Monthly Archives: May 2010

Windowbox (country window) birthday card

birthday card, card, country window, flower-soft, window box

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It will soon be Harry’s mum’s birthday so I have made her this window box card full of colourful flowers. I did find it a little tricky to mask all the right bits but I got there in the end. To make it a little touchy-feely I added some flower-soft and distress stickles to some of the plants and corners. Thanks for the link Pauline – this is my first effort with the stamps.

Inks: Black document ink, Stampin up Old olive, Adirondack Lettuce
Card: white card, pale pinky/lilac card
Stamps: Flower-soft Country window, Stampin up Oval all (greeting from Papertreyink Out on a limb sentiments), Elusive images Spring (corners), a couple of leafy stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry
Other: I drew in the curtains, watercolour pencils, stickles, flower-soft (heather mix I think).

Mucha ATCs for CBC swap May

ATC, mucha

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The ATC swap for May over at CBC is the letter ‘M’ so I have chosen Mucha. Here are topaz and amethyst (from his precious stones and flowers prints).

Note to self: it is very difficult to glue the acetate on top of something that you have put distress stickles on, even with diamond glaze!

Inks: Brilliance graphite black, Stazon black
Card: ivory card, acetate to overlay
Stamps: Mucha stamps (can’t remember who does them), Technique Tuesday Borderline – Bijou borders
Other: water colour pencils, Distress stickles Rock candy and antique linen, Diamond glaze, gems, Adirondack butterscotch colour wash, Glimmer mist cherry limeade, Cosmic shimmer mist angel mist

April scraplift

Autumn, scrapbook page, scraplift

Faith chose the April scrap page for our crop’s scraplift, with kind permission from Glitterola over at UKscrappers.

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I kept the general placement of the photo, the distressed edges to both background layers, my swirls are beads on wire, under the photo are 3 skeleton leaves with gold leaf behind them, the maple leaf is a real maple leaf encased in some kind of resin (fridge magnet).
I started by spraying the More mustard layer with the sprays and sponged on some mustard seed then splattered with more colour. I distressed the edges and added the brown colours to the back and curled the over. The photo is actually a photocopy of a picture I had cut out from a magazine of branches hanging over a pond. I coloured the leaf beads (which were pale green) using copic pens and placed some behind the photo and some along the front aligned with the branches on the photo. Stuck everything on then stamped the word Fall over the leaves and layered this page onto the black card which I had distressed the edges already.

Inks: Memento black, Colour washes Terracotta and Pesto, made a spray with Magenta ink, Distress ink Walnut stain , Vintage photo and Mustard seed
Card: Stampin up black card and More Mustard card
Stamps: Tim Holtz foam alphabet stamps
Other: skeleton leaves, gold leaf, gold alphabet brads, fridge magnet leaf, Magnolia beads on wire sprays coloured with copic pens