* Vintage Pen Knibs

Hello!

This week I have made time to play with inks and stamps and I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

I love the work of Tracy Evans, one of the designers for AALL & Create. Tracy is an excellent teacher and very generous with her tips and techniques.  She has recently been hosting Facebook Live demonstrations to keep her followers motivated and connected during the difficult times we are facing.

I watched one of Tracy's You Tube videos (these are recordings of her Facebook Live Demos and fall under the 'Comedy' category!) where she created a card that really appealed to me and one that I thought would be very useful as a masculine card, something that I have the utmost difficulty in creating!

Thank you for the inspiration, Tracy!

Here is my card:

The background is smooshed Distress Oxides in Fossilised Amber, Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo. The Pen Knibs (one of the stamps in the set Knibs and Mushrooms) were stamped, then a spotlight made with a die cut circle and Vintage Photo ink. I added a tiny amount of stencilling using the Lotsa Dotz stencil and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. 
The Pen Knibs were stamped onto book paper and a piece torn off and glued directly over the Main stamped image. A small die cut circle was also stamped and patched over the knibs. Some of the pens were fussy cut from the stamped book page and were paper pieced over the original knibs, whilst others were stamped onto Vintage Photo sponged card and fussy cut to be adhered to the main image.

Background stamping was added with the Heartfelt stamp and white paint spaltters were applied. I liked the splatters so much that I added some gold ones. I finished by adding 3 white paint circles with a paint pot top. The edges were inked and the background matted onto black card.

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

                                                                                                                                            

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Crafty Catz #502 Paper Piecing 23/04
* Stinkin Inkers CraftersChoice 26/04

* A Perfect Time To Craft #4 27/04

* Classic Design Challenge #4 AG 29/04

* 613 Avenue Create #232 AG 30/04 TOP ROCKER

* Not Just Cards April AG 10/05 

* World Wide Open Design Team Challenge 12/05

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

ATC: Bookworm

Hi!

My post today is an ATC I made for the Wicked Wednesday challenge.

The theme this week is 'Bookworm'.

The background is made from torn book pages. This was swooshed through distress ink and water. When dry, modelling paste was applied through a large Dylusions Letter Jumble stencil. 

The stack of books is an image from the internet and the lovely bookworm is a freebie from Miss Rach courtesy of Wicked Wednesday's Facebook page - thank you so much, Rachel! Just look at the title of his little book.

I'd like to enter this ATC for these challenges:

Wicked Wednesday Challenge 213 - Bookworm

Crafty Catz Challenge 328 - Animal Magic

xoxo

White Space

The challenge this week at Less is More #270 is a colour challenge. It is: White space but not  WHITE 

Here is the card I made:

The scribbly flower was stamped in black ink onto book paper. It was then coloured in a puddle of distress ink (Rose bud and Spiced Marmalade) and water. Once dry the flowers were glued onto snippets of black card and cut out. The same was done with a piece of torn paper for the sentiment. 

The sentiment was stamped and was heat embossed. I cut a piece of Kraft card to 12cm x 17 cm as the background of the card and assembled the flowers and sentiment using foam pads to add a bit of dimension. The main flower was finished with a pearl centre.The kraft card was attached to a white card base.

I'd like to enter this for the following challenges:

 Less is More #270 Colour Challenge
Pixies Crafty Workshop Week #223

xoxo

Pocket Letter: EVG Sweet Songbirds

I have just finished this vintage style pocket letter. It is heading to Vermont, USA. Hopefully it will arrive safely in time for the recipient's birthday. I hope she likes it.

The nine cards are ATC size (9cm by 6.5cm) and are cut from white card stock. Book paper was glued to the cards and distressed with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink using a blending tool.

The images are from Ephemera's Vintage Garden and all of the images I used came from three sheets which are freebies and which you can get , along with many others, if you subscribe. These sheets are Sweet Songbirds, Sweet Songbirds II and Chipboard Labels. I first resized some of the images then printed two of each sheet, so that I could make the cards dimentional. 

The four corner cards were made from the Sweet Songbirds sheet.  The Songbird cards were resized (I do this in PowerPoint), trimmed, edged in Vintage Photo distress ink, then glued down with a glue stick.  From the second Songbird sheet, the flower and bird were fussy cut, edged in ink and positioned on top of the card with pop dots to make them 3D.  I let the edges overlap the original image. Ivory satin flower trim with yellow crystal gems were applied to finish off each card. 

The two bird cards in the middle row were cut from Sweet Songbirds II, using a Spellbinders Nestablities 'Scalloped Circle' die. The edges were inked in Vintage Photo and the image glued onto the ATC base. Cotton lace was added with tiny pearls. Some of the satin flower trim was cut into individual flowers and attached around the edge of the image  - yellow crystal gems placed in the centre of each. A wooden butterfly button, attached to the outside of the pockets, finished off these cards

The three cards in the centre used the chipboard labels sheet. Again these were trimmed and edged in Vintage Photo ink. Some flowers were fussy cut and attached on pop dots. Lace was attached, along with sentiments stamped onto kraft card using Floral Muse stamps - these were heat embossed with black sparkle powder. The kraft card was then stained using Old Rose chalk edger and distress ink. The butterflies were resized and fussy cut from Doodle Fairies. They were attached, with foam pads, to the outside of the pockets.

The front of the pocket letter was finished off by adding a strip of ivory cotton lace along the spine edge of the pocket protector. Finally a burlap tag decorated with die cut leaves and a paper rose was attached.

The back of the pocket letter also has cards, trimmed and glued down with inked edges. The cards were a digital purchase from Kristie Art Design called Shabby Grunge Fowers.

  

Each pocket holds some paper craft goodies which can be used by the recipient on future projects:

1) lace flowers and a note, 

2) ribbon and flower trim, 

3) burlap die cut flowers and butterflies, 

4) laser die cut flower sprays and dragonfly charm, 

5) ivory and grey adhesive pearls, 

6) laser die cut butterfly, metal charms, wooden butterfly buttons, 

7) wooden embellishments, 

8) vintage travel stamps, 

9) bird tags.

 

Thanks for stopping by and looking!

xoxo