Monthly Archives: June 2009

Picking apples card

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Happy Birthday Ruth

I loved Kim Costello’s card in the Craft Stamper magazine June 09 issue so I have used the same overall design for Ruth’s card, but incorporated different colours, stamps and papers.

Inks: black document inks, Distress inks; antique linen, frayed burlap and worn lipstick. To colour image; copics and water colour pencils.
Card: hammered cream card, watercolour paper, Cosmo cricket, Bo-bunny.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie picking apples, The Artistic stamper stitchels dashy dots (flowers), Dovecraft Fantasy emblems (flourishes)
Other: buttons, pearls, charm, paper lace, glitter pen

Bling ATCs

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Here are my 3 ATCs for the ukstampers June challenge with the theme of bling. I may have over-blinged the chandeliers as it was difficult to photograph with all that sparkle.

Chandeliers ATC: black card, silver embossing, Inkadinkado chandeliers stamps, silver stickles and a little crystal glitter, gems, glaze, silver foil tape.

Pink bling: ivory card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, stickles, gold leaf, gems tiny beads and sequins, H2Os, glimmer mist and salt.

Bling dragonfly: black card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, mini beads and sequins, gold webbing spray, H2Os, shell laminate, glaze.

Tattered silken wings tag

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What can I say – it looks better in real life! I am so rubbish at taking photographs! I would love to be able to capture an image just as I see it. I made this tag as part of the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this weeks letter is ‘W’ for wings.

Inks: embossing ink with gold embossing powder, white stayzon, green pen
Card: ivory card with a wash of H2O cherry sorbet and Glitz spritz desert moon antique rose sprinkled with flaked salt, green vellum with computer generated words embossed in gold
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Fairytale frenzy (tattered butterfly), Inkadinkado morphic bugs
Other: Stickles; fruit punch, copper and lime green, gold letter ‘W’, butterfly made from Angelina fusible fibres gold iris, and Fantasy film passionate pink, gems, wire, eyelet, reg/gold leaf, gold pilot pen for the splatters

Samurai warrior card

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Happy Birthday Chris!

This warrior card is for Chris (my wee brover) and the colours are quite dark and gloomy to co-ordinate with his new DVDs (Ran and Kagemusha).

Inks: Archival coffee, Distress ink black soot and weathered wood, Adirondack denim, Stazon pine, Brilliance rocket red
Card: glossy white, black, red
Stamps: Non sequitur samurai sheet and Oriental love letters sheet
Other: Acrylic paint; back and red, coin, tassel, calligraphy sticker, gold pilot pen, black detail pen, lollipop stick to apply paint streaks, brayer