Sunday Stamper: Tie a yellow ribbon.

I spent a wonderful few days with my dear friend Sally last week and she did me the power of good and spoilt me rotten!  We of course fitted in some crafting and she let me play with her new Tim Holtz stamps which I made into a card and it seemed appropriate for this weeks challenge.

 



 

Firstly I sprayed random squirts of a yellow cosmic shimmer spray, then stamped the Acorn stamp in brown Archival. I followed this by spraying some Autumnal shades of Mica on a sheet and stamping it again and then decoupaged the different pieces. The oak leaves from the same set were coloured with sprays and distress inks in various shades, cut out, crumpled for texture and then stuck down. Sally had a little oak leaf stamp which had the same treatment in a pile to the side for balance and then I cut out the word Oak from the first stamp and layered it in the top right. The yellow shades of sari ribbon tied onto the beads were also from Sally who has given me my first lesson in beading and I am now hooked! I made a random border with a gel pen and then used Walnut stain on the edges.

It was lovely to make a card which I haven't done for ages and these stamps are gorgous, I shall have to have them! Hope you are all enjoying some sun as we are here in Wiltshire. Thanks again Sally! x

Sunday Stamper: A Riot of Colour.

I have been grappling with blackberries for my Tag Tuesday challenge (please click on link to be transported to a haven of Autumn fruitfullness!) and having finished that then done the ironing (ugh!) I thought I would enjoy myself making another piece of my banner with a clashing fantabilosier of  Dylusion sprays for Hel's challenge for the Sunday stamper this week.

 

 

This piece of madness was fun to make for the first O in rOom, and I used purple and pink Dylusion sprays sloshed about on my craft sheet, dried and then picked up again until I got the layers right. Then I stamped a Paper Artsy Hot Pick of a Robotic Human, layered him again after colouring him in with pickled raspberry distress and of course put a little sparkling robin on his shoulder. What else could he be carrying but a green flying pig from Graphic 45 with some shrunk vibrant green cogs and the label in a book mark coloured and sanded with mowed grass distress. A piece of green ribbon and an audience of men in the 'upper circle' from the same Paper Artsy set and there you go, a bit of insanity from me! What fun just to make a riot, thanks Hels!

A sunday of the Compendium of Curiosities and patches!

Greetings one and all! What a lovely sunny Autumn day and the first day of a week off for me. I have been celebrating by arranging with my dearest friend Sally to go and visit her and by making a Tim tag for the Compendium of Curiosities hosted by the lovely Linda Ledbetter. I have always wanted to have a go and so here is my first attempt at Enamelled Stamping as instructed on page 44 in Tim's second book.

 

I enamelled as per Tim's instructions a Drapers receipt stamp I have and then used blue distress inks, methinks I should have made the background a tadge darker but the image really 'pops' doing this! Then I raided my stash for some sewing goodies and stuck them down parting with a precious pair of scissors Sally brought me last time I visited her. I shall really try and keep up with this challenge as you know me, I love anything Tim!
 

This afternoon I have been mainly making patches. I haven't made a quilt since the girls (now women) were little. I found a book of photographs of all my quilts and got the itch to see if I could still do it. This will be a scrap Log Cabin quilt, made in Autumn colours. I've got seven blocks made up so far. It was lovely to sit in the conservatory with the birds singing and the smell of new mown grass as Hubby played in the garden.
 

 

 

I will be spending the day with my dearest number 2 daughter Jenni tomorrow and my darling grandson Ryder. I can't wait! Hope you have all enjoyed the glorious sun today. Hope to post again asap! xx

Tim's September tag..

How does the guy do it? Another winner, I can see me using the technique for this one to make male cards and covers for books for Christmas. Like so many, I did not have all the bits and bobs but I loved the design so much I decided to try and mimic it as well as I could. I enjoyed making the embellishments but have to say that his idea-ology range is amazing and if I ever win the lottery I am having a Tim room full of all his products!

So here is goes:

 

The metal background is done very much as instructed by Tim on his blog here and great fun it was too! Then came 'oh my goodness I don't have that bit' phase, so  -

Typewriter stamp in my stash too big, so I shrank image on photocopier and adhered and inked on grungeboard. Real dictionary that is a spare kept to rip up fastened underneath. Phew, had the mini film strip, but not the right pen nib, this is an old one in my bits box. No mini gears but I had the large cog die so cut out some of shrink plastic and then dabbed with pewter acrylic when shrunk, quite pleased with them. No metal number, this is a grunge one silvered painted. The light bulb is a bit on the large size and comes from hubby's garage, (shhh, don't let on) but see what I mean? Tim's little ones would have been much more fitting! Then I took a piece of jewellery fragment, added a typed letter and acrylic dome and fastened to the black ribbon that doesn't show up in the photograph.

Thank you Tim. May I just say how I appreciate having a tag to do a month instead of one a day on the lead up to Christmas? Much better, as I can take a bit more time!

I feel crafty today, may be back later!!! x

Sunday Stamper. Tulips from Amsterdam.

Well, goodness gracious me! I'm  on fire! Not only my second post of the day but the Sunday Stamper in goodly time! Here is the 'R' from craft'R'oom for my banner. Decided that I would take Hels literally this week, and Tulips it is, and if not from Amsterdam well my old PSX stamp (1995 honest!) has got a windmill and a stream that could be a canal and fields of tulips! The tulip stamp was from an old un-named set I had lurking in the room of stash and I filled in the bottom of the field with some scenic stamps that I have never thrown out, so this is a real nostalgic piece for me, stamp wise! Also hubby and I visited Holland in 1972 and have never forgotten it, lovely country. Only problem I had was with the flatness as I live in Wiltshire near the Gloucestershire end and we have lovely hills, I know I've walked a fair few! The banner piece was coloured with distress inks and pens and I framed it with some musical tissue tape and that's about it really! Work again tomorrow, but I'll be back as soon as possible. x



August Tuesdays.

Where did the month go! Here we are in Autumn now, my most favourite time of the year. I have the afternoon off and the sun is shining! How lucky am I?  Here are my contributions for the Tag Tuesday blog challenge, put into my large sketch book as usual. 



Please do go to the blog to look at everyone's contributions. I loved the themes this time, the first was Casino Games and Bingo, the second was Films and Theatre, then came board games  where I used my Stampotique characters as the murder suspects and lastly it was All the fun of the Fair! I have not printed them all out this month as there were 7 pieces to the Cluedo one, but if you aren't a follower please use the link above and have a stroll through all the tags!

Off now to complete my new tag for tomorrow and to finish this weeks banner piece for the Sunday stamper. My goodness, a womans work is never done! X

Sunday Stamper: Green.

Sunday Stamper by the skin of my teeth as they say! In fact I finished this yesterday, loaded it up then realised I'd forgotten the 'T'. Thought I would challenge myself with this piece of my banner and only use the colour green, nearly got away with it, but had to give my Green lady red lips! A little while ago on Tag Tuesday we had to use green and so I did a Green man. So I thought as this is the first day of Autumn and leaves will soon be turned all shades and because if nothing else this wet summer has really made everywhere a beautiful lush green I would make a 'Green Lady' instead. Quite hard to only use one colour though isn't it? Not sure I've succeeded very well, but here she is.


I used dylusion sprays for the background and on some white card so that I could punch out the leaves. The rather splendid lady is from Dylusion's new stamps that I treated myself to and then I laid out every green colouring impliment I had plus some papers and went to town. I stamped some leaf shapes with green archival amongst the punched leaves and then free cut a large T - only 'room' left to make then I can hang it up! Hopefully I can play this weekend and post some more. Have a good one peeps! x