Blog Hop for That Craft Place

Come and join us on our blog hop for http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/ – That Craft Place.

We are having a wonderful Blog hop to show case our amazing Design Team theme is Anything Goes so don;t forget to enter into our challenge.

Links to Shop and Groups 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/271008489659989/ TCP facebook Shop

https://www.facebook.com/groups/184329015068367/ Natter page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/756886094323719/ Ditzie Digi Design’s inspiration

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DitzieDigiDesign Our Etsy store

We give away freebies in the Ditzie Digi Design group once a month so please hop over and say Hi!

Here’s the prizes:

1st £10 spend in That Craft Place

2nd £10 DDD esty store

3rd £5 That Craft Place

4th £5 DDD etsy store

To win you need to make sure your a member of each group.

 

Now the amazing Design Team have some inspiration on there blogs and ( some of the DT ladies are giving away there creations to one lucky blogger ) so make sure you hop by and give them some love

Lisa  http://thatcraftplaceltd.blogspot.com/

Amanada  http://amandascolourcreations.blogspot.co.uk/

Shell http://craftyshell.blogspot.co.uk

Claudia – http://vonpappe2.blogspot.co.at/

Stacey – http://www.lasatas.blogspot.co.uk/

Lorraine www.travellingcolours.wordpress.com

Rebecca – http://beccalite.blogspot.com

Gayle – http://craftygayles.blogspot.co.uk/

Debs –   http://artymindsramblings.blogspot.co.uk/

Cheryl  http://cheryl-cherylscreativeatcscards.blogspot.com/

kay – http://pixxiwitchdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Cathy http://ellieskeeperscreations.blogspot.co.uk

Aurora – http://www.themillersdaughter.es/

Lisa M- http://www.lisasparkleandstamps.blogspot.com

Erin S https://erinstewart.wordpress.com/   <————————-  You are here!

Rachel – http://fisherscardsandcrafts.blogspot.co.uk

Suzi – http://www.suzannebakermckenzie.blogspot.com

Kerry’s  http://kezzyscraftyjourney.blogspot.com

Deb J http://debsatfrecklesplace.blogspot.co.uk/

Erin  http://elfiessparkleanddust.blogspot.com/

 

Love & Hugs

from all of us at

That Craft Place

 

 

 

Here’s my creation.

Callie’s New Shoes

Lots of flowers!

I started with a shoe money box from Lisa’s fab shop.  I love these piggy banks as they come in a variety of designs and are so wonderful to paint.  I did a base coat in blocks of purple, teal, and blue (my favourite colours) DecoArt paints.  Then I used DecoArt’s Weathered Wood effect which just might be my new favourite technique.  I don’t know, I’m fickle so next week it might be a different technique! lol  Over the Weathered Wood I put a thin coat (where I remembered) of buttermilk.  It’s such fun to watch the top dry (not at all like watching normal paint dry) because the cracks appear before your very eyes!

I coloured up this fab digi image from Ditzie using my copics and then a bit of frantage to make it all smexy.  The sentiment, also from Ditzie, is all the validation I need for a new pair of shoes! lol  I thought it went perfectly with the image and the shoe money box.

 

 

 

 

The flowers are a just a bunch I picked out of my stash…mostly from That Craft Place.  Although the giant rose came from a fizzy bath set and was a hideous shade of pepto bismol pink.  Once again, the fabulous Dylusions Sprays worked their magic and made everything the right shades for my project.  I also used the sprays to colour the cheese cloth (originally white) that I got from Lisa.  I tried to take Neil Walker’s advice and use a couple of different colours on the flowers to add interest.  Did it work?

I used DecoArt’s Faux Finishing Medium to apply the cheese cloth to the show and it worked a treat.  I was able to put wrinkles (for a lack of a better word) into the cloth to add texture for the flowers to cling to.  I used the fab collal silicon glue to attach the flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture shows the weathered wood effect.  Thick paint = big cracks.  Thin coat = little cracks.

Weathered wood effect

Love, love this technique.  I learned it in one of Mark Gould’s classes at That Craft Place aka my happy place!

 

Thanks for stopping by.  If you leave me a little bit of love, I’ll put your name into the draw for this shoe money box as Prince Charming has declared I don’t need anymore shoes.  Normally, I wouldn’t listen, but since the three shoe racks I have don’t hold all my shoes, I might just have to agree with him!  Don’t tell him! lol

 

I’d like to enter this project in to

Charismascards – anything goes http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/