Stamping on a canvass board

Not sure I've got this right... composition and inks!... but I do like it...Though I wish I could chop it in half...!

Stamps
Paper Artsy...large dandilion? and thistle
Lavinia.. dandilions
La Blanche.. script
Can't remember where the stair rod type stamp came from but it is from a wonderful A4 sheet of texture stamps. It may have been in a stash box from Graphicus.
Sugar loaf .. blocks.

Inks
Stazon.script & blocks
Distress.. background.. Antique Linen, Scattered straw & Frayed Burlap
Adirondacks.. Woodland.. stair rods, dandilions, thistle &, quote.

Qote..Craziaboutstamps, Ebay.

tc xx Sue B xx

What no stamping!

 The DP and flowers are from Polka Doodles All Around the World CD. The only thing stamped is the greeting. The little tag is a Nellie die. Thank you Val, (Aquarius Blog on my side bar) for the info re: Nellie dies

tc xx Sue B xx

For all the woman we are!

I love this stamp by Inkadinkado... I know its a bit late for National Woman's Day but to my mind it's NWD every day!

products Used
Iknkadinkado
Crafty Individuals.... backing paper and swirl
Elusive Images..... Filigree stamp, spot the deliberate mistake!  tee hee
Making Memories... black ink pad
Kaleidacolor... Spectrum ink pad.
Wavy Line stamp...  can't remember where it's from...  :-(

At one point I was thinking of using ribbon, wasn't sure, then I thought hang on a minute... less is more as  Carol from the Cubby Hole says.

I'm using FireFox instead of Windows Explorer... it's great... much easier plus it has a spell check that can be used on any document, even here, how I lurve that!

xx Sue xx

Spotty Flowers

I've been having a play this afternoon, whilst the holiday clothes are drying on the line... We had a great few days and the weather was sunny .. no rain untill the journey home! and the holiday traffic was going in the other direction so no traffic hold ups..

This is a simple birthday card using Artemio clear stamps and Adirondacks watermelon and clover ink pad, with a bird charm from Ebay and thats all    :-)

  

xx Sue B xx 

A few days away

Hope you've all enjoyed the amazing weather we've experienced over the last few days... I have. My sister & brother-in law stayed the W/E, BBQ, meals in the garden, star gazing, trips to the garden centre, big cream bun! & red wine!

 Yesterday I went out with my friend Maureen... shopping. Bought a big photo canvass for the bathroom... its going back! it looks awful....  big mistake, don't know what I was thinking, apart from thre fact that I've been looking for something for quite some time.

Tomorrow Joe & I are off to Pembrokeshire for a few days. just cos we've never been there, going to explore the area, eat drink and be merry. 
The downside of the trip, I will miss a metal book workshop at the Cubby Hole  :-(   but Joe booked this trip as a surprise . Have a great time at the workshop guys.. I look forward to seing all your projects... enjoy!

xx Sue B xx

Whew! Just in time .. it's her B/D tomorrow!

need to dash to the hair dressers... see you later. Sue xx

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Later..    :-)

This is a card for my daughter Leesia, she loves fairies, moonlight and unicorns... has done since she was a little girl, fairies at least. She has a son of 16yrs now.. so as not to give her age away completely and mine for that matter lol.

This card took forever I'm going to give her  all the other attempts.. I'm not that good using a brayer but I really wanted to try and achieve a night time misty scene.  There are lots of things I don't like about the image.. but It's the nearest I got.    I was nearly pulling me hair out and buying a card!!!

 It highlighted that I need many more ink pads... I was restricted with my choices..I became quite inventive.

Stamps used;  Lavinia and Clarity.

Inkpads:  Adirondacks rainbow & plain, Memories, Distress, Big & Juicy

Charm Ebay

 Off to Leesia's now ... with card and gift.

xx Sue xx

Notebook!

I've been a bit of lazy blogger! the last couple of days not writing up my last two posts but this morning I took delivery of an Acer Aspire Notebook... so I just had to have a play!! So you my lovely Blogger pals ( I'm so glad you're there) are the first to benefit from my new toy.
 It means I can take it to my local craft shop The Cubby Hole, where another Sue is willing to teach me how to use Photoshop!! how cool is that! in return I will teach Sue how to crochet using patterns in other words
 how to read crochet patterns. I taught myself how to crochet in the late 60's using a Patons, How to Crochet Book consequently  I can only crochet using patterns unlike most people , so I'm told, who  were taught how to make crochet squares. I can't do that I need a pattern! My favourite was to crochet fine cotton borders onto damask tablclothes etc.
  So now I've bored you half to death!!  but  I've enjoyed playing with my new toy! and what's better  I'll soon be playing with new stamps. I must have me breakfast first ooh I think it might be brunch, I've been too engrossed to eat breakfast.....mind you that won't hurt since retiring I've piled on the pounds!!


xx Sue xx

ps No idea how I ended up with italic I's

For Frazer

Pink Lady

I have a few birthday cards to make in May... this is the first! I  will  fill in the details later (tomorrow probably) when I have more time.

xx Sue B xx

Art Journal... before and after!

After

The finished page... It just " growed "

Before

The before page... had no idea what to do with it!.. hence it just "growed"! Didn't like it iether wasn't what I had in mind.. still learning !

xxSue Bxx

Naughty but Nice

This is my entry for the Gothic Arch challange which this week is a fold out card. The DP is from my download collection and as usual I've no idea where I got it!. The images are a set I've been dying to use from Paper Artsy.

 The DP is printed onto glossy  photo paper,and the images are stamped onto the same with black Making Memories ink pad and embossed with detail clear embossing powder. The background is stamped with swirls and flowers with a couple of stamped and embossed flower embellishments. 

xx Sue B xx 

Just had a thought... this might not qualify as a fold out card...  oh dear..   :-)

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It's a Man Thing!

The Cubby Hole swap for April is to make two cards for men..  here's my two.. late as usual. mind you the last two swaps I didn't make at all... started, never finished so hooray for  the April swap! 

For the top card I used darkroon door bicycle stamp and qoute stamped with distress inks, tea die. The label was swooshed with antique linen and tea die.  The bicycle embelishment is a flattened, cuttle bug style, bottle top  filled with glossy accents which was sprinkeled with cosmic shimmer powder , bronze and yellow, whilst it was still tacky I popped in the bike charm.

The bottom card is made from a combination of K&co  and Crafty Individuals papers and images. I'll be taking them to the Cubby Hole tomorrow.

xx Sue B xx

and here's the one that got away... tee hee. This one is staying in the bottom of my box!

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I will publish the swaps when I get them

Sue xx

Joe's post..... don't believe every thing you read !... lol,

Art Journal...

This is the first page ,well second actually of my first art journal. after it was painted  etc I was at a loss what to do with it so it got left alone. Then a couple of Saturdays ago I attended the second  art journal workshop at the Cubby Hole with Sarah Anderson. The workshop was all about techniques for adding colour. This page was my wax resist page.  I drew flowers in purple, yellow and black in crayon and put colour over the top... I hated it!!! . I can't draw for toffee, thats why I LOVE stamping so this page was left to lanquish ... again!

Today Ive had a new bed in my " making room "( nooo not for me to rest on, although at  times that seems like a good idea,) but  for my guests. My "making room" is also my spare room. You can imagine I had quite a bit of tidying and sorting to do to take out the old bed    ( which was absolutely covered in craft stuff) to make room for the new bed.  whilst I was moving things around I came accross a big flower stamp and the idea for  the above came to mind!

I have not covered the crayon flowers completely, if you look close you can just see them peeping from behind the black flowers and also through the black ink... I quite like that. I wanted to be reminded  of why the page ended up the way it did. The journalling, is it one L or two? ( well a few words) was computer generated. It says ,where there's a will there's a way.

xx Sue B xx

For Avril

This is for Desi to give to Avril who has had a very sad time recently.The image was reqested by Desi ( I made a card for her with it last year) I've deliberately kept it simple and elegant. It isn't difficult to always achieve an elegant  result with this image from Elusive Images, Peacock Lady A4 themeplate.

I stamped two images one in  black for the base, one in Versamark which was embossed with Cosmic Shimmer, artic black aurora. The dress is painted with Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent water colour paint,  Summer Grass and Persion Blue it was then decoupaged with one layer. The skin is coloured with promark skin tones. The backing paper is from the Graphicus Guild paper packs. I've been swooshing again! with blue and green from Big and Juicy Happy Birthday pad around the image.

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I've just checked  Artyliscious Decadent Brocade CD, the backing paper pattern is on it, but unfortunatley it doesn't apper in this colour way... sad or what, I've used my only sheet!  I might have missed it on the Cd ... so let me know if you think  it is on the CD. Ta!

xx Sue B xx

Inky Bird

This is as a result of "playing" with paints/inks and things. Actually it's what was left on the baby wipes so I smooshed  it onto water colour card then had a go with the template  with  black ink. It might end up in my art journal ..

Not sure about this card, my sister might get it or she might not! lol

xx Sue B xx

For Anne... maybe :-)

 

Not sure how to proceed with this... I'm hoping to make it into a card for my sister, she loves gardening and wildlife.

The background was brayered with the green end of Big and Juicy, Happy Birthday ink pad.  It's not showing up all that well but is delightfully... misty....The image stamps  are by Artemio coloured with Brunzeel Colour Express felt tips, these produced the effect I wanted after trial and error with various other colouring  mediums.

xx Sue B xx

Get Funky Challange..... April Showers

This is my take on the challange over at Get Funky. Its a bit tongue in cheek but I hope it fits the bill!
 Every thing apart from the computer generated sentiment and  the paper lace is from Funky Hand Papercraft Factory, Dreams Come True. Ooh I forgot there's also a bit of Glamour Dust . I wish I'd printed the digi image out twice so that I could decoupage  a couple of the flowers.The images are  individual  digis that have been resized and placed in position... I could never repeat it and get the size right, so I didn't!   :-)  Nearly forgot, I used Copics to colour in the images.

xx Sue B xx

Butterfly

It's not scanned well...I'll take a photo tomorrow when the lights better, not sure it will be an improvement tho! The two layers of the wings, the top one being on acetate .. don't show up at all.

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The butterfly was stamped using Encore Ultimate Metallic.. four colours called Enchanted Evening.  the bottom layer stamped onto white card that had been swooshed  ( don't know what else to call it  :-) . ) with the bluey green end of Blending Blox shades of green and with the lighter end of shades of mauve, then embossed with clear detail embossing powder. The top layer was stamped & embossed in the same way but onto clear acetate. the Cuttlebug embossing flower plate was swooshed (that word again) with  the colour, thistle,  from Colour Box pigment ink cat's eye Q.

xx Sue B xx

Shaun's 16th

This is for my grandson Shaun, who will be 16 yrs on Wed 7th.

 More info re: papers etc. later.

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Next day... Easter Monday.

First of all hope you all enjoyed the Easter break 

  As promised the low down on the make up if the card!

The papers are from Craft House Allsorts collection, mounted onto black card stock. I did a little bit of doodling on the black circle. The number 16 is from Diamomd Card Craft Eazi-Alpahbet & Number Tenplates, cut out in black card & covered with paper from the Allsorts collection. I  used Dimension Fourth alphabet stamps for the name, stamped onto clear shrink plastic( wished I'd had a big enough piece of black !)  using a  Gold ink pad .......  then after several attempts of trying to make it black! I finally opted for colouring in theshrinky with  black  Copic! I made the mistake of colouring in the name after it was shrunk... cos I thought it would be ok white but it didn't look quite right. I coloured the letters in with Sakura metallic pen. If  I'd got enough time to buy black shrink I would redo it!!!

Cheers

 xx Sue B xx