Gold

Here's a tag for Hels Sunday Stamper challenge 188 with the theme Gold.


For the background I embossed the Oak House Studio Walesby Flourish stamp and then blended Bundled Sage Distress Ink over it. It's spritzed with gold perfect pearls and edged with Gold Dabber. The owl is an Elusive Images/Chocolate Baroque one stamped with gold dabber. The tag is just finished with a few flourishes, some ribbon and the phrase 'Spread Your Wings'.

I couldn't get the owl to show up very well but they are naturally quite shy!!

Bluebird

Here's my first card for the Less is More challenge with the theme of one layer birds.


I just tore a hole in some scrap paper to create a mask, used Broken China Distress Ink for the background and stamped the Elusive Images/Chocolate Baroque bird in Jet Black Archival.

A quick and simple card - hope you like!!

One Step at a Time

Only Monday and I'm posting my tag for Hels Sunday Stamper challenge 187 with the theme of TIME. Busy the rest of the week so thought I'd better get my act together...one step at a time!!


Well what else could I use but Tim's clock die for a Time Tag! The background is a mix of Aged Mahogany and Fired Brick Distress Stains spritzed with gold perfect pearls and edged with gold acrylic. The stamps are from Oak House Studio's Inspirational Words set.

Hope you like and thanks for looking!

Just a Note

First tag of the year that hopefully fits Hels Sunday Stamper Challenge with the theme of Anything Goes.

I treated myself for Christmas to a surprise box of goodies when Lin Brown closed her shop so thought I'd use some of it as all the bits and pieces get tidied away. The stamps are a Darcies set and I've used a Nick Bantock Cerulean Azure ink pad - actually one I've covetted for a long while as it's such a rich deep turquoise. I've blended with distress inks and finished with a ruffle of script vellum and some ribbon etc.

So just a note to thank you all for reading my blog, leaving such encouraging comments and putting pressure on me to blog regularly. I'll do my best!!

Happy New Year everyone and Happy Crafting.

Santa

Here's a quick card I've made that fits with Hels Sunday Stamper challenge 185 with the theme of Santa Claus.


The stamp is from Tim Holtz's Santa's Wish set and has to be my favourite Santa stamp. It's such a timeless stamp - it can be left clean and simple or you can colour it, distress it, whatever you like. The stamp has enough detail to stand alone I feel. The greeting is from the same set.

I'm also entering this in the "Less is More" challenge with the theme of MUSIC.

Well I'm off to wrap a few more pressies. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and get lots of crafting goodies!!

Christmas Tag

Here's my tag for Hels Sunday Stamper challenge 184 with the theme of A Christmas Song. Not sure what song this is... the music is too small!!


My tag takes inspiration from a couple of Tim's Tags. Tag 11 with a background of Distress Inks splattered with a bit of water and then overstamped with the music score and pine foliage from Tim's Mini Christmas 2 stamp set. The flower and leaves were inspired by Tag 7 - alcohol inks on kraft glassine then cut out using the Tattered Florals and Tattered Leaves dies. I've just edged the petals with gold Stickles and fastened with a brad.

I quite liked this technique which got me thinking about using non-kraft/white glassine or maybe vellum to create more pastel embellishments. That's for another day though!!

Life

This is my tag for Hels Sunday Stamper challenge 183 with the theme of LIFE.


Well I've had a bit of a disaster with this one and having struggled through it I hunted for 2 hours for my camera cable to upload the photo. Three cameras and a cable later and then the internet went down for the day. What fun!!

It's vaguely based on Tim's tag no 5 - alcohol ink background. That looks OK but then I tried to stamp snowflakes with Archival and wipe off ... well that didn't work too well and I also dropped the stamp ink down on my jeans. Doh! So I stamped the snowflakes again and then didn't wait for them to dry so my tag now has archival fingerprints in places!! At least I can prove I made it! I finished it off with a ruffle of vellum, some fibres and the Life stamp from Tim's Stuff to Say set. Says it all really!!

If only I had more time I'd do it again - it's certainly a technique worth mastering ... maybe one day.