Painting boxes!

Yesterday I decided I wanted to do some painting and remembered I still had a box to paint that I bought some time ago! I also had a small black box that I had kept from a gift I was given.
As I hadn't painted for some time I thought I needed to get a feel for the paint and brushes first so I did the small one first. I did use one of Sheena Douglass's Paint fusion stamps to do this one. Here it is!

Then I wanted to do roses on the larger box. I don't need the stamp for this one and just went for it. I positioned my 3 larger roses first then the buds then the rest just fitted around it. And here it is! The box is one I got from Paperchase. It is big enough to take a ream of A4 paper and the finish on it is like linen so it needed quite a bit of paint to make it flow. The box is for Amy! I hope she likes it!

Well that's all from me today! Hope you have a lovely day and let me know if you have been to have a little look. 

Jane xx

My Art Journal

Sometimes I don't always want to make cards or paint items but I just need to do something arty.

I have noticed people talking about Art journals and so I thought I would start one.
I got a book in the Hobbycraft sale and started it.

Here is my first page. I started by doing the title first then the sunflower in the corner then it grew from there!!



I wanted my next page to be a bit different and having seen a RAINBOW in the morning I was inspired to do this.





I couldn't let Feb 14th go by with out doing something to mark the day. Sorry about the spelling but it just fits so well!







I also did this rose which I was quite pleased with.



My final page that I am going to share with you today is my zentangle. I find this so good to help my de-stress! It took 2 nights to do this and I was quite pleased with it. I can't decide which is my favourite bit of it.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at some of my Art Journal pages. Maybe you could let me know which one you like the best. I hope I can share more with you another day but I will have to do some more first!

Hope you have a good arty day!

Jane xx

Tuesday's Makes!

I had a lovely day crafting yesterday among other bits and pieces. I made my kingfisher picture into a card but as its for my bro I am not putting it on yet as it isn't his birthday 'til the end of Feb. I was a girl guide and am always prepared!! Haha!


I wanted to make some cards for my stock box so I made some 6x6 cards which I love and found some images to colour. I had a great time matching the papers and matting and layering them.
Here they are:-

The other one I did was using paint fusion so took a bit longer. I just love the sunflowers and they paint so nicely. 

The little charm on this is from a pack from the works ....really pleased I popped in there!!!

So that's what I did yesterday....what a great day!!!

Happy Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I thought you would like to see the card I made for Colin for today.

I was pretty pleased with how it turned out and he seemed pretty impressed with it when he opened it this morning.

And What did I get off him?

Well I did get a card saying I was his queen of Hearts and these....

I love daffodils because they remind us that winter is on its way out and warmer weather is just around the corner.

Hope you all have a lovely day today and feel the love!!!

Jane xx

Clarity Kingfisher

I had a couple of hours spare this morning before I go to the dentist and the Kingfisher was crying to get out of the box. So out he flew so I could create this!

I hope I have done justice to this lovely stamp!

I will be back later after my trip to the dentist!

Bye for now

Jane xx

What a way to start the hols!

I have just had a fabulous time at a craft workshop which was organised by H.G. Arts and Crafts shop at Poyton Garden Centre. The workshop was run by Jo Rice who had everything organised so we could make two fabulous cards.

It was a lovely start to my half term holiday and a fab way to spend a cold afternoon in February.

Here is the first card we made

For this one we used a piece of double sided adhesive sheet which we stamped on to. then we placed a piece of acetate over the stamped image.

Next we turned it over and removed the backing paper.

This was covered in gold flakes and the excess rubbed off.

We matted and layered it onto gold and black card and then attached it to the front of a card, added some faux stitching and 3 gold card candy!

This was the second card we made!

We used the same stamp for the topper but this time we used distress inks to stamp and colour the sides.

The base card was distressed in the same colour then over stamped with the same stamp and a verse stamp then the topper was put on it.

I really enjoyed the afternoon and the ladies who were at the workshop were a smashing bunch. I hope I get to do another one soon!

Thank you Jo...you have really set me off on a crafting week!!!

Been having a paint!

Well I had put my paints away for a while but I couldn't resist any longer and the little brown box I bought a while ago needed to be decorated.

So I set to and decided to do it with pansies all over it!

I started off painting the box a pale cream colour but that looked too insipid so I added a bit of mustard colouor to the next coat and didnt mix it thoroughly so it had a slight uneven fininsh.

The inside I painted a dark green then left the whole thing to dry out.

I then stamped the leaves and the pansies all over the box and the lid and then left it until today to paint!

I used a mixture of lilacs and cream for the smaller pansies and purples and yellows for the larger ones. The leaves I used a dark green and cream to give the leaf effect!

I am pretty pleased with how it looks and will use it as a gift box for someone in the near future!

Here is a photo of the box fully closed.

And here is one with the lid slighty open so you can see inside.

Well I have now put the paints away for a while now...until the urge overwhelms me again!!!

Bye for now and thanks for looking

Jane xx