Then using a couple of fern stamps and the same dark brown inkpad (I like to keep a fairly simple palette) I stamped randomly over the whole thing.
Hope she likes it!
Happy Tuesday :D
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In the U.K. Mothers’ Day is this coming Sunday, it is also the start of British Summer Time so yay! The evenings will be lighter. I live right at the opposite side of the country to my family (believe me it is better all round this way) but that is no excuse (apparently) to not send a card, so I have made one and sent it merrily on its way to Yorkshire. I was undecided whether to make a rose or violet themed card but when I saw the paper with the rose design it made my mind up. My mother’s favourite colour is green and I had a lovely green paper which went with the rose paper perfectly. I always like to use a third neutral paper to calm everything down a bit and having picked my three papers I tore lumps out of them and stuck them to the blank card. Then I inked up the edges with a dark brown inkpad and using a stencilling brush and the same ink I “grimed” up the papers a bit and inked the white torn edges as they can glare a bit if left clean. Then using a couple of fern stamps and the same dark brown inkpad (I like to keep a fairly simple palette) I stamped randomly over the whole thing. I almost always like to stick a butterfly or moth of some kind on whenever I make any form of collage, I have a collection of them ready printed and cut out. I picked the one that most fit in and on he went. If memory serves the image is from here. I printed off the pink rose image, which I think is a Victorian scrap image I got from The Graphics Fairy. Then the fun part - cutting it out. I cut out the middle parts with a craft knife, for fiddly jobs like this I don’t use my trusty scalpel, I find it easier to use a pen-shaped knife. The round handle is much easier to control I think. Then a big old pair of scissors for the outline. Use the biggest that you dare, it makes for much smoother results. 3,000 foam pads later and it is stuck onto the card and not budging for anybody. Okay, maybe not 3,000, but it felt like it when I was peeling the backs off them.
Hope she likes it! Happy Tuesday :D
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This was started well over a year ago, I wanted to make a little, shaped book, it would be bat-themed, it would have dingle-dangles and ribbonny bits. I made a template, got all my stuff together and began. Typically I ran out steam about half way through and stashed it in a drawer; I always do that, I’ve a Halloween album lurking somewhere that’s even older than this. For some reason while I was cutting out a sticker sheet this afternoon I got a mad urge to dig this out and finish it off. I’ve a lot more supplies than I had when I started so I managed to get it all done within a couple of hours. Please to excuse the excessive watermarking, I was going to post the pictures individually but realised that there were just far too many so I ended up combining them to save your browsers, you’re welcome ;) Click on the images to embiggen. The pages are all cut from old food packaging, two pieces stuck together to make it more sturdy. They were then covered with decorative papers and the edges were inked up before sticking on the various bits of stuff that make up the layouts. Most of the images used are from The Graphics Fairy, I’m not sure where the labels came from, I just googled I think. I have a mini tag punch for the little tags, then just poked holes in the page and wired on the beads. The words here are all related to bat symbology, dream meanings and the bat as a totem animal. I downloaded a font as I don’t have one of those label makers sadly. If I did it would be like that episode of Dexter’s Laboratory where he and DeeDee label the whole house. I love the way the ink looks on this linen effect cardstock. The bat’s breath label is one of my Halloween labels. I think the rhyme is Cornish, it’s like one of those superstitious verses to ward off bad luck like saying “Hello Mr Magpie, how’s your wife?” Airy mouse is a nice name, in Yorkshire a bat use to be known as a flittermouse, which shares the same Saxon origin as the German fledermaus. See, it’s not all cutting and sticking this, you know . I am partial to black feathers, but boy do they ever fly about the place, I almost dread opening the bag.
I am pleased that I finally managed to finish this, I hope you like it. Happy Wednesday. TTFN Ok, I know I haven't posted anything for an age, I'm lazy what ya gonna do? Anyway, I'm here now and I come bearing gifts! Yay! I have made printable tags for Valentine's Day related papercrafts. There is a mixture of vintage images, Victorian scraps and other jiggery-pokery that I threw in to make it more interesting. They are 5cmx7cm and will fit in a large tag punch (which is why they are 5cmx7cm). Or just cut them out as they are, you can round the corners off, use deckle edged scissors whatever you prefer - no judgement here ;) I made three pages each with nine tags, I have uploaded them as JPEG images this time rather than PDF files, if anyone could let me know whether this is better or not I would appreciate it. As ever, go to the downloadables page and click on the image you want to download, you will be whooshed to the box site where all the printables live.
Hope you like them. TTFN I may be judging people by my own standards but I think that everyone likes free stuff. If you don't then I really don't think we can be friends....go on, be off with you....shoo. Right that's got rid of the oddballs, where was I? Yes! Free things! Well, Hallowe'en is on the horizon and you're going to want to be making stuff amirite? (Yes is the answer). So I spent the entire weekend, when I wasn't following the darts in Germany, so almost the entire weekend making some Hallowe'en tags for printing off, cutting or punching out and sticking to things. Hurray! I made two styles, vintage and erm not-vintage (sorry I can't English today). These are the vintage style tags. Lovely old images of witches, skeletons and a rather odd pumpkin army on the march. These are the others. They are available to download via the link on the left, click on the image you want and another window will take you right to the download. The download is in PDF file format so you will need Adobe reader to open it (which is free to download from Adobe). There were too many downloads in that paragraph :/ I have a bunch of Hallowe'en labels to work on now so
TTFN! As I hinted in my last post, collage is a favourite art form of mine and has been since I was at school many, many years ago. I think it is because I have such eclectic tastes and with collage you can layer such disparate images and items together and give them a common theme. Also it’s a good way to use up little bits of things that would otherwise be wasted so it appeals to both the Yorkshire woman and the Womble in me (that last is for the older viewer I suspect). I use collage a lot, I make mini collages on greetings cards and for book covers, some of which I posted last time. I recently made a pair of larger collages, one where all the images relate to a theme, in this case Paris, France, and the other where the images don’t relate to each other but the fact that they are all the same size and shape is what ties them together. I am still undecided on the French one but I do like the square one and will very likely make another, I will have to as I punched out about a million of those little squares.
TTFN I have wanted a Bind-It-All machine for years, since I saw a demonstration of the first blue one on a shopping channel. I have always loved notebooks, especially spiral bound ones and to have the ability to make my own, or my own journals is nothing short of nirvana to me. I decided once and for all that I was going to have one and found a decent used one for sale on everyone's favourite auction site. I went a bit mad when it arrived and this happened... That is quite a pile non? Here are some of their faces. The following is an album to keep bookmarks in. I stole the idea from Kira Nichols' Oops I Craft My Pants blog. Her style is completely different to mine but I always think that it's possible to remake things in whatever style one chooses. I thought it a great idea and stored it away. Next is a small art journal made with a variety of stuff including textured paper, envelopes and luggage tags. Lastly is a notebook which shows that you don't actually need a Bind-It-All to make a wire bound notebook. This was a cheap notebook with a spiral wire which I just unscrewed, as it were. I made new hard covers and punched holes using the original cover as a guide and then re-screwed the spiral wire in. Another thing I love about making or rebinding notebooks etc is that I can indulge another great love of mine - collage!
More on that in the next post TTFN |