Monthly Archives: October 2010

Snowy owl photo Christmas card

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This is another photo Christmas card but this time it is a beautiful snowy owl called Sweeney Todd.  The photograph was taken by John Harper who very kindly gave me permission to use it for this card.  The original  photograph’s colours are far better than the colours you see here  as my printer has altered them and my photograph of the card has also altered them slightly.  Sweeney Todd lives at The Hawk Conservancy Trust  (please respect the copyright on their photographs).
It is a very similar design to the moose card but with the addition of some white and silver sparkle ribbon down the left hand side and silver mirri card.

Moose photo Christmas card

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I have been asked recently to make a few  birthday cards and Christmas cards for a good friend of mind and they each were created with a particular theme in mind.  This one is a Christmas card with a Canadian wildlife theme.  I had nothing in my crafty stash that would do so Glenda Sykes very kindly gave me permission to use this photo from her website.  I don’t actually know the photographer’s name but thank you – it is a lovely photo.
The edges are embossed in silver and the layers are white card, dark silver card, more white card with silver angel hair mesh with silver brads, then the photo edged in silver.

uk stampers weekly challenge tag week 34

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 For week 34 we had to include:
  • paint
  • fabric
  • embossing powder

I actually went through a lot of decisions before I ended up with this one.  I was going to do some image transfer onto fabric, changed my mind and thought about using the fabric I had already coloured and stamped onto, then changed my mind again and used the flames from my Betty Boop fabric.  There is red and black embossing powder on the edges (even though it looks white at the bottom – that is just reflection).  The tag was painted red.  The skeleton was embossed with black powder then coloured in white Gesso.  This was then very lightly sponged with Rusty hinge to take away the brightness of the white.  The edges were stamped with black Stazon and distressed with Black soot and Fired brick.  The flames from the fabric were stuck to down then red embossing powder was sprinkled over the bottom half of the tag and heated from below.  The flames still looked a bit bright so I went over them lightly with some distress ink Black soot.  I did manage to get a bubble under the paint when I as in a hurry to dry it but actually I don’t think it matters.

Inks:  Versamark clear, Distress inks Black soot, rusty hinge and Fired brick, Stazon Black
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Non Sequitur Grave tidings, Stampers Anonymous Urban tapestry
Other:  Acrylic paint Crimson, Gesso White, Embossing powder Rich red and Black, pewter eyelet coloured black, fabric flames, fibres