Little owl...

Designed for Guides and for a class at Abington in June. This is the easy version, will follow up with a slightly more complicated one for the Abington class...

Live, Love, Laugh

Oh no! Not new IndigoBlu stamps! I saw the new LLL stamps with the lovely bird and flowers and decided that I needed to colour them in...

The birds I stamped in Archival first, then the second set in Stayz On. The second ink doesn't smudge and run with ProMarkers - such a rookie mistake! Never mind...

These are my first attempts, I love them!

Pretty stamp and texture cards.

A couple of weeks ago I took part in a class run by Charlie Camp, a local Stampin-Up demonstrator, at the Cambridge Scrapbooking and Cardmaking Group.

We made 3 cards and a little bag, folded from a single 6x6 sheet.

Here are my results from the day...

 

 

 

 

 

 

(All papers, stamps, embossing folders, inks and punches by Stampin-Up)

 

I see no ships...

So, here is another birthday icon...

This time it was for Becca, the young lady who added the pressure by saying that she looked forward to seeing what would arrive for her birthday!

 

This time I started with a paper that had a large female face on it (don't remeber who its by!) and inking over it through a mask of cogs. The ink used is TH Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

 

I then stamped a swirly border at the top using Versacolor Gold. No one told me that I needed to dry it, so it is a bit smudged and I have spread gold ink all over the background! Mind you, there are no mistakes - only happy accidents!

 

The lady with the ship hat and the sentiment are both from a PaperArtsy (might be a Lynn Perrella design?), the swirl is from the Clockwork Birds collection used on the other icon.  

 I stamped the sentiment in black ink and then coloured the edges up with Vintage Photo and highlighted with the gold.

The Wooden clockfaces are by Prima. I have colored their edges with gold ink again.

The metals clock hands are from stash. The flowers and the swirls are also by Prima (I think I had a bit of a moment - but the Prima stuff is so lovely I just NEED it...!!!).

The edges are hidden by a rather lovely deep red/brown velvet scallop-edge ribbon that I found at ITC and don't seem to be able to get hold of anymore! :-(

 

I know that this icon 'card' was liked because it is hanging up in her bedroom!

 

 

Victorian Clockwork Birds Icon

I was trying to come up with a totally different idea for a birthday card for Colin's nephew and niece. I have always enjoyed making cards for them all, but the pressure was applied by 'Becca who said that the best part of her birthday was seeing what would come from me...

I found the chipboard icon at Its Crafting Time and used it as the base.

I covered the base with a black and white paper with little skulls on (Graphic 45 I think?). I then inked through a Tando stencil with silver ink in random patterns.

The two corner swirls are by Prima and are inkable fabric pieces. They are a resist canvas. They are sprayed with Dylusions Bubblegum.

The birds, clock faces, cogs and sentiment are all from The Stamp Attic. They have been stamped in Tuxedo Black and Rose Bud Memento inks.

The clockface at the bottom is a metals element by Prima.

The Pearl Swirls are by Creative Expressions. I have cut them up to make the most use of them and spread them about.


The back is covered in the same paper as the sentiment is stamped on and left fairly blank to allow it to be written on.

The final stage was to cover the edges of the icon with black ribbon with white stitching through it. This covers up all of the mucky bits!

Of course, the final stage was to add some more bling using individual pink and clear sticky gems!

 

This 'card' went to our nephew who, despite my fears of the pinkness, loved it!

 

 

I hope you like it too!

 

Challenges:

http://atcswithattitude.blogspot.co.uk/ CHALLENGE 31, Add A Tag or Sentiment/Anything Goes

http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-30-for-birds.html February Challenge, 'For the birds'



Butterfly birthday

This birthday card is based on the October DT sketch from Its Crafting Time. The sketch is really simple and gave me the idea for my layout.

The card is made on a piece of heavy weight linen photo paper, size 8.5 x 11.5 (letter size rather than A4) as this gives a shorter fatter card when you fold it in half.

The papers used in the background are 'Miss. Caroline' by Jen Allyson, published by My Minds Eye. The blue is trimmed with a rotary cutter to get the soft wavy edges. The butterfly paper is cut with a Spellbinders dye.

The main image is a Polka Doodles stamp that came free with Crads and Papercraft magazine. It was stamped with Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured with Promarkers. The image was trimmed with a Spellbinders to match the butterfly paper. It was edged in Memento 'Rose Pink' and then sprayed heavily with Crafters Companion 'Spray and Sparkle' to give the sparkly laquered look. 

I then took three Tando Creative chiboard butterflies and painted them with pale blue acrylic. Once they wre dry, I then stamped them using a small rose stamp from the same set as yhe main image.

They were then covered in a thick layer of Glossy Accents to finish. Once the card was assembled, I added some pink gems from my stash to make the 'trails' linking the butterflies together, and stamped the 'Happy Birthday' to finish.

Grandma really liked her card, I hope you do too!

 

All in one???!!

This design is made from a single sheet of A3 water colour paper. The fold was shown to me by Cheryl at ITC craft club.
(I will try and make a step by step set of instructions soon!)
The fold leaves you with 4 diagonal pockets (and several other little hidey holes...) which I have put tags in.
The image stamps are by Indigo Blu, from the 'Sewing mends the soul' set. They have been stamped in a combination of Ranger distress inks and Memento inks. The ink has also been lifted using a water brush to give the appearance of water colouring in places.
The music background stamp is by Papermania.
The tag images are by Graphic 45, which I found had the identical 'Ellen Terry Corset' image on to the Indigo Blu stamps!

The stamps were sprayed with a mixture of Glimmer Mists and Dylusions Inks through masks from my stash. The Glimmer Mists are horribly expensive, but the shine is fantastic!

The ribbons, brads and other bits and bobs are all from stash.