Time Flies tag

I had a chance to play a bit this afternoon, this tag is using images from various of the Ding and Dong plates I got from Leandra yesterday. 

The "time flies" stamp is on copper metal and I used a wheel to decorate the clock face from the reverse and just defined a couple of the circles on the wings, I stuck it to a piece of card (made the schoolboy - or girl - error of cutting it out before I thought about mounting it, very hard to cut the tape backing after that, lol!)

I coloured the bird with water colour pencils and added some background stamps before spritzing with walnut gold glimmer mist. I didn't think the black archival would blur, so it looks a bit messier than I wanted (so don't look too closely!!) Off to play some more now...

Ding and Dong!

No artwork tonight, as I ordered  - lots - of the new Ding and Dong stamps (and some more Clocks) from Paperartsy 2 days ago and when I got home they were here!!  Fantastic service, given the postal disruptions going on.  Anyhow, I have spent all evening mounting them on EZ Mount (hate hate hate that task as I've said before, but buying them unmounted meant I could spend more on the stamps.... LOL)

Hope to have something to show you tomorrow after I've been playing. TTFN.

Happy Birthday, Michelle!

On Friday it's the birthday of a good friend at work, and this is the card I have made her - using the Paperartsy Christmas Fairy!  I've blinged her up - or should that be blung?! lol, with some glitter (of course!) and some little silver sticker balls on the edge of her drress.  The corner edges are glimmer chips lightly brushed in fired brick (the same ink I used for the circle) and they've been sprayed with candy apple red and walnut gold glimmer mists, with just a touch of marshmallow in between as the red was too red!  The background paper is from a new Craftwork Cards pack "Joy" some of which are Christmassy, this one is very universal.

It has been some time since I made a birthday card, rather than tags and bits and pieces, and I've really enjoyed it. I've got a few more birthdays coming up this month, so more time to play!

Another Tag

I had some pieces of the Paperartsy clock left over on the pearl metal and was wondering how to use them - I took a tag, splodged some dusty concord and faded jeans distress ink on my craft mat, spritzed them and pressed the tag around in the ink. After I dried the ink, I stamped the numbers (Tim Holtz, new from Ally Pally) down one side and then stuck the clock pieces onto the other side of the tag.  The flower is grunge paper (Wendy V of course!) and painted with dusty concord crackle paint - although I've a few of these paints, I think this is the first time I've used any - it's very thick in the bottle but I don't know if it should have been painted on thicker - it doesn't seem to have crackled much; I will need to play more with it I think.  The smaller flower is the inner part of the same stamp, but stamped again on grungepaper and cut out for the centre.  I got in a bit of a mess with the colour for this, its ended up as faded jeans ink, and over painted lightly in picket fence crackle paint - the blue has come through to sort of match the colour on the tag, and to tie it all in I wafted a versamagic chalk ink (Pretty Petunia) over the top. The flower is stuck together and on the tag with pvc glue.

Arches - Archie

I have done a couple of similar arches here, one with my friend Archie!! Both use a variety of copper metal patterned on a new mold I got last week, and using a variety of Terra, Ferro, Viva paints, and glimmer mists. 

Unfortuntely whilst I have been posting this and not concentrating on the football, we have gone behind... damn!!

I also added a few more bits and bobs to the circle piece I wasn't happy with last week, have overlaid a Maya Road frame, and some clock pieces, the round clock fits perfectly inside the frame (which in turn hides the ink smudges... joy!) it is on pearl metal and sprayed with Wine and Roses glimmer and a peftect pearl/worn lipstick reinker mix.  The prima flower is a better colour match in real life than it seems here. 


Now, come on Liverpool!

Finally, I went to Kew again yesterday - trees turning nicely, but very overcast so the photos are ok-ish, (I may post some later) but here is the Ally Pally stash!!

Castles

I was half watching the football tonight but made this tag  with some Paperartsy castle stamps, which I've had for some time but don't seem to have used before - they were too clean!  I made a mask to allow me to stamp the towers in the background.  I added some Ferro (iron)  for texture in the foreground - but also to cover a splodge of ink that got in the wrong place.... The key is stamped on copper metal and just cut out (badly in places) but having managed it added it for a bit of extra "interest". The inks are shabby shutters and peeled paint, with a little old paper.

I may go back and add some copper to the roof parts, later!

Meow!

I haven't gone back to yesterday's piece yet - but I'm happier with this one!  the Paperartsy cat is stamped on pearl metal, embossed and mounted on a piece of card, sprayed with solar gold glimmer mist.  The chip is coloured with faded jeans, shabby shutters and mustard seed, the swirl is a Paperartsy mini and the phrase, a new one of Tim's I got on Saturday!  The chip was sprayed with marshmallow glimmer mist.