Happy Crafty Post

Hi all 

Today I thought I would share with you all my latest crafty happy post that arrived yesterday morning.

Now I have stopped swooning, squealing and being over excited about these arriving with me I can show you all EEEEEKKKK!!!

My Distress Oxide's arrived WOOP!! If you do not know what they are, well they are a fusion of pigment and dye ink oooooo!!

These were a Birthday present off my dad which he pre-ordered the full set for me from the fantastic Art From The Heart, these were a fantastic price for all 12 they do also sell these in singles at a fab price too. 

The colours are as follows: Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Iced Spruce, Walnut Stain, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint and Wilted Violet.

They arrived beautifully wrapped which I thought was a lovely touch from the company, I really can not wait to get stuck in and start playing and experimenting with them I will definitely be sharing what I do with them with you all and I will also be doing some comparisons against the Distress Inks.

If you have not seen how these work as of yet and are curious and can not wait until I show off some makes with them, then you can find some fantastic videos on You Tube of Tim Holtz demoing them, HERE is one of many also there is a video of Tim Holtz explaining them HERE and the lovely Jennifer McGuire has done an Introduction to Distress Oxide Inks HERE. 

So keep your eyes open for those blog posts which I am hoping will be very very soon.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Special Make for a Special Nephew

Well today is my relax day at home so I thought I would share with you all a latest piece which was made for my nephew for his 15th Birthday which was on Friday. 

Now my nephew is special needs he has ADHD his mental age is a lot younger than he actually is and he has a heart condition so can be tricky to buy for so I thought I would do something special for him.

So with in mind I know he loves his computer, Games, Making music and listening to it especially Dubstep I had one of those DING LIGHT

BULB moments on what I could do for him.

Here it is....

Products used for this were: Ink Sprays, Visible Image Stamp, Bee Crafty Stamp, Pc and Printer, Watercolour Pens, WOW Embossing Powder and a Heat Gun.

So he is a teenager who loves his music what better what to show this than doing his name in a Graffiti font. I printed it out coloured it in, in his favourite colours and fussy cut it out.

 Stamped the headphones,Parental Advisory Signs, Music On World Off sentiment, and Skull onto smooth white card and used different WOW embossing powders and embossing glitters. One of the Parental Advisory signs was embossed in glow in the dark embossing powder.

I set these to one side until I was ready to fussy cut them all out. So the fun part getting messy and creative with the wonderful Dylusions Ink Sprays I used three colours once I was happy and it was dry I then took the stamps which I had stamped and embossed earlier and fussy cut them all out, I then played around with where each peace was going around his name as that was my focal point. Once I was happy with the placements I then glued them into place.

I left this over night to fully dry and set then framed it in a lovely black 30x25cm frame which can be hung or stood.

The birthday boy LOVED it!!! and said OH Wow that is cool Thank you. 

So that is one happy nephew and one happy auntie

Hope you enjoyed looking and get inspiration from this any questions feel free to ask :)

Links to where you can get the materials used:

Visible Image Stamps - http://visibleimage.co.uk/shop/

Bee Crafty Stamps - http://www.beecrafty.net/stamps.irc

Wow Embossing Powders - http://www.wowembossingpowder.co.uk/

Dylusions Ink Sprays - http://www.afth.co.uk/dylusions---ink-sprays-476-c.asp

Have fun guys and be creative

The Crafty Bat