MMM or My Mess Monday!

There is a craft table under there somewhere...I swear : )
I've been working on a few projects, and because I've been time-poor, I haven't put things away as I usually like to do...instead, my crafting area has shrunk to a tiny clearing, but no more, I just had a little clean up, and I thought as a reward I would do a couple of projects...I have so many UFOs (unfinished objects for the uninitiated) but new projects are so much more fun, right?
Here's project No 1 for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge blog, the criteria being to show some depth...

I've used a Collections chipboard thingy (cabinet card ?), some brown acrylic paint, Distress ink (tumbled glass).     The little girl is one of Tim Holtz images, stamped onto acetate with StaZon ink (jet black)  which I had also coloured with alcohol inks (currant and ginger) as well as some viridian acrylic paint, and a coat of white acrylic for the underside.     The "doors" are held in place by some TH tissue tape, and I added a little wc paper painted with Twinks H2O (ginger peach), and a scrap of cotton lace (from Craft Queen)     The word is a stamp (from my scraps box)
I hope I have made it on time for this challenge...
I'll be back shortly, in the meantime, smile, it makes others wonder what you've been up to LOL

Gone Gothic...

Yes, I know!   Another Gothic arch...but I just enjoy playing with that shape so much, so when I read that Simon Says Stamp and Show's theme for this week was "torn/distressed" I just had to!      I've used some Tim Holtz paper, the sentiment from THIS TH stamp set, the word"explorer" and the image of the man are both from THIS Darkroom Door set (stamped onto acetate with black StaZon ink, I also dry-brushed some gold acrylic paint onto the underside of the word)    The word was then stuck to a painted puzzle piece,  I've also added a couple of pewter brads and some butterfly punches (with some wild honey Distress Stickles on their wings)      All edges have been torn and/or distressed (with my trusty and very used MM distresser), for the hole over the sentiment I just made a small cut with my craft knife and began tearing the section out, then inked all the edges with Distress ink.
And here are the photos to prove it : )

Tag...You're It!

It's been a while, but I had a bit of time up my sleeve today (I know!!!   I really should be catching up on housework, or on some sleep, but I just had to play LOL) so I decided to join in with the great "Tag" challenge for this week over at Simon Says Stamp and Show" challenge blog...Did you know that they offer a $50 gift voucher to the winning entry?    What better incentive than more toys to play with : )  And there's always plenty of gorgeous samples made by the DT to get the inspiration flowing...
I was finishing off some ATCs so I had my white embossing powder out and decided to use that as my starting point.      I began by stamping my images with Versamark ink, and embossing them with white embossing powder.    I then rubbed various Marvy and Distress inks onto the tag, adding the sentiment (which was embossed onto vellum) and using my sewing machine to add a border.     I completed the tag by adding some red ribbon, some sparkly threads and a red and white button...and here are some photos:

I've used the following stamps:
Tim Holtz "Urban Chic" set
Darkroom Door "Wildflowers Vol.1" set

I hope you are enjoying the weekend wherever you happen to be at the moment...