Inkless stamping at FSC

I know I always say this but how quickly have the last two weeks flashed by - it's already time for another FSC challenge ! This fortnight our newest DT member Laura has challenged us to stamp using anything BUT ink! After a bit of a panic I turned to Craft Stamper magazine for help and came across a technique stamping with glue and using metal foil/gilding flakes, so I had a go - 

I started off with a LaBlanche stamp and just 'inked' the edges (with glue) and applied red oxidising metal leaf to the stamped image, don't know about you but when I use this stuff I end up with bits floating about everywhere !! I then stamped my favourite PSX bauble, again with glue and applied the same metal leaf. For the second bauble I applied gold foil to the glue stamped image. The background paper is from Crafty Individuals. The red oxidising flakes have a really lovely shimmer which was tricky to capture, but you can see the lovely shine from the gold foil here.

 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.  Laura has said we can use ink elsewhere on our project, but the stamped image must be something other than ink and  having thought about it there are all sorts of mediums you can use to stamp with - paint, gesso, distress stains, glue, even just water onto distress inked card, inktense blocks, markers. As always the winner will be chosen at random and receive a voucher to spend over at FlonzCraft and we'll have a top three.  

I'm sharing my card in a few challenges too - 

Allsorts - Christmas Cheer

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes

Stamping Senstions - Christmas

The Artistic Stamper - Christmas

Happy Crafting...Esther

Medio Pollito (Postcard Challenge #2)

Well I finally made it - here is my postcard for week 2 of Darcy's challenge. This weeks country is Spain and I found a traditional Spanish folk-tale called Medio Pollito (meaning Half Chick) which I based my card on.

'Medio Popllito is a little black Spanish cockerel chick born with one leg, one eye, one wing - hence the half chick name. He got bored with life on a dull farmyard, with nothing but a dreary maize field to look at and headed off to Madrid to see the King.  The tale describes how on his journey he came across Water, Fire and Wind who needed his help but he rudely refused them all.  Eventually as the story progresses Medio Politto needs the help of these elements in retun but of course they remind him of his earlier rudeness and leave him to his fate. The story concludes with the wind swirling Medio Politto up onto the highest steeple in Madrid and there the wind left Little Half Chick standing on his one leg and looking off over the world with his one eye. Whichever way the wind blows that way must Little Half Chick turn. He can never step down, for this is the story of the first weather-cock.' 

And here is how my postcard looks in my book - I have written a synopsis of the story over the page which I painted and stamped on first.  The Postcard is held in the photo corners I won last week form Darcy - they were perfect for the job!  

I had a blonde moment and forgot to take a pic of the back so until I get round to that it reads -

Hi Ellie,

The Little Darlings have been very naughty but they enjoyed the Spanish fairy tale Medio Pollito you told me about.  You will have to look out for him when you are in Madrid. I miss you, write back soon... lots of Love, Twinkle xx