Artful Times - Challenge 12

A while ago I was playing with modelling clay and stamped a couple of faces from a Hampton Art stamp.  I cut them into individual tiles as there are 3 faces on the stamp.  Now luckily for me they were an inch square, and this week on Artful Times, Neet has chosen inchies as the theme.  Once the clay had fully air dried, I coated it in golden matte medium, I then applied a very small amount of Spanish copper rub n buff.  Rubbed it in and buffed it up with a cloth.  I mounted it onto a piece of chipboard which I coloured black.  Using the script from the TH papillon plate I used black soot distress stain to ink it up.  I punched the edges with a Martha Stewart lace design, attached it to a piece of black card which I then attached to white to make a card.

I used exactly the same technique for this card, I just altered the colours and the punch.  The background is stamped in gold metallic acrylic dabber and the rub n buff colour is Grecian gold with a hint of Spanish copper.  (It was still on my finger from the first one!!)

Hop over to the Artful Times blog to see what Neet and Von created.

A Couple More Tags

Yes Kate, I know, it's pink!!!  I coloured the fabric flowers and strips of fabric with spun sugar distress stain.  The lace is coloured with vintage photo distress stain.  I added the skeleton leaf and the stapled tassel along with the image to the embossed tag.

Another tag made from the backgrounds created on the previous post.  Again I made the flower and added a couple of pieces of distress stained lace and fabric strips.

A Couple of Tags

Well I'm now able to weight bear and have become sturdier on my crutches so I've been able to do a bit of arting, although it's taken a while as getting about is still so exhausting.


I saturated different colours of spray inks onto varying pieces of card and covered them with scrunched cling film.  Once they had dried I removed the cling film.  I cut tag shapes from the card pieces and then ran them through embossing folders with the big shot.

I made the purple flower from mulberry paper and coloured the row of fabric roses with dusty concord and crushed olive distress stains.  I also stained strips of fabric to create the ribbons for the tops of the tags.

Triptych & Clay

The walls are made from chipboard and run through the bricks TH texture fade.  Coloured with old brass, pewter and metallic rust lumiere paints.  Various colours of rub n buff used to contrast.

The clay pieces made previously were added along with the original key.

They were pieced together with tabs from my new TH alteration die.  The brads were picked up at the Harrogate show.  A bag of just brass coloured ones, not seen them before, usually have to buy a mixed bag.

5 x 5 Stamp Man Challenge

This was going to be a fat page (4 x 4), but it looked too cramped, so it became a 5 x 5!  The background is coloured with a mix of distress stains with distress inks blended in.  The pieces on the sides were left overs from the previous tag.  The background was stamped in script and a flourish.  The car was stamped in walnut stain stain onto cream card and cut out.  The saying was stamped onto vintage photo stained card and the edges ripped and edged in walnut stain ink.  Mesh was added to the top right and the 3 cogs were painted in black acrylic and rubbed over with rub n buff.  Again the edges were distressed and coloured with walnut stain ink.


The Stamp Man's challenge this week is travel.

Huge Tag

I coloured the white tag in antique linen distress stain, I blended in walnut stain and brushed corduroy distress inks.  I stamped the map background in black archival ink.  I ran a piece of black card through the cuttlebug clockworks embossing folder, painted it with black acrylic and used rub n buff in various colours over the top to bring out the embossing.  I stamped the tickets onto a vintage photo distress stained background, cut them out and attached them with a mini clipboard clip.  (I think this may have to be toned down a bit!!)  I stamped the main image in pitch black adirondack ink onto cream card.  I used brushed corduroy distress ink to slightly tinge the background, I used a paper distresser and edged in black soot.  I attached it using 2 brads.  The other end is intertwined with a piece of fabric held on with a couple of mini safety pins.  Finally I used a paper distresser on the edges of the tag and inked with black soot.  The stamps are IndigoBlu.

Large Jigsaw Shape

This is a large chipboard jigsaw piece which measures approx 7" x 5".  I stuck various findings to the raw chipboard, then covered in silver sticky tape.  I burnished around each shape using my metal tools and a paper stump to define each shape.  Using meadow, stream, eggplant, sail boat and citrus alcohol inks I coloured the background, this took a few coats to achieve the desired colour.  I then used black acrylic paint to swipe over and wipe off the access.  Once dry I applied rub n buff in red copper, jade and pewter.  Finally I cut up a quote, edged each word in black soot distress ink and applied to the jigsaw piece.


If you fancy a go yourself, I've got these corner pieces and the 2 nobble and 1 hole style of the chipboard pieces for sale at £2 with free postage.  I also have some of the embellishments available for £1 a bag too.  Use the email button on the side bar to contact me if you are interested in anything.

JFF - Week 18 - Eye Spy

A bit ago I had a play around with a glue gun and created some patterns.  When cooled, I coloured the glue with rub n buff.  I used the one on the left to make the hanging below.

I stamped an eye into friendly plastic pellets and once cooled, coloured it with spanish copper and jade rub n buff.  I added a large green gem for the inner of the eye.  I mounted it on the glue.  I stamped 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' from the creative expressions spirit plate in peeled paint distress embossing powder onto the black card.  I then layered it onto green card and added a piece of organza ribbon to hang.

Check out the JFF challenge blog as there is a different challenge set every Thursday.

Glue Gun

I had a play with my glue gun and made a random pattern with the hot glue.  Once cooled I coloured with jade rub n buff (left) and pewter, gold, jade and copper (right).  I was testing the colours out on these pieces.

I made a frame from a pipe cleaner for this piece and wrapped wool around it.  Glued it at the corner then again just drizzled with the gun and made a random pattern making sure that I went over the edges of the frame so it stuck.  Once cooled I coloured with the pewter rub n buff.

Clay Tags - Faux Leather

I made these clay tags using my new mini oven - another of my christmas presents.  I made the colour by mixing light brown, white and black clays together.  Stamped into the clay but didn't really know how much pressure to put on which is why some impressions are better than others.  Using some of my metal tools I made marks in the clay to give the impression of stitches.  I made the hole using a straw.  Once baked I added black acrylic paint and wiped most of it off.  I applied different colours of metal paint and rub n buff to some of the tags.  Added string to finish.

Lotstodo Week 27 - Simply Stamping

A couple of tags using distressed inks with images from Lisa's Altered Art

Lotstodo Week 13 Challenge - Boxes

This weeks theme on the lotstodo challenge is boxes. Here is my slidemount box. For full details of how it was made visit the technique zone blog here