Spots & Dots ATC

This ATC was done to experiment with textures.  I took a piece of black & white printed dotty paper and put it through the Big Shot with a TH embossing folder.....this definately reminded me of a miniature bedquilt..  I then swiped over the raised squares with moonlight white Brilliance inkpad and dried with a heat gun before trimming to size.  This was stuck onto a card blank and the edges rounded with a corner rounder punch.

I then took some  various sized square punches and punched out squares in gold paper and some mulberry paper with gold flecks and applied these with glue as shown.  Then I applied three glue dots and heat embossed these with gold embossing powder.  I used a white opaque pigment pen to outline the squares and write the text.  The ATC was edged in burnt sienna Colorbox chalk ink and some diamond Stickles glitter glue was applied thinly to highlight some of the background squares.

Sid xx

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'Rolling Recipe' Tag 4

This is the fourth tag in the challenge series, recipe for this one is:

1. A stamped floral image
2. Text
3. The colour red

I started by stamping a wood mounted floral stamp from Elusive Images with Versamark ink onto white cardstock. This was then heat embossed with detail black embossing powder. The embossd image was next coloured with a waterbrush and Caran D'Ache water soluble crayons before trimming out with fine scissors.

The base tag was cut to size and a piece of Japanese text applied to the top half with glue stick. The lower half was covered in a piece of torn red striped paper.

Peeled paint distress ink was applied in rough stripes on the text paper at the top and blazing red Stazon was applied on the red paper direct from the inkpad. Some green hand made paper was cut into strips with a pair of deckle edge scissors and two strips were applied as shown.

Next another swirl stamp (Elusive Images) was inked with blazing red Stazon and this was stamped at the top and on the red paper at the bottom.

Finally the flower image was stuck in place with glue stick and the word 'Bloom' (Elusive Images)stamped roughly in onyz black Versafine at the bottom.

Sid xx

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Happy Halloween Card

Here is a Halloween card featuring a cuttlebug embossing folder spiders web.

The card started off as a piece of light blue whitecore card which was folded and passed through the embossing folder to emboss. the raised embossing was sanded back to white with some fine sandpaper and a block. The web was rubbed over with a yellow Whispers dye ink pad to colour the revealed white then the front of the card was sprayed lightly with purple mica powder spray and dried with the heat gun.

The base of the card was stamped a number of times with a circular swirl stamp from PaperArtsy inked with pale blue Versamagic ink.

Next the pumpkin was diecut using a sizzix die and purple paper, and the crow diecut similarly with black card. The pumpkin was overstamped down one side with the same swirl stamp and chalk ink, backed with yellow mulberry paper and the eyes, nose and mouth glittered with Stickles glitter glue. The crow was stamped similarly and the eye highlighted in Signo white pigment ink pen.

Next the 'Happy Halloween' greeting was stamped using a clear stamp from Sizzix and onyx black Versafine ink onto purple mottled paper and this was matted onto plain purple paper.

All elements were then assembled with liquid glue as shown in the example. HAPPY HALLOWEEN everybody !

Sid xx

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12 Days of ........... Day 1

We are doing a weekly challenge over on UK Stampers Forum. Gail (Efemera) came up with the idea of doing a plate a week for 12 weeks representing the 12 days of.............. !

By this I mean it's not necessarily Christmas but roughly follows your interpretation of the famous Xmas song. So day 1 was 'On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree'. The plates are eventually to be ribbonned together to form an accordian book of 10 x 10 cm square.

I first cut the plate out of fairly heavy cardstock and covered this with a piece of decorative paper (Basic Grey). I then stamped directly onto this at the bottom with a punchcard dot stamp (?) using Memento ink in cottage ivy. Next I used a pear stamp from ISC and inked this with spiced marmalade Distress Ink onto another piece of blue/grey printed paper (Basic Grey). I then trimmed this out and edged with malted mauve Versamagic chalk ink before sticking down with glue stick as shown.

Next a piece of torn spotty mulberry paper was stuck in place on the right and I used a crow stamp (Time to Stamp) and inked this with black Stazon and stamped at the top as shown. The stencil alphas (?) spelling No 1 were inked with vintage sepia Versafine and stamped as shown. Once dry these were edged with souffle pen in peppermint green to give them more definition.

The whole card was edged fairly heavily in more of the mulled mauve Vesamagic chalk ink to finish.

Sid xx

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'R' is for Rust Tag

Here is a 15 x 9 cm tag I did for the Sunday Challenge on UK Stampers Forum. The Letter was 'R' and the topic was 'Rust'. I wanted to do a dark and rusty finish so this is what I used and did to create the tag:

• White base card
• Dark Brown croc effect handmade mulberry paper
• Stamp (Frayed linen ?)
• Chipboard letter R
• Epoxy stickers
• Ruler background paper
• Black fine wire
• Copper gauze
• Embossing Powder (Chinese Lacquer)
• Versamark Inkpad
• Black Eyelet
• Sticky fingers gold spray
• Antique gold rub-on wax

I first took the handmade paper and covered the tag with it, cutting a hole and applying the black eyelet with the Crop-o-Dile.

The stamp was inked with Versamark and applied three times randomly over the tag and heat embossing with the EP. The tag surface was sprayed with gold sticky fingers spray and finished with metallic rub-ons in antique gold.
The copper gauze was distorted and small amounts of the EP were melted into the surface in a random fashion. This was then adhered as shown with sticky dots. Next the chipboard R was heat embossed with the EP and the black wire wrapped around the R (which was then adhered with a sticky dot) and then around the tag adhering at the back with sticky tape. The ruler paper was cut into strips and two strips were applied at the top and behind the copper gauze.

The epoxy letters were applied with sticky dots as shown. Finally some more black wire was twisted through the eyelet to finish.

Hope you like it :-)

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Mini Altered Book

Altered books are a lovely thing to create. This one is part of a swap run by Dansmum (Hazel) on the UK Stampers Forum. She sent each of the swappers two pieces of clear polypropylene to use as covers. They were approx 5 x 3 inches in size.

Materials:

• Jacquard Lumiere acrylic paint (pearl blue)
• Stazon (imperial purple)
• Gold metallic spray (Sticky Fingers)
• Decorative self adhesive ribbon
• Satin Ribbon
• White rub-ons
• Blue mulberry paper
  

I painted the covers on both sides with two coats of Jacquard Lumiere paint in pearl blue, allowing the paint to dry between coats. I then used a starburst stamp and stamped randomly with Stazon in imperial purple on both the front and the back covers. I used the Sticky Fingers gold metallic spray to then spray over the covers lightly and allowed this to dry. I applied the self adhesive ribbon top and bottom of the front cover and finished with a flourish rub-on and the word 'Art' on the front.

The handmade paper was cut to size and two holes were punched with the Cropadile. The book was held together with two pieces of light purple satin ribbon, tied into bows.

Hope you like it:-)

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Wish for Love

This card was inspired by the cover stamp from the October edition of 'Craft Stamper' magazine. The polymer stamp is of a cherry blossom (sakura) and lends itself nicely to an oriental style card.

I first stamped the blossom onto a post-it note and cut this out as a mask. I then stamped three more times with Versafine onyz black on white card, using the mask to layer the three blossoms. I then hand painted with a fine brush and water with Cosmic Shimmer iridescent mica pigments in pink ultra and rose hew and shimmer pigment in iced blush. I outlined the edges and stamens with fine permanent black marker to emphasize them. The painted blossoms were cut out carefully and the centres highlighted with diamond Stickles glitter glue.

I then cut a 1.5 inch strip of fine printed mulberry paper in complementary colours for the right hand side of the card. I then stamped the pink textured basecard with stems and leaves with a polymer leaf trail stamp from Lavinia stamps in olympic green Versafine ink down the left hand half of the card. I applied the mulberry paper with sticky dots before using the Crop-o-dile to punch 4 holes (two top and two bottom) and applying and crimping pink floral shiny eyelets with the Crop-o-dile. Through these holes I threaded a piece of pink metallic woven cord, crossing over in the centre and tying & trimming at the back. An appropriate verse on pink vellum was trimmed and applied again with a few sticky dots to the lower left of the front allowing the leaves to show through and the blossoms were positioned and attached as shown on 2mm foam pads for dimensional effect.

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