Fashionable Flora and Fauna

Time for a new challenge theme over at Fashionable Stamping and it’s my turn to choose. I would like you to share with us your projects using Flora or fauna s your theme (or both!). Flora is the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology and Faun is the corresponding term for animal life.  I chose Flora as my inspiration and made a card. The background strip is created with a wash of inktense block colour , some perfect pearls mist for shimmer and a fern stamp.

For the focal section I used a technique from Craft Stamper with Inktense blocks and stamps on water colour card. After stamping the flowers I masked them and used distress inks to stamp some background details. 

I had a bit left over so I made a little tag to match.

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...Happy creating…Esther xx

We are Sailing…

I’ve had some inky time to play at my craft desk today and it’s been all about holidays..Pete and I are off to Turkey in September and whenever we go away I always plan to keep a holiday diary, but never actually do it. BUT…this year I’m planning ahead and have made a little book to take in the hope it might encourage me to stick to it. I was inspired by the challenge over at Blockheads Paper Arts which is to make and bind your own mini book.

I have used a sheet from an atlas as my front cover, and after painting and stamping, used a double sided sticky sheet  to stick it to a sheet of acetate for added stability and protection. This also gave me another surface to stamp on, creating a collaged layered look.

 

I used various papers which I painted with gesso or acrylic paint (or both) and stamped on.

I made a couple of pages with acetate pockets to tuck tickets/mementos into – I've tucked a scrap of paper in one to try and show it, but it’s tricky to see on the pic.

I’ve tied the book with seam binding and the finishing touch is a cute little seahorse charm.

I’m sharing this here -
Blockheads Paper Arts – Make a mini book
Anything Goes – Summer Days
Artful Times – Use Acetate
The Artistic Stamper – Holidays

Unruly PaperArts RAQ 1 - Dear Diary

While I still had my holiday/beach themed stamps out I also made a card -

I’ve stamped the sailing boat (Rogue Redhead) and antique map (The Stamp Man) on water colour paper, and used Derwent inktense blocks to paint the images. The little crab is from the same Rogue Redhead set.

 I’m sharing this card here -
Less is More – tearing
CAS-ual Fridays – Splish-Splash
Rogue Redhead – Shape Up (use at least 1 circle, 1 square and 1 rectangle).
The Craft Barn – Colour technique
Totally Papercrafts – Inspired by a song (we are Sailing) 
Apologies for the long post, thanks for visiting…Esther xx

Rogue Inking at Craft-Room

Hi all, another Craft-Room Challenge is upon us, we had some great entries for our musical theme and the winners will be announced as always next week.

Our sponsor this fortnight is Rogue Redhead Designs makers of excellent quality rubber stamps. They have a voucher for one lucky winner to spend at their site. 

It is Nikki's turn to choose our theme and she has challenged us to 'Ink it' and only use a Rubber, Acrylic or  other type of 'real' stamp on your creations. THAT MEANS NO DIGI STAMPS ! Now I have to admit to not being a fan of Digi stamps - it's not messy enough for me and so loved creating my inspiration piece this week. I have used an image and words from the Relish Reading set by Rogue Redhead Stamps and made a bookmark.

 I coloured with a variety of Distress Inks before stamping the letters background (PaperArtsy Stamp). I painted the Rogue redhead stamped image with Derwent inktense blocks before fussy cutting out and attaching to the bottom of the bookmark.   

The proverb and little book are coloured with distress inks and the edges distressed, I applied glossy accents to the little book but it's not clear on the pic. 

I really hope you join in with our challenge so dig out your favourite stamps and get inking! 

I'm entering my bookmark into the Rogue Redhead challenge which is to use Spring fashion Colours - although you don't have too I think I managed to get them all in !

Esther xx