Daisy Trio

Having seen a couple of blog posts by Pauline (Passion for Papercraft) using cover gifts from Issue 162 of the Creative Stamping magazine, I was sorely tempted to get the magazine myself. After a fruitless search in my local town, my lovely hubby tracked down a copy online and promptly bought it for me (yes, he's a KEEPER!). So, I am now the proud owner of the magazine and am delighted with both the double stencil and the A4 sheet of stamps. 

Val from the Aquarius Blog was also tempted by the magazine cover gifts and she has made THIS lovely card using them.

The ATC below is the first thing I made with the magazine cover stamps. Full disclosure - I decided to cut away the oval frame from this particular stamp in the set to make it more useful to me! 

ATC

Details:

1. Navy blue ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5".
2. White snippet of card measuring 2.25" x 3.25” smooshed with some leftover Buff Titanium acrylic paint. Orange splatters of diluted acrylic paint were added once the smooshed bit was dry.
3. All stamping was done with VFC Twilight ink using cover gift freebies from Issue 162 of the Creative Stamping magazine (link is in the first paragraph of this post). I used a white gel pen on the petals and a yellow Inktense pencil for the daisy centres. 

I would like to enter this ATC into the TAG-ALONG & ATCs July challenge - blue is my favourite colour in all its shades. I also like blue and orange as a colour combination. 

It’s NEARLY Rudolph Day!

Hi there!

It’s Rudolph Day tomorrow . . . but as I often post on a Wednesday, my penguin ATC is a day early! 

Instead, I’m entering this ATC into one of my favourite challenges - TAG ALONG & ATCs - where they want to see you ADD SOME TEXT to your tag, ATC or bookmark. 

My ATC has text stamped faintly in the background and the word “penguin” in the orange/green bit of the image.

ATC

Details:

• Snippets of white and SU Island Indigo to create the ATC base 
• MFT Stitched Snowflakes for the two smaller flakes; unknown make for the largest snowflake.
• Script stamp (stamped in SU Pool Party ink) is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set THMM123.
• Penguin is by AALL & Create - Set #604

Sunday Snippets - Coneflower ATC Postcard

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so please come over and play with Miss Di, Dudley and me. There’s bound to be a game of tag on, or you can visit the treehouse and have a nice mug of hot chocolate (or something stronger). If the weather forecast is correct, we may even get the paddling pool out!

For my homework this week I used a snippet of black card and a snippet of white card to make this coneflower ATC.

ATC

Details:

• Black and white snippets of card.
• PaperArtsy Eclectica stamp set EAB48 "Coneflower Edition" for the coneflower, words and postage stamp/frank.
• StudioLight stamp set 451 for the little grungy background stamp.

I'm also taking this ATC over to the TAG ALONG & ATCs' MAY CHALLENGE where the theme is ADD SOME PINK (or anything goes). 

Delighted to be “picked” at the Tag-Along Challenge:

Cocktails ATC

Mojito anyone? Or a Dirty Martini with extra olives?

Here’s a little ATC that I'm taking along to the TAG-ALONG (& ATCs) CHALLENGE where the team wish you to ADD SOME PINK to your project (or use the Anything Goes option if you prefer). 

I used up a snippet of Craft O’Clock’s Warm Breeze paper and added a sentiment in green ink - simple as that! There's pink on the cherries; straw; umbrella and strawberry, so I'm entering using the theme, but there is always the anything goes option.

ATC

Details:

• White ATC blank covered with a snippet of paper from the Warm Breeze pad by Craft O'Clock
• Stamped sentiment by Stamping All Day

Easy as A BEE C!

Sorry about the title pun on this blog post . . . couldn't resist. You should try being inside my head, it’s busy up there!

Anyhoo, I digress . . . I have a little ATC to enter into the TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE using their theme of ADD SOME PINK. There’s a lovely tag die set to be won too! You can enter tags, bookmarks or AT cards/coins.

ATC

Details:

• Gel print snippet, trimmed to 2.25" x 3.25". Black snippet of card trimmed to 2.5" x 3.5" to create ATC base.
• One of the leafy stamps from the Nature’s Gatherings Set 1 by That's Crafty Stamp was stamped onto a scrap of white copy paper, cut out and stuck on. 
• 3 Visible Image bees (die cuts kindly gifted to me). 

Coneflower ATC

I recently visited my local craft shop (The Malthouse at Herstmonceux - bricks & mortar shop only, no mail order) and discovered a beautiful PaperArtsy stamp set called "Coneflowers Edition" . . . which just had to come home with me as a little present to myself!

The inky ATC snippet was ready and waiting to be used on my desk (along with a few others), so I opened up the newly acquired stamps and created an ATC.

ATC

The April theme at the Tag-Along & ATCs Challenge is Blossoms, Butterflies and Birds, (or AG) so I'm joining in using the theme. 

 Details:

• Snippet of an art journal page that had been used to mop up ink left over on stencils, cut to 2.5" x 3.5"
• Coneflower and words from the PaperArtsy Eclectica EAB49 "Coneflowers Edition" stamp set
• Distress Inks used for all colouring

Gerbera ATC

The April theme at the Tag-Along & ATCs Challenge is Blossoms, Butterflies and Birds, (or anything goes) so I made a card with a lovely big flower on it in order to join in using the theme. You have until the 28th April to join in and there's a lovely prize on offer.

ATC

Details:

• Gelli print snippet glued to ATC base (2.5" x 3.5")
• Funky Fossil Washi tape added to right hand edge
• Uniko Pure Florals Gerbera stamp (cut out with matching die), lightly coloured with watercolour pencils and a waterbrush
• Unknown sentiment heat embossed in white EP added to the top

Move Forward ATC

I have a little butterfly ATC to share with you today, so I'm joining in with the fab TAG-ALONG (& ATCs) challenge - where April's theme is BLOSSOMS, BUTTERFLIES & BIRDS (you can choose any, or all, of them to put on your tag, ATC or bookmark). 

There's a lovely prize on offer if you join in.  

ATC

Details:

• Two snippets of "Warm Breeze" paper by Craft O'Clock,
• Sentiment cut from a sheet of words that was a gift, so I don't have the details. 
• Extra butterfly fussy cut and stuck on to make an odd number of butterflies which is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. 

Delicate Wings ATC

I have a little butterfly ATC to share with you today. This means I can join in with one of my favourite challenges TAG-ALONG (& ATCs) - where the theme for this month is BLOSSOMS, BUTTERFLIES & BIRDS (you can choose any, or all, of those to put on your tag, ATC or bookmark). 

There's a lovely prize on offer if you join in.  

ATC

Materials:

• Butterfly - one of two featured on Aall & Create stamp set #826 "Delicate Wings". 
• The butterfly was stamped with VFC Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear EP. Coloured with SU Wisteria Wonder ink & a waterbrush.
• Memory Box "Zippy Dots" stencil brushed with SU Island Indigo ink.

Sunday Snippets - Energised

Hi Playmates!

Di has published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire her top picks and discover which lucky playmate won the prize. There's still nearly a week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

This ATC came about when I was about to discard the “stamp-off sheet” that I was using to clean off excess ink from stamps before cleaning them properly. I decided I really liked how parts of the sheet looked, so I cut a portion of it out to use as homemade patterned paper for an ATC.

ATC

A white snippet I die cut the flowers & sentiment from.

The “stamp-off” scrap sheet I cut the background from.
I made 2 ATCs from the sheet, but messed up the other one so it got binned!

I would like to enter this ATC into the March TAG ALONG, BOOKMARKS & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is SPRING FLOWERS, but as the flowers on this ATC are abstract, I'm entering under the Anything Goes option. 

Details:

• Scrap paper used to stamp off excess ink prior to cleaning stamps.
• Snippets of white card for the ATC base, the die-cut flowers and the sentiment.
• Abstract flower dies by Simply Graphic.
• “Energised” word from the Nature's Gatherings (Set 1) by That's Crafty.

You've got mail!

Hi there!

I made another little ATC so I could make a final entry into the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE for February - which ends in 5 days time, so get your skates on if you want to play along!

ATC

As the ATC hasn't got any numbers on it, I'll be entering under the Anything Goes option. Great prize on offer. 

Details:

• White snippet of card trimmed to 2.5" x 3.5" with a corner rounder punch used on opposite corners.
• Stencilled the background with AALL & CREATE's Florastella stencil. 
• Tore a gelli print snippet and glued it to the ATC front in opposite corners, then added an unknown script stamp (possibly by IndigoBlu) over the top.
• Die-cut the bundle of envelopes from white card and carefully coloured in the envelopes at the back of the bundle, along with the ribbon. The unbranded envelope die was a gift so I don't have the details, although it was possibly from Amazon or Temu. 

Magic Hare ATC

Hi there!

I have a little ATC to share with you today - created with Lavinia stamps and a dotty circle stencil.

ATC

ATC Details:

• Lavinia stamps: Slender Mushrooms (Mini); Wild Hares (Large); Stars 2 (Mini); retired foliage stamp; the word "Magic" was masked off and stamped from a much larger Lavinia sentiment.
• Background stencil: magazine cover gift from ages ago.
• Snippets of white card for the stamped panel, and navy card for the ATC base.

Playing along with the TAG ALONG & ATCs FEBRUARY CHALLENGE where the optional theme is NUMBERS, but I'm entering under 'anything goes' as my ATC is sans numbers! There is a brilliant prize available to one lucky winner, so why not play along?

Feather ATC

Here's a little ATC that I'll be entering into the February TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is to ADD A NUMBER (or anything goes). 

In this case, I added several numbers with background stencilling and stamping!

ATC

Details:

• Stencilled background numbers created with whatever ink was left on my brushes, brushed through the Heffy Doodle "Numicon" stencil.
• Small line of numbers from an unknown stamp set.
• Large, grungy "6" stamp by Studio Light' Artists Atelier Grunge Set 32: "Feather".
• Feather stamp = magazine cover gift. (Stamped direct onto the ATC and again onto a white snippet, cut out and glued over the top.)
• Stamped & stencilled panel then glued onto a white snippet, cut to correct ATC size of 3.5" x 2.5".

All you need is love . . .

Hi Playmates!

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight.

For my homework this week,  I made a little love-themed ATC.

I stamped and stencilled a background on a white snippet that was trimmed to 2.25" x 3.25", then stamped and cut out the lovehearts from another white snippet and glued them on to the base. A black snippet trimmed to 2.5” x 3.5” was used for the mount.

2.5 x 3.5 ATC

Materials:

• Black and white snippets of card
• Hearts from Accessorize Stamp set by Visible Image (stamped twice onto white snippets and cut out by hand)
• Script stamp by IndigoBlu
• Bold LOVE stamp - unknown make
• Smaller Love stamp by Uniko
• Dot stencil by The Crafters Workshop
• White Gelli Roll 08 pen for heart highlights
• Picked Raspberry Distress Ink for all pink areas on card

I would like to enter this ATC into the January TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where there is a Love and Romance theme (or an “anything goes” option).

Coffee Love!

Hi there!

I made a little ATC which I would like to enter into the January TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is Love and Romance. 

Well, I LOVE decent coffee! If that’s too “out there” as an interpretation of the theme, there’s always the ANYTHING GOES option!

ATC 2.5" x 3.5"

My snippets!

Details:

• Background stamps used on ATC base: Tall Grass set by Funky Fossil; Studio Light Grunge Collection SL451; splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge set by Stampin’ Up! 
• Background Stencil: Ink Swirls by Visible Image.
• Focal point:Coffee Cup stamp = magazine cover gift, stuck to ATC with foam pads. Brown ink and waterbrush used to ground image.
• Words by Clearly Besotted (retired set)
• Heart from the Accessorize set by Visible Image (stamped, cut out and stuck on with foam pads).

Some bunny loves you . . .

Here's a little ATC that started life as a white snippet of card. It's a lots more colourful now!  

I’d like to enter this into the TAG ALONG & ATC JANUARY CHALLENGE where the theme is LOVE AND ROMANCE. Hopefully this little 'bunny hugs' image will qualify for the “love” part of the theme - but if not, there’s always the anything goes option!

2.5" x 3.5" ATC

Details:

• Little Cotton Rabbits stamp by Sugar Nellie (from 2008), stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black and heat embossed on a snippet of white card. Image coloured with Distress Inks and a waterbrush. 
• Hugs word is from a Clearly Besotted set. The stamp says “Sending hugs” . . . but I masked off the "sending” word and stamped only the "hugs" part of the sentiment.
• A gold pen was used all around the edges of the ATC.

Sunday Snippets in Red and Green

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di is in charge of the new SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND challenge for the next fortnight - and I must say the Playground is looking VERY festive. Everything has been decorated and there’s a huge Christmas tree in the Assembly Hall. 

Rehearsals for the Nativity Play are going well with all you little (ahem!) angels running amok. It’s going to be the usual mayhem with myself, Di and Dudley running around like headless chickens, but it is a lot of fun!

For my homework this week, I made a festive card with plenty of red and green on it so that I could enter the current WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE using their theme.

The cream card measures 5" square

Materials:

• Background stamping = Numerous grunge stamps by Kaiserkraft, Studio Light, plus splatters fromSU’s  Gorgeous Grunge set, stamped onto a white snippet.
• Focal point stamping =The postmark stamp is from the Hobby Art Christmas Post CS068D set. I stamped it on the panel and again onto another snippet so that I could cut it out and stick it on with foam pads. I inked the postmark and panel edges with whatever orange Distress Oxide ink was left on the brush. 
• Die Cutting: Winter foliage from gel print snippets (Hidden Leaves dies by Sizzix Code 664581).
• The bird die (unbranded set from TEMU) was cut from the last remaining red snippets of card I could find.

Green gelli plate snippets & the last couple 
of red snippets I managed to squeeze the birds out of!

I also made an ATC while I had the above snippets out on my desk. Managed to cut x 2.5" x 3.5” piece out of the dark green gel print to mount the bird panel on. I stencilled the white snippet (not shown in the pic) first, adding some dark brown splatters, then stamped the sentiment before glueing the foliage and bird in place. 

ATC

I would like to enter the ATC into the DECEMBER TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is RED & GREEN (but there’s also an anything goes option).

Materials:

• Heffy Doodle “Numicon” stencil used on the white panel with light green ink.
• SU splatter stamp from “Gorgeous Grunge” used with dark brown ink.
• Crafty Roo “Happy Christmas” sentiment stamped in VFC Spruce ink.
• Dark green gel print snippet shown in the photo trimmed to 2.5” x 3.5” - used for the main panel mount.
• Green foliage die from the Hidden Leaves set by Sizzix (Code 664581) - cut from a gel print snippet.
• Red bird (unbranded die set bought from Temu) cut from red snippets of card.

Remember there are EXTRA PRIZES to be won in the December challenges at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, so why not come over to play? 

Textured ATCs

Hi there!

Today I have a couple of textured ATCs to share - but be warned - this post is a bit photo heavy! Both ATCs were originally playing cards, which I trimmed to 2.25" x 3.25" and rounded the corners so that I could mount them onto a 2.5" x 3.5" base.

Here's the first:

ATC

Attempting to show you the embossed texture
of the base and the flower.

ATC MATERIALS:

• Focal flower: Flower head from a retired Stampin' Up! set, coloured with yellow & orange Distress Inks then heat embossed with clear EP. The stem and leaves are from Tim Holtz Flower Garden CMS125, stamped in black VFC ink, then heat embossed with clear EP.
• Background: Stamps from Studio Light Grunge set SL GR STAMP229 and Creative Expressions Arty Background stamp set CEC-784. Base was created by painting and smearing the playing card with a mixture of black, white and turquoise gesso. (Yes! You read that right . . . TURQUOISE gesso - by Jane Davenport!)
• Texture: created with different layers of gesso; heating embossing and the flower head was stuck to the card with a foam pad.

I couldn't believe how glossy the flower turned out. I had simply stamped it onto some plain old copy paper and coloured it with a yellow and orange Distress Inks. I liked it like that - but, as I had the heat gun and embossing stuff out on my desk, I wondered what would happen if I dabbed a VersaMark ink pad onto it and covered it with clear embossing powder! This was the delightful result:

Sooooo glossy! Happy days!

I would like to enter the flower ATC into the TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is to ADD TEXTURE.

Delighted to be picked.

This is how the playing cards looked at first:

I covered the playing cards with
gesso and acrylic paints.

Here's the other textured ATC I made from the above:

The photo below shows how it looked after the gesso & acrylic paint, with the added stamping, stencilling  and heat embossing, but minus the chicken and flower "sun" and the sentiment which I cut out from a magazine and inked.

If you managed to get to the end of this longer blog post . . . congrats and THANK YOU!

Jersey Moth ATC

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing an ATC with you. 

ATC

I'd like to enter this ATC into the November TAG-ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the optional theme is to ADD TEXTURE.

I'm entering under the 'anything goes' option as although I have dimension on the ATC from the raised moth stamp, I'm not sure I have actual texture on it.

Details:

• Background: snippet cut from a scrap sheet I used to stamp off extra ink prior to cleaning my stamps properly. (I stamped a few little circle trios by Uniko onto the sheet.)
• Main image: Jersey Moth stamp from the "Tall Grass" set by Funky Fossil - stamped onto a snippet of acrylic paper, coloured with a waterbrush and Picked Raspberry DI. It was stuck to the ATC with foam pads for dimension.
• Sentiment was cut from a sheet of paper from the "Warm Breeze" Paper pack by Craft O’Clock.

Textured ATCs

Hi there!

I made a set of ATCs just for fun!

I'd like to enter these ATCs into the November TAG-ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the optional theme is to ADD SOME TEXTURE. 

Set of 4 ATCs

Below: work in progress:

This pic shows how they looked after stamping; stencilling;
adding modelling paste; Washi tape and
gold splatters (which remained raised once dry) 
and before  adding the die cuts and mounting onto
SU Misty Moonlight card.

The left over snippets I can play with another day!
These show up the original stencilled and stamped layers 
prior to adding the different textures.

DETAILS:

• Stencils: 'Ink Swirls' by Visible Image and TCW various circles stencil and 'Zippy Dots' by Memory Box.
• Inks: Distress Oxide colours Spiced Marmalade; Peeled Paint and Faded Jeans for the stencilling; Misty Moonlight dye ink by SU for all stamping added on top of the stencilling.
• Stamping: blue circles ('Tall Trees' set by Funky Fossil); line of numbers by IndigoBlu; broken circles from a grunge set by StudioLight; blue splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge set by SU.
• Washi Tapes: Aall & Create numbers #7 and #41.
• Galeria Modelling Paste - trowelled on through the dotty & circular stencils mentioned above. I brushed more Distresss Oxides over the paste once it was dry as it didn't show up very well! I do not recommend the Galeria modelling paste (recently bought from Hobbycraft) as it is very lightweight and although you can FEEL it, it's hard to actually SEE it unless inked over!
• TEXTURES: All ATCs have modelling paste, raised gold splatters and Washi tape added to them. In addition 3 of them have die cuts from snippets of SU Misty Moonlight cardstock as follows: Top Right = Marianne swirly foliage die, plus a few extra leaves from a die by The Works; Bottom Left = Daisy Flower by Leane Creatief and two smaller flowers from "The Missees" set by Karin Joan for Studio Light, flower centres = a tiny floral die by Gummiapan, and Bottom Right = two unbranded daisy dies bought from Amazon.