Understated

Here is a little grungey plate made on a piece of white card 5x5 inches square.  I have used some torn background paper applied with glue stick and coloured with vintage photo and wild honey Distress inks.

I have used some TH Salvage stickers to embellish and a range of stamped images from The Artistic stamper (bee), PaperArtsy (central plaque),  Toodles & Binks (flower),  Tanda (spotty background), Stampers Anonymous (stencil letters) & a linen stamp ?   The red ink is Memento.

The central words were stamped in archival black onto card and trimmed out, I coloured the words red with a copic marker before mounting on foam pads.

A piece of brass chain was added with brads as shown and three star brads were added at the top right.  Some stickles was added and some tissue tape at two of the edges.

Sid xx

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AIW ATC Mini- Book

I thought it about time I did a blog post, it's been a while since I did !!

Because I have an Alice in Wonderland fascination at the moment.  This is a little ATC Mini-Book made from a single piece of 12 x 12 printed paper.  Instructions on how it was made can be found HERE. 

Once the book was made I covered it in printed paper and then started to decorate with printed images, stamping and stickers. I also used my trusty Posca pens to doodle various things on the inside pages & TH Tissue tape on the front.

The book has 8 pockets in which you can fit 8 ATC sized cards.

The ATC's were made from brown textured card which were diecut at the top edge with a Sizzix TH 'on The Edge' die to shape the tops.  The panels were covered in various printed papers and embellished with words, printed images etc

Really enjoyed decorating and stamping this one.  It's really good to have a go in your own style and these make fab little gifts. A slightly different style for me too but I do like doing these collagey things of late.

Sid xx

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Blue Boy ATC

Here is an ATC I made using some free images from The Land of Nod Studios blog.  The backgroud is tangerine Impress smooshed over a white card and dried with a heat gun.  The watch face is a stamp from Crafty Individuals and I have used Copics, Poscas and a silver pen along with an American crafts border & arrow to embellish.

The spots on the background are made using Copics over the background.  The words are pre-printed and the ATC is edged with iris blue Chalk Ink (Colobox) to finish.

Sid xx

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Tatty Wonderland Tags

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Cool Cupcake

What a cool cupcake !!  Not of the edible variety and totally calorie free too.  This was made over the weekend as one of our crafty projects at our little crafty retreat in Skipton.  As I always liked blue that was my colour theme.

The whole concept was dreamed up and overseen by the very talented Efemera and many thanks to her  for sharing it.

The base is an empty cotton reel and the stand top is a piece of circular craft board both covered in patterned paper.  The fringe is also made from printed paper punched with a Martha Stewart edge punch.

The cupcake itself is made from a blue silicone cupcake case as its base.  The 'cake' is made from a polystyrene ball cut in half which is covered in a piece of white felt stretched and pinned in place over the half poly ball.  The frill is made from elasticated blue gingham ribbon from The Ribbon Girl.  This was stretched around the half ball and pinned in place into the polystyrene.  A very small amount of polyester fibre was added to the silicone base to fill it and the ball fixed in place with silicone glue applied around the ribbon before easing into the case. Once in position  I stuck a couple of pins through the case into the poly ball until the glue had set !

When the silicone glue had set the cupcake was embellished with a  piece of green satin ribbon, a paper flower, a red bead and a red headed pin to hold all in place on the top.

The finishing touch was to apply some blue Dew Drops from 3D Jean stuck in place with glossy accents.

What a tasty confection !!

Sid xx

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