Number one !!

Yet another Valentines Card from me.  I started with a 5 x 7 inch white card blank which I stamped with a bobbly acrylic stamp from Uniko which could be curved on the acrylic block.  I used Versafine black ink.

Next I diecut some stitched hearts in pink dotty cardstock and attached these on foam pads following the line of the stamped image. I added a self adhesive crystal to each as shown.

The sentiment (Crafty Individuals) was stamped in more Versafine black ink on white card and this was then matted on some pink card before mounting on more foam pads.

The card was finished by edging with dashes using a black Micron pen.

Sid xx

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In the Pink

 

This card was made using a Gelli Plate background made with Adirondak dye inks and a brayer.  The stamping has been done with Versafine ink directly onto the plate after brayering.  Most of the stamps used were outline stamps.

 

The colouring was done with more Adirondak inks applied with a waterbrush to fill in the petals to the desired colour depth.

 

I have then applied iridescent glitter over dots of dried clear glue to highlight the images.

The card was trimmed and edged with barn door Distress Ink applied with cut'n'dry foam and matted onto a piece of moss green coloured card.

Sid xx

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Filmstrip Card

 

Another variation on a theme. This card was made with a Filmstrip stamp (Hobbycraft) stamped in Memento tuxedo black and trimmed into three pieces.  Another block stamp (Hero Arts) was stamped in Adirondack dye inks in slate, denim and eggplant.

 

Two pieces of Washi tape applied and covered by two of the film strips whilst another was added in the middle right.

The sentiment was edged in grey alcohol ink and adhered with foam pads.

Sid xx

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I've Been Filmed Card

Another simple card using a film strip stamp (Hobbycraft) stamped three times in Memento tuxedo black and infilled with Adirondack slate, denim and eggplant dye inks applied with another block stamp (Hero Arts).

The sentiment plate was pre-printed and edged with blue Marvey le Plume alcohol brush marker.  The plate was mounted in place on foam pads

Sid xx

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It's A Gift !

Here is a little gift bag I have made to house a little gift for a friend.  It's not often that I do anything without stamping but this one definately does not have any.

I have used my Cricut Expression to cut a box from some pretty printed card using the Bags, Tags, Boxes & More cartridge.  The cutout was then assembled into the bag with sticky glue. The edges were gone over with yellow ochre chalk ink. 

I have then cut out a few layers of several of the same flowers from a piece of matching printed paper and edged these with Copic marker before applying over the bag and securing with small yellow brads.

The little gift was surrounded by pale pink crumpled tissue and placed in the bag and a piece of pink stitched grosgrain ribbon tied round the handle.

Sid xx

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Welcome Home

Tag Time !!  I am thinking Halloween again, thinking Welcome Home......not.........

I used digi Art from ARTchix studio in the main with a little swirly stamp in the background inked with brown chalk ink.

The tag base is made from double sided printed cardstock and I have added  the punched out fleur-de-lys border down the left hand edge in the reverse colourway (containing light blue, black & lime).

The digi elements have been trimmed out after printing and collaged up after edging with the brown Versamagic chalk ink.

I added the little red heart at the apex of the gothic doors as a contrast and mirrored this by added some red satin ribbon through a silver eyelet applied with the Crop-a-dile.  The whole tag was then edged in more brown chalk ink.

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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Americas Inchies

 

Here are a set of 9 inchies done as a swap on UK Stampers Forum.  The theme is 'The Americas' so I used a red, white & blue theme.

I printed out the tiny USA flags and trimmed ready to apply to the inchies.

 

  

 I took a dotty border stamp and stamped with Adirondack stream and red pepper dye inks in stripes on a piece of white card.  I dried with a heat gun and punched out the 9 inchies.  These were then edged with more stream ink and a foam applicator.  I stuck the flags in place, edged with fine black pen and stamped the USA in archival black ink to finish.

Sid xx

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Flower Power Tag

This weeks tag for a challenge on UK Stampers Forum  is quite a complex affair but I loved doing it!  The backgrounds were all made using different materials and techniques such as mica sprays, stencilling through sequin waste with Distress Inks, tearing etc.

The ingredients this week are:

1.  Dots

2.  Using something Tim Holtz

3.  Transport

I started with white card and cut it to size.  I then applied 3 pieces of homemade background papers which had been torn at the edges and inked with spiced marmalade Distress Ink.  These were stuck on with a glue stick.

I then used a couple of stamps from Ecogreen from their Steampunk plate.  The first is of a cross-head screw and this was inked with Brilliance cosmic copper and stamped down the right hand side.  I then inked the netting stamp with Versafine vintage sepia and stamped a couple of times down the left hand side.

At the same time I took the chimney stamp and inked this with onyx black Versafine, stamping onto white card.  This was coloured with frayed burlap Distress Ink before trimming out to be applied later.

Next some PaperArtsy poinsettias were stamped with jet black Stazon and sprayed with green mica spray and when dry trimmed out (cutting each bract out to form a 'leaf').  These were adhered with glue pen along the bottom of the tag as shown.  Next a Hero Arts flower stamp was selectively inked with black Stazon and stamped above the leaves.

I then selected a Hero Arts printed paper flower and a large lime green brad, re-coloured with some terracotta alcohol ink applied with felt pad on an applicator.  The stamped and coloured chimney and smoke was applied with glue pen and the flower and brad applied below the stack through the tag.

The printed letters were selected, trimmed and applied to spell out 'Flower Power' with glue pen (easier to position adhesive using a pen). The tag was edged with maroon chalk ink and  a copper eyelet was applied with the crop-a-dile and a piece of gold metallic braid applied in a knot to finish.

I know that the 'Transport' part of the ingredients has been very loosely interpreted but I had the feeling that the flower with a chimney represented power to move, hence the title of the tag.  You probably think I am loopy (I probably am actually :-)).  Enjoy !

Sid xx

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B is for Bird Tags

Recently there have been some fab swaps over on UK Stampers Forum and this or these (there are actually six all the same) were made to meet the challenge of using the Tim Holtz Sizzix alterations birdcage die in either a 6 x 6 inch piece or a tag.  I chose to do tags and this is how I made them.

The colour choices for the theme came about as I looked through my papers.  I had some fab pearlescent lavender card and I diecut 6 birdcages with the Big Shot.  I then chose some plaid K&Co printed card in lavender, green and blue and diecut the 6 birds.  Each bird was overstamped with a text stamp from PaperArtsy in onyx black Versafine ink and edged with wisteria chalk ink.  An eye was applied with blue glitter glue and allowed to dry.  I then started the tags with a piece of K&Co background card in mottled turquoise as the base and cut this to shape.

Next I used one of the birdcages and cut a mask to fit.  The mask was placed and the tag background was stamped with moss green Chalk ink with a distressed text background stamp (Limited Edition) to cover.

The bird and cage was applied to the masked area with glossy accents next and some blue glitter glue applied in the holes at the bottom of the cage.  Once dry some tumbled glass Distress ink was worked around the edges of the tags.

I then painted some metal letter B's with metallic sapphire acrylic paint to be used as an embellishment. Once the paint was dry I sanded away the paint from the raised letter.  I used aquamarine Stazon and a stamp from PaperArtsy to stamp the word FLY top left.  The border stamp (Green Pepper Press)  was inked with dark blue Whispers dye ink and stamped top and bottom as seen.  The background was further embellished with a leaf motif (Elusive Images) with starlight silver Brilliance ink in several places.

The metal B's were applied with Glossy Accents at the top of the cages and a purple brad added at the cage hanger. A hole was cut with the crop-a-dile and a brass eyelet applied which was then tied through with lavender narrow grosgrain ribbon in a bow.

These will be in the post tomorrow.

Sid xx

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Kind Thoughts Card

Christmas has now passed and the New Year is just around the corner so I decided a change was as good as a rest. One of my friends has not been too good over the break and I wanted to do a card to cheer her up.

I used a stamp called 'Natures Little Helper' from The Artistic Stamper which I won from the very kind Jennie. I used acetate, glitter and souffle pens to colour in the image (attributed to Mabel Lucie Attwell).

I took a mottled pale blue cardstock and trimmed/scored to make a 4 x 4 inch square card as the base.

I took a piece of acetate and stamped the image with black Stazon. I then used dries clear art glue and applied a number of colours of ultrafine glitters on the reverse of the acetate, allowing them to dry between colours. The body, ear and paint tin were coloured with Sakura Souffle pens and allowed to dry. I then trimmed out the image to leave around a 1/4 inch border.

Next I took a piece of K&Co printed cardstock trimmed as shown and cut an aperture top right with a large square punch. This was rubbed over with broken china Distress ink applied with cut'n'dry foam. This was then matted over some dark plum coloured card and the same aperture cut again with the punch.

The matt was applied centrally with DS tape, the acetate applied over the aperture with glue applied behind the glitter and the card finished off with a 'Thinking of you' sentiment mounted on foam tape and matted onto the same dark plum card.

Hope she likes it !

Sid xx

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Monochrome Twinchies

I am definately not a very 'Pink' person when it comes to crafting so I challenged myself to do a set of 'Monochrome' Twinchies in just that colour !!

It is part of a swap I am running on UK Stampers Forum. Each player has to do 6 twinchies (either all different or all the same).

The base card is pre-printed and embossed with a glaze containing holographic glitter. I have then die-cut 6 daisies from textured pink cardstock and stamped them with a chunky text stamp (don't know where from !) in fuschia pink Stazon. These have been edged with Marvey le Plume II pen in dark pink before adhering to the base cards and trimming off at the edges as shown. A pink brad has been added as shown through the centre of the die-cut. A piece of narrow velvet ribbon in bright pink has been backed with double sided adhesive and attached as shown (trimming to make neat at the edge). Each twinchie was then edged with pink chalk ink to finish.

Hope you like them :-)

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Postcard from Africa

Another week, another postcard............or so they say !! This weeks challenge on UK stampers was to make a 'Postcard from Africa'. So this is my entry.

I wanted to have a contemporary finish, hot colours and a 'Tribal' feel to this one.......

I used:

• Printed Background Card (Imaginisce - Rococo Loco - double sided)


• Mask Embellishment (home-made from polymer clay with mica applied)


• Rubber Stamp (African lady with plate - Third Coast Stamps)


• Brilliance Inkpad (Copper)


• Versamark Inkpad


• Embossing Powder (Judikins - Cloisonne)


• Rub-on (DCWV - seasons)


• Chalk Inkpad (Colorbox - peach)

The card was cut to 6 x 4 inches and a triangular piece cut as an overlay and turned over to reveal the opposite side. The stamp was inked with Versamark and stamped several time along the bottom edge of the main piece of card and this was heat embossed with the cloisonne EP. The same stamp was cleaned and the top portion stamped in Brilliance copper ink along the base of the triangle.

The pre-made clay mask was adhered as shown with glossy accents and the card finished with the rub-on as shown. All edges were edged with peach chalk inkpad.

Hope you like it :-)

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