Altered Dominoes

Crafty Individuals vintage portrait transparent images, bead trim added around the edges.

Backs covered in silver and gold.

And after I'd taken the photo I went back in and added four more silver beads to each of the corners to finish it off properly.

At the Beach

Another couple of Atc's made for a swap, the theme for them is At the Beach.

I mixed DecoArt texture sand paste and ultra matte varnish together and applied along the bottom of the atc to create sand. Once dry I coloured it with titan buff, translucent yellow iron-oxide and yellow oxide. For the sky I watered down cerulean blue. The clothes were painted in quinacridone magenta and the flesh, a mix of translucent white, quinacridone burnt orange and magenta.

This is a paper bag studio stamp and it was inked with salty ocean and lemonade and mustard seed distress inks and stamped onto an atc. The image was coloured with watered down DecoArt quinacridone magenta.

We Don't Stop Playing

Pretty simple tag, background is painted and stamped with script, middle panel is alcohol inks and stamped with a Crafty Individuals image and TH quote.

Artful Times have a theme of 'a tag' 

Just Playing - Spring Time

Gosh it's been raining nearly all day today and it's been that dark and gloomy I had to craft with the light on!!  So I decided to hit some spring colours / images and have a play.  This one is an atc, background is pan pastels dairylide yellow (250.5) and bright yellow green shade (680.3).  The image was stamped in black stazon.  The edges were subtly inked in tea dye distress ink.

This one is sort of a bookmark size.  Background again is pan pastels, well I haven't played with them for a while.  Mixture of phthalo blue tint (560.8), phthalo blue (560.5) and ultramarine blue extra dark (520.1).  The background image is stamped in iced spruce distress ink.  The main Indigoblu image is stamped in timber brown stazon and the butterfly from the same plate was inked with distress markers, spritzed with water and stamped.

Background again is pan pastels dairylide yellow (250.5) and bright yellow green shade (680.3). The Crafty Individual images were stamped in black stazon and coloured with distress ink markers.

More pan pastels for the background.  I inked up my new (to me) Stampotique word background stamp with walnut stain distress ink.  The other images are from T!m's urban tapestry plate and inked in black stazon.

And lastly I used a combination of magenta (430.5), violet shade (470.3) and violet tint (470.8).  The background image is a wooden stamp painted with pansy and mushroom Paperartsy fresco paint.  The Lavinia image was stamped firstly in black stazon and then over stamped with seedless preserve distress ink.  I don't know why but those Lavinia stamps really don't stamp well with permanent inks!!

Viva La France

Over at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week they have a theme of Inspiration Francaise. I cut a piece of white card into a postcard sized piece (6" x 4").  Stamped the main CI image in black stazon, masked it off and used PA and TH stamps for the background.  I then stamped the Eiffel Tower image again in black stazon.  I edged the postcard with black stazon too!!  I took the milled lavender and dusty concord distress ink markers and slightly tinted the flowers.