Just hanging Around.......

Hello Crafty friends, Hope all is good in your crafty corner of the world??
This week over at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge is -  Anything Goes,
so in that spirit I thought I'd share a little hanging thingy I made from a re-cycled A4 Prima paper pad back cover.

Above is the top half of my project.  I primed the card with gesso, then added some book pages here & there.  Then I created my background using a few colours of distress inks (peacock feathers, salty ocean, pickled raspberry, squeezed lemonade & shabby shutters).  Next I cut out some images & sayings from Finnabairs' paper pad, placed them down and started to add texture by creating layers with stencils, buttons, washers, die cuts & other bits n bobs.  I didn't intend this to be a hanging thingy, but I wasn't pleased with a wee section so I cut it out, then joined the two halves together with jump rings!!  For good measure I added some random stamping too. oh and a final spritz with Luminarte primary colours mica.

Below is the bottom half........hope you like it?

Thanks for dropping in.....have a lovely weekend.

Happy Crafting

Ann xx

Crafting with Finnabair.......

The amazingly talented Finnabair recently taught some workshops in Damselfly Crafts shop in the west end of Glasgow and I was lucky enough to attend the Sunday class which was all about creating your own personal journal using Finns range of materials from Prima.  In the above photo you can see my journals front cover, which as you can see is heavily embellished and spritzed with Luminarte primary colour pigment sprays.

Below is the back cover, created in the same way but with a lot less embellishments......

And now a closer view of the embellishments ....

Finn is an amazing tutor, if you ever get a chance to attend one of her workshops, believe me you won't regret it!!!
The lovely ladies over at Artful Times Challenge blog have set the challenge 'feeling distressed' , I'd like to enter my journal into the challenge.

Thanks for having a look.......hope you enjoyed your visit!! Take care and as always...Happy Crafting!!

Ann x

It's not unusual.........

.......For me to try something different!!!  Well as you probably realise I'm not really a scrapbooking type of gal, but I do like to think I can give most things a go, so I'd like to share a layout I made 'Finnabair' stylee.  It's one of the very few photo's I have of my mum, dad & son together before my dad became very ill. (my son is 26yrs old now).  My dad passed away in 1990.

 The paper I used for the Layout is from the 7 Dots Studio, Domestic Godess range. A variety of embellishments from Prima & Tim Holtz, some masking, spritzing using distress inks. Luminarte sprays and a few Prima stamps too.

Please let me know what you think of my attempt at scrapping......all feedback appreciate, good or bad!!  I'd like to enter this into The Allsorts Challenge 204 - Anything But a Card.

Have a great day!! ......Happy Crafting.

Ann xx