Saturday, January 31, 2009
Art Creations Friday challenge
Here's my collage for this week's challenge at Art Creations Friday. She looked like she was pondering quite a bit, hence the "lost in her thoughts". The gold embossed stamp is from Stampington.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Created Byhand Challenge - red and pink
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Art Creations Friday challenge
I'm a little late this week - took awhile to decide what I wanted to do with this week's image. I've been playing with the Oxford Impressions Fairy Sweets stamps and thought I'd use a couple of the accessory images to create a background for her. Now she's pondering about what flavor of ice cream to have...hmmm....
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday Stamper - Lace
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Fairy clear cards
These are two clear cards made with the Fairy Sweets stamps from Oxford Impressions. I really wanted to have translucent wings so I stamped the image on two surfaces - Grafix Dura-Lar for the whole image and matte coat paper for the image without the wings, alcohol inked the wings and colored the image on the paper, then adhered the two with xyron adhesive applied to the top of the paper image. I also added text stamps from Winter Snow and The Fairest Flower stamp sheets to complete the background. The outer acetate part of the card is stamped with white StazOn using flourish stamps from Stampers Anonymous and Stampington.
ATC Valentine swap
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Dans ma maison il y a...du doré
This was a fun challenge to do - I tried to think of different ways to add gold to my project. The image is from Paper Whimsy, and I colored her dress and bow with gold perfect pearls and backed the picture with a gold swirl paper. The house base is gold embossed paper, the roof is made up of alternating ribbon layers, I used a gold Krylon pen to enhance the frame, and added gold star brads.
Art Creations Friday
Created Byhand Challenge - the word love
More furry family members
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Art Creations Friday challenge
Theme Thursday - Vintage Valentine
Dans ma maison il y a...un oiseau en hiver
Friday, January 9, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Created Byhand Challenge - flourishes
Can't pass up a chance to try a challenge with flourishes, one of my favorite things! This is a clear card and has white StazOn stamped flourishes surrounding a heart-shaped piece of acetate colored with alcohol ink. The stamp is from Stampington. It's hard to tell with the photo, but the folded cardstock portion of the card is attached inside the acetate card.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dans ma maison il y a... du blanc
This is the first time I have tried this challenge - I find a house shape very appealing and was excited that the theme was white. For my project I wanted a shabby chic look which I think was helped by Ranger's crackle paint in Picket Fence. I used it on the corrugated cardboard base shape and on the metal roof embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The white embossed flourish on the background paper is a stamp from Green Pepper Press and the image is from Lunagirl.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Crazy Amigo's Splash Challenge
This is the first time I tried this challenge, because when I saw the theme I knew which image I wanted to use. It's from Enchanted Mercantile and made me think of a group of friends making a splash in 1909! The image is mounted on paper inked with distress ink and then flicked with water. I added a white embossed swirl stamp from Prima. The swirls on the backing cardstock are from a Cuttlebug folder - it just seemed to complete the wavy, watery look.
Art Creations Friday Challenge
Stamping on copper
Here's another project using metal - this time copper sheeting. I found a roll while I was wandering around Home Depot when my husband was shopping. Amazing how much fun you can have there! It's thin enough that after stamping with StazOn it can be easily cut or punched. These pictures are of my star book and the one inside page picture features a stamp from The Queen's Dresser Drawers.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Stamping on metal
This is one of my favorites- it uses StazOn ink on metal. For the surrounding frame, after embossing it I applied alcohol ink and then used a sanding block and a brass brush to remove it from the embossed areas. To create the actual embossing, I stamped on the reverse of the metal using my current favorite swirl stamp from Stampers Anonymous and used that as my template for embossing. The main image stamp is from Oxford Impressions - you lose some of the photographic detail by stamping on the metal, but I still love the overall look.
Friday, January 2, 2009
A clear album
I have really come to enjoy thinking about how to compose a design on clear acrylic. This is an album using Prima's Build A Book line that I created. I love that you work on both sides and also can get an overall overlap from one page to the next. This album used vintage photos of my family which was also fun, even though I certainly love working with adopted ancestors! I used Prima's Build A Frame stamps with black StazOn on some pages, a fabulous swirl stamp from Stampers Anonymous using white StazOn on one page, and of course a page with alcohol ink. By using double sided printed paper you automatically have a beautiful base to start working with on the back side. Even though the album didn't place in Prima's Build A Book contest, it's still pretty cool, don't you think?
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