True Colours

I missed Sunday Stampers last week, and I almost didn't make it this week either.  It's been a wee bit hectic round here, and between stuff happening and wanting to try out the techniques I've been learning in the Timeworn Techniques course,  the week has just flown by. The theme this week is Colour, and so I inked up a tag with nice, bright Distress inks, using the Spritz & Flick technique. 

 

I had my background, but what to do with it?  Don't ask me why, but the colours made me think "Retro".  Now, I usually buy stamps because I like them, but I had a set of motor car stamps that I'd got because my husband liked them.  When we met, he had a 22-year old VW Beetle (the original version) in turquoise, called Ringo.  So that's what I put on the tag. 

 

 



 

I coloured the car with Perfect Pearls - turquoise, of course. Hope you like it.  Thanks for visiting!

Compendium of Curiosities 2 - Challenge 20

This week the technique from Tim Holtz's most excellent Compendium of Curiosities , Volume II, that Linda Ledbetter has challenged us to employ is the Enamelled Stamping technique.  If you want to know how it's done, you'll just have to buy the book!

I've used stamps from The Stamp Man and the Harlequin background is from The Artistic Stamper.   The dragonflies I stamped onto acetate (packaging material - crafty austerity is still in force) and adhered gilding flakes to the background.  Hope you like it!

Got to blog and run now as I'm REALLY late with this entry...see you soon!

WOYWW- 12 September

It's Wednesday, and it's time to go jaunting around the Blogiverse, inspired by Julia Dunnit.  Wednesday usually finds my desk between projects, as I have tidied up after the weekend's craftathon.  Dancing class happens on Wednesday night (it's Jive and Waltz at the moment)  so the desk is between sessions.

This week you can see some paints, sticky stuff, distilled water (for mixing with inks) as well as some assorted sticky stuff.   At the front left there's a couple of bits of work in progress - and I have no idea as to how they're going to turn out.  Ah wel, it'll be a surprise for all of us, then!

Thank you for stopping by - I hope you enjoyed your visit!

Time is a Companion

The recipe for the DragonsDream TIO challenge -
a beating heart, a weathered timepiece and a bit of grunge

So, using some of the techniques I've been learning from Andy Skinner's online workshop, here is my interpretation!

This tag turned out very different to the way it was planned.  The clockface was going to be in the middle of the heart, and there was only going to be one winged heart.  And I was going to use a different clock stamp in the background.  And only one sentiment.  Something just gets into me sometimes...

But I like the way it turned out.  Hope you do, too!

WOYWW - 5th September

Happy Wednesday!  Time to go careering around the Blogiverse, visiting workdesks, as part of Julia's WOYWW. 

This week my desk (annexe) is looking quite clean.  That's because I have just finished my piece of faux leather, one of the techniques in Andy Skinner's Timeworn Techniques course.  All I can say is, you should have seen it on Monday - there was paint EVERYWHERE. It was worth it, though, the finished product is quite realistic - it even feels soft and flexible, like leather.
Here's a better view-

OK, off to do some visiting now - hope you enjoyed your visit.stamping-ground.blogspot.com

Samhain Blessings

 

Create  something with a Hallowe'en-ish theme they said, at the Haunted Design  House Challenge Blog.  No problemo. said I,  my idea of a fun holiday is going and sitting in a haunted house hoping the ghosts will come out to play, so I can do spooky.  Ah, said they, but it has to be - flat!  FLAT? FLAT? That means no lumpy embellies....Oh, the HORROR of it...

 



So here's my interpretation.  The background is done with the Spritz and Flick technique from Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities, Volume 2.  The crow you probably recognise as a Sizzix Alterations die (love that crow).  Samhain is the Celtic New Year festival which corresponds with Hallowe'en and I stamped the letters individually. 

 

What's really scary is that it will be Hallowe'en before we know it, followed by Yuletide before we can blink...where does the time go? 

Not a Card...

The inaugural "Anything But A Card" challenge blog has launched (May God Bless Her, and All Who Sail In Her)

This is Not A Card, so I'm sharing it...

This little papier mache box has been altered using techniques I'm learning at Andy Skinner's Timeworn Techniques online course.   Andy is an amazing teacher and I'm having lots of fun;  this is my first make for the course and I'm so pleased at how it turned out.  Here's another view -

The initials on the lid - TF - stand for Thomas Felix (that's Major Thomas Felix), consort of that plucky gel, Lady Ermintrude Duffryn-Felix, who has been mentioned in this blog previously.

I worry about me, sometimes.