Black & White ATC's

Firstly created a masterboard, cut it into six.  Die cut the hearts and butterflies. Covered them in silver sticky tape and embossed them. Painted them black and dry brushed in silver.  Added an eyelet and threaded black and white beads onto the contrasting threads.  Added lace, sequins, pearls, mini hearts, mounted words.

Atc's with Bling!!!

I covered a piece of card with sticky silver foil, cut it into ATC sized pieces and embossed each one with a different folder.

Swiped them with versa mark and added embossing powders. Heated them again and added some schizel otherwise known as foil!

Then I made a huge mistake!!! Instead of swiping a permanent ink over the top, ie archival or stazon, for reasons unknown to me, I used versa fine ink, which just would not dry!!

I couldn't use the heat tool to dry the ink as it would remelt the powders! So I sprayed them with matte varish and then swished over them again with black stazon ink! I finally chose some images and words, but didn't want to cover up too much of the backgrounds.

Happy 18th

It's my nephews 18th soon so I decided to make him a card. Background is embossed cogs on black card coloured with all the metallic colours of pan pastels. The image is embossed using wow powders in platinum and blueberry. The 18 is coloured with lumiere blue pearl and black fresco paints.

He won't take any notice of the front of the card, he'll just want what's inside!!!

I'm linking up to the PanPastelUk challenge which is celebrations using metallics.

Queen of Hearts

I'm trying to play along with T!m's 12 tags for 2013 and so far this year, I'm keeping up, yes I know it's only the second one!!  Did have a bit of improvising to do as you can see!!  I used a couple of mini playing cards and doodled around the outsides!!

Also over at Anything But A Card they have a theme of 'share the love', and I think this tag fits in perfectly.

And Happy Daze have a theme of 'love is all around' so I'm entering over there as well.

Paperartsy Inspiration

When we went to The Dome last Sunday a friend was admiring this piece on the Paperarsty stand. Leandra told us that Lin created it. So I recreated it in my own way. 

I went for a time / steampunk theme instead of the flowers, used prestuds instead of buttons and the paints take lovely to the metal pieces and the lace.  

A Couple More Tags

Yes Kate, I know, it's pink!!!  I coloured the fabric flowers and strips of fabric with spun sugar distress stain.  The lace is coloured with vintage photo distress stain.  I added the skeleton leaf and the stapled tassel along with the image to the embossed tag.

Another tag made from the backgrounds created on the previous post.  Again I made the flower and added a couple of pieces of distress stained lace and fabric strips.

A Couple of Tags

Well I'm now able to weight bear and have become sturdier on my crutches so I've been able to do a bit of arting, although it's taken a while as getting about is still so exhausting.


I saturated different colours of spray inks onto varying pieces of card and covered them with scrunched cling film.  Once they had dried I removed the cling film.  I cut tag shapes from the card pieces and then ran them through embossing folders with the big shot.

I made the purple flower from mulberry paper and coloured the row of fabric roses with dusty concord and crushed olive distress stains.  I also stained strips of fabric to create the ribbons for the tops of the tags.

Texture Fades Mini Book

I'm on a roll with mini books!!  I used t!m's on the edge file tabs die for the inner pages.  I used crackle paint on the cogs and went back in with a black dabber to get into the cracks.

I used a mixture of distress inks, acrylic dabbers and eco-friendly paints to colour the pages.

I am keeping this as a sample book as the pages looked too good to cover up!!!!

Mini Book & Grungy Monday #10

I've got a week off so decided to make something for 'me' and to start on a larger (for me) project.  So I made a start on a mini book.  I cut the pages from the spellbinder labels die.   I put some of them through the embossing folders and coloured them with distress inks. 

This just happened to fit in with this weeks Grungy Monday theme, which this week is a t!m product - distress inks!!!!

I then went on to decorate each page with various techniques, materials and findings.

These are just a few pages from the mini book.

The Craft Room Challenge - 1

Zoe has teamed up with Julia from The Craft Room and set up a challenge blog.  They've been gentle on us with it being the first week, they've kicked off with a free theme.  The challenges run for two weeks, so still plenty of time to get your entry in.  It's well worth entering as there is a £10 voucher to the winner of the random draw to spend in the on-line shop.  Be sure to read the pesky rules though, as you need to display the logo and create a link back to your blog and the like in order to qualify.

Right to my piece then.  I die cut the wings, cogs, clock hands and circles.  Stamped, heat embossed, big shot embossed and painted the pieces.  Once assembled I added eyelets and hung the stamped image with a couple of pieces of chain.