WOYWW - Week 144

My desk is reasonably tidy this week (for me!).  I thought I had better knuckle down and get all the cards I have been asked for, made.  So I did 6 cards, mainly using the new Papermania Portobello Road papers - I am slightly obsessed with the British flag at the moment (which is strange as I am Canadian) but it is probably just a fad.  I also got a new delivery of Studio 490 Art Parts today and some Clearly for Art film so they are still on my desk.  Also my distress markers have never been put away, I use them almost to the exclusion of the distress stains - which is bad, very bad and I must try harder.......  The camera shook at bit here:

This is a bit closer view of the two cards made with Papermania papers, I used book pages instead of the honeycomb paper this time, not sure if I prefer it or not:

I am looking forward to having a good snoop around today.

SundayStamper Week 195 - Diamonds

The theme this week is based on 'Lucy in the Sky with diamonds' so after much head scratching I decided to use Sam Poole's Steampunk Dreams stamps for my entry.  I coloured it in with Tim Holtz distress pens and then added a bit of sparkly mesh that I had left over from Halloween, for the skirt.  I just added a row of diamante to the bottom and a larger sparkler on the boddice.  I distresed the edges in black soot and soaked the ribbon in Perfect Pearls to give it a bit of a sheen.

Apologies for the shadows but I had to angle the tag to get the sparkle from the gems.   Please leave me a comment if you like it.  Kind regards,  Anne x

Tim Holtz 12 Tags for 2012

I decided to have a go and do a tag this month.  For anyone else who has done this, I wonder if you found it as fiddly as I did.  I am happy with the result though.  I did not have the word stamp that Tim used but as lots of other entries have used artistic licence I though it would be OK for me too.  Neither  do not have any Movers and Shapers dies, so I have improvised with the butterflies too!  Here it is:

Hope you like it!



Three Lovely Ladies No. 3

This is the last of my mirror posts.  If I had to choose a favourite then this would be it.  I love the soft colours of the papers, the cottagy feel of the picket fence and way the cat and birdcage stand out.  There is a house in the bakground but it is very faint.  (My photography seems to get worse, not better)

I have done this one in blue because the lovely lady in question is always very calm, cool and collected, she never gets ruffled at all and I think blue suits this type of person.

Most of the items used are from Kaisercraft, the cat is a die cut from my stash and the background paper is BoBunny.  I put a bit of glitter on the cat's collare but this does not show up very well.

Hope you like it, if you do, please leave me a comment.  I am also posting my Tim Holtz 12 tags for March today, so I hope you will have a look at that too.  Crafty Hugs, Anne x

Three Lovely Ladies (No. 2)

The lady I made this for adores pink, in fact if it is pink she is likely buy it (a bit like me with crafty stuff!).

The paper and the dress form are from Kaisercraft.  Like yesterday, I simply cut the paper to size and pasted in on.  The flowers and chandelier are also from Kaisercraft.  The rose lace trim and the pearls are from, my stash.  Again, I did not alter the base colour of this Ikea mirror as I wanted it to be black, so that the pink was in real contrast.

Hope you like it, if so please leave me a comment.

Crafty hugs, Anne x

Three Lovely Ladies (No. 1)

I have been asked to alter three more mirrors, for three lovely family members so I am going to post one each day as I complete them.

The first one is for Sarah, who is very arty and also loves photography.  The mirror is black and comes from Ikea and is 10 inches square.  I wanted the base to be black so I have not altered that in any way. The paper is BoBunny and the range is Mama Razzi.  I simply cut it to size and glued in on in one piece.  In the top right hand corner I added Tim Holtz film strip attached with glossy accents and on the left is a Tim Holtz book plate and stamped inside with 'Live well, laugh often, love much'.  She is getting married this year and moving house, so the expression suits and it is something for the new house too.

Hope you like it and have a happy Friday!  Crafty hugs, Anne x

Tim Holtz Distress Pens

Good Morning!  Did not blog yesterday as we have both had a horrible chesty cough and flu-like symptons.  A bit better today but even though I felt bad yesterday I still managed to do a couple of tags.  The first one is from an idea by the wonderful Wendy Vecchi.  I used an Inkylicious dandelion clock stamp which I inked up in 3 colours of distress markers - it is amazing as the colours do not contaminate each other and it does not have to be done in a hurry either.  Once the stamp is coloured, then 'huff' lightly on the stamp and stamp on to your tag.  Take a water brush and brush over the whole image - this gives a slight watercolour effect and then dry with a heat tool.  I then used an Antique Linen distress ink pad to colour the middle of the tag and then distressed the edges with Pine Needles distress ink.  Finally I went round the edge of the tag with Black Soot distress ink.  The ribbon is seam binding coloured with Peeled Paint and Mustard Seed distress pens (they work really well on ribbon), spritzed with Perfect Pearls and scrunched.  I then spritzed the tag with the same Perfect Pearls.  The sentimnent is also Inkylicious from the same stamp set.

The seond tag was made using my fabulous new Crafty Individuals stamp.  I just stamped onto a tag and did a bit of colouring using the distress markers again.  I used Antique Linen distress ink to colour the middle of the tag and Pine Needles for around the edges.  I masked off the baloon stamp and then overstamped in Pine Needles with the newsprint stamp from Hero Arts (one of my all time favs)  and then spritzed the whole tag with Perfect Pearls.  I was not happy with the balloon and so decided to use some honeycomb paper and cut out the balloon part.  I distressed the edges of the balloon with Black Soot distress marker - they are so easy to use - love them although I only have a dozen so far so I am limited to certain colours.  The cogs are from Sam Poole's Steampunk Dreams stamps.  The words are simply typed in Word, cut up and distressed.  The ribbon is black vintage ribbon from Creative Expressions.

Kind regards, Anne x