Craft Barn Calendar Challenge - January

I've decided to join in with the Craft Barns Calendar Challenge, for January the theme is Aqua and Snowflakes.

I used a baby wipe to colour the background with peacock feathers distress ink. The trees [Artemeo stamp] were stamped with evergreen bough distress ink. I glued bits of a lacy handmade paper at the bottom. For the snowflakes I used a mixture of Tattered Lace dies and a Martha Stuart punch. I put stickles on the snowflakes and handmade paper but the photo doesn't show it very well.
I shall probably matt the pages onto card but I'm not sure how I'm going to bind them yet.

Let It Snow

I've made a Christmas card for the October challenge at Crafty Individuals, the theme is Halloween Madness or Christmas Frenzy.

I started by spraying a piece of patterned paper from my stash with some silver Spray and Sparkle.
I distressed the edges and coloured with walnut stain distress ink.
I added some seam binding that had been coloured with peacock feathers distress ink and a punched snowflake  strip [Martha Stewart].
The two images [Crafty Individuals] were stamped onto white card and embossed with black embossing powder, I edged them with peacock feathers and vintage photo distress ink
I added a large die cut snowflake [Tattered Lace] and three wooden snowflakes that I'd embossed with some white silver sparkle [All Night Media] embossing powder.

 Here is a close up showing the sparkle on the background paper.

Sparkle and Shine

Good morning. I've a Christmas card to share with you today and I'd like to link it to the following challenges.

Make My Monday - Die Cuts and Punches.
Country View Challenges - Sparkle and Shine.

The dies that I used are 
Die'sire - This is a 6" square die that I used on the front of the card, it also embosses.
Tattered Lace for the snowflakes.
Tonic for the sentiment.

I used some silver paper behind the aperture and covered the snowflakes with stickles.

This photo shows the sparkle a bit better.

Spotllight Card

KCUK's two Septesmber challenges are a spotlight challenge and an Autumn challenge, I've made a card to fit both challenges.

It was my Wedding Anniversary this week, 31 years, so my challenge card is also for my Anniversary. Every morning hubby and me are out of the house by 6.30 for our two mile dog walk, we have two black cocker spaniels that's why I've added the dogs to the card. I love this Sheena Douglas image of the couple walking arm in arm, sharing the umbrella, unfortunately our walking arm in arm days are over, our walking sticks would get in the way, lol.

For the background I brayered some acrylic paint onto card. I stamped the main image twice and die cut part of one image then I coloured it in and adhered it to the main image matching the pattern.
I adhered the image to the background and added the bakers twine then I adhered it to a white card blank.
I stamped the two dogs and cut them out and adhered them to the card and added some die cut leaves and sentiments.

I used the following stamps
Sheena Douglas for the main image.
Katselkraft for the dogs.
Creative Expressions for the sentiment at the bottom.
Woodware for the Happy Anniversary.

I used a Spellbinders die for the shape and Tattered Lace Dies for the leaves.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges
Make My Monday Autumn/Fall Colours
The Artistic Stamper Autumn Colours

Craft-Room Challenge - Forest Friends

Forest Friends is the theme for the latest  Craft-Room Challenge and it has been chosen by the lovely Amber.

 Our sponsor this time around is Tando Creative.  

 

I've made a hanging for my DT Piece.

 

I started by painting a piece of mountboard with acrylic paints and stenciled some leaves - I drew round the leaves with a black pencil and adhered a piece of green hessian.
I coloured some card with acrylic paint, when the paint had dried I used a Dreamweaver stencil and a brown pen to stencil the trees, I coloured the trees with watercolour pencils. The deer [unknown make of stamp] was stamped and coloured with pencils. I painted the chipboard tree and birds. I used Tattered Lace dies for the leaves.

As always my lovely teamies have made some fabulous samples and would love you all to visit the Craft-Room to take a look.

Nature Deco Pages

The deco book swap at KCUK is well under way and I'd like to share with you the two pages that I made for Wendy, the theme of her book is Nature In All It's Glory.

I used one of my Gelli prints for the background and used watering can Archival ink for all the stamping apart from some black script on the background. I coloured some card with distress ink and stamped the main image and sentiment. I coloured the butterflies with picked raspberry distress ink and used some black ink on the edges. I stamped the butterflies and diecut them and added some pink gems.

I used the following stamps.
Stampers Anonymous for the main image.
Darkroom Door for the sentiment.
I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch that comes with some stamps.

For this page I used a Gelli background. I stamped the flowers onto the background with coffee Archival ink and used a clear glaze pen on the centres. I stamped the main image and coloured the flower with distress ink. The single flowers were stamped onto white card and coloured with distress ink, I used the clear glaze pen on the centres. I adhered the image and sentiment to the page, then I cut out the flowers and adhered them and some die cut leaves to the page.

I used
Crafty Individuals stamps for the flower image and flowers.
PaperArtsy for the sentiment.
Tattered Lace for the die cut leaves.

I would like the enter the flower page into the
Crafty Individuals Natures Beauty Challenge.