Inspire - Canvas

 

Hello everyone and hope you all have good plans for the week ahead.

I must say hello to all my new followers lately and thank you for joining me here on my blog. I hope you enjoy your visits here and I appreciate it.

 

I was lucky enough again at the weekend to attend another fabulous workshop at Art From The Heart here in Harrogate.

 

This week it was the lovely Michelle Webb who was the tutor and she showed us how to create this wonderful canvas.

 

Michelle showed us lots of layers on the background and she shared her inspiration and techniques with us to create the cherry blossom tree, birds and fence.

 

I had a fabulous time and I am really pleased with my finished piece here.

 



Thanks for visiting today and see you again soon

x catherine

Dragons Dream challenge #200-Nine

Hello everyone and hope your all having a good week so far.

So today we have a new challenge starting over at Dragons Dream Tag It On challenge and this week is our lovely team mate Gabrielle's choice.

The number chosen is "NINE" this time around.
You can find all the details of the challenge here and see the wonderful inspiration from all the design team.

Dragons Dream Tag It On Chalenge #200-Nine

So I have gone autumnal with my tag as we are now approaching this season ! I used several autumnal distress ink colours on the background and used the Stampers Anonymous Blueprint leaves stamp set. I stamped the leaves and then coloured them with the same inks as the background. Each one was cut out and some crackle glaze added in places.
I also have added some hessian tied into a bow and stamped the number nine onto a hessian pennant for the month of September.

Thanks for stopping by today and we would love you to come and join in with our tag challenge.

x catherine

Weekend finish at AFTH workshops

 

Hello everyone and hope you have had a good weekend.

 

I have been lucky and spent my weekend at my favourite workshop place Art From The Heart.

 

Today Tracy Scott ran another workshop teaching whimsical animals. After Tracy allowed us some time to practice different animal faces I decided to do a cat ! And I wanted to do my cat in grey colours.

 

The cat started out with acrylic paints as a base colour and then I used my Inktense pencils to add depth and shadows. This is my first attempt at this sort of thing and I am pleased with it. I took my time building lots of layers of different depths of colour.

 

Thanks for visiting today and see you soon

x catherine

Art From The Heart workshop - Canvas

 

Hello everyone and hope your all having a good weekend.

 

Firstly I have started college this week and I  definitely know that I have made the right choice and that the time is definitely right for me now. So lots of learning ahead but so much fun !!!

 

Anyway today I was lucky to have some play time at Art From The Heart here in Harrogate. Todays workshop was with the lovely Tracy Scott and we painted a canvas. This was my first time for this and I am really pleased with it.

 

You can visit Tracy Scott on her blog here and see more of her fabulous projects:

http://heartistryatstudio7.blogspot.co.uk/

You will love her style of work!!

 

I was also very lucky to meet one of my friends who came up for it and we had a great time together.

 

I am going back again tomorrow as Tracy is running another workshop- so a busy but very creative weekend for me!!

 

Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon

x catherine

New release stamp sets at Paperartsy(Clare Lloyd)

Hello everyone and hope your all having a good week so far.

So although I have been busy lately I have also been busy in the background working on some samples for two brand new stamp sets from Paperartsy designed by Clare Lloyd. You can see the new releases from tonight over at the Paperartsy blog here:

http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/

So here are the new stamp sets Clare has released:

As you can see these are fabulous sets to work with and there are so many possibilities with them both.

Here are a couple of samples which I made from them:

 

 

I just so loved the stamp of this cat and the way that the hat can be added to them. As I thought he looked rather mischievous I thought I would give him some friends as well !

I stamped the image three times and coloured them using Inktense pencils and a water brush. They were them placed onto a mixed media background which I made using Paperartsy Paints(inky pool, eggplant, limelight, tango and yellow submarine. I also added some of the little stamps from this set. This would be perfect for a card.

 

 

 

This is a tag I made from the next set and again used a mixed media background with Paperartsy paints(mermaid, antarctic, cheesecake, tinned peas, London bus). This is really a fabulous large image of the girl that Clare has done I love all the little extras as well on the sets and as the dress has lots of room for extras to be added as decoration if you wish. This is where I have added those wonderful little holly leaves to embellish it and also onto her hat.

Again I used Inktense pencils and a water brush to colour the stamped images.

 

So as I think you will agree two more superb sets of stamps released by Clare Lloyd and with so many possibilities for different projects from them.

 

Please pop over and visit Clare's blog as she always has wonderful projects to share with you.

 

http://clarelloyd.blogspot.co.uk/



Thanks for visiting today and I will see you again soon.

x catherine

Dragons Dream Tag It On challenge #199

Hello everyone and it is time for another new challenge to start over at Dragons Dream tag It On challenge.

This week it is my turn to host the challenge and as we are having a number theme this time I have chosen the Number 3- nice and easy for us all.

I have used 3 different distress inks along with a stencil from Tim Holtz - clocks and yes there are 3of those too!

I used 3 stamps from the same Stampers Anonymous set and included the 3 gentlemen image. Adding also a metal embellishment with the number 3.

So we would love for you to come and visit our challenge and join in with us. We also have a guest designer Kathy(Purple Princess Diaries) .

Please pop over and see all the fabulous tags and inspiration from the design team.

Here is the link: Dragons Dream Tag It On challenge #199- number 3

Thanks for visiting and see you again soon

x catherine