Tag Ahoy!

 No idea why I put that title but hey why not!

Here is my 2nd entry into Country View crafts challenge tag challenge, a mixed media tag with a steampunk vibe

Until next time (probably last minute again) 

Zoe

Where did it go!

 So how is it already the last day of November tomorrow! I had plans to make so many tags this month but ended up making hardly any and always at the last minute! Here is my tag for the challenge at Country View crafts challenge blog 

Crafting hugs

Zoe

Halloween

 Well it has been a long time! I don't really post here anymore finding Instagram and Facebook easier to post when I have creative mojo which isn't often the last few years. I am here today to enter the Country View Challenge Harvest or Halloween challenge with this simple halloween tag 

Apologies for the terrible picture of the actual tag but I only seem to have any mojo really late at night!

Hope everyone is well

Zoe

Embossed Unicorn

Look at this summery card with lots of embossing powder yummyness.

Look at the yumny background created by putting embossing on the stencil rather than through it.

The unicorn is embossed straight onto the background with water splashed onto it to add the silver. Happy Birthday is covered in fab sparkly gold.

I am adding this to Country View Crafts silhouette challenge

Zoe

Dancing in the Rain

Wow, I am really on a creative roll lately, I have so many more ideas than I can feasibly make! I am so happy to have creative mojo return, it has been a rough few years! I have really got back into stamping and heat embossing, I just love the magic of heat embossing.

I have made this journal page using a brusho background cut to fit in my loose page journal. The girl is stamped with versfine and clear (with accidental glitter in it) embossing powder added. Sentiment is also stamped in black versafine and hologram embossing powder added

Look at all the fab sparkle!

I am entering this into Country View Crafts Challenge - Silhouettes

Until next time

Zoe

Moon Gazer

Hi,

I have finally got around to trying out the toothbrush/oval brushes for blending. I found them great through the stencil and will get more (I bought a pack of 3) for different colours. I have used twisted citron and blueprint sketch through the stencil in one of my handmade journals and then splashed water over it . I absolutely loved the way this background turned out.

I have been on a heat embossing kick recently. It is great and you can put it onto all sorts of projects. I used a fab stamp set called moon gazer which I stamped and heat embossed. The trees and rabbit are embossed with clear and the words and moon with gold.  

I am entering this into Country View Crafts Silhouette challenge

Zoe

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!