Sail away

A  birthday card for a man friend as opposed boy friend, although I am greeted with a kiss and a cuddle :)  just happens to fit the bill of OOAH challenge the theme being Transport.

 

I looked though the mono prints I did and found one that reminded of sea and sky, then stamped my ship and added a little pink to the sky.

Thanks for the challenge ladies   

 

Challenge 62 OOTH

Well here we are at the end of the month and it my last guest appearance  for the wonderful ladies at Out of the Hat challenge.
The brief I was given was Jewel in the crown, what ever that means to you, my mind wandered to the TV series of the same name then the crown jewels and rubies but did you know that what was thought of be a ruby, is in fact a spinel !

So here's my offering of an ATC. I wonder what the other have done ? and where it will take you !

Smile please for Out of the Hat

Yep Chrissie, Sandra and Janet, from OOTH would love to see how you would use a photo in your creation.
So here is my husband all dressed up ready for Goodwood's Festival of speed .
I change the photo to black and white but it had hints of blue in it the same as the weathered wood distress ink  that I used for the background with a few gears stamped.

 

Have fun :)

 

 

 

Those lovely ladies at OOTH have set a challenge of "Eyes"

I stamped my glasses and masked the lenses before inking and stamping the background, after removing the masks I stamped the eyes and drew a vision  future  in the other lenses .

Out of the Hat

My second offering for the month of May at OOTH where the challenge is a postcard from France.
Hopefully I have conveyed a feeling of France though the colours and café style, but bit of a giveaway the French postage lol

Craft-room have a  wish you were here challenge

Tickled Pink

Yes I'm tickled pink a be the guest designer over at Out Of The Hat for this the month of May.
The theme this week is Frames, for mine I have used hanging circles which have been triple embossed in blues and gold, my silhouettes have been stamped on patterned paper with strips of text stuck to it

 

Please check out what Janet , Chrissie  and Sandra have made I know I shall

 

Have a Heart

Hearts and swirl is the theme at OOTH this week.
A Tando pennant has been painted and stamp with paint, the lovely heart (air dry clay) was a RAK from a friend  has been painted and coloured with promarkers

 

Faces

A nice easy challenge from OOTH this week with the theme of faces the only difficulty is deciding which one, I dug deep and found one I haven't used in a very long time, I think it came from Third Coast stamps and it's just the right size for an ATC

 

Have a great Easter break and thank you for popping by



Happy Birthday OOTH

Yes it's Out of the Hats birthday and to celebrate they have a game for you and for me it landed on steam punk something I usually shy away from, not because I don't like it I do, but because I don't think I can do it justice but I have tried.
This is the altered note I have made with embossing folders, die cuts, paint, rub-ons  and wire

 

Thanks for popping by and I would also liketoenter this for the Tando challenge of flowers

 

An Easter Bonnet

Those ladies at OOTH are asking to see Easter Bonnets, so after a bit of head scratching some feeding of the bin, decided to combine 4 stamps a large background stamp a cute dog my favourite hat stamp and some CI flowers

 

Not my usual style of card but hey sometimes challenges take you out of your comfort zone

Thanks for popping by

 

Precious things come in little boxes

I have decorated a matchbox with paper coloured with Dylusion inks and an image coloured with distress ink for OOTH now what to put inside ! uhu I know a perfect place to put some pearl earring I have made, much nicer than the box they came out of :)

 

Birds and Butterflies

Just for a change I started with a piece of pale green card and stamped my butterfly background from Crafty Individual with bleach didn't work as well as I hope but carried on regardless and inked with tumbled glass and stamped again with the bleach, dried it with the heat gun and wow love the colour it turned, stamped the Crafty Individual birds in green and coloured with scattered straw.

 

I'd like to enter this ATC in

 

Out of the Hat Challenge birds and butterflies

Fashonable Stamping Birds

 

Thank for stopping by I do appreciate it :)

 

 

Table scraps

Yep that's what I said table scraps from the craft table :) I made this a while ago and never got around to blogging it so I am pleased to include it the OOTH challenge where they would like you to use 3 different texture

 

I have just stuck some of the accumulated dross on the craft table onto a 5 x 5 piece of card, some embossed papers I'd die cut some circles out of, a clock that never made it onto a project bits of thread well just about anything lol. It was then painted with acrylic

 

Anything can be useful

OOTH challenge this week is most useful stamp/s, I find lots of stamps useful and on this occiasion I choose to use some of the Tim Holtz visage range to add texture to the background of my tag .

 

 

Also ABAC would like to use anything that can be tied, well that's what tags are for lol but I have also used some lace on my tag :)

 

 

 

So it was back to a favourite colour combo of worn lipstick and broken china with picket fence distress stain for the background and stamping again in the same colours.

Chipboard shapes from Tando .

 

RSVP for the mad hatters

The  challange at Out of the Hat is to respond to their tea part invite , now I've no Alice stamps but hope I have made a card in the spirit of the theme .
Also Simon Says has  a totally mad no rules tea party and Fashionable Stamping want a suprise

 

Blogger is playing me up and I had to go all around the houses to get the photo in my post !

 

OOTH challenge

Out of the hat are asking us to make a shrine for this weeks  challenge , I had no personal reason to make one, so thought I'd start with a sentiment which I put  between 2 of Tim's cabinet dies .
The sentiment is from Elusive images, the background stamp from the Artistic Stamper and the images La blanche

 

Now I really must get my finger out and make a Christmas card or two .......can we please restart December I need more time AAGGGGHHHHHHH 

 

Stash buster for Out of the Hat

The lovely lassses at OOTH are asking us to use up  some stash, well these frames along with a few more have been hanging around for ages and I wanted to give them the Andy treatment, can't believe I left the Craft Barn with out buying the crackle medium ! but found a one step one at Hobby Craft .
The image transfer isn't as crisp as I would have liked probably due to the pixelation  and looks better IRL and I use black on the top of the crackle which was a thick coat and varnished,  the smaller frame the same base colours had a dark purple used after the crackle which was applied much thinner and didn't varnish
The frames aren't finished but I didn't want to miss the deadline again !

 

Thanks for popping by :)

 

 

It's a Gift

It's the last week of Christmas at OOTH challenge is to make a gift, the ladies have made some inspiring pressies.
Well the lavender in my garden is a poor excuse for a bush but a friend kindly gave me some of hers, so I set to making a few lavender bags.
I've used one of the other half's cream shirts destined for the rag bag and stamped with versafine ink and coloured with promarkers very quickly and carefully (if you linger to long on the fabric it just sucks out the ink and bleeds)

Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by :)

Bah humbug for out of the hat

Yep I'm bah humbug but as it's Christmas  in October  at Out of the Hat so thought I had better get my act together and make a decoration or two. There are some lovely examples from the team so do have a look :)
Very simple to make with craft wire, wind around a knitting keeping the coils close together like a spring then slip off, make a little loop at one end for a hook to hang it by. then all you have to do is wind it around your finger with the base of the tree being at the thickest part of the finger then it's just a matter of manipulating the wire until you are happy with the shape .Finished off with some dollops of stickels, they would make fun earing too ha ha

 

And now something with a little more finesse some wire earrings. I have some commisions for these in all sorts of colours

 

halloween

Halloween for the Out of the Hat ladies thought I had missed this one but just remembered a 5x5 I made a while ago and hadn't bloged phew :)

Hope this fits the bill I wasn't thinking Halloween at the time, I stamped and embossed with white embossing powder before masking and spraying the background with dylusion inks
Thanks for popping by and hello to my new followers love to have your company