Bah Humbug Challenge

Like everyone else I have a drawer full of these!!!!!
Coloured them in with my pro markers and just added a " Merry Christmas" from Craftwork Cards.
See you next week Elizabeth xxx

TIO 32 My Favourite Film

A Favourite film and book of mine, Chocolat! These are the new Elusive Image cup cake stamps, made them chocolate flavour with crystallised violets on top with the help of my pro markers! The cherries are from the same stamp set again used pro markers to colour them in and then Anita's glossy to make the chocolate shiny. I distressed the tag with brushed corduroy, added the text and then finished off with some of Mum's gardening string. Made my self hungry now.........

Rainbow Lady's Challenge 96

In my garden I can see.................... many little critter's as our house is in a conservation area backing on to Phyllicrochan Woods, and also, we bought it from the man who owns the local zoo!!!! (I don't dig too deeply in our garden!!).
The rockeries are filled with tiny little mice, and I like to sit quietly outside watching them play. It makes me think of Brambley Hedge!
I have had a play with some of the thing's I bought at the NEC yesterday, so I've used my new Nellie's Oval frames, which I think are very pretty, and also the Meadow Flower's stamps by Joanna Sheen. I inked up the honeysuckle with stampcraft colour brushers, and then finished off with pro markers and also adding a couple of extra leaves with an Anita's morsals leaf or two. Not a gem in sight, although I am thinking of adding some glitter to the honeysuckle........ just a smidge!!

Bah Humbug Challenge

At long last I find myself with some "Me Time" and have made my first entry for the Bah Humbug Challenge!!!!!! Have to confess to being a very quick card though, these are the images I bought to do this year's "quick" Christmas cards, I thought it would be fun to put a recipe on the front, (haven't tried it yet, so don't know if it works!). Printed off on to 160gsm text and graphic paper, and then inked around the edges with brushed corduroy ink pad. Not a gem in sight...

Crafty Ann's Challenge metallic

It's good to be back in the land of blog again, life does get in the way sometimes!
Thanks to the lovely Ms Tuck setting my brain in action last week, when she shared her gorgeous frames with the C&C viewers, I decided to have a little play myself!
The frame is one I made at the Stamp Addicts retreat last year it was originally black and purple with a kimono in.
I stripped it carefully back to the paper frame and then dabbed versamark all over adding cosmic shimmer ultra thick embossing powder to it. I chose to use lapis black and violet. I built it up with about three layers and then as per Ms Tuck's instructions melted clear UTEE and some more of the coloured UTEE's on my craft mat. Once hardened, I broke them up and added them onto the frame, having heated the frame to create a bond first. I love this metallic effect, it's a sham it doesn't show up very well in the photo. I made the seahorse last year whilst playing about with some fantasy film, fibres and a clarity seahorse stamp. It's the most fun you can have with an iron!!!!!

Dragon's Dream Tag Challenge Christmas

Told you I was having a play day!
I used Tim Holtz tattered Rose distress ink to tint the tag around the edge, and also to stamp some holly. Then in black versafine stamped the Noel by habico and coloured it in using Sakua gel pens, not played with those for a while. Then over stamped in black versafine with the holly stamps again. Very useful those little holly stamps, seemed to have used then on everything this Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Thought I would share with you a couple of the Christmas cards that I've made this year. Unfortunately the glitter on the Tree card doesn't show up very well. I love to see how the same ink can look completely different on various card stock. The tree's in the background are stamped directly on to stardream card, so it soaks in a bit. Whereas the main image is on Clarity matte card stock which shows the colour off beautifully. The arch window card was a result of a session with the ink bottles getting very mucky! great fun! Merry Christmas and happy New Year love Elizabeth xxx