Tailor

I really wanted to do something with the other half of my masterboard and so I have another entry for TiOTs challenge.

This time around I've added some shirt buttons rescued from some of Bill's old work shirts and a Paper Artsy image.

See you over at try it on Tuesday...

Cannes

It's the start of the season in the south of France: the stars are out on the red carpet in Cannes for the film festival and by coincidence our theme at every inchie Monday is film!

Here's my share...

A favourite from long ago!

And my ATC done with a Paper Artsy stamp...

Brown

A new week & a new inchie...

An inch of book page, a portion of Paper Artsy stamp & some brown Promarker.

Eyes

The "about to end" challenge across at moo Mania is all about eyes so here is my last minute share:

A paper scrap (make unknown) a Paper Artsy stamp that I've coloured with colouring pencils

Silhouette

The CAS 61 challenge is silhouette 

I was rather spoilt for choice on this one! What with Halloween, Christmas & flowers all being options and I could not make up my mind which way to go - at least it had to be clean & simple :-)

I did 3 Twinchies , 2 moos, an ATC & an arched ATC as well as the 2 cards I'm sharing. 

The stamps are Paper Artsy stamped in black onto pale blue card stock & mounted on 6x4 white card blanks. 

This is my entry at the challenge 

And here is the other share

All they need adding is an appropriate message inside.

Inchie Monday

A little paper scrap, a partial print of a Paper Artsy car and there you have this weeks inchie challenge!

Washi tape

I decided that it was time to have a go at making my own washi tape today. 

Out came the micropore tape & acrylic inks (turquoise & sea green metallic) archival black ink & some paper artsy stamps (oriental writing, ink blots & feather). 

Quite good fun to do & I will probably make more. 

Hope everyone is having a good bank holiday w/e- ours has now cheered up as the sun has come out :-)

ATC size

4x5.25

Moo mania challenge:HOME

Welcome to my new followers, I hope you enjoy the creations that appear on here :-)

I had so much fun making MOOs  the other day that when I saw the latest one I decided that I needed to join in again! 

Here are some of the photos of my "concertina"ed village!

This is it all folded up...

The reverse side has some strips of our "local" Michelin map (France)

 

The whole thing seen from the front...

And details of the panels...

1&2

3&4

5&6...

& finally 7

The houses are all Paper Artsy stamps, they were stamped & clear embossed, coloured with Promarkers, the cloud was a freebie stamp & the tyre tread (road) was too.. The little birds have been added with a Pitt pen, the sky has been coloured using several distress inks (tumbled glass, broken china & stormy skies)

After this little adventure...I decided I just had to make 1 more....

Promarkers for colouring the grass, sky & base/pole and some paper piecing for the bird & birdhouse.

What fun I had making these :-)

Tim's May tag

Sorry it's been quiet on here recently! My excuse? Why, I have been away again...a trip to the west country, Devon to be precise.

And so it is a new month & a new tag from Tim. As is so often the case, I had hardly any of the necessary ingredients so I have been up to my usual improvising tricks.

My tag has no rub-ons, instead I stamped in archival and then used an embossing ink pen to go over/around the images & added clear embossing powder. This was to try and give me the "white edge" look. Amazingly enough the pen still worked despite having sat unloved for about 4 years!

I have swiped the card though Distress inks (weathered wood, salty ocean, broken china, fired brick,peeled paint) the edge has then been further coloured with a little more Peeled Paint.
I then did some more stamping in Archival black: TH Top Hats, crown, flourish & words are from the "love" definition. The black stars are from a set of Hero Arts tiny stars, the graph & the cog are from Paper Artsy Hot Picks Xtra 01, the butterfly image is a Clear Choice Stamps mini set- the diamond pattern is from Stampers Anonymous & the G,2,13 & May are random stamps from my stash. I have used a film strip stamp from Hobbycraft to make the film strip on the left hand side.

The ribbon has been coloured with the leftover inks, the round tag at the side has got Chit-Chat stickers added & slightly coloured with antique linen DI, I have added a word band to finish it off.


I then decided to have a go at using some rub-ons that have been lurking in a drawer for quite a few years, I think I bought them the first or second year that we started going over to the USA to visit the grandchildren - Emily has just celebrated her 10th birthday and we first saw her aged 6 months!!!

So I have used the same colours and most of the same stamps plus I have used some rub-ons: braces, pen, spectacles & half a briefcase (it was quite large) the metal edged circular tag has been coloured with alcohol inks & the Chit Chat lightly coloured with Weathered Wood DI.
This is going to find its way onto a birthday card shortly!

I am posting the backgrounds that I made before I started over stamping as well as the finished items.

Hope you like the results.

Heading out

A couple of cards here that are heading over to France this week, paper artsy stamps & distress inks with random papers from my stash.

Playing with Lynne Perella & scraps

The Paper Artsy lynne Perella Plate 3 face has been coloured with assorted promarkers & distress inks and then mounted on a selection of papers that I had left over from other projects. I plan to send these off to France with other cards as a thank you gift to a very dear "ex" neighbour- hard times have meant that she had to sell her holiday home, I going to miss our chats over the garden railings!

Try it on Tuesday

I am finally back from my travels, have more or less got my workroom under control and have got into Halloween mode!
Pumpkins at the door, jellies on the windows & sweets in stock- I have even managed to make a couple of tags. Tim Holtz October tag is now posted & here is the one I made for TIOT.

Skulls stamped onto tissue paper which I scrunch glued to a blank tag, coloured the skulls with promarkers & the background with distress inks, I have also got some "blood" splats that are a paper artsy stamp. The skeleton & his background is also coloured with promarkers then mounted onto some pearlescent grey pape. Halloween is a Chocolate Baroque stamp which I have used some midnight sparkle embossing powder on. The googly eyed skull came from my grandson!

TIOT anything goes...

another week, another challenge... and I am going to share something that I made for a girlfriend who is into her gardening- a loose leaf notebook for all her garden ideas, plans, how-to etc.

 

I have taken 2 pieces of mount board that I have covered with paper taken from an old plant book, these have been painted with yellow acrylic.

The front cover has had Vintage Bulb Collage from Stamps Happen stamped onto tissue paper and then glue on, I have used some sequin waste to stencil dotty patches, stamped the "Bloom" words on randomly. I have stamped assorted Paper Artsy flowers onto paper scraps, and the hinges onto some black card. These were all glued onto the front & back panels and with the hinges I have also used some orange eyelets.

I have cut pages for inside that I have coloured in yellows & greens and also used some stamping.

Hinged rings to hold everything together hat I have then added assorted yarns, threads & ribbons to.

Hope you like what you see, it was fun to make!

August tag time with Tim Holtz

This month was always going to be a challenge as I don't have any cameo style stamps so I have had to have a real rummage through my stamps to see what I could find to use and here is what I have come up with:

I've used a white tag that has had the bottom cut off using a "labels" die and then run it through a "button" embossing folder, the raised parts & edges have been coloured using DI Shaded Lilac.
The main stamp is from Paper Artsy (buttons 2 plate) as are the words that I used, they are stamped in black onto white card. The scissors are a stamp that I bought in Hobbycraft recently for £1!

I coloured a piece of lace & a paper flower with Shaded Lilac to use, added some silk flowers, buttons, a small lace bow and added some 'foliage' that I cut using my Sissix Festive Greenery die.

The words & the scissors have been raised using foam pads.

Hope you like it :-)


PS
the next challenge is going to see if Blogger will post today as I had no luck yesterday on the 6 times that I tried to post :-(

4th & 14th July

Tim Holtz has posted his July tag...so as I have no canned air, no alcohol ink, no Statue of Liberty....the list goes on & on....I tried to do something with what I did have.

So I set to with some white card, blue ink, red ink and my felt applicator! Not quite the same effect as Tim achieved but hey he's a pro!I did however use the New York skyline and the star strip from one of his clear stamp sets, the stars I stamped in red + red embossing powder & also ColorBox blue + blue glitter- the glitter was not very successful :-(  I mounted the white card onto red, then blue card.Die cut a white star & a red one to punch the tag hole through for the ribbon (stash) I do not consider this to be one of my finest by any stretch of the imagination but it's all part of the learning curve.

And then it was time to try something else... As I did all my education in french....Yes that would explain why my English is sometimes rubbish...and I still spend a lot of my time in France I just had to make a tag related to the "quatorze juillet", this also just happens to be my dear "other half for the past 35 years" birthday so time to get more ink on my fingers :-D.   More white card, Paper Artsy Hot Picks Xtra 01 (ink splats) stamped in Ranger distress inks in Festive Berries & Salty Ocean (both from limited ink collections) I used the same colours to ink the edges of the tag. A freebie fireworks stamp from Craft Stamper for some explosions that used clear embossing powder & red/blue glitters. The stamps Arc de Triomphe, Paris (hidden under the threads), France & Bonjour came from Clear Stamps.Some dymo tape for the date, ribbon from my stash , a die cut and a mini Eiffel Tower...Job done! Hope you like the end result.

through the arch...

Still no improvement in the weather here in Scotland despite the fact that we are now in a new month! Oh well, I guess we will just have to make the most of the fact that we can be indoors crafting :-)

I did a little more playing with my Echoes of Italy stamps yesterday, another tag & also a card. Still so much to explore with this set that I have still not done anything with the Sunny Sunflowers that arrived last week.

The tag I made using the Archway garden gate & the Villa, plus some "foliage" done with a Paper Artsy stamp from the Swirls & Curls 1 plate, the butterfly was a freebie.

the main piece of paper came from my stash- all I can remember is that it came from a pad of papers that I purchased in the USA about 8 years ago...The scene visible through the wrought iron gate was coloured with Promarkers, distress inks and felt tip pen.

The card is a 5.5" square in white, the next layer was from a freebie calendar and then the doorway was stamped onto sketchpad paper. I stamped with black pigment ink & used clear embossing powder. the door was coloured with "Peeled Paint" distress ink as are the foliage part of the topiary trees (Craft Stamper Freebie) I used Derwent watercolour pencils for the terracotta pots and finally used some Glossy Accents on the glass panes in the doors to give them a shine. As yet the card has no message inside!Hope you like, thanks for your visit :-)