RSS Challenge 20

A card made for the current Ready Steady Stamp challenge - this time the five ingredients we had to use were: 1. angel 2. turquoise, white, silver & black 3. ribbon & lace 4. heart 5. wood. The wood had to be real wood, not just paper printed to look like it! Luckily I had this small wooden embellishment amongst my stash. I have used Broken China and Tumbled Glass DIs on the backgrounds. The angel stamp is by Anita's and the music quote by darkroom door.

Out of the box but...

... behind bars! I've finally managed to do my entry for the latest Stampotique challenge which this time is "Think out of the box". I couldn't decide what to make for this one, but then I received an order I had placed that included one of the new Tim Holtz dies - bird in a cage. So this inspired me to make a little hanging. I thought it would be fun to have Sheer inside the cage and the bird free as air outside! I have used grungepaper for the cage and bird and coloured them with Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge DIs.

O for...

... OWL. Yes we've reached O on the Inchy by Inch challenge.

N for...

... NIGHT. Here is my latest inchy for the Inchy by Inch alphabet challenge.

Just to add that I have used a stamp by Inkadinkado and the large bat has been embossed.

Ready-Steady-STAMP! Challenge 19

A card made for the latest Ready-Steady-STAMP! challenge. The background has been sponged with Distress Inks in Dusty Concord and Bundled Sage, then stamped with a flower stamp (by Tanda) also in Dusty Concord. Then I spread a very thin layer of gesso over, which has softened and toned it down. When it was dry, I stamped the flourish (by Stampin' Up) in black around the edges. The main image is a lovely new stamp by Crafty Individuals which I have stamped on a background of Dusty Concord and Victorian Velvet inks. The flower stamp is by ISC. I added the little 'memories' word (Tim Holtz), a couple of punched leaves and a grungeboard flourish that I had sprayed with Purple Pansy Glimmermist. The only way I could think of to use rubber was in the centre of the flowers - so I punched little circles from some excess rubber trimmed from a sheet of unmounted stamps!

M for...

... MUSIC. Here is my latest inchy for the Inchybyinch challenge.

Stampotique Challenge no. 5

The latest theme on the Stampotique Designers Challenge is 'It's a Girl Thing'. I had a vague idea what I was going to do and was browsing through my stamps for one in particular when this one, by Rubber Romance, came to hand and I decided that this would be even better! I had already decided to use pink and this stamp calls out for brown as well - two colours I love together. The flower stamp is a Craft Stamper freebie and the words are from a Hero Arts stamp.