vintage Moths for Bee Crafty

 Hi There! I have changed my blog day for Bee Crafty so I will be here with my crafty contributions every Saturday now. I have been really enjoying creating with a vintage vibe so this week I made a card. Here's how I did it.  

I began by spraying a piece of mixed media card with Distress oxide sprays in Prize Ribbon, Wild Honey and squeezed lemonade. 

I stamped the ledger stamp in memento Toffee crunch all over the dry oxide background.

Next I attached the damask template and applied distress crackle texture paste through it. 

When this had dried I added some distressed diamonds in vintage photo distress oxide ink through the dinkable 

I stamped 3 moths from the dragonfly set down the right hand side. 

I stamped, coloured with ecolines, and cut out 3 more moths. These were stuck over the ones on the card with collage medium attached by the bodies only.

I added a stamped sentiment and attached to a 6x6" card. 

here is the finished card again. 

I used:

15x15cm card

14x14cm of mixed media card

Distress oxide sprays in Prize Ribbon, Wild Honey and squeezed lemonade

Ledger, inkwell and nibs stamp set

Paler brown ink such as Tea Dye distress ink or Memento toffee crunch

Distress crackle texture paste

Damask template

Dinkables set 2

Distress oxide ink in Vintage photo

Dragonfly stamp set

Versafine clair black ink

Ecoline pens for colouring

Small words stamps

Matte Medium

Here are some ATCs that I made in Wednesday Night's live over on the Bee Crafty facebook page (3 of them during the Live). I will be doing fortnightly lives for them so the next one will be on 23rd March at 8 pm. It would be lovely if you could join us! The Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group is lovely and friendly and has a monthly challenge where we are asking you to make an ATC or 3 this month. 

Thanks for looking! 

Tuesday Taggers on Wednesday

A Day late, but I made it in the end! The Theme at Tuesday Taggers this week is Oriental, chosen by my lovely teamie, Zoe. I made a couple of ATCs.

The panda stamp is from Inkadinkado and the background text is a stamp from Stamp to your Art's Content. The three bamboo pics were from a little book of oriental images (not sure who the publisher was, but I think it's Hot off the Press). Although I love this theme, I'm a bit lacking in the mojo department at the moment. Steve had an op on his knee today. He is home and seems reasonably comfortable. I'm sure he will be back on his feet (with the aid of his crutches) quite soon. Thanks for looking!

Crafty Individuals ATC swap

Here are the beautiful ATCs I recieved in the Crafty Individuals Competition and swap. They are (top row, left to right):
Beauty Remembered by Lynne Kirton, Dancing Lessons by J. Anderson, Nature Pink and Green by J. Anderson
Bottom Row: The wren by Bille, Nature by Helen Stephenson and Imagine by Chris Rowe.

I love them all. Thanks Crafty Individuals for organising it and thanks to the artists of my Swaps. You are all winners to me!

Bang goes my New Year Resolution!

I've made a few cards and an ATC to go in my box. I need to sell a few to make up for the fact that Lynne and I went to Once Upon A Stamp this morning, and I had fully intended spending about £30, but spent twice that! I bought three sets of nestabilitles, one of which I will put away for my Birthday. I also got the embossing mats and 6 ink pads, 4 distress and 2 adirondack. I saved £12 with the special offers they had on, so it could have been worse!!! Stamps featured are from Graphicus, Magenta and crafty individuals.

More ATCs

These are my final two ATCs for the Crafty Individuals competition. They both use stamps from the crafty elements range. The leaves are stamped over an adirondack colour wash background using butterscotch, lettuce and cranberry. I overstamped the leaves in versamark and brushed over with Blonde Moments pigment powder in Gold.

The last was meant to be a very quick stamp and sponge, but I made 4 before I was totally happy! This is not the one I sent, as I was hurrying to get them in an envelope, but it was the next best! Adirondack Dye inks in Butterscotch, lettuce and Red Pepper this time.

A Guitar and an ATC

I was asked to make another guitar card for a friend's daughter. She is seventeen and has just saved up and bought herself a Fender with polka dots! The shiny card was silver mirri card, put throught the cuttlebug and then rubbed over with stazon. I thought it looked a bit 'grungey' and suitable for a seventeen year old rock chick!

Here is my 4th ATC for the Crafty individuals competition. I used a stamp from one of the Crafty elements plates. Now I've sent my entries in I'm feeling all inspired to make some more, but I need to get on with Steve's birthday card and not end up making it the night before, as I have on numerous occasions in the past!

Another ATC

Here is my third ATC for the crafty individuals competition. The background used stamps from the Crafty elements range, stamped in versamark and sponged over with peeled paint and broken china distress inks. The wren was stamped in stazon and coloured with adirondack dye inks. This is a very well used stamp - I love the clear image.

A birthday card and an ATC

My friend Kate asked me to make a card for her Neice who is forty next week. I resorted to the cuttlebug again, but used the paisley embossing folder on these numbers. The background paper is from the Artilicious cd called Filigree Fusion. I thought they complemented each other well.

This ATC is my second for the Crafty Individuals competition. I stamped the Swirl stamp over Direct to paper using broken china distress ink, and highlighted with a white pen. the butterfly is from their flowers and butterflies minatures book.

Babies and Birthdays

I've been busy trying to make a few ATCs for the Crafty Individuals ATC competion. This is my first. I'm rather pleased with it!

This was the card we sent to my mother-in-law. She loves pansies and violas, and I just had a small piece of this lovely backing paper left. the stamp is from Hero Arts.

When I returned to work, one of my friends asked me to make a card for her niece who is due to have twins on Friday. After a bit of thought I decided to make a gatefold, as she is having a girl and a boy, and use one side for each. No stamping at all on this one, but lots of use of my cuttlebug, embossing folders, a sizzix sizzlet, a circle punch and a heart-shaped punch. I'm quite surprised I managed to make it without stamping once!