Monthly Archives: April 2009

Drastic Fantastic

Bo-Bunny, Kt Tunstall, scrapbook, scrapbook page, stampers anonymous, stampin up, ticket

drasticFantasticKT

It was October 2007 when Harry and I saw KT Tunstall live at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh and yes she was FANTASTIC! I wanted to make a scrapbook page using my concert ticket , the CD cover (inside) and a few photos. I am hopeless at taking photos at these kind of events so I had to go on the scrounge. Many thanks to Martyn who very kindly gave me permission to use a few of his fabulous KT photos.
As I am setting this week CBC challenge – the theme is ‘just the ticket’ so pop in and join in with the challenge.

Inks: Distress inks fired brick and peeled paint
Card: Bo-Bunny’s back to backs My darling blooms and Ella precocious, scan of CD cover, white
Stamps: Elusive images Funky doodles fresh
Other: Tim Holtz hinged clip and grunge board flourish, stickles, domed embellishment, concert ticket and photos

 

birthdayTicket

I also made this card as another idea for using a ticket. This card is for Stuart who will be 12 years old in a couple of weeks. The ticket is one from Carolyn’s downloads (I tweaked it a little but kept the overall design) .

Inks: Distress ink fired brick, Versafine onyx black
Card: Bo-Bunny Ella precocious, white, black
Stamps: Stampin up backgound canvas, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry
Other: ticket, black brads

Poor Pandas ATCs

ATC, zoo

zooPoorPandas
These two ATCs were made for the CBC swap hosted by Ellen this month. The theme was zoo so I chose to do Pandas behind bamboo bars. The bars were stamped on acetate behind which is panda paper. The same paper was used inside the bottle caps.

Inks: Brilliance black, copics to give a slight colour to the bars
Card: white covered with panda paper, acetate
Stamps: Non-sequitur oriental collage elments (52C) bamboo screen
Other: bottle caps, green stickles, glossy accents

Out and about card

artistic stamper, card, out and about, papertreyink, stampin up

bluePickUpCallum09

Happy Birthday Callum
17 today – Callum can now get out and about in his car and take some driving lessons.

Inks: black document ink, copics to colour
Card: white, blue, DCWV Pocket full of posies matstack
Stamps: Stampin up loads of love and accessories, Basic grey flourish corners, The artistic stamper the open road, Papertreyink out on a limb (original set) birthday wishes
Other: stampin up tag and scallop punch, stripy ribbon

 

I LOVE my jeans card

artistic stamper, card, CBC challenge, craftsbycarolyn, denim, jean therapy, stitchels

loveMyJeans

I made this card for Joannes Jean therapy challenge at CBC. The real denim is the background strip and the tiny bit on the tag.

Inks: Adirondack earthtones stonewashed and denim, distress ink weathered wood, colorbox fluid chalk ink tangerine
Card: white
Stamps: denim background (unknown), stitchels dashy dot flower, free tag stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: red stickles, brad, computer generated greeting (smashedSF by fontographer)

King of all the faeries

Scottish border stamping, tag, tags, tapestry stamps, uk stampers challenge 36

KingOfFaeries
My tag for the ukstampers challenge No.36 – ‘K’ for king features Finnbheara, who is King of all the faeries. The wording is on acetate which gives the slight shadow effect to the text. Some of my first ever stamps were bought from Scottish border Stamping and they very kindly sent me Finnbheara as a free gift. I haven’t had any ideas on how to use him until now so this is his first outing.

Inks: Versamark onyx black, Tim Holtz distress ink; dried marigold, tea dye, peeled paint, mustard seed, and frayed burlap, Adirondack woodlands, Marvy pens and pearlex to colour
Card: white card, acetate
Stamps: Scottish border stamping Finnbheara, selection of tapestry stamps
Other: grunge board minis (K), distress stickles peeled paint, eyelet

Rust Lives tag

bottle caps, stampers anonymous urban tapestry, tag, Tim Holtz

rustLives
I had a few ideas for this tag and it was hard to choose which one to do. I started off thinking Dumpy’s rusty nuts (it is a band – Honest) then went on to Rust never sleeps (Neil Young), then Live rust (Neil Young) which gave rise to Rust Lives. I thought this was apt as rust does grow and spread a bit like an infection until it has devoured it’s host. I had tried to rust some steel wool which normally rusts in the blink of an eye but when you need it rusty it just doesn’t happen. Harry then tried to help me find some rusty objects and gave me a rusty beer can, but that just disintegrated when I tried to cut it. Then, while out for a run in the car the other day Harry spotted a piece of rusty metal by the side of the road so we brought it home with us but I couldn’t think how I was going to cut it into usable pieces as it was quite large and thick. I finally did use that piece of rusty metal but just as a photo (much easier than cutting it).
Inks: Tim Holtz distress ink black soot, fired brick, dried marigold, and Versamark with Tim Holtz Distress powder vintage photo, Alcohol ink Rust
Card: glossy photo
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry (corner and side splatters down the side) Other: Tim Holtz stencils type, squashed bottle cap, stampin up eyelet, glossy accents

a sheer mess

All night media, bottle caps, scrapbook, scrapbook page, sheer mess, stampers anonymous, Tim Holtz

mintWithaHole

I was going to be making a card for Carolyn’s challenge ‘sheer elegance’ using some sheer ribbon but Chiquo decided to go for a dig this morning! Harry had been digging the mint out that had started to spread and I hadn’t quite got around to putting the green plastic netting over the nicely raked surface so Chiquo decided to have a dig and the mud went everywhere!

This gives a new meaning to ‘the mint with a hole’. Chiquo is in the dog house now!

Inks: Archival coffee, versamark with Tim Holtz distress embossing powder weather-worn
Card: Stampin up green and brown textured, plain white, glossy photo
Stamps: All night media paw print (actually a cat’s paw print), Stampers anonymous Tim Holtz Urban tapestry corner
Other: bottle tops, sheer brown ribbon, stampin up brown gros-grain ribbon, white brads, images inside the bottle caps are from Twopeas DW bow wow

Happy geocaching Harry

card, geocaching

HarryGeocaching09

And here is Harry’s card. His new hobby is geocaching so guess what he received for his birthday!

Ink: black document ink and copics to colour
Card: white
Stamp: Stampin up round happy birthday
Other: image from web, map paper, squashed bottle cap, glaze, writing printed on acetate, letter h

Walk together frame

frame, Papertrey Ink, resurection embossing
walkTogetherFrame
Happy Birthday Harry!

After having a look at the resurrection embossing technique at Papertrey Ink Design Team blog I was inspired to make this frame for Harry. This frame had a coating on it and even after sanding the resurrection embossing technique wouldn’t quite work on it, but I like the effect I got just using white embossing powder and sanding it down a little before I painted the frame.

Inks: black document, Versamark with white embossing powder,
Paint: Fired earth better class red, Ancient world papyrus
Stamps: Stampin up pocket silhouettes, unknown bamboo, Lavinia stamps, Aspects of design Rambling 1 (proverb)
Other: Glossy accents crackle glaze, dog charm and chain, brads, rivet

Astral tag

astral, inkadinkado, stampers anonymous, tag, tags, Tim Holtz

Astral

Here is my first tag for the ukstampers challenge 34 – we are doing A-Z tags.

Inks: black document ink, Tim Holtz distress inks; weathered wood, mustard seed, dried marigold, black soot, variety of copics, gelly roll sparkly pens, bleach
Card: white
Stamps: Stampers anonymous urban tapestry, Inkadinkado zodiac, Anna Griffin alphabet
Other: Tim Holtz mask flourish, monogram stencil to dry emboss the capital a, sun charm, stampin up eyelet, sequin waste