....

Have a good weekend & thanks for stopping by :-)