Here is my take on the UK stampers challenge No. 24: postcard theme – Australia. The stamped bits include the background grape vine, the little leaves and grapes over the edge of the photo and also on the wine label to cover up the ‘selected by Tesco’.
Inks and colours: Versafine onyx black, Colorbox chalk ink maroon, prismacolor pencils and sansador
Stamps: Aspects of design 6 Nature
Card: white, glossy photo card
In the photo: Australian red wine, glass, garden, Coca Cola the Koala
Two cards I made for friends birthdays (they are brothers and have the same birthday but a year apart) using Clare’s template for the CBCC081 template challenge.
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks black soot and weathered wood, just to smudge around the edges.
Card: DCWV The Far East stack, white, black
Blue skeleton leaves and circles.
Another scrapbook page about our garden. It was also made for the CBC crew challenge ‘stars and stripes’ – the stars are on the 4 silver brads (the photo makes one look like a white brad) and the stripes are ribbon. We were looking after our friends son while they were away and as you can see – he loves the Thunderbirds!
The background paper is from Stampin up’s Summer picnic, and the ribbons are from Cosmo cricket.
I made this card a few days ago for a friend’s birthday using the water colour technique on Tim Holtz blog September 2008 technique challenge
Inks: Adirondack; red pepper, bottle, lettuce, oregano, stream, stonewashed, terra cotta and wild plum, and Archival coffee for the quote
Stamps: Lavinia stamps dandelion, Stampin up Pocket silhouettes and a free dragonfly stamp from craft stamper (I think)
Cards stock: old olive, plain white and scraps of brown paper
The scrap of paper and a beige brad have been coated in embossing ink and distress powder to give a nice texture to the embellishment..
This postcard was made for the ukstampers Sunday challenge No.23; theme The USA. I stamped white card with a denim background stamp and folded the top over to look like a hem, poked holes along to look like a stitch line. The numbers are stamped, coloured then cut out. White glitter was added to the stars (spangled stars – get it?). The logos were found on the Internet and printed out. Two coppery coloured rivets were added as embellishments.
Inks: Adirondack stonewashed and denim, versafine black
Stamps: denim unknown origin, Cute companions patchwork numbers
Card: white cardstock
Other materials: rivets, prisma pencils and sansador
I have just finished these for the CBC ATC swap theme of women. The calligraphy translates to beauty and grace (I think). I made the background papers by spraying colours onto watercolour paper but I made them months ago and now can’t remember which colours I used.
Inks: black document ink
Colour on images: Prisma pencils and neon green and orange pens, highlighted small areas with a gelly roll glitter pen (with aqua brush)
Stamps: Ist Oriental woman stamp (unknown origin), 2nd Oriental woman stamp from non-sequitur – Oriental collage Ellements (52C), and Chinese calligraphy stamp collection from Barbara Aria, Stampin up background stamp ‘sanded’ (for the lines on the first ATC)
Plus a couple of fan stickers.
Today I made these two ATCs for the UKstampers Sunday Challenge No. 22 the theme is Elements: make two ATCs using the same colour palette but different stamps.
I chose the weather element WIND.
Inks: Archival coffee, Adirondack woodlands, ColorBox ice blue chalk ink
Colouration: Prismas; reds, browns, yellows, oranges and greens (and Sansodor)
Stamps: windswept tree silhouette, Fall commuters, nature quote (aspects of design 25 rambling1), small twig and leaves, birds, free leaf stamp
I added a few cut out leaves around the edges of the House mouse one and some small cut out leaves to form a pile in the windswept tree ATC.
So I have finally managed a scrapbook page using the napkin method demoed by Pam (thanks Pam) at the Edinburgh scrappers crop ages ago. Even though I used mat mod podge it is still rather glossy, hence the bright patches in this picture.
Inks: Adirondack woodlands, Archival ink coffee
Stamps: Stampin up pocket silhouettes, Tracy Dutton mushroom stamps from Lavinia stamps
Card stock: stampin up; creamy caramel, chocolate chip, sage shadow
Charms: dragonfly from Crafts by Carolyn, mushroom from ebay
Materials: napkin from a napkin swap, mat mod podge
Take a 3 ply napkin and peel the layer with the image on it from the other 2 layers. Roughly cut out the patterned bits you wish to use and paste mod podge on the areas of your page where you want to put the napkin. Gently lay the napkin on the mod podge and squidge it around to create a little texture. leave it to dry and paste a little more mod podge over it. It goes semi-transparent so you can still see what lies beneath it.
These two tags were made for the UK stampers Sunday challenge No.21. To make two tags on the theme Old and New, use as many stamps as you like but one of them had to be used on both tags.
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks;antique linen, weathered wood, fired brick, black soot, Versafine onyx black, Stazon saddle brown
Stamps: Paperartsy plates 4, 5 and 6,
Materials: tags, new washer and rusty washer, ribbon, sellotape