Crafty Stamping: #doorhanger

Friday, 7 November 2025

CREATIVE ARTISTE MIXED MEDIA

Something a little different from me this month for Creative Artiste Mixed Media. A dear friend's birthday is today and she is a very talented seamstress and embroiderer. What she can do with a sewing machine and some needles is just amazing and for someone like me cannot sew for the life of me I'm always in awe of what she does. She has a fabulous craft room where she runs workshops and I thought for her birthday I would make her a door hanger. I have made a few of these in the past and we are even running a door hanger swap on my Facebook Group.

To start I used some strong cardboard - actually the back of an old paper pad which is sturdy enough to sit on a door handle. As she is a sewer I created my theme on that idea. I have a very old book which I use for junk journaling which is all about embroidery and sewing from the 1950's. I was never going to use it for advice so it is great for my background papers and is just perfect for this challenge. I daren't tell her as she may well have loved the old book!!

I added some stamping of some old Cherry Pie Art Stamps for the two ladies on both sides. I added extra stamping, some Tim Holtz Ideaology and some sewing themed washi tape I found in my stash - who knew I had that?! She is also an avid tea drinker hence the tea cups. The creativity sentiment is from Visible Image stamps. I added some little buttons,a sprig of dried flowers .. just because ..and edged it all in gold gilding wax as she loves creating gold work - beads etc I think! I trimmed it with some black lace and ribbons at the top and a few charms just to finish it off. I hope she likes it!

I'm adding this into the following -

The Outlawz - Card free

Creative Fingers - AG

Outlawz Festive - Friendship

Hearts Quest - Shaped Card/tag

Triple B - Butterflies

Craft and Create - AG

Krafty Chicks - Birthday

Craft-alnica - oldest stamp - my Cherry Pie are the oldest stamps I own dating back to 2002

Friday, 3 March 2023

CREATIVE ARTISTE - NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

I am delighted to have been asked by Andree Crowe of Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog to be one of their new Design Team members. I love the mixed media element to their challenges and so jumped at the chance. Here's my first entry as DT member.

I run a Facebook group called Joy of Sets and we have swaps every month. This month's swap was to make a double sided door hanger with the theme of Spring. I used a heavy back board from a used paper pack for my hanger as it gives it more strength. I cut out the circle with a scalpel and covered up the rough edges with some circles of paper.

I then added a first layer of white Gesso to the substrate so that I could add all those layers of papers and paint. I started off by using a Tim Holtz stencil which is a mosaic style with some Texture Paste and then added some layers of paint with a brayer tool. I've used a lot of Tracy Evans stamps for the backgrounds as well as the main images as well as some Tim Holtz collage papers, especially the pretty birds. Lots of layers and textures give the piece more interest - and I've also clear embossed some of the flowers and butterflies to make them shine a bit. I added torn off pieces of washi tape here and there also and added some Nuovo drops and embellishments from my stash.