Recycled cat food box masculine wall hanging

Hi everyone. Just wanted to quickly share a little wall hanging I made with a more masculine theme to my shabby little hearts and flower panels. We are all blacks, whites, grey and platinum on this one but still with the crackled heart and faux cracked glass. 

I have used Tim Holtz Cameo frame - about 6 layers - cut from Frankie's cat food boxes to create the frame. Lots of texture and paint and some embossing powder on my cogs.

It is challenge 30 at Compendium of Curiosities - Faux Crackled Glass from Tim's wonderful book. This challenge is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique.

At Frilly and Funkie it is time for Monochromatic (right up my street!)

And at Pamellia's lovely new challenge - Anything but Cute - it is all about Masculine.

A few close ups:

Thanks for looking - have a wonderful Friday / weekend.

Nikki xx

Eroded Metallic Butterfly Plaque

Life continues to be a little hectic round here but I came up with a plan! ( I am a bit slow sometimes). I am currently lucky enough to be involved in a pop up craft shop selling a few of my little creations and this has been keeping me busy along with the day job. I haven't entered a challenge for a while and am missing my blogging time. So this week when making a few more things for the shop I realised (yes... slow) that I could combine the two things!

So I made this little plaque incorporating Tim Holtz's Eroded Metallic technique ( P44 Compendium of Curiosities 3) which is the current challenge at Linda Ledbetter. This months challenge is sponsored by Inspiration Emporium. 

Both my butterfly and circular frame use the technique and I have mounted them on an a plaque painted to create a wood effect. I created the body of the butterfly by wrapping string around a stick and also framed the piece with string. In a moment of madness for me I added stickles around the edge too. I have varnished the entire piece for the shop which I probably wouldn't have otherwise done.

I would also like to enter:
That's Crafty - All that Glitters

Thanks for peeking today and for the lovely comments this week. I am planning a good visit around blogs later today or Sunday. Have a lovely weekend.

Nikki

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Mixed Media 'Frameworks' Canvass

 

Hello everyone. Well I finally got back to the craft room after my little break to have a sort out. Apologies there are a lot of photos today - the weather is bright so I went a bit mad.

I made this with a couple of challenges in mind:

Compendium of Curiosities - the theme is Frameworks from Tim's latest book. (P64 volume 3). It is the turn of Inspiration Emporium as this challenge's wonderful sponsor.

The Mirror Crack'd - to produce and use a masterboard

Simon Says Stamp - 'A' is for.... for me it is an arch.
 and fortuitously - That's Crafty - Grunge, Grunge, Grunge

I started by creating 2 masterboards. Both commenced with acrylic paints, brown and white.

The first then had a crackle medium applied and when dry black acrylic was added. Once dry I rubbed the surface to produce the effect of peeled paint.

The second was covered in a matt medium, tissue wrap added and then it was splattered with white acrylic.

I chopped them up to commence my project:

The tissue wrapped base had texture paste, embossing powder and distress ink sprays added.

The canvass frame was also treated with texture paste through a stencil and painted.

My frameworks were cut from the peeled paint masterboard, but colour was added. The inserts for the frame were a mixture of foil with alcohol inks, foil embossed and acrylic and alcolol ink added and finally the masterboard pieces with either crackle paint or glossy accents added.

(photo in sunlight)

(photo indoors)

The arch was cut several times to provide depth and glued together. The base of the arch was from the peeled paint masterboard with a little colour added.

(photo in sunlight)

(photo indoors)

Finally I added some additional frameworks to the canvass edge.

Sorry for such a long post today. Have a great day.

Nikki

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Compendium of Curiosities Challenge 24

I haven't managed to do any of the Compendium of Curiosities challenges of late so pleased to get something made for the latest one - Remnant Rub Resist. (P51 of Tim's book.). Lots of distressed layers, crackle paste, embossing and, of course, remnant rubs.

Details of the challenge can be found on Linda Ledbetter's blog and the latest challenge is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique.

A few more photos:

Thanks for visiting. 

Nikki 

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You dancing?

 

I thought I would play along at Compendium of Curiosities this time, where the theme is Tim's Distress Water Colouring (part 2 on page 40). It is challenge number 20 and this time is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

I took several of elements off different stamp sets and chopped them up and coloured them to make my tag.

I would also like to enter my slightly quirky tag into the Craft Stamper challenge this month.

Nikki

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Butterflies for Mum

The latest Compendium of Curiosities Challenge is Layering Stencils / Embosssing on Page 50. I decided to make a card for my mum who has her birthday at the end of December. The Funkie Junkie Boutique is the  sponsor of this latest challenge.

The technique has been used on my butterflies:

I then used the same stencil to create my background circles. Not sure about the colours now! Peacock feathers and rusty hinge -mmmmmm!!! However not sure mum would appreciate one of my usual grey designs.

Suffering with a cold here at the moment. Just a bit lethargic but giving me the opportunity to get a few desk related tasks completed. Hope you have a great day.

Nikki

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'Dear Santa' Cabinet Card for Compendium of Curiosities

Had fun making this one!

The latest challenge from the Curiosity Crew is to use Cabinet Card Pockets - page 38 of Tim's book. Check out the link here... where there is some fabulous inspiration from the team.

This time round the sponsors are Inspiration Emporium.

For the last challenge I had made and didn't use my Umbrella Man Father Christmas so decided my Cabinet card was going to turn into my Dear Santa Christmas list... my wish list on the inside tag..

 

Lots of  different techniques with umbrella santa, my robin and present all crackled. My letters are industrial stickers altered with distress paints and stains.Lots of remnant rubs, chit chat stickers, stenciling and stamping.

 Not sure Santa will give me lots of Tim goodies for Christmas but I had fun making it!

I would also like to share at:
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Christmas Tag
Mixed Media Monthly - Stamps
 The Artistic stamper - Christmas
Stamplorations - Stamps and Layers

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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Coloured Crackle for Umbrella Man

Over at Linda Ledbetter's website the latest Tim technique to try is Coloured Crackle out of Compendium of Curiosities 3. 

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is the sponsor of this challenge.

I decided to give Umbrella Man another change of clothes! I do like doing this and have another one half finished on my desk. Here is the link to Sunshine and Showers where he had his first transformation.

I treated Umbrella man as per Tim's instructions on Page 53.

My tag was treated with various colours of Distress inks:

I then used Tim's rays stencil, versamark and clear embossing powder to 'seal' some of the coloured areas. I then went over the whole tag with black soot - but of course it doesnt cover the embossed areas.

I stamped my words in Stazon - I love how it came out being stamped partly over ink and partly over the embossed areas.

A few more close ups:

And that is my Rainbow Umbrella Man - hope you like him!

I would also like to enter into:

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - Anything Goes

CraftyCatz - Anything Goes (253)

Nikki

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Compendium of Curiosities Challenge 9

It is Challenge 9 at CC3C - with the focus this time on page 63 of Tim Holtz's fab book - 'Stamps and Framelits'. As usual great prizes up for grabs courtesy of Tim Holtz and Inspiration Emporium.

 I wanted to use my recently acquired 'French Flight' stamp and framelit set but decided to take a slightly different approach than I have used it for to date. I decided to go geometrical with my Eiffel Tower stamp and framelit. I was originally going to have the butterflies fluttering around the towers, but it just seemed to ruin it - so kept it simple.

My background is kraft card with stamps from Papillon and the above mentioned set. I then set about my Eiffels!

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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