Monthly Archives: April 2012

Spaghetti Western Orchestra scrapbook pages

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this photo looks very yellow but is is in fact the same brown as the one above

I just LOVE the music to the Spaghetti westerns by Ennio Morricone and when I saw the Spaghetti Western Orchestra (SWO) on the Jules Holland’s show I knew I just had to see them live if they ever came to Edinburgh.  Well they did and I wasn’t disappointed – they were fantastic!
On the first page you can pull the tabs at the side to reveal the tickets for the show and a newspaper clipping.
As I don’t tend to take photographs of the actual concert I used the official photographs from their website (if you scroll down in their website you can watch a couple of clips) and traced the shooting cowboy silhouette from the CD cover.
I did try to do some image transfers from photos I took of a Wild West street Edinburgh but they didn’t work that well but it didn’t really matter as most of the images were going to be covered up.  In real life these pages look a nice warm brown colour but try as I might I could not get my photographs to look the same.

Inks:  Distress inks Brushed corduroy, Vintage photo, Wild honey, Spiced marmalade, Rusty hinge, Black soot, Fired brick, and Frayed burlap, Memento Tuxedo black, Adirondack Denim, Versafine archival Vintage Sepia, Dylusions Worn leather spray mixed with Distress Pumice stone re-inker (diluted)
Card:  The back pages from a scrapbook paper pad, yellow Stampin up textured card, glossy photo paper, Heritage paper alphabet and header strip, orange vellum, scraps of ivory card and leather look brown card,
Stamps:  Waltzing mouse stamps: Way out west and Back in the saddle, Tim Holtz Wild west and Urban tapestry, Oxford impressions Steampunk
Other:  gun charms, horseshoe charms, image transfer of own photos of saloon, Distress stickles Vintage photo and Clear rock candy, Diamond glaze, saloon die cuts, mini brads,

Encaustic landscape cards

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My great friend Lizzie and I were playing with my encaustic kit the other day and we made a few cards each.  I am afraid I don’t have a photo of Lizzie’s but they were very much the same as these.

The colours of wax are all from the starter kit and the card used is the silk coated card (the same as I use for brayering).

Mens easel birthday card

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I made this card for Harry’s 50th using a bottle cap as the bit that holds the easel up. I have made one similar to this before but I do like to keep most of my cards unique so I have changed a few things.  The stamps used are the same but the patterned paper and colours are different to the last one.
Inks: Memento Tuxedo black, Distress inks Brushed corduroy (very apt) and Frayed burlap
Card:  white card, Basic Grey patterned paper
Stamps:  Stampin up Circle of friendship, Personal Impressions Mens 1
Other:  beer bottle cap, diamond glaze, yellow and blue pen, Liquid applique, copper eyelet and blue ribbon, black gelly glaze pen, gold pen

Thank you card

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I just had to make a card for Peter who was an enormous help repairing and sorting out some medical equipment for me over the last month.  I know the NHS is always in the news because they have got something wrong again but just where would I be without the good old NHS.  Due to modern technology I have been able to pee by means of electrical impulses sent to the bladder via an external transmitter along with an internal receiver.  When the equipment is all working correctly (which it does most of the time) you tend to take it for granted and it is only when things go wrong do you remember just how much you rely on it to go about your daily activities.  So many thanks to Peter at Finetech and also to Mr Fraser at the Spinal unit and most importantly to Professor Brindley who came up with the idea for a sacral implant all those years ago.

The inspiration for this card is again from The Craft Stamper magazine, October issue 2011 by Jo Capper-Sandon and it uses the free stamp from that issue.

Inks:  Dylusions Cyan, Vanilla custard,and Amber ink sprays, and a neon yellow spray, Black stazon ink
Card:  watercolour paper, white card, blue textured card
Stamp:  free Star stamp, Stampin up Thank you
Other:  The Crafters worshop Mini cubist mask. white gel pen, black Pitt pen, glitter pen, yellow highlighter pen

Encaustic anniversary card

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I have been playing with my encaustic stuff again (after a long while) and made this card for Chris and Grace’s wedding anniversary using the indirect transfer technique with tissue paper.  I think this is my favourite technique so far but I do need a lot of practice still.  My great pal Lizzie joined me to play with the wax and I might just have got her a new hobby!
The trouble is that I don’t get my encaustic stuff out often enough so I have to go back to the basics each time and practice.

Waxes:  blues, browns and greens from the starter kit
Card:  encaustic card and an aperture card
Other:  acrylic sealer