Before And After

TSS metal through the Big Shot in a Cuttlebug folder, the edges where tooled with a couple of TSS wheels then adhered to a cd tin with Humungo tape. The metal was then sanded.

This is my tin all finished.

Lots of colours of Cosmic Shimmer sprays, over stamped with Paper Artsy stamp in black archival. And a metal embelishment stamped with another Paper Artsy stamp from the same plate.

Little Bird House.

I have had this little robin for at least 20 years, I thought he should have a little house!
The house came 'naked' from LB Crafts when I went a few weeks ago.
Firstly it was painted with Claudine H paint in red, then when dry distress crackle paint in rock candy, allowing this to air dry and then I applied vintage photo distress ink with cut and dry.
The roof is metal (TSS) which I hand decorated. and then stuck to the roof with very strong tape.
The flower around the door is from Prima and cut to fit the hole.
The robin is attached with silicon glue, his crown (Tims die) is grunge paper coloured in Viva Inca Gold.

Another tag.

The background card (co-ordinations black on one side off white on the other) went through the Big Shot in a Cuttle bug folder. The sanded.
The bird and cage (Tims die) was cut out of some serendipidy paper I made (lots of 'bits' of left over paterned paper, card, fantasy film, infact anything thats left over glued to a background card), the crown (Tims die) a piece of silver metal (the 'jewels' coloured with a red sakura pen).
The were arranged on the tag and an Adage (Tims)ticket was added.

Tag

The background is Appletini metal (TSS) run through the Big Shot in a Cuttlebug embossing folder, then embossed with an alphabet mold (TSS) and then sanded.

Over the bottom third of the metal I slathered on some Viva Terra in sandstone and stamped into this.

Let this dry. Then I spritzed the Terra with some Cosmic Shimmers (the nearest colour to the metal I had) dry with a heat gun (being careful the Terra doesn't bubble).

The flower was made from Tims die (smallest and next size up) in some thin card I had spritzed in the same colour Cosmic Shimmer as before.

This was then backed with a card tag.

The beads are wooden and coloured with Viva Inca Gold paint.And attatched with wire (twiddled on a paintbrush) through the whole in the tag.

WOYWW

OK this is my first time of blogging WOYWW so be gentle with me!!

My desk is not usually this tidy, I'm lucky to have a 6'' square to work in most of the time but I did clear it because I wanted to work on something that needed more room!

All the tools (paintbrushes, crayons, mini misters) are within easy reach in cups and pots. A bottle of water (not to drink, to wash brushes in, I don't have running water near my room)

On the back of my desk there is some small cubes acting as display shelves while I decide what to do with them, a cd shelving unit (picked up at a carboot sale for a couple of quid!) which all my paint dabbers perfect pearls, ink pads (just archival, stazon all the rest are in drawers to the left of my desk) and some Ikea drawers full of glue, masks, more pens and a few stamps that won't fit in the other drawers where all the others are!

The bird tin is a project not yet finished and the brown mess to the left is going to be a canvas for my Hubbys birthday.

So there it is, my desk!

Tag

This is my tag using the techniques I learnt on Sunday at LB crafts.

The tag was coloured with distress inks (barn door, wild honey and rusty hinge) spritzed with Crafty Notions matte white spray, over stamped (Paper Artsy) with black Archival and gold dabber. The rose was made from the second smallest flower on Tims tattered florals die.

Sunday at LB Crafts

On Sunday I went to LB, Lin and Linda were doing free demos, it was fantastic!

I learnt a great technique using distress inks and Crafty Notions colour spray Matte White.

Spray the colour spray on after applying the inks and leave it to 'sink' in and it makes the inks look dreamy, misty and softer.

The bird (Paper Artsy) is the same green as the one bottom right without the spray on! I think it shows quite well the difference the white spray makes!

Of course I had a little shop while I was there (it would be rude not to). So a lovely Paper Artsy stamp plate, the white spray, some more TSS tools (wire brush and loads of decorative wheels), some yummy Inca gold paints from Viva (so thick and creamy) some viva terra paint and lots of other things too and I also got a very full goody bag with some very lovely things in it!!! (which is at the top of the post cos thats where blogger put it!!!)