Yet more tags!

Well, as you can see, have been messing about again making more tags. I received my 1 Tilda and 5 Sugar Nellie stamps, last week, so felt the need to use them straight away! The front of the tags are all stamped with my new Colourbox cats eye inkpads and the reverse with more subdued colours of my Adirondak pads. All images are stamped with black stazon and added some home-made embellishments (apart from 2 grungeboard ones) and some pretty gems. Not sure if I am going to add fibres or ribbons yet .......... will have to sit on that for a while and see what inspiration comes!!

Tags for a friend.

I have been very much 'into' tags this week and decided to make these 4 for a friend of mine. Its something I have been promising myself I would do for her for ages and, finally, got around to making them. Hope you like them.

Sunday Stampers Week 5 challenge

This week's theme is Time so, as I am into tags at the moment, used one of my all time favourite stamps from Serendipity. Stamped images, watercoloured them and dabbed on Tim Holtz weathered wood and shabby shutters inkpads. On the reverse I used a stamp from the Artistic Stamper and a verse (from Serendipity) - finished off dabbing with Tim Holtz old paper and vintage photo inkpads. Added some pretty fibres and it was done!

Books for Bee

As a thank you for our lovely weekend with Bee, I made her 2 BIA books. The first theme was 'Beautiful Women' and the second was my first gatefold book 'Housemouse'. The first book I used just about every type of inking matter I had but the Housemouse one, as the stamps are so colourful, decided that all they really needed was watercolouring. Finished them both off with lots of colourful ribbons.

A Book for Bee

House Mouse Book

Sunday Stampers Week 4 challenge

This card is not my usual style but as I bought this new stamp on Saturday, thought I would give it a go. Covered card with some shiney white paper and stamped the bird image as the background and then dabbed pastels on in various shades. Stamped bird, and a twig, on a separate piece of card and mounted it on the card with some yellow ribbon and brads. Finished off with some little green gems on the twig.

Sunday Stampers Challenge Week 3

I used bronze metallic backing paper and stamped onto cream mottled card my collage stamps using Tim Holtz distressed ink pad. I ripped the edges and inked them with Old Paper ink pad. I then stamped the impression again and decoupaged the dragonfly, keys and stamp. I embellished the dragonfly with Stickles Icicles.

Week 2 Challenge

This is my first attempt at the Sunday Stampers challenge. Took a plain white card and covered the centre with black and white flowered paper. On top of this I placed a long piece of black hand-made textured paper. The image is from my collection of photo-realistic stamps and was done with black stazon inkpad. Finished off by edging image and card with inkpad.

Tags

Have been messing about with inky things lately and, as it is my daughter's birthday on the 23rd January, decided to make her some tags to go inside her Dragon card. I used everything, inks, Tim Holtz distressed ink pads and Adirondak inkpads too. Images were stamped with Stazon inkpad and ended up using Glimmer mists, in various colours, and Blonde Moments to finish them off. Added some fibres and will probably attach them together with some pretty ribbons.

Birthday cards for daughter

These two cards are entirely different so hope she likes them. The girly one is all black and white, apart from some pink glitter edging. The image is from Joanna Sheen's Dancing with Shadow and I really like the effect it gives. The paper used is handmade silver glitter which, unfortunately doesn't show up on here.

She particular asked for a 'Dragon' card so have been playing around with inks etc, and decided to make a tag with Linda's stamp again. Its getting plenty of use!!

Card for a friend.

Decided to make something a little different for my friend's birthday so the whole card is in gold. It is one of the quickest cards I have made for a long time but, in real life, it looks so impressive and expensive. All the stamped images are from the Tim Holtz range and I simply applied Versamark embossing pad to the stamps and then gold heat-it-up embossing powder and heat embossed them all individually. To finish off I used Rub 'n buff gold on the edges and between the gaps in the images. Hope you like it.

Take 3 Beer Mats.

I belong to a group of like-minded ladies called The Paper Dolls and each month we have challenges set to stretch our crafting abilities. We have now been set a bi-monthly challenge and Take 3 Beer Mats is the first in the series. The idea is to alter the beer mats into something completely different. I decided to make mine an Oriental book and I hope you will find this interesting.

Front Page.

All the pages are covered using the DCWV Far-East card stack and all images are stamped with black StaZon inkpad. I have used the same Dragon image on both the front and back pages. The image has been produced by a member of the forum I am on and her name is Linda. The dragon is coloured in acrylic paints and the 'fire' is done with red stickles. The edges are coloured in with Adirondak Cranberry inkpad and glittery gold peel-offs.

Pages 1 & 2.

Stamped with Geisha stamps. Highlighted flowers etc with Diamond and yellow stickles. Flowers and buds painted with Emerald Green Liquid Pearls. Pages edged with Adirondak Bottle Green inkpad and glittery gold peel-offs

Pages 3 & 4.

Stamped with 2 images from the Non-Sequitur range of Orientals. Painted with acrylic paints and glittered with yellow and orange stickles and green liquid pearls. Pages edged with adirondak Butterscotch inkpad and pages edged with glittery gold peel-offs.

Back page

Again using Linda's Dragon stamp and coloured in with acrylic pants and Xmas Red stickles for the 'fire'. Edged with Adirondak Cranberry inkpad. 3 Eyelet holes made in each page and tied with red ribbon to finish the effect!

Egyptian fat book pages

I have been messing about with inks recently and have now completed a series of Egyptian fat book pages to swap on a forum I am on.
Instead of using backing papers, I have used various coloured inks blended to form the background to co-ordinate with the images. The images used are from Joanna Sheen's Egyptian cd. The embellishments I made from mountboard which I triple embossed and, when cold, coloured in with H2o's. When they had dried I then used a glaze which would give me a 'cracked' and aged look.