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Very Polite And Olde Worlde At VSC

March 2nd, 2015 by Shirl - Posted in FlonzCrafts, Stampers Anonymous, Stamping, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a challenge theme this month of ‘Olde Worlde’.  This means we would love to see whatever floats your boat with old or Victoriana.   I am sure my grandchildren think Andrew and myself are ‘Olde Worlde’ … positively ancient looking in their eyes.

Christine picked the theme for this month and I went with an extremely polite looking gentleman’s card where they are taking their dogs for a stroll.  Don’t you just love the hats and the way they used to doff them at each other as they passed.

Hasn’t anyone told that dog that it’s bad to smoke!!!!

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You can find the stamps used from Flonzcrafts here.  More scrummy close up pics of the background stamping, inking, stencilling and masking off.  Used a sentiment which came from the Studio 490 set of stamps.

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I really hope that you can join us for this month’s challenge.  To enter just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store.

Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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VSC Wants You To Bring On Those Spring Colours

February 2nd, 2015 by Shirl - Posted in Inkylicious Stamps, PaperArtsy, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a challenge theme this month of ‘Bring On Those Spring Colours’.  This means you can make anything with your interpretation of Spring colours.

I went with a very muted colour scheme for my card as I am not really feeling the spring mood yet.  Which is a shame because I was the one who chose the theme for this month.  Very optimistic of me because our weather at the moment is bitterly cold with intermittent sprinklings of the fluffy white stuff.

Used a FlonzCrafts stamp which you can find here but I am not sure she should be painting outside in this weather.

To enter this month’s challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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New Year, New Stash At VSC

January 5th, 2015 by Shirl - Posted in Boxes, Darkroom Door, FlonzCrafts, LaBlanche, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Happy New Year to each and every one of you and welcome to my first project of 2015 which also happens to be the first challenge at VSC.

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a challenge theme this month of New Year, New Stash.  This means you can make anything with all that new stash you received over Christmas.

This is one of those projects that I had no idea where it was going until the very end.  I can never be accused of over thinking my makes because each one just takes on a life of it’s own along the way.  This one is designed along the lines of a matchbox and has three tags inside which hang freely when opened.  The front has a stamped tissue paper image which I lightly coloured.

The first two pics shows the box and the sides, the next two is when the inside is pulled open revealing a stamped eye image.

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When the drawer is opened everything slides out and lays flat.  This is where my imagination went into overdrive and I used the Ticket Strip die to attach the tags.

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Below you can see how the tags swing freely and all the detail of the stamping.

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Each tag has some amazing stamped images from Flonzcrafts on them plus each has been lightly coloured.

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To enter this month’s challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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VSC Wants To See A Christmas Song

December 1st, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Christmas, FlonzCrafts, Tim Holtz, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a Christmas Song challenge theme this month.  This means you can make anything as long as it has a Christmas song or carol.

The stamp I chose from Flonzcrafts, which you can find here, is called’ Mother Reading Book For Children’ which fitted in just nicely.  Coloured mainly with DI’s  – Peeled Paint and Barn Door but also added a white hi-lighter pen and coloured pencils.  Ripped a piece of  G45 paper from the ‘Twelve Days Of Christmas’  collection and the other paper was from my stash.

I can so remember myself sitting on the sofa, when my boys were younger, and reading to them just as this mother is doing.  What an age ago that was but how happy the memories make me feel.

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To enter this month’s challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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Just Go Wherever It Takes You

October 6th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Christmas, FlonzCrafts, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a colour challenge theme this month of Orange, Purple, Black, Red and Green.  You can pick any one of these colours or all of them if you wish.  This is my DT piece for the challenge and I chose to use Orange, Black, Red and Purple as my main colours.

This definitely didn’t start out as a Christmas card but as you can see that is what it ended up being.

Way to early for me to be thinking about the little red fat man but as I was starting the background for some reason snow and Christmas popped into my head.  Well that was it everything just snowballed from there. lol!!

Here is a close up pic of the boy on his sledge …cute or what.  You can find him here and the lady is here.

To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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An Anything Goes Album For VSC

September 4th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Album, FlonzCrafts, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has an Anything Goes challenge theme this month.  This is my DT piece for the challenge an anything you want to put in it album.

Made this a few months ago but only just finished because I had trouble getting wooden beads for it.  A very good friend called Maria gave me a packet at my class last week.  Thank you Maria x x

Another reason why it was never finished was because I didn’t have any matching ribbon to thread the beads through.  Whilst on holiday I took the album with me to see if I could match some ribbon.  A fabulous lady called Sue from Stampy Sue gave me some ribbon which matched everything perfectly.  Thanks Sue x x

Should really call this my freebie album!!!

The beads are threaded through the ribbon and used as separators, this way you can add very dimensional elements.  The stamps on the front are from Inkadinkadoo called Bottle Row.

When Dot and I Skype we show each other our makes and she loved the stamps used on this album.  So I told her where I bought them and she got some as well.  Forgot to take a photo of the side because I used the single bottle but you can see what it looks like by seeing what Dot has made with it here.

Love making albums because I can use so many techniques and add them to each page.  The little birdcage die was triple embossed with red embossing powder then some silver guilding wax added.  The same page had loads of stamping, colouring, inking and stencilling added to it.  You can just see the beads on the side of the pic.

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On the second pic below the image of the whispering ladies was printed onto tissue paper and added with Mod Podge.  The last page has two stamped images from Flonzcrafts which you can find here.  There are three large tags inserted into the side edges of the pages.

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To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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He Looks Too Good To Be True

August 14th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Album, FlonzCrafts, Prima, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a Summer Days challenge theme this month which was our lovely teamie sister Claire’s choice.

This is my DT piece for the challenge a Summer Album.  The hunky man on the front is a stamp from Flonzcrafts which I gently coloured with distress markers.  I say gently because it was stamped onto a very flimsy cream paper lace doily which is from the Docrafts range.  Masked him off then added dimensional paste through a TH stencil called Burlap.  Added some Worn Lipstick ink then topped off with gilding wax called Rose Quartz.  It has given the paste such a polished lustre which you can only see in real life.  Papers used are from a Prima pad called Stationer’s Desk.

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My inside cover page of the album has a stamped border of roses which were inked with  Black Versafine then coloured in with Faber Castelle watercolour pencils.  The woman painter was also coloured the same way, you can find her here.  The same ink pad was used for the quote before framing and cutting out.

Six envelopes were used to make this album with the stacking binding system.  Another of Flonzcrafts stamps was used for the back of the album which is here.

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To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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Summer Blooms

June 2nd, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a Summer Blooms challenge theme this month which was our lovely teamie sister Brenda’s choice.

This started life as a plain MDF box and then went through a complete change with paints, inks, paste, gilding wax, stamps, masks and frames until it passed the Shirl test of me being happy with the end product.

Bought the frame a few weeks back because I thought it would look so pretty with one of the grandkids’ photos in it.  Already had the box lid painted and masked when I pressed the frame onto it just to see how it would look … oops, broke the glass.  Guess who forgot that dimensional paste made an uneven surface.  Don’t you just love happy accidents, the look of the broken glass was amazing and wanted to keep it looking like that.  Very carefully I stuck the frame onto the lid then added a thick layer of glossy accents all over the broken glass.  Tested very gingerly when it was dry to see if I could feel any glass bits .  All was AOK so I sanded bits of the frame in places to add some gilding wax.  Flowers and G45 paper around the edges completes the outside of the box.  Wait until you see what I have made for the inside.

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To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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Ribbon & Bows Meet darkroom door

May 5th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in FlonzCrafts, Stampin Up, Tim Holtz, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has a Ribbons & Bows challenge theme this month which was my choice

Used some new products when making this card the first being the little bow which was made from core card with the Sizzix die called Bow-Tied.

The background was made by using the Marina Mist ink pad from Stampin Up with one of my new texture stamps from darkroom door called Plaid.  Added a Stampin Up stamp from the Simply Sketched collection to make the floral border then coloured with Pro Markers.  The image from  Flonzcrafts was also coloured with the same Pro Markers.

  Whilst buying the plaid stamp I added another five background stamps to the order called – Floral, French Script, Harlequin, Dots and Star. which you can find here.

To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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A Cute Just For You Card

April 8th, 2014 by Shirl - Posted in FlonzCrafts, Vintage Stamping Challenges

Vintage Stamping Challenges has an Anything Goes for their new challenge this month.

The lovely Dot picked the theme for this month.   Now who doesn’t like an anything goes.

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Stamped an image which came from Flonzcrafts twice.  Once on a pink piece of paper the second onto a cream piece of cardstock then cut out and coloured.  Next with a piece of cardstock I made the background to place them on.

To enter this months challenge just click Mr Linky at the bottom of the VSC web page and maybe it could be you who wins the $20 from Flonz’s store. Please visit the DT’s blogs for more inspiration and also it would be nice to leave them some love.

Shirl

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