Follow your heart....

Hello!
I've been playing with inks today over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination... only a teeny bit of paint!

Little teaser pic there....please pop on over to the ASOI blog to see the whole thing!
Love Trish xxxx

Live Laugh Love

Hello!
I've been playing with a Tando arch set for Calico Crafts today...

I'd love it if you could pop on over to have a proper look, loads more pics and a 'how to' explanation!!
love Trish xxx

Blue?

Happy Weekend!!!
Sooooo glad to see the back of this week....one word.... Ofsted! (School inspectors for those not sure!)
Wouldn't want to repeat the last few days for a good long while!
Anyway... I want to share a tag I've made for my DT project over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination today...

I've done a full step by step with lots of pictures, so I would love it if you popped on over here to have a look!
Have a nice relaxing couple of days (or three in a row for those that get the bank holiday too!)
Love Trish xxx

Krafty Daisies!

Hello!
My Dt piece for Creative Expressions this week features these gorgeous daisy stamps by Heartfelt Creations (well actually they're called Asters..but I've never been one for knowing my flower species!!)
I've used them in a simple way today.... but brace yourselves for some all out flower explosions to come, these just lend themselves to being used LOADS on a project! Anyway, I made this.....

Very simple in terms of colour palette, and a nice simple background too!
I took a size 8 Kraft tag, and did some stitching around the sides, and a little in the middle..

I smeared cream paint in places, and splattered black paint over it. That's the extent of the background, told you it was quick!
There are four sizes of lower on the stamp plate, but I chose just three to use this time. I stamped them onto book pages using Archival ink, cut them out then adhered them to the tag...

The stem of the flower is twine, very in keeping with the Kraft look. I also threaded twine through the hole in the tag..

The final tough was a tiny Remnant rub on...LOVE these!!!

Hope you like it, a muted start to what will be a very colourful month with these stamps I think!!
Love Trish xxx

Bluebirds

Hello!
My last jewellery piece today over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination... next month I'm heading back to the messy painty stuff! I have made a mental note to share more jewellery makes on the blog though, I think it makes things more interesting to have a change now and again!
Anyway..... this is part of the necklace..

Please pop on over here to see the rest of it!!
Love Trish xx

Free to Fly - The butterfly version!

Hello!
You know when you get some new stash, and you then want to use it all the time? I got some of the Tim remnant rub ons...... how fabulous are they?! My fave phrase is 'free to fly', and this will be the second time this week I've used it!

This time I've used butterflies to go along with the 'fly' theme of the rub ons. The butterflies are wooden pieces by Studio Calico, I've painted them, did a little stamping then applied some rock candy crackle paint....

The gold is Treasure Gold wax, the bestest stuff ever for rubbing over crackles to emphasise them!
The background was given texture before painting. I glued on leftover strips of card that I had used to punch circles from....

And used texture paste through a fab dotty stencil...

I then used green, turquoise and white paint to add the colour. Bits of stamping and printing to give visual texture, then I added the butterflies. The image is one of my favourite Stamping Bella figures...

I've used paint and gilt wax to colour this piece, so I would like to enter it into the Simon Says Stamp And Show challenge: Colour
As there are a few butterflies involved, I think this piece qualifies for the Country View Crafts Challenge : Butterflies as well!
Love Trish xxxxx

Bezels!

My turn today over at A Sprinkle Of Imagination.. and I've more jewellery to share, this time lots of filled bezels. Like this one.....

Please pop on over there to have a look!
love Trish xxx

Free To Fly

Hello!
More 'out of the box' thinking from me today over at the Calico Crafts blog.... I'm sharing an Art Doll using the lid from a papier mache cake slice box! Please pop on over and have a look, and let me know what you think!

(Calico Blog HERE....  hopefully....links are only working now and again for some reason!)

love Trish xxxx

Delicate Daisies

Hello!
My DT piece for Creative Expressions this week has a much more delicate colour palette than my usual style..... I think I'm chanelling spring colours today!

The base is a chipboard square, which I prepared by painting white. once this was dry, I used white embossing paste to create the daisy design. I scraped the paste through a Thats Special Touch mask using a palette knife. You may notice my daisy design is leaning towards the left, when all the pictures of the mask show the daisy leaning the other way! Don't forget masks can be reversed, you can scrape paste through from either side, meaning designs can be 'flipped' if you wish. I just liked my daisies leaning this way!
Once the paste was dry, I painted the whole thing. I wanted my raised design to blend in with the background, hence adding it before painting. If you wanted the raised design to be bolder, or if you were using black paste for a dramatic accent, then you would create the background BEFORE adding the paste!
I used green and turquoise paint as my background, with accents of pink. I stamped with the paint too....

A few tiny dots, and the Chicken Wire and Plaid background stamps were used. Once all the paint was dry, I highlighted the edges and the raised areas with gilding wax. I used Patina, a gorgeous turquoise shade. Its really difficult to show you in a picture just how shimmery the gilding wax is.... this is about the best pic I could get...

 Very easy to apply too..just use your fingers!

I finished off my piece with a few white paint splats...about the messiest thing on there!
love Trish xx

Daisy Pendant

Hello!
I've been playing about with Vintaj again over at A Sprinkle of Imagination today. My DT piece this week is a Daisy pendant...

There are lots more step by step pictures over on the ASOI blog..... and you'll also find the winner of last weeks bracelet there too!
Have a great day,
Love Trish xx