Carabelle Studio's Let Leonie Loose Show

I think I'm definitely addicted to these stamps!  The designs are so cool, and different.  I really like working with them.  I thought I would share a few samples from last weeks show.  Check the web site, I'm sure we still have the stamps in stock if you did miss out on them. I was also able to play with some cool paints from Deco Art.  The first sample you can see the stunning iridescent paints.  I used masking tape to create my frame, painted black gesso, and then stamped and embossed my images.  I then painted over the gesso with the iridescent paint.

DecoArt have also brought out spritzers, which are permanent and fantastic for layering, making them perfect for mixed media.  For this card I simply used them for a blast of colour, and then used my little character stamp clutching his star balloon.

The floral stamps are fantastic for layering, and the DecoArt Tinting medium is nice to drag the distress ink to colour the flowers.  This gives a more opaque finish than when the colour is dragged out with water.

For this one I used the DecoArt crackle paint through a Andy Skinner mask.  When the paint was dry, I worked over the background with the paints.  The background stamp is fantastic, and for this image I just used one of the flowers and a few of the little circles.

This is the full background stamp.  It's so cool.  There's so much detail.  With this one I used the sentiment which I threaded under the largest flower, and then stamped onto the smaller flower, so it appears that the sentiment is flowing onto the flower

Finally - this guy!  Cool isn't he.  I used the DecoArt paints to create my background, along with the stamps, and the mask.  I used the same paints to colour my little chap in.

I've got the catalogue to plan some more Carabelle shows......this makes me very happy :) xx

Let Leonie Loose - DecoArt Spritzers and Carabelle Stamps

I hope you managed to get hold of the cool stamps and DecoArt goodies I had on my show yesterday. I do have a massive soft spot for Carabelle....can you tell!!  And DecoArt do such a wide range of really cool products, it's tricky to know where to start.

For this post I have used the spritzers.  These are water based, but permanent, so when you spray them and then heat set them, you can spray over the top with another colour, and the original colour/image doesn't move.  It means they are fantastic for layering. I had a quick play with creating difference backgrounds first of all just to experiment with the inks and see how they reacted with each other:

Using my Carabelle stamps, I stamped and embossed using white embossing powder

I used some of the extra card which I'd spritzed and over stamped using one of the cool little characters

I then used the purple interference paint and painted a wash over my stamped card.  I love this, as you can still see the colours and the white embossing powder....

but you still get the wonderful sheen from the interference paint.  Cool.

I liked it so much....I decided to do it again on my cool little character using the blue interference paint

Sorry, bit of a rubbish picture!!  Anyway, I matted and layered everything up.  Added a stamped and embossed sentiment, and then added dots using black gesso.  I actually cut out part of the star from the element of card I cut away, and decoupaged this over my original star...this gave me a platform to stand my little cute character on

Let Leonie Loose - Carabelle stamps and Deco Art

Hi folks, I have managed to do a post for the lovely stamps I've got coming up on Wednesday.  I thought I'd share this now, as a sneaky peak!

First, I used DecoArt black gesso on a piece of round MDF

And then gave it a wash with the lovely gold interference paint

I then used an Andy Skinner mask and blue interference paint

I then used some of the magenta interference paint, and dabbed it onto my craft sheet

Then used my dotty stamp to pick up the paint, and stamped onto the MDF

I love these cool funky flowers, which I used to emboss onto the base using black embossing powder. 

Using the gold interference paint again, I coloured in my flowers, wiping the excess paint off the embossed images

I decided I needed a frame around my MDF, so glued wool around it, initially...and then added a little of the stickles glitter

I fell out with the wool - so ripped it off!  I quite liked the fluff left over actually.  I then decided to wrap wire round it instead.  I applied cosmic shimmer and then wrapped the wire around once which I left to dry properly before then wrapping it round again, entwining it around the front and back of the MDF piece. I stamped the smaller flower a couple of times, and embossed them again.  I cut them out and glued them onto my MDF piece.  I only glued the centre so the petals stands proud

I then stamped the word Happiness, which I cut out and glued onto my MDF piece with glue gel