I have been rather busy and am just catching up with posting my crafty makes here so I hope you had a fantastic birthday Tegan! I made her a tag for her growing collection and I love this little Japanese girl stamp.
Inks: black document ink
Card: white and black
Stamps: Hero Arts four dolls, Judikins bamboo, Dorrie doodle Oriental cherry blossoms
Other: heart brad, lucky rabbit sticker and tiny flower sticker, glitter pen, black tassel
Week 3 on ukstampers challenge asks for a tag incorporating a floral stamped image, buttons and some text.
Here is my effort using watercolour paper this week and another form of resist.
Inks: Black document ink, sprays: Chroma jewels Amber, Glitz spritz Desert moon antique rose, Glimmer mist Cherry limeade
Card: thick watercolour paper, computer paper
Stamps: Stamps Happen Magnolia (Julia Hawkins)
Other: tan button, 3 tiny burgundy buttons, water colour pencils to colour, Tim Holtz flourish mask, Distress stickles rock candy (over the computer generated text), eyelet
This tag is for last weeks challenge and for this one I had to include any stamped image, glitter and buttons. As you can see I made it all about buttons and I stamped the background on glossy card using the resist technique then for the individual buttons: they were stamped on acetate and glitter added to to the back.
Inks: Black Stazon, versamark, Big and juicy Hydrangea
Card: glossy white, acetate
Stamps: free buttons stamp from craft stamper mag ages ago, Technique Tuesday Hanging by a thread
Other: variegated thread, scissors brad, glitter, brayer
This is the my first blog entry of 2010. It is soooo cold just now and my craft room is the coldest room in the house so I haven’t been doing much in it recently.
Here are my 3 ATCs for the ukstampers swap – this month’s theme is black and white with a twist: the twist being that we have to make a tag too. Now I have just kept to the black and white theme for my tag and there is also a floral thing going on in them all too (not intentional at all!). The doll ATC was inspired by Gail Milburn’s article in the Craft stamper mag Feb 2010 issue.
Inks: Black document ink, Versacolor white pigment ink, Distress ink black soot
Card: White card, black textured card, piece of black textured paper (from inside of chocolate box)
Stamps: Hero arts four dolls, Stampin up sense of time, The artistic stamper hound’s tooth, Tapestry stamps Yummy garden (plus others), Clarity stamps corner, Michael Strong Cloisonné vase
Other: brad, square button, paper rose, blossoms, pearls, black sequins, lace, crackle glaze, ribbon, black mesh, sparkle pens
And finally X. The theme for the ukstampers weekly challenge No. 59 is X marks the spot and you see here I have used the crosshairs of sights to signify the X marking the spot.
Inks: black document ink, Distress inks black soot and walnut stain
Card: white, acetate ‘x’
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Mini muse, Tim Holtz foam stamps Chronicles
Other: eyelet, hole punch
This is my Oriental tag for the ukstampers Sunday challenge No. 58 O for Oriental. The Faux cloisonné article by Carole Cann in the Craft stamper mag Jul9 09 was my inspiration for this. As usual I didn’t have the same materials and I thought I could use gold leaf instead of gold fun foil. Well I could, just not in the same way that Carole used the foil. I had to use sticky stuff embossing powder to get it to stick properly but I got there in the end. The edging to the tag was done by using gold leafing glue on a dry brush and stoking it roughly on to give a kind of feathered edge inside. The tag was then sprayed all over with the glimmer mist. Little particles from the glimmer mist got into the wee spaces and it looks a bit like a crackle effect. I didn’t have a leaf stamp that went with the design so I stamped a few dragonflies and used the wings as leaves. The small piece that looks like filigree is paper lace that has gold leaf put onto the sticky back of the lace.
Inks: versamark
Card: black, turquoise iridescent, purple pearlised
Stamps: Hero arts Four dolls (small flowers), free stamp from Craft stamper (large flower), Non sequitur Oriental collage elements (dragonfly wings for the leaves)
Other: gold leaf, Judikins Sticky stuff embossing powder, H2Os to colour, Glimmer mist Sweet pea, Diamond glaze, gems, Grunge board O, cloisonné bead, turquoise wire with gold findings, Lakeland paper lace border
Here us a quick tag as I am still catching up with the ukstampers challenges. Last week it was L for Love. Now I am not exactly the romantic type (as I am repeatedly told!) but at least there are hearts on it. I took the photo with the light above to try to avoid glare from the glitter but it doesn’t show up the sparkle.
Inks: Brilliance graphite black, Distress ink worn lipstick, Copic pen grey
Card: White card, red and white paper hearts
Stamps: Inkadinkado patterned pets, Woodware A dog’s life, little hearts from a free stamp with Craft Stamper mag, Stampers Anonymous Urban tapestry, Stampin up Love
Other: round metal rimmed tag, silver eyelet, silver stickles, gem
Here is my tag for the ukstampers weekly challenge ‘E’ for embroidery. I am a bit late with this one – I just didn’t know where to start with it. I have used card and letters from Cosmo cricket (except the E), some embroidery thread and I even learned how to do French knots for the flower centres down the left hand side.
Inks: Memento rhubarb stalk
Card: Cosmo cricket
Stamps: Technique Tuesday Hanging by a thread
Other: red embroidery thread, Cosmo cricket card board letters, eyelet, E from Heritage papers
Here is a card I made for Carey for her birthday. She is very creative and does a bit of painting now and then. When the tag is pulled out it reveals another stamped image underneath.
Inks: various alcohol inks, Distress inks: peeled paint, fired brick, Chartreuse spray, black versafine
Card: white glossy, luggage tag, white card
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry, Invoke arts Art tickets, Elusive images Diamond art, an image from CBC ‘stamp in the post swap’ which I can’t show just yet
Other: ribbon, staple, white pen, gelly glaze pens