Lotstodo Challenge Embossing

Just a simple little ATC this week - I've had rather a busy week - The embossing was done in my bigshot then it was inked and sanded down before adding the tower which I had stamped on to tissue and the little Face which I had mat and layered on to mirri board. I finished off by rounding the corners and inking

Lotstodo Challenge Technique

I have many favourite techniques but the ones I've used today include Masking and Inking and Heat Embossing.

I made another clock for my friends craft room - bought the blank and the workings at NEC for £1 each !!!! I inked the background by spraying with Adirondack Color wash Raisen. I then added my mask and Sprayed again this time with Terra Cotta I heat embossed my grungeboard numbers with black fine detail and my letters with gold embossing powder. I then stamped a couple of sayings, inked and added them - and if you look closely I also added some wording with rub ons. I finished off by inking all the edges with distress inks and putting in the workings

Hope she likes it

Altered dominoes

I altered these for the Alter It Monthly challenge which this month is being sponsored by Crafty Individuals

I coloured my dominoes with alcohol inks then stamped with archival ink - I then added glossy accents - throwing some bedazzles into one of them !!!

I finished off by doing the outer edges with Krylon pen

I've made these dominoes into fridge magnets

my pic isn't very good shall try to take a better one later

Lets Ink It Up - Recycle

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I altered this gravy tin for the challenge on Lets Ink It Up - I firstly covered it with 2 coats of gesso. Then I inked it with Distress Inks - I followed that by stamping some of my Tm Holtz stamps on too it. Then came the masking of the music. I finished it off by adding some flowers that I had made the other day. I'm going to use it for storing some of my pencils

Craft Room Clock

I bought the pieces to make this clock at the NEC for £1 !!!!!! I covered it with 2 coats of gesso and then using masks and Adirondack dabbers I did the decoration - colours of dabbers used - Pitch Black, Red pepper, Sunshine Yello, Purple Twilight and Lettuce - I did the butterflies antenna with copper Krylon. I finished off by inking around the edges before adding the workings.

Love it and its now on my craft room wall - going to do another one for a friend but thats for another day

Thanks for looking your comments are appreciated

Atc's Autumn

I created my background for these atc's by inking with distress inks and then random stamping - I rounded the corners with my Zutter tool and inked them. I stamped the leaves on to grunge paper - cut them out then inked them before heat embossing them with clear embossing powder

These are for a swap on the Sparkles Forum

Tags - BLUE

I cut my tags out of mountboard and then inked them with Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass using cut n dry. I then stamped various images with Chipped Saphire Distress Inks. To finish them off I inked the edges and added some fibre

Again they are for a swap I'm hosting on the Lotstodorevisited Forum

Fat Pages - RED

I covered the background of my mountboard with Adirondack Dabbers - Red Pepper

I then put some card through my bigshot in embossing folders and then inked them with Distress Inks - Barn Door and added them to my squares

I then stamped my images with Momento Ink - Black and water coloured them with Distress Inks - Barn Door using a water pen. I finished them off by inking the edges

These pages are for a swap I'm hosting on the Lotstodorevisted Forum

Creative Journey Swap

I've joined a swap being hosted by Alison The idea is that we all produce pages measuring 6 x 4 inches and create backgrounds with inks, paints, gesso etc etc and then on Januaru 10th the other artists in the group will tell you what to put on your pages from a choice of 3 this could be something like add a brad, button, key, image etc etc - seems like its going to be real fun and I'm looking forward too it.

On my pages I've used Acrylics, gesso Adirondack dabbers sequin waste, doyley and bubble wrap

Penny Black Challenge

I made this card for the Penny Black Challenge - its the first time I've joined in this monthly challenge. I stamped my image Penny Black Snowy Park No 3231K on to glossy card stock and heat embossed it with fine detail Black I then mounted on to black card stock and then a white card. I think the image itself says it all so only added a couple of gems to finish it off

Lotstodo Challenge Friendship

I embossed the metal for the top and bottom pieces in my bigshot using an embossing folder. The side pieces were created by adding grungeboard letters covering with foil and embossing round them before adding a bit of a pettern with my Ten Second Studio tools. I then added my colour with alcohol inks and rubbed some of it off. The poem I found on the internet - it was anonymous. I've made a few of these for some of my crafting friends for little gifts for Christmastime

Lotstodo Challenge Autumnal Colours

Image and backing papers are Nancy Watts - matted and layered and added ribbon and sentiment