Celebration

Here's my entry for Craft Ann's first challenge celebration. I did this scrapbook page a couple of years ago for a competition in Papercraft Essentials and although I wasn't a winner, they actually printed it in issue 26.
The photo at the top of the page is of Gerry chasing confetti, hence the confetti and crystals tumbling down the page!
The black and white photo at the bottom of the page is one of my favourites, Mum, my Sister and I. We didn't know the picture was being taken so it's completely natural laughing, fillings and all!
The background paper is by Brenda Pinnock, I use a lot of her papers as I love the colours she chooses. The frames are left over bit's from an Anna Griffin kit. The title is cut out with the Hippie Chick alphabet on Cuttlebug and the confetti was made from various punches, along with aurora borialis crystals. Well I do like a little sparkle!

Thank you card for my friend

OK am now addicted to this technique!
I made this card as a thank you to a dear friend of mine, for spoiling me with a whole forest of tree stamps, from Clarity for my Birthday.
Again I used the big and juicy spice ink pad to create the mountains and sun in the background.
I stamped the large fir tree and birds in the marvey heritage dark walnut.
I found the tag in a box of K&Co embellishments it says "Nature is the art of God" how very true! I used cut and dry to add some of the orange tones form the spice ink pad, and the stamped the top of the fir tree at the sides in the dark walnut ink.

Orange Sunset

I really enjoyed making this card although the colours are a little more subdued than the other cards I made.
I used the big and juicy ink pad in the spice colours, and again tore paper to create mountains.
I carefully followed all of Barbara's instructions and brayered over, moving the paper and re-braying to fade out the mountain range into the distance.
I punched a 1" hole in a piece of paper and then brayered over to create the sun.
I only used two stamps on this project the flock of birds and the large fir tree, both from Clarity both of which I stamped with Marvey Heritage in dark walnut.

Fairies in my garden

Have finally managed to sit down and spend some time playing with my new stamps, and having a well needed practice with my brayer!
I love playing with inks and started off by brayering the background with big and juicy in waterfall. I then ripped paper to create the mountains in the background and went over with the brayer again. Keeping the paper on I used cut and dry foam to edge the mountain with black versafine, to give them some definition. I then decided to brayer over the mountains again with Tim Holtz tattered rose ink. I decided to make the forefront of the picture look like water so I covered the lower half up and added versafine ink this time to the bottom of the mountains, to create what I hope looks like a shore. I used Lavina Stamps Fairy Castle, Fairy and toadstools along with Clarity's small foliage stamp and large oak tree.

Rainbow Lady's 23rd July Challenge WHEELS

First I scanned in our page from the local a-z, then played around changing the colour to make it look old and well worn. Printed it off, folded it and distressed the edges with a marvey heritage inkpad in timeless sepia. Dragged the same colour ink onto the edges of some honey coloured stardream card. Stamped out my vintage car onto some white card, coloured it in and then glazed with anita's 3d clear gloss. Finished off the card by stamping the word travel on to the bottom of the map, and added some dark grey metallic pearls at the corners. If you put your spec's on you might find me in K3!!

TIO13 Spots and Swirls in Pink

This is my tag for Frankie's TIO 13 challenge "Spots and swirls". The thank you stamp is one of the clear mini stamps by inkadinkado, and is a great size for atc's. The swirl stamp around the edge of the tag is by Heidi Grace and is one of many that live permenantly on my desk! I stamped the images with Versafine black ink and then coloured around the edge of the tag, shaded some of the swirls and coloured flowers with watercolour pencils. Finally I added some pink gems amonst the spotty swirls. Thank you Frankie for the challenge xxx

Rainbow Lady's 16th July Challenge HATS

This is the card I've made for the Hats Challenge, set by Rainbow Lady on the 16th July. The stamped image is one I received in the Rainbow Friends stamped image swap last month. So thank you Wanda for the Little girl and pony. I used my much loved new Lyra Polycolour pencils to colour them in, then changed the colour of my white stardream card using the peacock brilliance ink pad (my favourite at the moment!) to make it blue at the top and green at the bottom. I made a stable from some card with a wood grain on it, and added door handles with a fine liner pen. The grass and shovel were cut out on Cricut from the paper dollies cartridge and the flowers were sat on my desk!!