Remember....

 Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

Wow its been a hot few days here in the U.K.

I hope you are enjoying the weather too, wherever you may be!

Today I want to share with you my latest make....

Sometimes it can take me forever to find the right photo for a project, 

but today while I was moving some of my lovely junk around, this photo fell out and I found it on the floor....so I decided to use it and to try and bring the lovely lady back to life...

The gesso has been painted on a journal page, I tore lots of text from an old book and stuck it down....more gesso, paint and crackle paint were added.... 

I added some vintage lace from my collection and added some chit chat words (Tim Holtz) 

The frame (Idea-ology) was painted with gesso then distress paint.

I love to collet things, so while out walking the dog I collected some twigs and moss and added some to the base of the frame.

I always like to add a vintage key, this one fitted perfectly!

To finish I layered the journal page onto some waxed paper, black card and then added some stitching

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed creating it....

As always feel free to leave a comment, I appreciate you stopping by!

Have a great week 

Kaz

x

Tiny houses....

Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

Happy May day to you!

Sorry Ive not been around much....

Life has been pretty hectic of late

and Ive been really busy enjoying some much needed

 family/friends time!

Today I thought I would share a couple of Tiny houses from Tim Holtz/Sizzix

I love creating with this die...

( one of my favourites!)

After cutting the die out, I gessoed the chipboard.

Next I painted with distress paint,

 when it was dry I sanded the colour back with some sandpaper to give a worn look.

I then painted them with vintage collage medium.

I mixed up some of the paper dolls with the botanical ephemera pack 

I then added some clippings for the words and some of the Idea-ology tape 

The stars are from Idea-ology too! 

The paper dolls were painted with distress paints 

I hope you like them!

As always feel free to leave a comment, I appreciate you popping by!

Have a lovely week!

Kaz

x

Dreams...

   

Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

Wow it's  been such a busy couple of weeks here,

 I'm only just catching up with blogging, adding more chaos to my 

desk and finishing off some makes that have been waiting patiently for me to finish......

(I can't believe we are nearly half way through March!)

Today I wanted to share this vintage make...

I started of with a piece of 8x8 paper from paper stash from Dapper

I created several layers using gesso, collage medium and distress paints, I stamped in coffee archival ink,  using the ledger stamp set (Tim Holtz)

The image is from the Idea-ology Paper dolls.....

she was painted using distress paint and distress crayons.

The image is attached with 3D foam pads (sadly the picture doesn't pick it up too well)

The flowers/butterflies are from the Idea-ology ephemera packs....some really great vintage images!

The letters are also Idea-ology and were distressed using alcohol ink and distress paints

To finish I framed it using a Panel frame which I gave the distressed treatment added a mini crown to the image (how cute are they?! from Idea-ology) 

I also added an old vintage key from my own collection!.

I love vintage and thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into creating this one!

As always feel free to leave a comment, I appreciate each and everyone.

Wishing you a fabulous weekend!

Bye for now 

Kaz

x

Collection No 5

Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

I've not had the best start to February.....

We've had an un-welcome visitor in our home AKA The Lurgy!

Its been very quiet as I have Laryngitis, Yuk, (although my family are enjoying the peace!)

Hoping its finally on its way back to where it came from!

 ( btw a big thank you for all the lovely messages on my Facebook/insta pages)

Today I want to share a Panel frame from Idea-ology that Ive been working on....

As you all know I love to create grunge, so this was right up my street!

 I used lots of gesso, distress paints and distress crayons to get that grunge look!

I then embellished it with lots of Idea-ology and some of my own vintage finds

The word 'collection' is from the New Idea-ology quote chips, I added some stitching to mine

The base is one from the base boards (also Idea-ology) I grunged this up using paints distress crazingand distress crayons, then I added a few remnant rub-ons 

I coloured the salvaged doll with alcohol inks in espresso and pebble, gave her some wings from the ephemera pack and crowned with that cool crown.  She is framed in an Idea-ology baroque frame

I hope you like what Ive created, please feel free to leave a comment, I really appreciate each and everyone.

If you have Facebook I have a  "Little Shabby shed page" (link on sidebar) You can keep up to date with all my blog posts there too!

Thanks so much for popping by!

Have a great week!

Kaz 

x

(P.s. check out Art from the heart for your Tim Holtz supplies here)

Great friends....

Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

A quickie post from me today, to share my latest make

Not one to embrace colour,

surprise surprise....Ive gone for a very grungy look

(I just couldn't help myself!)

The base is made from wood (from hobbycraft)

which was painted with gesso,

I then I added lots of layers of distress paints to it

(walnut stain, black soot)

I used an then used a Tim Holtz Idea-ology cabinet card,

applied a layer of gesso, texture paste and grit paste

through Tim Holtz Stencils 

(THS070, THS006 and THS005)

When it had dried I used distress crayons and more paints to enhance the stencil marks

The Baroque frame (Idea-ology) was painted with grit paste, when dry,

 I painted it in black soot distress paint.  To highlight areas I used a gold sharpie pen.

I then added the photograph ( from found relatives-occasions set)and stitched the outside of the

cabinet card.

To add some finishing touches I added some lace and stars (stars are from finnabair) I added some arrows and bolts from Idea-ology and mounted it all onto the wooden base

All products are available from Art from the Heart (link in side bar)

As always feel free to leave a comment, great to know your popped by....

Have a fabulous week!

bye for now 

kaz

x