I.J.L.K

Next round of the alphabet atc swap .

The mice (J) are not mine lol but an image that my friend Lou sent me in a swap I've water coloured them and added snow with liquid applique and gliter.

L for love are all from a set by rubbadubbaoo.

K for kiss well what can I say I should think just about every stamper has owned the chap with the flowers at some point lol I just amazed at how many times I have used him as I'm not a cute stamper most of the time yep and it's those lips again lol and kiss is from a hamton clear set .

I for inspire I'm not sure if I have added the word on upside down or not now :(

Stampbord brooch and box

Here's my first ever stampbord brooch for a swap on UK stampers, well that's not entirely true I have made one before as a present for a friend.

Stamped with fired brick red then coloured with broken china marigold and marmalade, embossed and stamped with a leaf pattern in to the embossing.

it's then mounted on to an atc and in a matchbox style box :)

Hope it comes up to scratch

Melt pot work shop

Went to Aldershot at the weekend with my friend Becky and got lost lol so we were late for a class with Judi .

I have had my melt pot for a while but not used it much so thought it would be good to do a basic class. We poured and stamped, we poured and cut, we poured into moulds and we dipped card shapes .

The pearl UTEE is gorgeous and we added the to dye for to colour the white UTEE .

I'm going to have ago adding some flex next time I do it as these are not very strong although the dipped card seems more durable so will withstand the postal system lol nothing worse than receiving something that has broken :(

Brayering

Ok back on track with my alpha challenge I love to use my brayer and here's three cards using 3 different techniques

This one uses masking I stamped the birds and flourishes, masked the main image and used the flowers from Spellbinder before going over it with the brayer. Stamps from inkadinkado

Versa resist stamp from G studio

This is the same ink as the other card Vibrant primary big and juice but this card stock is a high gloss finish .

This is the last one I did and my fave :)

whilst making the first I stamped off on to scrap paper and cleaned my brayer on it. I just though oh lovely I can use that tehe

So look carefully before you throw anything away
hope you like it .

Black and white

Two atc's for a swap, the first is done with stamps or course and punches I'd just got the corner punch and was itching to use it on something :) the collage I did by masking and embossed the pen and letters cut them out and used foam pads to give some dimension.
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Bleach card

So what do you do with it once you have done it. I tend stash it away with other handmade background papers I've made till it's just the thing I'm looking for but I have made a card so far :)

This is the green copy paper brushed over with bleach, it turned yellow lol dry embossed the squares and used a daisy brass stencil and a flower punch

Bleach

Well I've had a bleaching session the thinnest cheapest bleach really is the best to use.

You can make a paper pad or use a makeup sponge for your bleach and use like an ink pad :) and if your worried about using your stamps use kiddies foam shapes cheap and cheerful and some funky shapes.

One thing I will say if you can never tell what colour you will end up with and I got the best results with cheap coloured copy paper. the blue and pink really did go white.I also used a brush to get the stripey patten