Mini Toilet Roll Tag Book

Another tag book made from toilet roll tubes.

And scraps of card from other projects.

A pocket with another tag inside.

Tags inserted in the open ends.

And some of the sleeves are decorated with a few different papers.

Another pocket for a mini tag.

And finally the back page.

A couple of the larger tags.

And the backs to add any journaling.

One of the smaller tags from the inner pocket.

Close up of the tag inside the little pocket.

And I also put a pocket on one of the larger tags.

I'm really pleased how it turned out and it's so colourful.

Imagine

I was asked by Neet if I would like to make a few projects for Artful Times. The theme for this fortnight is a house shaped card.

I used the TH Sizzix Townscape on the edge die to create the house shapes and also cut a piece out of brick paper.  The word is from word chain #5 by Clarity stamps.

Hope you'll find the time to join in.

Do you Believe?

I covered this piece of chipboard in grunge paste creating a wall effect with a stencil. I die cut an arched window and added white puff paint to it and heated it up to create the effect of snow. I stamped the santa in red stazon and put him in the window. Die cut the trees and embossed them with script and painted them in various colours of fresco.

I'm entering again into the Arty Inklings crimble challenge.

Country View Crafts have a theme of Bah humbug and want to see an element of Christmas.

Anything but a Card have a theme of anything goes....with a holiday twist.

In the dead of the night...

When I was painting/writing with the GP I mixed up way too much, so quickly grabbed the nearest stencil and a piece of corrugated.

It sat there for a few days and then the PanPastelUk and Think Monday, Think Atc themes were revealed.  I painted the corrugated firstly in elephant fresco paint, then applied a coat of elephant mixed with black dress and finally another coat of black dress mixed with pewter.  I replaced the stencil and sponged through with French roast and then pewter treasure gold.  The moon was created with vanilla fresco paint and a spellbinders circle nestie.

Stamped the images and coloured them with new colours of distress markers.  The words and the fence have been coloured with extra dark grey pan pastel (820.2).

Window Box Box

I was inspired to make this box out of T!m's window box die when I saw this below that Eileen had created.  

She showed a photo of it on twitter.  Hers was obviously based around a Halloween theme.

I used various dies, the branch tree was kindly cut and sent to me by another twitter buddie, Kirsten. I painted it in mocha mousse fresco paint and added a bit of black dress.

The T!m Carol Singers were cut and sent to me by yet another twitter friend, Lin.  They were cut from black card and I left them as they were as I wanted silhouettes. 

The T!m lamp post was cut by me but the die actually belongs to my mate Maz.  I painted it in elephant fresco and again added some black dress.  I actually have the on the edge fence die and I cut it from silver textured card.

The sills were used on the top, coloured in black and heat embossed with vanilla wow powder, using the PA mini flourish.

The windows were cut from chipboard, painted in little black dress fresco and stamped with the PA brick wall mini in cloud white versa magic ink.

Everything is sat on a beer mat painted black.

I'm sharing this project over at Altered Eclectics for their anything goes theme for October.

Escape the Ordinary - Stampotique

This is my anything goes piece for week 2 of my GD spot on the Stampotique team.  The background is a canvas to which I applied grunge paste through the diamond stencil.  I coloured it with various colours of fresco paint in green shades, tinned peas, hey pesto, green olives, Hyde park and guacamole.  Once I'd achieved the colour I wanted I sanded back over the grunge paste.  I then stamped various Stampotique images randomly over the background, splatter, diva, swirls, Carols small flower and tiny bee.  I added some random circles in black paint using a bottle lid and some bubble wrap.

I used the negative of the TH postage stamp die to section part of the canvas off.  I gave the background to this a whitewash of watered down snowflake fresco paint.  I stamped the mushroom group and two of the giant shroom images onto white card.  I coloured them with fresco paints, blood orange, French roast and mushroom. I hi-lighted with the white posca pen.

The fence is the on the edge on the fence die and was cut from ribbed kraft paper and swooshed over with vintage photo distress ink.

Finally I added the Stampotique words, escape the ordinary...daydream, but I only used the first part of the quote.

Hit the Book

Over at Anything But A Card this month they have a theme of 'hitting the books'.  So basically they are looking for anything to do with books, whether it be using the pages, altering a book or creating a book.  I decided to do the latter.

I created the front cover by spreading grunge paste over the chipboard and stamping into it to create the texture, for more info, see this video here.  Once completely dry I painted it with blood orange and French roast fresco paint.  I then used the negative of the umbrella man die, so it acted as a stencil, mixed black into some grunge paste and filled the gap.  As you can see I didn't smooth it off as I wanted texture.  This idea came from a challenge set by Arty Inklings.

Next I started to apply onyxite and ruby treasure gold to the cover to enhance the grunge paste texture.

And I added a few eyelets for decoration.

I used T!m's one the edge file die to create some dividers.  I embossed each one and coloured it with lumiere paints.

And the same with the backs.

This is the back cover, made exactly the same as the front minus the umbrella man.  I used the mini cogs to cover the holes of the book rings.

This is the inside of the book, once put together and stood up.  I just need to cut some paper to put between each divider, but I wanted to get a photo before it rained!!

This is the front of the book with the book rings and chain added.

I'm also entering into Altered Eclectics as they have an anything goes theme.

Simon Says Stamp Monday have a challenge of embossed, so I'm entering over there too!!

It's a Man Thing - Artful Times

I never seem to have much of a stash of male cards, so when I saw this weeks theme for Artful Times that's what I decided to make.  

I used the steampunk on the edge die to create this card along with Time Travellers stamp set.

Oriental Tag

Over on the PA blog Carol show cased her second project of an oriental tag.  To see what she did look here.

I followed what Carol did to create the background. I used blue UTEE instead of gold, some of which beaded up and some just totally melted!! I used the holed scallop on the bottom of the tag and threaded fibres through.

Whatever...

Stampotique have set the challenge this week for us to use die cuts and punches.  Well the die cut was no problem, but the punches, can't remember the last time I had one out!!!  So after a rummage through a box I found a mini cat!!  The fence is my new on the edge T!m die.

2013 Calendar

Stampotique are kicking off the new year with a calendar / journal / diary page or cover.  I went for the calendar option, I did one page with a years calendar.

The background is an offcut from a piece made on the gelli plate workshop at AftH, mounted onto a piece of chipboard which was die cut with an on the edge die and painted blue.

The monsters and mushroom were stamped, coloured with distress ink makers, cut out and mounted onto the background.  The mushroom was a little dark and got lost in the blue background, so I lightened the blue with a white Artbar and outlined the image with a white Posca pen.

I printed off a calendar from a free Google download, cut the months into the same size, stapled them all together and attached them with twine.

I added a piece of ribbon to enable me to hang it from my computer desk.

Behind Closed Doors

Over at Dragons Dream TIO they have the theme of 'behind closed doors' and the recipe is, a key, a lock and a door.  I used my Stamptoqie door, which has a ready made lock on it, my new on the edge fence die and some crunchy waxed kraft paper.  The background for the tag and fence are pieces from the gelli plate class.  The keys are a Hero Arts cling stamp, stamped in timber brown stazon.

And behind the door we have the Stampotique boys.  The background for them was scribbled with various shades of green distress ink markers. 

Shrine

Over at Out of a Hat Creations this week they have a fabulous theme of 'shrines'.  However, this did get me thinking as I don't have any ready made shrines!!!!  I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do or how I wanted to do it, so I just started playing with chipboard and the scallops on the edge die and basically came up with this.  I cut a rectangle out of the front piece to house the bottom of a small box which I painted with Fresco paints.  The feet on the bottom are cubes from a bobble!!  I'm not actually sure if this is a true shrine, but it's my version anyway!!

***Edited*** And this is it in daylight!!

Bonfire Night

Over at PanPastelUk this week they have a theme of Bonfire Night.  I cut T!m's on the edge townscape die from patterned paper.  Stamped the three Art Journey stamps in white ink and went over them with a gelli glaze pen in white and orange.  I used embossing enamel around the outside edges.

Steampunk Canvas

I picked up a couple of these canvas's from The Works earlier in the week because I wanted to have a go at a larger one, this is 12" x 10".  I used dylusion spray inks in lime, vanilla custard and burnt orange to colour the background.  I then put some masks down, flourish (TH), brick wall (Creative Expressions) and barbed wire (TH).  

I then coloured four smaller canvas's and edged them with bottle acrylic dabbers.  

And this is what I created with the pieces.  I stamped images onto tissue paper and used digital images bought from an Etsy site.   I gave them a coat of Stewart Gills paint from the colourise range as they are translucent matte paints.   Added charms, chain, clock parts and prestuds.  I used three of the smaller canvas's.  Used some TH tissue tape, an idea-o-logy ticket, washer and a corner.  From Lincoln I bought a new sizzix 'dream' word die, along with a pad of chocolate box co-ordinations card stack, so I chose the green backed one, die cut the dream and cogs images and sanded back the brown to reveal some of the green.  You'll probably have to zoom in to see it properly.  Finally I edged the canvas with bottle green acrylic dabber.

This weeks Stamp Man Challenge is circle it, so I'm entering this canvas into the challenge.