Gelli Plate Play Time

Hello all and welcome back to The Crafty Bat Blog :D , I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas It has been hectic here hence why I have not posted for a little while.

So I thought I would bring the new year in with some Gelli Plate makes, These are my first ever makes using a Gelli Plate and I am chuffed to bits with them for first attempts and here they are:

 I will link you to the Lavinia Stamps website below including a link to the Gelli Plate starter kit they offer which is what I had purchased a few months and is worth every penny as you even get to pick ANY TWO Lavinia Stamps of your choice.

Before I get to the list of products used I thought I would also share with you individual pictures of each piece.

The products used for both of these pieces are as follows:

Smooth White Matt Card

3x5 inch Gelli Plate 

Adirondack Ink Pads 

Versafine Ink Pads

Lavinia Stamps

Brayer Roller

You can find all the stamps HERE and the Gelli Plate Starter Kit HERE

If you have never used a Gelli Plate before then the kit I mentioned is a fantastic starting place also Tracey who is the person behind Lavinia Stamps has done some tutorial videos on the Gelli Plate which can be found on You Tube there is also many more videos on the Gelli Plate showing different techniques and different materials used including stencils, stamps, acrylic paints and so on.

I hope you like what I have done and make sure to pop back soon to see some more of my most recent makes.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Mixed Media Tags

Hi all

Today's post is something a bit different which i have been meaning do for a while now, I have been doing some Mixed Media Tags, I had so much fun doing these and plan on doing more.

Here are the three tags that I have completed so far.

As you can see they are all different, I am going to list what I used for each one and show you an individual picture for each one too.

So the first one I did was this one

For this tag I used the following:

Tim Holtz - Manila Tags

Brusho's

Dina Wakeley Stamp and Stencil Set - Silhouetted Essentials

Dylusions Stamp Set - Hearts Edge Set 

Inkylicious Stamps - Dancing In The Rain Set (one of the sentiments)

Distress Ink

Mini Mister

Blending Tool

Memento Ink 

Stampeeze

The next tag I did was this one and I have to admit i love how this one came out.

For this tag I did the monoprint technique for the background and used the following materials:

Tim Holtz - Manila Tag

Distress Inks

Mini Mister

Blending Mat

Heat Tool

Visible Image Stamp - Leave Your Fears 

WOW Embossing Powder - Gold 

Stampeeze 

Versamark Ink 

Memento Ink - Black 

The last tag I did using the monoprint technique was this one

For this tag I used the following materials:

Tim Holtz - Manila Tag

Blending Tool 

Distress Inks 

Mini Mister 

Blending Mat 

Heat Tool 

Stampeeze 

Lavinia Stamps - Fox 1 (Kernal), Moon, Fairy Lanterns, and a Tree

Inkylicious Stencil - Sun/Moon Valley and Mountain 

Babywipe 

Memento Ink - Black 

Versafine Ink 

Versamark

WOW Embossing Powder - Silver 

I hope you like what I have done on these tags and they give you some inspiration. I will definitely  be doing more mixed media tags as i really did enjoy bringing these to life and trying something new... I LOVE the Brusho's if you have not tried them I definitely recommend them.

Happy Crafting

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Spooky Forest

Hi all 

Today's post is a new piece I have been working on today, I am rather chuffed with this one, for some reason the camera didn't pick up the colours on the background as well as I had hoped. But I did take another picture of it out of the frame.

This piece has been made using a collection stamps from Lavinia, Stencil from Inkylicious and Distress Inks by Tim Holtz.

Here we have Spooky Forest

The background has all been done using Distress Inks in the following colours: Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean and Seedless Preserve.

Here is a better more close up picture of the piece not in the frame. You can see the colours much better in this one.

I couldn't help but not do a Halloween piece and have you noticed there are bats on the picture YAAAAAY!!! 

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:

Fantasy Stampers - Halloween Fun

Crafty Cardmakers - Things That Go Bump In The Night

Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - Scary or Weird

Make My Monday - I Put A Spell On You 

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Crafting Be Design - Anything Goes 

Autumn Watch

Hi all and welcome back :)

Today I am sharing with you all a recent piece called "Autumn Watch" which has been done on water colour card and then framed in a lovely White Frame.

I was inspired to do this piece with Autumn in mind so I wanted to show this in the background. I hope you like this piece as much as I enjoyed bringing it to life.

Items used to make this piece:

Watercolour Card

Lavinia Stamps

Distress Inks

Inkylicious Sun/Moon Mountain and Valley stencil

White Frame with mount

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:

Digi design challenge blog - Autumn Challenge

Fantasy Stampers Challenge - In The Fall

Creative Artiste - Anything Mixed Media Goes

Stamps and Stencils - The Colours Of Autumn
Addicted To Stamps and More - Anything Goes 

Sunset Dreams

Hello all

Today I am sharing with you another mixed media art piece using the following materials: Framed Canvas, Lavinia Stamps, Distress Inks and a Circle Template.

I have called this piece Sunset Dreams, I absolutely adore Lavinia Stamps as you have so much freedom with them and not only that you can just sit and look at the stamps and think of a scene to do and they are super quality... This make of stamps is just one of my favourite brands to use.

So here we have the beautiful Sunset Dreams 5x5 Canvas

The stamps used from Lavinia Stamps are called: Star Gazing and Creeping Vine and you can find them both on the website below 

Lavinia Stamps Shop

Thank you for stopping by and for taking a look, if you have any questions feel free to ask :) 

The Crafty Bat 

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

Galaxy Themed Mixed Media Art Canvas

Hello All and Welcome to The Crafty Bat

I am a big fan of the galaxy look so I wanted to create my own on a 5x5 framed canvas, I used the following materials: Distress Ink Pads, Blending Tool, Water, Dew Drop Ink, Water Brush and a lovely quote stamp from Bee Crafty.

To get the look I was after I had to decide on the colours I wanted to use this took some time with changing my mind then looking at other colour combos until I was finally happy

I layered up the colours bit by bit and then went over all the edging to give it a dark space look I finished the canvas off with a mixture of white ink and water and flicked it on.

Next I used a Star Stencil and my white ink with my water brush and coloured in the stars in the stencil and carefully removed the stencil.

The last part I then stamped the quote onto some smooth white card, cut it out and inked the edges up and then played about with where to put the quote. Once I was happy I then glued them into place. 

TAAADAAAA!!

One galaxy themed canvas complete with a fitting quote "Shoot for the moon Even if you miss you'll land among the STARS"

I hope this has given you some inspiration to have a try your self, play around with different colour combinations and techniques and most of all have fun doing it.

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

The Crafty Bat

Challenges:
I would like to enter this into the following 
Stencil-It- A Vintage Journey
Anything Goes - Crafting With An Attitude
Anything Goes - Through The Purple Haze
Anything Goes - Addicted To Stamps
August Anything Goes - Crafting By Designs
Anything Goes - Inspiration Destination