Moth Fab Cards

I decided to change tact with my Stampotique characters and move from tags to cards, and from Artbars and pan pastels to distress inks.  I masked off a strip on the card, coloured it with 2 shades of green distress ink, spritzed a Hampton Art letters stamp and stamped it into the distress ink. The water on the stamp lifted the distress ink off the card. 

The pieces of green striped paper are hiding little accidents!!!  The images were stamped on to a separate piece of card in versa mark and heat embossed with black embossing powder.  I coloured the images with perfect pearls.  You can't really see on the photo but they really do shimmer.

I haven't added a sentiment yet as I don't know what I'm going to use them for.

More Tags .... sorry!!!!

I do apologise as I know you are all probably bored of my kraft card, pan pastels and Artbars but unfortunately (for you), I'm getting sooo much enjoyment out of making them, that I've made some more and these Stampotique stamps lend themselves so well too.

These were created on black card using pan pastels, white (100.5), neutral grey tint (820.8) bright yellow green (680.5) and magenta (430.5). The background, fence and words were stamped with picket fence distress stain using Stampotique stamps moth fab, winter, goddess, even silence speaks, hanging hearts and picket fence.  The character images were coloured with various pens and pan pastels.

All the tags were run through the distrezz-it-all tool to give them distressed and rugged edges.

New Home Card

Well not your traditional new home card, but I thought Deb would prefer this rather than something house related!!  Good luck with the move Deb and I hope you've settled in okay and you'll be very happy in your new home.

Yes, you've guessed it, kraft card, pan pastels, Artbars and Dina Wakley!!!

A Couple More Tags

Another couple of tags using kraft card, pan pastels and Artbars together with Dina Wakley images.

Simon Says ......

Another simple but effective piece.  I stamped the Dina background image in perfect medium and coloured with violet shade (470.3) pan pastel, then stamped the Dina lonely girl image in black stazon.


Simon says stamp and show's theme this week is - Hey Girl and Simon says stamp challenge's theme this week is - Anything goes

Kraft Card & Tag

I'm loving this kraft card with pan pastels and artbars, great combination.  Above is a card I made to send to Sue for her very kind gift.  

If you missed it, check back here.

I also made her a tag using some Stampotique characters and my new set of trees by Lavinia from the Doncaster show.  Again I used pan pastels and artbars.

Magical and Mystical

Ermmmm.....not entirely sure I've totally hit the spot with this theme.  For those of you that know me, you'll know I don't have any fairies, castles and mystical types of stamps in my collection, so I've done the best I could with what I've got!!! 

This week the PanPastels UK team are asking for 'magical and mystical'.

I stamped the CI-137 image, a flourish and the word dream in black stazon.  I coloured the background with a combination of violet tint (470.8) and turquoise tint (580.8) pan pastels.  I coloured the main image with magenta (430.5) and the flowers with violet shade (470.3) and phthalo blue (560.5) pan pastels.  The yellow flowers and the lilac swirl down the left I coloured with Artbars.  I used the pastel Artbars to outline some of the flourishes and over write the word, dream.  To try and make it more magical, I added turquoise and purple Stickles to the flower inners, the dots around the dream and the wings.  I added wool fibres to finish.

Then I decided to see what I could do using Titus from Stampotique.    So I made this ATC incorporating the mushroom stamp from Lavinia and the swirl stamp also from Stampotique.  I used magenta (430.5) and bright yellow green shade (680.3) pan pastels on the background and purple and lime green Stickles for the sparkle of magic - lol!!!!

Stampotique Sentiments

Remember my mate Sue who sent me the sentiments stamp, well here it is and I'm now able to join in with the Stampotique Sentiments challenge.  I kept it simple as you can see, as I wanted the sentiment to be seen and not hidden in the background.

I also made a simple tag along the same lines.

Artful Times - Challenge 9

This weeks Artful Times challenge theme is Europe on a tag as chosen by Neet.  As you can see, I decided to go to France.  The blue and red on the main tag are pan pastels.   The white strip was masked off.  I then collaged various French themed images and words directly onto the tag.  The mini tag was stamped, cut out and inked with faded jeans and festive berries distress ink and 3d foamed onto the main tag. Ribbons and fibres were used to finish both the tags.


Hop over to the Artful Times blog to see where Neet and Von went.

Tick Tock

Just a simple atc from me this week for the 'Time' challenge over at Out of a Hat Creations.  The image is from the Aunts Art Journey plate and stamped in black stazon over the distress stains background of bundled sage and broken china.  The  crackle stamp is from the Art Journey Numbers plate and stamped in shaded lilac distress ink from the spring collection.  The atc is edged in faded jeans distress ink.

More Stampotique

Look what came in the post from Happy Daze, more Stampotique to add to my growing collection.  So I just had to have a play with them!!

Background, pan pastels and artbars. Punched the MS picket fence into T!m's retro papers.  Stampotique characters coloured with Adirondack and OHP pens.  Hanging hearts stamped in the background with black stazon.  Stamped the quote, cut it up and 3'd it.  Added fibres to finish.

Background was created using pan pastels and a diamond stencil.  I stamped the Lavinia mushrooms in black stazon using a masking technique.  The scribbles are Dina's boy star stamp and the swirls are from my new stamps above along with Titus.  I stamped Head onto acetate and coloured him in with OHP pens.  I re-stamped Titus on a separate piece of card, coloured and cut his body out and stuck it over the stamped image.  I outlined all the background images with a white pen.  I edged the tag with faded jeans and broken china distress inks and finally added the fibres.

A couple of Tags

The background was created with pan pastel, bright yellow green extra dark (680.1) and Artbars (green earth A49, black A67 and white A72).  The 'goddess' word and hanging hearts Stampotique images were stamped in black stazon and outlined in white pen.  I stamped moth fab onto a separate piece of card and coloured her with Adirondack and OHP pens, cut her out and 3d mounted her onto the tag.  Finished off with my new Basic Grey fibres picked up at the Doncaster show.

More or less the same again except this background was created with juniper, cool peri and cloudy blue acrylic dabbers.  Dina's boy star and Stampotique 'diva' and hanging hearts were stamped over the background in black stazon, the word 'diva' was over stamped in picket fence distress stain.  This time moth fab was coloured with pan pastels, cut out and stuck flush to the tag.  


Simon says Stamp and Show have an anything goes this week, so I'm putting my tags up for this challenge!!!

Look what I got

Look what Sue kindly sent me today. I was explaining how I couldn't join in with the Stampotique challenge as it is sentiments and I don't have any, but it turns out Sue had 2 of the same one.  So she very generously offered to send me one, and here it is, along with a stunning tag, all Stampotique of course!! 

Thank you sooooo much Sue, it really is appreciated - xxxx

Cheery up Tags

My mate Neet had to go into hospital on Monday for a procedure which she wasn't looking forward to, but one that was necessary!!  This also involved a nights stay in the hospital just for observation purposes.  So to cheer her up for when she arrived home I made her a couple of tags.  Her favourite colour combo is lime green and purple and she loves anything to do with Paris and time.

I also added a sentiment to a stitched card which I previously posted here for the Art Journey challenge and sent her that too.

Sun, sea and sand

This week over at the PanPastel UK challenge they are asking for a brown (sand), a yellow (sun) and a blue (sea) and preferably a beach scene.  So here is my paper studios beach scene of a young girl looking out into the sea with her brown hair losely hanging down her back with a lovely sunset in the distance!!