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Fabric ATCs

ATC, fabric, image transfer

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I have been playing with a few transfer techniques in order to get digital images onto fabric. The lady on the left (Mata Hara) was printed onto T shirt transfer paper then the image transferred to plain calico by heat transfer (craft iron). The lady to
the right (lady with rose) was printed onto inkjet printable acetate then the image transferred onto Gel medium which had been painted onto the plain calico. As I wanted both images to have a slightly worn look I added a grunge border (Jessica Prague’s) before printing. The T shirt transfer material can also be distressed a little if you tear (carefully) rather than cutting the image out and you can add a bit more distress by scraping bits away with your thumb nail. The acetate transfer came out very dark so in future I will remember to brighten the image before printing. Also the more pressure you use to burnish the image the more the ink smudges. The images used are from Art-e-zine

Mata Hara
Inks: Distress ink Bundles sage sponged on the edges of the fabric
Card/fabric: Green card, plain calico
Other: Decadry T shirt transfer paper, gems

Lady with rose                                                                                          Inks: Stampin up Not quite navy sponged on the edges
Card/fabric: beige card, plain calico
Other: seed beads, sequin flowers, Prima SIP embellishment, fluffy fibre, printable acetate

ukstampers tag challenge 25

tag, tags, ukstampers weekly challenge No. 25

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This weeks recipe for the challenge is:

  • something shiny
  • numbers
  • stamped image of a child

Inks: memento tuxedo black, Distress inks Antique linen and Bundled sage
Card: white card
Stamps: The Artistic stamper Jolly day out, Flower soft The gate
Other: prisma pens and sansodor to colour, silver pilot pen, page pebble, silver brads, pewter eyelet, glossy accents

Time to create 005 decorate it, paint it or alter it…

snail shells, stones, TTC005

I have been having great fun painting and decorating found objects: snail shells and stones so if you want to join in pop over to Crafts by Carolyn in the Time to Create section TTC005 decorate it, paint it or alter it and show us your lovely creations (the wackier the better).

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Most of the stones have been painted using acrylic paints but I glued on a picture cut out from a napkin on the bottom left stone (frog face).

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Here I have used black paint and decoupatch tissues with PVA glue. I did highlight the coil and edges with gold pilot pen but you can’t see that very clearly.

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This one was painted white the decorated with daisy rub-ons (very gently), green ink and a small green gem.
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Here I have used white paint and stamped small flowers and leaves then decorated the flowers with flower soft and lime stickles.

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This last one I painted with white first then with Distress crackle paint Broken china (when the cracks appeared it also cracked the white undercoat so I painted some white over the cracks and wiped away the excess) and added a brad top.
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No snail was harmed in any way as the shells were empty before decorating.  Sadly nobody bothered to join in the challenge!

uk stampers weekly challenge tag 24

tag, tags, ukstampers weekly challenge No. 24

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This weeks uk stampers weekly challenge recipe is:

  • something shiny
  • numbers
  • Paris

I have used masks for the numbers, there is silver metal flake behind the stamped guitar on the acetate, and for the Paris part I have used the lyrics for Parisienne walkways by Thin Lizzy. If I was making this again I would use a bigger font and allow the text to go over the edges.

Inks: Stazon black, Memento black, Distress ink Fired brick, Barn door and Milled lavender
Card: white card
Stamps: Inkadinkado Rock star
Other: acetate, silver leafing flakes, white opaque pen, silver pilot pen, eyelet, Tim Holtz mask

RSS challenge 23

challenge, RSS. ready steady stamp

I am slightly too late to add my submission to the Ready Steady Stamp challenge but I thought I would blog it anyway.

I coloured the acetate with alcohol inks the adhered the rectangles using Glossy accents.
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Inks: Memento tuxedo black, Versamagic Sea breeze chalk ink, Stayzon Cactus green
Card: white, black, turquoise and purple card
Stamps: Rubbadubbadoo Style of Clarice Cliff, Tim Holtz Chronicles foam letters
Other: acetate, alcohol inks aqua, purple twilight, salmon and citrus. book plate and brads, heart gem, lime stickles, copic pens, glossy accents, rock candy

Bridge card

brayer, bridge, card

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You may recognise the image from a previous post (9th June) – well I rescued the image by cropping it from the card, edging with black ink then layering it with the pale blue and black card. This has helped give more balance to the card. The corners were cut using a circle punch and I added some black pearl embellishments to the corners. To give the stream some sparkle I added Rock candy stickles to it.

ukstampers tag challenge 22

clock, tag, tags, uk stampers challenge 22

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By now you will all know how bad I am at photography but I am even worse when it comes to shiny items. You can see the reflection of the house in the globe and there is also a slightly pink tinge to the silver foil (I am wearing a pink sweat shirt and this is being reflected).

The challenge this time was to include:

  • something round (clock face, plastic globe, brads)
  • something shiny (sheet of gold foil, shine on plastic globe also glossy accents)
  • and some heat embossing (stamped clock face and the large brad)

After embossing the clock face I then painted over it with the moonshadow ink and to see the lovely red mica in it I then went over it with the glossy accents. I did the smaller face first and distressed the look by heating the glaze to make it bubble up. Then I glazed the rest of the clock face.
After embossing the cogs I coloured the metal using alcohol inks then removed some the colour using blending solution on a cotton bud to highlight some of the cogs.
The large brad has been coloured with alcohol inks then embossed with the Distress embossing powder.

Inks: Brilliance Graphite black, versamark clear embossing ink
Card: white card, Bits N Pieces wood-grain paper
Stamp: Stampin up Sense of time
Other: gold metal foil, Tss Big Daddy 7 mould, brads, spinner, eyelet, cog, foil tape, clear embossing powder, Distress powder Vintage photo, card board corners, Moonshadow ink Burnt umber, glossy accents, alcohol inks

CBC June ATC swap – Shaker ATCs

ATC, CBC swap, Shaker

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Here are my two ATCs for the June swap over at CBC. As I am the host for this month it was my choice for the theme so I thought it would be a nice change to make shaker ATCs. The one on the left is using two little note-lets from the British Red Cross (the image is of a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in a garden: artist Arthur J. Lyons). The inside has lavender flowers and a few TuTu bedazzles. The flower stems are covered in flower soft.
The seaside ATC was made using Sarah Lugg Beach Comber collage paper and has a mixture of sand and a little glitter inside. I added sand all around the edges too.

ukstamper challenge week 21 tag

21, lavinia stamps, tag, tags, uk stampers challenge, unicorn

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Well it has been a while since I last did the weekly challenge so we are now on week 21. The recipe for this week is:

  • a stamped image of an animal – I have used a unicorn
  • heat embossing – I sprinkled on some Moss and Clear sparkle and heated from below
  • something shiny – I used Glossy accents for the stream, painted on rather than straight from the bottle

I may have to take a photo from the side so you can see the twinkle and the stream but it has taken me over an hour just to get a decent photo as it is – I wish the colours would look the same as in the photo as they are in real life. The green should look more olive than it does here.

I have edited this after trying out a few photography tips and tried a few more settings on my point and shoot camera. Here is the image I came up with – can you see any difference??
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Inks: Stampin up Mellow moss and Always artichoke, Versafine onyx black, Memento London fog
Card: white card
Stamps: Lavinia stamps Unicorn, foliage and bridge, stampin up Autumn days and Pocket silhouettes
Other: Embossing powders Clear sparkle and Moss, Distress stickles peeled paint, glossy accents