Craft Stamper Make It Take It Challenge

Right attempting the boot up the bottom technique to get myself doing some crafting other than my 365 journal.

So decided to take part in the new Craft Stamper challenge following Trish Latimer's Mono Printing Technique in the April issue,

So here is my one and only attempt so far, I went slightly off piste and did some stamping by using the acrylic block as my inkpad. So have used that as a background for my new feather stamps.

First pic is of all my prints from one application of paint, think I might have been a bit heavy handed.

and then my card.

Hope you like.

Kate Crane at the Artistic Stamper

"This is a paint brush"

painty background layer 1

Layer two

inky face (note point at page even when trying to clean)

Layer 3

Page two

a wee bit overkill, (wait till you see the next one)

do you think thats enough

you cant say I didnt try every technique ( at least theee times)

preparing layer 3

"point at page and spray"

and again with colour two

Kate 

dont know what shes laughing at, I cleaned the Ink off my face

The whole group showing their inky pages

(except me I left it inside...oops)

Can I just say a massive thanks to Kate Crane for journeying down "sarf" and to Jennie and Mal at the Artistic Stamper for hosting the class and for having a fab shop with lots of great items in it, many of which are now at home with me.

Oh and if you go to a class there have the lunch, it looked fab, I had bought sarnies (DOH)!

ps if you were at the class please comment so I can visit your blogs.

PPS. Will post finished pages when they are done

Can't beat a friendly crafter

A few years ago I had the luck to get a place on a the Paper Artsy weekend featuring Tim Holtz, I was so lucky, but went along on my own.  Now us crafters are a friendly lot, but I really hit the jackpot when I sat on the table that Jeannette and Gillian (sisters) were on, we got on like a house on fire and they made a brilliant weekend something very special, we were like sisters from another mother. Unfortunately the girls are Belfast lasses and Im in Kent so we havent seen each other since. (in the photo L -R Me, Gillian, Jeannette).  Check out Tim photobombing in the background . . LOL. 

Recently, I was extremely sad to hear that Jeannette was in hospital awaiting a major operation, so promised to send her a card. She replied she would love to receive one of my works of art (no pressure).  So I really had to put my thinking hat on, following an article in Craft Stamper I had purchased some slide mailers, so decided to see what I could come up with. Working full time doesn't leave much time for crafting and I did a bit each night, which worked out well as I looked at it with fresh eyes each day.

As we met at Paper Artsy I decided to use their products as the starting point, now I absolutely adore these stamps by Lynn Perrella, though her previous sets hadn't appealed to my style, but these did so I set to work to create a base with fresco paints.

Followed by distress ink stencilling, gold embossing, tissue paper stamping, glossy accents, grunge paste, treasure gold etc etc.... you name it I thought about using it.

So here is the finished product which Jeannette was really pleased with, phewee.

Time Flies . . .

Wow .... I have been gone a long time.

I have been doing crafting in that time but inspiration has been sparse, so here are a number of projects I've done in the last year that I havent blogged, "I can do Pretty" is the latest, finished only yesterday.

Many are family cards, projects or a part of Doodle Arts & Letters & Letter Love 101 by Joanne Sharpe, great online classes, I would recommend them.

I'm due to take a class with Kate Crane next month which I am really looking forward to at the Artistic Stamper in Kent, which I hope will kick start my mojo ready for the christmas card onslaught.

Whilst not being prodigious with my art I have been prodigious with my crafty spending online for when my mojo returns and have got many new stamps and masks (too many) ready for some inky play, dont you just love it, being able to shop whenever the need strikes.

Anyway I hope you enjoy my photo heavy blog.

  

 

   

 

 

 

      

Would really appreciate it if you take the time to comment. Thank You

A posy of flowers

 

A card for my fellow 1963 buddy, who turned 50 this week. As my craft room upheavals are virtually over I decided to let it all go for this.  I had a vision in my mind for what I wanted to produce and in the end I didnt veer off too much. Biggest bugbear was getting the flowers to stay put, realised I needed a flower oasis,but had to use a sponge instead as sunday afternoon and too late to nip out.

Hope you like it, Sharon loved it.