A Stitch In Time by Emma

Hello everyone!! Emma here again with my latest creation to share with you all. As always, I've taken lots of pics to show you all the different features on this piece, so I hope you like what I've made and enjoy! 

To begin with I cut a piece of Manila card to measure the same size as a Size 8 tag and I applied Seedless Preserves, Wild Honey and Fired Brick Distress Paints to the card, blending the colours together with water.

I then used one of my favourite and most loved and used stamp ~ the circles from the Swirls, Splats and Dots A5 stamp sheet and randomly stamped them onto the background using Seedless Preserves DI. I then stamped the tape measure from Katy Fox's "A Stitch In Time" stamp set along the bottom of my background. I matted my background onto a piece of black card, with the edges slightly distressed and edged with Brushed Pewter Metallic Distress Paint, then layered both onto a piece of kraft card.

Next, I covered some chipboard with sticky back aluminium and left some chipboard bare and die cut one mannequin and the cotton spool from the bare chipboard, using the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Sewing Room die and using the metal covered chipboard, I die cut the body of the mannequin and the wings from the Sizzix/ Tim Holtz Heart Wings Die, both dies I have in my stash. I also die cut two pediments using the Sizzix Bigz Pediments die. I used Tim's faux riveted metal technique on the body of the mannequin and then applied Black Soot Distress Paint and Tarnished Brass over the all the metal covered pieces of chipboard to give an aged effect and added them to the main body of the mannequin.

I applied Wild Honey Distress Stain to a strip of seam binding and Brushed Pewter Distress Stain to a second piece. I then used the tape measure stamp and stamped it directly onto the pewter coloured seam binding, using black Archival Ink. I tied the binding into a bow around the waist of the mannequin.

I then attached all my die cut pieces onto the main cardstock background.

Next, I took some cream card, covered some of the card with Brushed Pewter Distress Paint and some of the card with Old Paper DI. Using stamps from Katy Fox's ~ A Stitch In Time stamp plate, I stamped various bits and pieces onto the card, cut them all out and then piled them up onto my creation.

I painted the cotton spool black and then added some more of the Brushed Pewter Distress Paint over the top before winding some twine around it and then adding that to my piece, together with two decorative pins tucked into the twine. 

Finally, as the finishing touch, I used an Idea-ology Light Bulb from my stash and attached it to the head of my mannequin.

 

So, that's it from me for today and I really hope this piece has inspired you and you love what I've made, just as much as I loved creating it!

See you all again very soon and don't forget you still have plenty of time to enter our Words challenge. Just click HERE to be whisked to the post with all the details of how to enter ~ we look forward and to seeing your creations!

Bye for now...Emma x

Now I have a dryer... by Titbelsoeur

Hi Gals, this is Titbelsoeurs showing you some little things that will once be part of a "big picture"...

I have stamped messages on wooden clothespins, some left natural, others sprayed with Distress ink.
Here they are :

Stamps used :

Numerical Plate, A stitch in Time and Carte Postale from http://www.theartisticstamper.com/katy_fox_stamps.htm
Creative, Imagine, A Journey...,  from http://www.theartisticstamper.com/words_and_sayings.htm
Time and Keys from http://www.theartisticstamper.com/time_stamps.htm 
 

I hope you like my idea and will copy it ! I will show you what to do with later,

Thanks for stopping by, I am really looking forward to reading your comments !

A tout bientôt !

Titbelsoeur

You're The One by Alison (Craftytrog)

Hello Stampers! Craftytrog here again, with a card to share with you this time.

Here's how it was made...

To make the background, dab Stream & Red Pepper Paint Dabbers on your craft mat, spritze with water, then schmoosh some white card through it, until you get the desired look.

Lay the Confetti Crafter's Workshop 6x6 Stencil over the background, & use cut & dry foam to dab black paint through it. 

Stamp some script, using Red Pepper paint. Dab some Stream paint onto bubble wrap, & use it to stamp on the background too.

Stamp Donna's Cropped Union on white card, paint the hair with red pepper, cut out, edge with black archival, then adhere to the background.

Stamp the phrase from Tim Holtz's Words for Thought on white card, cut it out, ink the edges with black, then glue to the background. 

Use red pepper paint to stamp some Mini Polka Dots, making sure some go over the images & words. Use a small lid to stamp some circles with Gold paint.

Mat the background onto card painted with red pepper, then attach to a square white card blank.

Thanks for looking,

see you next month,

Alison xxx

Inspired by Nature Distress Paints winner

Hello everyone, welcome! This is Astrid. As promised I will tell you the winner of three colours of Distress Paint giveaway, posted here last Sunday , but before I do, a big thank you to all of you who entered and also for all of your lovely comments. Very much appreciated!! So here goes...... drumrolll please......  Number 21 Wendy L 

Please contact me with your address Wendy so I can send you your paints!

Have a creative Sunday still everyone, hope the weather is better where you are, here it looks more like November

Mail Art envelope: by Zuzu

 

Yes, I am here with a postman's nightmare... highly decorated mail art.
its another quick simple project from me as I don't have full access to my craft supplies for quite a while yet. 
I know the postman needs to be able to see the address clearly so i am not sure how valid mail art really is but its fun making the envelope a wee bit more exciting than a plain simple colour.

I coloured my envelope with chalk inks and when it had dried completely I started stamping and sticking. I used the airmail look Washi tape to start with and stuck to the typical airmail colour scheme, blue and red.

i tried to add in some other post office type themes like brown wrapping paper, measuring tapes, post cards, luggage tags etc. I used the brown paper to help create a "ransom note" style on one of the quotes.

Supplies used:

Ephemera collage stamps HERE
Animal/ Bird collage elements HERE
Washi tape HERE
Journal tickets HERE
black and red stazon ink HERE

We Will Always... by Sioux Jenneys

Hiya all! I'm sharing something a little different that includes a tag this time! HOL I'm all loved up....and wanted to wrap up a DVD that I bought as a surprise for my boyfriend....how snugly does that sound :)

1. Stamp some basic plain brown packaging paper with the background stamp of your choice in Archival Sepia, I used the Music background... don't be too concerned with lining the images up exactly....believe me it will not be noticeable once the package is wrapped. ;)

2. Cut a tag from kraft card and one from white card using the Sizzex Tiny tags and tabs die and stamp the script from Carte Postale plate in Archival coffee and age edges with Distress Ink walnut stain....cut the white one smaller on all sides and age with some Distress Ink Antique linen and attach adding a hole reinforcer cut from the same die.

3. I used words from Journaling Mini Words 1 but did not have the word "have" so cut individual letters from different words and glued them to some card...it was a bit fiddly but so worth it! :) I used part of the Paris postage from Paris to London plate and coloured with a Distress Marker in worn lipstick. The words were stuck to black card to finish.

4. I stamped the word Carte Postale from the Carte Postale set and the Fleur De Ly's from the T!m Paris to London plate in Archival coffee. Stamped one of the crowns from Crowning Glory onto metal, cut out using Tim Holtz scissors and puffed out the metal using a Ten Seconds Studio tool and attached to the tag. Wrap the gift, secure with some Bakers Twine and attach the tag.

Why not give your loved one a surprise package this week :) See you again soon!

xoxo Sioux

Beside the Seaside by Georgina Sweetenham

Hi! It's Georgina again with my second blog post as this month's Guest Designer. My second project is a card with a British seaside feel. I have used stamps from the lovely Seaside No. 1 # and Beside the Seaside stamp sets both of course from The Artistic Stamper. I have used a traditional red, white and blue colour scheme.

I begun by using a range of the stamps from the two stamp sets to create the two background papers.

I used a red and dark red ink pads for the seashell panel. And bright blue and navy blue ink pads for the fish panel. I attached these to scalloped edge panels of coloured card. I like to use stamps from sets to create background designs. You can then easily co-ordinate colours and design, rather than trying to find pre-printed background paper to match.

I stamped the ships wheel design with both a dark brown and Tuxedo Black Memento ink pads. I coloured the stamped images with ProMarkers. I cut out the centre people image from the black stamped image and attached it on top of the brown stamped image. I cut out the wheel and attached it with foam pads onto a white and red die cut circles. I added Glossy Accents to the lenses of the binoculars.

I stamped the umbrella twice in red ink and one in brown. I attached the red layers on top of the brown. For the second red layer I only attached the top front section with foam pads.

The sentiment is also part of the  Beside the Seaside stamp set. I stamped it in red and blue inks onto white card. I cut out the words and attached the to a blue card flag shape.

I attached all the elements to a square card blank. To finish I attached a red and blue stamped anchor design with foam pads.