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Monday 31 October 2016

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud

I have the pleasure of being a guest DT over at Crafty Boots for their current ‘In the pink’ challenge and I’ve created a card using one of the stamps from Tim Holtz’s Runway collection.


My mother commissioned me to make a birthday card for a colleague of hers who just happens to love pink, so very fitting!  To make up my card I’ve followed sketch 224 from Sketch Saturday, being the fifth Saturday of the month you get to choose your sketch.  This one worked a treat with the stamp I chose and allowed me to add just the right amount of pinky bling.

If I was a better stamper I’d have masked elements of the stamp to do them in pink ink but as I’m not that great I stuck with a black outline.  Now normally I would have coloured up my image with my trusty Copics but Edna has gone all wishy washy lately and thrown out a watercolour challenge.  So instead I pulled out my Distress Inks and did a spot of watercolouring of my image.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the dress for some glittery bling, which moved the watercolours around a bit more but is really hard to see in the photo.  Being a commissioned card I didn’t go snarky on it, hope Edna won’t mind too much.

I stamped the sentiment in a lovely shade of pink ink, from Dyan Reaveley’s range of Archival Ink.  The stamp is from the retired Art Philosophy set from Close to My Heart.  The current challenge over at Live and Love Crafts is also pink this month so I am linking up my card there.  A great store for pinkalicious and general shabby chic goodies, which is sadly closing soon.
Ingredients:
Embellishments
Jolee’s All That Blings ~ Baby Pink
Petaloo Darjeeling Collection ~ Daisies Red/Fuschia
Pink Gem Brad from stash
Inks & Paints etc
Papers
Arches Smooth ~ Watercolor Paper
Stamps
Close to My Heart ~ Art Philosophy D1497 (retired)
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS214 Runway
Challenges
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You’re surely not too fresh these days



I’ve got my October tag for the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 to share today.


Seems fitting to have done up a Hallowe’en themed tag on Hallowe’en itself and a fun way to spend a day off from work.  Although I have Tim’s Monster die I decided to mix this up a bit and use his Zombie die, for the dimensional monster technique, as my tag is going out to a friend who loves zombies.

I used Tim’s Woodgrain Texture Fade to create a rotting flesh like texture to the zombie’s skin.  I coloured my foiled cardstock first with Distress Paints but wasn’t overly happy with the result so then went in with some Distress Crayons and got a much better look.  I particularly like the zombie’s face with the very patchy and uneven colour that works really well for a zombie.

I didn’t have any Hallowe’en ephemera so I made my patchwork collage using pieces cut from Graphic 45 Rare Oddities designer paper.  For my embellies I went with a skull and crossbones I made myself from 2015 and 2016 Boneyard embellies.  To help the two Boneyard pieces match I covered the bones with Crazing Distress Collage Medium and then rubbed in some Black Soot Distress Crayon.  Given zombies are indeed an oddity I used that Word Band and secured the other end with a brad from last year’s Rare Oddities’ set.  Finished off with some Halloween Trimmings for a spooky Hallowe’en tag.

I’m entering my tag in the current Hallowe’en challenge over at Glitter and Sparkle and Country View’s all things spooky challenge.

Ingredients:
Dies, SVGs & Templates etc
Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 660961 Zombie
Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Texture Fades ~ 656644 Bricked and Woodgrain (Woodgrain used)
Embellishments
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings Brads ~ Regions Beyond
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Boneyard 2015 & 2016
Inks & Paints etc
Papers
Graphic 45 Rare Oddities ~ Brews and Potions, Cabinet of Curiosities & Frightfully Sweet
Ribbons & Trims etc
Challenges





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Saturday 22 October 2016

Keeping looking up…that’s the secret of life


So I had to whip up a birthday card real quick for one of my nephew and I used cute Astronaut Oscar from Simply B Stamps for it.


My nephew got an indoor sky dive for his birthday present, which he loved, so the flight suited Oscar was just perfect.  I cropped the image down to suit the current card sketch at Stick It Down.  The image formed my “shape”, and then I curved my text around a circle, all of which I did in Photoshop.

I printed everything and then coloured my image before embossing the sentiment by going over it with a VersaMarker.  The embossing really helped to frame the image.  With my embossing I am entering my card in the current challenge at Creative Knockouts.  As my card is for a birthday I am also linking it up at Little Red Wagon for their Let’s Party!  challenge.
Ingredients:
Copics
Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)
Eyes E30, E33, G02
Lips E11
Hair E39, YR20, YR24, YR27
Outfit E70, E71, E74, E81, E84, E37, E89, W5, W7, W9, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28
Helmet BG10, BG70, C00, C0, C02, C4, C6, C8, 110
Chalks & Powders etc
Print Blocks Embossing Powder ~ Copper Metallic
Embellishments
Inks & Paints etc
Tsukineko ~ VersaMarker
Papers
Stamps
Simply B Stamps ~ Astronaut Oscar
Challenges

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