Bla Bla Bla

Favourite paper is the theme for this week's new challenge at Gingersnap Creations.  We are very luckily being sponsored this month by Stampotique Originals stamps which, if you are not familiar with them, are a gorgeous range of stamps designed by some uber talented people.

This tag features the Giant Shroom (by Jo Capper-Sandon) and is one of my favourite stamps as I'm a bit of a fan of all things from Fairy-land!

I coloured my tag using pastels before arranging my lovely toadstools on top.  I used a gorgeous paper by Flair Design called Love in Bloom for my toadstool tops and some white enamel for their spots.

Sitting nonchalantly on top of his toadstool is Quasimoto 5 who is by Jill Penney & Daniel Torrente.  A cute bug he certainly is and one that can be placed on lots of different objects in a couple of different poses depending on his mood!

The Bla Bla Bla sentiment is also by Jill Penney & Daniel Torrente and is another really versatile stamp that always makes me laugh and brings your little characters to life.
 
Why not search your stash for a favourite paper and join in the fun at Gingersnaps?  It would be great to see what you come up with.

x

The Owl & the Pussy Cat ...

I decided to join the fun at the Stampotique Designers Challenge and this week is SDC38: Black, White and a HINT of color.

It is a free choice week so I didn't have to use Stampotique stamps but as they are so lovely, it's always a pleasure to use them.

I decided to reverse out my colours rather than go from white.  I used black gesso to create my background and then used a combination of white staz-on and interference paint in polar white to stamp my images.

It's hard to see on the photo but the toadstools and moon have a lovely sheen from the interference colours which work really well on dark backgrounds.

So, I shall post this on the challenge page and hope it gets a good response!

Have a great day and be artful in whatever you do ... x

On the Road

The theme for this week's challenge over at Gingersnap Creations is On the Road.

I started off thinking about transport and cars and briefly toyed with an idea using the Old Jalopy die by Tim Holtz but then my mind started to come in on the idea of the road of life and this photo lent itself perfectly to this theme.

It was taken in 2004 of the children ready to go to their new school. They all look so small and I don't know where the time has gone!

I created a road using Dylusions sprays and Glimmer mists with a variety of masks.  The hearts were free cut from my test spray page and the line of stars was the mask I cut to use in the road so nothing was wasted!

The tag is hard to read in the photo but it says "So the day arrives when they stand in their new uniform ready to start out ON THE ROAD to gaining an education and growing UP.  An important moment for us as parents and for them.

I'm really pleased with the simplicity of this page and hope you like it too.  :)

Tag Thursday

 

What is it about today?  I've got the tag bug and cant stop making them!!

A couple of days ago I received parcel from Art Journey with some GORGEOUS stamps.  Normally, I'd get them straight out of the packet, mount them up and start stamping but creativity is running low (and time to create even lower) due to our imminent housemove :(  It'll be OK once it's done, but at the moment I'm the wrong side of done (if you know what I mean!).

Anyway, I decided that these stamps were too lovely to wait, so I've made these tags.   The backgrounds were created with Dylusions inks and I misted two of them with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist just to set off my stamps.

The shells are all stamped and painted with watercolours and are from Art Journey.  I love the urchins as they can be cut up into sections so are really interesting. 

The tag on the left has fish which I cut from the packaging of a fancy box of chocs I was given as a gift. The fatter fish are Art Journey.

My mermaids are, of course, Stampotique.

I will be mounting these onto cards tomorrow to use for some thankyou notes I need to send.

Hope you like my efforts ... I'm off to bed as it's late ... must remember to shut the cat in the Laundry Room or I'll be back here at 5.30am LOL!!