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Week  7 of our journey into discovering the Techniques in Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities Vol. 2.
This week Linda at StudioL3  has us opening  the book at  page 49 and trying out hand at Brushless Watercolours. The challenge is sponsored by eclectic Paerie
 As always I cannot share how I did the background.  The colour is wild honey distress ink, edged with vintage photo.
The stamps I used  are  from Stampers Anonymous, Pink Paisley and Susie Blu for Stampavie, this little lady will become a favourite of mine she was coloured with promarkers.
My first efforts with this technique is on the right. I think I got a bit carried away with the water spray.

Thank you for stopping by to take a look, I realy appreciate your comments.
My next posts will be schedueled, so I may not be able to visit you all for a few days.
I will look forward to catching up later.

Paris City of Dreams

'Distress It'  is our new Challenge  at Crafty Cardmakers running for the next two weeks and hosted by Feesby. We would like you to make your entry to have a distress shabby  look.
We are sponsored by  the Digi Doodle Shop who are offering a generous  voucher for the  challenge winner.

Please pop over and see what we have all been making and get all the details.

The base layer of this card is graphic 45 paper.

The main image is a stamp from Indigo Blu.  I scraped around the edges with  a piece of sandpaper. The distressing was done with the aid of my favourite colour  Distress inks. Tea dye and Vintage photo.

I used a memory Box die for the corner.

The other additions came from my stash.

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Grace for Sugar Creek Hollow

Vintage Fashion is our new  challenge for this week  over at Sugar Creek Hollow.
Please pop over to see what we have all been making, get all the details and we hope you will join us this week.

We are sponsored by the Digi Doodle Shop who are offering a generous voucher to spend in their fabulous store.

I was thrilled to be able to use one of their Vintage images to make this wall hanging.

It all began with an off cut of mountboard 9 inches square, which I covered with a piece of Egyptian cotton.
One of the layers already had music as a background,  to add interest I  used a Stampers Anonymous stamp with clear embossing ink which I brushed with gold  mica powders. I was wanting it  to fade into the background.. The corners were heat embossed adding a few assorted beads while the powder was still hot.
Now for the main image, I named her Grace because she looks quite graceful to me.
I used my favourite colouring method again, watercolours, then  fussy cut , before placing on the picture.
The other additions came from my stash.
Challenges also entered-
Anything but a Card at   The Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge
Add Fabric at   The Craft Room Challenge

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For the boys

This week over at  Try it on Tuesdays  our new challenge theme is Father's day or  for the Boys.
You can make anything you chose as long as it fits our theme and challenge rules.
Please pop over to see what my DT friends have been making and join  us this time.
I am in Patriotic mode for this card, the backing papers are all from Debbie Moore's London CD.
The stamp is by Lost Coast.
Shading is Vintage Photo distress ink and trimmings came from my stash.
 I think this bloke looks like he's decided to give in and just go with the flow as the UK gets closer to celebrating the Queens Jubilee.

Challenge also entered-
 London Celebrates here  at Penny Black and More at Allsorts
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Getting Inky.

This is the the frame I altered at  the Craft Workshop on Saturday, which had been organised by my good friend Cazro.
We had a fabulous day with Jill   [Mrs Stampman] who guided us through some amazing techniques to alter this frame.  We were provided with a mirror  available from that well know furniture store, a bag of goodies to use on the frame and a CD to take home so we can refresh our memories on how to use some of the products.
Some of the items  we used were Moonglow shadow inks and Stampendous Frantage products.

To describe everything we did would take a very long time. We painted, stamped, embossed, embellished, got extremely messy and inky. It was amazing to see how everyone's frame looked so different even though we started off with the same things.
Towards the end of the day we made some toppers for cards, I will show you these later'

I decided not to put the mirror back in the frame, instead I have added a some metal pieces into the recess when I got it home..






 Thank goodness Mr Stampman brought along  a variety of products we used,  so we could  purchase as well, I am going to be experimenting with these in future.All available from the Stampman on line shop.

Jill I enjoyed every bit of my day, thankyou, it was crafter's heaven, you showed and taught us how to do some amazing things.
 Caz, that day out is sure going to take a lot of beating  9.30a.m. to 4.30p.m. of wall to wall crafting bliss.
Challenges
This might just fit  the challenge  at  Rainbow Lady -'Lets get Inky'.

Also the challenge over at Art with no Boundries which I have just found for the first time.
the challenge is Anything Goes/A  Frame of Mind.

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Steampunk Mary

Our new theme over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges  is 'Steampunk'.
I hope you will pop over and see what my  team mates  have been making and get all the details.
Remember we like to see stamping on your project.

I realy enjoyed making this larger size card 8 x8 inches.
The background papers came from Jem's designs Steampunk CD.
Layered with plain card, I also cut out and added  a few spanners to go behind the clock.
The stamps are Andy Skinner- on the clock face
 and Graphics 45-lady with the key
Cogs and Clock, which I embossed with antique gold  are Tim Holtz die cuts.
All  shading is  Tea Dye and Vintage Photo distress inks, with water colours to colour Mary.

Challenges-
Out of the Hat Creations -Challenge 9 Bingo, my line is Flowers, Die Cuts, Bling [gems in the flowers] and an Image.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge- Challenge 127 Steampunk
Crafting When We Can  -Steampunk

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Pearls and Swirls for Sugar Creek Hollow

Pearls and Swirls is our new challenge this week over at
Sugar Creek Hollow.  Remember that we like you to use a Vintage , Shabby Chic or Primitive style for your entry to the challenge.
We are welcoming a new D.T.  member this week, Heather Hudson, please  visit to her beautiful blog and see her awesome work.

Also we  welcome Amelia Breytenback as our Guest Designer this week,
please pop over for all the details and see what we have all been making.

So how did I make this card-
The base card was stamped and clear embossed with a swirls stamp, then the surface lightly shaded with  Wild Honey distress inks.
The main image is from  Inkadinkado stamped using
Coffee Archival ink, then highlighted with water colour paints..  I used  Spellbinders die  [labels2]for the layers.
The swirls are Memory Box die cuts.
Trimmings and pearls came from my stash.




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