Autumnal Stripes

Mr mojo seems to be playing along with me at the moment, so with inspiration coming from Fun with ATC's stripes and Alie - Crafts autumn, as last night I was playing with the alcohol inks but more of that to come when it's finished as I went off on a tangent making this ATC lol

 

I just love the way the inks in the glossy card glow just like autumn on a sunny day

 

challenge 25 Alcohol inks

Hello from a wet and miserable Hampshire and I must apologise that I haven't been around much over the last couple of weeks, I have been in solitary confinement feeling very sorry for myself with a bug that's knocked me for six.

But on with the challenge which is to use Alcohol inks, there are lots of  techniques which can be found on the Ranger site but I was looking for something different and found something new to me on Roni's Blog so armed with a can of hairspray and glossy card I had to play and the effect is so different from any of the other techniques

 

You don't have to worry about over wetting the card as the hairspray doesn't make the paper cockle I then use purple twilight clover and butterscotch and blended by tipping the card the background stamping in Magenta and images in Archival the butterflies have been stamped on a separate piece of card and stuck on, you can't see in the photo but there is some stickles around the edge and the lower right corner.
Now whilst Iwas messing about with the hairspray I discovered it cleans rubber stamps !!!
Looking forward to seeing what you create with your Alochol inks at Artful Times

Artful Times Challenge 12

Neet has the reins for the next two weeks at Artful Tmes with her theme of inchies they may be small but you can think as BIG as you like, just use more of them lol

I have made a bag charm/keyring, I cut 2 inchies out of mount board and covered the surface with egg shells then coloured with alcohol inks, after sticking the 2 together I made the hole with a crop a dile and coated with glossy accents
Come and join us and we will be only to pleased to visit you and if you have followed the rules you could be in with a chance to win a £10 voucher from Oyster Stamps

Acetate and Challenge 11 at Artful Times

Thank you all for your fab Mona works of art it sure was fun using her again :)
Well this fortnight  at Artful Times, Sam has set us a really challenge of using acetate as a layer so thought long and hard over this Embossing seem to me  the obvious thing to do how ever you could stamp,  print or heat emboss onto it .
For my card I have recycled some packaging and embossed it with a cuttlebug folder and coloured with alcohol ink, made a background with distress stains and attached both layers with some washi tape topped off with a Timmy style butterflies (mine is lager as I used a spellbinders die)  .

Please come along and check out what Neet and Sam have made at Artful Times and you could be in with a chance to win a £10 voucher from Oyster Stamps

I'm on my hols at the moment and will be back sometime today and will catch up with you all tomorrow :)

Von x♥x

Artful Times and mainly green

What an amazing first challenge we have had at Artful Times with 38 enties and 68 wonderful followers :)

Sam's choice this fortnight and she would like to see a mainly GREEN background so off I went and had a messy play time with some inks made the similar way as Netty's on  Happy Daze but no matter how I tried ! it would photograph well, but has happens when you have a play you then can't decide what to do with it so it sits and waits inspiration .

Ok let's try again. Honest there is no white on the background :( I stamped an embossed in clear on a light green wrinkle free background then inked over with the darker green and splashed with water and iron the clear embossing powder to melt it away ready for ...... opps inspiration walked out the door so they also sit wating to be finished off

I really don't think my camera likes green as this is an alcohol ink back ground on glossy card stamped with a Crafty Individual stamp in black Archival and again onto some inked paper and cut out the butterfly and flower so it's a simple atc from me this week

You will find lots more inspiration from Sam and Neet at Artful Times and hope you will all join us again :)

atc's with wings

First swap  for a new forum Paperplay with wings

and using up another of the butterflies to make an easel shaped birthday blimey it's a busy month

The squares are alcohol resist

A Birthday Card

A busy card for a change from me the center panel is done on glossy card with AI's and I like to enter this in the One Stop Craft Challenge and also the Rogue Redhead design Challenge who both want to see stamped backgrounds

Colour wheel Tag

The Craft Barn challenge is to use the colour wheel as inspiration for a tag. They did a whole week on colour and how to use a colour wheel to help you with some wonderful inspiration art from the team :)
I'm Still in Jennie mode and have used red pepper, stream and sunshine yellow alcohol ink to make a mono print for the background and the same 3 colours with a can of air, the flower stamp is from Crafty Individuals and the flourish Personal Impressions

Gingersnaps would like to see some ribbon

Workshop with Jennie

I had a fab fun filled day with Jennie on her melt pot and alcohol ink day playing with all her wonderful stamps and moulds, such a great way to kick start the mojo after spend the last few week making 260Lb marmalade lol

We had lots of time to be creative and just play at the end

aand use up all the utee, the colours were wonderful from Crafty Notions as were the moulds

Thank you Jennie

Sunny days at Just for Fun

We're working up a sweat here, well we can live in hope can't we lol at Just for Fun with Zoe taking us into the summer.
We also have a guest this week Ann  invited by Neet whom I'm sure will have come up with something pretty amazing being a tallented crafter
My little offering this week is a domino stamped and embossed with flowers and butterfly from Personal Impressions on an alcohol ink background and coloured with sukura pens and topped off with glossy accents

It's getting warmer at Just for Fun

We're here with the second week of Zoe's choice at Just for Fun
After winter comes the spring, longer day and warming sun bringing forth new life and for me a favourite sight are the woods full of bluebells of which there are plenty of near to me :)

I hope I have captured that feeling of a bright day in the woods with an alcohol background and trees from Kanban and a suggestion of bluebells . Zoe and Neet of course have their own vision of spring which are just wonderful

Hope you are keeping nice and warm and dreaming of days to come

Shrinks plastic charms

Dangly things is what they are after at  Happy Daze  and it just so happened I have been playing with some shrink plastic. I coloured clear shrink plastic with AI inks and cut into long triangles punched a hole at the wide end before shrinking, while it was still warm twisted it to form the spiral and curled the tip to take a jump ring and the danglers

Thanks for taking the time to look

Just for Fun week 23

Hopefully is Blogger is playing fair and I haven't made a boo boo this will be week 23 at Just For Fun and the theme for this month is all about Materials, starting off with Acrylic / plastics.
I have made a tag with acetate coloured on one side with alcohol inks , glossy accents and a sprinkling of glitter then stamped on the reverse side with stazon , then to finish off stuck it on to some pale blue card .
This is one of those cases where the photo doesn't show just how colourful this tag really is but someone will will recieve it in our monthly swap so check out the details HERE

Hope you are all having a good week today I will be somewhere between Dundee and York proberly getting wet lol

Just for Fun week 15

Just reposting one that blogger forgot ............. lets hope there's not another glitch in the system
Here we are at the second week of Neets choice of size matter and it Scraplings you know the bits you get left over when cutting a square card , 11" x 2 1/2 .
I've turned mine into an easel card with an ATC for a topper. Simply score and fold across the middle and 3 1/2 from each end you should have something that looks like an M when folded but you all know how to mak an easle card don't you :)

Metal flower

The Craft Barn have challenged us to make concertina flowers with out the die, I don't have it anyway and have done them before with paper . I loved the one done in metal so took that as my inspiration. I've used the paisley die from spellbinders to make my tag , inked with briliance ink pad and embossed with a pearl embossing powder. the flower is coloured with alcohol inks and the small one left plain

Scene it's meet Alcohol inks

The new challange at the Craft Barn  is dominoes.

 I've use some of the coastal scene-it stamps and applied the alcohol ink with a cotton bud so no need for masking :) all edged with a silver leafing pen and some detail added to give the look of sea foam .
This one is covered with Brilliance ink it take a good day to dry even with the help of the heat gun  stamped with a small part of a C.I stamp and embossed a little surka glitter pen at the bottom cornerand edged with pale gold leafing pen

Tuesday Taggers

Over on Tuesday tagger it's messing about in boats .Brayed on to regular card stock for the background and alcohol ink and glossy card for the ships image

Acetate Flowers

After play about with the Tyvek I took to Zoe yesterday it occurred to me that acetate might do something similar so cut some flowers with Tim's die and blasted it with the heat gun ( not the heat resistant one ) and if your careful you can manipulate the petals

How neat are these :)

I've mask the note book and painted with gesso then painted with pva glue and dripped alcohol inks on to the wet glue . Ive then used a brass stencil and terra paste for the focal point. Blimey you have to be quick

Metal Embossing

I've been having a play with more metal embossing and this is the one I have finish today for the Lots to Do

It's stamped on the back and then embossed , I used a texture plate for the for the back ground and coloured with alcohol inks and a red and green sharpie .

Thanks for looking :)