This is for Harry from Chiquo (dog!). I used one of the image swaps from Dewdrop craftz. (The man with the beer).
Inks: Black memento and black document inks, copics to colour
Card: white card, Stampin up Summer picnic paper
Stamps: Dewdrop Craftz Jim just chillin, Dog’s life (unknown make)
Other: computer generated greeting and sign writing, big brad, cord, liquid appliqué for head on beer
Another card inspired by the craft stamper magazine, this time by Isabelle Norris. Isabelle made a mini album but I took a few of her ideas and incorporated them into this card.
Inks/paints: crackle paint broken china, acrylic paint; black and Prussian blue, silver, black document ink, Distress inks antique linen and frayed burlap
Card: black card, images and mini envelope from Heritage paper, silver foil,
Stamps: free Father’s day stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: grunge board letters, silver foil covered lace (corners), silver brads, silver rubbing wax, diamond embossing folder
This weeks ukstampers tag challenge is the letter ‘P’ for party. This is made using an image from an old postcard I was given from Chris (we share our sense of humour) and I had to borrow some stamps from Kat and Yvonne as I have no party themed stamps. Thank you Kat and Yvonne.
Inks: Black document ink, Distress ink worn lipstick, Prisma pencils and sansador to colour
Card: white card
Stamps: from Kat Stamping bella Happy birthday (balloons), from Yvonne See D’s Celebration pictures (balloons, streamers and hat) and my own scrabble letter P (unknown)
Other: computer generated text, stickles, glaze, star gem, fluffy bit for hat tassel, eyelet, image from old postcard
Here is my entry into the CBC crew challenge CBC00100. The them is one hundred as this will be the hundredth challenge. The lorgnettes are made to look like the number 100 and ‘a hunner’ is Scots for ‘one hundred’. The prize is a couple of templates kindly donated by WS Designs. (the telephone box and DL envelope templates). Thank you everyone who voted for my card.
Inks: Archival coffee, watercolour pencils to colour image
Card: White, green textured, orange vellum, Bo-Bunny Beau jardin poppy
Stamps: free Sugar Nellie owl stamp with Craft stamper magazine
Other: googly eyes, hand made lorgnettes, sketched on branch and walking stick, flowers, white highlighting pen, computer generated text
I knew Lizzie had been wanting to try Willie’s delectable chocolate so I bought a little gift bag to present Willie’s chocolate and made the card and label using the same colours as the bag.
Inks: Versamark clear ink with silver embossing powder and copics to colour
Card: white card, black card, silver patterned vellum
Stamps: Stampin up Curvy verses and Yummy, Elusive images Oriental theme plate-A better place (flower), Inkadinkado Morphic bugs, Anna Griffin flourish
Other: Ribbon, dragonfly charm, gems
After seeing a card in the Simply cards and papercraft magazine by Su Pennick, I just had to do one similar for Lizzie from Chiquo. Lizzie used to be a punk (years ago…) so the anarchy card was a must. I used some of Su’s design ideas but changed a few things just to be different.
Inks: Distress ink Black soot, Brilliance Rocket red
Card: Black card, white crumpled paper, tartan paper
Other: chain, square brads, safety pins, black plastic (from bin linner as punks used to wear bin liners!), lolipop sticks and bottom of a bottle to stamp the symbol, computer generated greeting
Here is one of the ATCs for Andrea’s CBC June swap with male theme. I have used a stamped image from the DewDrop Craftz image swap.
Inks: memento black, Stampin up mellow moss, copic to colour, Distress ink weathered wood
Card: white card
Stamps: DewDrop craftz stamps Jim just chillin’, Lavinia stamps leaves
Other: fish charm
And here is the other male ATC for the swap.
Inks: I can’t remember as I stamped the image a while ago
Card: beige textured paper, ivory card
Stamp: The Artistic stamper Men’s plate, papers from Hot off the press Heritage range
Other: musical note charm
This tag is for the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this week it is ‘D’ for diamond.
I managed to use up some odds and ends I had made for other projects: the metal embossed diamonds and the background.
Inks: Distress inks weathered wood and black soot
Card: white glossy card for the background and plain white card
Stamps: Elusive images Diamond art
Other: embossed metal (Cuttlebug diamonds in the rough folder), acrylic paint, computer generated text, eyelet, 3mm 3D foam, sparkle pen
I loved Kim Costello’s card in the Craft Stamper magazine June 09 issue so I have used the same overall design for Ruth’s card, but incorporated different colours, stamps and papers.
Inks: black document inks, Distress inks; antique linen, frayed burlap and worn lipstick. To colour image; copics and water colour pencils.
Card: hammered cream card, watercolour paper, Cosmo cricket, Bo-bunny.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie picking apples, The Artistic stamper stitchels dashy dots (flowers), Dovecraft Fantasy emblems (flourishes)
Other: buttons, pearls, charm, paper lace, glitter pen
Here are my 3 ATCs for the ukstampers June challenge with the theme of bling. I may have over-blinged the chandeliers as it was difficult to photograph with all that sparkle.
Chandeliers ATC: black card, silver embossing, Inkadinkado chandeliers stamps, silver stickles and a little crystal glitter, gems, glaze, silver foil tape.
Pink bling: ivory card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, stickles, gold leaf, gems tiny beads and sequins, H2Os, glimmer mist and salt.
Bling dragonfly: black card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, mini beads and sequins, gold webbing spray, H2Os, shell laminate, glaze.
What can I say – it looks better in real life! I am so rubbish at taking photographs! I would love to be able to capture an image just as I see it. I made this tag as part of the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this weeks letter is ‘W’ for wings.
Inks: embossing ink with gold embossing powder, white stayzon, green pen
Card: ivory card with a wash of H2O cherry sorbet and Glitz spritz desert moon antique rose sprinkled with flaked salt, green vellum with computer generated words embossed in gold
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Fairytale frenzy (tattered butterfly), Inkadinkado morphic bugs
Other: Stickles; fruit punch, copper and lime green, gold letter ‘W’, butterfly made from Angelina fusible fibres gold iris, and Fantasy film passionate pink, gems, wire, eyelet, reg/gold leaf, gold pilot pen for the splatters