A Perfect Pear

That's the theme for the new challenge at The Stamp Man this fortnight or it could be the Perfect Pair, which would you choose? Janet has chosen the topic and asks that you include pears in your project or pairs if you prefer.

I chose a PAIR of PEARs on one I used the rusted enamel technique and the other was stamped and stickled.

The background was made up of lots of layers. With glue stick, adhere brown paper to the tag, iron and tear off. Do the same with copy paper, add vintage photo DI direct to tag. Add dictionary paper and iron dry with paper over the top and gesso and paint over the layers. Swoosh through DIs sprayed with water on craft mat and heat dry, repeat as desired. Stamp over the top then add stamped and cut out pears and other embellishments. 

You might notice that I chose dictionary paper that says perfect and pear. I've added some inked tissue paper, a flower and printed words etc. to finish it off.

I just love distress stains - here used on a cream, dark blue and turquoise flowers to grunge them up a bit.

The distress stains used here to change the colour of my cream shabby ribbon.

Supplies -

Stamps - pear from the Stamp Man, TH- nature's moments 
Distress inks - bundled sage, vintage photo, mustard seed, broken china, peeled paint
Distress Stains - dusty concord, peeled paint
Stickles - crystal
Gesso
Studio acrylic paint - dab of yellow, landscape green
Brown paper, copy paper, dictionary paper

We would love to see you join us at The Stamp Man. My lovely team-mates have produced some amazing creations, I hope you will pop over to see all the inspiration. If you decide to join us you could, of course, win a £10.00 voucher for the on-line store. Don't forget there is -

FREE P & P ON ORDERS OVER £20!!!

PLUS, Free gift with orders over £10

There are hundreds of sales prices throughout the website

We welcome a new team member this week to the Stamp Man, Siobhan from Recovering Stampaholic. She produces some amazing pieces of art so I hope you will go over and give her some love. Great to have you aboard Siobhan.


Have a fabulous weekend whatever you are doing and thanks for stopping by. I am off to Ally Pally on Sunday, I know Neil and Sarah will be there - anyone else?


luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

MAWTT challenge 71 - Sketch

Good morning everyone.

It's another fabulous challenge over at MAWTT today and this week it's a fabby sketch from Kelli. I have really enjoyed using this one and decided to get away from cards and made a little bag for some sweeties or a present at Christmas.

I am really pleased the way this turned out. The image is from Crafty Individuals and the paper is a freebie download.

Firstly I made the brown paper bag and found some tutorials on YouTube, I then stamped over the paper, made the snowflake using a punch and a Maya Road diecut, which was painted with white acrylic paint and walnut DI added and then I liberally used glitter and stickles over them. When it had all dried I just added a gem sticker to the middle.

The flap has been covered with TH scrollwork border, edged with walnut stain and then painted with snowtex and glitter added to it whilst it was still wet in place which produced the mottled effect which I really like. You will see edging with walnut stain and stickles on the papers and image.

The sponsor this week is Clare (who used to be a design team member here) she is offering a selection of peel-offs as the prize this week. She says -
"Hi, I'm Clare. I am the owner of Thread-bare (www.thread-bare.piczo.com). It is a small craft business that likes the personal touch. The products I like to use are the products I sell. I am a stockist of Pepper & Friends, Daisy & Dandelion, Forever Friends, Design House Papercrafts, The Crafthouse Press Ltd & many more. I also stock Cross Stitch & Pinflair kits. I love making handmade cards & gifts too & I sell these in my Ebid & Folksy stores. I am currently constructing a brand new website at the moment & we hope to launch this in the new year."

Challenges to have fun with -
Order of the Opus Gluei - go forth and create a sweet project worthy of ooooh's and aaahhh's   My bag actually has chockies in it, but I didn't take a photo of that - does that link to the treat mentioned in the blog post?
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Shabby
Anything Goes - The letter B     Mine is B is for Bag
Everybody Art Challenege - Untraditional Christmas  Pink papers are untraditional aren't they?
Crafts and Me - A Christmas gift
Charisma Cardz - With love at Christmas
Paper Players - Anything Goes

It seems so dark now the nights are drawing in, but I guess that means more time to be inside and crafting - when I have finished my paperwork and reports etc that is.

Have a great day. Luv B xxxxx

Precious punches - OSAAT challenge 26

Happy Sunday

That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know
The things I do are right
I wanna be free                          
Just me, babe!

That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning             Lionel Ritchie

So how's your Sunday going, easy I hope and free to do the things you wanna do.

Well Sunday is OSAAT day and there's another great challenge for you to enter called Pack a Punch (not literally of course), but to use punches on your projects.  Today the challenge is sponsored by Ididitcreations who are going to give the lucky winner 3 digis of their choice.

The designers are using digis from the creators at Stitchy Bear Stamps so pop on over and take a look at their fabulous creations.

I have used a digi called 'Precious' by Beary Dust Stamps and it is a gorgeous image which I have loved to work with. Precious is standing in front of a fence so I wanted to give it a garden them and use my punches for the flowers, leaves and trellis.

I coloured her using promarkers and I punched the leaves on her hat and stamped and coloured the flower. The large rose flower I made using a MS edge punch and layered it round a circle of card. The little flowers are also a MS punch and a small one from my collection. The trellis is the MS punch that was a TSV at QVC a few weeks ago, I thought it fitted the bill perfectly as I don't have anything else that looks like one. I have used various stickles on edges and distress stickles on the centre of the pink flower. The backing paper is making memories boho chic pad.

Have a great day and a good week ahead.

Luv B xxx

Maya blowing bubbles - MAWTT challenge 59

Thursday greetings to everyone. Hope all is well with you.

This week at MAWTT we have another great sketch from Hazel and there isn't a theme to go with it so anything goes. There is inspiration from the design team so go take a look at their wonderful creations. We so love coming to look at your amazing cards and projects.

Our sponsors this week are Whimsey Stamps and I have chosen this one called Maya Blowing Bubbles. I have coloured her using promarkers and edged the image with tumbled glass DI and crystal stickles. The papers are from my box of bits and I wanted to stay with the bubble theme so I chose two with circles on. I have also used lilac pearlidoodles round the edge of the purple paper and clear rock candy distress stickles over the bubbles on the image. This didn't need alot of embellishing but I added beads to give the impression of more bubbles and the sentiment in the top right corner.

I hope the week has gone well, and you are enjoying the summer holidays particularly if you have children home and on holiday from school. Have fun over the weekend.

Luv B xxx

Vintage Eiffel Tower - limited resources

Hello everyone, how is your week going?

This is another one of my collection of cards made with very few resources whilst down in Swanage with Mum at the end of June/beginning of July. It is a slow week, when we go, as she can't move far but we enjoy sitting outside of the beach hut and we enjoyed lovely weather. In the evenings after we have been out for a meal I made cards with the bits and pieces I took with me.

This is quite a simple card, with images downloaded from the internet and the rose cut out and edged with vintage photo DI. The Eiffel Tower image I also edged with gold stickles. The papers were bits from my box and I had added the buttons to my pack. The butterfly again is one of my collection and covered in sepia accents. I had also taken the little pink corner piece with me.

Enjoy the rest of the week and the weekend when it gets here.

See you again soon.

Luv B xxxx

Vintage Christmas - MAWTT challenge 58

Hello everyone and happy Thursday to you all.

Being a Thursday means it's another great challenge over at MAWTT and this week it's Shell's turn to host her first blog here. The sponsor is Foilplay  who have lots of scrummy things for you to look which includes a bargains section. They stocks a huge selection of toppers, decoupage and other craft goodies, many of which you may have seen on QVC or Create and Craft TV. Foil Play lets you pick the individual designs of your choice, so you don’t need to invest in a huge kit and p&p is free on orders over £5.00”.

Shell set us the theme of Christmas for this week and no sketch. So come on over and have a go the winner receives a £10.00 voucher to spend in the Foilplay store. Now there's an incentive.

So onto my creation. I have this gorgeous little vintage image I downloaded (can't remember where from) and I used the colours from it for the papers which I found in some Christmas theme stacks.  I have used stickles but NO DIs (wow can you believe that??) and I have used a Quickutz die to make the snowflake.

I would love to know you have visited me so please leave a short message, I don't want you to take alot of time doing it 'cos we would all rather be getting inspiration and creating instead.

Take care and have a great weekend.

Luv B xxx

Digi Madness

Hi Everyone, it's Sunday and time again for the weekly challenge at One Stitch At A Time. Go have a look at the digi madness examples from the design team and the images they have used. This week we are sponsored by Craftbrulee with a $10 voucher to spend in their store. Check out their gorgeous lace flowers.

On my card I have used the smiling seahorse from Lil Diva which can be found at Stitchy Bear Stamps. I wanted to make a summery beach/ocean theme card and this cute image really caught my eye.

I used promarkers to colour it in using denim blue, duck egg, soft green, pastel green and the blender which gave it a gorgeous effect and then I cut it out and edged with broken china and pine needles DIs. I then covered the image only with glossy accents.

The DPs are from the Soft Expressions set by Judy Melvin and Crafters Block. They have been distressed with TH distressing tool and edged with the above DIs then edged again with star dust stickles.

The real shells I collected the other week when I was in Swanage and the resin shell and starfish I bought in Swanage a few years ago.

I have also used some cream binding tape and notepaper and TH Alterations ticket strip both edged with vintage photo distress ink. The sentiment is from Raindrop Echo designs.

I love this photo of the shells, it looks as though there is a reflection in the water. Actually it was taken outside on my glass table. Not bad though eh?

Challenges I would like to enter -
Little paper Shop - Distressing
Pollycraft Monday - Bold and bright
Incy Wincy Designs - Distress it
Everybody Art - Holidays
Creative Card Crew - To die for
Gingersnap Creations - Markers
Stampavie - Anything goes
S2G - Make a splash
Shelly's images - Layers

Daring Cardmakers - Sea related
Mami Doodles - Anything goes
Allsorts - Summer Days
Stamp, scrap and Doodle - Animals
Bee Crafty - At the beach
Our Creative Corner - Beach layout
Oh Alice - Dancing under the sea
Anything Goes - Sparkle and shine
For fun challenges - colouring techniques
Practical Scrappers monthly - Just beachy

MAWTT DT card -

Good morning everyone

I am working today so this is a scheduled post, but I will be back later to check all is well.

The sketch challenge at MAWTT this week has been designed by Hazel and we were given a digi stamp and some backing papers to use by the very talented Stitchy from Stitchy Bear Stamps, who is our sponsor this week. If you haven't visited the shop yet, go along and take a peek, there is a whole range of goreous goodies you can buy. Stitchy, if you read this, the sentiment is for you. Very apt don't you think??

This is my creation using Stitchy Stamps Butterfly Love and papers from Crafty Chaos, which I thoroughly enjoyed making. (Check them all out at Stitchy Bear Stamps - link above).  I mounted the three matting pieces on yellow paper, distressed them using faded jeans DI and edged them with the star dust stickles. The gorgeous image was coloured using promarkers (see list of colours below) and I have covered the wings with frosted lace stickles. Around the outside edge I used the faded jeans again and waterfall stickles - you know how I love to glitter things up. The green patterened backing paper was distressed and then edged with the waterfall stickles. The flower was made using prima petal layers and I have added my usual butterfly covered in glossy accents. Some little yellow flowers with a pin and beads tied with a ribbon have balanced out the design.

Promarkers
dress - tulip yellow, yellow, canary and oatmeal
hair - cinnamon, caramel, tan and satin
skin - pastel pink, dusky pink, blush and ivory
wings - pear green, denim blue, powder blue
others - forest green, peach, azure, duck egg, burnt orange

Have a great day and I hope to see your creations on the MAWTT challenge blog.

Take care. Luv B xoxox

Challenges I would like to enter
Crafty Catz - Distressing
Prairie fairy - Anything goes
If the shoe fits - Spread your wings
One stop craft - Distressing
Bee Crafty - 3D
Pile It On - favourite things   Using glitter or Stickles to look sparkly
Sentimental Sundays - Celebrations   I envisage this card being used for anything that celebrates someone doing something different ie walk for charity, opening a new shop, etc
Magical Crafts - Flower Power
Crafty Cardmakers - Inky Fingers
Your next stamp - Flower power
I love Promarkers - Distressing
Flutterby Wednesday - Open but with a butterfly, fairy or angel on it

OSAAT card for a new baby and new mother

Hi Everyone

Woooo how exciting my first DT card for One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog (OSAAT). It's been amazing making new friends on the team and seeing so much inspiration gathered all in one place. If you haven't yet been to visit the OSAAT blog and take part in the challenges, have a look, I am sure you will find plenty to interest you. They are having a 30% SALE in the shop at the moment. The link is on my side bar.
The sponsor this week is Hobbyhabitat which is a great shop with brilliant prices - http://uk.ebid.net/perl/main.cgi?mo=user-store&title=hobbyhabitat&start=375
If you buy something from them please say you got the link from the OSAAT challenge site.

This lovely image is a digi stamp called 'Baby on the Moon' and is from Sew Many Cards. The challenge was to use one of Angela's images with the theme 'lace and ribbons/bows', and this is the result.

I have coloured my image using Promarkers, distressed the edges with TH Distress Ink - Vintage Photo and mounted it on a blue background which I made by painting a light blue acrylic paint onto some card, drying it off and then going over it with an Adirondack Denim dye pad. I spritzed it with water and blotted it off to give a mottled effect for the sky. I then stamped with a small star stamp from Lavina stamps using Versamark and Judi Kins sticky stuff embossing powder. I then sprinkled glitter over it to get a sparkly sky effect. The frame I made using Spellbinders dyes and covered it with glitter, edged it with Aged Mahogany and mounted the image over the top.

The pink DP is from my box of bits and edged with both Aged Mahogany and Vintage Photo DI and then with Star Dust Stickles. Some music paper, also edged with Vintage Photo, has been added with some lace. I cut a scalloped tag using Ellison thick cuts and edged with Aged Mahogany and Vintage Photo. The sentiment is from Melissa Frances.

I hope you like the end product, I am pleased with the overall effect and just need a new baby girl to be born so I can pass it on.

Promarkers used
cloud - powder blue, pastel blue, ice grey 2
moon - canary, tulip yellow, buttercup
baby - magenta, pink carnation, blossom and the patches are soft green
star - yellow with sakura glitter pen over it
skin - dusky pink, blush, ivory

I hope you are having a great weekend.

Luv Bxxxx


Challenges I would like to enter
Bunny Zoe Crafts - nice and girly  -  for a new baby girl
Shelly's Images - anything goes with a celebration
One Stop Craft - Distressing
Bee Crafty - 3D (My frame, sentiment is on foam pads)
Lexi's Creations - layers, 3D
Totally Papercrafts - One for the girlies
Crafty Catz - Distressing
Prairie Fairy - Anything goes
Alphabet Challenge - J is for Jewels
Stampavie and more - Sparkling
Crafts and Me - Birthdays
Cooking it up with Katie - Sparkle an altered die cut
Everybody Art - Birthday

Flowers and sparkle

Good morning to another bright and sunny day, although thunder storms are threatened for later. Still the garden is looking good and I have nearly finished organising it. So much so I have taken my recent photos outside.

Well you know how I love sparkle, so when I saw Paperplay's challenge was flowers and sparkle I knew I had to design a card for that one. I also saw this sketch at Moving along with the Times and another theme of flowers at Charisma and Nordsalten Hobbyklub so I decided to combine them all. I had downloaded this gorgeous sheet music cover of 'Roses from Picardy' from Antique Images and a pink and green theme fitted perfectly, linking with the Creative Card Crew challenge.

I have used two DPs and some sheet music for the backgrounds. I couldn't make one of my own frames to fit this so I used double-sided tape to frame the green paper and cover it with glitter. I distressed the image, the rose paper and the music paper and used stickles on the edges of two of them.

The roses I had in my collection and I spritzed the lighter ones and the music paper with Tattered Angels water melon glimmer mist. I experimented with several things for the ribbon effect across the lower part of the page, but nothing seemed quite right until I die cut a long scroll shape to look like a stem effect for the flowers....... and so it all came together.

Supplies used
Stickles - Star Dust and Cotton Candy
Mireille glitter
Distress inks - Fired Brick and Vintage Photo
Glimmer Mist - Watermelon
Sizzix swirly decorative strip

Enjoy the weekend. Hopefully we will have a BBQ tonight and sit outside again, as we did last night with the family. Love the summer.

Love and hugs. Brenda xxxx
Challenge List
Paperplay Challenges #22 - Flowers and Sparkle
Moving Along with the Times #49 - Sketch
Charisma Cardz Challenges #22 - Flowers
Nordsalten Hobbyklub #8 - Flower Power
Creative Card Crew #51 - Pink and green

Summer theme - shells

Is it really Friday of half term? Oh my goodness, another week gone. We had a great couple of days with Ben, Bev and the girls last weekend down at Seaton, the weather was lovely and we were able to get on the beach. Fantastic. So when I saw that summer and beach themes were coming through in the challenges I decided to focus on a lovely little vintage picture that I had downloaded from the internet and a sketch that had caught my attention at Sketchy Colours. I get alot of my free vintage pics from The Graphics Fairy.

This is the result. I used a DP with shells over it to give me the colour theme, the picture and the postcard were both printed from my file of free vintage downloads. I made the frame and first of all lightly covered it with blue and green glitter, but it didn't give me the effect I wanted so I painted it with old paper distress crackle paint and rubbed distress inks into it when it had dried. I have some clear square dome stickers, so I put one over the stamp on the postcard to give it some dimension and got out some shells from a box of them that I keep. (You just never know what you are going to need do you???) I love the starfish which I had bought in Swanage the year before last.

Other supplies used

Stickles - lime green and star dust.

TH distress inks - frayed burlap, peeled paint and blue china.

Sakura glitter and glaze pens.

I love the colours and the beachy feel to it.

I hope you are enjoying this lovely hot weather we are having at the moment, must remember to water the plants though.

Take care, enjoy whatever you are doing.

Love and hugs.  Brenda xxxx

Challenge List

Sketchy Colours #26 - Sketch

Cupcake Crafts #92 - Summer Delights

Everybody Art Challenge #93 - Summer

Tuesday Taggers - Touchy, feely, texture   and a great prize this week from Tanda Stamps, check them out to see what goodies they have.

Papertake Weekly - Fun, fun, fun

Stampavie and more #97 - Summer

Crafts and Me #5 - Distressed

Creative Inspirations #63 - Beach theme

The Treehouse #52 - Beach/vacation theme
Raise the Bar #21 - Celebrate Summer

Vintage Birthday

Saturday greetings to you, I hope it is more sunny for you than it is here at the moment. I can't believe where this week has flown to, it's been so busy that I haven't had a chance to get to my craft much, but I have made a card for Jayne, who works at the same company as Ken. It is her 50th birthday on Tuesday and I have managed to get this in the post for her today with some notelets I made, as a present. Just remember Jayne, age is a state of mind, continue to have fun and enjoy yourself and have some wonderful birthday celebrations.

I have used the shabby vintage style, which I am soooo into at the moment, and I deceorated the inside of the card too. The die cut bird is the from the TH new alterations range, the one with the bird cage that I am so fond of. The ticket is also the same range, taken from the ticket strip, and I stamped it with a paper artsy ticket shape I found and added the lettering myself. The flower I made using the spellbinders nestabilities scalloped circles, I die-cut two sizes of tissue paper and used about 13 layers together. I sprayed the tissue with cosmic shimmer mist and put them together with a brad. I then scrunched each layer individually starting with the top layer first and unruffled it a bit. The frame is also one of mine using the spellbinders dies and covering it with glitter.

As you can see I have used vintage pictures, lots of butterflies and glitter, die cuts using the cricut and some stamping to complete the inside.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend, we are off to Seaton late afternoon to spend tomorrow and Monday with Ben, Bev and the girls, so lets hope we see some sun.

Take care. Love and hugs.  Brenda xxxxxx

Challenge List

Daisy Doodles  -  Anything goes

Little Paper Shop  -  Pink, Craft and Blue

Method Playground  -  Love antique

Crafty Cardmakers  -  Inside Out

Stampavie -- Happy birthday for a girl

Crafts and me  -  Distressed

Creative Inspiration  -  Distressed

Flutterby Wednesday  -  Open challenge

The ABC Challenge  -  V is for vintage

Sentimental Sundays Blooming Gorgeous

It's Monday and the beginning of another week, the sun is shining although it's a little chilly in the shade. I am struggling with what seems to be a cough, cold and laryngitis at the moment so I have not been very creative over the weekend and spent more time blog hopping. I did go to a car boot yesterday looking for bits and pieces and bought some old music books to use in my art work.

Whilst looking at all the wonderful blogs out there I found a new challenge site called Sentimental Sundays by Ann Vento from Raindrop Echo Designs. I have not seen her work before but love her sentiments and also the idea of having a sentiment challenge coupled with a theme. This week it is 'Blooming Gorgeous' and the challenge is to use a sentiment with flowers and there is a freebie as well. That was me hooked and here is my entry.

I bought some little plain frames at Alexandra palace the other weekend and covered one in glitter. I found a stamp I have about flowers and stamped the sentiment onto a rose paper from a CD by Papercraft World. I used K&Co backing papers and edged them with TH old paper crackle paint and when it was dry I went over it with star dust stickles. I printed out a vintage rose and a vintage bird (this one I covered in crackle accents), the butterfly is a MS punch with printed outline and covered in shabby shutters disress stickles. The lace, flowers, beads, pin and heart are all from my stash.

I have a friend who is celebrating a successful year working for herself tomorrow, so I am now going to think about a card for her.

Thankyou for stopping by and taking a look. If you leave a comment I can stop by and look at what you are doing too. I just love to take a peek and get new ideas and inspiration from all you very lovely, creative people.

Take care. LOL Bxxx

Challenges

Sentimental Sundays challenge 1 - Blooming Gorgeous

Creative Belli - Die cut shapes

Stampavie 90 - Butterflies and stamp

Creative cottage 6 - Things with wings

Flutterby Wednesday 105 - butterfly, fairy or angel

Cute Card Thursday 108 - Touchy, feely

One Stop Craft Challenge 76 - Things with wings

Paper Sundaes 14 - No People

Diesel Train

Happy Sunny Monday

I had a great day yesterday at Alexandra Palace having a mooch round and seeing what new goodies are available. I added to my dies, Promarkers, vintage images, TH goodies and general stash.

My card today has been made for the Spoonful of Sugar challenge - 'One for the Boys'.

I have used a cigarette card for the image, mounted it on brown and distressed and stickled the edges. I find it so hard to make men's cards, but I used papers both from the Papercraft World CD I used for the Sweet Pea card and from my scraps. I glittered the die cut photo clip and added die cut cog shapes to the border of plastic parcel tape. I used a MS border punch for the centre white layer and added a TH pin and made a sentiment embellishment for it. I stamped a clock face image and cut that out as an embellishment.

I hope all is well with you and yours this week.

Take care. LOL Bxxx

Challenge List
A Spoonful of Sugar challenge 98 - One for the boys
Totally Papercrafts challenge 11 - Distressing
One stitch at a time - Torn, distressed or shabby
Sophisti-cat challenge 29 - So distressing
The Pink Elephant challenge #62 - Recipe - 1 image, 2 dies & 3 embellishments
Cupcake craft challenges 86 - Childhood memories  My dad would often talk about the old trains.

Embrace the White

I love the photo inspiration and challenge at The Shabby Tea Room this week - 'Embrace the White'. It's a style I have wanted to experiment with for a while and here is my creation.

I chose to work with a beautiful Spring Green colour and a lovely leaf design already printed on some paper and I based my other embellishments and papers around it. 

Using the TH distressing tool I roughed the edges and added Stardust stickles (the photo doesn't show this very well). I made the flower using a tutorial from Swirlydoos and added a gorgeous white button with a sparkly centre. The sentiment is printed using the Justrite custom design cardmaking kit and I mounted it on green which was cut using the Nestabilities scalloped circles dies. I edged both with a sakura glitter pen. The border across the page was made using a MS edge punch and I passed it through a ribbler which corrugated the paper; the same paper and effect was used for the flower and was used for the backing paper behind the green mount. I finished with a pin, ribbon and beads.

You can see that I have used a zig-zag fold to make up the card and I have decorated the inside as this card will be for a special occasion.

I am very pleased with the final result and I think it fits the Shabby Tea Room challenge perfectly.

Challenge List

The Shabby Tea Room week 4 - Embrace the White

Incy Wincy Designs - Fancy Folds

Creative Cottage - Buttons and Bows

Our Creative Corner - Buttons

Cupcake Craft Challenge 85 - Make your own flowers

The Pink Elephant Challenge 61 - Nature

S2G challenges #50 - Anything goes

STOP PRESS

For those of you who are interested and like to print your own backing papers I will be giving away some FREE papers tomorrow evening. Come back and see how I have used them in a card design and if you like them you will be able to download them for yourself.

I am off to London for the day tomorrow so I will hit the PC when I return. Have a good evening.

LOL Bxxx

Messy tag - Spotlight

Hi All
I have two posts today which originated from the same idea. I wanted to try the spotlight technique from The Treehouse and thought I would do a distressed design using a tag.

The stamp is from Hero Arts and called Skyland Bookmark. I stamped two of the images and used the Nestabilities Labels Four to cut part of it out. I coloured it using both Promarkers and DIs round the edges and then covered it with tattered rose distress stickles. The tag was distressed with DIs and I used a variety of stamps for the background, I also experimented with the TH distress embossing powders. I finished off by using the holly stickles round the edge.

There's a fab challenge at Tuesday Taggers this week, sponsored by Georgina. Have a look at her blog for some great inspiration.
Have a good week. LOL Bxx

Challenge List

The Treehouse - Spotlight Challenge

Tuesday Taggers - Give us a tag

Pollycraft Monday challenge - Anything goes

Allsorts challenge - No DPs
Simon Says Stamp - It's so distressing
Crafty Creations - Anything goes

For Fun Challenges - Anything goes