... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
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Friday, 5 December 2014
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree...
... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
Friday, 28 November 2014
butterfly collage
But this weekend just gone I made time to play around with some stamped collage elements in my journal. I'm particularly enjoying using pencil on my journal pages
This weekend I'm meeting up with crafty friends so they'll be more journaling happening I'm sure :)
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Friday, 24 October 2014
a discombobulated pony
I know I've said this before ...
... but I just love how Roc Nicholas' images lend themselves so beautifully to paper piecing!! And her new ponytail is no exception!
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Friday, 17 October 2014
brusho in my journal
I have been playing ...
... with my latest toys - the brusho inks that everyone is using! Who knew that this stock item in every primary school art cupboard could be so much fun!!
Whenever I use something new I start with my favourite colours - just lovin' that turquoise!! Because it's an ink powder, splashing spots of water on the page and dabbing it off (one of my favourite techniques of the moment) doesn't work once the ink is dry, but I managed to catch it before it dried and got a lovely effect. I'm happier splashing water on my pages than bleach!
I think Nina looks right at home on this double spread journal page, and Daniel's circles give lots of choice for a sun!
Stampotique stamps used
Friday, 26 September 2014
dreams
Just fancied making a tag featuring Midge and some stars!
Love how it came together :)
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Friday, 12 September 2014
back to my art journal
Been playing in my journal again :)
I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.
This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.
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Friday, 5 September 2014
each life needs it's own quiet place
...and mine is definitely amongst my paints, papers and rubber stamps!
This tag started off with a sponge ink base that I didn't like so I tore it off, and decided I quite liked the effect. I'm going to add it as a page in one of my small A6 journals. It nearly looked like this
... but in the end, decided to include Gucio. Sometimes it's so hard to know!
This tag started off with a sponge ink base that I didn't like so I tore it off, and decided I quite liked the effect. I'm going to add it as a page in one of my small A6 journals. It nearly looked like this
... but in the end, decided to include Gucio. Sometimes it's so hard to know!
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Friday, 25 July 2014
art journaling with Stampotique
I love these little quails of Janet Klein's and use them quite a bit in my journals.
I rarely write in my journals but I do enjoy using snippets from book; old books often have the most fantastic phrases.
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Friday, 27 June 2014
Happy Birthday!
My little girl was 17 this week and as she's just finished a dance show Hazel dancing was the perfect image!
I used one of my new stamps 'Baroque background' for the grass, and Janet's lovely clouds cover up all the black smudges I can't help but add to my cards!!!
A few sparkles in the daisies and I was happy with my card. Sorry for the short post, it's sheer madness at work at the moment!
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Friday, 2 May 2014
inlayed die cut honeycomb tag
I won some blog candy!! And it arrived in the cutest little parcel earlier this week. Thanks so much Neet,
I got the large bee stamp from Stampotique so I could use the wings to create fairies but now I own the Tim Holtz - Sizzix frameworks honeycomb die I just had to try out the whole bee!!
I used the die to cut out the honeycomb from a tag, inked up the pieces then laid it all down on a second tag which effectively creates an inlay from the die cut. I saw this idea on Jennifer McGuire's blog here
I seem to be playing with really bright colours at the minute! I started out with orange inks on the honeycomb, had some overspray of lime Dylusions on my work mat and decided that would be the colour to use for the background! Lots of different text stamps as the background and ....
...I have another inky tag to add to my growing collection!
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Don't forget to visit the Stampotique Designers' Blog where there's daily inspiration for using your Stampotique stamps.
Friday, 11 April 2014
a different type of background
For a while now I've felt in a bit of a rut with my journal backgrounds....always doing the same process. Today, following on from the workshop last week led by the lovely Cath Wilson, I got out my versamark pad and stamped 'sometimes I pretend to be normal ...' over a tag. I heat set it then added dylusions inks.
Some splashing of water, and extra stamping and I was happy with my background for the artichoke monster. I used an old map for my background journal page!
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Friday, 4 April 2014
ooooo....inkygeliness on a journal page
I carried on playing with my gelli plate and inks for this week's Stampotique project. What is great about colouring a page with dye ink pad inks is that you can use a journal with thin pages and they don't need gluing together to make them thicker or gessoing!
This time I brayered some inks onto my gelli plate, then placed a stencil on it and brayered some ink through that before placing my journal on the plate and taking a print.
Stamping onto the gelli plate then taking a print off it makes the stamped image look slightly different (and reversed!)
I turned the gelli plate over so I could see where I was placing my reversed stamped image.....
....then added some more 'shrooms' stamped on text paper, and repeatedly stamped 'each life needs it's own quiet place'.
'Owlseeyou' is enjoying his own quiet place! I gave the page a bit more 'zing' by adding some colour from my ink pads using a sponge.
Stampotique stamps used:
Owlseeyou by Kira Nichols
heart tie by Jo Capper-Sandon
Giant Shroom by Jo Capper-Sandon
Mushroom group by Jo Capper-Sandon
Quiet Place by Jo Capper-Sandon
Friday, 28 March 2014
french butterfly tag
I so appreciate being on the Stampotique Designers' team; it gets me making something every week! I ReaLLY enjoyed making this tag :) I got some happy post this week and some of the stamps I used were in it...
When I ordered the stamps I had the idea of combining both Papillon stamps to form the background but changed my mind after stamping the script version.
I folded some paper over the base of the tag to mask the bottom inch or so then repeatedly stamped Papillon Script with a black ink pad.
When I ordered the stamps I had the idea of combining both Papillon stamps to form the background but changed my mind after stamping the script version.
I folded some paper over the base of the tag to mask the bottom inch or so then repeatedly stamped Papillon Script with a black ink pad.
I'm afraid this is as far as I got with the step by step photos so I'll just have to describe it to you! I stamped the large butterfly on some pre-sprayed paper, and stamped the centre of it (inking it up first then masking the wings with post-its) onto the tag so that I kept the detail of the antennae after cutting out the butterfly.
After spraying some dylusions slate grey ink onto a strip of plastic (acting as a palette) I tried stamping with this and got a lovely effect which I then stamped row of numbers onto.
A few scraps of stamped and sprayed paper collaged onto the edges and my tag was done. Hope you like it!!
Stampotique stamps used:
Papillon script by Jo Capper-Sandon
Large Butterfly by Jo Capper-Sandon
Row of Numbers by Amy Wilson Wellenstein
Time Square by Amy Wilson Wellenstein
Friday, 28 February 2014
Keeping calm
"Keep calm, smile and create beautiful things!"
It's been a very busy week so this tag is very much a message to myself! I find smooching paint and ink around, colouring in and 'cutting and sticking' very relaxing but sometimes I really have to fight to find the time to do it.
But it's definitely worth it! I feel better through the actual 'making', and can keep on enjoying my 'beautiful things' indefinitely :)
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014
SDC131: my Stars project step by step
I love stars, they're great images to work with, and they're this week's challenge theme over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog. I took step by step photos as I made this stitched piece so you could see how I got from this ...
to this...
I started with a piece of white fabric that I roughly painted with white acrylic paint then stamped Journey Collage with black ink. To make this a bit lighter I first stamped it on paper then stamped on the fabric a number of times.
I then put Peacock Feather distress ink and some blue Dylusions ink onto the lid of a plastic box and smooshed my fabric through it.
Jo Capper-Sandon's text star is one of my favourite stamps (and I LoVe the miniature star on the side of the block, such a clever idea). I stamped this over the fabric ...
... carefully cut out the larger stars with a very sharp pair of scissors ....
.... before laying a piece of white card underneath and stamping the star again through the star holes. I decided to go for an approximate fit rather than matching the shape exactly...
A touch of free machining around each star ...
... and some more free machining after I found a quote I liked!
If you're inspired by stars, you can join us here to read more about Sam's challenge, then link it up here. We'd love to see your interpretation of this challenge.
Stampotique stamps used:
“Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”
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