Little people bookmark

Ooh the things you can do with your scraps.......

Scraps of spray inked card, lots of Stampotique people, glaze pens and doodling. Bookmark done!

A commissioned card- 100!

I was asked to make a card for a lady who is going to be 100. The brief was very specific- a church with a steeple, flowers, 100, pastel colours.... thanks to my mate Kay's stamp collection, I came up with this.....

The church is a Chocolate Baroque stamp- stamped in clear and heat embossed in silver pearl, which is why it's not very clear on the photo. Dovecraft paper, flowers coloured with Promarkers to match, swirls and pearls and Martha Stewart punches. 

I was quite pleased with it in the end- once I'd sourced the stamped image, it came together OK!

I'm entering this into the Try it on Tuesday challenge- which is Anything goes with a Twist. I used a Versamark watermark ink pad, Blue Pearl Promarker to ink the flowers and teeny tiny baby blue pearls, all available from the Craft Barn.

Music is the key

I'm running a music themed ATC swap over on Docrafts. The question is, could I shoehorn some more Stampotique stamps into the theme? Of course I could......

The background is brayered and the monsters are stamped onto music paper. The Stampotique Designers' Challenge is ATCs- Stampotique AND ATCs, it's like it was written for me!

Right, I now need to shoehorn them into a lady themed Fat Page..... that could be too tough even for a Stampotique-a-holic like me.....

Stamp Man DT project- Shabby Chic or Distressed

Ooh, the challenge this fortnight at The Stamp Man is a doozy- Shabby Chic or Distressed.

I made a banner! The cream ones are covered with Claudine Hellmuth sticky backed canvas- it's gorgeous stuff. They're stamped and inked with distress inks in Antique Linen and Tea Dye. The brown ones are cut from a card box. Added lace and string and buttons and I have a new decoration!

Hope you get chance to join in with the fun over at the challenge blog. There's a gift voucher up for grabs for the winner.

UPDATE: I'm really annoyed, I must have set the timer incorrectly and the post didn't publish at the right time........ grrrrrr.

WOYWW? More like, what ISN'T.......

A lot less colourful than last week- probably cos I've had no time at home over the weekend, so I've been working on commissions, which all seem to have been in pastel tones, very unlike me!

I'm a happy inky girl today, I got another top 3 in the Stampotique Designer's Challenge- for my doodled panel- you can have a squizz at it here if you want to. As regular viewers will know, I'm a Stampotique nut, so big smiles here today :D

Alrighty, sparkly point fans...... here we go. 5 points each for spotting......

• The commissioned card for a 100th birthday (100!!! How fab is that?)
• The little altered candle jar into which I put my punched flowers (always keep a flower or leaf punch on my desk, punch the pretty scraps as I go along)- it gets decanted into a bigger pot when I think about it. (Is that the jar you mean Eliza? :))
• The coffee tin that houses said punches leaves.
• Bargain 49p bunches of flowers I bought a couple of years back and they're still going..... (2 to spot!)
• My favourite pink retractable pokey tool.

For more desk action head over to Julia's Stamping Ground! Happy hump day everyone x

Doodling again....... for a Stampotique challenge

I've been doodling again. 

The background is made with spray inks, then I stamped the little Stampotique people in the corner and then got zentangling around them. My usual finishing off with white gel pen, a bit of pencil shading and some Glossy Accents (which never show up well on the photos......).

Oh how I love doing these, they're so relaxing to do. The challenge at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog is Oodles of Doodles.... I think this will qualify!

I got a top 3 on the last Stampotique challenge- for my flowery monsters Fat Page. Hurray!

Right, I've got a crafty mate coming round to do some making, got to dash and clear the table off.....

WOYWW- oh my.

This is what happens when a person goes to work and does nothing but dump stuff on her desk for 3 days......

OK, sparkly points time, 5 points for each spotting!

• My ATCs to swap folder- not many in there at the moment, I need to make more.
• My latest 3 Stampotique cards, the only sign that the mess on my desk is in any way productive.
• A favourite pair of Fiskars scissors- they're soooooo sharp.
• Some brayered card- I'm going for sunset colours, been ages since I got my brayer and big & juice ink pads out!

For more workdesk loveliness, get on over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see who's playing today.