A New Obsession?

Yesterday I posted my entry for the Ready Steady Stamp Challenge and said I had found the "ingredients" difficult in the thought process. Well, since then I have had a couple more thoughts as to what I could have done so here they are.

The one above fulfills the criteria in that there is a Sun, it is Yellow, and I have put a Triangle on in the form of a stamped and painted Trionimo. At the bottom there is a piece of Ribbon and hanging from that is a Yellow tag with the sentiment "Best Wishes" on a piece of Acetate which is over the top. (I have actually put a finding on the back of the Trionimo so that it can be used as a pendant gift for someone.)

This is an atc which also fulfills the criteria. A Yellow Sun (Maiden - hope that is acceptable), a piece of Yellow Ribbon (I dragged a piece of white over a yellow inkpad) and the words "Sun Maiden" in different languages printed on a piece of Acetate which forms a Triangle in the bottom corner.

Think I need to find some other challenge to enter or I could get carried away with this one.

Ready Steady Stamp Challenge

Once again I have entered a Challenge. This one I found rather difficult in the thought process as I had to include: Sun, Acetate, Yellow, Ribbon and a Shape (Triangle). It is on Ready Steady Stamp and I am loving these challenges as they really mean you have to think.

Last night I began making it and I used Weathered Wood and Worn Lipstick Distress Inks, in undulating stripes, on a piece of yellow glossy cardstock. I tried to do a resist technique for the sun but it just would not work on this card (it was not glossy on both sides so it must have been something to do with the card itself). So I stamped the sun (made my own rubber circle stamp from some bits left over from mounting stamps) and then put clear ep over it so it would not take the ink.

Then I stamped two butterflies from one of my Non Sequitur plates on acetate and coloured them with Butterscotch Alcohol Ink. The blossom is a Rubbadubbadoo stamp but I cannot read who the lady is by on the side of the stamp. Sorry. She is rather delightful though isn't she?

I had only two of the criteria left to put into the card and the triangles were proving a problem. Then a light bulb got switched on this morning and I thought of photo mounts. I made four of them out of white paper and coloured them with Sunburst (Twinkling H2O's), only the ribbon remained and that was easy so I tried a couple of combinations and came up with this.

Hope I have fulfilled all the criteria and you like it. Oops! It is Asian again!

ATC'ing It

Didn't realise until just now that I have never uploaded any ATC's to my blog. Well, here goes! I made two ATC's for the TMTA Challenge that I came across via Sid's blog. The theme is King and Queen so who better than to have The King Himself - Elvis Presley.

On this first one I stamped lots of hearts for my background but you can hardly see them in the scan. IRL they are quite subtle anyway. Then I cut a heart shape out of music paper and stamped and embossed my Elvis stamp over the top. You probably wouldn't realise but the heart shaped brad has a tiny Elvis stamped on it as well. I think both these stamps came from Viva Las Vegastamps, certainly the small one did. The words are computer generated.

This second one has a clapper board stamped behind "The King" and a guitar behind Elvis for his film and music career. "The King" is done with my Dymo but the "undeniably" is computer generated again.
Whilst doing these two for the Challenge I could not resist doing another one using one of my favourite stamps which I have. Using Robin Beam's technique I outlined parts of the image with a white pen.
Now I have to make another ATC for a swap on Saturday so maybe I will get in ATC mode today - sadly that is another day without my beloved clay.

Scrapin' In

Just getting this in today - it's almost midnight!

Felt like journalling today so began three pages - none finished. What can I do (I hate to be so unproductive)? Decided to do my entry for a challenge on one of my Yahoo groups which was to colour a photograph with Distress Inks.

Had done this very muted page by taking some colour on a baby wipe from one of my other pages and smooshing it about so there was a page ready for me to use for a photograph.

What better photograph than one of my mum as a little girl and my grandmother.

Printed the photograph and then coloured my mother's dress with Tattered Rose and the collar (and grandmothers) with Milled Lavender. Made a little pocket at the bottom so that I can put tags with some journalling inside it and then it is kind of semi-private.

Did some gold embossing (fingers crossed whilst I was doing this as I did not know how it would be on a journalling page - no turning back) with a verse and a flourish and then a few flowers, a few words about "Memories" and it was finished.

Not at all like my other pages but I like it and I still miss my mum!

Forgot

I told my friend, Helen, I had strung these beads and thought they were on my blog - they weren't!! So hastily took a photograph and here they are. The "rope" look ones are the ones we did in Nottingham with Alison Gallant so I made some round and bicones and then strung them. It was only the other week I got them done as I have been looking for some filigree bead caps but canot find any 11 mm ones which are what I think I need. Have had to use other spacer beads instead.

Much nicer in real life as you see the mica in the beads.

Cute! What me!

I keep on saying I do not do cute but I bought these stamps way back a couple of years ago at Stempel Mekka because they appealed to me.

This is a birthday card for my friend Sylvia because I noticed she likes cute. I made it the other day but could not post until today as today is her birthday (and she might have seen it on my blog). Happy Birthday Sylvia!

Whilst on my Magnolia trip I made another one which is for another friend but as she does not go on my blog it is safe to put it here.

Off now to do some stamping, or maybe even to do something with clay.

Blog Header

Today I met my friend Paul (The Artsiders blog) in Bolton and we had a quick look around the shops (and he bought me a Lush Tisty Tosty ballistic to pamper myself in the bath with) and then we went back to ours for a sandwich and some chocolate cake which I had baked at 8 this morning.

Once I had seen Paul's album of his holiday in Brittany (loved it - and his new style), he had looked around my stamp room and spied a book which he fell in love with (he'll be ordering it on Amazon tonight), and then had some lunch, he showed me how to put a new header on my blog. I had chosen this photograph of our back garden in winter. He is coming back again, to give me lessons in how to do these wonderful things to my blog so watch this space. We are going to tidy it up as well so that it fits withing the confines of the designated area.

Hope you like it.