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

Embossing Anyone...?

Here is my entry for this week's embossing theme over at Simon Says Stamp and Show blog:

I've once again used a Gothic arch as my base, covering it with foil and using 2 different embossing folders, I then swiped a variety of StaZon ink pads onto the raised and the de-bossed areas, and added the sentiment and the girl image, both heat-embossed, and both from TH (the sentiment was stamped with a web image from the Halloween set of TH stamps)  The images were coloured using a mixture of wc pencils and inks, cut out and stuck on with foam tape for added dimention.   I've kept the arch fairly simple as I really like the texture and colour of the embossing.
Thanks for your visit  : )

In Stitches

This week's theme over at Simon Says Stamp and Show is stitches, real or faux...I went with real, as I already had my sewing machine all set up.

I started by stamping the TC image onto white card, once with teal StaZon ink and a second time with rust StaZon ink, I then added some GM to the teal image and stuck it to a brown ATC blank.   I used my trusty sewing machine with a mix of straight and zig-zag stitching all around for the edging.         From the second image, I cut out the sentiment, using some foam tape for added dimention, and a good coat of DM, as well as some KG for some of the teal areas.     A fairly quick ATC, but lots of fun to make.   Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget there's still time to enter the challenge for this week.    For all the details visit Simon Says Stamp and Show, there's always lots of inspiration there, both from the very talented DT, as well as from the entrants to the challenges each week : ) 

With a Flourish...

My entry to this week's theme over at Simon Says Stamp and Show is an ATC.

I started by stamping the butterflies onto some white cs, colouring the card with Adirondack inks (lettuce and wild plum)     I then stamped the TH sentiment and the flourish with Versafine black ink and black embossing powder, and added some EP to the edges as well, and rubbed a little white Brilliance ink over the top and stuck the cs to one of these ATC sized chipboard pieces.    I then painted the Collections scroll with black acrylic paint, and gave that a coat of black Stickles.          I love the texture that the embossed flourishes add to the ATC, don't you?      Thanks for your visit, now go and stamp something : )

Simon Says Stamp and Show a Word...

For this week's challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and Show, the theme is "word" and I chose the word "Imagine".       I was going to make a card, but I wanted a bigger canvas to work with, so decided to do a bit of mail art!    My envelope measures 12"x 9".

I started by stamping the large foam stamp letters using white acrylic paint, then I used Dristressed ink over the top of the letters (the acrylic paint acts as a resist) I then used the label from TH Sizzix die (Hanging Sign) as a mask, and went over that with Distress inks (Vintage photo & tumbled glass)      I also stamped a couple of images from THIS Darkroom Door set, and used one of the gears from another TH Sizzix die (Gadget Gears) as a mask.    I stamped the flourish image from THIS TH set The "mail art" image is from THIS Darkroom Door set, just to make sure my postie doesn't get confused about what this is LOL.     Thanks for stopping by : )