Craft Stamper Magazine Challenge October 2018

It's the first Friday of the month and time for our new challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog where we would love you to share your projects that include stamping with us. I love working with Eileen Hull's wrapped Journal, they are such good fun to decorate. The die does all the hard work of cutting and scoring the material for you, all you have to do is decide which fabric you want to cut out, that's the beauty of a steel rule die and of course Eileen's fabulous designs.

So, how do you fancy getting your hands on this fabulous die? It so happens that this month we have one up for grabs as a prize.

So hop over to the Craft Stamper Magazine Blog and check out the entry instructions, and get stamping! After all, you have to be in it to win it!

Happy Crafting
Elizabeth x

Dragons Dream TIO #158 Script and the letter "L"

Welcome to a new challenge over at the TIO, this time the fabulous Silvia has chosen the theme and would love you to have Script and the letter L on your tags, along with at least one real stamp.

My L is for leaves, something we have many of as the house backs onto woodland. 

We are also welcoming on board two new members to our design team, so please pop on over via the link on my sidebar to check out who the talented duo are!

Elizabeth x

Sunday Stampers Challenge #259 Some Like It Hot

Not at the beach today though it's raining cats and dogs here in North Wales, so it's definitely a play day!!
Hels wanted to see some nice thick embossing going on this week over at the Sunday Stampers Challenge, and as I'd been playing about with one of Caroline's Seahorses, Mica Powders and Frantage, I thought it would be rude not to enter lol.
The doorhanger was painted in Mermaid (very apt) Fresco paint. The with an Imagination Crafts dotty stencil I sponged Versark ink through and used Shabby Blue opaque Frantage powder over that dots.
I spritzed the Seahorse with a mixture of Mica powders, and then added Shabby Blue Frantage along the backedge for texture, it's such a gorgeous colour in real life!

I then went around all the edges with Creative Expressions gilding wax in a mix of Patina, Pearl Moon and Golden Light, they are very addictive, thanks Trace lol. Finally I added the sentiment with Kaisercraft Grunge Font alphabet stamps, another new toy from Port Sunlight. Elizabeth x

TIO 89 Pressing Matters!

This week over at the DragonsDream TIO Challenge we are being led by Helen with Pressing Matters!! So it's embossing tools out!! I used a creative expressions brick wall folder to create my tag with cream card, then inked it up with rusty hinge, barn door and brushed corduroy.
The stamp is one of my favourite's which you've probably seen a few times before lol. It's by Chapel Road and coloured with the same distress inks as the wall. Had to add a few sprigs of fern, my garden is full of the stuff at the moment, one of the problems of backing on to woodland lol. Hope you pop over and join us, just click on the link on my sidebar to enter the challenge. Elizabeth xxx