Blackout...

... have you tried it yet??? You know, that HEAVENLY new Clearly for Art... Blackout version... corrrr, I have a new fave crafty product. I got all creative last weekend making a book using some old book covers that Ellen brought with her... these have a library page stuck in the front which is dated 11/27/22 - which in English is 27th November 1922 - BTW, me and Ellen figured out why we write the date differently... cos over here we say 24th of February and in the USA they say February 24... see, simples explanation... still makes me boggle a bit when I try and understand the exact date but I am getting better at it!





Anyways... before I went waffling on about dates etc, I was extoling the virtues of Blackout... seriously, if you thought that the Clearly For Art clear was good... you are so going to love the Blackout. Now I have a bit of a thing about black and white - like the combo of these two colours... it can be black and cream too... I like those too... and I sometimes like to add in a splash of colour.. but never red.... don't like red that much... think it is a result of being so very aware of red signals when I was a train driver... anyways... the colour scheme for this book just kind of flowed without me thinking... so there is red... but it is a nice red, not a bright scary one LOL






The cover has an Art Part Pocket Watch - OMG, you have to get these... they are seriously coolio! I added on some little Art Part flowers and then got playing with the Blackout - which was stamped with Gold StaZon and then moulded whilst hot... and if you don't like the way it has moulded, reheat it, it goes back to flat and you can start again. If you nip onto You Tube I think there is a CHA video on there with Wendy explaining about Clearly For Art... very clever stuff :O))



The pages are made from mountboard which was then covered with Jenni Bowlin papers... both the 12" and the 4" ones were used... they are lush... I have been covetting them for over a year now and it was time for me to cut into them...




I won't put all the pics on today ... I did 5 pages front and back... plus some ickle files that open up too... so there are looooads of photo's... oooh, what I did mean to say was... the embellies - the chippie bits and some of the flowers etc are all from a huge box of stash that THE Wendy Vecchi was selling on her blog the other week and my stash mule (Ellen) dragged them halfway across the world for me... bless. The other bits are either Art Parts or Maya Road. oh and all the stamping is Studio 490 (except for one sentiment but that is for another day)



I thought I had better write this post tonight while I am still relatively calm... you see, I may have muttered something about this before but... do indulge me... tis... less than 10 hours now til I am doing the Artsy Crafts class with the Duke of Distress himself... nay and thrice, I should give him his full titles... the Sultan of Stamping... the Viscount of Vintage... anyways... I am going to go to bed now...



Actually I was going to bed about 45 mins ago and then got sidetracked faffing in the Room of Stash... and then I decided to blog cos I probably won't get chance in the morning... and now I have got my second wind and I know if I don't at least try to go to sleep now that I will be looking rather worse for wear in the morning... not only has Henry decided to reappear... I also have a gremlin that sneaks into my bedroom of a night, used a pot of extra strength mousse to muss my hair up and then uses a sink plunger to make my face puff up... poor old Grim, he has a lot to put up with already, but me, first thing on a morning... yikes.. poor bloke! Right, I am deffo going now... beauty sleep and all that... if you are going to the class... see you there... if not... have a good day! TTFN

Hels (and Henry Zit) x