Flowers Are The Music Of Life tag

I've been playing, and have had a lovely time. I've been using one of my favourite stamp sets - button florals. 
I love this stamp set! It has lots of little funky stamps and I always find myself going back to them.

I'm also having a blue period and I automatically go for the blue tone ink pads. I think this period is going to last for a while because at the minute, I'm in love with my Peacock Feathers Distress ink!!!  

I decide to recycle some cardboard and create a tag.

I made some 'homemade' texture paste and put it through a dotty mask then inked the tag in three diagonal strips with Distress Ink. 

I then created the background using a selection of the stamps from the buttons floral set. Randomly stamping the circles then embossing with gold powder and doing the same with the spots with black powder. 

I stamped on to tissue with a music notes stamp, tore the tissue and applied it to the tag using bees wax. 

I coloured the flowers with peacock feathers distress ink and dipped it in the wax. I did the same with some silk leaves. 

I added a sentiment, corner embellishment and some ribbon.  

Thanks for looking, hope you leave a comment..... 

ATC SWAP @ TCP

Hello lovely followers. Not been round for a while, I have a pile of projects that I need to blog and no time to do it!!! AAARRRggghhhh!!

But here is one I have had the chance to blog. I'm very excited about this one. It's the ATC swap from That Craft Place Natter & Chatter facebook page. I'm pretty pleased with this as the challenge came with a couple of 'rules'.... to use brown and/or turquoise AND if possible, use a household object. Er, yey....
Brown and/or turquoise I can handle but a household object.... 

As a general rule, I'm not keen on ATC's because of their size. They are teeny! And when you like working on an 8 X 8 scale.... yey!!!

But I got to work and this is what I came up with.

My ATC using brown and turquoise. 
I used:
* some lovely distress inks (peacock feathers, vintage photo and walnut brown), 
* typed alphabet stamp, 
* fabric pattern stamp gold embossed, 
* die cut flowers, 
* UTEE covered leaves 
* and..... my household object.... 3 drawing pin heads covered with stickles!!!

Hope you like it....

Please leave me a comment as I love to read them and see what you you think of my work.

PANDORA'S BOX,... well, Marion's...

It was recently my very good interiend's birthday, my interiend, Marion, is now a good crafty friend who I met on facebook sometime ago. We speak every day, along with a few other mischievous ladies... and I will leave it at that... er hum... it was recently Marion's birthday and as friends do, I made and sent her a card. But, me being me, shoved it through the postbox instead of going in the the post office. A few days later, after Marion's birthday had gone, I got a message from Marion saying she had recieved, not my card, but a letter from the post office saying they were holding a card as it had the incorrect postage!!!
Great!!! So as I failed to send her a card this year, I thought I would make up for it and use my lovely melt pot to make her this chest.

Happy Birthday Marion!!!!!! hip hip....

I took the fastenings and hinges off and painted the box with ivory emulsion paint (for some reason I'm loving using emulsion for a base coat lately...) then inked with Weathered Wood Distress Ink. 

I got out the melt pot and melted some yummy bees wax... mmmm.... I stamped on to tissue and adhered it with the bees wax on the inside of the lid.

I stamped directly on the outside of the box with Archival Ink and painted over it with the bees wax to create create texture. 

I made some flowers and dipped them in the bees wax along with some silk leaves and added them to the lid of the chest.

I melted some clear UTEE in the melt pot and covered a silver butterfly charm with it then used a flower shape cutter to create the shape. I made three of these and put them on the lid with the paper flowers.

I recently purchased the Katy Sue buttons mould and thought this would be a good time to play with it. I filled the mould with the clear UTEE after it had been in the pot for a while so it was quite an amber colour. 

I was going to colour the buttons but thought they looked lovely and also gives Marion the option to colour them if she chooses. 

I really enjoyed creating with the melt pot for this project and enjoyed making it even more because I knew Marion was going to receive it.

Bits and Bobs I used....

* wooden chest box

* patterned paper 

* Weathered Wood Distress Ink

* leaves

* clear UTEE

* bees wax

* flower mould

* Katy Sue button mould

* butterfly charms

* button florals stamp set

* cosmetic tissue 

I would like to enter this creation in the following challenge:

Artful Times - challenge 50 anything goes

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - march challenge 

DITZIE DIGI DESIGN - TCP GDT

Welcome to another challenge at That Craft Place and this week we are sponsored by the fabulously talented Ditzie Digi Design.




DDD has currently started their own challenge blog to be purely digi related and as it is part of That Craft Place is it an amazing blog to join in the fun!!! (Go straight to the DDD blog by clicking on the DDD image.)

Back to That Craft Place challenge. DDD has an huge selection of amazing designs to chose from and for this challenge I chose steampunk girl. 

I also chose a selection of digi papers from DDD to work with which I found complemented the image so well. 

Here is what I created for the challenge...

I decided on a brown/bronze/green colour palette to work with. I coloured the image with Spectrum Noirs and mounted it on to checked digi papers then on to black.

I took the cogs and harlequin pattern digi papers and inked them with distress inks. The mechanical digi paper, I inked it then brushed it with mica powder to add a shine to the paper, then layered each paper on to black. 

I arranged the papers and added the image then cut out some of the clocks and added them to the sides. 

I added the sentiment and some watch parts to finish. 

Bits and bobs I used...

* DDD image 'steampunk girl' and DDD digi papers

* Spectrum Noirs

* Distress inks

* Mica powder

* Watch parts

Thanks for looking.