Flying high

The challenge over at ATCAS#16 is flying high. Hmmmm! Thinking cap on, don't want to do butterflies, I did a bunch of them for the twinchies challenge recently & no back linking allowed.....don't feel like birds....Aha! I know what I'll use a not-been-used in ages dragonfly from Paper Artsy.

A quarto sized white card, the dragonfly stamped using my Big n Juicy ink pad in Hydrangea & then clear embossed, some "stitch" marks in a toning fine liner for his "flight" line. I added a little Tumbled Glass DI to watercolour the wings - all it needed now was a row of small flowers along the bottom, I've stamped these in yellow & then coloured with shades of yellow & orange.

Time to enter the challenge!

Arrows

Well, after scratching my head & rummaging through my drawers... The only arrows I have amongst my stamps are a little Cupid  (Fiskars romance) and Artistic Stamper ethnic plate #015: hunter. 

The Cupid is quite small & the hunter does not seem a CAS design so I was a bit stumped for the CAS-UAL FRIDAYS CFC107: Hunger Games which needs at least 1 arrow!!!

I stamped the hunter onto Kraft with archival black & edged with Vintage Photo, crumpled it all up - unfolded it & went over the creases with more vintage Photo & a little walnut ink. Definitely not clean!

Then I took the Cupid & a small heart from the Fiskars romance set & stamped both onto a piece of red card that is ATC sized.

Still not really doing it for me!

More rummaging required....

Another Valentine theme! This ones a Clear Choice set of love stamps stamped using Festive Berries & some fake stitching added with a Staedler triplus fineliner in red... No, still not what I'm looking to link :-(

This time I decided to go with a 3 1/2" square white card, a Paper Artsy stamp from Bricks & Mortar 2(one way + arrow) stamped in black & a green promarker used on the arrow. I added a border of arrows using a stamp from an Invoke set(game pieces) using Mowed Lawn DI.

Still not quite right:-((

Same size card, same stamps... Different layout & a different colour (colorbox aqua)

 

For some reason these last 2 cards are on their side & won't rotate- sorry anyway, I am entering the last one for the challenge :-).

Thanks for sticking with me if you reached the end of this story!

Another tutorial

Another tutorial from Tammy, but ive not really followed it because i dont have a melt pot/UTEE!

Tissue paper stamped with Inkadinkado stamp (grape varieties) & coloured with Squeezed Lemonade,Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Seedless Preserves & Fired Brick

The tag has been embossed using the Dot Matrix folder & coloured (peeled paint, squeezed lemonade, seedless preserves).

I've wrapped a piece of coloured gauze around the tag, no idea want I used as it was done years ago.

I've used a punch & one of the leaves from the autumn gathering die that look a bit like vine leaves,

Once the leaves were cut out I used versamark & clear embossing powder to get the translucent effect. 

I coloured some metal "bunches of grapes" from my stash & also 1 slightly larger plastic one with alcohol inks in shades of purple/eggplant & green/lettuce - the plastic worked better than the metal ones.

I stamped a pair of glasses onto a heart shaped die cut (stash) coloured it with a Spectrum Noire blue pen....the cardstock was super absorbent so I've tried to remove some of the colour from the centre part around the glasses....result is rather mottled! You live & learn...and that's what this is all about :-)

You share the good and maybe the bad!

I then took a length of thread and added the grapes around the lower edge of the heart and used Glossy Accents to stick the leaves around the edge in several layers. I've stuck this down onto the main tag and then added a couple of hand written banners "cheers" & " Rosé de Provence".

 To finish off I used a length of the dyed gauze bandage, I seem to think I might have used silk paints to colour it all those years ago!!! Then tied a fine wire to tie around & create some tendrils by wrapping the wire round a kebab stick & an extra piece of random dyed ribbon.

It looks nothing like Tammy's lovely tag but it was her ideas that set me off on this journey for which I thank her :-)

Bloglovin!

Well as I am a total dinosaur when it comes to computers....I've signed up to bloglovin & I'm seeing most of the blogs that I follow but not all & then I'm getting some that never showed up on blogger!

I'm confused dot com!!!! Am I also supposed to post via bloglovin & if so how? I can see I'm have to spend the rest of the week on Google looking for answers!

If anybody has any advice....I'm all ears :-) 

Signed 

Lost & confused.com

Two for one

Inspiration struck in the middle of an opening title: FREE, I scrolled down....someone has used a similar idea! Too bad as I had already decided to use the same idea on another challenge....

CAS-ology "FREE" & CFC106 "off the edge" are the 2 challenges I am entering with this card

A pale blue card, 3 white clouds, a hot air balloon coloured with Spectrum Noire &  soar.The cloud in front of the balloon has been raised with foam pads.

 The stamps came with Creative Stamping 11. 

Gina

I had a "middle of the night" moment last night ! I found myself wondering if this little lady would fit on a moo. She does!  So out with the promarkers & scraps... The background is distress inks & random stamps- cannot for the life of me think what I created it for but I do remember that it was ages ago. Something about this stamp made me think Gina Lollibrigida ( that's showing my age!) so she is trendy in a bright red dress - always seem to think of her in red & as I cannot remember if the movies were b&w or not I am unable to put it down to an overactive imagination :-)

I think I'll post her over on the moo mania page!

Surprise

Another recycle topper here using cardboard, gesso, ancient dictionary, another pice of cardboard that I've die-cut into a star that has then been stamped with a freebie from get stamping & some pieces of ribbon that have stars punched from them. No doubt this one will find its way onto a masculine make :-)

And now I'm off to play with another piece...see you all soon!