Simon Says Stamp and Show - Challenge - No Rules

One of the designers Suzz did a family gathering of wooden spoons to make the place settings so I was inspired to do wooden spoons of my own. I e-mailed for permission to use them  in the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge and Hel's Sunday Stamper. I had great fun in making them.
I started by giving a  covering coat of distress stains in blue red green and yellow. When this was dry I gave another coat of  distress stain in picket fence to mute the colours.. Then I stamped the handles and edges of the spoons  using Tim Holtz's stamps. I made them look grungy by using vintage photo distress ink.

I got the images I placed in the spoons off the internet......

Then I embellished them ......

 with ribbons and lace....

flowers and some Tim Holtz Idea-olgy.



12 Tags of 2012 - July by Tim Holtz

This is my take on Tim's July tag using alcohol inks and you can see his technique here.

The top part of the tag is shown here in more detail. I didn't have a compressed air can so I just used a straw which I blew air down.

I tried a technque that I saw in the Craft Stamper last year using a toy - Squirt and Spin Painter ( by Chad Valley) and it produces the effect above.

..... but it didn't show the stamping on top of  the silver so I changed my mind and did the one at top of this blog. I am entering this tag into Hels Sunday Stampers - Week 213 - Dreamer Challenge

A Compendium Of Curiosities Volume 2

Linda from Studio L3 says Compendium of Curiosities Special Edition: Challenges 11 and 12! I have cheated a bit because I have already made 2 configurations which I am putting up here. The technique comes from Tim Hotz's book Compendium of Curiosities Vol II pages 33 and 34.

This is the first one I made for my daughter at university so she could feel she had something to celebrate Christmas with. I gave it to her a few weeks early for her birthday which is also in December. I used a Christmas ornament that I had bought, a Christmas candle light, buttons and a little tree.  I felt this created a very Christmasy configuration.

This is the other one I made depicting all my hobbies, through the years.

The next picture shows close-ups of my hobbies.

The top row shows that I made Teddies and collected "ty" teddies when my daughter was younger to have something to collect together. The box on the top right represents my hobby of building doll's houses and making miniature furniture. The second row on the left is my painting, drawing and folk-art painting, on the right is embroidary and cross-stitch and a stamp to represent my stamping.

In this photograph the top row shows my love of sewing and patchwork and quilting. Next represents my interest in photograpghy with a framed picture of me at the age of 10 years. The bottom row on the left show my love of knitting (the one hobby my daughter has inhereted from me - and she is much better than me!) and the years I spent with my knitting machine making my children some unique jumpers. In the middle is a clock which represents my making decoupage clocks. Finally the last box represents my hobby of jewellry making.

I hope you enjoy looking through my configurations and my hobbies.

Kate Crane 366 Day Challenge

Half a year is already gone! I never kept a diary in all my life so that is achievement! Well here is my July page. I covered the acrylic paint using a credit card in yellow, turquiose and orange, then I applied collage over parts of it. When this was dry I cut out offset squares from my CriCut machine.

I added the title July 2012 with a template.

Here is my June page, my white pen ran out and I used a black pen and unfortunately the ink ran!

Sunday Stamper - Week 211 - Pocket and Simon Says Stamp and Show - Depth of Distress

I bought this Tim Holz Bigz Die "Vintage globe" at a show and made the globe soon after but I put it aside until I had a project to put it in. I put some distress embossing ink on the holder of the globe and put some brushed cordroy embossing powder and heated it up. I then sanded the embossed area to make it look more distressed. As you can see in the picture below.

One of Tim Holtz's papers has a map so I cut to size and embossed with vintage photo distress around the edges. I made a pocket with his paper and distressed it and stamped the saying on it.

These are all the things I put in the pocket starting with Tim Holtz Ticket Strip which I stamped and then I distressed it with vintage photo. I cut up the Film Strip out of Kraft-core paper which I then sanded to make it look more distressed.  The pictures I put inside it were from Tim Holtz's papers and I also used two bingo cards. I wish to put it into Sunday Stamper and Simon Says Stamp and Show Distress.

12 tags of 2012 - June - Tim Holtz

As Tim says "get ready to alter your photos distress style..."

See Tim's instructions on his blog. I have one photograph of myself when I was about six months old but so I chose to use a 1/2 number to represent half a year . I chose a different colour scheme for the tag using distress stains in dusty concord and picket fence and then I marbleised the tag. I stamped the tag with a Clear Stamp - "Lost and Found" in archival ink- coffee.

I used distress ink milled lavender for the cardigan and spun sugar for the skirt using  Cut-n-Dry pen nibs. It doesn't show up very well on the photo but it is better in real life!

I finished the background of the tag with some memory tape, a film strip,  a swivelclasp and dyed the ribbon with sugar sun disteess stain. The muse token I chose says "Unique" because I think I am a unique individual.

When I glued the pen nibs on I put a caption on the tag. I enjoyed colouring the photo in and I thought photo came to life. Another great idea from Tim.

Card For My Mum

 I made this card for my Mum to cheer her up before she went into hospital . In the past she had told me she had always wanted an old dress form so I put one in a card. The background was made from the new Spring Distrees Inks using Peacock feathers and Squeezed lemonade and then I stamped my new favourite stamp Tim Holtz X1-1097. I used my favourite Bigz Die "Sewing Room", I seem to have used it alot!!!! 

I apologise as it seems a bit of  out focus. Anyway it seemed she was grateful for it. Inside the card I stamped " Cheer you up". I forgot to take a picture of the card but she said I could borrow it back to take a picture of it and post it.