Art Rings

Here is embossed card number 3. I started by embossing using this scratchy stamp from PaperArtsy EEV02, I added the WOW powder in diagonal sweeps, using Chocolate Caramel Pearl, Parma Violet and Frozen. 

I then added more Chocolate Caramel Pearl around the edges. 

mmm how yummy is that.. 

I then covered a piece of card  with parma Violet embossing powder and heat set it. once cool I stamped this circle  image on top. EEG15 The circles were them embossed with Ebony. You have to work quick and not overheat the top layer because of course you are remelting the bottom layer, heat too long and they will bleed into each other. 

Once cool I cut them out, leaving just these two-coloured rings. 

See how you get the sheen from both colours. it makes ita bit more special, rather than paint or ink in the background. 

The text is done with WOW Ebony over Ice Blue paint. 

Here is everything layered up. 

I love this, I think it is my fave of the three. 

I hope those three cards have given you some ideas of how you can use your embossing powders. 

Darcy x

Quick Journal Cover

I am off down South this weekend to demo and teach at The Craft Barn... excited and so nervous!

I have been packing samples to take with me, and one of my journals has a terribly dirty,painty cover. Usually I dont decorate covers until the journal is full, as while I am working in them the covers get trashed on my desk. But they do look too grubby to take away with me, so I make temporary covers that can slip on and off. 

This cover is so ridiculously easy to make.. it is literally a rectangle of cartridge paper and a rectangle of brown parcel wrapping paper. 

The cartridge paper is painted, stencilled, stamped, embossed... it took about 30mins to do the background and then a little longer to emboss the butterflies and stamp and layer the title.. but def under an hour for the whole thing. These butterflies are fab and were released back in July. HP1506

Droolworthy layers of painty goodness. 

I glued the brown parcel paper to the inside and painted it with black gesso. Then the 2 end bits are folded in. 

The criss cross embossing was done with EEV05 and WOW embossing powder in Chocolate Caramel Pearl. 

and the top and bottom edges are zig zagged on my sewing machine. 

Now the journal can just slip inside the end flaps. 

All done, nice and tidy.. 

Darcy x

Snowy Days Journal Page

hi, this is a journal page that I started a while back..and then got busy… and have now finished. it was created on a really cold, snowy day at a local crop. I didn’t take step out photos but i can talk you through it.

I used the winter Limited Edition paints from last year.

Step 1. Scrape a little of Turquoise, Marlin,Hint of Mint and Evergreen over the page. leaving some white gaps.

Step 2. Add background stamping of a cracked image using cornflower blue and  small numbers from Mini 23 using black archival.

Step 3. Add strips of washi tape in similar colours to the paint.
Step 4. Stencil some random letters using Slate.


Step 5. Add lines around the outer edges with ESN 10

Step 6. I then stamped the snowflake image from EDY 04 again using cornflower blue.

Step 7. Cover the whole page with a light layer of Metallic Glaze. This adds a gorgeous wintery shimmer all over.

Step 8. More snowflakes from EDY 04 , this time using Snowflake paint, then some stencilled spots also in Snowflake 

Step 9. The final step in the background was to mix some Grunge Paste with Snowflake and use that with a snowflake stencil. Once this was dry I added some glitter gel.

Now to create some wintery flowers.

I took a piece of regular smoothy and added some book text, music paper and scraps of patterned paper. Although this gets covered up it does give a great starting point and it adds texture.

Over the ephemera I blended Turquoise Cherry Red Marlin Evergreen and Plum. Over this I added some script stamps, and stencilled some Snowflake through a circle stencil and some star sequin waste.

This gave me a great piece of patterned card. I then stamped lots of the petals from EEV 09 plus the circle centres. These were all cut out and arranged on the page.

Again once these were dry I added a light brushing of glitter gel. It is very subtle but at the right angle it does sparkle.

So this is how it looked when I got home from the crop, and I loved it.. but it needed something more.. a title.


I took more regular smoothy and scraped on some Cherry Red Turquoise and Plum.

Then using a credit card I added lines of Marlin and some circles using a lid and Snowflake, I then added small circles using Slate.

I used the alphabet from Jofy 21 to stamp out my title, this was all cut out.

I decided where I wanted my words to go and then stamped then again onto the page. I did this because the letters have scribbly bits on the edges, these get cut off when cutting them out. So by stamping them onto the page and then glueing in the painted letters I still get the scribbly bits showing.

I am not too sure about the title, i think it blends in too much?


maybe it needs some shading?




The photos have bleached the colour a lot, in reality the Turquoise is very prominent.


Darcy x