Face ......

As we are having a 'Use Your Peel-Offs' Challenge on UK Stampers Forum I have made this card again making a background with them.....

I started with a 5 x 5 inch white card blank and cut a smaller matt out of white card. I layered a whole sheet of peel-offs onto this and gave it 3 coats of watered down white Gesso to hide the metallic finish of the peel-offs.

I then stamped a face (Cherry Pie) in Archival black ink onto the background and used some  watercolour brushpens  (Lyra Aquabrush) to colour the lips and eyes. I then chose two shades of pink Versamagic chalk ink and coloured the background and edges with these.

The base matt was layered on pink card and this mounted onto the card blank.  I chose a 'Hello' die and cut this twice in pink and black layering them slightly offset as shown on the panel to finish.

Sid xx

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Peel-Off Birthday .....

As we are having a 'Use Your Peel-Offs' Challenge in UK Stampers Forum at this time I made this rather vibrant card .... the idea was to hide the Peel-offs in the design.....

I started with a 6 x 6 inch white card blank. I then die-cut a smaller matt from white card and selected a sheet of leafy peel-offs (they were copper coloured). These were applied on the white matt. This was then painted with emerald green metallic paint ( a couple of coats) to completely disguise the peel-offs. When dry this was applied centrally on the card blank.

I then stamped a number of freaky flowers and stems in Archival black ink on white card. These were coloured in a selection of Posca pens before trimming them out. They were applied as shown (some parts on foam pads). The sentiment (Happy Little Stampers) was stamped on white card in Versafine black ink and this was matted on black card and applied on more foam pads.

Sid xx

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Peel-Off .....

Running a new Challenge on UK Stampers Forum Facebook Group .... click the link to join the Forum ......

It's a fact, Peel Offs are not the coolest craft item at the moment ! It's also a fact that most of us crafters have loads of them in our stashes.... sat there, unused !

This Challenge is to use some of those unused peel-offs in a card design, along with some stamping and anything else you like...

This is my first entry and was made on a 5 x 7 inch white card blank.....

I cut a white card matt to start with and used a die to cut some corner designs windows as shown. These were backed with a background made with Distress Oxides. I then stamped a stylised Rennie Mackintosh stamp by Sue Law centrally in Archival black ink. this was coloured with pink and turquoise Posca pens. I edged the windows in the matt with black Posca pen and mounted the whole thing onto a slightly larger black card matt which was applied to the card base.

I looked through my unused and neglected peel-offs and selected a couple of gold outline Deco ladies which were applied to white card. They were infilled with a mixture of Posca pens and Copic markers before trimming out and applying on foam pads to the card as shown.

The sentiment was stamped in Versafine black iink on white card, trimmed and mounted on some pf the Distress background and applied as shown on foam pads. Three black sequins were added on Glossy Accents to finish the card.....

More ideas on the way !

Sid xx

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Clearly Oriental

This acetate book was fashioned from acetate up-cycled from packaging I had in my stash.  Three pieces were used and were trimmed to 12 x 16 cm . Inside the book there are two pages of card making for 5 pages in total.  Each of the pages was scored on the left side to allow for a hinge. 

The card was trimmed into approx half pages vertically and these were covered in oriental style fans and guilded papers.  The book can be viewed from the back and the front each with a different visual effect.

 

The five layers ..... acetate/card/acetate/card/acetate were aligned and trimmed to size with the scored edges on the left.  I then used a crop-a-dile to cut 5 equidistant holes in the hinge and applied gold eyelets to hold the book together. Two red style stones were held in place with some red eyelash fibres threaded through the eyelets which was tied to secure and trimmed.

A mandarin stamp was inked in black Stazon and stamped on gold paper which was carefully trimmed out and adhered with Glossy Accents to the inside of the acetate front cover.

I added numerous other elements including metal embellishments, style stones, Chinese coins, paper lace, wooden sticks, tied threads and ...... wait for it, peel-offs !  Actually they did work quite well on the acetate.  I stamped a stylised dragonfly on a style stone with black Stazon too and stuck this in place on one of the card pages.

Thought I would enter this into the Craft Stamper Take it Make it challenge too !

Very difficult to photograph due to the reflective qualities of the acetate.

Sid xx

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'U' for Unusual Tag

Here is my ' Very unusual for me tag!' Simply very unusual because I have used nothing but peel-offs for the background on this one. OK I have coloured, altered, cut and overlayed them but they are actually unrecognisable when used like this !

Detail of background

I took a piece of brown card, cut to shape, applied loads of gold peeloffs in a random fashion layering them over each other. Then I coloured with Alcohol Inks in butterscotch, ginger, terra cotta & cranberry. I inked up a dragonfly stamp with black Stazon and stamped this several times on top of the peel-offs (not easy to see in the pic). The U is a chipboard letter applied on foam pads over a mat made of gold card with a diamond heat embossed design in brown, a piece of torn print and a black material flower with button centre to embellish the mat.

The words are printed on the inkjet printer, matted on the brown card and applied with foam pads also. The hole and eyelet was cut and set with the crop-a-dile and some white fibres added through the hole.

Hope you like it !

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