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FSC wants to see ‘It’s Just A Number’ for this months challenge which the lovely Brenda picked as her theme.
The smaller numbers on my card have been white embossed to make them stand out more on the painted and stencilled background.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC is all about ‘Tis The Season’ this month which my uber-talented team mate Dot picked as the theme.
Dot explained that we could have either Autumn or Winter as our season … Autumn called to me.
Definitely time for those sun shades.
Let me tell you, I kid you not when I say that this pic is nowhere near as vibrant as the card actually looks, sorry about the glare.
Made the background with paints and a leaf stencil which was cut to size before placing onto the card.
Stamped Mr Goofy onto the background so that little elements of him fell onto the card.
Stamp used is from one of my new sets … I say sets because I bought heaps of these whilst home recently.
As you know I love to go to the The Craft Barn when home and sooooo lucky this time round that Chris Dark was altering a gorgeous box so I booked in … hoping to put pics up later this week.
Quirky stamps are absolutely my thing … Stampotique are one of my all time faves … but I can see me falling in love with these PaperArtsy ones just as much.
Other stamps used are Studio 490 – Tales Of Art and An Eye For Art.
Would really love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC is all about TREES this month which the lovely Sandra picked as the theme.
Isn’t it strange that over the years the things that you used to do a lot of gets pushed to the back of your mind as you develop other tastes in crafting.
Making a scene with stamps and inks was something I so loved doing years back when I first started crafting but other things like paints, molding paste, crackle and messiness seem to have taken over.
So this is why I enjoyed making my little scene below, which was so quick and easy, enjoyed every minute of the making and revisiting some of the old techniques which I used to do. This literally took minutes and yet it looks so very elegant and fresh.
Just shows what you can make with a 6 x 6 white card, three stamps and two colours of ink.
The embossing folder used was an Xcut 6 x 6 square frame, tree stamps are from Stampin Up and the little birdie … who knows it’s that old. The little grass is also an old Art Impression wooden stamp. You can find the cling mounted set here but I think the wooden set has been discontinued.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC is all about Autumnal Colours this month which the lovely Esther picked as the theme.
I opted not to go for an Autumnal make but just to use the Autumn colours.
Ordered some really fab Seth Apter goodies before I went on my hols and they have been sitting on my desk crying out to be used.
The album below has been made with the Contour Change A Page Die. What it does is cut out the pages to make an album of your choice.
For the front of the book I used a range of Autumnal colours and inside there are lots of die cut pages, in various types of cardstock, just waiting to be journalled. Left the rings off to make it easier to take photos.
Paint brushes stamps from Anna Griffin, raindrops Designs By Ryn the quote from PaperArtsy, and not forgetting Studio 490 Art Journal Basics.
All other background stamps are from Stampin Up called Timeless Textures.
A Tim Holtz stencil, Speckles was used with molding paste just to add a little texture here and there.
Black Versafine ink was used for some of the stamps and paint was used for the rest.
Entering into the Craft Stamper Challenge which is Anything Goes.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
We had the most truly amazing news about our granddaughter Amber’s ‘A’ Level results on Thursday and how proud are we????
She got an amazing … 2 A*s and an A. How super cool is that??? Couldn’t get any higher sweets – you are a star yourself.
One A* was in Art, no surprise there!!!! An A* in Graphics Design, again no surprise there as she worked so hard to achieve this.
The real surprise came with an A in English which she worked her socks off for.
Grandma and Grandad are extremely delighted and happy for you sweetheart.
She’s off to Arts University Bournemouth in September and we wish her all the luck in the world in her newest adventure in life.
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Late for the FSC challenge this month because not long back from holiday with Andrew. Went to Turkey and crafting was not even on the horizon. So sorry girls.
FSC is resisting this month and it was the lovely Avril who picked the theme for this challenge.
Went for a very old technique where you use wax paper for the resist. This technique is fabulous as it gives you an embossed effect but with none of the raised area, which means you can stamp without any problems.
Ran the wax paper through the embossing folder first, then placed the wax paper onto a piece of A4 white card before ironing over the top. Please put a silicone craft sheet over the paper before you put your heated iron on top.
You could always sandwich the wax paper between two sheets of cardstock (then iron over) this means you would have a negative and a positive of the embossed image.
This is how the A4 card looked after I blended DI’s picked raspberry, peacock feathers, spiced marmalade and mowed lawn over the top.
The embossing folder used was an 8″ x 8″ so the ends of the A4 card had no resist wax on it.
When you get to this stage you can do anything with the cardstock … cut into quarters so you have enough to make 4 cards, die cut into tags or you can get at least 10 ATC’s from it. Watch out for some lovely tags and ATC’s in the future, all using the above cardstock.
This is my card for the challenge, decided to use a different embossing folder for the background because I wanted to make an 8″ x 8″ card. Also used different coloured DI’s.
A little bit steam punky and if you click on the image you will be able to see that the embossing folder used is full of clock faces.
All stamps and inks used are from the Tim Holtz range, the white on the card is acrylic paint and the border of the card is machine stitched with black thread .
Here is another card which I made a few weeks ago and the background is done using the exact same technique, an embossing folder and wax paper.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC is into ‘Beautiful Blooms’ for this month’s challenge which the lovely Claire picked. My card managed to meander into a very collaged vintage piece all on it’s own.
The beautiful stamped blooms are from a Studio 490 set called ‘Wildflower Art‘. Fussy cut them before colouring and adding glossy accents.
If you look very closely you will see some torn tea bags on either side of the card which gives it a rather nice tatty feel.
I have Dot to thank for the reminder about tea bags. She has just started into her tea bag phase which reminded me that I have a box full of dried out tea bags left over from my itty bitty Tea Bag Book which was made a while back. Gosh that was 18 months ago and it was also a DT piece for FSC. Anyways these are now crying out to be used hence the shredded pieces added to the card.
Just one close up pic which shows some of the layered ephemera and stitching.
Sorry about the glare from the flower on the tag but that’s the camera picking up the shine from the glossy accents.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC is having a Blots & Splashes theme for this month’s challenge and this canvas was made with loads of painty blots and splashes.
Crafty Skype buddy Dot is far more organised than me because she started her piece for FSC whilst on one of our Skype sessions and all I did was play around making roses with copy paper. Ahhhh but the card I made with those roses is gorgeous.
Anyways onto my canvas where I have used another Indigo Blu beauty, she was bought at the same time as her Best Friend.
Used the Tim Holtz Wildflower dies to make the flowers plus I used the same paint to colour in. Flicked white paint over the canvas and blotted away a lot of the excess.
Here you can see some close ups which shows more clearly the splashes which were achieved with the Tim Holtz stencil Splatters.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC this month is having a colour theme kind of moment and it was moi who chose this theme.
What is it you ask???? … Blue/Yellow and White are the colours which we are looking for. I really hope you will join in with us.
Yikes I can hear you saying that’s nothing like the colour combinations that FSC want to see. That’s because it’s a before and after that I am showing.
The first pic is how the wall hanger looked when I bought it in the sale at Cargo. After a complete overhaul and workout the second pic shows how it looks now.
Just couldn’t wait to get my little mits on the Indigo Blu stamp which takes centre stage. She looks so forlorn and melancholy who could resist her.
I bought a few of these end of line Christmas hangers so that I could use them in my class and the girls loved how they turned out.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC this month is having a Butterfly time and the lovely Dot chose the theme for us all, I really hope you will join in this month.
A vibrant and cheerful card just to put me in the mood for Spring. Went with a yellow, orange and blue colour palette plus I used four stamps to create this piece, they are:
Dina Wakley Silhouetted Women, Studio 490 Original Art, Rangers Wings Quote and Finnabair Butterfly 3.
The butterflies are all 3D and the top two are flying her into the air.
To get this dimension, first stamp onto your card then re-stamp onto a spare piece of cardstock, cut out and layer over the original stamped image.
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
FSC this month is having a Sunset/Sunrise kind of moment. Sandra chose this fun theme for us all at FSC and I really hope you will join in with us. Sandra’s inspiration came from looking out of her window and seeing the most amazing sunrise.
Finally got to use my set of Cityscapes stamps from Stampers Anonymous along with an old SU set called Sense Of Time.
Stamping the ‘Time For Reflection’ was a bit fiddly as I only had one ‘e’ in the set and also they were the teeeniest alphabet stamps imaginable!!!!
I would love it if you hopped on over to see all the DT’s work as they are simply stunning. Also don’t forget that the winner of this challenge has $20 to choose anything they like from Flonz’s store.
Wife to Andrew (best hubby in the world), mother of 2 wonderful boys and hopefully the best grandma to three beautiful grandchildren, oh can't forget my other babies Penny Black & Chip!
