Welcome to the official start of the weekend

Morning all,

Hope you've had a great week and have a great weekend to look forward to - seems like the weather may even be kind to us. It's almost like summer round here.

So, there I was, trawling t'internet and I saw a video by Sara Naumann using Paper Artsy products and a glue stick. A GLUE STICK? I had to watch, haven't we all got one of those in our collection and ..... what exactly do we use them for? I use mine for attaching unmounted rubber to acrylic blocks and that's about it! I have to say that I really quite enjoyed this exercise and like the less "precise" effect obtained with the glue stick, and (of course) I LOVE the shine of the foil finish - have a look and see what you think .....

My card

And a closer view of the image panel

  

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White 12½cm square, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of card (one white and one grey, cut to 12cm square
• Two pieces of white card cut to 11½cm square
• Snippets of card in white, black and grey, for the image and sentiment panels
• Fresco paint in bora bora dry brushed across my white snippet and allowed to dry
• Using a circle stencil by Dylusions (not shown below) I applied the adhesive from my glue stick, rubbing with my fingers to ensure the glue was evenly applied.
• Removing the stencil and then placing the foiling sheet over my adhesive, burnishing well - before setting aside to dry.
• Peeled off the foiling sheet carefully and rather liking the kind of distressed application of the foil
• I had used a baby wipe to clean up the excess bora bora paint and I swiped this baby wipe across a snippet of white card for my sentiment panel
• Snippet stamped using black ink, for the insert I also used the happy birthday sentiment from the Hobby Art set

STAMPS: Penny Black "Allegra", Hobby Art "Thinking of Ewe"
Paper Artsy fresco paint in "bora bora", Memento tuxedo black ink
Glue stick and Jones Tones foiling sheet

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. More Mixed Media - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (unused) OPTION of PURPLE (surprised aren't you?) ... paint/stencilling/foiling/stamping!
2. Pause, Dream, Enjoy - challenge No. 23 - CIRCLES
3. A Inky Mess - challenge No. 21 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES
4. Happy Little Stampers - June challenge - MIXED MEDIA "LAYERS" - card layers + paint/ glue/foiling/stamping
5. Creative Artiste - challenge No. 39 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES

Want to see this technique in more detail? Please watch the Sara Naumann video below

And an ATC to share next, whilst I had the paints out! I do a themed swap with a pal on the Isle of Skye and the next theme to cover is INSECTS .....

My ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in textured blue and white
• Paper Artsy fresco blue paint and Hobbycraft white paint brayered on to the white snippet and set aside to dry
• Whilst the paint dried I stamped the grid image on to the textured blue card
• Butterfly image stamped using blue ink, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set
• Sentiment and coffee ring image stamped using black ink

STAMPS: Kaisercraft mini grid, Precious Remembrance Shop "Positive Thoughts", Stampers Anon THMM103
PAINTS: Hobbycraft white, Paper Artsy fresco "bora bora"
INKS: Ranger Archival jet black and cobalt blue + clear embossing powder

I'll be entering the above for the following challenges:-

1. Crafting by Designs - June 6th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Crafty Creations - challenge No. 367 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Craft Room Door - June 5th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Use Your Stuff - challenge No. 315 - BUTTERFLIES
5. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 1822 - ANYTHING GOES