Wow, time flies.......... another Stamp Man ATC swap month already!!!

I can't believe it's a month since we started The Stamp Man's ATC swaps!! Where had the time gone? Well whilst we're all waiting for our Wings swaps to arrive (I can't wait, there were some STUNNING entries), it's time to get working on this month's theme, which is.............Time!

My first swap is made with The Stamp Man's Aspects of Design Butterfly Beauties stamp plate.

The background is made using my beloved smacking acetate technique, with lots of different colours of Distress Inks. I'm a big believer in waste not, want not, so if I have some smudges of ink left on my craft mat after ink blending I spritz it with water and dip some ATC backgrounds in. This one was probably dipped in 3 or 4 times over a few weeks.

The butterfly is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and the words are computer generated. I doodled lines around the words and the edges of the ATC then matted onto black card. It needed a lift, so out came the Stickles!

Hope you all feel like joining in, for all the details, take a look here or click on the blinkie in my sidebar.

It has been a bit of a manic week and weekend for me, so hopefully I'll be back into the creating and blogging routine. I need to make lots of swaps for the Docrafts meet next weekend at Luffy (woohoo, looking forward to it!!!!), so must get on.

Stamp Man Challenge blog- Challenge 2- Take 2 colours (DT card)

This fortnight's theme at The Stamp Man challenge blog is Take 2 Colours. Here's my take on it!

Pink and purple are not usually colours I work with, but I really enjoyed going extra bright. The butterflies and flowers are stamped with Distress inks in Dusty Concord and Worn Lipstick, on a background created using the same colours watered down. It's hard to pick up from the picture, but the purple card I matted the main image onto has been stamped with the butterfly wings. Hang on, I'll try an extreme close up.... 

OK, you can see it a bit better. The main butterfly was inked up with the 2 colours, then spritzed with a little water to blend them slightly.

Finishing touches were lots of gems and lots of eyelets and ribbon.

Ingredients


Stamps- Aspects of Design 61 Butterfly beauties (available from The Stamp Man)
Inks- Distress Inks Dusty Concord and Worn Lipstick, Versafine Onyx Black
Stash- Purple eyelets, pink and purple ribbons, purple card, purple glitter paper

Another wings ATC for the Stamp Man swap

I enjoyed this theme so much I went mad and made two........ here's the second one.

I used the Aspects of Design Butterfly Beauties stamp plate from the Stamp Man stamping over another smacked acetate background. I used the small swirl of flowers and circles to add lots of stamping  in red, blue, black and white to build up depth. Finished with Stickles, as ever!!

Ingredients


Stamps- Aspects of Design- Butterfly beauties
Inks- Stazon Blazing Red, Versafine Onyx Black, Brilliance Moonlight White, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass and Fired Brick
Stickles- Aqua