RUDOLPH DAYS CHALLENGE - GUEST DESIGNER

I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer this month over at Rudolph Day's Challenge.   The theme is Anything Goes and I've chosen to use some stamps by Alison Bomber for my card.  

I used the water colour technique on the rubber stamps to create the borders.  Simply add the ink direct to the stamp and spritz with water.  It gives that very soft ethereal effect.  I love Alison's Christmas stamps with the Christmas Carols on them and wanted to use the Holly and the Ivy which is one of my favourite's at Christmas time.   It also enabled me to use the holly stamps I had in my stash.  The background music stamp is also one of Alison's.

CREATIVE ARTISTE MIXED MEDIA #112

We are back at Creative Artiste Challenge Blog after our Christmas break and hope you are all ready to join in with us again for another year of fun Mixed Media. I fancied having a go at a mini book.  It actually ran away with me and I made more pages than I had originally anticipated - it became quite addictive. It's quite a small little book - 4" x 5" and I simply folded sheets of paper and then did a seam binding with some Tim Holtz tape.  

All stamps used are Alison Bomber stamps from Paper Artsy.  I also used Tim Holtz collage paper Photographic.  I added some stickers from Tim Holtz Idealogy and tried to match appropriate sentiments to the images. 

I had great fun making this little book and would encourage anyone to have a go and just play. 

I'm adding this into the following:

The Outlawz Challenge - not a card 

Let's Craft and Create - AG 

Creative Fingers - AG 

CRAFT - AG 

Creative Inspiration - AG 

FAbnFunky - include stamped image 

Ellibelle Wednesday - AG 

We love2Create  - AG 

Allsorts -- AG 

Daisy Chain challenges - layer it up 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #479 ANY OCCASION

Welcome back to Addicted to Stamps and More and our challenge of Any Occasion.

Sadly I recently had to send a Sympathy card and wanted something nice and gentle.  This stamp by Alison Bomber was just perfect.  I masked off the square in the middle and added three shades of Distress Ink.  I simply stamped the seed head and the word peace from Alison's set EAB41 from Paper Artsy.

I'm adding this into the following:

Simply Cas - AG

Krafty Chicks - CAS 

Creative Moments - Monochrome 

CREATIVE ARTISTE MIXED MEDIA challenge #109

My goodness aren't the months flying by.  Welcome back to October's Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge where we want to see at least three different mediums on your project. 

A good crafting friend of mine had recently been on a paper making course and was showing me what she had made and very generously offered me some of her papers.  The one I chose inspired my canvas this month.  It was made from sunflower seeds and stems from a sunflower.  It is very delicate so I added some clear gesso for extra strength before I could start adding to it.  You can see it as my background on top of the canvas. It gives a great layer of texture to the piece.

I used one of the stamps from Alison Bomber's set Umbels which I stamped onto tissue paper and then added it to the handmade paper.  My friend had also just got back from the US and had kindly bought me a Tim Holtz ephemera pack.  Can you believe she went into one of the craft stores and they had never heard of him!!  The pieces I chose were the perfect colour for my muted autumnal background.

I added some Distress Ink to the edges of the canvas and used one of Alison's crackle stamps to stamp around the edges.

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - BIRTHDAYS

 

Time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and we are celebrating Birthdays. 

I've used the lovely new vase stencil by Tracy Evans to create the vase which I masked off first while I created the background with Distress Inks.  I added a crackle stamp by Alison Bomber to the front of the vase.  

The flowers in the vase are a mix of Tracy's stamps and I stamped and cut out some extra flowers to add to the front of the vase.

I'm also adding this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Add a Sentiment 

Allsorts - Flowers 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Beautiful Blooms 

Creative Inspirations - AG 

Ellibellies Crafty Wednesday AG 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - #472 CHRISTMAS

I'm delighted to be part of the Design Team for Addicted to Stamps and More.  After playing along for years it's great to be on their DT.  Here's my first contribution which is Christmas.  It's always a good idea to make Christmas cards throughout the year to try and avoid the rush nearer the time when we all have so much else on but still want to send our hand-made cards.

My Christmas cards always tend to be more of a winter style card and I loved one that Tim Holtz did which inspired my card.  I used the gel press to create the background and used stamps by Tracy Evans for the leaves and the pine cones.  The word stamp In the Bleak Midwinter is a lovely stamp by Alison Bomber for Paper Artsy.  I used Tim Holtz marker pens to colour in the pine cones and the leaves.  The snowflake is from TH Ideaology tied on with a bit of twine. 

I added it to a background piece of paper stamped with an old script stamp which you can just spot around the edges.  I then added it to some kraft card stock and added some white splatters. 

PLAYING WITH NEW STAMPS

Are you like me when you get new stamps ? - It's like Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one.  I purchased some of Alison Bomber's stamps from her new release from Paper Artsy.  I recently lost one of my cats - Jet was only 12 and two months ago was diagnosed with cancer and he went downhill quite quickly.  He was a rescue 10 years ago and we just didn't have long enough with him.  I saw these stamps from Alison and knew they would be perfect for my journal page for him.   The stamps are EAB41 Pressed Grasses Umbels and I loved the words and that crackle stamp is a must!

I've also had another play and made a tag with these lovely stamps.  I loved these soft colour combinations of Distress Oxide Brushed Corduroy and Versafine Medieval Blue - they have such a vintage feel to them.

I'm adding this into the following:

We love 2 Create - 

We love Stamping - AG plus florals 

Allsorts Challenge - AG 

Creative Fingers - AG 

As You Like It - favourite colours 

Little Red Wagon - layers 

CREATIVE ARTISTE MIXED MEDIA CHALLENGE #105

Creative Artiste

Creative Artiste is a monthly challenge blog for everyone who likes to mix their media. So, as long as you like to use various mediums on your creations, we'd love to see you enter the challenge.

Its the first Friday of the month and that means a new challenge over at Creative Artiste Mixed Media Creative Artiste Mixed Media where we ask you to include at least 3 different mediums on your project.

I'm sharing another journal page - I just love how this one turned out.  I was even so disciplined that I let the layers dry in between throwing all my mediums at it.  After adding gesso to the page I added some paste with a stencil and then used some inks and lots of water to get that smudged look.  The inks I used were Liquitex Acrylic Muted Grey and Tim Holtz Faded Jeans and Wilted Violet Distress Oxides.  The image of the window top left is a Shawn Petite stencil and the little window and frame is actually from my husbands model railway buildings - one he'd thrown away and I nabbed it.  It's just perfect for this page.

The butterfly die cut is from Tim Holtz and I added a pen nib to the body.  I added some background stamping from Alison Bomber stamps and the seal is of a ship at sea.  She has told us the significance of this stamp to her set in one of her videos.  I used some washi tape with the word Journey underneath the butterfly and the sentiment is from Alison's stamps.  I used an oil pastel crayon around the edges of the paper.

I'm sharing my art journal page with Art Journal JourneyArt Journal Journey - they ask what makes you  happy?  Art journaling makes me happy - I never thought I would be able to be this creative! 

I'm adding this to the following challenges:

 Creative Fingers - AG 

 Creative Inspiration - AG 

This is my May calendar page - I've set us a challenge on my own Facebook craft group The Joy of Sets to create our own calendars for 2025.