Dare to be Remarkable!

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s the start of a new challenge over at Left Of Center and this time we are sponsored by Sassy Studios.  Sassy is the perfect word to describe their digistamps – those girls have got some attitude!  The theme is “Girly” and I’ve chosen Sassy Ursula for my card.

 

You remember Ursula the Sea Witch from Disney’s Little Mermaid?  This is Ursula in her prime, all glamorous and ready to raise havoc – those tentacles are going to be in everyone’s business.  I enjoyed colouring her in with Spectrum Noirs; I used the Blue-Greys for her dress and Cool Greys for her tentacles.  For the skin tones I moved over to the Promarker cool greys.  The colouring process was very therapeutic – I got lost in my own little world...

I cut her out and mounted her onto a piece of marbled paper from a pad that Joanna Sheen used to produce some time ago – I thought it looked a bit “under the sea” – which I bordered in some textured gold foil card.  I used the same card, die-cut into a spiky circle with a Nestabilities die, to mount the sentiment – also die-cut into a circle with just a touch of Weathered Wood DI blended over the edge. 

So that’s my contribution for this challenge.  Why not hop over to Left Of Center and see what my DT colleagues have made?  Better yet, why not join in the fun and enter the challenge?  I’d love to see what you come up with!

Crafty hugs,

WOYWW - 29 August

Well, my leave is over and it's back to work for me today;  to a new job in a new (temporary) location (our permanent office space isn't ready yet).  It's been a great couple of weeks, I've crafted more than I usually do and I feel nice and relaxed.  I'm counting on the crafting to keep me sane, even if I do have to slow down a bit for a while!

Another reason I'll be blogging a bit less for the next few weeks is because I'm pariticipating in an online course - Andy Skinner's Timeworn Techniques- so most of what I'll be crafting will be practice pieces for the course and not really very interesting to blog!

Anyroad,  it's Wednesday, which means time to hop off around the Blogiverse and have a nosey at everyone's workspace.  Mine is not very inspiring today - I've cleared up a bit.

On the left is the Nestie storage that I was making last week - some of my blog visitors expressed an interest in seeing how it turned out.  Inside it looks something like this -

It works pretty well .  The collection ran to three volumes in the end, plus a number of magnetic folders holding non-nesting dies.  I'm not even mentioning the Sizzix dies!  I am ashamed of myself, I am a die-aholic!  Perhaps I should have a clear-out and offer my unloved dies on Ebay (but I need all of my dies, so perhaps I won't!)

OK, I'm off to Julia's blog and to do some visiting.  Thanks for stopping by!

Steampunk Sprockets

If you've glanced at my blog before you've probably noticed that I really, really like Steampunk.  So this week's theme for the Sunday Stampers challenge is right up my street! 

My order from Crafty-Emblies (who are sponsoring this challenge) arrived earlier this week but is still at the stage of "Can't be used, has to be taken out and stroked instead" (My precious!) although I did experiment with a bit of gilder's paste on one of the sprockets (and I am pleased to say that the experiment was successful!) so I fell back on my faithful die cuts and my new favourite Gilder's Paste. 

For once I used the Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets instead of the Alterations Gadget Gears as I wanted a lighter, less industrial effect.  The corners are from Marianne and the flower is made with the Donna Salazar build-a-rose set.  Everything was covered in Gilder's Paste.

For the background, I cut a stencil out of Doeflex with my Cameo and sprayed Sprinkies ink through it, then proceeded to cover it all up in different shades of Distress.  The words "Gears" and "Steampunk" are my own design (made with the Imagepac system) and the pointing hand is by Tim Holtz. 

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you enjoyed your visit!

WOYWW- 22 August

Happy Wednesday, everyone.  It's that time of the week when we go visiting around the Blogiverse, inspired by Julia.  I'm on week two of my leave (back to work next week- boo) so I've more time for crafting and blogging than usual and I'm having such fun, I can't tell you.
Anyhoo, on my desk (annexe) today, is what is going to be a Nestibilities organiser, an idea borrowed from Kathryn (the Scrapbeach).  I noticed hers while watching her Ustream show about die-cutting (that's at Kathryn Scraps if you want to check it out!) and thought it was just so nifty.  So I've used some chipboard (came as packaging) cut to 9 inches by 6 inches, covered with some paper that I'm probably never going to use for scrapbooking now I've gone digital, and punched with my Cinch.  The magnetic sheet cuts very easily and the E6000 does a very good job of the sticking. 

Once I've done all of the pages, I have to dive back into the haunted wing of my stash and find the binder wires and the Job Will Be Done, apart from embellishing the cover.

OK, I'm off to see what everyone else is up to.  Thanks for stopping by - please call again, I'd love to have you visit!

WOYWW - 18 July

Happy Wednesday, fellow WOYWWers!  (If you have no idea what this is all about, check out Julia Dunnit's blog here) Creepin' Ivy, doesn't time fly?  July already.  Not that it feels like it.  They keep promising us a summer but no sign yet...

On the ol' workdesk this week, apart from the usual junk, is a little locket (holding pictures of Lady E and Major T) cut from cardboard and covered with the mock croc.  This is about the last of it for the time being - but I did find some Anna Griffin animal print stamps in the stash which I hadn't thought about for a while so I might play a bit more with them!  The hinge is a scrap of grungepaper and there are a couple of magnets concealed in the frame to act as a closure.  You can't see the Vagabond, which is off to one side, which is what did the cutting on this occasion.  Nesties will cut quite heavy card if you run them through the Vagabond a few times (and they'll do grungepaper, too!)

The yellow duster is there because I was treating my Nesties with beeswax polish to act as a release agent (not because I was doing housework.  That would jeopardise my amateur status).  Seems to help a bit.  Anyway, thanks for visiting, and  I'm looking forward to visiting you in return!

See you next week!