Did You Know...

There is a giveaway happening at the Craft Queen blog, and I'm told there will be another one happenning next week...Go and have a look, all the information is HERE 
While you're there, don't forget to have a look at all the great new stock that has been uploaded to the site...just click on the NEW PRODUCTS tab and start planning your new projects  : )

In the meantime I will leave you with these photos (washi tape,  tiny twine,   Craft Queen button, Darkroom Door stamps,   Distress ink,  Archival ink,  Double-sided tape,   TH Sizzix embossing folder, TH Reflections stamp,   StaZon ink)

 

And just in case you missed it, how fun is THIS set of Darkroom Door stamps!!!!

 

For this ATC I used lots of different Darkroom Door stamps, I used some light blue GM, and stamped various images using Archival ink (coffee)
 My main image is from THIS great new set
and the frame is from another new favourite of mine, THIS one , also by Darkroom Door .

I also added some washi tape as a finishing touch.

Thank you for visiting me at my humble abode, I hope you come back again soon, and don't forget to enter CRAFT QUEEN's giveaway : )

 

 

 

A New Month...

And a new challenge over at CRAFT QUEEN's blog...

And these are my samples, 3 very different ATCs (Artist Trading Cards).      I wanted to use the great Crafter's Workshop 6" templates, to show a couple of looks that can be achieved with them.

For this ATC, I started by carefully laying THIS template over some white card, and dabbing some alcohol ink (I used StaZon teal ink) over the pattern.    I then stamped the mesh image from THIS set of stamps using the same ink.      The sentiment from THIS WORD BLOCK was stamped with black ink and stuck using foam squares.       I raided my scraps box and found some corrugated cs, which I dry-brushed with some bronze metallic paint,  and layered that over a piece of punched and watercoloured paper.    I added a yellow button (from a past kit), and a little red wire : )

 For this next one, I started with a white ATC blank, and laying THIS template, I carefully added some texture paste over the top (just like icing a cake) and removed the stencil, cleaning it up (the stencil) straight away.    I allowed the texture paste to dry overnight, and then I painted over the ATC with some blue and some bronze acrylic paints.    I then added the image of the ballerina (stamped onto tissue paper and stuck on with Modge-podge) from THIS set of stamps
The sentiment is from an old Teresa Collins stamp.      You can find the beautiful shell heart HERE, and the leaf HERE.

For the next ATC, I started out with some white cs, and THIS template,  onto which I sprayed a couple of coats of blue Glimmer Mist, allowing it to sit and puddle around the stencil, once dry, I stamped one of the tree images from THIS set of stamps, and trimmed it down to fit inside my beige ATC blank.

I stamped the sentiment (also from the same set of stamps) onto a scrap of vellum paper, adding a little orange coloured TINY TWINE, a square SHELL BUTTON, some butterflies made with THIS punch, and a tiny bit of a sripe ribbon

If you've never made artist trading cards before, they are a great size for using up bits and pieces, plus, you can try out new techniques in a small scale.

And just in case you didn't pick up on it, this month's challenge involves using the word "love", some twine, and a button.        For all the details, and to see the rest of the DT projects, have a look HERE, and don't forget, your entry can be anything crafty, a card, layout, ATC, OTP project, or a sewing project, as long as it incorporates the required criteria.

Thanks for visiting me, I hope I have inspired you to play : )

Masks Anyone?

The first theme over at the Stampotique Challenge blog is "masks", and I got to use a new toy : )    I first stamped HEAD using black StaZon ink onto my envelope, I then covered him with a mask (one which I have used a few times LOL) and placed another mask over the area where the address is meant to go (I cut this out of some packaging I was throwing away) and then placed another mask (a new Prima stencil) over the top of that, and gave the whole area a good GMist spray.

I took all the masks off and coloured HEAD with wc pencils, adding the "hi" which I had stamped onto white cs, and cut out.      Head is now somewhere on his way over the Pacific Ocean as we speak : )

Happy Mail

Yesterday I received a beautiful set of 3 ATCs & a card (with an ATC on it) from my cyber-friend Cuchy... The first one is titled Valentine, & she has cleverly done a heart shape by weaving beautiful strips of embossed papers onto a lovely textured b`ground, the second one, titled Butterfly, has a lovely painted & clear embossed music pattern onto currogated card, the third one, Gracias (which is Spanish for thank you) has been worked on clear acetate (I put black cs for the b`ground so you could see the detail, though it`s hard to see that Cuchy has gone to town with the GM on this one LOL) & the forth one is the gorgeous card that she sent me...sorry the fine details are hard to see from the scans, but trust me when I say I`m most grateful to have received these, they are just beautiful in real life, Thank you my friend, I`ll have some ATCs for you very soon... :) I told Cuchy I`d let her know how many ATCs I have in my collection, it now has 245 beautiful ATCs in it, each one a lovely work of art...How many do you have? Thank you for visiting me, & I hope all is well in your part of the world :)