A touch Oriental

The first Monday of the month and time for a new challenge at FlonzCraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where our November theme has been chosen by yours truly and it's 'Anything but a card'. As always there is a great prize from FlonzCraft and the opportunity to choose some lovely stamps.

When I chose the theme I wasn't sure what I would make but the idea came when I was at a show recently and saw some chipboard fans on the Tando stand. The pack contains two in different different sized, this is the smaller about 7" x 5". Each come as two parts and the top ones has push out sections so you can layer the fan to given dimension. I masked the bottom part and painted alternate sections with brown and aqua Fresco acrylic paint and then stamped with two different Flonz stamps, Butterfly branch and Apple blossom using detail gold embossing on the aqua and Judikins aquamarine sparkle on the brown.

The top section was painted with Adirondack gold dabber and 'fluffed' up to give a dappled affect and nice metallic sheen. Finally I threaded some beads and made a tassel to thread through the hole - there is not a hole in the template but my Japanese screw punch went through a treat.

I do hope you will join in our challenge this month.

Last hint of Autumn

Time for our monthly challenges at Stamping Sensations and Penny Black and More where our themes are 'Simply Christmas' and 'Anything Goes'.

For my Penny Black and More piece I have masked a panel on a piece of Centura Pearl (reverse side) and also a masked sun, shaded with Pan Pastels and stamped Penny Black 3937H Birds on a wire, 3940F Life and 3948 Fireworks and simply matted and layered onto coordinating Bazzil added some Swarovski crystals and added a bow down the spine. You will find all the stamps listed above and below on Penny Blacks website here, where you can sign up to their free club and follow them on Facebook.

I have used a mixture of stamps on my Stamping Sensations card, Art Impression, Lavinia and Penny Black, all stamped in black archival and the background created with a mixture of inks and Pan Pastrels. I cut the frame on the Cricut, embossed and them rubber with gilding wax and finally a few red berries using stickles.

And just the one more as I wanted to use this new Penny Black stamp while there are still hints of Autumn about. At the same time I tried out the new Pebeo drawing gum which I am so pleased to say works a treat creating a mask to use with Dylusions and wet sprays and no seeping under the mask as with paper and sticky film masking sheets....result at long last !

I heat embossed the tree from Penny Black called A Day in Autumn 40-359 with detail copper, stamped some of the branches again across the bottom, distressed and embossed the edges. The words are single words taken from a couple of Penny Black sentiment sets 30-140 Christmas Cheer and 30-229 Special Wishes and the stenciling in the background is Penny Black Verdana 25-003.

Lots of lovely prizes t be won at both challenges so I really hope you will join in.

Autumn landscape

Good morning Peeps, time for this weeks Allsorts challenge and this week Mervi would like to see some Masculine cards. Our sponsor is DigiStamp Boutique.

It's another Autumnal card from me, one I made for our eldest son who has just been promoted again, this time Chief Superintendent of Crime, so we are very proud parents again.

I have used my normal Pan Pastels, Stampscape, Creative Expressions and Inkylicious stamps, an embossed base layer and a computer generated sentiment. To create the two layer effect I masked two pieces of card and created two identical pieces, cut one down slightly and then layered one over the other.

Have a lovely weekend.

Cabin by the lake

Morning Peeps, it's a lovely sunny Autumn day here and hope it's the same your way.

A very quick post and not much writing as just had my annual retinal screening which means all blurry for a few hours so just a short explanation for these two cards. Alex and Zoe dropped the boys off before they flew off to Frankfurt for the marathon at the weekend and she left a little note in my craft room saying she loved the scene below and how she would love to have a log cabin there. So that led to the top card as a well done on their race achievements.

Stamps are a mixture of Stampscapes and Sutter and mountains created with a torn paper mask and Pan Pastels.

Just Christmas

Before I tell you about this weeks Allsorts theme I would like to share some news, I'm still pinching myself and in shock and thought it was a send up but apparently not and I am one of the lucky nominees in this years Craft Awards. I feel very humbled to be on a list with so many of the well known names in the crafting industry who are amazingly inspirational and although I know in my wildest dreams I will never make the final cut it is still so surreal to have even been nominated and I am most appreciative.

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday so that mans a new challenge at Allsorts and this week it's my turn to host the challenge. Our sponsor is Cuddly Buddly and to tie in with the release of their new Christmas stamps I have selected the theme of 'Just Christmas'.

My first card is just a bit of the usual inkiness using masking tape to create a central focal area which I inked with Adirondack inks black, eggplant and denim and stamped Penny Black Winter Ledge, a few more birds from the new Natures Friends PB unmounted set and I added some berries using silver glitter and finally a Penny Black sentiment.

For my second card I have stepped outside of my comfort zone again and done some more colouring ........not too much mind you.......using my new Chemeleon pens which I have to admit I am rather enjoying. The image is from our sponsor and called Snow Family. I cut round the top of the snowmen and layered onto a piece of acetate which I then placed over a snowy background created with a mask and Pan Pastels and a stamped Santa and sleigh. I used my old favourite holly embossing folder which I lightly dusted with Pan Pastels and matted onto a tent style card.................not convinced that's the right name but they are easy to make with a score board.

Happy weekend to you all.

Penny Black candy

Here are the links to the Penny Black candy, you can enter both, but you do need to add your name to the actual posts and check the rules as those left on this one will not count...............

Click here to go to the post 

and enter my candy

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challenge blog to enter the

Penny Black candy

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A windy day

Note added Saturday morning to scheduled post:  Is anyone else having the same problem as me, I've had no reading list for two days ? Tried all sorts but it just doesn't want to show me the blogs I follow or the new posts from them - I'm totally in the wilderness !

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday so that means a new challenge at Allsorts where Helene wants to see some 'Embossing'. Our lovely sponsors are Crafty Devils and FlonzCraft.

Two types of embossing on my card, FlonzCraft Girl with Dog stamp which is heat embossed with detail clear powder and the background embossed with an A4 folder which has to be one of my most used, some Graphic 45 DP's, pearls and that's about it really.

Have a good weekend all.