a little bit of vintage....

... Hi everyone, had a little play this afternoon with an image that was partly coloured  a while ago.... ( sorry the picture is a bit pants)... it looks like my camera needs a bit of a clean and a good charge!

I used another onf Krista's images from Saturated Canary....I find them so easy to use.

the papers are some really old ones from K and Co and I love them.... wish they still made some of there old designs...

  

Thank you for stopping by ....... hope you likey

be back again soon

Hugs Kaylou xxx

Omg.... I'm actually posting....

....wow how long is it since I made a post.......I have not abandoned my little bloggy (though it feels like it) I have had some time out from crafting and I needed to get other things done... but know I think I'm ready to return...my fingers are itching and my brain is buzzing with all the fab new stuff out there....

here are a couple of cards I have just done to try and get back into things....

 this robot is from Tiddly Inks....I tried to make him look a bit rusty....

 .... and this one shiney......

 This was a free digi image from Saturated Canary..... she's gorgeous

and this is party hardy from also from the fabulous Krista at Saturated Canary.

Well thanks  for stopping by and reading I really do appreciate it if you are still following me...

I have loads to come still

Big Hugs

Kaylou xx

a bit of Owl-ology.........

Hi everyone.... been having a play again, this time with some chippie's and diecuts, I've always thought I could put an owl together with various bits and pieces..... what do you think is it obvious or not ( I have had to explain once).....

I have used chippies from Make it crafty - cogs wings, and dragonfly.............the clock is a Tim Holtz diecut and the feet are cut from Magnolia tag dies, the pocket watch stamp was a freebie from the craft stamper magazine.... I wanted to try and achieve a metal finish on the chippies a sort of brassy look with with the verdigris patina....

 

this is the page right in the front of my journal.....

 I chose this quote as I have been wanting to start a journal for a while but didn't know how to go about it or how to do it...... my advive is just go for it you can do it wrong it's what's in your imagination....

I would like to put this in the anything goes challenge -  time/steampunk

Thanks for stopping by again

Hugs

 Kaylou xx

...on the dark side

Hi guys... I'm back again I've been having a play around with some more idea's.......this was inspired by the recent challenge over on Make it Crafty, to colour an image and then turn it to the dark side.... but as usual I was running a bit behind and missed the challenge....

I'm not sure this is what Zoe (Make it crafty) had in mind with the challenge... mine's a bit more odd and mad!...lol.

again I used a variety of mediums....acrylic paint, water colours, chalk penils, carcoal, and some lumiere paint .....oooh and some promarkers....

 

I still don't think I did everything I wanted to do on this piece of work.....

 Hope you likey and thank you for stopping by

Hugs

Kaylou xx

altered box........

Hi there everyone.... not posted for a few days with the kids being off school... but now there BACK!!

So here's my next post I recieved some fab birthday pressie's from my bestest bud Deb's aka Freckles Place
I got some big  drawers to alter and a chest along with some memory glass and frames and some gorgeous grungy stamps and twine......So rather than go straight in and ruin them I thought I would start off with a smaller project to see how it goes.....
So this is my little trinket box.....

 The texture on the box was achieved by using good old decorators caulk ( the paintable kind) the paint is a mixture of acrylic and lumiere paint.....and I gold paint dabber for the edges.

 The stamps are the Papermania ones in my birthdat pressie  from Deb  :o)

The dragonfly chippie is from Make it Crafty and coloured with ink and a few pearls... the buttons are old ones I wipped off a cardigan before it went in the bin......and some random bits of pewter stickles.... because stickles are the law......lol.
Well I'm gonna try something more challenging for my next project... My ecclectic mayhem is all over the place at the moment....ha haaa

I would like to enter my project into the  Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge which is anything goes..

thank you for stopping by
Hugs
 Kaylou xx

Are Gargoyles.... Grotesque?

Evening  crafty peeps.... it's a late posting  for me tonight.... I have been playing around again in  my journal trying out different things.... there's no method to my journalling... only madness...ha haa but then you knew that already. Most of the things I have been doing are  quotes or things  I like or just random things that happen through the day.....

Here is one of my likes..... Gargoyles or is it a Grotesque?  Do you know the difference? I do.!

I painted the background with acrylic paint and I added some lumiere paint to highlight....hmmm not the best idea, I got the colour I wanted but the sheen of the paint makes it quite difficult to add anything else over it. Lesson learned I think!

 

I printed out the Gargoyle and promarker'd it and  pasted it on with a gel medium.

righty-ho that's me almost done for the night, I have a few more page idea's buzzing around my head, thank you all so much for your fab comments I really do appreciate them.

Big Hugs

Kaylou xx

Let me tell you a story.......

Hi there crafty folks.....Hows your Easter weekend..... not started on the chocolate yet I hope!....

I have another  of my journalling pages to share with you today.....If you have kids like myself  I'm sure this may sound familiar.........lol.

 I have used the gorgeous super spy Wryn from Tiddly Inks.....

 

Tha background was coverd with acrylic paint, nd then I used some lumiere paint for the circles...

 I printed the text out and promarker'd the base color and then added some chalk to 

highlight certain bits of it....

I coloured Wryn with promarkers and added some chalks around her.....

Hope you like her.... I'm off to start my next page now.....

Hugs 

 Kaylou xx

I'm not odd.........

Yoo hoo only me..... just popping in again to share another mixed media page from my jounal....

I think this could become a bit of an addiction....lol!

 I have  used another of the Dilly Beans fairy's ....

 The back ground again is acrylic paints, lumiere paints  and stamps

 I went around the lettering with charcoal and a white paint pen...... the toad stolls wre stamped on to vellum and water coloured.....

The fairy has been printed on to canvas and coloured with promarkers.....I use Golden gel medium to stick everything down.

I hope you likey ... It's just the random stuff that in my head....ha haa

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs 

Kaylou xx

A little Tiddly journalling....

Hi there everyone one... well I'm still in my mixed media , altered jornalling kinda mode.... can you tell, it feels really good to be doing something different.

Here I have used one of the gorgeous Wryn images from Tiddly inks...

 I'm still getting used to some of the different techniques and I still need to buy a few things... at the moment I'm sort of bodging it.....lol.

I printed Wryn out on to some translucent weave vellum and coloured her with some aquarelle pencils and used charcoal for the shading.

 

the background is a mixture of acrylic paint and inks, with some added random stamps and washi tape.

 Hope you likey and thank you for popping by....they have a huge Tiddly birthday celebration over at 

Tiddly inks... head over here and check them out.

cath ya later

Hugs

 Kaylou xx

my first journalling pages.......

Hi there everyone .... wowo it's been so long since I loaded anything up on to my little bloggy, it's been soooo neglected... tut tut!

For a while now I have been wanting to have a go at journalling and mixed media stuff.... and finally I plucked up the courage to have a go, it's okay for a first attempt , but I need way more stuff to do this properly.....

I realy wanted to use this image from Dilly Beans stamps, Megan has to most awesome images and I really love this one.... I gave her green eyes and purple hair......just like me! 

 

the background is made up of inks, lumiere paints, promarkers, stamps and washi tape...

  

the main image has been coloured with promarkers....

 

 right I 'm off to think about my next page, 

thank you for stopping by

Hugs 

 xx