Monthly Archives: August 2009

Faux dichroic glass pendant

faux dichroic glass, jewellery, pendant

 

seaGlassPendant

My first attempt at faux dichroic glass! In the Craft stamper magazine (Feb 2009) there is a fabulous tutorial for this technique by Sid which I more or less followed. I don’t have a melt pot (yet) so I had to improvise with a craft iron turned upside down and a small Teflon coated dish from an old Raclette machine. It worked up-to-a-point but I also needed a heat gun to completely melt the UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel). I only had one piece of sea washed glass from the local beach and it wasn’t totally flat but it made a good practice piece.

Materials used:
sea washed glass
UTEE clear and also coloured with raspberry alcohol ink
Tonertex foil swirly multicoloured
silver foiling flakes
chain and aanraku bail
raspberry alcohol ink

Y for year tag

tag, tags, ukstampers challenge No. 53

year

I simply couldn’t get a photo of this tag that was just right and that didn’t have the shine from the acetate. This is my ‘Y’ for year tag for the ukstampers weekly challenge. The words read ‘ one limb’ and ‘one year’.

Inks: Distress inks; mustard seed, spiced marmalade, weathered wood and peeled paint, Adirondack woodland, Versafine onyx black, Memento rhubarb stalk, Stampin up; certainly celery, mellow moss and pale plum, Colorbox fluid chalk ink ice blue
Card: white card, acetate
Stamps: Papertrey ink Out on a limb vol 1, Lavinia stamps birds, R.S Tapestry clear Nature plate 5 and a small ivy leaves stamp
Other: eyelet, stickles; frosted lace, yellow, cotton candy and lime green, red gelly glaze pen, glitter pen, snowflakes glitter, glossy accents to adhere the acetate

Have a beer card.

beer, card, Mark
mark50
Happy Birthday Mark

I made this to go with his present of a case of British beers so all the makes of beer he will get in the case are printed on the card. The greeting is stamped then punched out and stuck to the inside of a squashed bottle cap. The tag was made using a stamped image from DewDrop Craftz and coloured with copic pens.

Inks: black, Distress ink walnut stain, Adirondack woodlands
Card: white card, brown card
Stamps: DewDrop craftz Jim – just chillin, Stampin up circle greeting
Other: Bottle cap, grosgrain ribbon, Distress stickles vintage photo (stuck the greeting into the bottle cap with this so you just see it behind the greeting)

M for mystical tag

mystical, tag, tags, ukstampers Sunday challenge No. 52

mystical
This weeks ukstampers tag theme was M for mystical. The idea here is the mysterious carved figure in the tree and the ghostly figure of the lady emerging from the boggy water.

I adore our highland landscapes and forests and while on holiday in Aviemore we found a fabulous trail through some beautiful woodlands in Feshiebridge where Frank Bruce has created sculptures in trees and stone. We took loads of photos and this one in the tag is called The Thinker and is set at the edge of a boggy pool in amongst the trees and moss.

Inks: Brilliance platinum planet (overstamped with black document ink), Distress inks; milled lavender, peeled paint and weathered wood, Stazon black and cactus green
Card: white card
Stamps: Non sequitur Grave tidings, Tapestry stamps tiny dragonfly
Other: McGill pine branch punch, Distress stickles peeled paint, glitter pens, eyelet, piece of mica
I overstamped the ghost lady so she looks like she has a shadow but she is still quite see-through. I then stamped her onto scrap card, cut out her face and hand and stuck these to the tag. The mica is stamped with black stazon and edged with cactus green. The branches are coloured with peeled Distress ink and stickles (peeled paint). There is also a tiny dragonfly stamped about half way down the sculpture but it doesn’t show up well.

ATC swap using a recipe

ATC, craftsbycarolyn swap, vellum

I am hosting the August ATC swap for craftsbycarolyn and for a wee change I decided to use a recipe (items to include). Make two ATCs using any theme, any colour, any material but they must include:

  • vellum
  • fibre (wool, raffia, thread etc)
  • at least one eyelet (or brad)
  • and both ATCs must look different (either colour, layout, etc)

Here are my two

friendsVellum
I love the flock vellum on this one so I used it to make a cover that can close using a button and a loop of white fluffy wool. The little flowers on the inside were cut from the vellum and stuck over the leaves.

 

histogram

When I started cutting the stripy vellum it looked a little like a histogram so I took the idea a little further by adding the eyelets and joining them up with red darning wool.

Inks: Stampin up mellow moss, Distress ink peeled paint
Card: White card, stripy vellum, flock vellum floral
Stamps: Magenta leaf, Stampin up friend to friend, Dovecraft fantasy emblems flourish
Other: eyelets, clear button coloured with alcohol ink, white fluffy wool, red darning wool, letters (X and Y) from Cosmo cricket, stickles, tiny leaf beads

 

ATC swap theme – yellow and orange Moos

ATC, Moo, ukstampers August swap
The August ukstampers ATC swap theme is that it must have a Moo which has been coloured yellow and orange. A Moo is a piece of work measuring 2.8cm x 7cm which can be any theme and any material.
holeyMoo2
The idea behind this one is a beautiful, if rather tattered, moth emerging from the moth-eaten cloth.
patchMoo
 This little Moo depicts patchwork on jeans.
sunsetMoo
In real life this one looks a little brighter. Tegan gave me the idea of a sunset or sunrise so this one is a sunset over trees.
Inks: Adirondack stonewashed, Distress inks dried marigold and mustard seed, Stazon black and cactus green, Brilliance pearlescent orange
Card: white and black card, orange vellum
Stamps: Stampers anonymous mini muse and fairytale frenzy, Papertreyink out on a limb, Lavinia stamps birds, Arts encaustic trees
Other: cloth butterfly, snaps, clear circle dome, glitter pens and stickles

Tegan and Connell’s weekend

bottle caps, Connell, tags, Tegan

We all had a fabulous weekend, despite all the bad weather, when our great friends came up for a holiday.
Tegan (age 11) and Connell (age 9) made some wonderful tags, bottle caps and scrapbooks.

TegansWorkTegan’s work

 

ConnellsWork

Connell’s work

Inks: Distress inks in a variety of colours, black document ink, Brilliance dew drop inks,
Card: white card, luggage tags, Cosmo cricket tag book, black card, tartan paper
Stamps: Stampin up friendship, Non sequitur oriental, The artistic stamper Ephemera, Paper artsy, Dovecraft fantasy fairies.
Other: Bottle caps, eyelets, stickles, ribbon, images from magazines, washers, oriental coin, and lots of imagination and creativity.

Zoo tag

tag, tags, ukstampers challenge, zoo

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Here is my entry for this weeks ukstampers challenge – Z for Zoo.
There is an acetate overlay on this which would not lay flat when I was trying to photograph it so it looks like there is a gap at the right. Also you can’t really see the shimmer – I used a glitter pen on some of the icicles and snow then using an aqua brush just swished over to make bits glisten. The words read ‘who’s watching who at the zoo?’. The icicles and slide are drawn in.

Inks: Black document ink, copic pens to colour
Card: white card, acetate
Stamps: Tanda stamps penguin set 1
Other: silver eyelet, glitter pen

G for graffiti tag

graffiti, Sunday challenge no 50, tag, tags

Graffiti

My tag for the ukstampers Sunday challenge No. 50 is meant to look the gable end of a house that has been white washed then painted in graffiti.

I painted some card with picket fence crackle paint first then typed the word graffiti using Larabie font Degrassi then transferred the letters individually by rubbing pencil on the back then tracing over them. I did the same sort of thing with the word good/evil. Art was stamped with crimson acrylic paint. I masked some bits of the tag then sprayed with neon yellow then stamped embrace imperfection with black document ink. I added more black dribbles with black marker pen. Using highlighter pens and neon pens I coloured the letters and hand drawn star burst. The roof is just white card and terracotta card.

Inks/paints: black document ink, crimson acrylic paint, crackle paint picket fence, neon pens, black marker pen, neon yellow spray paint
Card: white and terracotta card
Stamps: Elusive images Diamond art, Stampers anonymous Mini muse
Other: hole reinforcer