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Tag Time At FSC

June 2nd, 2013 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping, Tags

Sorry all been MIA for ages but I have had the family over for the last 10 days and it was cleaning time before they came and now they have gone back it’s the same round of cleaning but in reverse … clean sheets on dirty sheets off, rooms all clean, rooms all dirty … think you get the drift

Anyway it’s Tag Time at Fashionable Stamping Challenges this fortnight and my tag is a joint effort with my favourite grandson Alex (only have one grandson).

Alex is a typical 13 year old boy, when the sun is shining he can find loads to do as soon as the rain comes he’s bored!!! Lucky enough we only had a half day of rain for the entire holiday and that’s when Alex started this tag. I asked him to place different pieces onto a tag … buttons, paper-clips, studs, safety pin and a bottle top … all boy things. I showed him how to rip off pieces of the silver electricians tape and cover over the elements. Gave him a ball tool then asked him to burnish over each piece. He chose a stencil which he used with the moulding paste to add more texture. Next came the gesso … he loved this part … painted over everything on the tag. He picked three different colours of Glimmer Mists and sprayed.

Can you believe after he had done all of that the sun came out so off we all trotted to the beach.
We didn’t get another bad day the entire holiday. Went to Kilmore Quays, Hook Head Lighthouse (oldest working lighthouse in the world), beach three more times and the last day was spent in Kilkenny where we met up with Pat.

Hey presto Alex lost interest and never finished the tag so I added the finishing touches. Not sure he is going to approve of how I finished it though.

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Used Flonzcrafts stamps and remember you could be in with a chance to win $20 to spend at his store if you are picked as the winner of the FSC challenge.

Shirl

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Sentimental At FSC

April 21st, 2013 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Brenda came around for a playday when I was at home and showed Pat, Clare, Amber and myself how to alter a plain box to this.
Didn’t have time to complete the inside so I decided to finish for my DT piece at Fashionable Stamping Challenges which is Sentimental this fortnight. Our generous sponsor Flonz Crafts will be giving the winner of this challenge $20 to spend at his online shop.

To finish the box I needed to decorate the inside and that’s where my sentiments went. Stamped the Dylusions Quintessential Quotes also a sentiment from a Woodware set and the other was from Indigo Blue called Grand Tour III.

Before I added to the bottom inside of the box I took a photo because once inside the box it wouldn’t have shown all the gorgeous techniques which I did. Crackled her hair and the bird but for her face I used Glossy Accents. Masked off and made a border, coloured in plus I shaded with a graphite pencil which Brenda showed us how to use.

Wahoo sweets managed to get one over here.

Thanks Brenda you were such a hunny bunny to both Pat and I when we were home … oh to be living in the UK again … sigh!!!!

Shirl

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FSC Meets A Playday

March 24th, 2013 by Shirl - Posted in Album, Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping, Tags

Fashionable Stamping Challenges want to see you Paperpiece onto your project this fortnight plus our generous sponsor Flonz Crafts will be giving the winner of this challenge $20 to spend in his shop.
Can you Adam and Eve it … that’s believe it for all you non cockney’s … this used to be my one true love with crafting … how times change.

Two crafty friends came for a play day on Monday and one brought with her the new Big Shot Pro Die Pocket Page and Tag plus all the six Prima Doll Stamps … yep she had them all, oh what a day we had … crafty heaven for all … ehhh except Andrew.

This die can only be used with the Big Shot Pro Machine … no she didn’t lug this huge beast to my house, I already have one but I didn’t have the die. As you can imagine we all had a cut out fest and then sat down and started to make our albums.

These are two of the tags which will live in the album … sorry girls had to chop off all their legs at the knees because they are just so humongous and wouldn’t fit onto the tags. The stamps are about 7.5″ up to 8″ in length … that’s large.

What better papers to use with the dolly stamps than the Graphic 45 Secret Garden Collection … now these stamps are just like Marmite … you either love them or hate them. I love them, might be something to do with the fact they have no face … not sure what that says about me!!!

Used six pages for the album and each page has a stamped girly tag poked into the pocket. Every image has been paperpieced with the G45 papers. Below is the front of the album and showing the first Prima Doll.

Who is this album for you ask my granddaughter … LAUREN. Her birthday is in April when she will be ten so this is her birthday card … eh album. The stamps used here are from the Prima Romantique Collection which should appeal to any little girl especially when paperpieced.

Prima Album 1 Prima Album 2 Prima Album 3

Lots more to show but that can wait for another time. Right now you should hop over and catch what all my other teemies have made … utterly amazing what you will see.

Shirl

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Swirls At FSC

March 10th, 2013 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping, Vintage, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Lots of exciting things happening at Fashionable Stamping Challenges.

Firstly FSC has their very own DOTCOM address which is www.fashionablestampingchallenges.com this means that if you have us in your bookmarks or favourites can you please make sure you update your link.

Another piece of exciting news we have a new sponsor called Flonzcrafts who will be giving the winner of each challenge $20 to spend in his store. Now that really is amazing. So what will you have to do this fortnight to win this fabulous prize … just show us those SWIRLS.

The DT sweeties have really pushed the boat out and made some truly inspirational pieces for you to have a look at.

Below is a card which I made for a friends birthday, she is very elegant and wears some amazing outfits and these stamps were just right. You can find one set here and the other here.

This works out really well for an inspirational piece at Vintage Stamping Challenges, their challenge theme is Spring Is In The Air.

Shirl

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Birds At FSC

February 10th, 2013 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Graphic 45, Stampin Up, Stamping

BIRDS is definitely the name of the game this fortnight at Fashionable Stamping Challenges as chosen by my lovely teemie Meggymay so we would love to see those birdies in anyway shape or form.

It’s my SIL Irene’s birthday today and this is the card I have made for her. Happy Birthday … Eye!!!!
I used a garland stitch to join together two 8″ x 8″ Papermania scalloped cardstock pieces then scored down beside the stitching … had this cardstock for a number of years but it only came to light because I am cleaning out my craft room … about time too says hubby.

Got so carried away with the stitching that even the ribbon couldn’t escape the needle. Irene is very much like myself and likes the pretty grungy type cards so this was a joy to make for her. It’s really great when you get these ideas and put them into practise but the only problem now is finding an envelope big enough to fit the card … d’oh.

Brenda one of my DT sister’s at FSC is having a 3rd Blogaversary giveaway and she has a fabby set of stamps and more up for grabs … so what are you waiting for!!!!

Had a little fun time with GIMP … take a look.

Shirl

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Surprise Us At Fashionable Stamping Challenges

December 30th, 2012 by Shirl - Posted in Album, Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping

Our first challenge for the New Year at Fashionable Stamping Challenges is … Surprise Us. This is so easy peasy basically it’s an anything goes, you can enter whatever you like.

A few of the Fashionettes decided to have a Secret Santa with our creations from this challenge.

Joanna was the inspiration behind the Secret Santa gift so she put all our names into a hat and drew out who our Secret Santa’s are going to be.

My Secret Santa gift is for a very special person but all will be revealed when everyone has received their gifts.

I have made an altered beer mat brag book. Four beer mats have been gessoed, acrylic paint and ink added then napkin decoupage along with stamping, masking plus moulding paste … even a little shrink plastic. In between each of the four beer mats I have added four extra coloured card pages with a decorative border so that the recipient can add photos.

Can’t wait to visit all the Fashionettes to see who there Secret Santa’s are and what lovely creations they will be receiving.

Now is the time to hop on over to the FSC challenge and see what the amazing DT’s have been up to.

One very talented bunch of ladies that I have the honour to work with and I love everyone of them. x x x

Not forgetting the lovely Marina at Cottage Crafts who sponsors our challenge. x x x x

Shirl

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Mask It At FSC

December 16th, 2012 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping, Tags

Who just wants all those Christmas cards to be over so that they can sit back, relax and enjoy the festive season which will soon be upon us … meeeeeee!!!

Not one but two cards to show you today and both have been made for Fashionable Stamping Challenges who want to see you MASK IT … please don’t forget that stamping.

First card is the one I showed my class how to make. There were two techniques which they learned how to do yesterday, one was the masking and the other was how to make a lace flower. The butterfly which was stamped onto vellum with white embossing powder was then stitched onto the lace flower rather than use any glue. If I am using stitching on my cards then I tend to use this method rather than glue. I love my insides to match the outside so we used the same masking method for the inside of the card and the paper used is the same as on the front, all edges were punched with the Martha Stewart doily punch.

Now this card is my play around card and my first time of using the Flitter Glue … whoa I love it. Can see me using this more and more now. This time I made a material flower but using the same method as above, again I have used a mask for the background.

Now is the time to hop on over to the FSC challenge and see what the amazing DT’s have been up to.
One very talented bunch of ladies that I have the honour to work with and I love everyone of them. x x x
Not forgetting the lovely Marina at Cottage Crafts who sponsors our challenge. x x x x

Shirl

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Fabric Lady

December 3rd, 2012 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping, Tags, Vintage

Fashionable Stamping Challenges is To Die For. Yes it is a fabby blog challenge but this is the theme of the challenge this fortnight, use any of your dies or punches. How easy is this one.

Made a tag for my Design Team piece, stamped the Graphic 45 Ladies Diary image onto cardstock then cut out. I then dressed her with some beautiful layers of lace, gauze and linen. Inked the edges then sprayed with Gold Glimmer Mist.

How gorgeous does she look. Used the Sizzix die … Flowers 3-D for the flower embellishments. Very plain and simple for me but I thought she deserved to be the centre stage.

Now you just have to hop on over to see what all the stampettes have made for their DT pieces … just amazing.

Entering For: Live & Love Crafts Inspiration & Challenge Blog – Anything but a card
Craft Room Challenge – Ooh La La
TSG Clear Stamps – Tag You’re it
Creative Inspirations Paint – Gift tags
Try It On Tuesday – Let’s Get Inky

Shirl

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Musical

November 7th, 2012 by Shirl - Posted in Album, Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stamping

I posted an album a few posts back … you can see it here and here … this is another page from it. Works out perfectly for my DT piece at Fashionable Stamping Challenges – Musical.

Used the See D’s stamps called Let’s Make Music which I think are discontinued now but you can see all the set here. Stamped the piano which I coloured with watercolours then added Diamond glaze. Also stamped the word concert, cut the letters individually, then added down the side of the album page.

That gorgeous Mozart picture was ripped and torn from a music book, added a triple layer of gold embossing powder which was then stamped into whilst still molten.

Lots more pages to see another time but please have a look at all the Fashionettes/Stampettes creations because once again they have created amazing projects for your inspiration. Marina from Cottage Crafts sponsors FSC every fortnight with a prize for the winner of the challenge.

Shirl

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Small Is Beautiful

September 10th, 2012 by Shirl - Posted in Fashionable Stamping Challenges, Stampin Up

Yeh know what, I have been so busy designing and creating for up-coming workshops that my poor little blog has been neglected … 😥

Managed to post my DT piece for Fashionable Stamping Challenges which is …

Good Things Come In Small Packages.

I am so in love with these little albums, the first two I made were with two 12″ x 12″ pieces of paper which gives you a 6″ x 6 “album.

This time round I started with two 6″ x 6″ papers which makes a very neat little 3″ x 3″ album. Used the Graphic 45 papers … A Ladies Diary, so beautiful and also some Stampin Up papers.

Some of the stamps are from the Peg Stamp Range which are really weeny … embossed a few with gold embossing powder. The inside stamps are from Prima Romantique Collection but the little heart stamp that she is sitting on was from a set of … See D’s Stamps (think they are discontinued because I can’t find a link anywhere).

The ribbon was ~~died~~ … (oops thought I would leave it in because the ribbon looks as if it has died being so grungy and dirty looking lol) … dyed with rust alcohol ink then heat set to melt and distort just a little. Used micro beads for the little girls hat and the ribbon around the waist.