Silkies and Tim Holtz Dies

It would be so funny if tomorrows challenge was chipboard! Have been playing with the silkies I bought from Imagination Crafts (hope you have had a go with yours Jenny?). I love these new dies from Time Holtz, I cut them out from the boxes that the gift aid envelopes arrived in at work. It's perfect for going through the cuttlebug, as it seems to compact the recycled card even more, making it easier to paint. Bit on the pretty pastel side for me, but hey! Might try a different colour next!

Rainbow Lady's Alcohol Ink Christmas Challenge

Inked up Clarity card stock with sailboat blue, aqua and willow inks then stamped over with memento tuxedo black with a Curious by Design "Joy" stamp.
Used duck egg blue stardream card stock for the base card, and inked up with the same colour scheme.
Stamped out the word "Angels" on to the Clarity card and cut out all images with the new Nellie Snellon frames, mounted onto black mirri card, and added to the base card. Added some narrow black silk ribbon to the tag.

Tio Challenge 43 Scene in my garden

My garden is work in progress at the moment. My Mum had designed and grown the plants for going in, so now that's my summer job! Hence the wheelbarrow and tools, blisters and bruises!
The stamps are from Aspects of Design and have some fabulous sentiments on the theme plate as well.
Inked up my tag with a mixture of dried marigold,brushed corduroy, scattered straw and antique linen. Stamped over with brushed corduroy and added some shading with my new pastel chalk pencils, new toys from the stamp addicts retreat!

TIO Challenge alcohol ink and acetate

Sorry I'm late I'm suffering from brain drain after the Stamp Addicts retreat last weekend!
Have had an experiment with alcohol inks and a laminating pouch, hope this counts as acetate?
I used willow, aqua and a dribble of tattered straw inks, then sprinkled in some turquoise heat resistant fine glitter and also some heat resistant iridescent sequins. It is vitally important that you let this dry before running your project through the laminating machine, as I found out!
I inked my tag up, then stamped out two Clarity Seahorses with the big and juicy waterfall ink pad. Chose which part of the laminate I wanted to use, trimmed it to size and attached it to the tag with an eyelet, multi coloured ribbons and some fish charms.

Gothic Arches Openings Challenge 29th May

I coloured up my base card using shades from the big and juicy soothing sunset pad.
Then using memento tuxedo black stamped the window from Lavinia and carefully water brushed out the ink from the glass. I coloured the window in with pro markers, and also shaded the brickwork a little more.
the edges of the arch were over stamped with an Anna Griffic flourish stamp and the sentiment is from Graphicus.
Finally I edged the bottom of the arch with a left over from a Nellie Snellon frame, and and finished off by adding two dragon flies that I changed the colours of from gold to pink.

Bah Humbug Challenge

Made me think black and pink this week!
The card base is made from Bazzill basic and the layered paper is from Anna Griffin.
Added black twill ribbon and used Nellie Snellon frame to make black border.
Used Silkies to create the background on which I stamped Lavinia's Fairies onto with memento black tuxedo.
Finally I added some snowflakes from Hot Off The Press.
Merry Christmas!

Tio Challenge 40 What's on the desk! - what isn't??

Well my desk is quite tidy sadly the table I work on isn't!
These are two of the many stamps I'm enjoying playing with at the moment.
They are from Imagination Crafts and are made by Chapel Road Artstamps.
Used Inkssentials tool to blend shades from the Mountain Meadow Big and Juicy ink pad to the tag, I was originally going to use purples, but keep coming back to the warm earth tones.
I stamped out the image with memento tuxedo black along with a sentiment from another set.
Then after making sure that the ink was dry, I carefully used a water brush to take out the ink from the dragonflies wings. hope you like x