Book cover

This weeks challenge over at Try it on Tuesdays
is to 'Alter it and add texture'.


 I decided to make a cover for a 'fat page book'
4 x 4 inches
The embossed layers were all stamped with a variety of stamps before going through the Bigshot and brayer. The colouring is weathered wood, and bundled sage
distress inks.






The central shape was triple embossed and sprinkled with mica powder,
 I pressed in the daisy stamp quickly before the whole thing set hard.

Here is the finished book, ready hold my calendar swap pages as I get them each month.
Please pop over and see what my DT mates have made this time, and  see all the challenge details. We hope you will  join us .




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Love You.

Valentines Day seems to be the in a lot of folks minds at the moment.
I will have a few more D.T. pieces to show you in the coming couple of weeks.
My OH and I,  after the first throws of  young love, many, many years ago, don't send them to each other.
Last year we celebrated our 45th Wedding Anniversary, so I think we must have done something right through the years.
 So this card is, 'to us with love'.

The colours  used are shades of cream [antique linen] , walnut stain, tumbled glass and stormy sky distress inks . Cream and light navy papers, the embossing folders are by Sizzix, the leaf a Memory Box die.
The silver embossed Heart is from Stamps by Chloe.

When I made this card this morning I had no idea it would fit these three super challenges
Sugar Creek Hollow  -Use colours, Cream, Brown, and Blue.
Cheerful Stamp Pad -Romance is in the Air
Snazzy's design team blog -their first challenge is Love/Romance.

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I can see you.

 Challenge 14 over at  Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time our theme is  - 'Make it a Guy Thing'.

Once again my team mates have made some fabulous pieces, please pop over take a look, and get all the details. Please remember we like to see some stamping on your work.
For this card the stamps I used are by Indigo Blu, Paper Artsy and Stampers Anonymous.
The background paper  was also made  using these stamps.
The shading is distress inks, stormy sky and antique linen, I used watercolour paints for the colouring.

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In her dreams!

This little madam is living in hopes, all she wants is to be a Princess and her pet cat turn into her Prince.
Hey, we all have dreams.
I made this  for the colour Challenge over at Gingersnap Creations.
GS 136 -Glorious Greens.
 Main  stamps are by Stampotique and the flowers are well used so I cannot name the maker.
The background paper is scrunched and  layered up kitchen roll, painted with acrylics.
I edged  the base card with shabby shutters  Distress ink, but its so pale it  looks white on all my photos.
The other greens I used were weathered wood and bundled sage.
Punches for the branch strip and corners are  Martha Stewart's.

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Tags,

Tag making today, using up some small pieces of cardstock  and bits and bobs  left over from other projects.
But mainly an excuse  to use some new images from the Vintage Trio that came from Dezinaworld..
 June has the most amazing, generous offer  at her shop, so a huge  thankyou  from me.

So,  this tag was given the embossing treatment at some time and looked as if it had been coated with a mica spray, I added a bit more mica powder to brighten it up a bit.  Layered the image, quite a romantic couple I think, he may be about to propose after all  the 14th February is getting closer.
I will enter this tag in  The Craft-Room  Challenge 'Valentines'.

 More left overs were used for this tag as well, the little flower heads had all dropped off the stalks but I wasn't going to waste them. The image again is from Dezinaworld.

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Opposites

Its not often that  I make two such completely opposite types of card in one session.
 One in the style I prefer, the other a style I struggle with, more about that later in the post.

This card has layers of embossed, distressed papers for the background. I used bundled sage, weathered wood and shabby shutters distress inks to colour and shade this card. The image is by Indigo Blu
The flowers and lace came from my stash box.
Challenges
Sugar Creek Hollow  -Go Girly
Make My Monday  - Flowers and Leaves  The image also has flowers and leaves in her hair.
Craft Your Days Away -Distressing

It is simply ages since I tried a  LIM card.
 Chrissie and Mandi over at Less is More have  a 'Cut it Out'   theme  this week.
So away to the trusty  Big Shot with an Spellbinder die and there was my 'cut out'.
Its a Memory box flower die inside the card, with a paper flower and button on top.

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She's in the Mail

Try it on Tuesdays  and its a Wild Card Challenge.
The theme is  called  'In the Mail ', you can interpret this however you wish as long as its something to do with mail.
 So how does my  piece  relate to this?  I have altered a slide mailer.
Pop over for all the details and see what my fellow team mates have made.

Here is what the front [on the right] and the back  [on the left] look like. Both are a little darker than in real life, but once again lighting was a problem when taking the photos.
The mailer was coloured with acrylic paints, with a bit of gold shimmer paint. Most of the images were cut from Graphics 45 papers.  The words, flower head and cogs are  stamped.

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