Golden

Hi everyone, just a quick post. Last week I was asked to make a golden wedding card, which was a bit of a challenge as at the time I was really in a grungy, splash paint around sort of place....anyway after a bit of a think....

I decided to adapt the layout I'd used here, a little vintage but still my style.

Vanilla fresco crackle over gold paint

The same treatment to the finnabair mechanicals and embellishments plus some florentine treasure gold.

Background stamping with PaperArtsy  stamps in archival yellow and white brilliance ink and it's complete.

You may have noticed I've been tidying my blog, finally labelled my posts and sheer madness I'm now on facebook...anyone who knows me will remember I said I would never do that...well I wanted to be able to share my Donna Downey inspiration Wednesday pages, so that was the main trigger.
I'm also pretty excited at the moment because I'm lucky enough to have a room to craft in now...all to myself...which I'm in the process of decorating and reorganising. If I don't post for a while it's because all my craft stuff is currently packed up....hope it won't be too long before I post again. Thanks as always for stopping by.

Stardust

Hi everyone, 2nd post of the day and I'm sharing a double page from my journal this evening.

The theme at That's Crafty! this time is Wish Upon a Star so I think this fits the bill nicely. The journal pages started life as something light and bright which an experiment involving black soon put an end to!

There's a lot of texture on the page, from black gesso plus crackle, then more black gesso followed by pewter treasure gold on the highlights. At which point I thought it began to look like a night sky and went from there.

The quote is one of my favourites and rust coloured prima blooms and silks were incorporated into the background with embossing powders and splats of black and white paint.

I swiped the left over silk glaze on some card for the background of the rusty star, before using a Sara Naumann star stamp.

Over at Frilly and Funkie the theme is 'Something to Say' and I've been wanting to use this beautiful quote by Vladimir Nabokov for some time....I just love it.....'and the rest is rust and stardust'. 

Not frilly but hopefully funkie!

I'm also entering it into the 'Anything Goes' challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks as always for stopping by.

Featured on Tuesday's Tutorials!

Yes I'm absolutely thrilled that my April  'Hot Wax' post over at Stamps and Stencils is being featured on Marjie Kemper's blog today as part of her fabulous Tuesday Tutorials series.

Over the last year Marjie has run a Texture on Tuesday series, which has been wonderful. From June this year her focus is on tutorials and there have been some pretty amazing and inspirational posts already.....so I feel so honoured to have been asked by Marjie if I wanted my Hot Wax inspiration post to be featured.....of course I said YES!

Hope you'll hop across and check the post out if you missed it first time around. Once again thank so much Marjie for featuring my post. 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!