Category Archives: CBC

CBC Beer mat swap

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Here are my beer mats for the CBC swap

They were all plain  beer mats painted with white gesso the decorated.

Embrace Imperfection
Inks: Distress ink frayed burlap, Archival ink coffee, Brilliance graphite black
Card: DCWV Once upon a time mat stack, gold angel hair
Stamps: Topaz lady (unknown) Stampers anonymous Mini muse
Other: old lace, bottle cap, mirror, Distress stickles walnut stain, copic pens to colour

Live the Life
Inks: Stazon black, Distress inks: peeled paint, mustard seed, marigold, black soot and worn lipstick
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Mini muse, Inkadinkado Rock star
Card: red glossy card, white card
Other: black wire, mica piece, peel-off notes, pens and bleach to colour

Metal
Card: Black card, silver coloured metal
Other: brad, gems, spellbinder impressibilities butterfly, pewter paint, crackle glaze, glitter, black acrylic paint

Fleur De Lys
Card: dark green patterned card decoupaged (unknown)
Other: fleur de lys brads (black enamel filed off then coloured with oregano alcohol ink)

July CBC ATC swap

ATC, CBC, dragonflies, July swap, owl

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Here are my ATCs for the CBC swap for July. We had to use a stamp in this swap rather than a particular theme so I used a couple of the free stamps from the craft stamper magazine (and a background stamp for the piece of vellum).

ATC 1
Inks: black document ink, copic pens to colour the owl
Card: white card, Bo Bunny paper back to backs; a gift of love and my darling motion
Stamp: free owl stamp designed by sugar nellie
Other: orange organza ribbon, small green ric-rac ribbon, googly eyes, Boo rub-on from Hambly screen prints Halloween, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2

ATC2
Inks: Adirondack alcohol inks; clover, hazelnut, citrus, mountain rose, watermelon and sunshine yellow, white stazon, silver pilot pen, white signo pen
Card: glossy white, white vellum
Stamps: background on vellum from Aspects of design Daisy daydreams, free dragonfly stamp designed by Kay Carley
Other: tiny gems, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2, wire for legs, distress stickles peeled paint, yellow stickles

May ATC swap sketch

ATC, CBC, sketch, swap

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I am the host for the may ATC swap at CBC and this month instead of a topic we will be using the sketch as a template. You can rotate, skew, flip, reduce size or interpret it as you wish as long as the template can be seen in some shape or form.

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Here are my two for the swap. The first one: stamps from Design house Deco stamp sheet coloured with copics and stickles. The second one: Stamps from The artistic stamper Seaside No.1 coloured with copics and stickles, sun charm. They both have a bit of 3D layering.

CBC 7 Years Young

bookmark, CBC, Oriental, Tim Holtz

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The CBC forum will be 7 years young on 12th March so my bookmarks for the March bookmark swap say just that! Check out the CBC forum for the birthday bash weekend activities – it should be fun.
These were made using Tim Holtz alcohol ink splatter technique.

Inks: various alcohol inks, black document ink
Stamps: Tim Holtz foam stamps Chronicles, Cute companions Patchwork numbers (years young), 7 (unknown)
Card: white glossy, black
Other: can compressed air, black ribbon with beads

ATC swap theme WOMEN

ATC, CBC, Oriental, woman

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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.