.....and things to do......

The challenge at Stampotique Designer's Blog this week is vintage. 

So I spent a little time yesterday altering this little notebook.

Like my new suitcases stamp? I do!

France Papillion's stacked suitcases and birdy Stampotique stamps are stamped onto a book page, then pencil watercoloured. The background is splodged Distress Inks and doodling!

Fairy godmother kisses

My little girl has a lovely fairy Godmother, so this year we made her a fairy card.

Lots of Lavinia stamps on this one :) The background is made with the good old smacked acetate technique (or splodge, spray and dunk.....), there's a little tutorial here if you want it!

I took a couple more pics, to try to get the sparkle to show- I'm usually a Stickle devotee, but this time I went for Glamour Dust........which got EVERYWHERE..... which reminded me why I use Stickles.....

Glamour Dust is very pretty though, and dries much swifter. I used Distress Inks for the background- Peacock feathers and Pickled raspberry, then Versafines for the overstamping.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Wednesday challenge- Anything goes with buttons

and also into the Craft Room challenge- Transport......well, how do you think fairies get around? Those wings must get dirty, lol.

I'm also entering it into the That's Crafty, Inky Anctics challenge,
and the Cupboard Trilogy challenge- Mothers.

Have a lovely, fairytale Mother's Day!

Help!

I snagged this stamp second hand and I think it's fab!

The paper's a bit eyewatering, but it works, right? 

I'm entering this into the very apt Try it on Tuesday challenge which is Music

and Allsorts challenge which is All about the boy

New DT, new card!

OK, so I looked at the quality of blogging going on by my new That Craft Place DT buddies and thought I'd better up my game! 

I spent this morning doodling and generally faffing around and made this.....

Paperarsty stamps, ooh how I love those little houses, use them A LOT! The background was a left over bit from something else, but made with Distress Inks and water and splodging (technical term there......). The hill and bubbles and bottom section are all doodled, which makes me happy!

So That Craft Place..... it's a shop physical and virtual, and a bit of a Facebook phenomenon for some of us!

If you fancy a look, try out........

 That Craft Place - the online shop

That Craft Place Challenge Blog

That Craft Place  facebook group

That Craft Place Natter and Chatter 

I'm in Team B, so we'll be lurking and chatting and posting on the Facebook Natter and Chatter group for a couple of months, and then taking over the challenge blog once the A Team have done their thing. Should be fun!!!!

Hope your Sunday has been treating you well, be happy!

You'll never guess what?

Something good's happened. Really, really good. I've been asked to join the design team for That Crafty Place. Look, I gots me my own banner and everything.

Exciting huh? I'm raring to get going! 

Check out the rest of my new team mates at That Craft Place blog!

Shut up!

Now here's something I hadn't taken into account when taking photos of my creations. I quite often lie my makes down on some interesting paper as a nice background. Well, when I did it with my wise owl....... it didn't look quite right.

It fights with the background. Now compare it to this.....

Now I think that makes old owlie pop out a bit.

I'm thinking of blowing this up to A1 size and hanging it over my desk at work. Yes, it's been that sort of week. Already.

I'm entering this into the Stampotique Designer's challenge 137- Textured backgrounds. I made this using the Distress Ink, spritz and dunk technique, for lots of foliage type texture in the background. Plus some background stamping. I also like to stamp over a dark background with white ink for a spot more impact.

Anyway, better take my owl's advice, eh? Shut up Lisa!

Chatterbox the angel

Dontcha just love it when a background just works?

I did a spot of splodging Distress Inks onto my craft mat- you know the drill, water spritz, dunk the card, repeat until happy........

I went for greens mainly with a touch of blue on this ATC. Then I remembered that the latest Stampotique Designer's challenge is to use green, so.......Mort had to have green clothes. He looked kinda sad, so I found him a spare pair of wings and promoted him to angel.

Anyone wanna swap?