Startrish design - Whimsey Girl Four

Hi everyone, I've the great pleasure of introducing one of the gorgeous new Whimsey Girl Stamps from lovely Trish Latimer. This is the delightful Whimsey Girl Four and again she's a dream to colour in. This stop and all the others in the range can purchased at Startrish Design on Etsy.

 

 

I've coloured in pencil with a nice bright palette. She's been cut out which is very quick with Trish's thoughtful design.

I created an equally bright background using PaperArtsy infusions powder paints and pearlescent glaze and over the top I've stencilled with white paint through a TCW stencil which has had some pencil added on top of the paint.

 

To finish off I added some doodling and shading, Tim Holtz Rub-ons, big chat sticker and some glitter paper.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer of Creativity - Week 4

 

Hi everyone, I'm scraping in on week 4 of the Tim Holtz Summer of Creativity challenge at online card classes and this week the challenge is to use distress and archival inks.

 

This is a great technique (archival resist) and really does have the magic chemistry factor, it was good to try it out again.

Have a good week.

Chris x

 

Simon Monday Challenge - inspired by a song

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good weekend. I'm sharing a tag today and entering it into the Simon Monday Challenge the theme of which this week is 'inspired by a song' and my song is 'Little Bird' by Annie Lennox.

I have a little wren that visits my garden regularly that I love to watch and it's one of my favourite birds so it was lovely to find this stamp set by Inkyliscious.

I wanted to have a one layer tag and create depth with the stamping and some shading with charcoal pencil so I've stamped in black and white, stencilled in paint and added some details with a black sparkle pen. The background is distress ink and distress stain. I've finished off the tag simply with some twine.

I also tried out the new Ranger crazing medium for the first time. I can see a slight texture more than crazing which you can see around the Wren in the close up so I'll have to work with it a bit more.

OK, back soon and if you don't know it here's the song :-)

http://youtu.be/pjbNLVQ_Iwk

 

Chris X

 

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 18 - Anything Goes

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. The new challenge is up on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today and this time it's 'Anything Goes' and as always there's a gift worth up to £20 from Kim to be won, all are welcome to enter and combine challenges too.

For my tag I've used one of the brilliant new mixed media art quotes sentiments 'Art Risks' in red rubber which is the perfect size for large tags, journals and canvases. I stamped in brown Archival ink over a distress ink spritzed background and mounted this piece onto a similarly distress inked tag that I added some DecoArt crackle paint to through a Tim Holtz stencil.

The Artcuts birch ply butterflies are embossed with bright embossing powder from WOW with some glitter and micro beads added to the blue one. I've added micro beads, some pen dots and butterfly ribbon to finish off.

Have a great weekend.

Chris x

 

 

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Paperbabe Stamps May Release

Hi everyone, It's the first day of reveals for the May release and today it's Kim's fantastic kawaii emoticon inspired Adorimal digital images.

I've taken one of the bunny images, coloured her pink, gave her a face using the small animal features stamp set and an acrylic painted background behind her.

I also made a card and tag set with another of the gorgeous bunny digi's and one of the bear heads then gave them their faces with the features stamp set, I used sentiment stamps from the Happy Thoughts set to finish off. They're all so cute it was hard to decide which ones to use first. There are so many different options and combinations with the digi's and the stamps which is great value and many ways to use them I'm sure, I think they'd be great for stickers printed out on to label sheets.

There's inspiration from Kim on the Paperbabe Stamps blog and gorgeous designs from my DT friends as well.

I'll be back tomorrow with the new stamps reveal.

Chris x

 

 

 

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Paperbabe Stamps October Release - Digi Set

Hi everyone, I'm back again with the last of the October Release sets which is the Digi Stamp Bundle, part of Kim's pin up girls range and this witchy woman is just one of thirteen images in the set in a variety of sizes.

I made a tag and chose the half pose girl which I coloured with markers and a bit of pencil. I used the new Watercolour Alpha sets upper and lower case for the sentiment and the spatter stamp from the spritz and speckle with white ink for a bit of sparkle behind the image. The tag background is created with a Tim Holtz cobweb stencil and Memento Luxe Inks.

Kim's friends are showcasing stamps today and all links are in the daily posts at Paperbabe Stanps blog and the new release will be available to purchase on Friday.

Chris x

 

 

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Paperbabe Stamps December Release - Happy Thoughts Sentiment Set

Hi everyone! I'm back today with my samples for Paperbabe Stamps gorgeous 

HAPPY THOUGHTS

Sentiment stamp set 

Over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog there are more details of the sets so far and Kim's fantastic samples together with links to Simonne's beautiful creations.

This is another gorgeous set and there are so many ways of using it and many options for making up the perfect sentiment for a card. As you can see above I've used the 'happy' solid stamp to create my typographical style card together with one of the smaller sentiments and the hearts kissing strip stamp which is a continuous stamp end to end so I was able to make a vertical border with it. I've highlighted some of the words with white pen, some with black glitter glue and added some white lines between the words.

 I created my background with Dylusions ink sprays and after all my stamping was done and the glitter was dry I added a strip of black card raised on dimension foam to finish off.

 So that I could show another way of using this lovely set I took the smaller stamp 'Christmas' and stamped it onto a die cut label which is mounted on dimension foam over the tag. My tag background is stamped with the Ribbed Background stamp in red ink for the Christmas stocking effect :-) and then I've used the Happy outline stamp to stamp a border around the edge of the tag, that's been filled in with a silver pen. I've finished off with a die cut poinsettia, holly leaves, pearls and twine.


Thanks for all your lovely comments on my sample yesterday, they're always appreciated and I'm back tomorrow with the 'Fabulous' sentiment set! Enjoy your day.

Katzelkraft Collage Tag

Hi everyone! It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I have a tag to show today stamped in a collage style with the beautiful stamps from Single Arch, Bois A6, Chapitre A6, KTZ77 Vu d'ici, Cage et Chandelier, Vinci Joconde KTZ64m, I hope you'll pop over there and see what we've all been making :).

The woodgrain stamp that I used isn't that visible in the photograph as I used it on the base layer as a resist with clear ink and then sponged my distress ink background over it. The rest of the stamps have been used collage style with permanent olive green ink. I've added doodling in white pen, dimensional gloss on the birds and letters and gold pen, ribbon and trinkets at the top. 

I'm entering my tag into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge where this week theme is a 'show a word'. My word is 'art' and I've used it stamped and also in the TH Ideology embellishments at the top of the tag. 

Katzelkraft stamps are available exclusively in the UK at The Craft Barn and also direct from France.

Enjoy your day.

Paris

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good day. I've made a tag to post today using the gorgeous Katzelkraft Paris KTZ 35-01 stamp plate which I love. The background of the tag was made using the faux batik technique (embossing the stamping with clear powder, sponging with distress inks and then ironing the embossing powder off.) After that I stamped over with the Paris sentiment and outlined it with white gel pen. I've added a punched border round two sides of the tag, lots of swirls made with pearl pens, a punched butterfly, flowers and the Sizzix Alterations mannequin die cut shape which is stamped in black with the script stamp from the set. 

I'm entering my tag into Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge where it's 'anything goes' this week. Ribbon Carousel and a challenge of 'Shabby Chic', hopefully the Paris theme is chic :) and I've used pretty ribbon. Papertake Weekly is 'Fancy a Punch' (punched border and butterfly). 

Katzelkraft Tag - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything but a card

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend and a Happy Mother's Day if you're here in the UK. A tag to show today for the Katzelkraft blog and also for Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge is 'anything but a card'.

I've used the gorgeous 'Paris KTZ35' plate to make my collage stamped tag which has some wonderful stamps with a Paris theme and lots of options for postal type creations. A gorgeous large text stamp is included which stamps very crisply, another set that will get a lot of use :D. I've stamped and sponged with distress inks and it's looking very green :D, not great light to photograph and all the wild honey ink isn't as bright as it is IRL but the shimmer shows up :D which is something! I spritzed with a green and a cocoa shimmer mist for some sparkle. The metal corner and die cut hinge were embossed with Ranger distress embossing powder in vintage photo and I inked some ribbon to match the colours in the tag.

The stamps are available at Katzelkraft Stamps in France and in the UK at The Craft Barn.
Have a good day today.

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Ephemera

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a good weekend. Today is my day on the Katzelkraft blog and I've made a tag which I'm also entering into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which this week is 'show your ephemera'.  I've used the beautiful dragonfly from the Butterflies 04 plate and sentiments from Art Nouveau and Art Deco plates and together with the crackle painted lock and the vintage style dyed lace and ribbon I hope it has the feel of ephemera :).

To create the dragonfly I stamped onto white card, coloured with water colour markers  and spritzed with mica mist before drying with a heat gun and cutting out. The tag is embossed with a Cuttlebug stripes  embossing folder, inked with distress inks and misted with mica mists. To decorate I added a punched border, ribbons, a grunge paper flower, die cut and crackle painted lock, brads, dyed lace and the sentiments which I cut from two sentiments from the two sets above.

Enjoy your day and thank you as always for your lovely comments :D

Katzelkraft Christmas tag

Hi everyone! Today I have a Christmas tag to show for the Katzelkraft blog and I've been enjoying making tags for my presents this year, I think it makes them much more personal. I started by embossing the tag with a woodgrain texture fade folder and then inking all over it with Antique Linen distress ink, after that I inked over the raised areas with walnut stain distress ink and stamped over with a tree stamp  from Arbres 02 plate and snowflakes  from Santa KTZ46.

My tree and deer are cut from grunge paper using Sizzix Alterations dies and then inked with distress inks, tea die and walnut stain on the deer, pine needles and walnut stain with black edging on the tree. I stamped over the deer with the tree stamp and the tree with snowflakes stamp using archival ink on the deer and black archival and white acrylic paint on the tree.  I also die cut some letters from glitter card and attached these after adding the snow effect and stickles. 

I'm entering my tag into Linda's Studio L3 challenge which is currently running two weekly so lots more time to join in :), thanks Linda! At Simon Says Stamp and Show the theme is tags and at SCD it's about snow so I'm entering these too.

Enjoy your day today!

COCC Perfect Distress, Simon Says Stamp and Show 'Your favourite TH stamp'

Hi everyone and hope your weekend was good. Scraping in at the last minute on Linda's Compendium of Curiosities challenge which I haven't managed to do for the last couple of weeks and I've missed it :), hopefully I can catch up with the challenges I haven't done at the end. This time the technique is on page 38 of TH's Compendium of Curiosities and it's 'Perfect Distress' which is a gorgeous one and all the details are on lovely Linda's blog. I'm also entering the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge of 'Show your favourite Tim Holtz stamp' and at the moment it's this snowflake set.  I've made some more Christmas tags for my presents and added some embellishments I made from friendly plastic, ribbons and beads. Night night from me :)