SPA - Venus

This weeks challenge for the  Sunday Postcard Art is Venus.

Here is my postcard.

For the background I used distress ink with a stencil. I stamped the images [unsure of the make] on tissue paper and adhered them to the card, because she has no arms I gave her some seashell wings. I got the Venus image on the Internet.

Thank you for visiting, your'e all very welcome. xxx

Floral ATCs

Good morning everyone, it's another hot one today. I have some ATCs to share with you, they were made months ago for a swap at UK Stampers.

The backgrounds were made with distress inks and I stamped the Imagination Craft flowers and added some die cut flowers.

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day. xxx

Gothic Arch - Stitches

Good afternoon everybody.
Today I'm sharing with you a Gothic Arch that I've made for the UK Stampers challenge, the theme is Stitches.

I used a patterned paper for the background and added some gesso and acrylic paint with my finger, I kept the paint thin so that the paper pattern showed through in places. I stamped the Aall & Create scissors and sewing machine with black Archival ink. The main image was stamped with a Tim Holtz stamp onto white card, I edged it with distress ink and coloured one of the images with pencil. A few weeks ago I got my sewing machine out to practise some stitches, I added some of my stitched samples together with some buttons to the arch. I added some doodles stitches round the edge.

Thank you for visiting. xxx

Inchie - Turtle

This weeks theme at the Every Inchie Monday  challenge is Turtle.

OK! I hear you all shouting at your computers 'It's a tortoise' but he's a little tortoise who dreams of being a big turtle one day.
I stamped the Dimensions Crafts stamp onto shrink plastic and coloured it with pencil before shrinking it.

From Me To You

Here is my very late posting for my DT project for the  Craft-Room Challenge.

Zoe has chosen the theme and she would like you all the make a gift for someone - the gift I have made is for a young person.

I decided to alter a frame.
I have quite a lot of die cut flowers left over from kits that I bought from QVC years and years ago, so I adhered some to the frame before I painted it. The frame was painted with acrylic paint. When the paint dried I add the gems.
I used a WendyVecchi stamp. I coloured the background with distress ink and splattered with water, when this was dry I stamped the script.
I coloured some card with different coloured Dylusions spray and stamped the flower a few times, then I cut out parts of the flower and pieced them together on the background. I added gems to the leaf.
I also made a card to go with it.

I used a Distress stain on the background and added the flower.

The rest of the DT have made some amazing pieces so why not visit the Craft-Room Challenge blog to take a look.

We had some fabulous entries in our Something For A Man challenge and I don't envy Julia having to choose her top three.

Music Man Tags

I'd like to share with you the tags that I made for the KCUK February tag swap - the theme was black and white.

I brayered some white acrylic paint onto my glass mat and pressed my black tags into it. When the paint had dried I put some tissue tape along the bottom and added some eyelets . I stamped the image and words onto white card and cut them out and adhered them to the tags. The stamps that I used are by PaperArtsy. I used tissue tape as the ribbon.

I'm entering my tags in the following challenge.
The Artistic Stamper Tags challenge.

Alpha Challenge - Letter C

I have quite a few circus stamps and don't get much chance to use them, so when I saw that the letter for the Craft Barns Alpha Challenge was C I knew what I was going to do.

I tore a couple of pages out of my old dictionary and stuck them into my journal. I coloured my patterned background with felt tips. I stamped some stars with white acrylic paint  but the paint soaked up the colour of the felt tips so I drew around the stars with my white Posca pen, but again this soaked up the colour too.
I stamped the images onto white card and cut them out. I decided not to colour them in but just went lightly round the edges with some vintage photo Distress ink to take away some of the whiteness.
I added some die cut letters and a metal letter C
The stamps that I used are from
Stampers Anonymous
Katzelkraft
Artistic Outpost
Hampton Art.

Altered Notebook

This altered this notebook will be used as a stocking filler at Christmas.

I covered the notebook in a yellow background paper and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist, then I adhered black and white card and added the ribbon. The image and quote were stamped a very long time ago and sorry I cant remember who made the stamps. They were stamped onto card that I'd sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I matted them onto white card. I embellished the notebook with white flowers with a black gem in the centre.
I'm entering the notebook in the Out of a Hat Creations challenge, I should just about make it in time. The challenge is to make a Christmas Gift or Stocking Filler.

Textures

Firstly I'd like to say a big HELLO and THANK YOU to all my new followers - I hope you enjoy looking at my work and I hope that some of it might inspire you.

The theme for the October ATC swap at the UK Stampers is textures.

I used ribbed Kraft card for the base and then embossed some Core'dinations Kraft-Core card. I sanded the raised area to show the core and went over it lightly with some rusty hinge Distress ink. I wrapped some thin string round it and tied a leaf charm to it before adhering it to the base card. I stamped the images onto white card, tore them out and coloured them with peacock feathers, vintage photo and rusty hinge Distress ink and adhered them to the ATC.
I used the Stampers Anonymous Mini Blueprint stamps.

I'm entering my ATCs in the following challenges.
The Artistic Stamper The Natural World Challenge.
Challenge Up Your Life Autumn/Halloween Challenge.
Sweet Stampin' Autumn Trees/Leaves Challenge.

What A Hoot.

The theme for the UK Stampers September twinchie swap was Birds/Birds and Cages. These are the twinchies that I made.

The background was coloured with Dylusions ink. The tree stump was stamped onto the background and the owls and sentiment were stamped onto card and cut out.
The stamp set that I used is by Hero Arts.

I'm entering my twinchies in the Show Us Your Twinchies Anything Goes Challenge.

Fashion At The Craft-Room

It's time for another challenge at the Craft-Room and it's my turn to choose the theme, I have chosen FASHION. I think we all like fashion whether we follow the latest trends or just like looking at photo's in magazines etc. For my card I've chosen fashion of the 50's but you can choose any fashion trends from any era. Have fun with the challenge, I'm looking forward to seeing what you create.
Here is my card.

The first prize for the challenge is provided by our brand new sponsor Flonz Stamps, they're based in New Zealand and they have a fabulous range of stamps.

I layered various patterned papers over a card blank and attached some spotty ribbon. I stamped the images onto white card and coloured the skin areas with coloured pencil. I stamped the images again onto patterned paper and cut out the dresses then adhered them to the main images. I matted the images onto black card and added the flowers and gems, the sentiment is of the computer.

The design team have made some fabulous samples so why not visit the Craft-Room and take a look.

Distressed Summer/Nature ATCs

Distressed Summer/Nature is the theme for the July Paperplay group ATC swap.
The backgrounds for my ATCs were inked up ages ago and I can't remember what inks and colours I used.

Dragonfly ATC. I stamped ferns [unknown] on the ATC and stamped flowers [ Stamp Bug] with acrylic paint, I also used a crackle stamp [Tattered Angels]. I used a Dreamweaver dragonfly brass stencil with some Dreamweaver Crackle Embossing Paste. I was going to put some colour on the dragonfly when it dried, but decided to leave it as I liked the way the wet paste had soaked up some of the background colour. I edged the ATC with stormy sky Distress ink.
Fern ATC. This was made exactly the same way as the dragonfly except that I used a Crafters Workshop fern stencil and I added a small leaf charm.

Bumble Bee ATC. I stamped the small bee [Stampotique] onto the ATC and scraped some acrylic paint over it. When the paint was dry I stamped the sequin waste [The Artistic Stamper] with spiced marmalade Distress ink. The large Bee [Stampotique] was stamped onto white card and coloured with the spiced marmalade. After I cut it out I added Stickles to the wings and adhered it to the ATC.

Rose ATC. The background stamps that I used are by The Stamp Bug and Tattered Angels. I used a Dreamweaver Rose brass stencil with the Dreamweaver Crackle Embossing Paste. I embellished it with a Tando Creative mini butterfly embossed with Frantage shabby pink embossing enamel.

I'm entering my ATCs in the Simon Says Stamp and Show No Rules challenge.

Welcome To My World

This month the Creative Expressions DT have Sam Poole's Butterfly Girl and Bubblewrap stamps to work with. I made a card for my first piece using the stamps.

I distressed the edges of some blue card and attached it to a card blank, I stamped the little spotty pattern onto some pink paper using broken china Distress ink, I used the ink to colour the edges. I sanded some blue card to take of the blue and show some of the white core, then I stamped it with the small flower and attached some pink ribbon. I stamped butterfly girl onto card and cut her out, I also stamped her onto pink paper and cut out the dress and stamped it with the spotty stamp before adhering it to the cut out image. I coloured the wings blue and covered them with stickles. For the three flowers I stamped the large rose nine times and used three for each flower. I cut one of the images full size, the next one I cut a bit smaller and the last one I cut even smaller. I crumpled each cutout flower before adhering to each other to make one flower. I hope that makes sense.

I didn't use the bubblewrap this time but for the sentiment I used Sam Poole's Art Sayings.

Daisy, Daisy.

This week I received the brilliant Art Sayings stamp set designed by Sam Poole to be used for my Creative Expressions DT pieces, I also used the Creative Expressions Botanical stamp set.

I started by colouring a white card blank with violet Pan Pastel and then I stamped the leafy spray with Versamark and went over it with the violet again. I then adhered a torn piece of corrugated card. For the main image I coloured a piece of white card with hansa yellow tint and violet tint Pan Pastel, then I stamped the leafy spray with Versamark and coloured with permanent green tint. I stamped the solid daisy stamp with felt tip pens and then went over them with the daisy stamps and black Archival. The butterflies were stamped and coloured with pencil. I tore the image in half and adhered them to the card then I attached some yellow wool and some daisies that I'd stamped and cut out. I then attached the sentiment and cut out butterfly.

Bella Rose

Hi everybody, what a beautiful day - I hope the sun is shining wherever you are. I'd like to say hello and welcome to my new followers and to say hello to the followers that have been with me for awhile, I really do appreciate you wanting to follow me.

This is my latest DT card for Creative Expressions and also my last one using the lovely Heartfelt Creations Bella Rose stamp and die set.
The colour of the roses was inspired by the beautiful roses that my daughter gave me for Mothers Day.

I coloured the rose stamp with Whispers felt tips and wrapped and tied some gold cord around the stems after they had been die cut, the flourish and leaves had been coloured with peeled paint Distress ink.
For the background I put various colours of distress ink onto my craft mat and sprayed with water then I coloured my piece of card. After it was dry I stamped the little rosebud with water to take of some of the colour. I think you can just about make them out.
I added some lace and gold blingy things.

Everything's Coming Up Roses

  

This month the Creative Expressions DT have been sent the fabulous Heartfelt Creations Bold Bella Rose stamp set and Bella Rose dies to work with.

This is the card that I made.

I stamped the leaves onto some background paper with bundled sage Distress ink.and then matted it onto some white card that I'd edged with bundled sage. I attached the ribbon to one corner before matting the background onto the main card blank. I coloured the rose stamp with Whispers felt tips and sprayed with water before stamping onto white card, I did this three times, then I die cut them and attached them to the card. The die cut border was made with a Spellbinders die from the Fleur De Lis set.

Blue Butterfly

My latest DT piece for Creative Expressions is a card using the butterfly and sweet pea stamps from the lovely Eco Green Garden Chic stamp set.

I started by stamping the sweet peas onto some blue and cream striped paper, I attached the ribbon before matting it onto a white card blank that I'd edged with blue ink. I stamped the butterfly onto a piece of white card and after cutting it out I spread Glossy Accents over it. The ink that I used is Brilliance mediterranean blue.
For the flower I used the Spellbinders flower creations 3 die and floral doily motif die.
I attached the butterfly and flower to the card and added black gems and a blob of Glossy Accents to the centre of the flower.

Acrylic Block Printing

KCUK's challenge this month is to use acrylic blocks to make backgrounds.
What you do is scribble felt tip pens onto an acrylic block, spray it with water and then stamp it onto card, it gives you a nice background to stamp on.
I used very old cheap felt tips that I have from when the kids went to school. These are some of the cards that I made.

  Stamps, Dina Wakley.

 Stamps, Hampton Art for the dragonfly and Hobby Art for the sentiment.

 Stamps, Penny Black for the iris and Stampotique for the sentiment.

Stamps, Personal Impressions for the daffodil and Stampotique for the sentiment.

Fairy Domino Book and Pendant.

These are my latest DT pieces for Gecko Galz. I used images from the lovely Pixie Dust Domino image sheet.

For the pendant I adhered the image to a piece of stampboard, punched a hole and triple embossed it with clear UTEE, I added glitter on the second coat of UTEE. I coloured the sides and back with a gold Krylon pen and then adhered the flower and leaves.

This is the front of my domino book.

For the front and back of my domino book I painted two dominoes with lake Eco Green acrylic paint and then adhered the images and triple embossed them with clear embossing powder.

For the inside I cut some card to size and coloured it with a selection of Distress inks then I stamped some images. I scored the card and concertina folded it. I distressed the edges of the images and adhered them to the card then I attached the front and back dominoes and some ribbon to keep the book closed.

This is the back of my domino book.

The stamps I've used are,
Carolines for the tiny fairies and fairy silhouette.
Stampotique for the mushroom.
Tattered Angels and Inkadinkado for the rest.

Winter Trees

I've made this card for a challenge on the KCUK group, the theme of the challenge is Winter.
I coloured the background card with broken china, faded jeans, bundled sage and dried marigold Distress ink, I used the ink pads directly to the card. The background trees were stamped with stormy sky Distress ink and black Archival. I stamped the main image onto white card and covered it with Crackle Accents, when it was dry I matted it onto black card and attached it to the main card. The words were stamped onto white card and cut out before attaching it to the card.
The stamps I've used are
Inkadinkado for the main image.
Dylusions for the words.
I'm not sure who made the background trees or the birds.