Challenge 62 OOTH

Well here we are at the end of the month and it my last guest appearance  for the wonderful ladies at Out of the Hat challenge.
The brief I was given was Jewel in the crown, what ever that means to you, my mind wandered to the TV series of the same name then the crown jewels and rubies but did you know that what was thought of be a ruby, is in fact a spinel !

So here's my offering of an ATC. I wonder what the other have done ? and where it will take you !

Faces

A nice easy challenge from OOTH this week with the theme of faces the only difficulty is deciding which one, I dug deep and found one I haven't used in a very long time, I think it came from Third Coast stamps and it's just the right size for an ATC

 

Have a great Easter break and thank you for popping by



Challenge 24 Artful times

Spots and stripes / circles and lines that's the theme for the next fortnight at Artful Times.
Whether you choose to make a background or use them in your main images I'm sure you will have fun and make something amazing .

For my ATC I have used just 3 colours of distress re-inkers picked raspberry, salty ocean and mowed lawn, I applied a drop of each colour to a baby wipe and striped a piece of card then with out re-inking coloured another piece of card, I used that for the background and stamped some line in the same colours and using the bold striped card for the border and spots stamped the bird and then paper pieced onto the ATC

Hope you like it and join in the fun and Neet and I will be more than happy to visit you :)

 

Birds and Butterflies

Just for a change I started with a piece of pale green card and stamped my butterfly background from Crafty Individual with bleach didn't work as well as I hope but carried on regardless and inked with tumbled glass and stamped again with the bleach, dried it with the heat gun and wow love the colour it turned, stamped the Crafty Individual birds in green and coloured with scattered straw.

 

I'd like to enter this ATC in

 

Out of the Hat Challenge birds and butterflies

Fashonable Stamping Birds

 

Thank for stopping by I do appreciate it :)

 

 

Artful Times and mainly green

What an amazing first challenge we have had at Artful Times with 38 enties and 68 wonderful followers :)

Sam's choice this fortnight and she would like to see a mainly GREEN background so off I went and had a messy play time with some inks made the similar way as Netty's on  Happy Daze but no matter how I tried ! it would photograph well, but has happens when you have a play you then can't decide what to do with it so it sits and waits inspiration .

Ok let's try again. Honest there is no white on the background :( I stamped an embossed in clear on a light green wrinkle free background then inked over with the darker green and splashed with water and iron the clear embossing powder to melt it away ready for ...... opps inspiration walked out the door so they also sit wating to be finished off

I really don't think my camera likes green as this is an alcohol ink back ground on glossy card stamped with a Crafty Individual stamp in black Archival and again onto some inked paper and cut out the butterfly and flower so it's a simple atc from me this week

You will find lots more inspiration from Sam and Neet at Artful Times and hope you will all join us again :)

atc's with wings

First swap  for a new forum Paperplay with wings

and using up another of the butterflies to make an easel shaped birthday blimey it's a busy month

The squares are alcohol resist

Catching up

Oww what a wet old day it is here ! Thought I had better show my face as I haven't posted for a while.
I've been catching up on the dreaded and some swaps not to mention that my craftroom is all over the house at the moment as the walls need repairing so finding the right stash to use is maddening !

A couple of atc's using masks

A Kanban stamp paper pieced

and last a card for a nursery rhyme swap, again stamped onto paper and cut out .

I had a fab day out yesterday at the Stamp Attic ( what an amazing shop ) where I did a workshop with Hels and I loved the faux suede technique she taught us it felt so real :)

Thanks for popping by and hope you are all having a good weekend

Stampman Atc swap

I'm so pleased I made time to join in The Stampman atc swap this month , the theme is the ocean and I've had so much fun creating them

Red Black and White

Seem that colours are everywhere this month and the Come and Get it Challenge has choosen red black and white for theirs, just when I had finished some atc's for a forum swap :)

Fired brick and aged mahogany stamping in Archival and bleached out the face ( just love to use bleach )

Black soot and fired brick again stamped in Archival and bleached out the dragon, the details on the dragon was then coloured with a red promarker

Thanks for stopping by :)

Week 29 Just for Fun

We certainly saw some amazing white on white last week, what a creative bunch for crafters you all are, not an easy one.
You are all going to find this week much easier at Just for Fun as Sam has choosen Black and White but how creative can you be :)
For mine I have made an atc on black card and my favourtie style of doodleing with a ruler ( I've been doing this since the 70's on and off ) to create a frame for the white embossed rose and then also embossed the edges

Don't forget to check out what the other team members have created and we look forward to seeing yours :)

Trees for the Stampman

It's been a while since I've taken part in the stampmans atc swap and this months swap theme is Trees .
The fir tree one is done on water colour paper with distress stains no idea who made the tree stamp but the deer are from Stamp in the hand .
Single tree again stamp unknown and distress stains used again
Asian style one with a tree from Hobby Art and silhouette from Clarity, stamped in Grape Archival ink and coloured with DI inks. Now I finished these yesterday but just as I was writing this thought hummm a mountain so quickly added one :)

Just for Fun Challenge

Can you believe it we are in June and now half way through the year, where has the time gone !

There are 5 Wednesdays in June so we the DT team at Just for Fun are having a week each, I have this the first week and I have chosen a theme of  I Spy With My Little Eye
There are some beautiful eye stamps and images and I'm sure we all have some in our collection gathering dust, well mine are lol so thought I should blow the cobwebs off and give one an airing and I think you'll agree with me that the team have done a fantastic job :)
I have made an atc the background is done with DI stains and the image stamped with archival with the eye bleached out and edged with Viva metal effect and Viva Croco .
I don't know about you but looks as if someone from the past, is looking into the futrue.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have some fun with this weeks challenge :)

Just for Fun week 15

Just reposting one that blogger forgot ............. lets hope there's not another glitch in the system
Here we are at the second week of Neets choice of size matter and it Scraplings you know the bits you get left over when cutting a square card , 11" x 2 1/2 .
I've turned mine into an easel card with an ATC for a topper. Simply score and fold across the middle and 3 1/2 from each end you should have something that looks like an M when folded but you all know how to mak an easle card don't you :)

poppies

The Stampman are having a poppy Challenge and the opportunity so get ready to support a good cause so go and check it out :)

This is for the Red and White at My Time to Craft

 and an ATC for a flower swap I'm in

All coloured with watercolour pencils

Paint Fusion Daisy's

Yesterday some friends and I got together for a paint fusion play and Sue bless her gave us each a frame she had crackle painted for us which turned out to be the perfect frame for my finished picture. for the background I used distress stains in fired brick and sugar spun direct to paper and a scribble of broken china I picked up from the craft mat .

Not sure if you can see it but I used a gold paint in with the green for the leaves on this atc

Wedding Atc's

I'd quite forgotten I had this stamp and found it lurking in the bottom of a box not sure who made the the stamp but if you know then please do tell :).

Stamped in versfine and coloued with distress inks, the frame which fits it perfectly is from Artemio.The veil has a wash of sukra clear star and dotted with the pen on the flowers.

A more modern feel to this one, again no idea who the stamp is from but have used just part on the image and bleached out the bride and groom , I used water colour pencils, H2o's for the bells and I little flower soft

If your looking for an Easter treat then pop over and see what the Happy Daze design team are offering

Paint fusion play

 I've had a little play with the paint fusion technique and practiced a fair bit before committing my self to a project as I knew I want to do the butterfly, I tyred it on watercolour paper regular card stock and even photo paper liked the look of that :) wasn't my idea but my friends hubby said try and see .

So here's the finished atc

It's on watercolor paper that has been ink and coloured with water soluble crayons

Hope you like my first effort it's very additive lol

hugs and kisses

White black and red it the theme for the atc swap on the lots to do forum, so just some basic stamping and highlighting in red .

I've used stamps from Paper Artsy unban snapshots, my one and only Sugar Nelly and a personal impressions. Text from ruberdubado and Hampton art .
I think the top two will be just right for Sparkles Challenge Forum

ATC's and winter card

Thought I had better make a post before the internet goes on me again and they come to lay a new cable to  the house
So here we have some winter flower snow drops for the lots to do Challenge along with 2 other ATC's for a swap on UK Stamper

 A winters tale for Sir Stampalot yes I know it's a christmas card but had an idea so had to go with it but to late for christmas lol all done with Hobby Art Stamps

Pen and Ink

Just had to use the stamp from inkadinkado I got from Ally Pally, for a pen and ink swap on the lots todo forum

I also borrowed some Penny Black stamps for a mouse swap all very cute lol but my fave has to be the paper pieced mouse with the brolly a stamp from Denami