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Saturday 30 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 273

This is my Day 273 of 'My Year of ATCs?'




I started with a blue card with a rice technique background.
I then overstamped the stamps (again using Inkadinkadoo Coastal / Maritime).




Happy Crafting!

Friday 29 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 272

This is my Day 272 of 'My Year of ATCs?'



I started with a blue card with a rice technique background.
I then overstamped the stamps (Inkadinkadoo Coastal / Maritime).




Happy Crafting!

Thursday 28 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 271

This is my Day 271 of 'My Year of ATCs?'


I started with a blue card with an alcohol ink background.
I then overstamped the stamp (Kaisercraft Keys) ... and added a key embellishmnet.





Happy Crafting!

Wednesday 27 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 270

This is my Day 270 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!


This is the fourth of four ATCs using stamps from
 the set of Tim Holtz clear stamps - Nature's Elements.


I started with a yellow card with a gelli print background.
I then overstamped the stamps... and added die cut butterflies (SU Beautiful Wings)





Here are the four ATCs:



Happy Crafting!

Tuesday 26 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 269

This is my Day 269 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!


This is the third of four ATCs using stamps from
 the set of Tim Holtz clear stamps - Nature's Elements.


I started with a yellow card with a gelli print background.
I then overstamped the stamp...







Happy Crafting!

Monday 25 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 268

This is my Day 268 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!

This is the second of four ATCs using stamps from
 the set of Tim Holtz clear stamps - Nature's Elements.


I started with a yellow card with a background which was mopped up Distress Oxide inks.
I then overstamped the stamps...




Happy Crafting!

Rudolph Days Challenge

This is my make for the September Rudolph Day's Challenge




I started with a red card blank and then added a rectangle of green then red card to form layers as shown.  On the red layer I stamped the Tree stamp from the Woodware stamp set I used recently for a set of ATCs.



This holiday card is the third of four cards using this stamp set and scraps from my stash. I also stamped the Tree stamp on a scrap of green and cut out the Tree and triangles to paper piece them onto the red card.






Finally I added some pearls and 'Merry Christmas' - an LC Designs stamp on green and red punched squares.





Happy Crafting!



Sunday 24 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 267

This is my Day 267 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!


This is the first of four ATCs using stamps from
 the set of Tim Holtz clear stamps - Nature's Elements.



I started with a yellow card with a background which was mopped up Distress Oxide inks.
I then overstamped the stamps...





Happy Crafting!

Saturday 23 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 266

This is my Day 266 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!




I started with a rectangle of pink and added my background - an embossed floral section highlighted with Distress Ink - broken china.
I then added a heat embossed flower cut out and coloured with Zig real brush pens.



Finally I added some pink gems.




Happy Crafting!

Friday 22 September 2017

Stencilled Distress Oxide Background Video - Happy Little Stampers Video #3


Today I have a brand new video tutorial using the
 Happy Little Stampers 'Doodled Flowers' stamp set.

 I wanted to show you how to make a card on which the main features are stamps from this set.
I start by making a background adding Distress Oxides to water colour paper.



In this tutorial I will also show you how to add extra dimension to your Distress Oxide backgrounds using a stencil. In fact I made two cards:





 Thank you for watching!

I also made an ATC - Day 265 of my 'Year of ATCs?' with some of the same elements as in the video card.






Happy Crafting!!


Thursday 21 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 264

This is my Day 264 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!




I take part in the Facebook Pocket Letter Lovin' Round Robin Swappin' Group
Last month the theme was 'Fairground' and I received the following pocket letter:



This month the theme is 'Silhouette' and this is one of my 9 ATCs that I have made for this swap.

I started with a rectangle of black and added my image printed on green - this is a digi I found on my computer and I am not totally sure of its origin but I think it is Dragons Lair.
I then added some butterflies from Stampin Up's Beautiful Wings die.
Finally I added some black gems.


And these are my 9...not all quite the same...


Happy Crafting!

Wednesday 20 September 2017

A Year of ATCs? - Day 263

This is my Day 263 of 'My Year of ATCs?'!


I started with a rectangle of orange card, matted with some green which I had printed with acrylic paint using a plastic lid.
Next I added the image Sunflower from Scribbles Designs - one whole and two parts.
I had printed this 3 times and coloured them with Zig real brush pens.
Finally I added some gems.


Happy Crafting!