Winged Things

That's the current theme for October over at Crafty Individuals challenge blog , and here is my entry(with just 3 days to spare)    

I've used the smaller butterfly from THIS set as well as THIS image , to create my ATC, and as I was photographing it I realized I had made it in "landscape" form, which is most unusual for me... 
I started by stamping the butterflies onto an ATC sized (3.5"x 2.5") kraft coloured card, using black Archival ink, I then stamped "once upon a time" onto the same colour card and trimmed slightly smaller than the ATC, and stuck it into place with some foam tape for dimention.     I inked the edge of the card by running the stamp pad directly around all edges and I stamped the tiny butterfly from "once upon a time" a couple of times onto scraps of kraft cs, trimming the images closely and sticking them down with white glue, adding some KG (chrystallina) as a finishing touch.
I love the combination of black on kraft, don't you?    
My apologies if you have come around to visit me recently, I haven't been able to share any new work as my computer was playing up, but it's all good now thanks to my BIL who worked some magic (new monitor and added memory!)       I'm slowly catching up, and I hope to visit you soon : )
In the meantime, thanks for coming over, I hope you enjoyed your stay...

Hanging By a Bit of Wire...

If you are a jewellery maker, look away now LOL, I think I may have broken some kind of law!

Here is my interpretation of this month's great theme over at Crafty Individuals challenge blog...there's still a couple of days left to join, so if you get the chance, why not give it a go?   
I stamped the bodyform from this SET onto some shrink plastic, masking it, and stamping the smaller butterfly from this SET.(I used Archival ink)     I coloured the images with wc pencils, then carefully cut around the images, punching a hole with my crop-a-dile, and then, using my trusty heat gun, shrunk the image to a cute little size (I placed the shrunk images next to their original counterparts for reference)    I added the shrunk bodyform to some broken bits of jewellery I had picked up at a garage sale, and added that to a piece of suede, stamping onto it using the images from this SET, and adding some KG as a finishing touch.     I hope it qualifies for the theme of "hanging about".       I hope you're having a great weekend, and if you follow the footy, I hope your team makes it to the finals next week (DH is watching the semis ATM)    Thanks for visiting my humble palace, now, go ang get messy : )

Bright and Beautiful...

...is the theme for this month's challenge over at Crafty Individuals Blog, and I've just finished my entry.

I've used one of my favourite surfaces to stamp on, a 1" square piece of Stampbord, the background was painted with Garnet Twinks H2Os, and the image stamped using Archival ink (jet black), I then scratched some highlights and added a coat of DM, added the bail and it's now a pendant.     Here are the photos to prove it   : )

I hope it's "bright and beautiful" enough to qualify...

Crafty Individuals July Entry

A little while ago the lovely Crafty Individuals (Jean and Malcolm) chose THIS as one of five winning entries...and I got to choose my stamp, and they were kind enough to include 2 of THESE little beauties for me to play with...so I thought they were perfect for this month's theme of "pink, cream, and brown"
I started by measuring the inside of the pendants and I cut out a few stamped images to fit, as you can see I couldn't stop at just one...    I was trying to work out a way that I could change the pendants to suit my mood (and trust me, you don't want to know just how many moods I have!!)  when it clicked, I could swap the images around by using some type of magnet, so I had a look through my stash and found some magnet-backed business card blanks, trimmed them to size (one for the inside of the pendant and one for each image, making sure that they "attracted"each other, polarity-wise)     My official entry is, of course, this one, in pink, cream, and brown:

I stamped Old Fashioned Girl onto some pink cs, and clear-embossed the image, adding brown ink to the edges, and a few pearls...

But I also made these ones:  The first image is CI-068 (which may be retired, as I can't find it in the site), stamped onto Distress inks b'ground and with a coat of DM and a sprinkling of tiny rhinestones.

THIS image was stamped onto a prepared domino, overstamped with THIS girl, and given a coat of DM and a tiny flower-shaped rhinestone.

 There's the DANCING couple again, coloured with some Twinks H2Os, and given a coat of DM...and next to that pendant is another image (CI-120 Out of the Shadows) which I've had for a long time, but can't find it in the Crafty Individuals shop, I just stamped the man, cut around him and stuck him to some printed text coloured with Distress ink (Vintage photo).

I had so much fun making these, maybe I'll make a few more ; )

Thanks for visiting me, and don't forget, there's still plenty of time to enter this great challenge, for all the details go HERE.

Vintage With a Heart...

 The current theme over at Crafty Individuals new challenge blog is "Vintage with a Heart" so I couldn't wait to join in this month and try out my brand new stamp plate (which I got to choose after being one of very lucky five winners of last month's theme "Free as a Bird")    
Here is my entry for this month...I remembered I had a couple of shadow boxes waiting to be altered, so I started by painting the box with a coat of teal acrylic paint, then adding some burnt umber to the edges.    I then stamped the following images: CI 190 , CI 189 , and CI 306 using black Versafine ink, coloured the images with wc pencils, added some KG here and there, trimmed the images to size and stuck them into the cavities.   I then stamped and heat-embossed the corset images, trimmed and stuck them down using some foam tape for added dimention.    I then went through my stash of ch and found the tiny heart, which I covered with some GMed gause, and then added the tiny buttons...the word is from a Collections sheet.  I hope you like my interpretation : )        Here are some photos:

Thanks for visiting my palace, and for the lovely comments some of you leave for me, I really appreciate them : )