My Final Houses

At last I've finished all ten of my houses for a swap I'm involved in. These are the final three, so they are all ready to be put in Royal Mail's hands tomorrow.

For the left house I used some Tim Holtz/Stampers Annonymous stamps, the bird and the flowers. The background is inked using distress ink and the roof and chimney is some scrapbook paper which I cut out to fit the house. I stamped a Paper Artsy stamp onto a piece of the scrapbook paper and cut out the image to make the zig zagged edge.

The middle house is covered using some DCWV papers and the image of the children is one I downloaded from the web, and I added a hint of pink to the image with distress inks. I added a HOTP ribbon word "share" and a little faux postage stamp with a heart.

The right hand house is again covered with DCWV papers and another piece of the scrapbook paper for the roof and chimney. The doorway image is printed from the pc and the little key and saying is a rub on.

Coining It In

This weeks In My Pocket Challenge over on Hels blog is "Coining it in". For this weeks challenge you have to use a coin in your pocket. I had a few thoughts for this challenge and I came up with the idea of the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.

I used Crafty Individuals music papers on the outside of the front flap and also on the inside of the pocket. I stamped a Paper Artsy stamp onto a piece of card and then coloured it in using watercolour pencils - I then went around the edge of the image with a gold krylon pen. I stamped a Cats Life crown stamp in gold and cut it out and put it onto the boy's head. I mounted this image onto the front flap.

For the inside of the pocket flap I used distress inks to colour a piece of white card and then when this was dry I printed the start of "Sing a song of sixpence" onto it. I then mounted it onto a piece of black card.

For the inside of the pocket, I stamped the bird from Stitchels stamps set directly onto the music paper and then stamped it again onto some vellum. I coloured the bird with a black watercolour pencil and then cut it out and popped it on top of the stamped one. The pie is a clip art which I printed, cut out and then coloured with watercolour pencils. As the sixpence piece has been out of circulation for many years, I improvised and used a 5 pence coin.

Long Tall Sally

This is a bookmark I made for this weeks challenge on Funky Fairies blog - which was "I want you to make something tall and skinny"

I used worn lipstick and tattered rose distress inks to make the background of the bookmark. I then used fired brick distress ink and stamped the swirl stamp (Paper Artsy) over the background and added fired brick distress embossing powder and heat set it. I then stamped the heart swirl and sentiment stamp onto some pink paper using a black ink pad and added clear embossing powder and heat set it. I tore the paper around the sentiment and I cut out the heart and mounted them both onto the bookmark. Finally I edged it with fired brick ink and added an eyelet and some pink fibres.

My 1st Gothic Arches

These are my first attempts at making Gothic Arches - I think they are a bit plain and need more texture to them. For the backgrounds I used distress inks and then I stamped various stamps using stazon ink/versamark with gold embossing powders. Here is the link to the templates I used.

Monday Blues

I've had a good crafting day today and made some blue cards for a change.

This first card is a 5" x 5" square card, which I covered with some backing paper which I downloaded from Buddy Irish. The stamped image is a Paper Artsy one and I stamped it onto light blue card using an encore metallic ink pad and layered it onto some darker blue and then light blue card again. The Happy Birthday is again stamped in encore metallic ink and the stamp I used it a Docrafts/Whispers one. Again I simply layered it onto dark blue and light blue card and then added a couple of light blue flower brads. Finally I added some grosgrain ribbon down the side.

Some Fat Book Pages - Challenge 6

These are a few more fat book pages which I've made for a swap. I've used distress inks to make the backgrounds and then used various stamps and stazon ink.

This weeks challenge on My Time to Craft is Quotes and Sayings, so I thought I could combine these with the challenge also.

Some tags I have made

These are 3 tags which I have made for Hels Angels Tag Swap. The theme for this month is Paper Artsy - so we had to use Paper Artsy stamps. These are the first tags I've ever made! I hope that they are okay for the swap.

Initially I cut some cream cardstock into to 6" x 3" rectangles then cut off the corners to make the tag shape.
To get the effect for the background I rubbed distress inks onto a craft mat and spritzed them with water before dropping my tag into the inks.
I took some DCWV paper and stamped in black ink, though on one I also stamped in white acrylic paint, before using some glossy accents to highlight parts of the stamped images.
I attached a large butterfly which I had cut on my Robo and inked using Alcohol inks.
Using some gold thread I attached a small butterfly charm.
As a finishing touch I added some fibres, and outlined the tags with a gold krylon pen.

I hope you like them - any comments, good or bad, most welcome

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Sunday Stampers Week 3 and Arty Girlz Challenge #21

Well I haven't done much crafting at all this past week I think I must have misplaced my mojo. On a good point, I found out very late that it was someone's Birthday on Sunday so I needed to make a card. I didn't have a clue what to make - anyway, Hels set the new Sunday Stampers Challenge so I combined ideas and came up with this. The rules for this weeks challenge was that you had to stamp and also decoupage part of the stamped image. This card also meets the criteria for the Arty Girlz Challenge 21 which is "stamping"

I used a Crafty Individuals stamp and stamped it on cream cardstock and I then stamped a Paper Artsy stamp twice and decoupaged the butterfly. I stamped Happy Birthday and matted and layered using cream and dark blue card and then to finish it off I added some ribbon down the side. Hope you like what I made - I thought it was a very busy card when I'd finished it, but I do like it, hope you do to.