Saturday!

Good morning! It's Saturday and I've been up since stoopid o'clock again. Dratted insomnia! Ah well, at least I'm caught up on my TV viewing and I've done loads of the yukky housework..... time to blog and then some crafting to catch up on.

I have managed to sneak time for a couple of Fat Pages this week, this one is for an oriental themed swap. If you haven't tried making a Fat Page, give it a go. They're 4x4 inches square- it's a great size to create on.

The acetate panel is coloured on the reverse side with alcohol inks- the white splodges are silver and pearl mixatives. The image is stamped on the front of the acetate with Stazon ink. It's matted up onto a pale coloured card, so the coloured acetate shows up, then black for contrast.

Loving the koi carp!

I'm entering this into the following challenges: 

Crafts and Me- Anything goes challenge.

Papertake weekly- All creatures great and small.

Try it on Tuesday- Autumn colours.

Totally gorjuss- Anything goes.

Autumn fat page

I haven't made a Fat Page for aaaages, thought I'd show you what I came up with for the September swap I'm part of- the theme is autumn.

I stamped one of my favourite Lost Coast stamps of a gorgeous tree scene onto cream card in Versamark and clear heat embossed it. Once it was dry, I blended Distress Inks in Rusty Hinge, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Aged Mahogany to make a sunset (or sunrise I suppose), and give it an autumnal hue.

I didn't know what to do to finish the panel off, but on Friday night I spent a lovely couple of hours with some crafting mates- Angy, Kay and Margaret and Angy had the saying stamp.....a bit of tissue paper later and the panel was done! It's mounted onto gold hologram card and brown to make it up to the requisite 4 inch square.

Here's the back.

Beach huts

I'm motoring on with my Fat Pages for a swap I'm part of- this one is for the By the sea theme.

The background is made by dipping the card into Distress Inks that have been splodged and spritzed. Then the image (Michael Powell), is watercoloured with pencils. Spot of glitter on the water too.

Then I got a bit carried away with the seaside theme. More beach huts.

Thanks for looking!

Summer sihouette

Fat pages are fun!

I'm really, really getting into making them. I know to those large cardmakers and scrapbookers out there they'll still seem really small (4x4inches square), but to an ATCer, they're huge! The theme for this one was summer flowers.

The background is brayered using a Big & Juicy ink pad, perfect for a summer beach sunset. The stamps are a discontinued Stampin Up set, recently acquired by yours truly and I'm so glad I bought them..... Mounted onto black card to make it pop and the words are on a scrap of tissue paper. Just to prove that I can do simple!

Stamp Man DT time! Favourite technique!

The challenge at The Stamp Man this fortnight is to show a favourite technique. Oh boy. I can't choose just one........

I made a Fat Page for a swap I'm part of- the theme is water and this gorgeous Fran-tage mermaid from Stampendous just fit the bill perfectly. The background is sprayed inks (favourite technique #1). She's coloured with Twinkling H20s for added shine and cut out (not exactly favourite technique #2, but I do seem to do a LOT of cutting out) then layered up with torn vellum (tearing stuff- favourite technique #3).  Finally lots of bling (favourite technique #4.....well that's pushing it a bit, sticking gems on isn't really a technique, but I do love to do it!!!)

Actually, my all time favourite thing to do is stamp, so really, that's what I'm showing with this piece- and everything else I do, really!!!

Right, there's a Stamp Man voucher up for grabs and if you haven't headed over to the Stamp Man shop online recently, you really should take a look, there's 20% off loads of things and free UK postage for orders over £20 which is not to be sniffed at.

Octopode goodness

How about a spot of Fat Page action to brighten up your Sunday afternoon? With added Octopode goodness? Oh OK then, you twisted my arm.

The theme for this Fat Page swap is Steampunk. 

The background is embossed gold card, distressed a tad with some brown archival ink. Then the silver die cut cogs were heat embossed with text stamps and copper and gold embossing powders.

The Octopode stamped image is coloured with watercolour pencils, with a touch of gilding flakes here and there and a glossy accented front grill! The saying is part of a stamp from Indigo Blu.

As the challenge over on the Octopode Factory Friday challenge is anything goes, this fits perfectly!!!

Spring monsters fat page.

Isn't it fab when something you want to make fits in with something you've got to make and also fits in with a challenge?

I'd promised to make a spring themed Fat Page (4x4inch square), plus the challenge at the Stampotique Designer's Blog is Spring, and I wanted to play with my new monster stamps, so........

Front

Back

Dylusions spray ink background. Stampotique stamps. Added Glossy Accents for googly eyes and Stickles for sparkle.

I don't want to give this one away. I like it :)

Stamp Man DT project- texture

For this fortnight's Stamp Man challenge, we want to see you use some texture. I've got a Fat Page to show you. 

I used the free stamp with last month's Craft Stamper. Jill stocks Craft Stamper and Scrap 365 in the Stamp Man shop- always worth popping the latest copy in your basket!!

The texture on this piece comes from the mesh and corrugated cardboard behind the hearts. Fat Pages are 4x4inches square and are swapped and then usually made into little books. I wanted to add interest to this with some texture but it couldn't be too heavy or thick, so I added the impression of more texture with my background.

As ever there's a fab prize up for grabs, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Calm down now, take your time......

....much less frantic today. I've got next week off work, so today is a bit of a chill out and catch up before the madness of half term week!

Thought I'd share the other half of my Fat Book page book cover. Here's the back one.

Another Octopode Factory image. I really love this wicked witch. She looks kinda timid and a bit shy- but still as if there's a good cackle waiting to come out.

Same background as yesterday, some spray inks, stamps, embossing.....messy fab stuff. Love it!

I'm entering this into the following challenges- 

Crafty Cardmakers challenge- Cute with a dark twist

Papertake challenge- Halloween hues

Try it on Tuesday- Take to the skies (well, she's got a broomstick!!!!)

Quick, quick, hurry up!

Must post this quickly before I nod off to sleep. I'm soooo tired, I'm having a mad rush trying to get things done before I give up and get into my PJs!!!!

Made this today- it's the front cover of a book to hold my Fat Pages in (if you don't know, fat pages are 4x4 inch square, and I'm taking part in a swap over on Docrafts, so I'll soon have something to put in my book cover!!!

The image is an Octopode one...... I loooove Octopode images. The Mad Hatter always makes me laugh. The background is on mountboard, lots of spray Dylusions inks, stamping and embossing.

I'm entering this into the Octopode Factory Friday challenge. Every single week I write this challenge down and every single week time escapes me, but not this week! Hurrah!