Twelve days of Christmas: Day 11

Entries are coming thick and fast now!

Here is my take for Day 11, using an Alice in Wonderland stamp from Stamp Attack. I have had the set for ages, love it but the stamps are not that easy to use...

The background is a clear stamp from Visible Image, with an Anna Griffin border top and bottom. I have glued coloured crystals for the music notes and hand drew the stalks. The corners are metal cut-offs from a project I finished recently and were just too pretty to throw away!

Here is my entry for the Tenth day of Christmas in the UK Stampers challenge. Finding the Lords image was easy: I have always loved this Paper Artsy stamp and the gentlemen are very Lord-like and so perfect for this. Making them leap was another story though...


Here is my attempt, using squiggles from the Stamp Bug as springs. The cogs in the background are from Paper Artsy too.

Twelve days of Christmas: Days 8 and 9

I am now in catch-up mode and did days 8 and 9 today. Day 10 will follow soon and then I'll be back on track for the wonderful UKSTampers Twelve days of Christmas challenge!

You know you have too many rubber stamps when you go through your animals wondering what you can use as a substitute for a cow and realise you have three different cow stamps (OK, one of them turned out to be a bull...).

The girls image is from a company called 'Blue Cardigan' which seems to have ceased trading. If anyone knows where to get their stamps please let me know! I extended the wires with a pen, and hey presto! The flowers/grass are Art Impressions and the cow came from a job lot on eBay eons ago. Background is sponged Distress inks.

OK, this one was quick and easy. Since the beginning of this series I have been meaning to use these Invoke Arts dancers, and the Prima tassels border just begged to form the curtain.



You cannot really see it on the scan but the main dancer's outfit is enhanced with glitter pens. I will add a shadow for the main dancer as she looks a bit silly floating in mid-air - I did not realise until a moment ago!

Twelve days of Christmas - day 7

This is my entry for day 7 of the Twelve days of Christmas challenge on the UKSTampers forum. The stamp is by Inka (I chopped off some rather long legs!) , and the background is a collage of napkins from a swap years ago on the Practical Publishing forum ago and anaglypta swatches courtesy of B&Q.

http://www.ukstampers.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3056

This is my sixth entry for the UKStampers Twelve Days of Christmas challenge - it is getting harder and harder!



The bird is by Dimension Fourth (minus a very flourishy tail!) and the eggs are by Paper Artsy. The backgrounds are all acohol inked and the bird is coloured with Sakura glitter pens.

I'm glad I started captioning the series as I don't think anyone would have recognised this as a laying goose otherwise!

Fifth Day of Christmas: Five gold rings

This is my entry for the Fifth day of Chrismas in the UKSTampers challenge.
 The fir tree branches are stamped in Brilliance ink and the lights coloured with Sakura glitter pens. The rings are from Clarity - I have had them for ages! The hanging strings are drawn with Sakura metallic pens.


Finally I edged the card with more Brilliance inks and used scraps of red paper for the text and number.
Simple really!

Twelve days of Christmas: Day 4

Here is my entry for the Fourth day of Christmas on the UKSTampers challenge. Inspiration struck at 1am last night and I just had to act on it! The stamp is by Elusive Images and the little birds are Clarity stamps. The sponged background was done with Distress inks and I used my old Provocraft wheel stamp for the words.

UK Stampers 12 days of Christmas: Day 3

  Here is my entry for Day 3: I could not resist making it a Tricolore :o)

The stamps are from a children's set I bought in Aldi ages ago, and I used Impress inks to colour the hens and most of the background as I wanted something colourful.

Second day of Christmas

Here is my offering for the UK Stampers' Second day of  Christmas challenge

Again I sponged Adirondak dye inks on cream card for the background, then stamped tassels and the beautiful grille using Prima clear stamps and raisin ink. The birds were stamped using a Wendie Rhodes stamp, once on the card with Adirondak Woodland and once on acetate with Brilliance Mineral. I tried the 'kissing' technique using a PaperArtsy swirl on the bird but it did not show as well as I hoped.

The fabulous Jennie from the Artistic Stamper is offering the chance to win some of Tim Holtz's film strip ribbon on her blog - worth having a look even if you don't win, as her blog is full of inspirational art.

UK Stampers challenge: 12 days of Christmas

Here is my first UK Stampers challenge entry - and when I master the technology I will even include a proper link somewhere.
The theme is 'The 12 days of Christmas' and you can find out more about it here

 I know the instructions say to add holes but I have not, because I am not sure what I will do with the completed pieces.

The bird stamp is from Wendie Rhodes and the other stamps are by Paper Artsy, of course! What the scan does not show is the shimmer of the bird and text, which are embossed with the gorgeous Blonde Moments embossing powders.

More Teal and Orange...

It's addictive! Once I got started, I just had to try more. It's also a great way of using up papers while producing quick and easy cards, I'll have to do this more often...

Core-dinations

I have been playing with my stash of core-dinations and Cuttlebug folders, and here is the outcome.

Somehow orange and teal is a combination which I have used a lot these last few months - perhaps trying to bring a bit of colour to otherwise rather drab summer days!