Here’s another Tim-inspired Christmas card. This week’s card is based on Tim’s 2010, Day 8 tag. There was a bit of masking involved, & the row of Crafty Individual’s houses have glitter on their roof tops, doors & windows.
Thanks for looking xx
Archive for October, 2011
Every Possibility…
Posted in Grungy Monday, Simon Says Stamp & Show, Tags on October 26, 2011 by craftytrogThis week over on Grungy Monday, Linda has challenged us to use Tim’s Perfect Distress technique. This fabulous technique involves distress inks & perfect pearls, & you can see Tim demonstrating it HERE.
I used Tim’s beautiful Papillon stamp plate, & the foliage is from his Urban Tapestry plate. The inks that I used were Stormy Sky & Chipped Sapphire, & I used Blue Patina perfect pearls. I coloured some seam binding ribbon with Chipped Sapphire distress stains.
I’m entering my tag as a second piece for the Simon Says Challenge, as I have used just blues on it.
Dad Card
Posted in Cards, Simon Says Stamp & Show on October 25, 2011 by craftytrogI needed to make a card for my Father-in-law’s birthday this week, so I decided to use a set of Crafty Individual’s stamps (CI-305) that I won recently, when taking part in their blog challenge.
I stamped & clear embossed one of the images onto white card, then punched the edge with my EK Success binder edge punch. Then I added colour with crushed olive distress inks, not taking too much care, as I wanted to tatty up the binder edge. I added some walnut stain DI around the edges, then matted onto torn book page on an A6 card blank. I used some freebie Crafty Individual’s clock stamps on the edges of the card, & finally, I added some cogs & the word ‘Dad’.
I’m entering my card for the Simon Says ‘One Colour’ Challenge.
Happy!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2011 by craftytrogHere’s a little peek at my latest offering over on The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog. You can view the whole piece HERE.
Thanks for looking! xx
Art Journey Challenge – Text
Posted in Art Journey Challenge, Cards on October 23, 2011 by craftytrogI was inspired by Trish Latimer’s Stamping with Circles article in this month’s Craft Stamper, when I created this card for the October Art Journey Challenge.
I scraped Dash of Red Studio paint on some card, using an old credit card, then used a paint brush to add some Sky Blue & more Red around the edges. I then stamped the text from Art Journey’s Umbrella Girl plate onto the painted background. I stamped Umbrella Girl onto book paper, cut her out & glued her over part of the text, then stamped the text flourish from the Smile plate in the bottom right-hand corner. I matted my artwork on a kraft coloured card blank.
Thanks for looking, & thanks for the inspiration Trish! x
Joy
Posted in Cards, Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas on October 22, 2011 by craftytrogHere’s my card version of Tim’s 2010, Day 7 Tag.
For the background, I used a large Cuttlebug Christmas embossing folder, & inked with crushed olive, vintage photo & walnut stain inks. You can just about see the Rock Candy Distress Stickles sparkling on it.
You can see how the flower etc. is made, over on Tim’s post.
I’m off to scrub my very inky hands now!
Thanks for looking! x
Stampotique Challenge – A Tag
Posted in Stampotique Designers Challenge, Tags on October 20, 2011 by craftytrogHere’s my tag for this week’s Stampotique Designer’s Challenge. I embossed a tag using the Cuttlebug snowflake folder, then coloured it with distress inks. I stamped & embossed Stampotique’s The Crafter, coloured her with distress inks, then cut her out. I added her to the tag & popped on a santa hat & piece of garland (PaperArtsy Egg & Nog 9), some tinsel, & finally some Dymo wording.
Thanks for looking x
Imagine
Posted in Cards, Grungy Monday, Uncategorized on October 18, 2011 by craftytrogThis week on Grungy Monday, Linda has challenged us to make a piece of Tim-inspired art in just 10 minutes. I knew immediately I wanted to use my alcohol inks, so I gathered all my supplies together, set my timer, & here’s what I came up with!
Thanks for looking! xx
Journal Journeys October Challenge
Posted in art journalling, Journal Journeys Challenge on October 17, 2011 by craftytrogI’m still very much a novice with art journaling, but I thought I would give Dawn’s Journal Journeys Challenge a go. The theme for October is Autumn/Nature & masks.
I had made the background of this page after attending Neil Walker’s workshop a couple of weeks ago. I used a couple of Crafters Workshop masks, dots & tree, distress stains, the skeleton leaves were glued on with crackle glaze. I spritzed with perfect pearl gold mist. I drew the bird myself, cut it out & used paints to colour it, then added texture with a black pencil. I grounded the bird on some calendar tissue tape, then added shading with the black pencil. The leaves were left over from a project a few weeks ago, the middle one is a real leaf that I embossed. Finally, I used Hero Arts alphabet stamps for the words.
Thanks for looking x
A Very Proud Mum!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2011 by craftytrogWe spent a lovely day at The Goodwood Race Course yesterday. Our daughter Bethany was taking part in the final of Greenpower, a scheme where schools build & race their own electric racing car. Her school’s team finished 19th out of 78 cars, which was brilliant, as they were taking part for the first time, & they were placed 29th after the heats. Bethany was the team’s fastest driver at 27 mph. So, I’m a very proud mum! Here are some photos I took.
The Team
Beth & her proud boyfriend Josh
Opening procession, Beth’s team are in the middle, car no. 29, Viridity.
Beth whizzing past in ‘Viridity’!
The Team Helmet!
Be Creative!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 by craftytrogHere’s a sneaky peek of my latest artwork for The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog. I do hope you’ll take the time to nip over there, to see the full piece, it was something a little adventurous for me!
Thanks for looking,
Alison xx
Another Tim-Inspired Christmas Card
Posted in Cards, Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas on October 15, 2011 by craftytrogThis week it’s the turn of Tim’s 2010, Day 6 Tag to be the inspiration for a Christmas card.
I made a few changes, a Cuttlebug Christmas Tree instead of Tim’s trees, & no tissue tape banner. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.
Thanks for looking xx
Dina Wakley Art Journaling Workshop
Posted in art journalling on October 13, 2011 by craftytrogI’ve spent the morning tweaking & finishing the little arty book we started at Dina’s wonderful workshop, at LB Crafts last Friday, & here it is, cover to cover. I’m still new to this writing on art lark, so only a bit of actual journaling! Lol!
Thanks for looking! xxx
Wish
Posted in Cards, Sunday Stampers on October 11, 2011 by craftytrogI was fortunate to be able to attend a brilliant art journaling workshop with the wonderfully talented Dina Wakley last Friday. Sadly, it was because my poor friend Nicky had suffered a collapsed lung, & was therefore unable to attend.
The little arty book that we made a the workshop still needs some tweaking & putting together, but I made this card, using the techniques we learnt from Dina. And, of course, I have used a couple of her fabulous stamps too.
Hels, who was also at the workshop, has chosen blue & orange for her latest Sunday Stamper Challenge, so I’m entering my card.
Imagine
Posted in Artwork for The Artistic Stamper Creative Team, Cards on October 9, 2011 by craftytrogHere’s a little peek at my latest offering over on The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog.
Thanks for looking x
Tim’s Christmas Tags as Cards
Posted in Cards, Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas on October 8, 2011 by craftytrogThis week it’s the turn of Tim’s 2010, Day 5 Tag, to be transformed into a Christmas card. Here’s the tag I made in 2010, & here’s my card version.
Thanks for looking x
Tim’s Christmas Tags as Cards
Posted in Cards, Sunday Stampers, Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas on October 2, 2011 by craftytrogThis week it’s the turn of Tim’s 2010, Day 4 tag, to be turned into a card. A rather blingy affair, it is too!! Here’s the tag I made when I played along with Tim last year.
For Hel’s Sunday Stamper challenge this week, she has asked us what gets our mojo going when we’re stuck. I usually get out my Tim inks & make some backgrounds, or refer to his wonderful compendium, or I just look at his Christmas tags from 2010, which I have hanging in my craftroom window. There’s always a technique or colour scheme on them to get things flowing again. So, my card seems quite appropriate for Hel’s challenge this week.
Thanks for looking xx
The Artistic Stamper Challenge – Autumn Colours
Posted in Altered Art, Artwork for The Artistic Stamper Creative Team on October 1, 2011 by craftytrogThere’s a new challenge over on The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog. This month the challenge is to use Autumn Colours.
For my design team piece, I altered a CD. I cut a circle of green Tim Holtz paper to fit the CD, then stamped and embossed the phrase from the new Journalling Words plate(on special offer this month). I stamped flowers from the Greetings & Words plate, & embossed in gold, then painted them, using Adirondak Pearl Paint. I glued this to the CD. I punched a couple of holes in the top, added large eyelets, & a chain to hang.
Next, I took an A4 sheet of white card, then covered it with mustard seed distress stains. I used spiced marmalade, barn door & peeled paint distress stains to stamp splats onto the card, then inked the whole sheet with walnut stain distress ink. Next, I stamped a script in coffee archival ink all over the sheet. Using the Alterations Tattered Leaves die, I cut 8 leaves from my inky background.
I embossed 4 real leaves with various metallic embossing powders, using Laura’s tutorial on Gingersnap Creations. Finally, I glued the inky tattered leaves & the embossed real leaves in a wreath around the phrase, using a glue gun.
Thanks for looking, & don’t forget to go & see the other gorgeous design team creations, & take part in the Challenge yourself.
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