Resin and UTEE

I am on the PaperArtsy blog tonight with a quick and easy project using both resin and UTEE. 

My resin was super cheap, from the £1 shop in fact. 

I am really pleased with how it turned out, do pop over and see how it came together. 

Darcy 

Pretty pink and orange bookmarks

Pop over to the PaperArtsy blog and find out how I made these ribbon bookmarks.. 

Zingy colours, flowers and books, what more could you want?

Darcy 

Winter Wishes to You All

Hi there and welcome to the PaperArtsy/StencilGirl Blog hop. It has been such fun working with all the designers from both companies to bring you this bit of festive fun. 

As you hop along with us don't forget to leave comments to be in with a chance of winning a fantastic prize. 

GIVEAWAY

One lucky winner will receive a $75 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products

AND a £50 Gift Certificate for PaperArtsy!!

Visit the fabulous designers from both teams and comment for your chance to win!

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until Friday, December 30th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.

Winner will be announced onStencilGirl's Facebook page and PaperArtsy's blog on Sunday, January 1.

So here is my project

I began by gathering my supplies, first I chose canvasses as my substrates. One large canvas board, a smaller canvas board, 2 tiny frame canvasses and 2 small tags. 

I also pulled out some Christmas stamps from my sets EDY04, EDY15 and EDY16.

and here are my selection of StencilGirl stencils. 

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S110 Tall Birds

L415 Mixed media mail

S286 Talaya Goddess

S190 Sphere small

I began by sponging and scraping PaperArtsy Fresco paints over my large canvas board. I used Midnight, Southern Skies, Purple Rain, Blueberry, Turquoise, Lilac and Hint of Mint. It seems a lot of colours but they all blend and coordinate beautifully and only a tiny amount of each is needed. 

I then used my snowflake stamps from EDY04 and Silver Stratosphere WOW powder to create twinkly embossing all around the edges. 

I placed the face stencil on the medium canvas board, making a few pencil marks I could then remove the stencil and block out the rough shape with Blush and Rose. Once these were dry I replaced the stencil and added shading with more Rose, a little Irish Cream and some Chocolate Pudding . 

Next I worked on the background, leaving a gap for the hair. I sponged on some Purple Rain and Mermaid. 

For the hair I again marked out in pencil where it needed to be, then I added Chocolate Pudding and Toffee. 

 Once these were dry I replaced the stencil and then added Caramel, Copper and Haystack.

I kept layering the hair through the stencil till I was happy, then finished it with a few lines with a black pen. Next I added the smallest of the tall birds, he is stencilled first in Chocolate Pudding, then Caramel. A little Chalk and black pen complete the brown areas. His little red chest is done with London Bus, Mahogany and Copper. 

Now for a little texture. I added white out areas on top of the girl and the bird using chalk. 

Then painted the main parts of the hats with London Bus and Copper, with a little Mahogany to shade. 

I added some Expandit, this is wonderful stuff. You dab it on, heat it up and it expands and fluffs up. It makes great texture. Once this had expanded I went over it with a little Chalk paint. 

To finish this layer I added more embossed snowflakes around the edges and also stamped my bows and baubles from EDY04, the bows are painted with London Bus and Copper. 

This is how this layer looks now. 

Next the mini canvasses, first painted with Purple Rain and Mermaid. Then stencilled with the spheres stencil and using Bora Bora mixed with Mermaid.  To keep consistency I also edged them with the same WOW embossing powder from earlier. 

Along the bottom edge of each I stamped my trees from EDY16, these were coloured with South Pacific, Caramel and Chalk. 

Now for final embellishments. I painted some smoothy card with Hey Pesto and stamped my holly leaves from EDY04, they were then embossed with WOW Evergreen. 

The 2 small tags were painted with Midnight, then Crackle Glaze and finally Chalk. over this I stencilled some words from mixed media mail using London Bus and Copper. The 'Santa' word is handwritten. 

Finally a piece of card painted with Hint of Mint and mounted onto black card was stamped with one of the phrases from EDY15

All that was left to do was glue it all together. I use Golden matte gel as it is very strong, especially for glueing canvasses together. 

Here are all the guest designers that are taking part, visit each one and leave a comment. 

Blog Hop Order:

Tonight visit these four blogs and leave a comment.

Dec. 21
Darcy Wilkinson
Kim Dellow
Mary C. Nasser
Gwen Lafleur

Tomorrow, visit these blogs and leave a comment, the links won't work until tomorrow at 7pm (London time)

Dec. 22
Jo Firth Young
Lauren Hatwell
Kristie Taylor
Tina Walker

Visit these four blogs on Friday. 

Dec. 23
Clare Lloyd
Lin Brown
Anna Friesen
Janet Joehlin

Finally visit these four blogs on Saturday. 

Dec. 24
Kay Carley
Emma Godfrey
Cindy Gilstrap
Karen Gaunt

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday. 

Darcy x

Quick Cards

Evening all, sorry I have been missing. I shall catch up with you all soon and tell you what I have been up to. 

For tonight though please do pop over to the PaperArtsy blog and see how I created these quick cards. 

The backgrounds on these cards are done just with promarkers, also if you go and see the post you will see how I made my own  Baker's twine.. 

Darcy x

Tiny Time Machine

Tonight I am on the PaperArtsy blog with a little assemblage. The brief was to use die cuts, and I really wanted to see just how sturdy they could be when stacked and glued in multiples. 

I had no project in mind for this one, I was just playing around with balancing them to see how they looked. In the end the whole thing looked like some strange navigation tool, and that made me think of a time machine. 

Pop over to the PaperArtsy blog to find out how it all came together. 

Darcy x

Autumn Leaves

I am on the PaperArtsy blog tonight with a post in the theme of Autumn Leaves, it is absolutely my favourite time of the year. 

This project involved getting messy with PaperArtsy Infusions 

I really love the end result. 

Pop over to the blog HERE to see the full post with lots of photos. 

With  a left over leaf I made a sympathy card. 

Darcy

A Seth Recap

So now you have seen all the samples that I made for the Seth Event I can show you what I actually made during the event. 

We started with a large canvas board, and added 2 colours. 

After more colours and some paint transfers it morphed into this. 

We also worked on a smaller board and 3 tiny pieces. 

These went through several changes too. 

I love it at this stage. 

The smaller bits had lots of layers too. 

We had a fabulous buffet lunch, it was a nice time to catch up and chat with people and for everyone to go shopping. I had laid my samples out for people to see. 

 Next we added stencilling. 

and the smaller board got the stencil treatment too. 

 We added stamping , more stencilling and die cuts, and the smaller boards were glued to the larger canvas. 

This is how it looked at the end of the day. 

I worked on it a bit more at home and this is how it looks now. 

I love that Seth signed my canvas for me. 

During the day Seth wanted his left over aint adding to his shirt, so I obliged and look how cool it turned out. 

 He is so lovely. 

So that was day 1, on day 2 we did it all again, this time with a folder and pages. 

Mine started like this. 

Went through this stage. 

on to this stage.. 

and then to this, doesn't look much, but just wait for the doodling. 

Love it now..

 As you can see my pages are still blank, not had chance to do those yet. 

 Both days were just fantastic, and I love this final shot from Saturday with everyone being silly. 

Darcy x