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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

rustLives
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

a sheer mess

All night media, bottle caps, scrapbook, scrapbook page, sheer mess, stampers anonymous, Tim Holtz

mintWithaHole

I was going to be making a card for Carolyn’s challenge ‘sheer elegance’ using some sheer ribbon but Chiquo decided to go for a dig this morning! Harry had been digging the mint out that had started to spread and I hadn’t quite got around to putting the green plastic netting over the nicely raked surface so Chiquo decided to have a dig and the mud went everywhere!

This gives a new meaning to ‘the mint with a hole’. Chiquo is in the dog house now!

Inks: Archival coffee, versamark with Tim Holtz distress embossing powder weather-worn
Card: Stampin up green and brown textured, plain white, glossy photo
Stamps: All night media paw print (actually a cat’s paw print), Stampers anonymous Tim Holtz Urban tapestry corner
Other: bottle tops, sheer brown ribbon, stampin up brown gros-grain ribbon, white brads, images inside the bottle caps are from Twopeas DW bow wow

Happy geocaching Harry

card, geocaching

HarryGeocaching09

And here is Harry’s card. His new hobby is geocaching so guess what he received for his birthday!

Ink: black document ink and copics to colour
Card: white
Stamp: Stampin up round happy birthday
Other: image from web, map paper, squashed bottle cap, glaze, writing printed on acetate, letter h

Walk together frame

frame, Papertrey Ink, resurection embossing
walkTogetherFrame
Happy Birthday Harry!

After having a look at the resurrection embossing technique at Papertrey Ink Design Team blog I was inspired to make this frame for Harry. This frame had a coating on it and even after sanding the resurrection embossing technique wouldn’t quite work on it, but I like the effect I got just using white embossing powder and sanding it down a little before I painted the frame.

Inks: black document, Versamark with white embossing powder,
Paint: Fired earth better class red, Ancient world papyrus
Stamps: Stampin up pocket silhouettes, unknown bamboo, Lavinia stamps, Aspects of design Rambling 1 (proverb)
Other: Glossy accents crackle glaze, dog charm and chain, brads, rivet

Astral tag

astral, inkadinkado, stampers anonymous, tag, tags, Tim Holtz

Astral

Here is my first tag for the ukstampers challenge 34 – we are doing A-Z tags.

Inks: black document ink, Tim Holtz distress inks; weathered wood, mustard seed, dried marigold, black soot, variety of copics, gelly roll sparkly pens, bleach
Card: white
Stamps: Stampers anonymous urban tapestry, Inkadinkado zodiac, Anna Griffin alphabet
Other: Tim Holtz mask flourish, monogram stencil to dry emboss the capital a, sun charm, stampin up eyelet, sequin waste

Sleepy cat black and white ATCs

ATC, black and white, cat, michael strong, stampers anonymous, Tim Holtz

sleepy cats B_W

Black and white is the theme for the UKstampers April ATC swap so I have gone with; the same stamp, same colours and the same embellishments but keeping each one unique.

Inks: versamark (with white opaque embossing powder), Brilliance graphite black, alcohol ink pitch black
Card: white glossy, plain black, plain white
Stamps: Michael Strong’s Cloisonné cat, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry
Other: gelly stardust pens black and white, black gems, black feathers, black velour cord

I used compressed air on drops of black alcohol ink and glossy white card to make the black and white splatter background ( Tim Holtz technique) then randomly stamped the tiny splatters.
Can you spot the mouse?

Seaside wedding card

artistic stamper, card, seaside, shells, stampin up, wedding

shellsA&H

Our wedding card for Angharad and Hugh who were married today at Polhawn Fort.
I wanted to make it a sea side theme so used stamped images of shells and a few small real shells as embellishments.

Inks: Stazon Timber brown, Archival coffee, Versafine onyx black, marvy pens to colour and bleach to lift off colour, tiny bit of sparkle to parts of the plants
Card: White aperture card, white watercolour paper
Stamps: Stampin up curvy verse and pocket silhouettes, The Artistic stamper seaside No1
Other: thick string, shells, glossy accents, sand

WG Grace slide mailer

Connell, slide mailer, WG Grace

WG GraceFront

 

 

ConnellBox

WG GraceInside

Happy birthday Connell.
I made this slide mailer for Connell’s 9th birthday. He really enjoys cricket (amongst other sports) so I found a lovely picture of WG Grace to put inside.
The slide mailer is coloured all over then covered using aluminium tape with peel-offs underneath to emboss the words and pattern. The tape was coloured using alcohol inks. The picture is glued behind the glass microscope slide using a clear glaze and this is then edged in foil tape and glued into it’s space. The red Grace cricket ball was punched out of card and a clear dome stuck over the top to give it a 3D effect. The gift box is an extra long match box which was painted and then decorated with silver peel-offs.

Inks: alcohol ink – stream
Other: slide mailer, extra long match box (with foam inside), silver peel-offs, aluminium foil tape, card, clear dome, pictures and computer generated wording, glaze