Tags with new (to me) LP Stamps

Had to have a play with my new stamps. Used festive berries, fired brick and tarnished brass distress stains, to create both tag backgrounds. I added some white pencil lines to the main image.

I stamped the main image onto the tag, then again onto white card, cut some of the squares out and overlaid them.

Both of the main images are from the Lynne Perrella Acey Deucy Imperial Cargo range.

Tag Along have an anything goes theme this week.

Christmas Craft Goodies

These new metallic pan pastels are from my Twitter friend and buddy Emma.

Here they are without the lids, light gold, silver, copper and bronze.

I also ordered myself some fabulous wooden stamps from the states from a place called Stamp Diva. Susan provides a fantastic service and is extremely helpful. All the stamps were individually wrapped in tissue paper.

And I love the TH classic collection stamp sets, so asked for another couple to add to my stash.

And a cling stamp, spellbinder sprockets and some Idea-ology parts.

And finally, I treated myself to this wooden stamp. I've been after it for ages, and finally tracked one down. I have the cling version, but as most of you know, I love wooden stamps so was thrilled when I found it.

As you've probably gathered, I chose (and got) most of my own presents for various family members, so no surprises, but sometimes that's a good thing - hehehehe!! I also received lots of chocolates, a box of 10 blue wicked (a fave of mine), and some money which I will spend whilst on holiday.

Merry Christmas to you all, hope you're all having a wonderful day xxxx

Silence

This was a WIP Atc, as you can see on her nose, it's not dry properly and she has wrinkles from the mod podge where she was stuck on. Images stamped on crackly tissue paper and painted in frescos from the back.

Once completely dry I tided it up, added some Dylusions flicks of white spray ink and finished the edges in a red sharpie pen.

Imagination

Another piece of embossed sticky silver foil covered with snow cap alcohol ink and black soot and slate dripped on. Image outlined with wire strips and attached with T!m's tiny attacher staples.

Love how the alcohol ink colours intermingle!!

Free Spirit

Another Atc. Stamped PA image in black stazon onto blue patterned paper. Stamped hat from LP003 cut it out and coloured with portfolio pastels, gems added. Posca pen used to hi-light areas.

More Metal Effect Atc's

Destiny - I embossed the sticky silver foil the wrong way round so the pattern was in fact de-bossed but it didn't matter, it just meant the alcohol ink sat on the top.

I stamped into a piece of the foil covered card, not very straight, but it worked out okay. I also gave the brads a bash with T!m's hammer.

New Beginnings - Before I stuck down the sticky silver foil I put some glass micro beads on the card for extra texture.

Discover - More micro beads, wire, washer and eyelets.

And here are all 3 side by side.

Book Cover

Over on the PA blog Liz has been back this week and although I've not had a lot of time I was inspired by her wonderful book which you can see here.  I haven't had time to decorate a book, but I've made a start with a cover.

Close up of the LP image stamped in royal purple stazon, housed in the TH idea-ology fancy frame.

And instead of metal I ran a piece of silver sticky foil through a texture fade, coloured it with snow cap, wild plum and sail boat blue alcohol ink and then rubbed on renaissance and onyxite treasure gold.

Oriental Texture

I ran a piece of sturdy chipboard through the TH flourishes die.

Painted a 4 x 4 piece of thicker chipboard in fresco paints.

Placed the flourish on the background.

Completely covered the flourish with grunge paste.

Then carefully lifted out the flourish pieces.

The bonus to this is that you get flourishes covered in grunge paste to use on a different project.

Painted the whole area with a mix of haystack, blood orange, submarine and tango fresco paints.

Outlined the indented flourish with black pan pastel and smudged it in.

Stamped the LP image in archival ink directly onto the background and edge with white fire liquid leaf.

Close up of the texture, indented flourish and gold leaf edging.

Lots of ruby and renaissance treasure gold added to bring out the grunge paste texture, gems added to the cheeks and the word serenity to finish.

Close up of the textured treasure gold.

Obscure

4 x 4 - riveted metal background, slide mount painted in little black dress, spacers and beads, half prestud and arrow added for decoration.

Escape the Ordinary

I ran some sticky silver foil tape through the diamond plate and riveted metal texture fades. I covered the slide with the diamond plate foil. Using little black dress fresco paint I lightly coloured both foils and wiped it back. I rubbed ruby treasure gold over the slide and added an image. I added 6 brads which I hammered and outlined the words in red.

Wow - I'm on a roll .....

Look what I picked up from my front door when I arrived home this evening.

These are my prize from PanPastelUk after Nikky did a bit of negotiating on my behalf as I'd already previously won the prize on offer. I did ask if she wanted to re-draw it but she told me to leave it with her and she'd see what she could do. Didn't she do well - thank you xxx

Then I logged into twitter to find I'd also been picked out for 3rd prize on the Arty Inklings Crimble challenge here.

And this is 3rd prize - wow lovely stash there and it's already on the way!!

And for my third piece of good luck we won £100 on the Thunderball lottery last Saturday.

LP Collage of Colour

From my stash of PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella plates I pulled out lots of images, mainly the square and rectangle shaped ones and set about stamping them with black archival ink to create the above collage.

When I went over to the states earlier this year, I popped into Staples and picked up this 24 set of water soluble portfolio pastels and have only used them a handful of times up to now.

I randomly chose colours and just basically scribbled over the images until the whole piece was full.

Then I rubbed my finger on a clean baby wipe and then over the pastels to blend them in. You can see how lovely they just blend together.

And another snippet.

And another of a slightly bigger area.

And finally the completed piece. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to cut it up and use the individual pieces, or mount all the pieces onto black card, like crazy paving.

Micro Beads & Corrugated

I started playing with some pieces of corrugated, I cut the arches out with the TH die and painted them with lumiere paints. I randomly added glossy accents to some of the grooves and poured in the glass micro beads. I stamped the images onto separate card, cut them out and coloured them with portfolio pastels.

The arch has been cut from a piece running the opposite way.

Close up of the mirco beads in the corrugated grooves.

Exactly the same for this one, except I painted the corrugated in pewter lumiere paints. Stamped the LP image and again coloured with portfolio pastels.  

I started off using the light blue beads but wasn't keen on the contrast, so for the main piece I switched to the darker ones.

Close up of the beads in the grooves.