Glitz & Glamour for Fashionable Stamping Challenges 100th Post

Welcome Everyone To FSC's 100th Posting

To celebrate our success and to say a huge thanks to each and everyone of you fashionable crafters for joining us each fortnight (many from the very first challenge) we are starting this auspicious occasion with a 'Blog Hop'.  There will be prizes on offer to go along with this weeks theme which could only be ...

'Glitz & Glamour'

Even though this will be our first Blog Hop lots of you will already be familiar with the concept.  If not here's how it works, click on the the name below and Hop to the next blog and leave them a comment.  You keep hopping until you have left all the Design Team a comment.

Leaving them a comment is important as each DT member will be doing a draw from comments on their blog's for the chance for you to win their fabulous inspirational make.  As well as one lucky winner receiving the €20 voucher to spend at our sponsor's store.

Below is the name of the DT member where you will Hop to and leave your comment (don't forget to leave one for me lol).  If you get lost you can always pop back to FSC and start over.

YVONNE

We have more news for you.

Starting from today FSC is changing to monthly.  Each challenge will now be starting the second Sunday of the month.

So without further ado my make for this milestone challenge, which I will be sending out to one of you, randomly chosen, that leaves a comment.

For me Glitz and Glamour makes me think of Hollywood in the days when it was all just so much more glamorous. To represent this I have made a tag using one of the very first wooden stamps I ever bought, "Movie Stars" by Stampington. I have stamped in black and then cut th stamp up to look like 3 seperate old photographs colouring it with Spectrum Noir pencils.

Other stamps include film strip stamps from Carablle and lost coast, the stars and lighting strips, which I have addd pearls to to look like the bulbs, are from Artistic outpost "Picture Star"

I have stenciled the word Hollywood, using Andy Skinner's Route 66 Stencil, with Wendy Vecchi's black paste and then rubbed Pebeo gold gilding wax over it.

I hope you like it and if you would like to win it all you have to do is just leave me a comment. 

I hope you will join in with us on our celebration challenge and follow our blog hop which from here starts with my talented team mate Yvonne just by clicking on her name above.

Thanks for stopping by

Love 

Amanda X

When Nothing Goes Right..........

Hi everyone

Hope that you've all had a scorching week as it's been fabulous weather here in the UK. Just a quick post from me to let you know that I am over at Katzelkraft design Team Blog today with this make and all the details on how I made it can be found there.

My make this Saturday also supports our current Challenge Theme which is "CIRCLES" to join in with this months challenge just click HERE. One lucky winner will be able to spend 15 euro's on some of the wonderful Katzelkraft stamps they have in the online store. You can see the fabulous range available HERE.

Hope you like it and as always thanks for visiting

Love

Amanda X

Learn to Pause........................

Hi Everyone

Just a quick post from me before I go off to work and it's my entry into this weeks challenge over at 

Less is More Challenge

the theme for this week is a colour theme that theme being Sunset colours.

I have used the following stamps:-

Tim Holtz 'Cityscapes' and 'Just Thoughts'

and Indigoblu 'Square peg round hol'

The sun has been stamped using Ranger dye ink pads wild orchid,cheese puff & lemon twist

and the cityscape has been coloured using Spectrum Noir aqua markers and a water brush.

Hope you like it

Love

Amanda X

What's in the Box - For That's Crafty

Hi Everyone

I've been rifling through my stamp collection and have been playing with some of Tim Holtz's older stamp sets.

Here's a sneak peak of the box but to find out what's inside the box click HERE to be whisked away to the That's Crafty Design Team page for the  full project for my usual Tuesday spot.

Hope you like it and thanks for visiting.

Love

Amanda X

A Quick Tag

Hi 

and a big hello and welcome to my newest followers. I just have a quick tag today using a tag I had lying around that I had used to pick up distress inks on from a previous project. Also a new stamp to me that I picked up from Facebook, Pleasant Poppies from Stampin Up.

Stamped using black Versafine and coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils.

Sentiment is from Crafters Companion - Words of Wonder set 1 and I have heat embossed it with fine black embossing powder.

Short and sweet from me tonight 

See you soon

Love

Amanda X

All That Glitters at That's Crafty Challenge Blog

Hi Everyone

Today is the start of another challenge fortnight at That's Crafty Challenge Blog

and our theme for the next 2 weeks is

"ALL THAT GLITTERS"

and I've got the glitter out!! I have added glitter the the edges of my stars, which I punched out from black card, and they are all wearing very sparkling swimsuits thanks to some diamond Stickles, unfortunately this is difficult to see on the photo.

I have used for the background some scarps of inked up card that I then cut into strips of different lengths. I then added some filmstrip washi tape.

The main Betty Grable image is from  Deep Red cling Stamps.

All other stamps are from Artistic Outposts "Picture Star" set.

So why not get your glittery bits out and come and join in with us all HERE

One lucky winner will win £20 to spend on fabulous things available from That's Crafty online store.

My team mates have come up with some fabulous inspiration so we all hope that you will join in with us in this fortnights challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

The Presence of Wonder

Hi Everyone

Having not got home from work till after 9pm what better way to unwind than a bit of a crafty session. I managed to get the finishing touches done to a piece I have been working on. 

Using the backing card from a mixed media paper pad I decided to experiment with Gelatos, I've had some for ages but have never really used them, until now that is. This was only going to be an experimental piece but I quite like how it turned out.

As I said I started with the cardboard backing from a Strathmore mixed media pad and covered it with pieces of torn book pages and then I covered it in gesso. I then randomly drew all over it with Gelatos and sprayed on water using a large paintbrush and a piece of old natural sponge I moved the colour around until I was happy with the result. 

Then came all the stamping, using:-

Carabelle Studio XXL stamp "Mecanique Steampunk"

Tim Holtz "Documented"

Stampendous are the circles

and the birds a partial stamping of a Katzelkrafts collage stamp.

Artistic Outpost "Think and Wonder" (Children)

I then stenciled the Donna Downey "Anemone Duo" Stencil with Wendy Vecchi black texture paste (I turned it into a poppy) and painted it with Paperartsy Fresco finish paint.

Sentiment is from Tim's Small Talk stickers book.

This was never intended to end up as a finished piece but I just kept going with it and ended up with a piece that I like, I love it when that happens.

I think I need to buy some more Gelatos now!!

Hope you like it

I would also like to enter this into the anything Mixed Media Challenge over at We love 2 Create

Love

Amanda X

La Femme aux Oiseaux For That's Crafty

Hi Everyone

I hope that you've all had a fabulous start to your week, other than the weather that is if your unlucky enough to live in the UK!!! Can you believe it's June?? Well at least it gives us more reasons to "get crafty"

Today, as is normal on Tuesdays, is my turn to create for the That's Crafty Blog  and here is just a sneak peek.

To see the complete piece and all the details please click Here

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

Love

Amanda X

Person or People at Fashionable Stamping Challenge

Hi everyone

and time for a new challenge fortnight at Fashionable Stamping challenges. It was my turn to choose our theme and I have chosen

"PEOPLE or a PERSON"

For my piece I have chosen to use the fabulous women stamps from Finnabair.

and made this Triptych using size 8 tags

I started by preparing the background of the tags with Dylusions paint applied with a Ranger mini ink blending tool, these paints blend beautifully. I then stamped all the images and background stamps with versafine and heat embossed in black embossing powder. I then added highlights with a white Posca pen. Over the top of all this I then stenciled Wendy Vecchi black embossing paste through 3 different Tim Holtz layering stencils. Once dry I then added silver Viva decor inka gold, which I also added to the edges of my tags before mounting then onto black card.My words are also from the Finnabair stamp sets which havebeen heat embossed in white onto black card,cut out, and added with 3D glue gel.

Here you can see each individual tag which you can click on for a better view

I have used the following stamps from Finnabair:-

Don't Forget to fly, Now is the Right Time,Trust the Magic,Rust & Dust

Clear stamps Script, Bubbles, Mesh & Holes

Tims Stencils used:- Flourish, Latticework & Harlequin.

We would love it if you came and joined us in our challenge this fortnight will your "People or Person" creations. 

Our rules are simple, as we are a stamping challenge rubber stamping must be the main focal point of your project, other than that you can make any sort of project that you wish.

One randomly chosen winner will receive $20 to spend in the online store of our regular sponsor Flonzcraft.

To come and play along just click HERE.

I would also like to enter this project into the current challenge at Stamps and Stencil Blog where the current theme is "Three of a Kind"

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by,

Love

Amanda X

So Special For Katzelkraft

Hi everyone

Just to let you know that I am over at Katzelkraft Blog with a new project.

I hope you'll pop over HERE to see how I made it.

Love

Amanda X

All the Gals for That's Crafty

Hi Everyone

I'm here Tuesday in my regular day for a new make for That's Crafty and this week I've used Dina Wakleys 'Gals' and lots of texture paste.

Here's a sneak peek

For a better look and all the details on how I made it just click HERE and I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by 

Love

Amanda X

Use Some Metal at Less is more

Hi Again

My 2nd post of the day and I'm enjoying a lazy day just getting crafty. I have been finishing things off, some DT pieces, but have also made a piece to join in with this weeks challenge over at 

Less is More.

The theme over there this week is "Use some Metal" my metal is the bird charm that I have added to my C&S card.

I have used a wooden stamp that I bought from Facebook, no idea what it's called but it is by Catslife Press. I have stamped it in Potting Shed Archival ink onto an ATC sized piece of watercolour card that I coloured by adding distress inks to an acrylic block and misting with water before pressing it onto the paper.

Other stamp is from Tim Holtz "Simple Sayings"

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X