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

Hearts & Flowers

The latest title from a friend who organises an occasional ATC swap is "hearts & flowers". They are not due out for a while but I just happened to have the drawer open yesterday that was holding the most appropriate stamps :-) so feeling that fate was taking part... I set to stamping! 

Today I did the colouring whilst "watching" the Grand Prix. I've used Promarker & Spectrum Noire pens. 

The stamps are a mix of free & bought from Personal Impressions, Candi Stamps, Chocolate Baroque, ? from Quick Cards.

Twinchies

Over at the Twinchies challenge blog it's FLORALS for challenge #4 and here is what I decided to go with....

I started with a "mop-up" piece of card that I have stamped in black using an Anita's Art stamp that reminds me of a sunflower 

I have then accentuated some of the colours with green & yellow promarkers

This is my entry across at the challenge 

My second one is also an Anita's Art stamp, this one reminds me of a gerbera,  again I have stamped in black, used promarkers to colour the flower & then edged the card with shaded lilac distress ink, I've pulled some colour in from the edges using a damp paintbrush.

These 2 will almost certainly making their way onto cards at some stage!

MOO-time

Moo challenge 42 is all about beards and as none of my "male" stamps have beards (well, only Santa) I decided to go with this chap called d'Aubigné - he just happened to be staring out at be from an old French encyclopaedia! 

He's been stuck onto a paper scrap that had been overstamped in a previous incarnation, just added a touch of vintage photo ink to the edges to finish off :-)

August tag

I'm back from my holiday feeling suitably refreshed but with 1 problem... Mr Mojo might still be there!!! I think this may partly be due to no Internet for a month &  bloglovin tells me I've 589 unread posts!!!

I had crafting time today as DH went golfing in St Andrews :-).  I decided that I wanted to try the current Tim Holtz tag despite not having the supplies!!!

My first tag is done wrinkle free with distress inks, the plane, boat & train are Clear Choice stamps, a touch on the small side though. The "background" is a hobbycraft  map, the passport stamp is part of a freebie set & the binoculars /journey are also from clear choice.

For the next attempt I used a compass stamp (Kanban) & moped (Get Stamping) that I masked- the words are coloured using felt pens & come from the same set as the moped. The map is a Craft Stamper freebie & "King of the road" is by Inkadinkadoo .

Both tags have had their edges distressed & ribbon/string/raffia comes from my stash.

I'm entering the moped on the challenge.

Visitors!

My brother has come up from the coast to do some maintenance work for us, he brought his dog with him.... The little monster brought some unwanted guests FLEAS!

Early morning

Took a hike up the mountain early this morning- a beautiful mountain lake at 2240m (nearly 7000ft) in the Mercantour Park. Bliss!

The surface is so still it's like a mirror at 08.30.