Crafty Boots - Autumn

Hi for the Crafty Boots challenge this fortnight we are celebrating Autumn so I decided to make something to hang in my home to celebrate this lovely time of the year.

I cut a 5 inch diameter hardboard circle and painted it with Antique linen crackle paint as the background. I then  cut a number of Tim Holtz Tattered leaves in Kraft paper and 3 in gold card. I inked the leaves using a combination of spiced marmalade, Rusty Hinge, forest moss and mowed lawn. Some were stamped with a swirl, others I embossed to give some texture.

The words were stamped in black with some leaves stamped around the edge.

To pull it altogether I decided to dig out some embellishments (and some very special gold snail buttons from Paris) that I been saving for a windy day.

Have a great fortnight but hope you havent been blown away with the wind thats expected today.

Alpha Challenge - L

Here we go my word for the Alpha Challenge at the Craft Barn this fortnight is Laundry with a twist we had to include a window.

As you can see my laundry is hanging on the line ready for the autumn breeze to dry it. In the background there are some Houses from the Dark Room Door - Home sweet Home set with the windows highlighted in glossy accents.  Bye for now xx

ATC Ladies

The Craft Room Challenge at the moment is to make an ATC (Artist Trading Card) and seeing as I hadn't used my ATC die I thought I would give it a go to make a card/ memento for my sister in laws birthday.

The cards were inked in Rust Hinge DI and the ladies from Rogue Redhead Designs - Milliner Misses were stamped in Memento - Rich Cocoa and the words in Black soot. I added swirls from a set of Indigoblu stamps to frame the pictures.

To join the three ATCs together I laid and stuck  2 rows of blue rick rack along the back, I had previously cut out three pieces of corrugated card to the shape of the ATCs and spritzed them with dylusion sprays and inked with the rusty hinge to crate textured backs to the card. The backs were stuck on covering the rick rack to create my trio of ATcs so they can then be folded into a book or displayed as 3 in a row.