Mail Time

I have made this easel  card to look like a letter rack, so it fits the new theme over at
 Fashionable Stamping Challenges which is 'Mail Time.'  Please pop over for all the details and see what my design team sisters have been making.

The stamps I used  are from Kaisercraft-the post script collage, Inkadinkado -the post card and a favorite script stamp.
The base layer is a Kraft card. Shading is the trusty Vintage Photo and Tea dye distress ink.

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Feeling Blue

A new challenge begins today over at Sugar Creek Hollow. This time as well as keeping to our Vintage/Shabby Chic style we had to use 'The Colours of our Countries Flag'.
 So the new theme is to- Make a card featuring the colours seen on your Country's flag.
Please pop over to see what we have all been making and meet out Guest Designer Sanja .

You will probably have guessed by now that I live in the U.K.
Red  [Victorian Velvet distress ink], white [papers]  and blue [Denim Adirondak], were the colours I used.
The trimmings were the easy part on this card, it was which stamped image I wanted to use that  caused me bother. Would it  look okay stamped out in blue, with minimum  colouring added.?  I  did think she looked   a bit pale hence the slight shading with the D.I.
The stamp I used  was one  from Inkadinkado.

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B is for birds

B is the new letter for the Alpha Challenge over at the Craft Barn, I just had to pick out the word 'bird'.
I think next time I will have to highlight my chosen word, rather than frame it in some way, as it seems to have blended into my background this time.

As often happens with me, I got a bit carried away with my base stencils and distress inks and it ended up a bit of a wild garden area, just the right habitat for the birds.
The pair of birds in an Inkylicious stamp, the manic owl  perched on his house is another  Jofy stamp as is the word stamp, which says-
a bird does not sing because it has an answer
it sings because it has a song.


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Images from the Past

This sweet little girl image  was obtained from our sponsor Vintage Image Craft, for the new Challenge that begins today over at the Cheerful Stamp Pad. Called-  'From the Past'.
Please pop over for all the details and see what we have been making.
The image was already coloured so I softened and blurred  the edges, added a few border layers using My Craft Studio craft program.
The extra additions came from my stash to add to the vintage look of the card.

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Look for the flowers.

These are my Journal pages for the letter 'F' at the Craft Barn. As you will guess I am catching up slowly on the ones I have missed doing. One more to go 'V', then I will be up to date.
 No doubt in my mind what word to choose for this letter, 'Flower'.
As if I needed an excuse to use my new Jofy stamps from Paper Artsy, which recently found their way into my shopping basket, while visiting the new shop.
 If you are ever in Derbyshire or on line, The Artists Trading Post is full of exciting goodies for Crafters.
Back to my pages, The background is shaded  with distress inks and pans pastels.
On the left page I used a Studio 490 stencil, again distress inks to colour, mustard seed, forest moss and spiced marmalade.
The stamped images were coloured with water colour pencils.
The quote reads-
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

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Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons is the latest theme we are challenging you with over at Try it on Tuesdays.
Please pop over for all the details and see what we have been making.
On my journal page a couple of lovely ladies are saying 'Welcome to our World.'.  They are standing on top of a couple of mushrooms to get a better view of the flowers in their garden.
The flower images are some of my new  Jofy stamps from Paper Artsy, coloured with distress inks and watercolour pencils. The two beauties are images that our sponsor   Dilly Bean Stamps kindly sent us to use.
The background to the pages was made using a variety of masks including one with a hand, and pale greens  shades to colour.

The card on the right  is  made using elements from Christine Haworth's Angel Whispers CD. and is my take on the Angels part of our challenge at TioT's.


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A Steampunk dream

A Steampunk dream is the name of this  project,  because I couldn't stop adding things after I thought I had finished. hence the feathers,  the little wooden bird and the ticket.
The base layers are all Graphics 45 papers, some distressed around the edges with the old blunt scissors.
The trusty Vintage Photo distress ink  was used for further aging.

I stamped the wooden hands  with a Script stamp.
 The clock is rubbed with a light covering of gilding wax.
All the wooden pieces are from Crafty-emblies

This is my piece for the new Challenge starting today  over at
 Crafty Cardmakers  which is 'Steampunk'.
Please pop over for all the details and see what we have all been making.
We have two generous sponsors this time
The Stamp Man and  Di's Digi Downloads.

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