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Queen bee tag

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queenB

I sooooo need a new computer! I have had so many problems with it the last few weeks I have been pulling my hair out in exasperation! I finally managed to get this photo of my ukstampers challenge ‘Q’ for queen tag on my blog after a couple of hours of swearing very loudly at the computer.

Inks: Distress inks Pine needles, peeled paint and mustard seed, black stazon, versamark with gold embossing powder
Card: Ivory card, red felt card
Stamps: Inkadinkado morphic bugs, Anna Griffin clear flourishes and crown
Other: Q brad, rub on letters, large eyelet, gems, gold and clear glitter pen, Fusible film crystal pearl (for the wings), gold pilot pen splatters

Party pooper tag

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partyPooper
This weeks ukstampers tag challenge is the letter ‘P’ for party. This is made using an image from an old postcard I was given from Chris (we share our sense of humour) and I had to borrow some stamps from Kat and Yvonne as I have no party themed stamps. Thank you Kat and Yvonne.

Inks: Black document ink, Distress ink worn lipstick, Prisma pencils and sansador to colour
Card: white card
Stamps: from Kat Stamping bella Happy birthday (balloons), from Yvonne See D’s Celebration pictures (balloons, streamers and hat) and my own scrabble letter P (unknown)
Other: computer generated text, stickles, glaze, star gem, fluffy bit for hat tassel, eyelet, image from old postcard

Diamond cut tag

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diamondCut

This tag is for the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this week it is ‘D’ for diamond.
I managed to use up some odds and ends I had made for other projects: the metal embossed diamonds and the background.

Inks: Distress inks weathered wood and black soot
Card: white glossy card for the background and plain white card
Stamps: Elusive images Diamond art
Other: embossed metal (Cuttlebug diamonds in the rough folder), acrylic paint, computer generated text, eyelet, 3mm 3D foam, sparkle pen

Tattered silken wings tag

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wings

What can I say – it looks better in real life! I am so rubbish at taking photographs! I would love to be able to capture an image just as I see it. I made this tag as part of the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this weeks letter is ‘W’ for wings.

Inks: embossing ink with gold embossing powder, white stayzon, green pen
Card: ivory card with a wash of H2O cherry sorbet and Glitz spritz desert moon antique rose sprinkled with flaked salt, green vellum with computer generated words embossed in gold
Stamps: Stampers anonymous Fairytale frenzy (tattered butterfly), Inkadinkado morphic bugs
Other: Stickles; fruit punch, copper and lime green, gold letter ‘W’, butterfly made from Angelina fusible fibres gold iris, and Fantasy film passionate pink, gems, wire, eyelet, reg/gold leaf, gold pilot pen for the splatters

Icon tag

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eye

I made so many mistakes with this tag, for the Sunday challenge No. 41 on ukstampers theme ‘I’ for icon, but I am quite pleased with the results anyway. The coloured eye was made in photoshop (tutorial here)and the ‘eye’ con is the false eyelashes. Wow are they sticky! You can’t really tell from the photograph but there are small flourishes on the ‘C’ stamped in yellow but as the crackle glaze dried the yellowness disappeared into the magenta. I also stamped some diamonds down the right hand side and embossed them in ochre but as the embossing powder melted the colour disappeared. It may be because I have used watercolour paper and it is very absorbent.
Inks: the colours on the watercolour paper are Stamp Zia neon yellow, and Ecoline magenta (diluted), Brilliance sunflower yellow with ochre embossing powder
Card: watercolour card
Stamps: Dovecraft Fantasy emblems flourish, Elusive images Diamond art [you can’t really see the stamping though]
Other: False eyelashes, grunge board letters, wire and beads, Tim Holtz borders mask, Crackle paint on the ‘I’, bottle cap with punched out piece of card, stampin up eyelet, crackle glaze

N for numbers tag

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Numbers

Here is my tag for the ukstampers challenge No. 40 ‘N’ is for number. The inspiration behind my tag is the equation for a PERFECT number. A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of it’s proper positive divisors. For even numbers the equation is 2n-1 (2n – 1) but are there any odd perfect numbers? No I am not that clever – I just Googled it.

Inks: Versafine Onyx black, Distress ink Pine needles, Black soot and Frayed burlap,
Card: Ivory
Stamps: Paperartsy Man of numbers plate 6
Other: Distress crackle paint Frayed burlap, glossy accents, grunge board numbers, note pad page and black pen, pewter eyelet

Love Birds

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birds

This is my third attempt at this tag as I kept getting inks fingers prints on it until I used clear embossing powder to seal the ink. It is for the ukstampers challenge B for birds tag.
Techniques used are masking, selective inking and acetate overlay. The birds and centre are stamped under the overlay and stamped again and cut out then glued to the top of the overlay giving a 3d effect.

Inks: Adirondack denim with clear embossing powder
Card: white card, acetate
Stamps: Kodoma: Asian calligraphy love, Chinese border and Blue willow, Non-sequitur Cranes sheet.
Other: eyelet

House mice in flight

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houseMice

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

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jewelsNatures

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

King of all the faeries

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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