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December Recap - Lots of Inspiration

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Hello everyone! This is our last recap in the Year 2017! Man! This year has gone so fast, hasn't it? As every month, our Design Team has created wonderful samples! And before we will move to the projects we want to say a BIG:   THANK YOU!!! to our great and fabulous Design team. It's a group of super friendly and talented people! Bibi and I are so happy and honoured to work with them! Now, lets move on to the fab makes of everyone!!! Rubber Dance was sponsor of Mixed Up Magazine this month. Their Design Team did an amazing job and created these awesome projects: Deborah Erica  Hannah Lynne Thank you Ladies for making such awesome beauties!!! Here are the fabulous makes from our Design Team: Bibi Shilpa Gail Anita Donna Susanne Video tutorial is here .               Video tutorial is here . Video tutorial is here . Video tutorial is here

Penguin Party

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Hello.  Gail here today with a little make using Playful Penguins and Colourcraft Aztec paints.  Only a few short days til 2018 and these guys are ready!  Party on little flippers...... I started by taking a large round brush and making some sweeping stripes across a piece of A4 card using Colourcraft Aztec metallic lustre paints in red and pink.  I used a lot of paint on the brush to give me some texture.  Then I spread some of the purple paint onto my craft sheet and used the bubble stamp from the Playful Penguins set to stamp randomly over the page.   I used a stitched rectangle die to cut a section of the painted sheet and then stamped the water weeds from the Playful Penguins set.  Then I roughly coloured them with the green Aztec paint.   I used the blue Aztec paint to colour a piece of card and stamped, embossed and fussy cut two penguins.  I added some extra colour with the purple and yellow paint.  I mounted the panel on a pale blue base c

Embossed Shimmer Sheetz - Christmas Card

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Hello everyone! It's Bibi here today to share one of the many two cards I sent out this year. Yes, two .... Not that I hadn't made a bunch of cards for my quick and easy Christmas cards post  earlier this month - and I had all the time in the world to write inside the cards and make envelopes, or so I thought ... But you know how fast time flies - especially in December! Here is one of the cards I managed to send out in time: The embossed panel is  Shimmer Sheetz , which is an iridescent metallic Mylar by Elizabeth Craft Design (I'm not affiliated, just love this product!). After embossing, I altered it with alcohol inks, sanded it lightly to reveal the white core, then I added some bronze paste to the edges. I wanted to add some gold mica powder to the paste, but it flew everywhere and stuck to the alohol ink on the Shimmer Sheetz. I liked it, though - a happy accident - so I added more and set it with a fixative spray. The stamped trees are from the Wh

It’s nearly Christmas - Art Journal Tutorial by Deborah

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Hello Everyone Debs here with a very Christmassy Tutorial, well it is nearly here. I wanted to created something with a magical feel and hope that comes across. I do love Christmas and the wonderful giving spirit it evokes in most people! So I started with my favourite colour combo of purple, blue and green. I just love how these colours look together, but you do  have to be careful mixing the green and purple as you don’t want to make brown. Stamped my favourite stamp of the moment, the leaves from Crazy Flowers 2, and painted them with Pitt Pens for Fabre Castell.  I then used a white Acrylic Ink to add snow to the leaves. I added some flicks to create the idea of snow falling I added touches of an horizon to add depth to the page and drew a few houses. Now as this was created intuitively, i.e. not planned I drew my houses. However, if you want to create this, you could use the houses from Textured Houses, which for this were a little too big. I blended