Crafty Muse ~ Mayday

Over at Crafty Muse the next challenge
will be a MayDay Creation ...
love, flowers, romance!

So we are looking for cards or makes that celebrate
the start of May, Spring or Beltene.
It is the time of year when warmer weather begins
and flowers and trees start to blossom.
It is said to be a time of love and romance.
It is when people celebrate the coming of summer
with lots of different customs that are
expressions of joy and hope after a long winter.

Beltane marked the beginning of the pastoral summer season
when the herds of livestock were driven out to

the summer pastures and mountain grazing lands.

There is a prize for this Challenge.
The winner can pick a download package
and
there will be new download packages available soon !!


Now....using vellum. and acetate.
combining it with crap lighting....
makes good pictures hard to get!

So I used Angelique and coloured her
like a sparkly daisy!
The flowers are vellum punched out
with wee green gems.
Acetate was stamped with my fave flower
stamp using white stayzon.
Cutting out the window with my nestie.
I also cute the same but smaller in yellow
and used it inside to cover the acetate edges.

Inside is another piece of green vellum
with flower peel offs coloured with sukura.

Angelique was given some sparkle
with glamour dust to her wings & petal skirt.
Come on over, join in & see what the other
DT girlies have made this fortnight!

love teen xx

so lovin this stamp

Well that was quick!
I spent hours online looking for this
stamp after using it at card class on Tuesday.

By the power of ebay it arrived this morning!
I had used the stamp I borrowed from June
to stamp up a few images using different
colours & types of inks.



I did the triple embossing on a heart again
but used a glittery red powder which didn't
work as well, and I lost the deep red I wanted.
I used my distressing inks to colour.

This one is for a friend at work,
again I triple embossed,
yes,
you will be seeing this done a fair bit!
I do prefer the embossing with silver powder.
I used versamark to water mark the
blue card, which is SU .

I do love the detail in this stamp.

Too much is not always a good thing....
I spent ages colouring this distressing ink
and then added sukura pen....

This might just might just end up in the bin!

Be back later with a sneaky peak
of my DT cards.

one stamp two very different cards

I love card class.

Its a fab way to learn new techniques.

Try out new styles and new mediums.

I love this stamp the June took in,
it is beautiful!


And after several hours online searching

I FOUND IT!!!

We used the same stamp in two
very different ways.

Firstly we stamped it then watercoloured it,
then once it was dry we cut into sections.
Some did four pieces I did three.
Layered with with black card.
Then used low tack tap on the back
to hold in place uses twine to tie
together, applied double sided tape
on the back then removed low tack tape.
It looks really squint on this picture,
but looks ok in real life.
it is on green pearl card.
I have a sentiment to put down the
side but I want to add a name to it.

The next one is done using heat embossing.
The mount board heart is first covered with
versamark then silver embossing powder
and then using the heat gun it is melted.
you do this about three or four times,
then after inking up the stamp with
the versamark again & keeping it ready
we applied a coat of thick clear embossing
powder and stamped while hot.

The lines were embossed using the score board
thin strip of black card edged with silver pen
and a thin red ribbon was applied.

The black backing card had been stamped using
versamark so it had a watermark effect.

Two wee gems on the corners
add a touch of bling.

I am entering it for ABC this week
who want something metallic for M
I will use both these techniques again.
I forgot how much I like the
heat embossed stamping.

two four one!

It seems I have failed to keep Poppy amused!
Despite spending 6 hours with Brodie yesterday.

Not only have I been spending
too much time online....
I also had the cheek to do some crafting!
This bagalope started as an envelope
and is now containing images
for a fellow blogger.

I have two makes
for one person
that qualifys for 4 challenges!

I stamped it using my fave flower
from a See D collection.
I used versa fine in sepia.
The girls at Saturday Challenge are looking
for flowers this week.

Sizzex cut tages, stamped with same flower
but used gold ink on brown tag
and bronze and gold on the pearl card.

I am entering it at My Time to Craft
who want anything but a card!

The card to go with it has Tilda Witch on it.
I love this stamp.
It seems a Witch is not just for Halloween.

The spider and bats are peel offs.

The black card has a blue core.
My new spider webb embossing folder
was used and the paper was torn.
A black gem is in the centre.
It is also being entered in
A spoonful of sugar
who want touchy feely.
The embossing is touchy feeling and being
embossed means I can enter it in
Creative Card Crew Challenge.


The pink post it is to keep it a surprise!!!

This wee bat is stuck down with silicon glue
and a strip of acetate to make it stick out.

Tilda's dress is more grey than black as
I am still not great at colouring in black.

Bolg Candy

Lisa over at Crafty Moments
has some lovely blog candy to give away.
It is open until 19th May.
Go have a look at her beautiful cards.

take two

This is the second attempt
at home made ice cream....
fresh raspberry with low fat probotic yogurt
and which chocolate shards.

Was yummmmmmmmmmmmmm!
S was here and as you know she is
doing weigh watchers.
We worked out how many points it
was for whole tub and then divided it
up into scoop sized portions & estimated points.

It was tangy and low in fat.
You didn't need much
to feel you had a really yummy pud.
And it worked out as a low point dessert,
I forgot to put fresh rasps on the plates...

Still loads in the freezer...
anyone want some??

Crafty pad # 20 ~ holes!!!

The challenge this week is -
Let's see a few 'Holes' in your card.
:) You can punch holes, use eyelets, pierce holes -
create them which ever way you please. :)

If you use a Crafty Pad stamp then your name
is entered twice into the draw.
If you DO NOT use a Crafty Pad stamp
then your name will be entered once into the draw.

The prize is - your choice of any Crafty Pad single stamp. :) :)

Now we have a very lovely talented
Guest DT for the next couple of weeks. :)
So let me please welcome and introduce Maxine. :) :)

I have used Belinda in this weeks make.
And have made one big hole in
the centre of a cover CD.
I used my crop o dile to munch all the way
round a bit like a donnut
in this cupcake feast!

Red gems are cherry tops for some cakes.
Pink sukura for the hearts
on the paper background.

The centre of the CD became the top circle.
And my Happy Birthday stamps
were not quiet circular enough
but I am happy enough with that.

There is a black gem in the flower
and the brown ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons,
Oh and there is a sale on at Crafty Pad Stamps
starting today!
P&P is free!!!