Another Book Page Play

I made a few more embellishments as I'd not done anything previously in green. I also played around with some layouts.

And another layout using my new to me spellbinder border dies.

And another one with a few alterations.

Then when I went to stick it in my black book, I realised that I'd made it the wrong way round. Sums up the day I had really!

Oriental Flip Flop Folder

Completed flip flop folder.

This is the inside of the folder. 

This is the outside of the folder.

All the separate elements.  Two inside pockets housing tags and journaling cards.

The right hand side pockets.

The flip of the right hand side pocket.

  

And finally the back.

The left hand side pockets.

The flip of the left hand side pockets.

And finally the back.

Everything is now glued in, so here it is opened up.

And so the flip flop begins... the right hand side.

Then the left hand side.

And back to the right again.

And back to the left again. So now fully opened and exposing the middle pocket.

Mostly Oriental Papers

As the Stamp Magic Show at Doncaster Dome was cancelled on Sunday (along with lots of others unfortunately) I decided to treat myself. I ordered some oriental papers and vellums, some ticket ephemera and a couple of A4 snow themed papers.

Oriental Embellishments

I've been trying to find some oriental embellishments but not had much luck, so I decided to make some myself using my stamps and embossing powders.

Used punches to shape them.

Found some images and printed them off on cream card, vellum and white paper.

And the same again but this time using script images, red card and red text on the vellum.

World Traveller

My holiday photos arrived this week and over on the PA blog Pam the queen of scrap booking is back and for her third project she'd created a fab layout incorporating strips of paper and a sewing machine which you can see here. So I chose an appropriate photo and came up with this.

Close up of the paper, machine sewn stitches and the lace.

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).

Thinking of Spring

Can only think of it as it's not happening any time soon even with Easter just around the corner!!

Sue over at Stampotique has chosen a theme of Spring and across at the PanPastelUk challenge site they have a photo for inspiration.

The background is a mix of wild honey, ripe persimmon and mustard seed distress ink and splashed with water.  The background script is stamped in olive green stazon.  The flower is stamped in versamark and embossed in black embossing powder.  The dragonfly was stamped onto a thick vellum in black stazon and cut out.

White on White

Both Stampotique and Simon Says Stamp have the theme of white this week.  Simon Says have a photo inspiration picture and I chose to use the bottom right image.

I painted the mdf cog shape with picket fence distress paint (and it covered beautifully in one coat).  I used wow vanilla white embossing powder with the Stampotique journey collage stamp.  I loved the way this looked and really didn't want to cover it up!!

I stamped the Stampotique key keeper and the T!m blueprint key onto acetate, coloured it with snowflake fresco paint and cut them out.  The lock was stamped onto a really thick white vellum and again cut out.

As you can see from the shadows the sun came out, so I am pleased to say the colour is a true reflection.

Something Spooky

This month over on the Happy Daze challenge blog the theme is 'something wicked this way comes', so we are asked to make something spooky and halloweeny so I created this tag.

The background is a spiders web stamp embossed with black embossing powder, rubbed over with orange (280.5) and black (800.5) pan pastels.  The skull is stamped in black stazon onto acetate and cut out.  The tomb stone is die cut from black card and also vellum.  I offset them and added a pumpkin charm.  The Stampotique image (Linda) was stamped onto card, coloured with Adirondack pens, cut out and mounted onto the tag.

Eyes Down

This week over at the PanPastelUK challenge blog their theme is 'good luck' so I decided to try my luck at a game of bingo, by making a good luck bingo tag.  I know it's pretty hard to see from the photo, but the piece of metal at the top says 'good' and the charm at the bottom attached to the twine says 'luck'.  The background is forest moss, crushed olive and brushed pewter distress stains, edged in vintage photo distress ink.  I stamped the bingo plate on to a thick piece of vellum and lightly coloured it with permanent green shade (640.3) pan pastel. Well you just knew I had to use some somewhere been as it's the pan pastel challenge.

Clock Canvas

This was an 8" x 8" canvas that I picked up last week at the Lincoln show.  I coloured the background with various shades of green distressed stains.  I used my SG paints too.  I stamped in timber brown using my new Hampton Art alphabet letter background stamp and I stamped tim's circles in mulch brown eco-friendly paint.  I also used cactus green stazon on the scratches stamp.  I used rust lumiere paint to colour the wings, the clock face and the charm.  Behind the clock I put a piece of vellum, previously scrunched and used a brad to attach the hands.  The wings were run through an embossing folder and coloured with lumiere metallics rust and olive green.  

Simon Say's are asking for wings this week.

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Photo taken in the sun

Anniversary Card

It's my mum and dads anniversary early next week and they go away tomorrow, so I made them a quick card from a piece of printed vellum, part of a napkin, a skeleton leaf and some sandpaper!!!

International Atc Swap

I've made these 8 atc's for a swap.  There was no theme and no limit to the number you can send in to be swapped.  I created the backgrounds using my even newer stewart gill paints (had to get some more after the first batch!!).  Cut them into atc size and created the above.  They are now winging their way to Oz to be swapped.

JFF - Week 30 - Black, White, Silver & One Other

It's the last week of the colour theme over on JFF this week.  I chose to add red as my colour of choice.

The background is corrugated covered in white, black and silver acrylic paint.  The wings are die cut from vellum and run through the big shot.  The frame is the scrap piece from the slide mounts of a couple of weeks ago, with an image and stamped words mounted in them.  I added a piece of red ric-rac to the bottom, three red gems and the red fibre to hang.

JFF - Week 29 - Black, White & Silver

Week three on JFF this week is to add another colour to last weeks black and white.  So this week we have the theme of black, white and silver.

I made a circle slider, well that's what I am calling it anyway!! 

To check out how to make it, watch this youtube snap

This is it opened out.

The bottom circle is made from the alterations clock face with a backing of a thich vellum run through the steampunk embossing folder.  I used the crowned circles spellbinder dies and cut all the sizes in black and white.  I stamped the PA gentlemen plate 3 image and used the circle punch to cut it out.  The middle and smaller circles are based on the crowned circles.  The middle out of the clock was run through the embossing folder and painted in silver and swooshed over with black acrylic.  I punched a circle in white card and stamped it with a PA image from travel plate 1 and also a circle in vellum which I ran through the embossing folder.  And finally for the top circle I added a stamped word image, an embossed cog which was swooshed in black acrylic and a small cog painted with silver acrylic and the smallest crowned circle in black with a spinner and brad.  Brads were added to the circles to make the movement.

JFF - Week 27 - White on White

It's my turn again to set this months JFF theme and I've chosen 'add a colour'.  So week one is a single colour, which is white.  So I guess you could say this weeks theme is white on white.

I painted a piece of corrugated in white gesso.  When dry added a touch of pearl to give it a hint of metallic. Die cut some of t!m's flowers in card and vellum.  I then put them through the swiss dots embossing folder.  Curled the petals on the vellum one, layered them up and added a button.

I die cut the banner from white card, added a white rub off that says paradise, which doesn't show up very well and added some dots in liquid pearls.

I added a piece of lace down the right hand side and finished off by adding three pearls.

Butterfly Twinchies

This months twinchies theme on UKStampers is butterflies.  As most of you know, I only have the one butterfly stamp, so I've had to use it a few times here!!!  The first image is stamped onto a really thick vellum, I cut it out and just stuck it down the middle so the wings are free.  The 3 multi-coloured ones are adirondack inks spritzed with water to give a watercolour effect.  The middle bottom is from a paperartsy stamp set and the bottom right is stamped in timber brown stazon.

Things with Wings

This week over on Dragons Dream Tag It On, the theme is wings, so I couldn't resist as wings is one of my favourites.  I also got my new steampunk stamp this morning, so of course had to test it out.  The two guys are cut from part of a paperartsy stamp.

Distress Stains on Vellum!!!

As I was blog hopping I found this fab idea (but I can't remember where I saw it, so if it was you, please let me know and I'll acknowledge you - sorry!!).  Cover a piece of vellum in various colours of distress stain.  Above I used broken china, weathered wood, faded jeans and dusty concord.  Spritz with water and blot off with kitchen roll.  Scrunch up and carefully unfold a few times and then punch or die cut shapes.  I did snowflakes in preparation for next years holiday photos!!!!

For this piece of vellum I used fired brick, wild honey, forest moss, peeled paint and dusty concord.  Again I spritzed and scrunched and die cut some flower shapes and leaves.  Haven't decided what to do with them yet, just arranged them as above for the photo.

Black & White Canvas

Was having a play this afternoon and created this. Inspired by some of the creations in the latest Somerset Studio magazine. It's a 5" x 7" flat canvas which was staring straight at me. I covered it in mod podge, ripped a page of text out of an old book, stuck it over the canvas and gave it another coat of mod podge. When dry I placed vaseline over certain areas to act as a resist to the acrylic paint. I painted the whole piece and when dry, using a clean piece of paper towel, removed the paint from the areas covered with the vaseline. I tore a piece of black card, a piece of vellum and a piece of tissue paper, scrunched them up and used my paper distresser to distress the edges. I stuck the tissue paper down roughly in the middle of the canvas and I used silicone glue to attach the other two pieces as I wanted the piece to have a 3d look and not be flat to the canvas. I added a piece of magic mesh and rubbed over it with black stazon. I used one of my new stamps and stamped the image onto a glossy piece of white card using black stazon ink, again I attached it with silicone glue. I then added a piece of white lace to the right hand side, a black ribbon and a white button to the bottom right, a metal charm to the bottom left and a metal charm which says, love life, live life, middle top. It looks quite good in the flesh because it's got a bit of 'lift'.