Upcycled Kitchen Clock

Hiya my lovelies!

2 posts in 1 day... blimey!

I just wanted to share my most recent make.

I upcycled an old tray into a clock for my newly decorated kitchen.

I used 12x12" scrapbooking paper 'Market Street' by My Mind's Eye.

I love this design. I also used the numbers from 'Digitangle' Digikit for Serif.

Slapped on with Matte medium.

I used a clock timepiece & hands that I've had knocking around for ages.

Finished off with a coat of Matt 'Crystal Clear' spray to seal it.

Ta Da!

I'm really happy with it.

I love it when a plan comes together, don't you?

Cheers for stopping by & leave a comment!

Crafty Hugs

Sez x

Mixed Media Madness Couse

Hiya my lovelies!

I know it's been a while...

I lost my creative mojo for a bit. Being poorly does that to me sometimes.

You can read about that HERE.

Anyway I felt that I needed a bit of a kick up the bum!

So, I enroled on an online course,

Mixed Media Madness by Miriam Schulman @ The Inspiration Place

It's a great course especially if you are new to mixed media.

I felt inspired after watching the video tutorials and made

these canvases for my newly decorated kitchen!

Sometimes watching others kickstarts the creative juices!

I have also enroled on next years Wanderlust 2017 course.

So watch this space!

Cheers for stopping by & leave me a comment!

Crafty Hugs

Sez x

Find Courage Mixed Media Canvas

Hiya my lovelies.

I'm back again!

I just wanted to share something

I've made for a friend of mine.

I used lots of MDF shapes from Things To Alter

& bits of broken jewellery. I also used my new

Decoart Media Fluid Acrylics & Vintage Lace Fresco Paint.

I also stamped onto the MDF ATC using Stay Strong Stamp
from Visible Image & Archival Ink in Jet Black.

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Cheers for stopping by & leave me a comment!

Crafty hugs

Sez x

Lunch Bags for school!

Hiya my lovelies!

I just wanted to share 2 bags I've been working on.

These lunch bags became a real hit a couple of years ago,

but I had to stop making them soon after starting work.

I just didn't have time or the energy!

I was asked if I could start doing them again,

although they now take me much longer, I decided why not?

So here are the latest ones:

Ready for the new school term!

Hope you like them as much as my

friends did.

Cheers for stopping by!

Feel free to leave a comment.

Crafty hugs

Sez x

PaperArtsy Bead, Charms & Dangle Challenge

Hiya my lovelies!

I've gone paper bead mad!

In my last post about paper beads

I showed the paper beads I'd made for a swap.

Well, over at PaperArtsy  the theme for the challenge is beads, charms & dangles!

Perfect!

I first had to decorate the paper.

I used Fresco Finish paints in London bus, Hey Pesto & Pumpkin Soup.

 Derwent Inktense Blocks in various colours & some Copper acrylic paint.

Once dry I stamped it with the clockwork heart & the cogs stamp from

PaperArtsy Eclectica Darcy 02 set in Black Archival Ink.

I cut my strips out and made some tapered beads:

 

Some round beads:

Some tube beads:

Some smaller tube beads:

I then glazed some using PaperArtsy Metallic Glaze:

Some in  PaperArtsy Gloss Glaze:

Some in PaperArtsy Pearl Glaze:

I chose the beads I wanted to use & decided my dangle would be earrings.

Don't look too closely at my loops, they're the best I could do with my dodgy hand!

So here's my entry for the challenge!

Go on over & take a peek at the other entries here.

Cheers for stopping by!

Feel free to leave me a comment.

Crafty hugs

Sez x

Paper Beads for Swapping!

Hiya my lovelies!

I've been a busy bee...

Over on Jennibellie's Journal Workshops

the August Swap is Paper Beads!

It's my first time making them & it's also my first swap!

Excited Muchly!

I decided that I'd get myself a tool!

Cocktail sticks are ok but I need something I can hold thanks to my

dodgy arm/hand. I got mine here.

It makes beads with a 3mm hole.

All you need to do to start is grab some patterned paper.

Measure from 1 inch on one side down to nothing on the other,

up and down the paper & cut it out.

I just measured it & cut them out on my paper cutter.

You should end up with some skinny triangles!

Then using the tool, slide the paper into the slot facing you & turn the tool away from you,

keeping the paper quite taught around the tool. You also need to guide the paper so it winds symmetrically. (You can wind it differently for a different shape bead.)

Once you get near the point of the triangle put some glue on it.

I used some PVA. Then continue to wind until the point is in the centre of your bead!

You will need to hold it for a bit so it sets.

Or you might find it springs back out of its tightly wound coil!

Voila paper bead!

I got a bit carried away & made more than I need for the swap,

but it's ok because I love them.

It gave the hand a bit of a workout I can tell you!

I dipped the ends of the straight beads into some copper paint before

glazing them all.

Here they are!

It's totally addictive!

Hope my swap partner likes them.

Cheers for stopping by!

Feel free to leave me some love...

Crafty hugs

Sez x

My Cosmic Gown

Hiya my lovelies!

I've got something a bit different to share today...

My little brother (who's not so little) got married in New York a few weeks ago!

The newlyweds had a reception here when they got back.

I originally got my dress from the Oxfam website.

I fell in love with it but wanted to tweak it a bit.

So, I decided to 'decorate' it.

I started by masking off the top of the dress.

I wanted to keep this plain.

I got out my Decoart Media Misters and my Daler Rowney

Pearlescent Acrylic Inks & basically went bonkers with them!

I had to take it outside after realising I'd got it all over my floor...

(I always realise after) but it cleaned up with baby wipes!

Round two was done in the garden hung up on the washing line.

Close up

It shines all different colours in the light!

I was over the moon with the results!

My very own cosmic, shimmery gown.

I had to make the happy couple a card too!

I used a stencil from TCW Mini Life Remembered & used some

pink and blue Daler Rowney pearlescent Acrylic Ink & sponged it on

as a background. Once dry I stamped the metal patchwork heart stamp from

PaperArtsy Eclectica Darcy 02 set for my brother (he's a welder) &

I used the word heart stamp from PaperArtsy Eclectica Darcy 01

set for his wife (she's a teacher) Get it?

Anyway, I went round the edges with Archival Ink in Watering Can

which I also used on the stamps!

Ta da!

My version of a CAS card which is a first! 

Now it was all going to plan until the day of the reception...

I spent most of the day sorting my tribe out (there's quite a few of us, 6 to be exact)

& getting ready. This takes me so much longer to do now.

Troweled enough make up on to render a wall,

remembering not to put my dress on til last,

otherwise I'd get it dirty before we'd even left the house!

Stepped in my dress to put it on & after 3 of us trying to

squeeze me into it & do the zip up,

it wasn't happening.

Yep, I've put on so much weight in 4 weeks it doesn't fit!

BLOOMIN' MEDS!!!

All was not lost, I had a back up dress.

All girls have a back up dress.

Still, I'm sad I didn't get to wear my cosmic gown.

One day...

Cheers for stopping by!

Feel free to leave a comment.

Crafty hugs

Sez x