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

Summer Blooms at TIOT

 Hello everyone, I can hardly believe how quickly time is passing! Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'Summer Blooms' - the Design Team have been looking around their gardens - take a look here.

I absolutely love Hydrangeas, when we had our caravan we had a hedge full of them.

I used a set of stamps that I have had so long that they have become separated from their packet and I can't tell you who produced them.

I used a Lavinia stencil with some green distress inks and then used some old biscuit packaging to add some spritzed Distress Oxide ink circles. Once they had dried I stamped the hydrangeas (with a little bit of masking)and added some more colour with Inktense pencils and a water brush. I also added handwritten words and a few pencil marks over the stencilling .

I hope you will join us with your own 'Summer Blooms' at TIOT this time.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Animals at TIOT

 Hi everyone, we're looking for anything 'Animals' this time at Try It On Tuesday. The Design Team have some great examples for you to see.

I was running short of the 'Hello' kind of cards I sometimes send for no reason at all other than to keep in touch!

I used a few leafy stencils and green distress inks to make a background, then stamped and water coloured the cute little House Mouse stamp. I drew a wiggly frame around the image as they looked a bit lost in all the leaves! 

I do hope you can join us with your choice of 'Animals' at TIOT this time. As usual the theme runs for two weeks.

Thanks for looking, Chris