Kathys sketch file....

Over at Kathy's sketch file this month this is the offering:-

and this is what I did:-

its an atc....handdrawn and then coloured in using neocolour II water soluble wax pastels - I then made up masks and overstamped using a text stamp, then added my Tim Holtx eye and stars and a Wendy Veechi number stamp...doodles along the way too!! the text stamp is by Tim Holtz.

Take a look at the sketch file it has loads of inspirational sketches which can be used for any project.

TFL xx

Happy Daze - May Queen challenge

Over on the Happy Daze blog the challenge for May is "May Queen"...so I've created this:-

ok, so it might not fit into whats perceived as "May Queen" but the text did say:- "Interpret the theme as you see it" - the birds could be female and they do have a crown and the base is regal purple!!! lol I do hope that it meets with the rules!!

The base is a canvas board which was covered with dylusions paints, once dry more paint was picked up using a baby wipe and dabbed on, this was then overstamped with various stamps....the base swirl was stamped and then embossed with gold embossing powder.  The "queens" are made from ten seconds metal in ivory with viva decor inka gold smeared over the top.

TFL
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Stampotique ATC

The Stampotique Designers challenge this time is to create an ATC.... so, here's mine

The white base was sprayed with Dylusions spray inks and then spritized with biscotti perfect pearls.....I then stamped using black ink using the swirls stalk stamp then doodled, aka Kaz - the word stamp and "Head" were stamped onto another piece of white cardstock and coloured in using distress inks.  The words were cut out and the edges re-inked before adding a layer of glossy accents.

TFL xx

Thank You Mr Blogger!

for changing things..................rofl

I've made a couple of these cards for my OH to say Thank You to a few people - using scraps from Pink Paislees SheArt and cutting flowers out using the Tattered flower garland (so love that die!) and a really cheap Thank You stamp I've had for yonks!!

Now this is the first post I've attempted to do since it all changed, but, I thought I'd better give it a go since I'm hosting the Tando Creative Challenge this month!! if it all goes pear shaped you'll all have to bear with me...

TFL xx

more cards?

Well I have been slightly busy doing other things of late! lol some of which I can't show yet...but, this month over at Kathy's sketch file the sketch is looking like this:-

so I made this:-

and this:-

The papers are the latest Pink Paislee "She Art" papers and they are totally gorgeous...the butterfly is from the London Market emphemera pack...yum!!

TFL xx

Keep Calm and Carry On!

This must be the phrase for 2012 and you can keep calm about just about everything from coffee to "other things" although I must say, if you drink loads of coffee how can you keep calm?? lolxx

Anyway the reason for the title is:-

All layers of the Tando Creative frame were joined together using a wet glue, the front was then coloured using distress inks and then overstamped before being spritzed with perfect pearls.  The base plate was covered with paper from the Portobello Road range, the Union Jack and banner are also from the same range.  All of the stamps used in this project are by Artistic Outpost and are the "London Underground" set must say this set has been used and used since I bought it a month ago.....The guard is also off one of the stamps.  The telephone box is the smaller one from the Tando Creative London selection......this was painted with acryllic paint and then using black and white pens detailing added back in.

TFL xx

Bramford Crop girls Challenge - Altered book

Janina, Janet, Karen, Nancy, Tracey and I all attend the crop at Bramford and each month we challenge each other! we all take it in turns to set the challenge and usually I'm the one that gets "oh no, what are we going to do with that!!" rofl this time I think Janina got it!! lol - I loved the idea of altering the childrens book that we were given, but, I do think that some of the others found it a real challenge - one of which we all have completed.

So, here's my finished piece...

The cover.................this was posted in a previous blog post....

Pages 1 and 2

Pages 3 and 4

Pages 5 and 6

Back pages

This book is the result of MANY hours of work....pages have been glued together and a niche cut out of half the book at the back, each page was painted, inked, sprayed, stamped, doodled and glued!! lol  I think that page 6 might need a little something extra....will have to work on that one...

TFL xx