Colouring at Fashionable Stamping

It's Laura's turn to choose the theme over at FSC for another fortnight's challenge and she's asked us to 'colour between the lines'  - so just stamp an image and use whatever you like to colour it in. I've used my Promarkers to colour a pretty Lavender fairy image which I've then used on a journal page. 

 This is a page for Journal 52 week 7 - the theme was aromatherapy. I recently got some ink dusters which are new tools to me and I created the background with these, masks and distress inks

 The sky is tumbled glass and stormy sky, sun is scattered straw, wild honey and mustard seed. The landscape first layer is milled lavender and shaded lilac

 Followed by Seedless preserves and the bottom layer is Dusty concord - which I forgot to take a pic of before stamping the lavender! 

 The pic doesn't show very clearly but I've added some stickles for a bit of sparkle to the fairy wings.

As always my fellow FSC teamies have created some beautiful works of art so please head over and check them out. I hope you feel inspired to join our challenge - Don't forget we are a stamping challenge and we especially need to see that the stamping is the focal point on the project and that this must follow the format of the theme. NO Digi stamps please. Our sponsor is Flonzcraft and the winner chosen at random will receive a voucher for $20 - we also give special mention to our top 3.

Really looking forward to seeing your colouring in...Happy Crafting...Esther xx

fashionably irresistible..

Hello there, can't believe it's time already for another FSC challenge but here we are ! Thanks so much for all your entries to our Sew 'n' Sew theme.  This fortnight the lovely Fliss has chosen one of my favourite techniques for a 'can u resist' challenge. I love the effects you can achieve with resist techniques and have used more than one  - I  made a sheet by stamping with Gesso and colouring over with distress inks - the Gesso resists the ink, I think it gives a slightly 'grungy-er' effect than embossing resist. 

These two sheets are versamark resist - images stamped in versamark on glossy paper, once dry coloured with distress inks. 

The focal image is a different take on embossing resist. Start with glossy card, colour with alcohol inks, stamp and emboss in clear - you can just see that here - 

To create the contrast I then applied alcohol blending solution over the image and surrounding area, it lightens the colour everywhere except the embossed image which 'resists' the solution (the 2 photos came out different tones but hopefully you get the idea). 

So here they are layered together on my tag - the edges are inked with walnut distress ink and added a little more stamping detail. 

The rest of the FSC team have, as always, made some beautiful projects for inspiration, so do pay them a visit. It would be great to have you join our challenge - don't forget we MUST see some stamping, not just Digis, and the winner will be chosen at random and receive a voucher to spend over at FlonzCraft.

Sharing the Love @FSC

Hi all – it’s time for another challenge over at FSC and with Valentines fast approaching we thought we’d share a bit of love around !  I have made a little tag –

Since joining the blogging world I’ve shared some amazing creativity with some lovely friends. For me this is all about sharing what we love to create, ‘meeting’ fellow crafters and enjoying a positive experience.

I do hope you will join us in sharing some love around our fellow crafters and bloggers, we would love you to visit the crafter who entered the challenge before you and even more entries if you can – and don’t forget our design team who all work really hard for FSC, especially the lovely Shirley, without whom FSC wouldn’t happen so some special love going out to her this week !                      

 My tag is part of a bigger project -  last year I joined Tim Holtz’s online class ‘Creative Chemistry 101’ and my intention was always to make a collection of tags using the lessons…so better late than never this is number one  - blended spritz and flick !

I’m keeping them in an unused photo album, making two tags, leaving one to show just the technique and the other completed.  I’ve also included the step by step by step and a materials list.             

I’m sharing my tag over at -              

Crafty Ribbons – Love/Romance         

Penny Black and More – Love is in the air                                                        

Stamp and Create – Love                  

Stampin for the weekend – something Girlie

Phew – long post ! Thanks for sticking with me – I’ll be over to see you all soon…Esther xx

Autumn’s here

Wow – where did those two weeks go? I've been off on my hols to Turkey (which was amazing) and it’s already time for another challenge over at Fashionable Stamping. Having just spent a week in glorious  sunny temperatures we returned to the UK to find Autumn well and truly on it’s way and over at FSC Paula has set the theme 'Shades of Autumn/Fall'. 

I have used a skeleton leaf stamp from The Stamp Man, in distress inks over the base card. For the next layer I’ve embossed the leaf in clear, then coloured over with DI.

For the final layer I've used metallic leaf sheets on the skeleton leaf image which I first stamped onto brown card (though it looks black on the pic). I love this technique but it is REALLY messy – I'm going out with friends tonight and will have extra sparkle on my face and clothes I’m sure !

I coloured a small panel with ink sprays and embossed the words with aged ivory Embossing powder. The Stamped butterfly is coloured with pencils and has a layer of glossy accents over it. 

I hope the wonderful rich colours of autumn inspire you to join us, and as always there is some wonderful inspiration over on the FSC site  – Please remember we are a Stamping Challenge so NO DIGIS and we must see some stamping on your piece.

I’m also sharing this here -

Allsorts – Autumn Leaves

Blockheads – Gold leafing

The Cupboard trilogy – Things with wings

Vintage elusions – Wings
The Stamp Man - Butterflies, Birds, bees

I look forward to viewing your lovely creations....Esther xx