Monthly Archives: February 2010

Printer’s drawer project

24/02/2010printer's drawer, projectJackie

Well now I think this project will keep me busy for a while!
My very kind and dear friends John and Lizzie gave me this printer’s drawer that they found while on holiday to do with what ever I please. I will have to give it a bit of a clean up to get some of the old paint, oil and metal dust off first. I am still undecided if I want to keep all the spaces as they are or to cut out some of them to make slightly larger areas. Decision making has never been my strong point.
I will keep you posted on how I get on with this one.

CBC swap ATCs – postal theme

24/02/2010ATC, CBC swap, postalJackie

Here are my two swaps for the CBC ATC swap for February. I picked the theme as I am hosting it so I chose ‘Postal’. I made the first one to look like a small bundle of manilla letters wrapped in string with a shrink plastic label saying urgent.
The second one is vellum with images of letters on it stamped with the phrase ‘spoken words fly away but written words last forever’. This was layered onto Basildon Bond paper which I had highlighted the watermark and tinted slightly. The addition of the feather (quill) also ties in with the words ‘fly away’.

Inks: black document ink, Distress ink Tea dye, Archival ink Coffee, Stazon Red
Card: brown paper, printed vellum, Basildon bond writing paper
Stamps: The Artistic Stamper Ephemera, Phrase stamp unknown origin
Other: stamp image, string, shrink plastic, feather (owl?)

Valentine card

17/02/2010card, valentine cardJackie

Well now I am not really a Valentine-kinda-gal but I always make a card for Harry. He bought me the stamp set so I had no excuses really. The card says it all!
He hasn’t realised it is a fridge magnet yet!!!

Inks: black document ink, Memento Rhubarb stalk
Card: white card, 7 gypsies Karma paper
Stamps: O-check design graphics Love set ver.2
Other: heart shaped fridge magnet, organza ribbon

Tegan’s birthday tag

17/02/2010black and white, Oriental, tag, tags, TeganJackie

I have been rather busy and am just catching up with posting my crafty makes here so I hope you had a fantastic birthday Tegan! I made her a tag for her growing collection and I love this little Japanese girl stamp.

Inks: black document ink
Card: white and black
Stamps: Hero Arts four dolls, Judikins bamboo, Dorrie doodle Oriental cherry blossoms
Other: heart brad, lucky rabbit sticker and tiny flower sticker, glitter pen, black tassel

Hello butterfly scrapbook page

12/02/2010butterfly, Irene Tan, scrapbook, scrapbook page, scraplift, scrapperliciousJackie

Irene Tan has very kindly given her permission for us to use her beautiful scrapbook page to scraplift for our crop’s February scraplift challenge over at ukscrappers. Check out her fabulous blog – she is very talented and shares her ideas and tutorials. You will find this original page under 100%concentration in October 2009 with her description of how she put it all together.

I love all of this page: the colours, the layout, the bling, the photo…..all of it! I kept the colours and some of the general layout, I used mostly stamps rather than rub-ons (only 1 rub-on in the corner of my photo), I used some bling and butterflies, added one bloom but left out the lace and some of the smaller flowers and I didn’t rip my photo.
Here is my scraplift version- Ceara has just had a butterfly land on her nose!
The other butterflies were made using the napkin technique onto acetate and cut out which means they maintain a fragile look and you can see the colour of the background through them.

Hello butterfly (my scraplift version of Irene Tan’s page)

Inks: Distress inks: shabby shutters, peeled paint, scattered straw, black soot and vintage photo, Black document ink
Paper: Magenta Printemps passion collection – Robins nest, K&co Toscana swirls embossed vellum, 7 gypsies Karma, black vellum (punched fern), acetate, napkin
Stamps: Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet), Venaissance Llewelyn-Bowen, Basic grey Flourish corners, Inkadinkado Hello hummingbird, Aspects of Design Butterfly, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry
Other: flat backed pearls, paper blooms, pieces from old ear rings, BoBunny Bella Journee corner rub-on, clear zoomz

ukstampers March ATC swap

08/02/2010arch, ATC, ukstampersJackie

We are doing the ukstampers March swap a little early and the theme this time is rip and tear (basically distressing) so for two of my ATCs I have used ripped tissue paper and ripped napkin and the 3rd one uses distressed embossing powder for the tiny frame. We also had to make an arch to swap. I have never made an arch before so this is my first attempt. I spent ages on it and am quite pleased with the result so I hope the recipient likes it as much as I do.

Inks: Distress inks shabby shutters, peeled paint and mustard seed, black document ink
Card: white card, tissue paper
Stamps: free memories stamps from craft stamper mag, Elusive images Diamond art, Stampers anonymous mini muse
Other: white rub-on Family, melted UTEE tinted green, mod podge, cut out text

Inks: black document ink, distress ink scattered straw
Card: white, napkin
Stamps: Stampin up Sanded background, StudioG small alphabet
Other: mod podge, glossy accents

Inks: Distress inks Frayed burlap, Scattered straw and vintage photo, black document ink, versamark with gold and distress vintage photo embossing powders
Card: white
Stamps: Paperartsy wings plate 4 and man of numbers plate 5, Llewelyn-Bowen Venaissance
Other: glossy accents, tiny flower sticker, red krylon shimmer leafing pen, water colour pencils, glitter pen

Inks: black document ink, Distress inks Frayed burlap, antique linen and vintage photo, versamark with gold embossing powder
Card: White, black
Stamps: Alice in wonderland (unknown), Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet, Basic Grey flourish corners
Other: beads, copper chain, gold and copper brads, glossy accents, clear circle domes, zip pull, gold trim stained with copper alcohol ink, copics to colour, copper pen

ATC swap Moody Blues

04/02/2010ATC, moody blues, twinchie, ukstampers swapJackie

The ukstampers ATC swap for this month is Moddy Blues theme so basically anything blue plus a twinchie with any theme. I have kept my twinchie to the same blue theme.
Inks: Alcohol inks Stream, stonewashed and sailboat blue
Card: silver mirror card
Other: glossy accents, nail art micro bits, cuttlebug embossing folder

Inks: Alcohol inks Stream, stonewashed and sail boat blue, black stazon
Card: silver mirror card, aluminium foil tape
Stamps: Inkadinkado Patterned pets
Other: black and blue acrylic paint, stickles, netting, glossy accents, cuttlebug embossing folders

Inks: Alcohol inks stream, stonewashed and sailboat blue, black document ink, distress inks broken china, black soot and faded jeans
Card: silver mirror card, black, white
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo Patterned pets, Autumn leaves on the edge (Katie Pertiet)
Other: black netting as resist, glossy accents, pencils to colour, stickles and silver pen, cuttlebug embossing folders

Inks: Alcohol inks stream, stonewashed and sailboat blue, black stazon
Card: silver mirror card, black, acetate
Stamps: Celtic (unknown)
Other: black and blue acrylic paint, stickles, metal leaf flakes oxidising black, cuttlebug embossing folders

Week3 ukstampers tag challenge

03/02/2010challenge, tag, tags, ukstampers, week3Jackie

Week 3 on ukstampers challenge asks for a tag incorporating a floral stamped image, buttons and some text.
Here is my effort using watercolour paper this week and another form of resist.

Inks: Black document ink, sprays: Chroma jewels Amber, Glitz spritz Desert moon antique rose, Glimmer mist Cherry limeade
Card: thick watercolour paper, computer paper
Stamps: Stamps Happen Magnolia (Julia Hawkins)
Other: tan button, 3 tiny burgundy buttons, water colour pencils to colour, Tim Holtz flourish mask, Distress stickles rock candy (over the computer generated text), eyelet

Week 2 ukstampers tag challenge

03/02/2010CBC challenge, tag, tags, ukstampers, week2Jackie

This tag is for last weeks challenge and for this one I had to include any stamped image, glitter and buttons. As you can see I made it all about buttons and I stamped the background on glossy card using the resist technique then for the individual buttons: they were stamped on acetate and glitter added to to the back.

Inks: Black Stazon, versamark, Big and juicy Hydrangea
Card: glossy white, acetate
Stamps: free buttons stamp from craft stamper mag ages ago, Technique Tuesday Hanging by a thread
Other: variegated thread, scissors brad, glitter, brayer

A few cards for men.

01/02/2010card, menJackie

This month I have half a dozen birthday cards to make and four of them are for men – why is is that I find designing cards for men is so much more difficult than for women?

Inks: Black document ink, Distress inks Antique linen and black soot
Card: Black, white
Stamps: Stampin up Sense of time, Seeing spots and Curvy verses, Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet), Clarity stamps clever corner Delicate
Other: circle domed bubble, Stampin up hardware

Inks: Stampin up Old olive and Pumpkin pie
Card: Stampin up paper Summer picnic, white card
Stamps: Design house Deco A glimpse & a rose in the hand (greeting), Llewelyn-Bowen Vernaissance
Other: memory chips (metal parts coloured with Sunset orange alcohol ink)

Inks: Black document ink to go around the edges
Card: Black, white, silver and red mirror card, acetate, gingham paper
Other: red and silver brads
The greeting was printed out and the compass was an image from the internet printed onto acetate. All the parts move so you can turn the compass dial around the silver brad and you can turn the whole compass to reveal the greeting. Photo doesn’t show up the shiny dial very well.

Inks: Archival Coffee, Distress ink Walnut stain
Card: Natural brown card, beige card
Stamps: Stampin up Sense of time, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry, Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet)
Other: Tim Holtz mask Timeworks, brad and cog

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