Brrr....

We're continuing the theme of stars this week at Stampotique, and I've made a little stary ATC.

I stamped Brrr... onto black card and embossed in white, then I stamped the stars from Design Cube and embossed in a white and silver mix.
Brrr... has been coloured with Prisma pencils along with the border around the edge. The frosty bits are glass glitter.
As always there are 2 $30 gift certificates for the lucky winner of the draw this month, so please join in the fun.
Hope you like my chilly ATC, and thanks very much for looking x

Live, Laugh, Love

It's been ages since my IndigoBlu stamps have come out of their box, so while Neil was watching the football I had a play. Their current challenge is to use your favourite IB stamp. Although they have many beautiful stamps, this was an easy choice for me 'cos I have this Script Background. I really don't want to count up how many script stamps I have, and they are ALL my favourites :-)
I've stamped Clematis Flourish onto white card, and again on vellum and covered with gilding flakes. I've just cut the flowers and birds out and layered. The sentiment is from Live Laugh Love. 
I'm also entering this into the Country View Crafts  challenge which is monochromatic. You are allowed black and white, and I've chosen shades of gold for my colour.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

It's Hearts and Butterflies for PaperArtsy

The lovely Alison (aka Butterfly) is guest designer at PaperArtsy this week, and she has made a gorgeous hanging for our inspiration (here), and this is what I have come up with.

I started with a plaque from the MDF man and painted it in the same colours of Fresco paints that Alison used.
I then stamped and embossed the sentiment from Darcy 01. I thought the background looked a little bare, so I stamped the words from the Ding and Dong plate in gold and clear embossed. I had my usual problem with the wonky stamping. I do have a stamp positioner but it seems that it wont work if I leave it in the box lol. I then stamped the same stamp in coffee archival and clear embossed again.
I painted some book pages in reds and reds/greens, and stamped the butterfly and heart from the Darcy plates.

I added a touch of Frantage embossing powders in gold and green to finish off.

I enjoyed making this and will definitely try the 'blob and stipple' way of painting again.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend, and thanks very much for looking xx

Shoot For The Moon

It's the lovely Sam's turn to pick the theme at Stampotique this week and she has chosen stars. 
I don't know one person who doesn't enjoy looking at the stars. Stars fill us with a sense of fascination and wonderment. Earliest societies mapped and traced stars. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second and because stars are so distant, many of them millions of light years away means we look in to the sky from the distant past. Therefore I am inviting you to use stars in your creation this week, as the main image or as an accent. I can't wait to see what you make, have fun!
I've made a stary piece for my Stampotique chippie album.

 We've both chosen the oh so cute Hazelheart, and given her a falling star, I've not copied Sam honest, you must be channelling crafty ideas through the rubber lol.

I've started by giving my chippie a coat of lumpy gesso (it's very old and the conservatory is flippin cold) I've cut the moon and stars with a Tim Holtz die and used the waste as a stencil for the pastels. I'm loving the new metallic pans, I've used silver and gold here.

Next I stamped and embossed Fax To Wolfgang and cut out with the die. It was then gone over with Versamark and the gold and silver PanPastels were dusted over the top, then edged around in black.

I used France's Design Cube around the edges - everybody NEEDS this stamp, it is SO versatile.

Shoot For The Moon has been stamped directly on the chippi, I practised about 5 times. perfectly straight, then as soon as I go for it I do it wonky!! I don't know how I do it, just lucky I guess :-) This is why I don't often stamp directly to my project.

Hazel's been stamped and cut out (I wonder why) I've coloured her with Prisma pencils, and honestly she hasn't got a five o'clock shadow I just need to practise with my shading lol.

So I hope you can join in with our challenge and remember the rules :-)

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.

If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  

Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.

*No digi stamp creations please*

I'm also entering this into the PanPastel challenge which is 

Anything goes or Silver Lining.

Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking xx

Time To Soar

Here's a little look at the hanging I've made for Sam Poole's Creative Studios. Sam will be on Create & Craft this Saturday at 11 and 4 with her fab new stamps.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking xx

A Little Bit Cleaner and Far More Simple

The lovely Joanne Wardle has popped back to PaperArtsy  with one of her clean and simple cards. I decided I need to practice after my fiasco with the masking tape earlier, so here's my card of lurve....

I stamped the heart from Darcy 01 straight onto the card  along with the sentiment.

Then I coloured the edges of the heart, the zip, and the doodly bits with Prisma Pencils.

I then stamped the heart again and painted with London Bus, cut it out in 2 pieces and stuck on top of the original.
I love how it looks coloured with paints instead of the usual inks.
I've had great fun playing along this week, but now the iron is calling (literally it's hissing steam at me lol)
Enjoy what's left of the weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Don't Forget Me....

The fabulous Helen Chilton is visiting over at PaperArtsy Towers (she's the lady who through the powers of telekinesis managed to get a packet of Portfolio pastels to fall into my online shopping basket) I did pay for them so we're not into organised crime lol.
She's made another colourful pastel piece, and here's mine.

I loved getting the portfolio's out again but I don't know if my sewing machine was as happy, I had to clean his needle afterwards :-)
I've used various text stamps, and the main image is from HP1207.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

Clean and Simple (or smudged and sticky) for PaperArtsy

It's a new school year over at PaperArtsy, and the fabulous Clare Lloyd is 'Miss' this week. Her day 3 make is CAS, and here's my interpretation

This is made in pretty much the same way as Clare's except I had to use some washi tape to cover up where the masking tape took the top layer of the card off. I wouldn't mind but I'd stuck it on my t shirt 3 times and there was hardly any sticky left lol.

I do love Bruiser Bird, you really wouldn't mess with him would you?  All the stamps are from JOFY 15, and I've painted SM15 with London Bus, Hey Pesto, Toffee, and Cinnamon.
It's finished off with some more washi tape for the sentiment along with some original Sue doodling.... yep this is as good as it gets :-)
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking xx