Summer Colours

Here is my tag for the IndigoBlu forever 21 challenge 5. I was lucky enough to win the random prize for challenge 4 so thought I should try and use at least one of the lovely stamps I won this time.

The background was made up of squeezed lemonade, shaded lilac and picked raspberry distress inks applied a number of times along with a spritz of dylusions calypso teal.

The swirl was from the Music Hall set, With love from the Enjoy Life set and finally Ella Bella one of my winning choices (isnt she beautiful), they were all stamped in clear embossing ink and embossed with fine black powder.

Thanks for stamps and the challenge.

60 !!!!

At Crafty boots this fortnights the challenge is - Anything but a Square, so I decided to post a birthday tag that I recently made for a neighbor from when I was at home.

The back ground was made by using cut and dry foam to apply mustard seed, faded jean and peeled paint distress ink to a tag on top of black script writing stamped in black soot.

The car  and dapper gangsters are from the PaperArtsy Hotpicks set HP1206Ez and were stamped on Kraft paper before being cut out and lightly inked.

The car is very apt as the birthday boy oops gentleman is a car enthusiast and has just bought himself an old Jag to  do up and it also brings back memories as he use to drop me off at school in his pride and joy Rolls Royce at the time.

Looking forward to seeing all your entries for Anything but a square.  Bye for now.

Alpha Challenge - B

Got this one in quick this fortnight didnt want to wait until the last minute again. So for the Craft Barn Alpha challenge the word is Beehive - a box or case or other hollow vessel for holding bees. 

I used Zesty zing and cheesecake Paper Artsy paints as the background, and in the flesh the pages look even more full of color with the stamps from Chocolate Baroque black embossed on top with added touches of rusty hinge DI.

Have fun.

Alpha Challenge - U

U is for Umbel - a collection of small flowers - My word for the alpha challenge at the Craft Barn  this fortnight, I have just about got it done in time (3 hours to go).

My dictionary is very old and has limited words so  I spent more time deciding on a word than actually doing the page, but I was determined to do it as I have already missed one challenge due to being away for work.

I have never heard of an umbel so this challenge is definitely widening my vocabulary.

Bye for now and hopefully see you sooner rather than later with teh next word :0)

Crafty Boots - Butterflies

Hi all, this fortnights Crafty Boots challenge is officially Pink Butterflies and I just about achieved this with the fact I dusted my butterflies in pink perfect pearls.

The background cogs and butterflies are from my Chocolate Baroque set - Steampunk Butterflies and were stamped in chipped sapphire or black soot DI.

I also used stormy sky, tumbled glass and faded jeans distress ink.

The words are from Indigo blu - Enjoy Life set.

Hope you can join us in this challenge go on you know you want to :0)..

Enjoy Life

I love Indigoblu stamps and in the last month or so indigoblu have started a challenge just for stampers using their stamps and this time I have managed to get around to making something especially for the Forever 21 - challenge 4 - Backgrounds Galore

Around the edge of a white tag I clear embossed the swirls from the Music Hall set. On to my craft mat I swiped strips of picked raspberry, brushed pewter and salty ocean distress stains and spritzed with water before swiping the tag through the colors until I got the desired affect. With the pink and blue I used cut n dry foam just to re emphasis the edges.

Once it was dry I stamped in black stazon the beautiful words from my enjoy life set.
This was quite  easy and enjoyable  to make and the backgrounds using different stamps to clear emboss and then the swiped colors can make all sorts of effects.

Alpha Challenge - FE-FR

I missed out on the last Craft Barn Alpha challenge as I was away for work but have managed to get this fortnights challenge done. After having a flick through I decided on Foxglove - digitalis: a narcotic plant.

The pages were covered in bundled sage distress stain before using seedless preserve and picked raspberry to stamp the foxgloves from my Chocolate Baroque Honey Bee set and words from one of my Hot Picks Paper Artsy sets