I'm so excited

I'm off today on a studio craft course for 3 days !!!!! eat sleep and craft what more could a girl want.
The course is with Judi a Ranger educator in inks and embossing, I have done work shops with her before and allways had a good time, so this will be heaven getting good and messy. I'll tell you all about it when I get back :)

The wedding went very well and thanks for the comments on my card as for a photo of me well lol I'm either not photogenic or my family can't take a pic to save their lives

The Bride and groom


My DH and 2 sons


It was with out dought the coldest wedding I have ever been too, but a lovely time was had by all

Off to a wedding

Off to a wedding tomorrow, I've been and bought a beautiful new dress and If I get a decent photo I'll use it on my profile I don't much like having my picture taken. But I have made a card for the occasion

A is for ATC

You can't do an alphabet with out doing ATC's :0) so here's mine for an abc swap I'm involved in
Abstract Art Butterfly Cat and Daisy

This a set I have done for a winter swap with printed images I down loaded Christmas 2006 from Go make something.

the background is done with distress inks and I have coloured with shimmer chalks, shame you can't see it in the scan

how to do a cheats alcohol background

I was asked on my group about alcohol inks and came up with this idea so they could give it a try without going the expense of buying. I must addmit that all though the results are not the same it dose give a pleasing soft result

http://www.rangerink.com/videos/videos_tim_alcoholinks.htm If the link works ok it will take you to a video by Tim Holtz useing the Alcohol inks but if you don't want to go to the expense of buying try using any permanent marker (peeloff pens) and rubbing alcohol on a piece of felt. The result is not the same but still makes a lovely back ground I'm quite pleased with theses and will use them, what you do have to remember when stamping onto alcohol backgrounds not use stazon because that is also alcohol based it could react and ruin what you have done, use an oil based ink such as archival or versafine.
Since writing this post the ProMarkers have become very popular and work well too

A is for Acetate and Alchohol inks

The image is stamped with archival ink onto acetate, the alcohol inks on the reverse and the butterfly was then coloured with a permanent marker. I tryed to glue it onto the glitter card with glossy accents but it didn't work so settled for brads.

I've set myself a challenge

Ok so I'm still thinking about Tims Tags they are so good and use everything I don't have lol well I have the inks.

I have decided to set myself a challenge and that is to go through the alphabet with techniques products or styles, so here's my first offering .

A is for Acrylic Dabber at the moment I only have 3 colours cranberry, gold and sandal

so Ive done 2 atc's oh don't you just love making them :)

I have dragged all 3 colours across black card stock and stamped my image with Adirondack's white pigment ink it really does dry very well on the dabbers........I call this one ghost rider lol,

the second one I have done the moon with the gold though a punch hole and swiped the foreground with sandal stamped the bird with the same white and embossed with enchanted gold. the writing is done with a pen and then embossed.