Eileen Hull Tiny Book with PaperArtsy Stamps and Paints

Hi everyone - tonight it's a redirect post over to the PaperArtsy blog where I am sharing this Tiny Book made from recycled packaging (Eileen Hull die) using PaperArtsy Paints and stamps.

Nikki

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Celebrating our Anniversary at A Vintage Journey

Hi everyone. A Vintage Journey is celebrating it's 6th Anniversary! I know blogs and challenge blogs have lost some of their popularity but this one is very dear to me. I have made good friends, many of who I have met because of this blog. I have also been inspired by many artists both from the Design Team and those who have entered our challenges.

Brenda who created and started this blog is our host this month. We are looking for Celebration themed creations - let us know what you are celebrating!

My card is for one of those crafty friends who celebrate their birthday this month.

My background is some printed paper which I added some washes on paint to to tone it down a little. I painted and crackled some corrugated card as the base for my Tattered Butterfly.

The butterfly was cut from greyboard and texture paste added which I randomly stamped into to create texture. Once dry I painted black, dry brushed with white and then added washes on paint.

Under the butterfly are some weird extra wings. These are actually part of a wildflower die that I altered and really wanted to use but it didnt work with my layout so I improvised. 

A few crackled arrows, some fibres....

and some little squares complete my card. I hope you like it!

We hope you will join us for our celebratory challenge. 

Nikki 

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Layered card with distress paints

Just a quick post here as I am sharing how I made this card over at A Vintage Journey today. I have used distress paints in different ways to create the different layers of the card. I do hope you will pop over.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

That's Crafty - Anything Goes

The Craft Place - Anything Goes

Mixed Media Place - Wings

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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Corrugated Dragonfly at Country View Crafts

I am sharing a project today over on the Country View Crafts blog. Do hop over and see my card.

Nikki

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12 Tags of 2014 - November

Good grief my third post of the day - the others were scheduled - this one is live!

I loved Tim's tag for November - but didn't have the supplies to do it as he did - so here is my version! 

Love the spray effect of the tarnished brass on the corrugated card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Nikki

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A little wall art...

I am playing with textures! Here is a 9 x 7 '' piece with tissue stamping on corrugated cardboard mounted on .. mmm.... some card from the back of a pad of paper.

Really wish I hadn't used sparkly mod podge to seal the tissue though - think it is a bit incongruous with everything else!
It does hang with ribbon but it is stuck on my wall with blu tack at the moment...

Still love that Clarity 'today' phrase though .. I could use that a lot.

Just finishing my latest Charity challenge work - 'Love and Romance ' - will post soon..

Nikki