A Quickcard!

It's been a while since my last Hero Arts Flickr group Quickcard Scramble. This is held usually on the weekend and you have 90 minutes to make a card and upload to the group. As most of the hosts are in USA, sometimes the times does not suit Crafters on the other side of the globe. Cat Craig has made today's scramble at a later time so that the Aussies and New Zealanders can join in. So I was up at 6:30am ready for the challenge. The challenge today was to use this photo as inspiration. I've also use the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge as well. I uploaded the photo at 7:30am! Thank you Cat for the fun challenge!

A Canvas from our Retreat

During our Craft Retreat in Bright last weekend, Lyndal gave everyone a small canvas to try mixed media. I really wanted to try using Gelatos and she had a whole boxful for me to use! I applied three colours on the canvas, starting with the sides (just in case) and working my way to the front of the canvas. I used a baby wipe to work all the colours into the canvas and left it to dry. I then borrowed one of Joy's stencil and applied Impasto paste over the canvas. This was left to air dry. The background was stamped with some stamps from Joy's Darkroom Door collection. The sentiment was from Lyndal's collection, stamped on kraft card stock and inked with distress inks. The wooden butterfly was stamped with French Script using Joy's Simon Says Stamp Black Ink (this stamped very well on wood) and inked with distress inks. This was where I got up to on the last day of the retreat. I finished it off tonight by adding layers of die cuts to the butterfly with gold card (from Michelle) and vellum and a blingy heart to go with the sentiment. If you would like to see what the others made, check out Lyndal and Michelle's blogs. A big thanks to Lyndal and Joy for helping me with this little project! Imagine our delights when we found out that the second Virginia's View challenge is Stencils! I'm also linking this up to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Anything Goes challenge and Moxie Fab World's Styling with Stencil challenge.

A close up of my layered butterfly

Aussie Craft Retreat Group, Bright, Victoria (27th-30th March 2014)
Back Row: Teresa Xanthos, Jenny Dix, Debbie Pamment, Joy Taylor.
Front Row: Michelle Lupton, Sue Kohler, Jenny Martin Rawling, Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)(in front), Lyndal Higgins, Angelique Kelly and Me!
Photo courtesy of Michelle

Ingredients

Canvas, Vellum, Gold card stock, Neenah Desert Storm, Hero Arts large lotus pattern stencil, Gelatos, Impasto Paste, Darkroom Door Tick Tock and French Script, Dylusions Sentiment, Studio Calico wooden butterfly, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo, Simon Says Stamp black ink, MFT DieNamics butterfly die, Hemp from Hemptique and Kaisercraft sparklet.

First Hero Arts Scramble for 2014!

It's been a while since I've been able to join in a HA Flickr group 90 minute scramble. The last few were not suitable for our timezone. The one held this morning was at 8am AEST which was perfect for me. The host of the scramble posts a challenge at the nominated time and we have 90 minutes to make a card or two and post it to the Flickr group. Sounds like fun? Well, I had a bit of drama as I had made my card within 60 minutes and had a bit of drama trying to upload the photo. The iMac was not communicating with my Nikon! Anyway the iPhone saved the day and I managed to upload the photo right when the bell went! Phew!
Charlene's challenge was: Something old, something new, something shiny and something blue. Here is my card made with an old stamp, using my new Faber-Castell Gelatos with Perfect Pearls misted over. It was very hard to capture the sheen on the card, so the photo does not do it justice!

Ingredients:

Neenah solar white, blue card stock, Xpress It Copic card, HA S5471 CL574, Versamark, White EP, Faber Castell Gelatos - Tropical Set, Copics markers (stems and flower centres), Perfect Pearls and blue ribbon.