More Atc's

Created a masterboard using Dina Wakely paints and randomly embossed flourishes in gold and purple on the sheet

I placed images on the Atc sized pieces

Decorated with ribbons, trim and bling

Day 30 - TagFest - Last day of the Challenge

Some double, some single, embossed backgrounds, paper dolls and butterfly wings.

Set of double tags using T!m's paper dolls as the main focus.

Oriental tag using a slide mount.

Created using decorated till rolls.

Vintage tag set with cut outs and doilies.

More tags using up the till rolls. Most pieces are collaged onto the tags.

Today is the last day of the 30 day tag challenge. 

Day 15 Tags

A second flurry of oriental tags for the #fabtag30day challenge.

And I decided to change colours, blue and white and black embossing.

A smaller one.

More gold embossing on a black tag, with a hint of red and blue.

Heavily gold embossed in oriental script.

Vellum on the background tag and a stamped image with black embossing on gold paper.

And finally another blue one.

We are half way through, just another 15 days to go!

Day 13 Tag

I took some photos outside on the grass but then realised you couldn't see the tassels very well on the bottom.

So I took another one inside.

Another tag for the #fabtag30days challenge.

Oriental Embellishments

I've been trying to find some oriental embellishments but not had much luck, so I decided to make some myself using my stamps and embossing powders.

Used punches to shape them.

Found some images and printed them off on cream card, vellum and white paper.

And the same again but this time using script images, red card and red text on the vellum.

Embellishments & Clusters

I decided to triple emboss some of the embellishments I made a couple of days ago.

Altered Game Pieces

Added patterned paper, a tassel from an earlier make, gems to the green one and a bulb shaped safety pin to attach with.

Embossed Tag

Revisited my embossing powders for this one. Went mad as everything is embossed.

Atc's with Bling!!!

I covered a piece of card with sticky silver foil, cut it into ATC sized pieces and embossed each one with a different folder.

Swiped them with versa mark and added embossing powders. Heated them again and added some schizel otherwise known as foil!

Then I made a huge mistake!!! Instead of swiping a permanent ink over the top, ie archival or stazon, for reasons unknown to me, I used versa fine ink, which just would not dry!!

I couldn't use the heat tool to dry the ink as it would remelt the powders! So I sprayed them with matte varish and then swished over them again with black stazon ink! I finally chose some images and words, but didn't want to cover up too much of the backgrounds.

Bright Tags & T!m Stamps

Background was created with a purple, green, yellow and blue Decoart multi surface satin paints and then I cut the piece of card in half to make two tags. Stamped the dragonfly in versamark ink and heat embossed it with fine black wow powders. The rest of the T!m images were stamped in black stazon. 

The dragonfly on this one was heat embossed with blue wow powders and then re-heated and fragment powders added in a mix of blue and gold. Again T!m stamps used to fill the rest of the space on the tag using black stazon.

And the pair side by side.

Country View Crafts have a challenge this month of things with wings, so these tags will fit perfectly.

Birthday Cards

I was asked to make two 50th birthday cards and the only info I had was female, New York, Venice, Madrid, Las Vegas etc, so I lightly brayered DecoArt multi surface satin true blue and flamingo onto white card. Once dry, I took my TH ticket and Creative Expressions word stamp of place names, including New York and Madrid along with quite a few others and stamped in versamark and embossed with black embossing powder to create the background.

Next I stamped lots of Dina images onto different backgrounds of paper to see how I could use them and this is what I ended up with. The images are outlined in black pen.

And this is what I did for the second one, stamped another of Dina images several times on different backgrounds and played around with them.

The other part of the brief was to make them the same but with subtle differences, what do you think? The person who asked me to make them hasn't seen them yet, so no idea what she was expecting or if these hit the mark or not!!

PaperArtsy have a theme of typography, fonts and quotes this week, so I'm entering the cards.

Halloween Atc's

I started off with stamping the webs in versamark and heat embossing with black wow powder. I coloured them with pan pastels and sealed them with a spray matte varnish.

The pumpkin is a rub on, the cat is a die cut and the spider is a piece of chipboard.

The skull is a piece of chipboard and the bats are die cuts.

I have made them for an atc swap with the theme of Halloween and I'm also entering into this weeks That's Crafty challenge of Friday 13th part 2 as I also entered into part 1 earlier in the year.

A Couple of Tags

Finally felt okay enough to be able to move some stash around to get to other stuff and ended up making these two tags. I've been wanting to do something like this for a few weeks now.

I embossed the card using a cog folder, coloured it in silver Decoart media paint and then rubbed over it with black carbon media paint.

The top half is white embossed and coloured with carbon black media paint and wiped back.

Crackle paint on the heart and covered with black antiquing cream and wiped back.

Pretty much did the same with this one except I used gold and transparent yellow oxide for the embossed background and again I tinted it with carbon black Decoart media paint.

The embossed stamping was coloured with platinum silver embossing powder. I used a dirty wash for the background and added a wooden cog.

All products used are from the DecoArt media range.

Skull and Arches

More playing with my new gothic arches which I thought might go well with a skull, so here it is.

Close up of the skull which was created with DecoArt white modeling paste through an Andy Skinner stencil.

The arches were stamped in clear ink and embossed with white. Dripage created with DecoArt black and purple media misters.