Monthly Archives: September 2010

Brayered anniversary card

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I made this for my great friends who are having way too much fun in the sun!
This time I left a space at the top corner when I brayered the blues and greens to emulate the suns rays coming through the water.  It was misted with a little water to keep it misty looking and I masked some of the sea weed so the sea horse looks like it is swimming behind it.
Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Stampin up Bashful blue, Mellow moss and Sage shadow, Adirondack Slate and woodlands
Card:  white, black, holographic aqua
Stamps:  Lavinia stamps, Mermaid silhouette, Sea creatures and scene, grasses fro English Stamp Co. Oriental plate 3
Other:  netting, mixed fibres, glitter pen, gen clusters, Bedazzles electric slide, Diamond glaze

Another brayered sympathy card

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This one is quite simply brayed along each corner of the white card then stamped.  It was a little too bright so I then spritzed it with water and a little gold powder (this gives it a misty effect with a very slight golden sheen when tilted).  Ignore the fluffy bits at the top of the olive layer as this just brushes away – which I meant to do before I photographed it.

Inks:  Big and juicy Spice (green end only), Stampin up Mellow moss, Adirondak Woodlands
Card:  white silk card, brown textured, old olive, mellow moss
Stamps:  Lavinia stamps, Rubber tapestry clear, Papertreyink Out on a limb sentiments
Other: Mellow moss ribbon, brown brads

Brayered sympathy card

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 Today I was going to do the next tag challenge over at ukstampers…..then I was going to make a start on some Christmas cards……but I ended up making a sympathy card – how did that happen??   I just couldn’t bring myself to think about Christmas yet, even though I really aught to, and I had just put away all my fabric so I didn’t want to haul it all out again and I don’t know about you, but when I really need a sympathy card my mind goes blank and no ideas are forthcoming.  I will do a few designs over the next few days so I can have a few cards ready when the need arises.  I have made one similar to this one recently but it didn’t feel right to post it on my blog at that time.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Stampin up Bashful blue and Pale plum,Archival Cobalt, Distress ink Black soot
Card:  white, purple, black textured
Stamps:  Stampers anonymous Fairytale frenzy and Urban tapestry, PapertreyInk Out on a limb sentiments
Other:  black organza ribbon, large flower brad

Brayerd birthday card

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A little bit of masking, brayering and resist embossing went into Ross’s card.
The pheasant was stamped first then a cut out mask put over it, the wheat was then stamped and embossed (clear embossing powder), a bit of brayering over the top and bottom, a circle mask was then used for the setting/rising sun and darker brayering over the top.  A few other plants were stamped later.
Inks:  Distress ink Barn door and Mustard seed, Stampin up More mustard, Adirondak Woodland
Card:  White, silk card, black textured card, more mustard,
Stamps:  Stampin up Autumn days and Pocket silhouettes
Other:  brads, clear embossing powder

uk stampers weekly challenge tag week 33

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This challenge was to encorpoate:

  • fabric
  • a crown
  • paint

Well I found this challenge difficult, just couldn’t come up with any ideas until today.  I was going for a kind of rags to riches theme by using an old loose weave cloth torn randomly and stuck to a piece of white card which I had previously painted  or rather sloshed  and dabbed with gay abandon.  The crown was an embellishment which I embossed in gold.  The trail of gold from the crown to the bottom is just gold embossing powder melted from beneath the tag.

Inks:  versamark clear, Archival Coffee
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Stampers Anonymous Mini muse, Invoke Art Art tickets
Other:  Chalky emusion Deep Sung Cream, Acrylic dauber Gold, Cosmic shimmer Sunlight mist Moonshadow ink Burnished brass, loose weave cloth, gold embossing powder, crown, linen thread

Brayered embossing folder anniversary card

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This took a little practice but I finally achieved the look I was aiming for: a misty sunset glow in a woodland.  I brayered white coated card with Big and juicy Spice ink, embossed it using a Cuttle bug folder then using direct to paper technique swiped the brown across the branches.  To get the misty look I sprayed it with a fine mist of water with a little gold powder then left it to dry.

Inks:  Big and Juicy Spice, Adirondack Woodland
Card:  white coated card, green textured, brown pearlised
Stamp:  Stampin up Cheers and wishes
Other:  brown linen thread, Camelot Rose (tinted with a little Spice ink to match), gold powder

uk stampers weekly challenge tag week 32

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This is the 3rd attempt to get this tag finished – it didn’t all go according to plan and it still doesn’t look right to me.  It looks like the dragon it in mid air and not grounded.  You get the general idea of what I was going for.  The challenge was to incorporate:

  • fabric
  • dots
  • a crown

The fabric is red velvet paper (hope I get away with that as I couldn’t find my piece of red velvet), black dots are along the hinges and door straps and silver dots on the chalice, the crown is sitting on top of the pile of jewels.

Inks:  Black memento ink, Distress inks Black soot and Pumice stone
Card:  white card, red velvet paper,
Stamps:  medieval set (unknown origin)
Other:  gems, gold beading, crown, glossy accents, copics to colour, eyelet, bunch of keys

Entwined hummingbirds birthday card

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I have tried to keep it simple but I am one of these people who just wants to add more so it was hard for me to just stop there.
The image was stamped first onto the card then coloured using sponges through a mask I made by cutting out the circle areas around the hummingbirds.  It looked a bit too plain and I thought about adding borders or glitter etc but went for matching ribbon and fibres instead.

Inks:  Memento Onyx black, Distress inks Barn door and Mustard seed
Card:  white card
Stamps: Clarity Entwined hummingbirds
Other:  black organza ribbon, fibres

July scraplift scrapbook page

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Only a little bit late: Heather chose our crop’s July scraplift (to be finished by August but we are all a bit behind).  This lift is taken from Becky Fleck’s Pagemaps book (p18 but 12 x 12) with her kind permission.

During the 80’s I used to race (monkey in sidecar) most weekends and if I wasn’t racing I was either marshalling or spectating.  I haven’t been to a race meeting in a long time now and making this page brought back lots of memories.  We were known as Team Shandy and in those days there were hardly any female motorcycle racers about.  Gordon Shand is still racing sidecars  but with a very different outfit.  The top photo on the page is of  one of my first attempts in an old front-exit sidecar with Adrian Smith driving: I had to use Kenny Harris’s leathers (who was his usual passenger) as I didn’t have any and as you can tell, I haven’t quite got the hang of it yet.
I have used a few of my old rather tatty black and white photos for this layout so I kept to a black and white theme with a touch of grey for the shading.   If you pull the black tag it pulls out a plastic wallet with my old racing licences and motor club cards.

Inks:  Black document ink, Distress inks Black soot and Pumice stone
Card:  Stampin up black card, white card
Stamps:  Stampin up Sanded background, Invoke Arts Art tickets
Other:  black checked ribbon, large brad, dog tag, magic mesh, small brads

Stamped fabric card

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I had time today for a wee play with some plain calico.  I was inspired by the article by Rachel Jackson in the August issue of Craft Stamper magazine about block printing.  I didn’t have half the stash that she used so I had to improvise but I am pleased with the result and would definitely do this again.

Inks:  Archival Cobalt, Versacraft Autumn leaf and Emerald, Brilliance Moonlight white
Card: ivory card and plain calico
Stamps:  Magenta frond, Flourish (unknown), English Stamp Co. Paisley, free flower stamp from craft stamper mag, text stamp
Other:  Ecoline liquid water colour Scarlet and Chartreuse, Lumière metallic acrylic Sunset Gold. UHU textile colour (not very good) red, sequins, seed beads, flower centre and gold stickles