Art Deco Glitter

Hello.  Welcome.  Just a quick little post that started as an autumn card and time travelled to Christmas.  Also, just to let you know this one was fairly challenging to photo. 

I've used the die Frame Ironwork from Sizzix.  I cut three times, one in black, one in red glitter and one in green glitter paper.  I paper pieced the design.  I mounted on a piece of paper from Basic Grey Serenade paper pack and added a tree cut using Memory Box Frosted Christmas Tree. 

Joining the fun at
Joan's Garden - Red/Green/Paper Piece
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - 3 Colours red/green/black
BtCR - September total so far 30
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 2 for october 

Thanks for dropping by.  See you tomorrow for a fun announcement.  Ooh, that's soon......

Pumpkins Everywhere

Hello.  Welcome.  A special hi to Michelle A who has joined our wandering band.  Gosh October.  Gosh, orange and purple and black everywhere.  Show us your Halloween thing.  Give us some Autumn colours.  You just got to love it.  Or maybe you don't?  Ah well.....  I love the colours at this time of year.  Green is very nice but Nature is going all out in a final flamboyance and it's just so gorgeous.  I've made an ATC using the most cutest and not at all scary monster.

This is Little Hoo Hoo from Stampotique.  I cut a black ATC, added some orange tape.  Is all tape Washi tape? or is washi a brand?  Like, all pumpkins are squash but not all squash are pumpkins.  I digress.  The BOO is Sizzix Phrase Boo cut from yellow foam.  I was going to make a stamp but when I lined it up it seemed to fit so.....   My monster is stamped in black on orange.

My Little Hoo Hoo is joining the fun at, gosh so many places he could join the fun,
Country View Challenge - Spooky
Craft-room Challenge - ATC
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Papirdokkene Utfordring 52 - Orange

Thanks for dropping by.  Stay close, fun and games start here uhhhh...Thursday, yep Thursday.  That's the plan.  Soon I will be One.........

Autumn Baby

Hi, welcome.  Crafting crazy at the moment.  Maybe it's the sunny weather.  Maybe it's that end of the month feeling.  Maybe it's the crafty goodies that came with Mr Postman today.  Hee hee.   Yep, probably the crafty goodies.    So I wanted to make a baby card.  I made a pink baby card last week so I decided to make one using autumn colours, it being Autumn and all.......

I based my design on Stephanie's card at SSS.  I cut my aperture with Crafts-Too Frames 7 die.  I've used orange mulberry paper and patterned paper from Prima Forever Young and Basic Grey Serenade.  The baby was cut using Sizzix Baby with Bottle die and paper pieced.  I used glossy accents on the bottle.  The flourishes are metal embellishments from Korthobby and the lovely leaves are from Storyteller.  I die cut the letters using Sizzix Ida Lou's Flowerbox alphabet.  

My Autumn Baby is joining the fun at
That Craft Place Challenge - Baby
Basic Grey Challenges - Autumn Colours
Storyteller Utfordring 1 - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp - Stamptember Blog Candy Bonanza
Artful Times - Autumnal Colours

What a busy baby.  Thanks for dropping by.  Ooh look, nearly October.  Ooh, ooh, boo, boo.  Stay tuned.  Fun and games are looming.........

Suposedly She Has a Heart of Gold...

... although it might take an autopsy to find it.  Hello and welcome.  What a great line that was.  Heard it last night in a TV series about midwives in London in the 1940's.  Think it's called Life in the East End.  Although I could be wrong.   I just remembered as I was gold leafing my heart.  Over at WOW they gave the challenge theme this month as decadence.  Gosh, that's a tricky one.  It was one of those dictionary moments when you come away more confused than when you started.  So I'm going with my own impressions which are opulence and excess typified by the colours red, gold and black.  

This was so difficult to get a photo of.  How do they photograph the crown jewels??   This was my first attempt at gold leafing.  I used the flakes rather than a sheet so they were a bit crumpled and gave a nice texture.  I leafed a leaf from Tando Creatives Leaf Pack A and used it as a heart.  I stamped a red deckle edge panel with Hampton Arts I Love Thee stamp and embossed with black embossing powder.  Lots of different love lines.  I embossed the edge with gold powder and mounted it on a black card.  Then my lovely golden heart.  If that isn't decadence then I'll eat my rabbit.   I think this will be a lovely Golden Wedding card.  Would anyone believe it's real gold leaf on a card?  Maybe I should just frame it as a tribute to excess.  

My golden heart is joining the fun at
WOW - Decadence
Tando Creative - Let's Leaf It
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Say it With Stamps I'm talking love

Thanks for dropping by.  Stay tuned, the mojo is with us tonite.......

Retro? Think so.....

Greetings and welcome.    The sun is shinning, the birds are tweeting, the bees are buzzing.  Even saw a butterfly.  Basically a beautiful day.  A day to be out weeding, not crafting, but I got seriously side tracked last evening when I followed a link to Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge.  I love ATC's.  It's amazing what you can pack onto a small art space.  I haven't made any for a while but since I have decided....  ooh that's a secret til next Wednesday.  Anyway, the thing is the theme was retro/vintage and the medium was ATC so I dropped the other things I was working on, some got incorporated into totally new projects.  This is going to be a bit of a post cos I went a into overdrive and I'm putting it all here in a mega gigantic fun filled ATC post.  Please feel free to just look at the pictures......

I started with Art IMpressions Dancers stamp.  Love those girlfriends.  I bought this stamp last week and decided to have a go at colouring.  I'm not so good at that but practice makes perfect and these stamps come with a nice colour image to help you out.  Anyway, I was pleased with my colouring but then was having difficulty fitting it to a card.  This is a big stamp, about 14cm across.  These girls need room!  Anyway, then I thought if I cut that one off I can move her....   The end result was I cut up the whole image and had my 4 girlfriend separate with just the occasional missing limb!!!!  Anyway a bit of masking, cutting and piecing and they were whole again.  This is where the ATC challenge made me decide that instead of putting them on a roof (don't ask!) I would make a group of ATC's.

I cut my ATC's from black glitter card using my sizzix ATC and corner die.  The corners are gold mirror card.  Those ladies shine against that classy black glitter.  The phrase is one I had seen around.  Actually I discovered today Art Impressions do a stamp with a longer but similar phrase.  Must get hold of that cos it would be a lot easier.  I used the computer and word.   I don't envision these girls staying together so the fact that the phrase is the same won't make no mind.

My girlfriends are joining the fun at
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge 119 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

But are they retro?  I don't know.  Those girls are almost certainly Vintage ha ha.   Anyway they were just a by the way.  I think of retro as bright colours,circles, lines and simple images so I decided to make an ATC using Salty Ocean, Barn Door and Mowed Lawn Distress ink.  I masked an ATC to apply the colour in stripes.  I liked it so much I forgot to take a picture.  In the groove now.  I decided to make a set of three and try and line up my stripes.

 I've added a Christmas tree diecut from the Sizzix Snowman set and stamped with the corresponding Hero Arts stamp.  Retro?  I think so.  I hope so.

My Christmas Tree ATC's are joining the fun at
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge 103- Retro/Vintage

So, are you are still with me?  The first ATC I made which isn't part of the above set I decided to make into a card so I mounted it on a green marble card I found.

Small and cute.  Honest, that card is green but it's quite pale in the picture.

My tree card is joining the fun at
Me and Mine BtCR Sept total so far 29
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 144 - Use 3 Colours  I used Red/Blue/Green
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for September
Country View Crafts Challenge 7 - Layers

OK, that was mega.  Hope you made it through.  Maybe I should have split the posts but it probably would have been more to read.  Thanks for your visit.  Hope you have had a great weekend.  Gosh almost October.  Stay tuned for fun and games........

Here's a few extra close ups of the girlfriends

Buttons and Tags

Hello and welcome.  A lovely sunny day today.   Luckily I completed most of this project last night.  Over at PaperArtsy Liz Borer made a lovely doll with a button book.  The doll is a bit beyond my available time at the moment but definitely something to remember.  She is lovely.  So I thought I'd have a go at the shrink plastic buttons.  I didn't have any of the stamps Liz used so I looked thru my PaperArtsy stash and.....

I cut some circles of shrink plastic, stamped with the flower from USNT4 and coloured it.   My first attempt was a bit wiggly, the one on the right, but then I thought I got it!!  I am using clear shrink plastic so I painted the backs with white acrylic. 

Such fun.  I also made a set using the moth from SIEN10F and coloured the backs with gold acrylic.  I made button cards using a Crafty Individuals stamp and coloured with distress ink.  Then I decided to make some using the girl from the Bloom stamp set

I used archival ink on my shrink plastic and it bled.  Not a problem on simple lines but these were a bit more detailed so they came out a bit darker than I was hoping for.  What ink did you use Liz?  Anybody have any suggestions.  

I thought it would be fun to mount these on cards with the full size stamp on it.  The one on the right is a bit pale in her face.  Don't know why.  Maybe she's getting ready for Halloween. 

 I decided to make my button cards into tags.  

Joining in the fun over at 
PaperArtsy
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for dropping by.  Here comes the weekend.........

Snow Business

Hello.  Welcome.  A special hello to Natty and Janet who have recently joined our jolly following.  Another grey wet day here in Norway.  Hope the sun has been shining for you.  Today is official the first day of Autumn.  Here's to pretty colours, crisp, sunny days and piles of leaves you can crunch your way through.  The crazy season draws ever nearer and I have a set of Christmas cards to share with you this evening.  I really wanted to try stamping on metal and am very pleased with the result.  

I have used sizzix Snowman set which is a set of framelits and matching Hero Art's stamps.  I stamped the snowman, coloured his scarf and hat blue and cut him out with the matching die.  The blue metal was stamped with the various snowflake stamps in the snowman set and embossed with pale blue embossing powder.  Then I used my sizzix ATC die to cut out 4 pieces.  I stamped the white card using the snowflake dies and VersaMagic Aegean Blue chalk ink.  I layered the three pieces and voilà.......

I made a set of four

Joining the fun at
A Blog Named Hero - Game Set Match
Me and Mine - BtCR  Total 28 so far
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stamp Not On Paper
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 143 - Stamp Stamp Stamp 
Bunny Zoe's Crafts September Challenge - Something Blue 

 Thanks for your visit.  Take care, be crafty....