A Window on Italy

Another 6 x 4 inch postcard done as part of a swap over on UK Stampers Forum.  The theme this month is 'Windows' so I have done mine on an Italian theme.  The postcard travels to it's recipient 'naked' so it needs to be able to stand up to the RM treatment !

The background is plain white card and I have used a mask and Distress Ink in crushed olive and wild honey to build up layers to leave no white showing.  This has been dried to set with a heat gun.

An old Italian map has been stamped with an arched window stamp from PaperArtsy twice to form a round window in Archival black ink and trimmed out.

The background was then stamped with a leaning tower of Pisa stamp (PaperArtsy) in grey Memento dye ink as shown to form muted images on the right.  I have then heat embossed two stamped images (chandelier & finial) with Versamark and heat embossed with Ranger turquoise embossing powder after first rubbing over with an antistatic bag.

The bottom border is punched from black card with an EK success border punch.  The card was then assembled and edged with turquoise Versamagic chalk ink.  Final touches were to add the computer word, edged with gold pen, and apply Macarena Beadazzles with Glossy Accents to the top left and right of the card.  The whole card was then sprayed with a thin coat of matt sealer to fix.

Sid xx

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Christmas Tree Decorations

This is one of 4 Christmas tree decorations made as part of a swap over on UK Stamper Forum.  We work in groups of five and I have made 4 of these to swap with the other members in the group......... and yes, they do look like the ribbon wreath shown a couple of posts back.  However these are much smaller being only around 2.5 inches in diameter.

My group of swappers all preferred traditional colours and I have used maroon, green, white, silver, gold and red ribbons along with some little red holly berries.  There is no stamping used on this one.

Again the base is made from green florists wire twisted into a circle.  The ribbons have been simply tied on to cover all of the wire whilst the holly berries have been twisted into place.  Finishing touch is to add a small length of silver twine to enable the decoration to be hung in place.

Hope they like them.

Sid xx

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Postcard from America !

This is my entry for the UK Stampers Sunday Challenge for this week. The hostess wanted us to produce a 10 x 15 cm postcard with the destination of USA. So I went a bit abstract and not true to theme exactly..........but who cares ! This is how I made it.

I needed:

• White card (cut to 10 x 15 cm)


• Adirondack Inkpads (Cranberry, Butterscotch & Espresso)


• Make-up sponge


• Versamark Inkpad


• Ranger Embossing Powder (Lemon Yellow & Magenta)


• Stazon Inkpad (Jet Black)


• Gold Artist Ink


• Marvey le Plume II pen (Crimson Lake)


• Colorbox Chalk Ink (Burnt Sienna)


• New York Postal Stamp (Crafty Individuals)


• Grand Hotel Stamp (Inkadinkado)


• Gone to Beach Stamp (Vap Scrap)

I coloured the card using the Adirondack Dye Inks applied in a circular motion in layers with the make-up sponges to achieve the background colour effect. I wanted warm and rich colours to give the impression of a warm beach. Once happy with the effect I heat set with a heat gun.

I then inked the Grand Hotel stamp with versafine and heat embossed with the lemon yellow Ranger EP. Next I inked the gone to beach stamp with Versamark and this time heat embossed with the Ranger magenta EP.

I then drew a line down the centre of the card with the Marvey pen and wrote postcard at the top left. I inked the postal stamp with Stazon and painted three wavy lines in gold artist ink to represent a postal frank. Finally edging the whole card with the chalk ink.

Hope you like it ! :-)

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Sunday Challenge No 6

These three tags were done as my entry for the UK STampers Sunday Challenge. Basically the challenge was to produce three tags in leaf shapes and Autumn colours.

My three tags were cut with the Sure-Cuts-a-Lot program and my Cricut using SVG files. One cut in green, one cut in yellow and one cut in orange textured card. I then used various Moonglow Glitz Spritz sprays in copper, antique gold and green, dried in between coats with the heat gun until very sparkly.

I then used one of the images from the Stampendous foliate quad cube stamp (TC51) with Versamark ink to apply various Moon Glow EP's in Tannenbaum Green Gold, Holly Berry Red Gold, Orbit Olive Gold and Midnight Teal Obsidian along with Adirondack Butterscotch and Bottle EP's all heat embossed with the heat gun and applied in layers.

Colobox Chalk Ink in peach and tangerine was added to edges of leaves and patches on the leaf surfaces.

Finally some red and green organza and orange grosgrain ribbons were added along with a gold swirly clip.

Hope you like them :)

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