Make It Count

Good afternoon and happy Sunday. It's an F1 weekend again which means that no-one notices that I'm missing, so it's into the room of fun for me (and no I don't keep my ironing board in there). The latest PaperArtsy topic is 'dark to light', so I went into the box of 'all things Seth'.

It's ages since I altered one of these photo frames. As you can see they come with the royal seal of approval.

I started by painting a background with Seth's Set 1 Frescos. There's also some stamping using his PaperArtsy stamps.

Then I put some modelling paste through the Stencil Girl stencil, made some chippy b/grounds, and stamped with Seth's PaperArtsy sets 1,2,3, and 4. I've used Frantage embossing powder to give it a nice chunky feel.

I also put embossing paste through a stencil around the photo frame, and this time painted with Seth's Set 2. I'm a little bit in love with the Patina and Key Lime.

I found these wooden circles in a paper bag buried at the back of a drawer, so I painted and stamped these too.

More of the lovely Patina and Key Lime on these Seth Chippies and a little bit of Frantage.

And we're all done - finished in the same day woo-hoo. 

I'm also entering my frame into the That's Crafty All Things Grunge challenge,
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes, and
Simon Says Stamp Monday You've Got The Edge.

Have a very happy week and thanks very much for looking x

The Salty Summer Sale Continues

Good morning and happy Monday. The Salty Summer Sale continues over at Rubber Dance, and this is a little peek of what I've posted over there, so please click on the link and say hi!

There's a whacking 20% off our beach themed stamps until 30th July, and if you quote SDFreeShip there's also free worldwide P&P on orders of 15 Euros's and above.
Have a wonderful week, and I hope the sun is shining for you xx

Animal Instinct

Good morning and happy Sunday, I hope your weekend is going well (and not too quickly - we don't want that Monday morning feeling too soon) Happy Little Stampers have recently started an ATC challenge, and this month the theme is animals. Here's mine.

My handsome chap is made with stamps and stencils by AALL & Create and lots of ink and paint. I think I shall stick to just ATC's in future, it's so nice to start and finish something in the same day (week, month...) I don't know how there's still the same amount of mess though lol.
Have a wonderful Sunday, and thanks very much for looking x

My Little Book Of Wisdon

Good afternoon and welcome to the weekend.  It's my turn to post over on the Lost Coaster's Review today, and I'm sharing how I made my Little Book of Wisdom.

I've made my book cover using one of my favourite techniques, which I've sadly neglected for a while.

I started with a plain chippie notebook, and covered a piece of card slightly larger than the book with some sticky aluminium tape. Then I ran it through an embossing folder and cut to size.

This was then painted with black Deco Art Media acrylic and sanded back.

A coat of quin gold was added to give a rust effect. Once finished I attached it to the book with a strong double sided sticky sheet.

Now my favourite part. I chose my favourite colours of UTEE and made a pretty pattern on my craft mat.

Then heated it up until I had pools of molten loveliness. DO NOT stick your finger into this it will make you say baaaad words!

Make sure that your stamp is inked up and ready to go as the UTEE cools quite quickly.  I stamped my wonderful new Steampunk Heart stamp and pressed down firmly.

Love it! Once it had thoroughly cooled I carefully peeled it off my heat mat and attached it to my book with strong red line tape.

I rusted up some washers for the corners...

and then chose a word from my favourite Miscellaneous Words set.

If you are still with me thank you very much :-)
Please keep checking back at the Portal for lots more inspiration from my fab teamies.

All of the new stamps can be found here and here.

I'm also entering my book cover into the Mixed Media Monthly challenge 'altered embellishments'

Have a fun weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Meet Spike

Good morning and happy Friday. I've been having a play for the PaperArtsy 'aqua' challenge, and this is what I've made.

I made Spike out of an old book and some felt.

I first made some easy backgrounds with Brusho's, Infusiions, and white Ecoline Ink. Then I stamped Tracey's flowers from TS06 and TS07, cut them out and attached them to Spike.

This was such fun to make, and he's now been claimed by my daughter (she's 26 for heavens sake)

I'm also entering Spike into the  Happy Little Stamper's  watercolour challenge.

Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

                                        

                                                    

 

Tracy Scott 07

 

Tracy Scott 06

                                        

Salty Summer Sale

Ooh now where was I... ah yes! Today's the start of our Salty Summer Sale over at Rubber Dance. All of our beach themed stamps have a wacking 20% off including Susanne's never seen before Whale Wishes. 

Here's what I've made.

This has been made with the Take The Plunge set.

This one is from Retro Beach

And appologies in advance for this one

Made with Something Fishy and Sarcastic Superpower

There's so much inspiration here from my teamies and remember to use SDFreeShip on orders of 15 Euros and over.

Have a wonderful Summer, and thanks very much for looking x

Thank You Happy Little Stampers

Good morning and happy Monday. Last month I was lucky enough to win a set of stamps from Happy Little Stampers, and this is what I've made with them.

This is a really nice set, lovely flowers and words.

I started by making a few Brusho backgrounds.

Then I stamped and cut out my flowers and leaves.

The sentiment is also from the same set.

I'd like to enter this into the following Happy Little Stampers challenges.
Watercolour - blue 
Anything Goes with HLS stamps and
Dies - anything goes with die cuts.

Have a very happy week, and thanks very much for looking x

Home Sweet Home

Good afternoon and happy Saturday. I'm here to remind you of the current challenge at Lost Coast Designs which is 'anything goes'
I had lots of fun making this bird house.

All the paints are from the DecoArt range.
For this I've used Whimsical Flora, Whimsical Spike, Mini Whimsical Birds 2, and Fly. 
Have you joined in yet?, go on you know you want to. You don't need to use Lost Coast/Carmen's Veranda stamps, but we love it when you do.
And Also...
It's day 3 of our new stamp release over at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  I did warn you last time that I would be bringing my spooky head, and no one does spooky better than Edgar.  

This hansome chap is Goth Poe, and the embossed background is CV's Ouiji Board. The quote is one of CV's clear stamps Witches Go Riding. I know it isn't really near Halloween, but like Christmas you can never start to soon! 

Please note no ravens were harmed during the making of this piece - I wouldn't dare!

So catch the nearest broom over to the Portal and prepare to be amazed by all my teamies works of art.

I'm entering my bird house into the anything goes with die cuts challenge at Happy Little Stampers, Anything goes at That's Crafty, and the TIMI challenge at Craft Stamper.

Have a fun week, and thanks very much for looking x