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Hi everyone

This post is a little late but I was too busy last weekend in Gundagai being amazed by the super talented Birgit Koopsen and finally used my Gelli plate that I've had for about 3 years!   Stay tuned for some LOs featuring some Gelli printing. 

It did get me thinking though about all the old stuff in our stash.  
I'm going to make a determined effort to use some of it up, combining old with new.
Here' the start...  

For this LO I broke out some really old Rub-ons (I'm sure everyone has a stash somewhere).   It didn't matter to me that they were old and weren't going to come off cleanly.   I was after a grungy look and they just added another layer to my background.

I've used some Heidi Swapp Pineapple Crush paper (Good Vibes & Aloha), Some Colour Blast Paste (Stormy Weather) and a mousse through a couple of different stencils  and some Distress Ink (Tattered Rose) and some Distress Oxide (Picked Raspberry).  

I've sewn on some old Heidi Swapp acetate letters (similar to these Ghost letters) for my title for a bit of added interest and then finished off with some Heidi Swapp Chipboard Stickers, Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss puffy stickers, a flair from Fancy Pants and a couple of bradz from Simple Stories.

Hope you're getting plenty of crafting time (and staying warm!)

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Always in my heart

Good morning everyone.   

Hope you're getting plenty of crafty time.   I'm busy working on an album for my youngest nephew who is turning 13 soon.   Hard to believe where that time's gone.

I started with some plain pale blue card stock and added some Colour Blast shimmer dust and a spritz of water.   I did some random arrow stamping using Ranger archival ink.   I wasn't quite sure where this LO was going and how much other mixed media I would be using.   By using archival ink, my stamping would stay put if I did add more wet media offer the top. I added some modelling paste through a stencil and some Colour Blast pastes through a couple more stencils.   That was my background done.

I coloured some Darkroom Door chipboard with a black posca pen (so much easier than getting out my black gesso!) and rubbed in a little Nuvo Embellishment Mousse.   

I used some Simple Stories patterned paper to mat my photo but before I did  I used my craft knife to cut out the heart as I wanted to use this as an embellishment and my title.

I added some Ranger Glossy Accents to the words in the heart to give it a bit of shine and thickness as this was my title.

I inked the edges with some Distress Ink, added some Heidi Swapp chipboard stickers, some thread, beads and Michelle Grant Design Pebble Rock and I was done.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you get some crafty time in the week ahead.