Tarmac Technique

This weekend I spent a lovely day with good friends at a Karen Clare workshop using the Tarmac Techique.

This is the lovely mirror I completed on the day.

If you get a chance to attend a Karen Clare workshop go for it!

Fussy and Fancy Blog Hop

MHello and welcome to my blog!

As you may have read on the

Fussy and Fancy Challenge Blog

our Spring Colours Challenge

is being hosted by our lovely

Katharina

and sponsored by the

FUSSY AND FANCY GIRLS!

That would include me!

If you are arriving here from the talented Jo's blog

then you are hopping in the correct order.

If not, please go back to the

Fussy and Fancy Blog Challenge
to hop in

the correct order.
 

Here is the tag that I created for

this fun Spring challenge
 

 

As a special bonus for my followers old and new
I am offering the following candy!

Two fantastic Claritystamp Stencils


To qualify, you must be a follower and leave
a comment.

Thank you for visiting! 

Now if you can please continue hopping over
to our very talented, Mary Lou's blog you will
continue to keep hopping in order. 

I have listed the correct blog hop order below
for your hopping convenience.




Thank you for your support

Yvonne

 

 Here is the blog hop order

 

Katharina

Judy

Laila

Annie

Vannessa

Norma

Celine

Ivonne

Nathalie

Jo Rice
Yvonne
Mary Lou
Millazin
Diana
Beth
Sam
Sheryl

Claritystamp Challenge - It's All in the Words

Well thank you so much everyone for all your lovely entries in The April Challenge - Monochrome.

There were so many good projects which made it extremely difficult to choose a Top 5, Congratulations to you all.

On to this months Challenge - and a Challenge is exactly what I made it this month!!!!  I had a project half done but needed a couple of extra items from Clarity to finish it off, the only trouble was they hadn't arrived!!!!

I then had to start again with a different project so took Barbara's tip from her blog a few days ago when she advised us to go to our stash of Gelli prints - voila!!!!  This is what I found.

Made using these stencils

I know one of the stencils is seaweed but I think it's wonderful for woodland scenes.

When I made the tag I needed something to make it stand out on the project so I tried putting it onto mesh from my stash, I really love the effect and will be using it again in the future.

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful projects again this month.

Bottles - Craft Stamper

The Challenge over on the Craft Stamper Take It, Make It Challenge is "Bottles".

I love Graphic 45 stamps and this is the perfect opportunity to use the Typography set.

For this tag I started with a size 8 Manilla Tag which I dry embossed with an ink splat embossing folder.  After inking with brushes and rubbing green Treasure Gold onto the the splats I stamped and embossed bottles onto heat resistant acetate and then painted the back of the acetate with white acrylic paint.  I then rolled tubes of copy paper and glued the bottles around them to give shape.  I stamped a couple of the bottles onto shrink plastic too and these were also added to the tag.

I stamped the sign and the pen onto Kraft card and clear embossed over the pen and added Treasure gold to the nib.

The Create definition was also embossed onto acetate and added to the tag which had been edged in Treasure Gold to bring it all together.

http://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/take-it-make-it-challenge-april.html

Fussy and Fancy - Pearls and Lace

Happy Good Friday!

It's time for a new Challenge over at Fussy and Fancy and the theme is Pearls and Lace.

I was very pleased with my Wedding Invitation - it's really pretty in real life - unfortunately it was virtually impossible to photograph!

I used a Hot off the Press background stamp which I embossed with Wow glitter embossing powder ( Will I never learn that I can't photograph shiny finishes!). I then coloured with Milled Lavender Distress Ink. Mi added Tim Holtz trimmings down the side which had Liquid Pearls down the centre.  All finished off with a topper and a pearl swirl.

Goosebumps

I followed the journey of Zoe Russell's Goosebumps when she was in Canada visiting her daughter at Xmas.  My daughter also lives in Canada therefore Zoe's trip was of particular interest to me.

Zoe let us into her crafty journey too and what she told us about Goosebumps kept my interest burning!!

Once home Zoe showed her very impressive makes with the intriguing Goosebumps - I just had to get some.  It's been sitting in my craft cupboard for several months completely untouched.

This is my first project using Goosebumps and I'm really pleased with the effect.

Hope you like it too.

Indigoblu Challenge - Spring Blossoms

This is my entry for the April, 2014 Indigoblu challenge - Spring Blossoms.

Tulips herald Spring therefore this stamp seemed the obvious choice for this Challenge.  To start with I stamped the Tulip with Gellato's then over stamped it with Watering Can Archival ink. I then masked off the Tulip and randomly stamped Best Wishes for the background using blended Gelato's.  This was then distressed around the edges and layered it onto black card giving a wide frame.  This was then layered onto yellow Bazill Basics and edged this by hand with a black pen.  The whole thing was then layered onto a marble background made with shaving foam and spray inks.

I stamped Spring onto the same marble background and cut out a tag shape which was attached to the top of the card.  I tried a ribbon bow on the tag but it seemed too fussy therefore I opted for a blob of glue covered with black Distress Glitter (I love Distress Glitter!) to give the appearance of a brad fastening the tag to the card.

All was layered onto cream card to finish off.  Take a look at the Indigoblu Blog as there is some lovely DT inspiration.

http://indigoblublogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/challenge-14-spring-blossoms.html