Friday, 3 July 2009

Sketch Saturday - Goddess

I don't often get the time to do the Sketch Saturday sketches - but I do love them!

The lastest one was another lovely sketch, and here is my effort!



I think the stamps are by third coast rubber, but I'm probably wrong, and someo
ne will come along and correct me soonest! Background stamp is the crackle background by Craft Individuals, and the swirls stamp is Hero Arts (old faithful!)

Inks used, Azurite cats eye chalk ink, and Impress silver.

And the Cuttlebug divine swirls too...

Monday, 29 June 2009

Celtic Inchy

Having finally got my mojo back, I thought I would start my blogging off with a Celtic Inchy I did for the last challenge on the Inchy by Inch blog.

Background was done with pearlescent inks, stamping with Azurite Chalk ink, a white Sakura pen for the outline, and a small word added courtesy of Stonehenge font at 6pt.



I did 7 of them in the end, to comply with a swap we're doing over on Auntys....




I have more art to blog later.....

Monday, 25 May 2009

Loads a stuff!!!

First up, it's that time of month again, and here are my vintage Christmas Cards for SSCC...







Then, over on the UK STampers Cyber Blog the challenge this week is a tag with I for Icon; mine is as below...



Also on UK STampers we did an inchy swap this month and the theme was "Blue"...



The inchies were cut from pearlescent blue card onto which I had stamped the Crafty Individuals cracked wood/paint stamp, in Impress blue dye ink. The word blue was printed using adler type face onto blue paper, cut out and glued on. The butterflies were a stamp of unknown origin, stamped onto blue vellum and heat embossed with Moonglow powder, I think it was Lapis blue gold.... I then coloured them in using a mixture of Sakura Stardust/Glaze pens, and Twinkling H2O in interference blue, and cut them out and glued them on with Diamond Glaze. Finally, edged with a silver Krylon pen. And I think they're gorgeous, although the photo doesn't really do them justice!



I'll blog a couple of other bits tomorrow....

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Flashback/Catch Up

I have so much to blog that I haven't already.... LOL Let's start with the meet up from the UK Stampers forum which happened on 22nd April! Gosh, that's ages ago now, but feels like it was only last week!

A few photos...

Hazel...



Patty & Lucy, glimmer misting!



L-R: Rukshana, Patty, Hazel & Lucy



Patty - but if you look closely, that's kind of obvious!



I just love this photo. Lucy was studying the ribbon box intently, and I called her name, she looked up and this astonishing smile just burst out like a ray of pure sunshine.... Lucy, you are beautiful when you smile....



Pat (Pinky) and Hazel - guess who got snapped with a mouthful of Strawberry Cheesecake?



Alison



Rukshana and Hazel, punching pieces for their metal art box project...



Class tutor (someone help me out with her name please???) and Alison...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Loopy Lou

Now that Julie has received him, here is Lou in all his lunatic glory....


He's just a variation on a theme!






Just a thought - I'm entering this into the Lots To Do Challenges challenge this week, which is all about wood....

Monday, 18 May 2009

They breed, you know...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

When good pegs go bad....

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present....


"Pin-head Peg"


That's "Mr" Pinhead Peg to you...!!








nuff said, really.....

Curiouser and curiouser.....

... as Alice said.





The astute ones amongst you will have noticed my tweet over on the right there from last night, which says "There is a naked peg on my desk and it's looking at me funny".

Indeed there is, and indeed IT is.

Why?

Well, over on UKSTampers we've got a new swap/challenge - to make an Altered Peg.


And thus there is a naked peg on my desk. It's looking at me funny - challenging me, perhaps even taunting me in a kind of "come an' 'ave a go if yer fink yer 'ard enough" way. It oozes malevolence.

You see to me, rightly or wrongly, altering something should really change the very nature of it. I've surfed, and seen many an altered peg that is merely coated in paint, sanded back, and then maybe some pretty decorative paper is glued on and then sanded to distress it. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I hasten to add - done correctly it's very tasteful and attractive.

But this peg is daring me to seriously do something with it.


I only hope I can rise to the challenge....

After all, it's just a peg!

Saturday, 25 April 2009

Sketch Saturday again

Despite having said I must blog more often, here we are a whole week later.... LOL

It's my second week as guest designer over on Sketch Saturday and we had another fabulous sketch again. Keeping up with the medieval theme - here's a card that uses minimal stamping - the only stamps used were the alphabet to create the word "sempre".



Papers used were by SEI - fabulous, yummy sheets of 12x12 from their Windsor collection which I picked up at the Craft Barn on Wednesday - and the fleur de lys is a Tattered Angel glimmer chip. Metallic cards in Mirri gold, mirri copper and matt gold. In the two top corners I've used the new Card Candy, by Craftwork Cards. I have to say, it's fabulous. I suddenly came to the conclusion at the end of making the card that it just needed a little extra, but by then it was too late to add big shiny brads. As I hadn't bought gold Card Candy, I used dark blue ones from the Army & Navy set, which I then added some gold metallic rub on to, and attached using foam pads. Perfect! Inks used were Distress Inks in Aged Mahogany and Frayed Burlap (as well as some encore gold just to lift the colours a bit) mainly used to colour the glimmer chip and to which I added more metallic rub on.

Oh, I lie. There's one other stamp used and that's a crackle background from LB Crafts.

I think that's it - if you have any questions please feel free to ask!

And one last point of geek-interest. I've used the Italian word "Sempre", which means always, rather than the Latin word "Semper". Why? One reason, and one only - I thought sempre looked better!

SSCC




SSCC - Rudolph day again....


Only three cards from me this month - I've been busy with other projects unfortunately, namely wedding stationery (groan) and thus these three were made in the last couple of days of March...