Getting Ready For Christmas

 Hello everyone! We have a new theme at Try It On Tuesday - 'Get Ready For Christmas' We know that Christmas will be here in a flash so we're already making plans on the Design Team - please take a look here.

I have a few plants on a covered area outside my front door so thought I would make some baubles to put out with the lights.

I did take these photos indoors though!

They are so easy to make

What I used -

A circle punch, a cheap Christmas pad, acrylic glue, some Christmas twine and some glittery glue.

First cut out some circles, I used either 4 to 6 circles.

Fold in half with any pattern on the inside  - remember to keep images such as trees the right way up! 

Glue the halves together and before the final glueing add the twine loop to the centre.

I added red or gold glitter to the edges of mine but you could also use glue and foil (I'm trying that next)

As always this TIOT theme runs for two weeks. I do hope you will join us! 

Thanks for looking, Chris

Make It, Magical at TIOT

 

Hi everyone, we have a new theme at Try It On Tuesday - 'Make It Magical' Please take a look at the magic happening on our Design Team's blogs.

I made a page in an altered book

I started with a sprinkle of Brushos and gave them a good spritzing. My Lavinia stamps were perfect for the theme. The child in me loves blowing bubbles and a fairy blowing silver and gold bubbles into the starry sky gave me my magic! I couldn't resist using the fairy lanterns to light her way!

I hope you will 'Make It Magical' this time at TIOT. As usual the theme runs for two weeks.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Halloween!

Hi everyone! Yes, I am doing 'Halloween'. Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'Halloween'. The Design Team are far more enthusiastic about Halloween than I am - please take a look here.

I did enjoy making my page though, using one of my favourite ways of covering a page with scraps of book paper. This time though I stamped an Aall and Create Spooky house slightly off centre over some spritzed Brushos before covering the page around the image.

I stamped the Crafty Individuals crow onto tissue paper and then tore off the bottom part of the cross and stuck to my page with gel medium. 

Next I added spatters and drips (something else I love to do)before adding some stamped Aall and Create bats and a smudged black edge. Finally I drew in a frame, added more black around 'hole' and stamped some Tim Holtz letters.

I hope you will join us at TIOT this time, as usual the theme runs for two weeks. Maybe you will persuade me to enjoy 'Halloween' more!

The Rules and Guidelines are here if you need a reminder.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Autumn is here

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• Hi everyone, our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is ‘Autumn’s Beauty’  

While away in France I bought something that came in a Kraft bag. I had a little time to play with a new set of Artemis stencils and some paint, papers napkins and stickers.

1. I used the stencils to create the tree (using some freebie papers from a Scrapbook magazine) along withsome stickers, napkin and markers. 

The leaves were made using the stencil set and some water colour paints I took with me. I used markers and stickers to finish it. 

I hope you can join us this time at TIOT

Thanks for looking, Chris 

Emboss It at TIOT

 Hi Everyone, we are on to a new theme at Try It On Tuesday - 'Emboss It'. You can either Heat Emboss or Dry Emboss and the subject matter is up to you.

I used black ink and a clear embossing powder to add my Woodware fantasy flowers to a background made with some leftover paint and a stencil. I added to the fantasy by choosing shades of brown, red and green pens to colour in my flowers, the embossing keeps the colours nicely within the lines. I added the Visible Image words and used the same embossing method.

As usual the theme runs for two weeks and we hope you will join us. The TIOT Design Team have some great ideas here.

Thanks for looking, Chrisx

Inspired by.....

Hi everyone, there's a new theme at Try It On Tuesday - 'Inspired By A Song'. You will find some inspiration from the Design Team here.

I hope you can tell that I used Prince's 'Purple Rain' as My inspiration for this journal page.

I used The Artistic Stampers Dahlia stamps designed by Sarah Anderson and used masks to create a group of them and a rain drop stamp from a set that has lost it's packaging. The background stamps are from stamps I have bought on visits to France.I used watercolours to colour the image.

I hope you will join us this time at TIOT, I'm sure we'll sing along with you!

Thanks for looking, Chris

It's Colourful!

 Hi everyone! Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'Make It Colourful', you can get those crayons, paints or markers out and go ever so slightly colour crazy (if you want to!) I love seeing how the use of a stamp can be changed just with a choice of colour. 

I have used some Paper Artsy stamps and stencils designed by lovely Kate Crane. 

The background is made of some torn up gelli prints and some of Kate's art mark stamps. The figures and the bird were coloured with a combination of Derwent and Faber Castell Albrecht Duhrer watercolour pencils. I drew a frame around the edge of my page.

The TIOT Design Team have some fantastic examples of how to 'Make It Colourful' - please take a look here.

As usual the theme runs for two weeks and the Rules and Guidelines are here if you need them.

Thanks for looking, Chris