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Fairy Forest scrapbook double layout

20/01/2009fairy, fairy door, once upon a time, scrapbook, scrapbook pageJackie

Here is my double layout which I finally managed to take photos of – my camera has gone kaput and I had to borrow my husband’s which is a newer model and works slightly differently.
The first photo was taken in a beautiful forest at Gosford Estate. and The second photo is of Maranna, my lost wax bronze sculpture. She now lives in the conservatory after a frisky fox knocked her over and she suffered a broken shoulder and wrist (all better now though).The verses are taken from the certificate that authenticates the sculpture and the magic fairy coin has her limited edition number on the back so is kept hidden behind the fairy door.Inks: Tim Holtz distress inks antique linen and frayed burlap, alcohol ink black
Stamps: house mouse fall commuters, Dovecraft fantasy emblems, tapestry stamps and Lavinia stamps (small leaves on the door)
Card: DCWV Once upon a time stack, BitsNPieces woodgrain paper
Other: dragonfly charm, bookplate, key, dried leaves and flowers from my garden, button, Tim Holtz grunge board elements, distress embossing powder

ATC swap theme WOMEN

14/01/2009ATC, CBC, Oriental, womanJackie

I have just finished these for the CBC ATC swap theme of women. The calligraphy translates to beauty and grace (I think). I made the background papers by spraying colours onto watercolour paper but I made them months ago and now can’t remember which colours I used.

Inks: black document ink
Colour on images: Prisma pencils and neon green and orange pens, highlighted small areas with a gelly roll glitter pen (with aqua brush)
Stamps: Ist Oriental woman stamp (unknown origin), 2nd Oriental woman stamp from non-sequitur – Oriental collage Ellements (52C), and Chinese calligraphy stamp collection from Barbara Aria, Stampin up background stamp ‘sanded’ (for the lines on the first ATC)
Plus a couple of fan stickers.

ATCs Element – Wind

12/01/2009ATC, challenge No. 22, elements, house mouse, Prismas, tree, ukstamper, windJackie

Today I made these two ATCs for the UKstampers Sunday Challenge No. 22 the theme is Elements: make two ATCs using the same colour palette but different stamps.
I chose the weather element WIND.

Inks: Archival coffee, Adirondack woodlands, ColorBox ice blue chalk ink
Colouration: Prismas; reds, browns, yellows, oranges and greens (and Sansodor)
Stamps: windswept tree silhouette, Fall commuters, nature quote (aspects of design 25 rambling1), small twig and leaves, birds, free leaf stamp

I added a few cut out leaves around the edges of the House mouse one and some small cut out leaves to form a pile in the windswept tree ATC.

Fungi scrapbook page

11/01/2009charm, fungi, Lavinia, mushroom, scrapbook, scrapbook pageJackie

So I have finally managed a scrapbook page using the napkin method demoed by Pam (thanks Pam) at the Edinburgh scrappers crop ages ago. Even though I used mat mod podge it is still rather glossy, hence the bright patches in this picture.

Inks: Adirondack woodlands, Archival ink coffee
Stamps: Stampin up pocket silhouettes, Tracy Dutton mushroom stamps from Lavinia stamps
Card stock: stampin up; creamy caramel, chocolate chip, sage shadow
Charms: dragonfly from Crafts by Carolyn, mushroom from ebay
Materials: napkin from a napkin swap, mat mod podge

Take a 3 ply napkin and peel the layer with the image on it from the other 2 layers. Roughly cut out the patterned bits you wish to use and paste mod podge on the areas of your page where you want to put the napkin. Gently lay the napkin on the mod podge and squidge it around to create a little texture. leave it to dry and paste a little more mod podge over it. It goes semi-transparent so you can still see what lies beneath it.

Tags…Old and New

10/01/2009tags, uk stampers challenge 21Jackie

These two tags were made for the UK stampers Sunday challenge No.21. To make two tags on the theme Old and New, use as many stamps as you like but one of them had to be used on both tags.

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks;antique linen, weathered wood, fired brick, black soot, Versafine onyx black, Stazon saddle brown
Stamps: Paperartsy plates 4, 5 and 6,
Materials: tags, new washer and rusty washer, ribbon, sellotape

CBC Bookmark swap

08/01/2009black, bookmark, CBC challenge, Graphicus, Oriental, Prisma pencilsJackie

I made these today for the CBC bookmark swap and they also fit the CBC Crew Challenge Pens, pencils and paint.

Ink: white stazon
Pens/pencils: Prisma pencils, copper pen and Sakura gelly roll glitter pens
Materials: black card, gold eyelet, black ribbon, tube cloisonné beads, laminate
Stamps: Oriental bookmark stamps from Graphicus

Just stamp the bookmarks in white (on black card) and colour the white parts with Prismas and pens. use a water brush to lightly brush a glittery effect over parts (sakura pens scribbled onto paper and pick up the glitter using water brush) then laminate, punch a whole for eyelet, add ribbon and beads.

ATC swap theme METAL

08/01/2009ATC, emboss, metalJackie

The following ATCs were made for the UKstampers January ATC swap and this months theme is METAL.

Metal seaweed

The metal used in the ATC above is green metal mesh and coppery coloured sequins.

Inks: stazon; catus green, timber brown, blazing red, saddle brown
Stamps: seahorse (unknown make), various twigs and leaves (Rubber Stamp Tapestry)
Card: metallic look back ground, white card with Dandelion fantasy film over the top

Metal tap tap tap

This ATC is made from black metal and is stamped and some of the dotty circles are pierced.
The two larger circles are black metal, stamped with white ink, embossed and textured then punched out and stuck onto white card circle edged with black pen.

Ink: white stazon, black pen
Stamps: from stampin up
Black metal sheets and white card

Metal art

I made a few mistakes with this one. I tried to spray gold webbing spray onto metal but it didn’t stick so I then sprayed the metal with uhu glue first and then the gold webbing and this worked a bit better.

Inks and colours: pesto spray, gold webbing spray, red and green pens for glass
Stamp: Celtic swirls (Heritage Rubber stamp co.)
Materials: silver coloured metal, red/copper wire, green beads, gold and silver micro beads, green/brown fluffy fibre

Ghost swirls

29/12/2008card, chalk inks, dragonflies, ghost, swirlsJackie

Finally I had a few hours to do a bit of crafting today. After flicking through my mum’s new book, Magenta Style Paper Magic, I was inspired to try some ghost stamping.

Cardstock: white and black
Inks: white Stazon, Colorbox chalk lime pastel and rouge, Versafine onyx black, Stampin’ up mellow moss
Stamps: swirls from Dovecraft fantasy emblems and dragon flies (unknown)

Hell’s Angels

23/12/2008bikers, card, Hell's angels, skullJackie

This was made for the Sunday challenge No. 20 on UK Stampers forum. It had to include an angel.

Stamp: bikers from xelacraft (ebay)
Inks: black stazon and red stazon
Colour: Prisma pencils with sansodor
Material skull: from a fat quarter of Mexican day of the dead sugar skulls.
Embellishements: gun metal chain, screw brads and painted grunge board (Tim Holts elements; wings).
The heading was generated on the computer in Old English Text, the MC is stamped in red stazon with silver highlights.

Lacy Christmas tree card

05/12/2008card, Christmas, embossed, treeJackie

Well I have just spent a couple of hours cleaning the kitchen so there is not a crumb any where so I thought I deserved a little craft time. Here is another card for the CBC Christmas challenge a day; day two. The challenge is to use colours red, green and gold.

Here I have had a wee play with some gold webbing spray. It actually looks great on darker colours but it isn’t too bad on pale green.

Ink: colorbox chalk ink lime pastel
Paper: stampin up summer picnic
Embossing folder: cutlebug Lace Christmas tree (run through a wizard)
Krylon gold webbing spray
gold/green coloured gems
gold star
red ribbon

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