Pink,Turquoise and Polka Dots.....

Hi

This weeks challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge has been set by Sam Read. Sam loves polka dots so has challenged us all to use them along with the colours pink and turquoise, so following that fabulous theme here is my entry into this weeks challenge.

 

I have used the recently released "Froggie" character from Stampotique

 

 

Background created using watered down Dylusion Sprays

paint through sequin waste.

stuck on sequin waste and glittered some random holes.

Stamps used

Froggie - stampotique

Stitched circles - Prima

Paint splats - Darkroom Door

Say it how it is - Dylusions (sentiment)

Right have to dash now got to get ready for work!

thanks for visiting

Love

Amanda X

Best of Britsh

Hi

Today starts the new weekly challenge at Crafts4eternity and our theme for the week is

Best of British

So any project with a British theme.

 

I firstly stamped Baby Aloysius bear from Indigoblu onto Neenah desert storm kraft card, I love this bear and he reminds me of a treasured bear that I owned as a child. I then masked him off and using the large Union Jack stamp from Indigoblu coloured it with distress markers then sprayed it with water and then stamped it over the masked bear to get him in the centre. This was then mounted onto a kraft card blank.

Sentiments and Great Britain stamp are from the "Pomp and Pageantry set also by Indigoblu.

The London postmark stamp is from Crafty Individuals.

So why not join us with your "Best of British" project.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Di's Digi downloads and one randomly chosed winner will win $12 to spend in their online store.

Hopefully see you over there

thanks for visiting

Love

Amanda X



A rumage through my bit box....

Hi Everyone

Like most of you I struggle to throw anything away and have collected up a lot of off cutsin a box  from previous projects. I have put together a card using some of them. There are bits of gelli prints, book pages and scrapbook papers that I have painted etc etc. I started by cutting them into thin strips and punching some circles out and then it all turned out like this..............

 

 

and a close up

 

Stamps used:-

Octopode Factory - Heart Stems

Prima - Stitched Circles.

finished with the quote "Love Grows" using Tims label letters.

I'm making the most of my day off today because it's raining!!! and having a crafty day.

thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Love

Amanda X



The Greatest Show on Earth!!

Hi Everyone,

I hope that you are all enjoying this weekends sunshine, for those of us in the UK it's been a long time coming, and like me I hope you are all making the most of it.

Today we see the start of another new fortnightly challenge at

Fashionable Stamping Challenges 

and our theme is

Make something 3D,
Our challenge this fortnight has been chosen by our special guest designer Alison Bomber AKA Butterfly. I have been an avid follower of Alisons for a long while now as her work is stunning.If you want to visit her blog and see what I mean you can find her HERE.  

 

We are a stamping challenge blog so some ruber stamping should be the most prominant feature of your project.

 

So for my DT piece for this fabulous challenge I have eventually got around to using the wonderful Blocks/Cubes die from Sizzix and created this Circus themed Stack.

 

Cut from mountboard and then painted with mustard seed distress paint, here you can see the first 2 sides

 

and here the second 2 sides.

 

Loads of stamping, infact there is some stamping on everyside I have only used black and vermillion archival ink, (even on the tops which I have forgotten to photgrah) some I have stamped onto white paper and cut out to give some contrast.

I used the following stamp sets:-

Circus - Andy Skinner

Graphic 45 - Le Cirque set 1 & 3

Tim Holtz - The Big Top

Tim Holtz - Bitty Grunge

Tim Holtz - Stuff to say

I have aged everything using Vintage Photo and gathered twig distress inks and a Vintage Photo distress marker.

Other bits to finish off are some Tim Holtz chit chat stickers and Tim Holtz seasonal washi tape.

I'd love you to join in with this fortnights challenge there is some fabulous inspiration from the rest of the DT which you can find HERE.

Our sponsor for FSC is a fabulous company called Flonzcraft and

the winner of each challenge will receive a very generous voucher for Leo’s Store of $20.

thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Love

Amanda X

 



Mad dogs and Englishmen............................

Hi

It's good that things are getting back to normal again here and normal for me is entering the fabulous weekly challenge held at Stampotique designers challenge blog.

This weeks challenge is to use a coloured background of pink and orange as chosen by the lovely Corrie.

I have chosen a gelli print that uses those 2 colours but I have stenciled black over the top of it but you can clearly see this weeks colour combo bursting through. I have hopefully captured the warmth of summer with these colours, something that couldn't be further from the truth here in the UK as we seem to have one day of rain after another at the moment.

I have used Bird Legs (small) by Janet Klein stamped and cut out 3 times and they stand upon a torn piece of inked card to ground them I think it looks like the beach.. The sentiment I have hand stamped with a small alphabet set.I have edged the card using a credit card to add gesso and picked raspberry distress paint finish with a few paint splats of the raspberry.

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If nothing else I hope this card helps you remember summer (for those of us in the UK).

Thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

I'm Back!!!

Well am I glad that months over.........

I am happy to say that my craftroom is now back to normal (whatever normal is?). The roof is fixed, my ceiling plastered and all is newly painted and I have sorted through all my stuff and reorganised it all. It would, I suppose, have been quite cleansing had it all not been so stressful and forced upon me................

Anyway onwards and upwards.............

I return just in time for my DT piece for Crafts4eternity and this weeks challenge, starting today,

"STAMP IT"

So we need to see any project that includes stamping.

My piece this week is a quick make, but at least it's a make.... 

Stamps used:-

Feather Bird - Lost Coast 

Raindrops - Designs by Ryn

You! - kaisercraft

background has been created with Paperartsy fresco paints guacamole,mermaid,sky applied to my card using my bath sponge (well was my bath sponge!)

I have edged the card with black soot distress ink to make it look a bit more stormy.

Mat and layered onto black card.

So why not pop along and join us at Crafts4eternity and share with us your stamped project.

All details and randomly selected winner prize details can be found on the blog.

It's great to be back and I will see you all soon, I've got some catching up to do.

Love

Amanda X

Catastrophe strikes!!

Hi everyone

Just to let you know that I am having one of those weeks when you just say to yourself "nothing else could possibly go wrong" when it does!! To cut a long story short I have a loft conversion which one of the 2 rooms is my craft room and the roof was leaking well it turns out that all 3 flat roofs of the dorma windows needed replacing at a cost that seriously impacts on your crafting budget!! Once over that shock work commenced and on day one didn't they go and put their foot right through the roof that they told me was rotten??? That is the ceiling to my craft room. 

Well what a mess that has made!! So now I need the thing repairing and plastering. So I have had to empty one half of the room for them to get at it. Needless to say all creative activities have gone on hold. Then it will need painting which I have to say is long over due I kept putting it off, for obvious reasons, but this little mishap will force me to do it.

So this post is to just share my pain and to say I will be back soon!!

Love

Amanda x

A Special Mum

Hi everyone

For those of you in the UK this weekend brings Mothering Sunday. It's the time that those of you who are mums should get spoilt rotten.

So this weeks challenge at Crafts4eternity is

"SPECIAL MUMS"

So for this challenge I dusted off one of my many boxes, drawers etc of designer papers, I can't remember when I last used any of these, and made my mum a card using the fabulous "Girlfriend" stamps form Art Impressions. The set I have used for this one is "Beauty in Progress".

I have coloured the images using distress markers as watercolour paints by first scribbling the colour onto a white tile and applying with a waterbrush (I still haven't mastered using these pens directly onto the paper) and some finishing shading with Prismacolour pencils.

My mum loves these girls and don't tell her but I think the one on the end wearing the glasses looks a bit like her!!

So why not come over and join us this week with your "Special Mum" make.

One randomly chosen winner will recieve a $10 voucher to spend at Digi Stamps 4 Joy, this weeks sponsor.

I would also like to enter this into

 Art Impressions Challenge where the challenge is "Getting Girly".

I hope that you all have a lovely Mothers Day

See you soon

Love

Amanda X

The End of a Great month as Stampotique GDT

Hi Everyone

Well as March draws near its end so also does my GDT month at Stampotique Designers Challenge.

What a fab month it has been, but I have one more piece to go, and that is my piece for this weeks challenge which is:-

"Vintage Looking"

This piece, I have made, is to celebrate all our childhoods and the fondest memories that I am sure we all have from those carefree times, wouldn't it be lovely if we could just go back? if only for one day. But as that is never likely to happen, we all at least have our memories that I am sure we all hold close in our hearts and can relive them when ever we want.

 

 

My main image is "Midge" by Janet Klein from Stampotique. I stamped her using potting soil Archival ink and then again on some dotty paper and then cut out and paper pierced her dress.

 

She is displayed within Tim Holtz ornate frame, the centre I covered with book paper and vintage photo distress ink and then splashed water on to further age it. The frame was cut from mountboard, painted gold and then rusted using crafty notions rusting powder, then sanded back to reveal some of the gold.

The flowers were fabric that I had also rusted cut out using the smallest flower from Tims tattered florals die with some of his brads as the centre.

 

The butterflies are wooden embellishments one I have painted and sanded back the other I have covered with book paper and distress ink.

 

 

Sentiment on the frame are Tims Chit Chat stickers and the other is a silver metal word band that I have had for ages, I have aged it using a mixture of paints. A little piece of vintage lace, some torn book paper and a Tim Holtz metal corner finish this piece off.

So to join in with this weeks challenge "Vintage looking Piece" the details can be found HERE.

Can I just finish by saying how wonderful it has been to be part of such an artistic and talented team for the month and also thankyou for all the lovely and encouraging comments that you have all left for me.

Thanks and see you soon

Love

Amanda X

Silhouette Fortnight at FSC

Hi

This fortnight at fashionable Stamping challenges we have the theme of

"Silhouette"

The design team have created some wonderful samples to showcase this theme and here is mine

Using one of my many gelli prints as a background I stamped Dina Wakleys Grungy Silhouette and Grungy Star onto gesso painted book paper and also directly onto the gelli print, I cut out the paper ones and stuck over the top. I added a crown to her, painted with Paperartsy fresco old gold and stamped with Kaisercraft numbers stamp,to make her a queen. I have also added machine stitching which I seem to be a bit addicted to at the moment!!

I added some texture with various stamps and splashes of white paint using a credit card.

Sentiment is from Wendy Vecchi's Regal Art set.

Why not pop over and play along with us this fortnight with your silhouette creations. Remember we are a stamping challenge so stamping must feature strongly on whatever you create. You will find all our challenge details Here.

I will hopefully see you over there.

Thanks for visiting and I will see you soon

Love

Amanda X

 

 



Anything Goes at C4E this week

Hi Everyone

it's another new challenge week over at Crafts4eternity and this week our theme is

ANYTHING GOES

For my DT piece this week I have used a background I made using Trish Latimers painty technique in this months Craft Stamper, just splodge paint onto an acrylic block and then put your paper over it.

So using mybackground I have made a mixed media card.

My backgound I made using kraft card and added machine stitching and some stenciling through sequin waste.

I then die cut the flowers using Tim's tattered flowers die from another piece of card I had made with the same technique and added some stitching to those. The centre of the flowers are punch from stamping one of the Dylusions Around the Edge stamps.

The flower stalks are hand drawn and cut out and my sentiment is simply just the word "Grow" using Prima alphabet stickers.

Finally I matted onto yellow card to pull the colour out and then mounted onto an 8 X 8 black card base,

So why not pop over HERE and join in with our anything goes week.

Our Sponsor this week is "Sassy Studio Designs" and a randomly chosen winner will be able to choose 4 digi images.

Hopefully see you over there.

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Love

Amanda X



Masculine at Stampotique Designers Challenge

Hi

 Over at Stampotique Designers challenge the theme for this week is

"MASCULINE"

and my penultimate GDT piece for March.

The character I have used for this is one of my favourites "Twinkie" by Daniel Torrente, he was one of the first Stampotique stamps that I bought. Using a mask I have cut out the blocks from a gelli print and then stuck them to another gelli print. Bits of him have been stamped, coloured and then cut out and added to each of the blocks, hence the title body builder which I have added using Tim Holtz label letters. I have also added the word "Whatever" from Stampotique.

why not pop over and see the fabulous work of the DT and come and join in with us this week.

Thanks for visiting and see you soon

Love

Amanda X