Floral ATC's

Here are my three ATC's for a lady across the pond. The theme this month is floral and I have accomplished this by using some ready made fabric flowers as embellishments. The backgrounds on the pink and blue ATC's have been made by blending dye inks in various colours and the pink one has black spatters from a wet brush loaded with black acrylic paint. Some floral stamps have been used in red Stazon and silver pigment ink and one has a fragment of old bookpage added at the bottom. The leafy ATC was made using Lavinia clear stamps and adirondack inks embellished with dots of crystal Stickles glitter glue.

Hope you like them :-)

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Halloween Invite

I was asked by a friend to do 20 Halloween party invites for the forthcoming celebrations on 31st October. One of the cards is featured above.

I took some maroon cardstock and made the card blanks to a size of 5in x 5in. I then took some orange whitecore card and cut this into smaller squares to be matted onto the fronts of the cards. I then used one of my new cuttlebug embossing folders (Cobweb) to emboss these. Once embossed a Whispers black dye inkpad was lightly rubbed over the embossed surface to accentuate the web design I then sprayed lightly with Sticky Fingers silver shake-n-spray to give the webs a bit of glitz. When dry the matts were adhered to the front of the cards and a 2 inch piece of silver cord was cut and stuck onto the web with one end at the centre of the web.

I searched high and low for some spiders to adorn the webs and finally found some in a £1 shop. I adhered a spider with a glue dot at the other end of the thread.

Some plaques were made with the same card and these were stamped with a 'You Are Invited' stamp from See D's celebrations set. The plaques were then applied on foam pads to add relief.

The card inserts were printed on the inkjet printer and applied inside the cards. Maroon envelopes finish the project.

Hope you like them :)

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Sunday Challenge No. 7

Here is my offering for the UK STampers Sunday Challenge , this weeks theme is 'Talk Like a Pirate'. My pirate theme is undersea and I have made a sort of collage piece depicting pirate treasure.

I painted a real scallop shell with a couple of coats of Lumiere green acrylic to start. Then I made a little square box (coloured with metallic green ink), and attached a large green flat backed jewel to the top. I then threw in some coins, pearls and other green and black large jewels. I made a plate out of dark green leather texture card and spelled out the words using wooden scrabble pieces which I edged with green dye ink. Finally I stamped a map of the world and heat embossed in gold EP colouring the background with green and blue dye inks.

It was really done very quickly as I have pondered all week as to what to do. Hope you like it :)

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'The Blue Cap'

This is my first entry to the Wednesday Stamper Challenge. This weeks theme is 'Put Your Thinking Cap On'.

I cut a piece of white board and applied Distress Inks in worn lipstick,tattered rose and dried marigold with cut'n'dry foam, building up layers and drying in between. I then stamped down the left hand side with a stone background stamp fom the Judikins artifacts cube (67181) with Versamark and embossed with Stampendous antique gold fine embossing powder. The right hand part of the base was then stamped with Whispers sepia dye ink applied to a Art, Life and Beauty text stamp from Hero Arts (G2678).

The base card was then matted onto some dark rose textured card and trimmed to size. The boy with the cap embellishment was cut out from an old magazine and applied in two parts with glue stick as seen. The word escape was stamped in Brilliance Mediterannean blue as seen. The letters spelling out 'The Blue Cap' were from K&Co and were given a light patting with Colorbox chalk ink in french blue before being applied with dabs of Glossy Accents to finish.

Hope you like it :)

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3 x 3 Inchie Swap 1

"The numbers came in three by three" Well not quite !!!!!

Here are Inchies made for the 3 x 3 Inchies swap on UK STampers Forum. This months theme is 'NUMBERS' . I have used some fairly heavy card as a background and applied a page out of an old electronics book to the card with glue stick. This was then cut into the Inchies with a trimmer to make the bases. I have simply applied Whispers Dye inks with Cut'n'Dry foam, blending to achieve a graduated effect. I have then applied some dimensional antique epoxy number stickers in various positions. I used a single eyelet stamp (anon), stamped with Versafine vintage sepia ink. The Inchies were finished with edges in blue iris Colorbox chalk ink.

Hope you like them :)

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Orange, Yellow & Red ATC's

Here are another three ATC's done for another swap. The colourway was Orange, Yellow and Red.

I selected a number of background papers in line with the colours and then cut three ATC's from yellow card to start.

The top ATC was first stamped with a Funstamps Scribble Flower (F-F64) using Brilliance pearlescent poppy. Then I tore a piece of orange paper and coloured the torn edge with orange Whispers Dye Ink direct to paper. This torn piece was stuck onto the bottom of the card and trimmed to fit. A stamp from ARTSpecially for you was then inked with satin red Versafine and overstamped on this orange strip. A 'journey' magnetic sentiment stamp from Making Memories was then stamped onto some background paper with Versafine satin red and this was trimmed and edged with warm red Colorbox chalk ink before sticking onto the ATC. Finally two blobs of Glossy Accents were added to the centres of the stamped flowers and the whole ATC edged with warm red Colobox chalk ink to finish.

Bottom left ATC was stamped with Versamark and an image from the foliate quad cube background stamp from Stampendous (TC51). This was heat embossed with some peach opal UTEE from Once Upon A Stamp. A piece of dark red paper was cut to a square and heat embossed with Versamark and Ranger lemon yellow EP. This was matted onto some orange paper and the matt stuck in place. The whole ATC was edged with warm red Colorbox chalk Ink to finish.

Bottom right ATC was first stamped with an anonymous swirl stamp with Whispers orange dye ink and overlaid with two matts of coloured background paper. The inner matt was first heat embossed with Versafine and maroon EP using a Dovecraft floral heart stamp (DCRS96). A silver square brad was coated twice with the same maroon EP and heated to melt and this was applied as shown. The magnetic 'Cherish' sentiment was inked with Stazon black cherry and stamped as shown. The whole ATC was edged with warm red Colorbox chalk ink to finish.

That's it.........hope you like them :)

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Sunday Challenge No 3

Here are my 9 'inchies' done for the UK Stampers Sunday Challenge No 3. The challenge was based on the Olympics, sports & medals.

I found this one difficult really because I don't have a lot of sporty type stamps. I decided to use watercolour board as a base and then thought about the colours of the Olympic rings as a starter.

I first coloured the backgrounds with Whispers dye ink in Turquoise, Red & Green direct to paper. Then stamped in onyx black Versafine a selection of stamps from a 'boys toys' See D's set.

I first edged each of the inchies with Versamark and dipped them in Tequila Sunrise EP from Joanna Sheen, heating to melt with a heat gun. Then I stamped stars with Versamark and EP's in Copper, Silver & Gold to represent the Olympic medals.

So I did try to capture the colours of the Olympic Rings - Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow & Black plus the metallics of the medals.

Hope you like them ! :)

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Oriental ATC

Here is a quick ATC I put together for another swap. I brayered the background with green, blue and mustard Whispers dye inks in stripes, slightly overlapping and set with the heat gun. I then applied a trimmed piece of Japanese Washi paper to the bottom left. I stamped an image of a Japanese lady, a stylised chrysanth and three oriental characters in onyx black Versafine ink. I applied a strip of self adhesive gold foil down the left half of the card before applying a small polymer clay plate that I had made previously by stamping into some soft worked clay. I also applied some Pearlex metallic mica pigments to the clay before baking to give it a metallic sheen. I then edged with gold Krylon pen.

Hope you like it :)

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Sunset Beach

This is the piece of artwork that I have done for UK Art Raffle run by Flo (Hazel). This new Raffle is explained on her website, but it is definately not a swap and the monthly winner will receive all the artwork sent in during that month ! The theme is 'SUMMER SUN' for August.

I chose a glossy board base and cut it to approx. 5ins square and this was first coloured directly with inkpads from the Whispers dye ink range - I used orange, royal blue & sunshine to give the impression of a sunset over the sea. This was dried with a blast from my heatgun.

I then used a sunset beach stamp from Tin Can Mail (Inkadinkado - 91566X) which I inked with Versamark and stamped twice on a piece of light white card. I applied detail black embossing powder to the words top and bottom of one image and heat embossed them. I then applied Moonglow midnight sapphire obsidian embossing powder (gorgeous sapphire blue) to the second Versamarked image and heat embossed this. I then cut out the words and the image.

I then used USArtquest stargazers and jewelz watercolour pallet paints to infill the un-embossed areas of the image with a brush and water and allowed to dry.

I applied the embossed images as seen with glue stick in the middle of the plate and finished with edging the plate with Versamark and gold EP.

I really like the bright and vibrant colours and wished I was somewhere with better weather !!

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Double Altered Slide Mailer

Here is a slide mailer I have recently done as a swap on UK Stampers Forum

I have used a number of stamps to complete the project, a couple of flourishes, a 4 face stamp, a pensive lady, eyes stamps and a couple of sentiments ( follow your heart & discover). All have been stamped in black stazon except the discover sentiment which is in sepia Versafine ink. The background colour was made by direct to paper technique using a dark brown Whispers dye inkpad. Some hand colouring was done to enhance the black outline stamped images. The slides were done by backing them with the stamped eyes images given a spray with iridescent pink spray before attaching to the back of the slide with adhesive metal tape which was scraped with a piercing tool to provide texture.

Finally, the fibres were added and a tag with my details. Some of the fibres were embellished with hand made plastic beads.

Hope you like it !!

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Quotations ATC Set

These three ATC's were done as a swap on UK Stampers Forum

The backgrounds were first brayered with various colours of Whispers Dye Inks until a colour density was attained. A swirl stamp was used to decorate each ATC with Versamark and various Moonglow embossing powders which were heated with a heat tool. The diamond check was stamped in onyx black Versafine Ink in various positions. Finally some K&Co quotes were inked direct to paper and adhered with glue. Some dimensional paint blobs were added to the corners of each of the quotes to finish.

Hope you like them !

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