More Mono Printing With An Acrylic Block

I'd like to share with you another project that I've made for the Craft Stampers Take It Make It Challenge. You can find Trish Latimers tutorial in the April issue of the Craft Stamper.

This time I've made a card.

I stamped some leaves with an Inkadinkado stamp onto my mono print, I tore it into three pieces and adhered them to a Kraft card blank. I wrapped some twine round the card, made a bow and adhered a metal leaf. I used a PaperArtsy Eclectica stamp for the sentiment and matted it onto some black card.

Mono Printing With An Acrylic Block

The theme for the March challenge at the Craft Stampers Take It Make It Challenge is to make some mono prints using acrylic paint on acrylic blocks. Trish Latimer has a project in the April Craft Stamper where she has a tutorial on doing this technique.

This is a tag that I made.

I used a mixture of DecoArt and Fresco Finish acrylic paints. The background stamp is by Kaisercraft, I don't know who made the stamp on the edge.
I used the Sizzix Tattered Florals die for the flower and put a piece of corrugated card behind it so that the flower wouldn't disappear into the background. I also put some Stickles onto the petals. I added the PaperArtsy sentiment.

Bird Deco Pages

The 2014 deco book swap is well under way at KCUK - these are the pages that I made for Sandra, the theme for her book is Birds.

I used a Gelli background.
I stamped some images on the background and stamped the duck image onto card and cut it out then matted it onto some black card, I did the same with the sentiment. For the embellishment I painted a wooden bird and stamped on it.

I used the following stamps
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Stampers Anonymous for the flying birds.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
Time To Stamp for the sentiment.

I stamped some music notes onto a Gelli background and added a Martha Stewart birds on a wire die cut. I stamped the main image and sentiment and matted them onto black card.

The stamps that I used are.
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Everything else was stamped withTJ Design stamps.

Tim's Tags or 2014 - March

Here is my March tag for the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014.
I think I only had the tissue tape, staples and Distress ink that Tim used and had to make do with supplies from my stash.

I tried to keep it as close to Tim's as possible using the following stamps.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
TJ Designs for the nest.
Time To Stamp for the Egg.
Hero Arts for the feather.

I'm linking my tag to the A Vintage Journey - Anything Tim Challenge

A Vintage Journey - Anything Tim

I've made this tag for the the first challenge at A Vintage Journey, the theme is Anything Tim.

I started by cutting a tag from a piece of blue card that had been embossed with cogs. I coloured the raised edges with a vintage photo distress ink pad and sprayed it with water. I coloured some card with stormy sky and stamped the image then I cut it out. I edged the tag with stormy sky and added some tissue tape to the top and bottom of the tag. I coloured a die cut edge with Treasure Brass and attached it to the bottom of the tag. I coloured some chain, screw brads and watch charm with some Treasure Brass to make them the same colour and attached them to the tag, I also added the image, word, staples and some ribbon.

Supplies
Stampers Anonymous - Time Traveller stamp set.
Katzelkraft - Masculin stamp.
Sizzix - Vintage Lace die.
Stormy sky and vintage photo Distress ink.
Treasure Brass

Transport

Another fortnight has passed and it is time for a new Craft-Room Challenge. We had some wonderful 20th century entries and I don't envy Zoe having to choose her top three.

The lovely Suzanne has has chosen the latest theme but sadly she has had to step down from the team for personal reasons. We are all very sad but understand how things are for her and hope there are good things to come to her very soon. As challenges are planned in advance we are using the theme set by Suzanne.

TRANSPORT

We'd love to see any form of travel that gets us from A to B: 
from bicycles to hot air balloons to ships!

Our sponsors are Crafty Individuals

It was my son's birthday yesterday, he was 26, I decided to combine his birthday and the challenge together, this is the card that I made.

I coloured a card blank and a piece of white card with faded jeans Distress ink and stamped the train [Katzelkraft stamp] on the card. I wrapped some ribbon around a piece of Tim Holtz kraft resist paper and attached it to the card with some screw brads. I wrapped a piece of wire round the image and adhered it to the card.

The 20th Century

Another fortnight has gone by and it's time for another Craft-Room Challenge, it's Zoe's turn to choose the theme and she has chosen The 20th Century.

Here is what she has to say about the challenge.

For this challenge I thought we might look back to the last century.   Enough time has passed since 2000 for the edges to have blurred and softened, so we have 100 years of events; fashion, memories and history to draw on.    Your project can be anything at all that is clearly and distinctly 20th Century in inspiration.    Little reminder here Steampunk is Victorian in style and that is 19th Century so a Steampunk character will not qualify, we are looking here for echo's of the 20th Century.   Please tell us how your have been inspired for your project.

Our sponsors for this challenge are: Tando Creative. One lucky winner drawn at random will get a surprise parcel from Di the owner.

I wasn't sure what to do for my DT piece as there is a lot of material to choose from, in the end I chose the Swinging Sixties, I was a teenager in the sixties and have lots of happy memories, the music and fashions were fabulous. I remember flower power, the ban the bomb marches and I love the bright colours of pop art.

For my DT piece I've done a journal page, I used felt tips to colour it in.

The rest of the DT have made some lovley samples, they would love you all to visit the Craft-Room to take a look.

Faces ATCs

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good weekend.

I'd like to share with you some ATCs that I've made for the Paperplay ATC swap.

The ATCs were made with Gelli backgrounds and I stamped some script [PaperArtsy] with Brilliance moonlight white. I stamped the faces [La Blanche stamps] onto tissue paper and used white ink on the back before adhering them to the ATCs, I then went round the edges with some guilding flakes. The Joy sentiment is Chocolate Baroque and the others are Creative Expressions.

A Simple Card For A Man

This is the card that I made for my nephew, it was a very quick and easy card to make.

The background stamp was stamped straight onto the card blank. I stamped the image onto white card, then I cut it out and matted it onto black card.
The stamps are Woodware and the ink I used was Marvy shades of blue Blending Blox.

Jigsaw Tag

The theme for the February KCUK tag swap is anything goes but there must be a jigsaw piece on the tag.

I made the tag from one of the backgrounds that I'd made some time ago.
I stamped the crowns onto some tissue paper and adhered it to the tag.
I painted the jigsaw piece with gesso and then coloured it with Distress ink, then I gave it three coats of clear UTEE and adhered it to the tag then I added the sentiment.
The stamps I used are PaperArtsy/Lynne Perrella and the sentiment is a Wendy Vecchi stamp

Craft-Room Colour Challenge

It's Ambers turn to choose the latest theme for the Craft-Room Challenge, she has chosen a colour challenge and has provided the lovely picture below with the colours that are to be used.

                                                 

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful Stamp Addicts.  Click on the link to see all of the amazing stamping products they have available.

This is my DT card.

Last week I spent a lovely crafty day at my friend Alisons, we played with our Portfolio  oil pastels. I used them to colour  the background of my card together with a mask and a baby wipe. I stamped some script and then matted it onto some black card. I used felt tips to colour the Hero Arts flower stamp and then matted the image onto black card. The sentiment is a Darkroom Door stamp.
Helen Chilton has an article in January's Craft Stamper using Gelatos for the same technique.

The rest of the DT have made some beautiful samples and they would love you to visit the Craft-Room to take a look.

Twelve Tags of 2014 - February

Before I show you my take on Tims February Tag I'd like to thank you all for the congratulations that you sent me on being one of January's winners, I was thrilled to bits when I saw my name on the list - and still am.

Again I didn't have all the bits that Tim used.

I used wild honey and victorian velvet Distress stain for the background and sponged worn lipstick and fired brick Distress ink through the rays mask before embossing it with clear powder. I edged the tag with victorian velvet but wished I'd used a darker colour.

I used red card to die cut umbrella man and gave him two thick layers of fired brick Distress Stickles.

I have no white chalk so for the sentiment I scribbled my picket fence Distress Marker onto the stamp [Stampers Anonymous] and quickly stamped it onto black card, then I matted it onto white card.

I used gold miri card and the Sizzlits vintage lace die for the border at the bottom.

I added a cog, arrow and some sari ribbon.

Sing Bird Sing

The first challenge at KCUK this month is to use book/dictionary pages, here is the card that I made.

I adhered a piece of book page to a card blank and then sponged peacock feathers Distress ink over it. I then distressed the edges of a piece of scrap paper that was used to clean my brayer after playing with my Gelli plate. I stamped the image [The Artistic Stamper] onto a book page, tore the edges and adhered it onto some torn black card. The bow was made with a piece of seam binding that I 'd dyed with peacock feathers and the chipboard bird was embossed with aged aqua Frantage powder.

I'm entering my card into The Artistic Stamper February challenge - Use Distress.

Bird Tag

I'd like to share with you today the second tag that I made for the Paperplay January tag swap.

I used one of my Gelli prints for the background and stamped the flying birds [Stampers Anonymous], the bird flourish [Chocolate Baroque] and the birdcage [Kaisercraft]. I put black soot Distress ink round the edge. I used the Sizzix Alterations bird branch die for the die cut, I coloured it with walnut stain and then cut the bird of the branch, this was so that I could stand the branch upright, I covered the bird with orange stickles and adhered it to the tag, then I added the sentiment [Creative Expressions].

Inchie - Chocolate

The theme for this weeks challenge at Every Inchie Monday is chocolate.

For my inchie I've quilled some tiny chocolates, they were really fiddly to do.

My favourite chocolate is the one that comes in the purple wrapper so I used some purple mirri card for my inchie

Here is a side view of my inchie and below is a photo with a ruler to show the size.