Stamp your own Background

The Craft Room's new challenge this fortnight was kindly set by Nikki, who has recently stepped down from our DT.  In her honour we are still going with her fabulous theme which is:-

"Stamp your own Background"

We have this fortnight an amazing sponsor, The Stamp Man.

The whole of the DT this fortnight select the Top 3.  Random Org thank goodness takes care of the prize winner.

Hazel will be back with us next week with her winner and top 3 from her postcard challenge.

My contribution consists of nothing but ink and stamped images.  I have deliberately refrained from using any other embellishments so as not to cover any of the background. 

The background is card coloured using Tea Dye distress ink.  In total I have used five different stamps on the background; Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque), PaperArtsy, Tim Holtz, Indigo Blu and an unknown one ("postcard")

I have used a selection of Airdonack Inks and distress inks to stamp.

The focal image is Elizabeth Bennett from Indigo Blu - I looveee her so much!!!!!!

Thanks for popping by ...hope you can play along!

Suzanne x

Vintage Cats

In honour of the new challenge at It's All About the Vintage here is the love of my life Domino aka the cat who is really a dog!

Anyway back to the challenge, which is sponsored by Crafty Sentiments.  We over at It's All About the Vintage would like to see your vintage cats.  For my DT piece I opted for a stepper card.  I was inspired by a couple of quotes I found online:-

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats"

"One must love a cat on its own terms"

Hence the heart, music background and violins.

The heart has been hand drawn on mountboard, covered with card that was dry embossed.  I then covered with UTEE, stamped text into it whilst still wet and then added gold accents.  This was applied to the flourish.

The roses are cut from Marianne Design English Rose die, I used music paper and coloured with a mixture of inks.

The violin is a stamp from Marianne Design also.

Thank you for popping by!

Suzanne x

Just because..

I wanted to I made card.  I did want to use my new Stampendous bird stamp though.

I dug out some very old K&Co paper, a strip of cardboard I had lying on my desk.

I have used Seedless Grape and Faded Jeans distress inks to colour the card and cardboard along with acrylic paint.

The charming little bird was coloured with Inktense water colour pencils and the flowers were layered.

The chipboard frame was originally green however I sanded then coloured with a mixture of distress inks, I added crackle glaze to the sentiment and  micro beads.
Stamped and water coloured butterflies and twine were added. I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Make my Monday - anything that flies

Live and Love Crafts - 50 Shades of Lilac

No Matter Which Challenges - Things with Wings

Hope you enjoyed our two days of summer in the UK, glorious weather - as this morning it is back to normal, wet and windy! Suzanne

Decorated Box

There's a couple of challenges this week that spurred me on to finish this box...it had been one of those "UfP" for ages.

There is lots of embossing, dry embossing, swiped over with Versamark before heat embossing....

Flowers have been made using a lovely Marianne Design.

The frame has been cut in silver metal (another Marianne Design) which has been coloured with alcohol inks and Stazon inks.  The image has been crackle glazed.

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Make my Monday - Anything but a Card

Ooh-la-la-Challenges - Vintage/Nostalgia

Paper Playtime -Emboss

Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes

Isn't it lovely that the sun is shining at long last...shame I am stuck in an office all day but never mind!  Suzanne x

Wish you were here....

Hazel, my fellow Craft Room DT member has set us a fabulous challenge this fortnight.  Hazel has asked us to create a postcard (6" x 4") and we have a great sponsor in Crafty Individuals.

To be honest I struggled with this theme ...trying to work with the stamps I own, so it is quite simple!

I coloured my postcard with Faded Jeans distress inks and then embossed all my images including text and flourishes around the edge with black embossing powder.

I then proceeded to colour all my images and text with a combination of Faded Jeans and Aged Mahogny distress inks.  

I hope you can play along this fortnight as I am looking forward to seeing all the different places on your postcards. My DT friends have as usual created an eclectic array of inspiration.  Suzanne x

"For Mother"

Time is certainly flying by...it's time again for another lovely old fashioned challenge over at It's All About the Vintage and this time the theme is chosen by DT friend, Johanna....

"For Mother"

We are again kindly sponsored by a fabulous online shop based in the UK, Live & Love Crafts, specialising in all types of vintage loveliness.....

My DT contribution this fortnight is a simple card which I have used the beautiful ribbon received from our sponsor.  I have also used my Stampendous frantages ....oh I do get into a mess with these...fly everything! 

I would love to enter my card into the following challenge just because I love the vintage/shabby genre that they insist upon:-

Sugar Creek Hollow - "BabyFace" 

Okay ...I know it is the "back" of a baby ...but I hope it is acceptable to SCH 

Take care my blogging friends!  Suzanne x

GDT at Fashionable Stamping

I was thrilled when I was asked to be GDT by the ladies of Fashionable Stamping Challenges. There was no hesitation on my part. I love taking part in their challenges.  The theme chosen by my friend, Esther is:-

SENTIMENTAL

My contribution is an altered niche book.

I have achieved texture by overlaying tissue paper, embossed card and aged gold embossing powder.  I have used a variety of spray inks; Peacock Feathers & Seedless Grapes distress inks.

Stamps used are:- Kaisercraft bird cage, Tim Holtz Papillion butterflies, Elusive Images sentiment stamps, various text and background stamps.

My flowers are created from Tim Holtz tattered bloom dies and Marianne Design foliage dies.

I would love to enter my niche book into the following challenges:-

Countryview Challenges - "Butterflies"

Tuesday Throwdown -Focus on the Sentiment

Thank you so much for stopping by, I do appreciate it.  Suzanne x