tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28670530289938317592024-03-05T04:06:42.884+00:00Em's Craft CornerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-40301702381168508382017-07-31T20:07:00.003+01:002017-07-31T20:07:51.097+01:00Garden of DreamsInspired by Dounia Large's post in this fortnight's <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2017/07/2017-10-dark-to-light-color-diffusion.html" target="_blank">paperartsy dark to light challenge</a>, I decided to have a go at pulling the inks through from a dark to light layer like she did. I started with a piece of black card and sprayed some dylusions inks on to it. When that had dried I painted over the ink with some eggplant fresco paint. When that was finally dry I cut it into 2 pieces and on one piece used a stencil and some modelling paste to create the latticed background and on the other I stamped some Lynne Brown paperartsy stamps in white gesso. As you can see both mediums pulled the inks through from the layer below but I love the almost tiger-print pattern I got on the leaves and flower from the gesso. It was harder to stamp the sentiment with gesso as it kept running into the crevices but I used a white gel pen to create 'shadows and it looks better IRL than it does in the photo but it had to do as I didn't have anything else light to stamp it with. I then finished it off with some metal springs which you can just see if you look carefully!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-90111460349785958202017-07-14T18:34:00.001+01:002017-07-14T18:35:11.458+01:00Bright bold colorsBeing a teacher my year starts in the middle of August so I just bought a new planner ready. This one has a plastic cover where you can put your own cover so I decided to make one using some of the practise backgrounds I made with my new dylusions inks. I had lots of inky shimmery fun!<br />
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Ingredients: dylusions sprays funky fuschia and after midnight<br />
paperartsy frescos haystack, amethyst and bora bora<br />
Jofy stamps<br />
sakura gel pen<br />
white posca pen<br />
donna downey stencil<br />
distress oxide spiced marmalade<br />
cosmic shimmer mist<br />
light molding paste<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-63300972975875899042017-07-12T10:11:00.001+01:002017-07-12T10:11:24.411+01:00Paperartsy Aqua ChallengeI bought some new craft goodies yesterday, mainly dylusions inks and distress oxides, so I decided to spend the evening trying them out and decided that the challenge - Aqua - over at<a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2017/07/2017-topic-9-aqua-introduction-and.html" target="_blank"> Paperartsy</a> at the moment would be perfect.<br />
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I started off by blending cracked pistachio and broken china distress oxides on some white cardstock. Then I sprayed some polished jade dylusions through a paperartsy stencil but I didn't really get the effect I wanted so I went back over the stencil with some more broken china ink. I quite like the halo effect it's given to some of the circles. I then stamped with some turquoise archival straight onto the background with some free stamps from a magazine. I'd found these adorable wooden pieces when I was craft shopping and thought they'd be perfect; the branch is painted with stone and claret frescos for a pop of colour. The bird was painted with claret, crackle and mermaid but it didn't really work so I overheated the paint with my heat tool so it bubbled then added some patina guilding wax over the surface. The sentiment is from the Dina Wakley stamp set scribbly birds.<br />
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I had lots more fun making backgrounds last night so will hopefully have a few more projects to show in the near future!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-29565491882930496562017-07-10T11:32:00.000+01:002017-07-10T11:32:55.741+01:00Lavinia Landscapes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The challenge over at <a href="http://laviniastamps.com/" target="_blank">Lavinia stamps</a> this month is landscapes so I thought I'd have a go. I started with the sky using distress inks and I was really impressed with it (I'm terrible at blending distress inks!) but then when I tried to do the land it all went a bit wrong so I kept the sky but painted over the land with <a href="http://www.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">Paperartsy</a> fresco paints. I then sprayed the sky with glimmer mist through a Tim Holtz stencil to get the rays as the sun sets and finished off with a few Lavinia stamps in archival ink. It's been so long since I last did any stamping the inkpad was starting to dry out - oops! An excuse to buy some new craft goodies perhaps?!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-59591000712406579602017-07-02T20:09:00.003+01:002017-07-02T20:09:41.485+01:00Fairy door - free digi imageHmm, it's been a while since I last blogged! I have been crafting kinda sporadically the last couple of years, partly due to lack of space and partly due to working too much. Now it's the summer holidays and with lots more free time on my hands I got struck by the crafty bug again :) I'd been scrolling pinterest and decided to do some fimo/sculpey sculpting and make a fairy door. I must admit, 3-4 year old fimo is NOT the easiest thing to use!! It took rather a long time to work the clay so that it was useable. Here's the finished product:<br />
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I've also been playing around with drawing digi images so I decided to make this into a digi to practise. Feel free to download and use the following image - I think right clicking should work, otherwise leave a message here or DM me your email address on twitter and I'll send it across (I'm <a href="http://twitter.com/emscraftcorner" target="_blank">@emscraftcorner</a>). If you do use it, I'd love to see what you make with it!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-77610405772690505132014-12-30T10:00:00.000+00:002014-12-30T10:00:01.160+00:00Natalie and Amy's Challenge - All things newIt's time for a new challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month's theme is 'All Things New'. This was a bit of a challenge for me as I've just moved house and found that everything I wanted to use was packed in a box somewhere. It took me nearly half an hour just to find the plates for my big shot - no idea why I hadn't packed them together!<br />
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Anyway, I went for new stash for this one as I don't need any new house/baby/year cards at the moment (I'm good at building a stash of unused cards!)<br />
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New 6x6 card blanks (so hard to get here, my mum brought me a packet when she came over a few weeks ago)<br />
Authentique paper<br />
<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_605185-Coredinations.html" target="_blank">Co'redinations card</a><br />
<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2338104-Marianne-Design-Clear-Stamp-Don-Daisy-Winter-DDS3326.html" target="_blank">Don and Daisy Winter stamp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_604107-Darice-Embossing-folders.html" target="_blank">Darice embossing folder</a><br />
<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_918853-Crafters-Companion.html" target="_blank">New Crafters Companion Die'sire fence</a><br />
<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_604471-Nellie-Snellen.html" target="_blank">New Nellie Snellen Trees</a><br />
New snowflake embellishments<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-73822375355250105752014-11-30T10:00:00.000+00:002014-11-30T10:00:07.195+00:00Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Cute and Cuddly Christmas<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-3174509345897111432014-10-31T18:52:00.000+00:002014-10-31T18:52:07.954+00:00Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Stitch It!Things have been very busy for me lately; as well as starting a new job I've also had a couple of exams and am in the process of buying a flat so haven't had much time for crafting. Unfortunately I think it's likely to stay that way until the new year when I finally get my new flat and all my crafty goodies shipped over from England and unpacked :)<br />
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Here is my offering for this month's <a href="http://natalieandamy.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">Natalie and Amy's challenge</a> which is 'Stitch It'.<br />
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The image on this card is actually one I created myself. It's coloured with promarkers but unfortunately my printer ink didn't like them very much so it smudged a little. I'm not sure what to do because I'd really love to use more digis but they just smudge if I print them on decent card and if I don't use decent card then the promarkers bleed - can't win!!<br />
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All the paper is from <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2816413-6-x-6-New-Bloom-First-Edition.html" target="_blank">First Editions New Bloom</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-41580858209942026772014-10-04T19:16:00.001+01:002014-10-04T19:16:13.170+01:00Natalie and Amy's October Challenge - Colour on Kraft<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh dear! Late again! I completely missed that it was already October and needed to upload this month's DT entry for <a href="http://natalieandamy.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">Natalie and Amy's challenge</a>. This month's theme is Colour on Kraft and I must say my card looked much better in real life, the lion didn't have quite such a yellow nose as it looks.<div>
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I used <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2575056-In-the-Wild-StampIt-Imagine-Unmounted-Rubber-Stamp-by-StampIt-Australia.html" target="_blank">In the Wild from Stamp It Australia</a> and<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2155922-6-x-6-Summer-breeze-First-Edition.html" target="_blank"> First Editions summer breeze</a> paper. The lion is coloured with normal colouring pencils and the brads were coloured with a gold promarker.<br /><div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-42287075528818810502014-09-14T21:24:00.002+01:002014-09-14T21:24:15.301+01:00A bit late for Natalie and Amy's challenge this month - oops!<br />
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I completely forgot to post this a couple of week's ago for <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/" target="_blank">Natalie and Amy's</a> September challenge 'Things with Wings'. It was an absolute nightmare to photograph so I gave up and then forgot that I hadn't posted it. Then my computer refused to upload it and then I couldn't find it once I finally managed to upload it! Finally, here it is...</div>
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Things from <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/" target="_blank">Natalie and Amy's</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2147873-Peacock.html" target="_blank">Local King Peacock</a> rubber stamp</div>
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<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2168032-Violet-Pearl-embossing-powder-15ml-jar.html" target="_blank">Violet Pearl embossing powder</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2816413-6-x-6-New-Bloom-First-Edition.html" target="_blank">First editions New Bloom paper</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-60285958120572203082014-07-30T10:00:00.000+01:002014-07-30T10:00:01.299+01:00Natalie and Amy's July challenge - die cuts and flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought I'd have a play with some acetate for this card, something I've not done before and I'm pretty happy with the result although I need to work out how to stop it bending quite so much.</div>
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I took a 6 x 6 card blank and used the <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2442621-Memory-Box-Die-Cosmo-Border.html" target="_blank">Memory Box Cosmo Border</a> right at the fold. I then cut a piece of acetate to 6 x 6 and embossed it with the <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2319481-Lovely-Lattice-Spellbinders-MBossabilities.html" target="_blank">Spellbinders Lovely Lattice M-bossabilities plate</a> and stuck it in place with some double sided tape. I used a Spellbinders Labels die to cut out the shape for the sentiment and stamped the words from <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2151556-Silhouette-Grasses.html" target="_blank">Sheena Douglass - Silhouette Grasses</a>. The flowers are<a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_604106-Joy-Dies-and-embossing.html" target="_blank"> Joy!</a> die cuts and the branches are <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2151897-CC-Designs-Cutter-Olive-Branch-Die.html" target="_blank">CC Designs</a> and they are fixed with white brads topped with <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2154719-Diamond-Stickles.html" target="_blank">diamond stickles </a>on top.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-55920593109569174612014-06-30T10:00:00.000+01:002014-06-30T10:00:06.518+01:00Natalie and Amy's challenge: SummerIt's time for a new challenge over at <a href="http://natalieandamy.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">Natalie and Amy's</a> and this month our theme is Summer. Hopefully summer is on it's way soon; it's been fairly warm here but still a bit rainy and chilly at times. Here is my card.<br />
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Hello! I just got back from a wonderfully relaxing week at the West Coast of Sweden. The weather was good, just a bit of rain, and I learnt to fish, shoot, row a boat and celebrated my first midsummer in Sweden. Next week will be a bit different as I have three essays to write for my Swedish course but before getting started on those I decided to make a card instead...</div>
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I made this card using the technique for this month's <a href="http://craftstamper.blogspot.se/2014/06/take-it-make-it-challenge-june.html" target="_blank">craft stamper challenge</a> which is called bleach blocking. I covered a piece of card with spiced marmalade, vintage photo and walnut stain distress inks then with a wet distress pad lifted the colour in the four panels to create a window. I really liked how it left some of the colour and made it look like ground. I masked off the area around the 'window' and added a little tumbled glass distress ink and stamped the unicorn from Lavinia Stamps. I wanted a little bit more depth to the card so added the kaisercraft crackle stamp to make it look like a very old wall, then finished off with the personal impressions sentiment and some beaded trim.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-86960573669512650672014-06-20T19:00:00.000+01:002014-06-20T19:00:00.452+01:00PaperArtsy sneak peakI was very excited when I was asked to do a post over on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy blog</a>. I love seeing all the different projects every week which are a little outside of my usual style and push me to try new things.<br />
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Here is a sneak peak of my project - if you want to see the whole thing hop on over to the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy blog</a>.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-82675711625753468942014-06-14T15:59:00.000+01:002014-06-14T15:59:50.614+01:00More Gelli plate fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made this card for my sister's birthday using my gelli plate for the background and range of <a href="http://www.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy </a>stamps and paints.<br />
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To make the background I experimented with the technique I've seen Barbara Grey do several times on Create and Craft where you stamp layers onto the gelli plate and leave them to dry in between. The first try was a disaster but the second one worked much better!<br />
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Then I took a kraft tag and painted it with frescos and a baby wipe. I really like the effect that it created. I heat embossed the sentiment with gold pearl WOW powder.<br />
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The leaves, flower and border I stamped onto remnants from other gelli plate pulls and then cut everything out and stuck it together. I finished it off with a bit of curled wire and the gorgeous butterfly brad which I've had in my stash for ages and didn't want to use :)<br />
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Thank you for looking!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-76885569633321933782014-06-06T14:19:00.000+01:002014-06-06T14:19:10.834+01:00One man and his dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a birthday card I made recently using this gorgeous stamp from <a href="http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lili of the Valley</a>. It was such fun to colour and I loved how the wall turned out although I cut most of it off!<br />
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Here is my first attempt, a very simple meerkat as requested by my nan. I purposely left the fur smooth as I thought I could create the furriness by letting the colour bleed outside the lines (very rare to do that intentionally!!). This one is coloured but if you would like to download a free plain version click on the Digi Stamps link at the top of my blog.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-77823115101500709302014-05-30T10:00:00.000+01:002014-05-30T10:01:20.669+01:00Natalie and Amy challenge - Four legged friendsHello! This month's challenge over at Natalie and Amy's is Four Legged Friends. The stamp I've chosen is definitely four legged but maybe not a friend unless you want your hand bitten off but I love the look of this animal and I'm not much of a dog/cat person so I'm using some artistic licence :)<br />
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I made the card with Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick and Walnut Stain <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_625979-Distress-Inkpads.html" target="_blank">Distress inks</a> roughly blended onto card before stamping the <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2575056-In-the-Wild-StampIt-Imagine-Unmounted-Rubber-Stamp-by-StampIt-Australia.html" target="_blank">Stamp-It Australia tiger </a>with brown archival ink. I drew on the stripes with a gold promarker and backed it with some green glitter card. Finally I added a tiny bit of <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2154719-Diamond-Stickles.html" target="_blank">diamond stickles</a> to the eyes, just to match with the glitter card.<br />
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I made this card for my cousin's twelfth birthday. He loves skiing and skating so I thought this was a very apt image. He is a <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2338104-Marianne-Design-Clear-Stamp-Don-Daisy-Winter-DDS3326.html" target="_blank">Marianne Design stamp called Don and Daisy Winter</a>. I coloured him with Cool Grey 1 - 5 promarkers and a touch of black. I created the hills with a piece of torn paper and some very dead black <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_625979-Distress-Inkpads.html" target="_blank">distress ink</a> a la Barbara Gray and then brayered the sky with the same dead ink. The trees are from woodware and stamped in black versafine. I created the Polaroid simply by cutting a square out of a piece of white card and edging it with strips of black card.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-70566725823408427712014-04-26T20:15:00.001+01:002014-04-26T20:15:22.845+01:00Fun with my new gelli plate I've had a Gelli plate for a few weeks now but have been lacking a bit in inspiration. Last weekend I finally decided to give it a go and had lots of fun experimenting. Then when I saw that this week's <a href="http://www.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> guest designer Pam Thorburn had been using her own homemade gelli plate I knew I had to have a go at creating something. Here's what I came up with:<br />
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The background was made in three layers; first I used stone fresco paint to pull a flat print and clean off the gelli print from my experiments the day before, hence the random green flecks here and there. Once that was dry I used a Lin Brown stencil and some haystack to make the circles. When I pulled the print off the circles weren't very defined so I decided to replace the stencil once the paint was dry and go round each one with a gold promarker. When that was all done I stamped the flowers in amethyst, trying to line them up with the circles and then I stamped the leaf in sage. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and the paper flower was also painted in amythyst. All the stamps are PaperArsty Lin Brown stamps. The green strip was an offcut from another gelli print.<br />
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I would like to enter this card into the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2014/04/weekly-challenge-and-winners-april-week_20.html" target="_blank">PaperArtsy challenge.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-52993487108198596872014-04-24T20:30:00.000+01:002014-04-24T20:30:00.638+01:00Lavinia Fairy clock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Something a bit different to a card for a change! I got this clock base at the Crafty Weekend last year and was inspired to use the circular Lavinia sentiment in the middle. I first painted a piece of card with Bora Bora fresco paint and then used the Creative Expressions disco stencil and some shimmer mists to create a subtle pattern. I stamped and embossed the sentiment with Wow gold sparkle embossing powder. The outer piece of the clock is covered in First Editions New Blooms paper and then I decided to use the little Lavinia fairies and butterflies instead of numbers, again embossed with gold sparkle.<br />
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I would like to enter this clock into the <a href="http://blog.laviniastamps.com/" target="_blank">Lavinia April challenge - Spring colours.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-3682791414976430512014-04-20T11:47:00.001+01:002014-04-20T11:47:15.789+01:00Altered Glass VialsHappy Easter everyone! It is an absolutely gorgeous day here, hope the weather is good where you are too. Despite the weather being glorious, I took the opportunity yesterday to do some proper crafting as my little 'helper' was at a friend's house :)<br />
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This is something entirely different for me but I was inspired by a couple of challenges and wanted to have a go. I've had a go at altering some small glass vials. I used a <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/e-lin-brown-06-4663-p.asp" target="_blank">PaperArtsy Lin Brown quote stamp</a> as my inspiration and decided to do a bottle for each season, based on the words.<br />
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I filled this bottle with a mix of UTEE and blue sparkle WOW embossing powder. I covered the outside with snowflake fresco paint with my finger.<br />
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I would like to enter this into the<a href="http://artyinklings.blogspot.se/" target="_blank"> Arty Inklings challenge</a> and the <a href="http://craftstamper.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">Craft Stamper Challenge</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-11729755684590201742014-04-18T21:28:00.001+01:002014-04-18T21:28:45.849+01:001st birthday card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was my nephew's first birthday a couple of weeks ago so I wanted to make him a fun card to celebrate. He got a toy drum kit for Christmas so I thought this image from a paper stack was perfect - he certainly likes to make a lot of noise but he's totally adorable so it's ok. This card was fairly simple to make, just a couple of different papers from the same pack, some ribbon, a LOTV sentiment and lots and lots of glitter :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2867053028993831759.post-56715652734561078252014-04-05T21:19:00.000+01:002014-04-05T21:19:00.133+01:00A Baby Card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I made this card for Beth's new baby brother Samuel who is so totally adorable and cute. I got to meet him when I went over to England and he was so quiet and well behaved.</div>
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I did something I've never done before for this card - I used a CD with digi images and papers. It was definitely an interesting experience and I'm still not sure about it but I think this is a very cute bear anyway.<br />
The CD is <a href="http://www.natalieandamy.co.uk/ourshop/prod_2516253-Debbi-Moore-Shabby-Chic-Vintage-Bears.html" target="_blank">Debbi Moore Shabby chic </a>Vintage Teddies and it has several different designs, colourways and occasions on it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17759005711093646331noreply@blogger.com2