INK PAD STORAGE UNIT

Fed up with rooting around in a plastic box for the inkpad I wanted, I've been playing with my mountboard again. If you want to see how I made it, you can find my tute at MAKE SOMETHING NICE.

LET'S PLAY TAG!

I've just hosted a tag swap and the brief I gave was to make 2 tags with a vintage and/or distressed theme. These are my two that are now winging their way (well, in the back of a post office van) to 2 other places in the country.


Each tag is 6" tall. They were covered with some paper from a huge K & Co pad I've got. Everything was inked with distress ink pads Walnut Stain and Brushed Corduroy. I stamped the honeycomb grid and the birds using another of my new Kaisercraft Stamps (sheesh! I love Kaisercraft). Hope and Dream are Tim Holtz tickets and the boy is a Tim Holtz Ideaology 'Lost and Found' sticker. Dream and the chipboard key (inked with walnut stain) were crackle glazed. The text strips I did myself on my pooter and the other bits were from my stash.

Entering into:
TUESDAY ALCHEMY #24 - Very Vintage. TOP 3
JACKSON'S DIGITAL EXPRESSIONS #15 - Anything goes. DIGI WINNER
CRAFTS & ME #94 - Anything goes.
SIMON SAYS STAMP - Anything goes.
TOTALLY STAMPALICIOUS - Texture.
ANYTHING GOES #72 - Let's not be square.
PAPERTAKE WEEKLY - Make your own.
SHOPPING OUR STASH #61 - Something new.
STAMP N' PLUS #2 - Anything goes.
ART WITH NO BOUNDARIES - Anything goes.

GOING FOR GOLD!

It's challenge #127 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS and this week we want to see Gold, Silver and Bronze on your cards. Just the one or all three, whatever is fine. Sponsor is DIGI DOODLE SHOP with a $10 spend for our winner. The DT all used one of DD's images.

I chose to do something completely different for me and used one of the Fancy Frame digi stamps. Apart from the colouring and cutting out, it's a very simple card. Backed with gold sheen card and with a gold ribbon from a chocolate box, I think and that's it. I added my own sentiment inside the frame. I know just who's birthday this is for too. ;o)



Entering into:
DIGI DOODLE SHOP #117 - Anything goes.
MAKE IT MONDAY #99 - Anything goes.
PAPER PRETTIES MONDAY CHALLENGE #49 - CAS.

UP THE AMAZON...

Well, not the river of course, but Amazon online marketplace. I love Amazon and get loads of stuff from them including lots of books and I always throw the packaging away. But this time, I thought I'd do something else and I turned one of the cardboard book box/envelope things into a folder. First, I opened it right up and painted it all over with gesso.


I took a ring binder and placed the holes where I wanted them and then took it off to paint it. I also made a spine from mountboard to stick on when it was finished - a: for strength and b: to cover the brads attaching the ring binder.



Using acrylic paints, Dylusions inks and stencils and digi images from Octopode (enlarged to 8") and Ten Two Studios I decorated it. I bought a pad of ready prepared canvas sheets and then added them and now I've got myself a nice, bright painting book.

FRONT

INSIDE

The flap on the bottom right has been stuck down to make a pocket.

Entering into:
DIVA'S BY DESIGN #44 - Anything goes.
PERFECT SENTIMENT #41 - Anything goes.
CRAZY AMIGO'S - Free theme.
JACKSON'S DIGITAL EXPRESSIONS #14 - Anything goes with colour medium.
ART WITH NO BOUNDARIES (JULY) - Anything goes. FEATURED
MAKE IT MONDAY #98 - Anything goes.

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES.

Time for another challenge over at I ♥ PROMARKERS and this week, #125 it's CIRCLES, so we want to see lots of the round things on your card. Our fabulous sponsor this week is NITWIT COLLECTIONS. Now, I rarely, if ever use digi papers but of course, I had to this week and I must say, they print out exceptionally well. The papers I used for my card are 'Buds and Blossoms Too'. It's a nice play on words 'cause not only is there floral papers in the collection, there's also buds i.e. friendship papers! Best buds...get it? lol. If you've never been to Nitwits, you really should go and look, there's a massive selection of papers and kits.


I sat Tilda on a bit of ribbon that I'd wrapped around the mat, the sentiment is one of my own, the leaves were cut on my Robo, I made the flower very simply with 2 punches and I finished off with a few pearls and brads.

Entering into:
ATCS/CARDS WITH ATTITUDE #18 - Anything goes.
FAT PAGES WITH ATTITUDE #18 - Anything goes.
FUN WITH SHAPES AND MORE #113 - Summer Birthday.
MAKE IT MONDAY #97 - Always anything goes.
INSPIRE ME FRIDAYS #67 - Anything goes.
JACKSONS DIGITAL EXPRESSIONS #12 - Anything goes.
STAMP N PLUS #2 - Anything goes.
MEMA'S CRAFTS - Anything goes.

SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE

This week, I am proud to be guest designer over at GUYLOU'S INIMITABILITY and the theme is something that relates to music or dance. The prize is a $10 gift certificate to spend in store and a guest designer spot too. I combined two of Guylou's images to make my card - "Karaoke Chuck" and "Serena Plays her Guitar" both of which are available from the store HERE.

I used some musical papers that were in my stash which I inked with Walnut Stain distress ink. The clef and notes I cut on my Robo, the 'flower' was cut with a Tim Holtz die and I finished it off with some black gems, a doily and a strip of ribbon.

Entering into:
CRAFTY CREATIONS #178 - Free for all.
PENNY'S CHALLENGES - Anything goes and blog hop.
CELEBRATE THE OCCASION - Happy Birthday

HIS MASTER'S VOICE...

Hellooooo!! Happy 4th July to all our American friends out there.

It's challenge #124 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS and this week's theme is MUSIC. Our sponsor is the lovely JOANNA SHEEN with a £10 spend in store for the winner.

I recently bought a few new stamps and amongst them were 3 Kaisercraft ones, this one included. I love them as I really like an eclectic mix of images in one. As soon as I saw this one, I thought of the little dog that used to be on the old gramophones.


My papers are from the totally gorgeous Blitz pad 'French Kiss', the lacey border is a Cheery Lynn Die and a Tim Holtz die made the flower. I cut the music note on my Robo and then finished it off with a strip of ribbon and some black gems. I'm often not enamoured by some of my finished cards, but I actually like this one, lol.

Entering into:
LEJ Designs #10 - Fabulous flowers.
EMERALD FAIRIES #27 - Birthdays.
CREATALICIOUS #35 - Anything goes.
CUPCAKE CRAFTROOM - Layers.
MEMA'S CRAFTS - Anything goes.
JACKSON'S DIGITAL EXPRESSIONS #11 - Anything goes. FEATURED
PAPERTAKE WEEKLY - Anything goes.
STAMPNPLUS #2 - Anything goes. TOP 3
CRAFTY BLOGGERS #1 - Anything goes.
MAKE IT MONDAY #96 - Anything goes.
VICTORINE ORIGINALS #37 - Birthdays.