Stamp Addicts 6 DT Pieces

Ok... finally getting round to putting these up... been so 1) busy 2) in pain to  get to it!!! I really enjoyed the set of stamps I got from Stamp Addicts, for my first DT call... and I saw 3 of my cards on the show, so I was very pleased...

 This was a brown and cream pallette, using some kraft glassine paper as a mount and for the rosette, which is from the die by Tim Holtz.. lovin it, as you know if you follow my blog...

 This one caused a little conversation on the show... it is an unusual finish, but was actually a happy accident. I used vintage photo distress ink first off and it did not show up very much, so I re-stamped with archival black over the top, and then used a fine clear ep on the top... the distress inks are actually always unstable, and it moved a bit as I stamped again... the finish is very distressed and is probably not repeatable!!

 I masked this one so I could stamp several different  faces of the judikins foliage cube, to make the garden, after smooshing the greens distress inks on my craft mat...

 I have just had a new stash of on the edge dies, and I used the ornate one on both ends of the paper and card to make these shapes.....

Same technique here with a different die. This one was made to look like regency, hence the stripes... The background paper is from PaperArtsy, called Thornton Hall.

These little chaps are off fishing, after being stamped in black, under angelique fibres and film, ironed on with a bit of parchment to protect from burning...love this technique... am looking forward to doing some marbling and stamping these lovely silhouette stamps again...

Thanks for looking, and leaving your lovely comments
Love and light
Frankie
xx

WOYWW #104 - Grungy Monday #9 & TIO #81 - Time Piece

Well here we are for a VERY special WOYWW... if you don't know what I mean, please click here to be whisked off on a bloggery carpet to Julia's blog, the Stamping Ground, to find out!!! This time, it's her 2nd anniversary, and we are giving and receiving gifts ... all, very exciting. I can't wait to see who I send to and who sends to me - it will be so interesting to find out what little gem some wonderful person has made for me, and to find out if the person who gets my little thingy likes what I have made ... Oh I DO hope so... bit nervous!!!

So I am cheating with my desk this week... I was off for a VERY cratfy weekend in Milton Keynes. It's that desk but I can't show you what we made, or I will have to kill you!!! tee hee - but here is a teency weency preview, because there is another course in a couple of weeks' time in Warrington...

 So there we are for the projects last weekend... this final picture is from the last piece we made... eventually it will make sense!!

The following photos are from my TIO / Grungy Monday entry, Time Piece. For TIO, we have to dream in time, and for Grungy Monday, over on Studio L3, with Linda Ledbetter, the challenge is to use a Tim technique from a Christmas tag.

 I have used an arts parts watch from Wendy Vecchi and a metal and kraft glassine paper flower.

 This is a close up of the Tim shabby chic technique. I used my new Fresco paints from PaperArtsy, London night, haystack, vintage lace, and honeydew. I painted the tag in London night all over, then stamped some PaperArtsy cogs and clocks and set with clear ep. I splooched the other colours all over the tag, then rubbed some of it off to expose the dark cogs and clocks... the whole background looks very shabby... really interesting. I stamped a Crafty Individuals clocks stamp all over in vintage photo and set with clear ep again for even more texture...

 The strip of Tim Holtz tape was chosen for the word across it - horlogerie means clockwork/ time mechanism... just right!! You can see those rubbed off cogs close up here...

 Here is the flower and the gold piping and vintage lace...

 

 And this is the full view of the whole tag. It is a clever saying, from PaperArtsy again, and the clock set behind the art part, is from Tim's lost and found paper stash.

 

The full 3D effect is shown on this picture, with a great view of that lovely lace...

So there we have it... I am loving the colour and these art part clocks... it's the second week that I have used one in a piece... this time it was coloured with vintage photo ink to darken it a little. The whole thing is finished of with a Tim Holtz swivel clasp and a pretty ickle dragonfly... Why not pop over to my DragonsDream Tag It On blog to see what fabulous pieces my team has created, and also have a look at the Grungy Monday challenge, it's really fun and always good to re-visit Tim's ideas.

Thanks for sticking with it this far!!! I am pleased you came to look and stayed and left a comment - I LOVE them, unashamedly!!!!!
Love and Light
Frankie
xx

PS...
Hello again everyone... I have an apology to make. I was disappointed at having a VIRTUAL PiF when I thought we were all making an ACTUAL thing... so I contacted my sender to say thanks, but I would not need to take the "class" she was offering... I KNOW ... I am a bad person... I just hoped I would get a REAL handmade thing to keep... anyway, she is now offended, and has withdrawn, and I am sorry, so now I don't have a PiF gift, and I have made her unhappy... SORRY PARDON to her and everyone... especially on this nice day.. boo hoo...