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

my ' Ecclectic Mayhem'.....

Hi everyone...how are you?.....I have been having  play around with some ideas I have had in my head for a while... I kinda like what I have made but it's not exactly what I had in mind.....I think I need some more supplies-  but what?.... I wasn't sure how to create what was in my head... because I wasn't sure really what I was doing...does that makes sense or am I just waffling!

... anyway he's what I created from the 'Ecclectic Mayhem' in my head.....I think that might be my new blog name!

firstly  I must say I don't do photo's of me.....I usually try to make sure that I have the camera....I printed this off on to some canvas and then used the colours of the paper to try and blend in the edges of the photo....hmm maybe I think my next  purchase should be some texture paste!....although the design papers didn't really need anything else I added some extra ink in places and slightly diffused the colour behing the photo and then really just went for it with some of my favourite things to embellish with....

 

all the additions I used have all been altered some hoe ...either with ink, paint , glitter, crackle glaze  just to mute them slightly.... although I love sparky glittery things I  am not  a bright and shiney blingy person!

well thank you if you are still reading...lol I do appreciate you visiting me... any tips or techniques you thing I should have used or wether it's just something I did wrong please let me know....it's been a few years since I did anything 'odd'....I'm enjoying the challenge

Do You Stack Up have a distressing challenge that I would like to enter this in.
The Soutern Girls also have  a fab Distress challenge too

canvas for photo -  personal impressions

design paper - 7 dots

chippies -  make it crafty

clock die cut -  Tim Holtz

various other findings from my stash

distress inks

gold paint dabber

stickles

Claudine Helmuth mix media glue

Hugs  xxx

A couple of quick cards....

   Hi guys..... it's  been so long again since I posted on here I really am going to have to get my but in gear and try colouring again....Here are a couple of cards I made for my brothers birthday.....so they are really quick and easy ones.... not much fuss for the men folk!

this is the super cute Fergus Mcfluff from Cuddly Buddly.....

 and James the bear from LOTV......

 

well I've just printed some stuff out.....now just need some time to colour......hmmmm wish me look!

thanks  for stopping by

Hugs xxx

Make it Crafty ... Guest Designer

Hi everyone.... Woohoo I have been asked by the fabulous Zoe and her fantastic Make it Colourful  team to join them as a guest designer for the new challenge......and  how could I refuse I just love all their work and the inspiration I get from them.

The new theme up and running is Spring Colours.

I have used one of the new super gorgeous Gumnut flower girls available here....

 

 I layered the skirt up for a change, and I coloured using promarkers.

Please head over to the gallery and check out the gorgeous work from the girlies ......

Have fun and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs xxx

Sugar Nellie..... Pink and Grey

Yoo Hoo.... only me just popping in to share this card for the Sugar Nellie challenge over on Facebook, there theme for this week is pink& grey.... well that's if I haven't missed it already..... I must get my but in gear....ha haa.

The close up......lol

 ... and I actually managed to angle the card to show the glitzy bits from the gelly roll pen....

 

 I just love the new collection, they are available from Funky kits...

I have again used promarkers to colour and one of the Tilda 12x12 stack for the design paper.

Well that it for now have a great weekend

Hugs  xxx