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A pair of pears

card, CBC challenge, pears

pairOfPears

Here is my entry for Joanne’s challenge at CBC – Five-a-day. I don’t use my pear stamp all that often so it was fun thinking of a way to use it for the challenge.

Inks: black document ink, water colour pencils to colour pears
Card: watercolour paper, black card, ivory card, Bo-Bunny ‘my darling motion’
Stamps: Non-sequitur – oriental collage elements (52C) pear
Other: black magic mess, pink zoom, (Glitz spritz desert moon, forest stampzia colour and Ecoline chartreuse sprays to make the back ground of pears)

House mice in flight

house, mouse, sunday challenge, tag, tags, ukstamper

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The ukstampers challenge this week is for a tag with ‘H’ for house on it. This is my contribution with three house mice in flight. I selectively stamped the images then coloured them in. Smudged on some blue for the sky, then stamped the flourishes and flower. I then printed the words and dabbed over the black with white to soften. I distressed the edges a little for some of the white to show through then finished with the eyelet and the dome.

Inks: Versafine onyx black, Versacolor white, Colorbox fluid chalk ink ice blue
Card: white
Stamps: House mouse Geronimo and Flight delight, Basic Grey Flourish corners, flower (unknown), H from See D’s traditional alphabet,
Other: square clear dome, Sakura sparkle pens, glossy accents for the eyes, bronze eyelet, computer generated words, copics and lime pen to colour

Nature’s Jewels tag

jewel, tag, tags, uk stampers challenge 37

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The inspiration for this tag came from a photo of dew drops, or rain drops, on a spider’s web that came across somewhere on the web (no pun intended).

It is for the uk stampers weekly challenge and the letter is ‘J’ for Jewels.

Inks: Versamark clear with silver embossing powder, Colorbox fluid chalk inks; warm red, dark peony, maroon, ice jade and aquamarine
Card: white
Stamps: Grave tidings (web), Aspects of design 25 – rambling 1 (quote), Inkadinkado chandeliers, Anna Griffin alphabet
Other: hole reinforcer, black plastic spider painted silver, white pen, grey copic, diamond glaze

Spa-Francorchamps

Bo-Bunny, cafe culture, Dimensional Fourth Ltd, scrapbook, scrapbook page, spa-francorchamps, stampin up

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Here is my entry to Carolyn’s challenge – cafe culture. The photo was a strange colour in the first place as it was a very bright sunny day and we are all sitting outside a Belgian cafe. The Grand Prix circuit at Spa-Francorchamps is situated in beautiful surroundings and the riders have to contend with steep hills and forests (creating dark and bright areas) and it uses part of the main road too. We had wonderful weather, race day was especially glorious, and we had a fabulous holiday but this is the only photo I have to remember it by.

Inks: Adirondack woodlands, Versafine onyx black, Brilliance pearlescent ivy
Card: white, Bo-Bunny Beau jardin bleu, dark green
Stamps: Dimensional Forth Ltd. Motorcycle racers, stampin up Loads of love (tree) and background sanded
Other: images: Stella Artois and circuit map from web, ribbon and brads

Drastic Fantastic

Bo-Bunny, Kt Tunstall, scrapbook, scrapbook page, stampers anonymous, stampin up, ticket

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It was October 2007 when Harry and I saw KT Tunstall live at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh and yes she was FANTASTIC! I wanted to make a scrapbook page using my concert ticket , the CD cover (inside) and a few photos. I am hopeless at taking photos at these kind of events so I had to go on the scrounge. Many thanks to Martyn who very kindly gave me permission to use a few of his fabulous KT photos.
As I am setting this week CBC challenge – the theme is ‘just the ticket’ so pop in and join in with the challenge.

Inks: Distress inks fired brick and peeled paint
Card: Bo-Bunny’s back to backs My darling blooms and Ella precocious, scan of CD cover, white
Stamps: Elusive images Funky doodles fresh
Other: Tim Holtz hinged clip and grunge board flourish, stickles, domed embellishment, concert ticket and photos

 

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I also made this card as another idea for using a ticket. This card is for Stuart who will be 12 years old in a couple of weeks. The ticket is one from Carolyn’s downloads (I tweaked it a little but kept the overall design) .

Inks: Distress ink fired brick, Versafine onyx black
Card: Bo-Bunny Ella precocious, white, black
Stamps: Stampin up backgound canvas, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry
Other: ticket, black brads

Poor Pandas ATCs

ATC, zoo

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These two ATCs were made for the CBC swap hosted by Ellen this month. The theme was zoo so I chose to do Pandas behind bamboo bars. The bars were stamped on acetate behind which is panda paper. The same paper was used inside the bottle caps.

Inks: Brilliance black, copics to give a slight colour to the bars
Card: white covered with panda paper, acetate
Stamps: Non-sequitur oriental collage elments (52C) bamboo screen
Other: bottle caps, green stickles, glossy accents

Out and about card

artistic stamper, card, out and about, papertreyink, stampin up

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Happy Birthday Callum
17 today – Callum can now get out and about in his car and take some driving lessons.

Inks: black document ink, copics to colour
Card: white, blue, DCWV Pocket full of posies matstack
Stamps: Stampin up loads of love and accessories, Basic grey flourish corners, The artistic stamper the open road, Papertreyink out on a limb (original set) birthday wishes
Other: stampin up tag and scallop punch, stripy ribbon

 

I LOVE my jeans card

artistic stamper, card, CBC challenge, craftsbycarolyn, denim, jean therapy, stitchels

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I made this card for Joannes Jean therapy challenge at CBC. The real denim is the background strip and the tiny bit on the tag.

Inks: Adirondack earthtones stonewashed and denim, distress ink weathered wood, colorbox fluid chalk ink tangerine
Card: white
Stamps: denim background (unknown), stitchels dashy dot flower, free tag stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: red stickles, brad, computer generated greeting (smashedSF by fontographer)

King of all the faeries

Scottish border stamping, tag, tags, tapestry stamps, uk stampers challenge 36

KingOfFaeries
My tag for the ukstampers challenge No.36 – ‘K’ for king features Finnbheara, who is King of all the faeries. The wording is on acetate which gives the slight shadow effect to the text. Some of my first ever stamps were bought from Scottish border Stamping and they very kindly sent me Finnbheara as a free gift. I haven’t had any ideas on how to use him until now so this is his first outing.

Inks: Versamark onyx black, Tim Holtz distress ink; dried marigold, tea dye, peeled paint, mustard seed, and frayed burlap, Adirondack woodlands, Marvy pens and pearlex to colour
Card: white card, acetate
Stamps: Scottish border stamping Finnbheara, selection of tapestry stamps
Other: grunge board minis (K), distress stickles peeled paint, eyelet

Rust Lives tag

bottle caps, stampers anonymous urban tapestry, tag, Tim Holtz

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I had a few ideas for this tag and it was hard to choose which one to do. I started off thinking Dumpy’s rusty nuts (it is a band – Honest) then went on to Rust never sleeps (Neil Young), then Live rust (Neil Young) which gave rise to Rust Lives. I thought this was apt as rust does grow and spread a bit like an infection until it has devoured it’s host. I had tried to rust some steel wool which normally rusts in the blink of an eye but when you need it rusty it just doesn’t happen. Harry then tried to help me find some rusty objects and gave me a rusty beer can, but that just disintegrated when I tried to cut it. Then, while out for a run in the car the other day Harry spotted a piece of rusty metal by the side of the road so we brought it home with us but I couldn’t think how I was going to cut it into usable pieces as it was quite large and thick. I finally did use that piece of rusty metal but just as a photo (much easier than cutting it).
Inks: Tim Holtz distress ink black soot, fired brick, dried marigold, and Versamark with Tim Holtz Distress powder vintage photo, Alcohol ink Rust
Card: glossy photo
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry (corner and side splatters down the side) Other: Tim Holtz stencils type, squashed bottle cap, stampin up eyelet, glossy accents