Happy Father's Day

Today we celebrate Father's Day in the U.K.

Here is the card that I made for my daddy:

I started by stamping the background ruler from a Tim Holtz set onto a card blank using walnut stain distress ink.

I made a panel to go to the left by brayering over glossy card.  This was then attached.

I stamped the Time Traveller twice and coloured him in using distress markers.

These were cut out.  One was attached to the card.  The other I lined up using a file strip die cut.  I then cut it out to show the face and watch.

'Dad' was stamped onto a label and inked using walnut stain.  Two tickets were also stamped and cut.

I embellished using keys, a corner  and a pointing finger.

To finish, I added glossy accents to the watch and film strip picture.

Alot of love went into this card to say thank you for my dad being there for me over all of these years.

Thanks for looking....

Tim Holtz 12 Tags Of 2013: June

I can't believe that May has come and gone already!!

I loved the simplicity of Tim's tag for June.  As usual I turned my creation into a card:

You can see the techniques that Tim uses in his June tag Here.

Thanks for looking....

Diamonds & Pearls

This creation was initially destined as my submission for Sunday Stamper on 5th May but I totally lost track of time!!
I was having a creative block over the bank holiday weekend and could not get myself motivated.  A dear friend of mine (you know who you are!!)  set me a challenge as follows...

"tag...something with diamonds and... the technique you need to use is.... Distress Paints... water mixing onto craft sheet and dipping. Colours: broken china + 2 others. Blend DI over the top THRU a stencil... add 490 sentiment and flowers... and tie a bow in the top of the tag... add some Idea-ology and a smidge of Rock Candy Cracklepaint"

So - here is my creation and what I did:

I used picked raspberry, broken china and wild honey distress paints.  These were pressed to a craft mat and sprayed with water.

The tag was then swooshed, misted again and dried.

I stamped the Tim Holtz harlequin stamp onto the background in archival ink then highlighted bits with a chinagraph pencil.

I used a stencil to add distress ink in various places and edged the tag in walnut stain.

Next I took a Wendy Vecchi flower stencil.  I coloured some Grunge Paste with picked raspberry paint then covered the stencil to create the flowers.  I added a smidge of distress glitter to give them a distressed, but sparkly look.  Once dry I added a pearl to the centre of the flowers.

I stamped a Wendy Vecchi quote in archival ink.

To finish I added smidge of crackle paint on different parts of the tag.

So....  this certainly re-started my creativity.  Really enjoyed this tag & am LOVING distress paints!!

Thanks for looking...

Rebel Stampers ATC Swap

It's that time already!!  Here are the swaps that I made for March:

 

My first atc is based on the Craft Stamper free stamp for March. 

 

I coloured an atc using broken china distress ink and stamped the world stamp from Papermania in walnut stain. 

 

I stamped the  wings from Craftstamper and the French man from the Paris memoirs set in walnut stain distress ink, cut them out and fixed them to the atc.

 

I finished by using a chit chat word. 

The second atc was based on 'texture'. 

I covered an atc in paper from my left over stash.

I stencilled texture paste into the corner and also through a Studio 490 flower stencil.

While this dried I stamped a flower in Island Indigo ink and punched it out. 

I stamped, coloured and cut a flower from one of my Studio 490 sets. 

I attached this to the flower and added a resin rose to the centre before attaching the whole flower to the textured background.

Hope you like my results.

Thanks for looking.....