I have something a little different today. I decided to make a little art journal for my daughter as part of her birthday present. Emma is an illustrator/ graphic artist and keen sketcher. This was my excuse to get out my Eileen Hull journal dies, gelli plate, paint, brayer and stencils! The wrap over die… Continue reading Art journal
I have a mixed media canvas today using some lovely stamps from Lavinia along with left overs from a gel printing session. I’ve combined acrylic paint and ink; Stabilo pastel pencils; gel and sparkle pens ; black ink and distress oxide ink. – a real mixture! The result looks quite stylised and reminds me of… Continue reading ‘Dream catchers’ -mixed media
Hello again friends it’s Visible Image day with some new release stencilling fun! Here’s the new stencils: https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/sax-it-up/ https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/count-me-in/ The new sentiments: https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/voices-in-your-head/ And of course some of my old favourites! https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/scripted-streets/ https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/ink-splats/ I used my A4 gel press along with a few colours of Amsterdam acrylic paint. This was brayered on, the number stencil… Continue reading Make your story incredible!
Hi a little something from Lavinia stamps today as a heads up that we have a show at 3.00pm on Sunday 20 May 2018 on Hochanda TV. A whole range of fairy delights to behold ! Here’s one of my samples . As usual it’s mixed media using acrylic paint; ink and pastel pencils. Here… Continue reading Blowing bubbles
It’s time for a little more Lavinia stamps and a reminder that there’s still time to join us for the monthly ‘bright and beautiful’ themed challenge. You could be the lucky winner of a £40 voucher! https://laviniastamps.com/lavinia-stamps-monthly-creative-challenge Here’s a little inspiration- well its certainly bright! I used the following Lavinia stamp products: https://laviniastamps.com/product/tree-goddess https://laviniastamps.com/product/sacred-tree https://laviniastamps.com/product/glow-flowers… Continue reading The Watcher
Well today is a very exciting day! It’s my first post as a design team member for Lavinia Stamps!! What a lucky girl I am! Getting to create fairy scenes is a dream come true! So without further ado my job today is to encourage you to join in the fun of our wonderful monthly… Continue reading Glow flower forest
Did you know that Visible Image have some fabulous background stamps to compliment their feature sets? In today’s post I wanted to celebrate these stamps and show what wonderful texture they can create. Also I’ve long wanted to experiment with printing feathers using my gelli plate. So I thought that I would incorporate these too.… Continue reading Be your own kind of beautiful
Hello again. I have a little mdf tag for you today. I love this stamp from Lost Coast designs. It’s a strong image needing some lovely strong South American/Spanish colours! I’ve used gelli plate scrap card left overs as a starting base and a couple of mini stencils from Thats Crafty. The colour is achieved… Continue reading Grateful heart
Time for some more inkyness with a little help from Amsterdam, Carabelle studio and sentiment stamps from Bee Crafty. I got my new fine liner containers for my inks so I went a bit mad… sorry! Here’s a few photographic hints as to how it developed. Started with a gelli print from my batch and… Continue reading Create Art
Hi everyone, today I’m continuing the birdie theme with a lovely bird zen tangle stamp from Lost coast designs. I’m also using one of my gelli plate print background designs which was created using Amsterdam acrylic paints. This is how it began. To create extra texture and colour, using Carabelle studio stamps,distress oxide and archival… Continue reading Fly free
