Summer with Calico Craft Parts

Happy weekend everyone.

So I go quiet for the latter half of June and then I post 3 times in 2 days! I seem to have been a little hectic with various things including work, a short break to Cyprus and a few social events.

Today I am elsewhere - over at the wonderful Calico Craft Parts blog where I am guest designer this month. Do pop over and see my summer creation.

Nikki

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It's all perspective

Welcome to my second post of the day! My earlier post was for the new challenge at A Vintage Journey, where we are focusing on monochromatic. If you missed my blue tags - Let's Do Distress - do check it out!

It is also time to introduce the July challenge at Country View Crafts where we are Having Fun with Circles. I decided to recycle a previously used canvas. A lot of the texture you can see is from the previous design.

I stripped it of all embellishments and gave a coat of black gesso before adding various Deco Art Fluid acrylics and some dry brushing. I added some crackle stamping with black archival.

I then die cut some circles and frames out of white card and used the same paints to colour them. No set process here - I just played until I was happy. The little wooden butterflies were dry brushed with white gesso before adding transparent yellow iron oxide paint.

A few remnant rubs and a chit chat sticker finished my project.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nikki

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Let's do distress - with blue!

Welcome to my first post of the day - there is another in a few hours. We have a new challenge at A Vintage Journey where we are doing - Monochromatic. Well I decided to do Distress Monochromatic!

It has been a while since I have done a tag and had a good distress play - so when I went to a crop recently I just took everything blue. I was playing around - there are actually 5 tags - I will share the other 2 later. As I was getting messy I scribbled on the back what I had done and as I knew I was going to mount them I recorded the details when I got home - so here is a little chart. This is just for the backgrounds, not the embellishing.

I also took to the crop a load of scraps lying around my desk - things I had stamped or die cut and not used. As long as they could be made blue I wanted to use them.

I added some cogs, die cut letters, butterfly and game spinner.

I added fabulous wildflower die cuts - after painting with distress paints, a little wooden butterfly, some tissue tape and sentiment.

I stamped on this one as it didn't have texture paste and added some more wildflowers and the travelling bird from one of Tim's older stamp sets.

Here is the framed version:

Do check out the rest of the creations on show over at A Vintage Journey today and come and join us with our Monochromatic challenge.

I would like to enter the following:
July challenge at Craft stamper.
Simon Says Stamp - Tic Tac Toe (Spray Stencil Stamp)

Nikki

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Rainbow Plaques

Hi everyone

You can find me over at the Country View Crafts project blog today with the details of these little plaques. Be good to see you there.

Nikki

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Just a sneak peek...

Just a post to redirect you off to the Country View Crafts project blog where I am sharing this today.

Nikki

Texture and colour for A Vintage Journey

Embossing or texture pastes is the theme of our new challenge at A Vintage Journey. I had lots of fun creating this reverse canvas. 

I started by using tissue tape to hide the staples on the reverse of the canvas and gave the inside a coat of gesso. Not sure where I was going at this point - but in the end all the tissue tape is hidden!

I added various distress paints randomly on the 'frame' and once dry added clear embossing paste through Tim Holtz latticework stencil.

Once dry I took Deco Art Prussion blue and covered the frame - wiping it away from the embossed areas but letting dry in between.

For the inside of my canvas I added texture paste to the ornate frame cut from grunge board. I just added with my finger to create texture.

Once dry I added the same colours of distress paint and a little prussian blue to tone it down.

The butterfly was cut and embossed on card before sticking to a grungeboard die cut for strength. I used a black oil pastel to highlight the embossed areas. 

I hope you like my colourful canvas - it really shines in the sunlight!

I would like to enter The Mixed Media Monthly Anniversary Challenge - my chosen theme is Texture!

Have a lovely weekend

Nikki

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Crackle Time

Hi everyone! We have a new challenge today at Country View Crafts and it's a goody! CRACKLE! We are spoilt for choice with crackle products and mediums - here I used crackle texture paste.

I decided to alter a wooden block. Firstly a coat of gesso, some old book pages and some text stamping.

I added some paint and let it drip, before smudging a bit more with a baby wipe. I added a bit more stamping too.

I then added Wendy Vecchi crackle texture paste through a stencil - once dry I added a little more paint to highlight the cracks.

Finally I stamped and fussy cut some butterflies - adding a little sparkly mod podge.

Do love this stamp set - PaperArtsy Hot Picks - HP1506EZ.

See you Friday for a new challenge at A Vintage Journey

Nikki

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