Gingerbread Christmas

 Merry Christmas Eve Everyone.

Today I am showing you my Christmas card I made for my parents for Christmas. 

It is made with Woodware Gingerbread Men Stamp and I coloured it with Promarkers. 

I am entering this into County View Crafts Anything Christmas 

Until next time

Zoe

Quirky Christmas

With everything going on I don't think I will be able to get my Christmas tree this year which is at my parents house, so I decided to make one!

I made a basic shape out of foil and put papier mache over this. Once dry I glued some dowel in the base which made it easier to paint with Pebeo Dyna Blue Green Paint (I love this colour). I painted a papier mache plant pot to put it in. Inside I added some clay and glued the stick in and covered it in little stones which I added some purple glitter on top! I am loving my tiny Christmas Tree.

I am entering this into Country ViewCrafts Challenge Anything but a card

Skeleton Leaf Embossing

 I have been thinking about this for a while and finally got around to doing it, dusting off those skeleton leaves and heat embossing them. 

I pressed the skeleton leaves into an embossing  pad and then covered the large leaves into Wow Embossing Pacific Wave and the the smaller with Wow Embossing verdigris and heat set them. Even the close up photos doesn't really do them justice with how fab they are.

I have made a journal page with these, attaching the large leaf to a piece of text which is then glued to a gelli print whilst the small leaf sat half under this. Some trees were stamped and embossed with white and I printed out the Explore Nature.

 

I am entering this into Country View Craft Challenge Anything but a card

Zoe

Steampunk Christmas

I decided to do a slightly different type of Christmas Card, a steampunk card!. I saw the numbers on the stencil and thought Christmas!

I have put black embossing paste through the stencil and then added Wow Embossing powder in gold over the top. This was then  heated to make a great textured piece with a sentiment added to finish it off!

Steampunk Octopus Canvas

It is the 1st and that means a new challenge at Steampunk  Challenge Blog. This months theme is Make an Art Canvas and include Cardboard! Do come along and join in the fun, we have prizes each month for the lucky winner!

For my DT project I have made this canvas using an Octopus and fish from the beautiful Stamperia Mould. I have also used some wooden embellishments, and a star from a mould. I have also done some stamping around the edge and finally placed upon a piece of cardboard glued on a wooden art canvas!

I am entering this into 

Sandee Steampunk Challenge

Country View Challenge - Anything but a card

Poisoned Apple Halloween Exhibit

 Hello and welcome to the Poisoned Apple Halloween Exhibit Blog Hop! I decided to make a skull in a dome! I love Halloween and any excuse to make something with a skull!

We have a wonderful prize for the winner, for more information about how to be in with a chance of winning, see the end of this post for details!

I have made the base by laying up cardboard and covering it with crackle paint from DecoArt, covered it in black gesso and then DecoArt Antiquing Cream. The Dome is an upcycled Lemonade Bottle topped with a dome I made from Clear Resin

The Skull is a Polystyrene Skull I covered in black tissue paper and added a mixed of DecoArt interference paints and Pebeo Dyna Paint.

Here are the other participants in the blog hop for you to go and have a look at their fab makes:

Cathy

Creatif Edges

 Roni

Helen 

Chaitali 

Louise 

Monique

Lyne

Rituparna

Angel B

Savvy Handmade

Monica

We have a wonderful digital prize package up for grabs, courtesy of Gecko Galz (https://www.etsy.com/shop/geckogalz)! You'll receive: Face To Face Jewel It Collage Set, Steam Punk Collage Set, Picture Perfect ATC Set, Clockwork Christmas ATC Set, and Spellbound Digital Stamp Set (which has 25 images!).

To have a chance of winning, leave a comment on this post, along with your email address or social media contact (IG, FB, etc) from now through Monday, 2 Nov. One lucky winner will be picked randomly from all comments left from all of the artist's participating! The winner will be contacted via email or social media so it's important you leave your address/social media contact info! Good luck and enjoy the hop!

Spooky Canvas

Hello and welcome back from our little break at Bleeding Art Challenge. Here is my project for this month, my spooky canvas.

I have added decoupage paper to the background and on top various die cuts and a polystyrene skull. 

Hope you come over and join in.

Crafty Hugs

Zoe

Steampunk ATC's

Hello and Welcome!
Today I am showing you my ATC's for the new Steampunk Challenge Blog

The theme this month is ATC with something silver on it. I have chosen to produce 3 ATC's, all totally different.

The Traveller

Balloons on Film

Eye eye

I hope you enjoy this new Steampunk Challenge Blog and join in. We have a fab Design Team and some fab prizes for the winner each month.

Crafty Hugs

Zoe

Steampunk Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to this fab Steampunk Blog Hop. My creation is this steampunk machine made using a combination of new and recycled parts. I had a lot of fun making this! The rules for the hop and other participants are below.


I have upcycled an old mushroom container and old air compressor pump and some cardboard alongside using mdf cogs, corrugated pipe, die cuts, and embellishments made from UT embossing powder, filler and clay.






















We have 16 prize sponsors for our Steampunk Hop - we're proud to say these are small businesses run by artists. Let's show them some love!

1) A Vintage Girl (https://www.avintagegirlshop.com/) - $20 prize package

2) Angel Dream Crafts (https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/AngeldreamCraftsKim) - $20 gift certificate (shipping not included)

3) Linda Israel Art (https://lindaisrael.com/art/) - $50 gift certificate (shipping not included)

4) A Matter of Crafts (www.justamatterofcrafts.com) - $20 gift certificate (shipping not included)

5) Expressions Craft (https://www.expressionscraft.com/) - $25 gift certificate (shipping not included)

6) Nellys Artistic Creations (https://www.instagram.com/nellys_artistic_creations/?hl=en) - original artwork (see link for examples of her work)

7) Gecko Galz (https://www.etsy.com/shop/geckogalz) - $25 in digital products

8) Creative Embellishments (https://creativeembellishments.com/) - $50 (shipping not included)

9) Emerald Creek (https://emeraldcreek.co/) - $25 gift certificate

10) Electric Pandemonium (Etsy.com/shop/electricpandemonium) - choose a $45 original artwork piece (shipping not included)

11) Thompson's Craft Supplies (https://thompsonscraftsupplies.com/) £20 (approx $25) (shipping not included)

12) It's Oddly Appealing (https://www.pinterest.com/itsoddlyappealing/its-oddly-appealing/) - original artwork (see link for examples of her work)

13) The Funkie Junkie Boutique (https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/) - $25 gift certificate

14) Hobbilicious (https://www.hobbilicious.com/) - £15 (approx $19) (UK shipping free)

15) ITD (https://itdcollection.com/) - prize package worth £25

16) Stamperia (https://stamperia.com/) - a pizza box prize pack

To have a chance of winning one of the 16 coveted prizes, leave a comment on this post, along with your email address or social media contact (IG, FB, etc) and what country you're from, from now through Monday, 22 June. Sixteen winners will be picked randomly from all comments left from all of the artist's participating! The winners will be contacted via email/social media so it's important you leave your address/social media contact!


Here are the other participants:

It's Oddly Appealing 
Ink Stained Roni
Electric Pandemonium
Crafts From The Fairy Den
Chaitali Dekhtawala
Nellys Artistic Creations
Priya Mishra
Archu's Art World
Bhavani Balaji
Cassandra - Scrap Savvy Creations
Shraddha
Amy Love's Designs
Monica Longard - MonDo Creations
Kanika Jain
Jane Austin
Empire of the Cat
Shwetha's Art
Sonika Agarwal
In Search of my Creative Side
The Journey is the Start
Ina Grehan
Orquide'art
Juli Loves Paper
Linda Simpson
Crea Red
Kim Slade-Fuller
Leslie Lineberry
Jessica Larios
Riddhi Jani
Lynne Joncas
Zoe Bateman - You Are Here
Pooja Sharma
Nicole Palos
A Vintage Girl

Good luck and enjoy the hop!

I am entering this into SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenge

Zoe x

Vintage Vinyl

There is a new challenge over on the Bleeding Art Challenge blog and I would like to show you my DT project. 

I have so much stuff collected over the years, I am trying to start to use some of it although think it will take my lifetime! Anyway this piece is made using an old vinyl record I got in a charity shop in the bargain bin of 4 for a £1. I covered this with a piece of scrapbook paper and then covered that in acrylic paint in vintage colours.

Having glued an octagon wooden sheet to the back I decided it needed something else and so used some brushos to splash onto the background 

Whilst this was drying I had painted a butterfly blue and stamped it using a visible image script stamp and Wow embossing white fine powder. 

I had also painted some geometric shapes with a crackle glaze. Once dried these were also painted blue

I had also painted a wooden word, believe in linen and coloured a tim hotz paper doll which I then glued onto the butterfly. All this was attached to the record along with some flowers my friend made.

This is a new style for me but really enjoyed making this and think I will do more.

I do hope you come and join us over at Bleeding Art Challenge.

Zoe 

 

Grunge Mirror

There is a new challenge at Bleeding Art Challenge today. For my DT project I have upcycled an old mirror. I have added texture paste through a stencil and then added various different paints to create a grunge effect.

I hope you come and join in with our challenge.

Crafty Hugs

Zoex

Steampunk Irish Album

Hi All, hope you are doing ok in this uncertain times. Here is my first DT post for Ephemoire. I have been wanting to make an album for a while, just never got around to it, so here is my first attempt at an album. I have used the up and away journal kit along with Irish ephemera

Here is the front cover

Back cover

Inside pages

Hope you like it!

Stay safe

Crafty hugs 

Zoex