flowers

The theme at Artygirlz is flowers, I made this for Chris's birthday and as it contains quite a lot of flowers I thought I would enter it. All stamps are by Inka

Woof

My original inspiration for this was to make a stripy background using adirondack dabbers,and crackle paint, so I thought I'd make something for Tag you're it's stripy challenge. I also fancied TGIF's dog challenge so I used this image from Inka. As the child and dog are wearing newspaper hats I thought I would use newspaper as an embellishment, and this is the theme at Lots To Do Challenges.

artygirlz also have anything but a card as a theme so I thought I could enter this tag. I hve also just entered this for Mixed Media Monday's challenge which is friendship as this quote to me is what friendship is all about.

hearts

The theme at Crazy Amigos is Hearts. I recently took part in a collaborative project as a gift for my friend Audrey's wedding present which was organised by Carrie and can be seen completed here. Each contributor made four squares on a love theme in Jade and cream.
These four squares are my contribution to the project. They are are each 2.5" square. all images and stamps by Inka.

I am also entering this for Arty girlz, small art challenge

wednesday stamper telephone

First of all, credit where credit is due. I have completely stolen the idea for this ATC from Jo. When I saw that the theme at wednesday stamper was telephones. I thought "nah! not for me this week, I have nothing telephone themed" Then I saw Jo's piece where she had used part of a telephone directory in her background. This reminded me that I had once been sent some pages from a foreign directory. But what inspired me most of all were her birds, straight away I thought "birds on a telephone wire" and that's how this piece came about. I used the 3 crows stamp from Inka, and real wire.
I am also entering this for Saturday workout, as I have antiqued the directory page with distress inks, water and walnut ink, then heated it with a heat gun to make it feel old; and Theme thursday, where the theme is birds

EDIT ooo I've just realised I can call it blog inspiration, rather than copycatting and enter it for the artygirlz challenge!! BONUS!

very quick baby card

I've made this for my next door neighbours who have just had a baby boy. It's a really simple card, but the kind of card that I find "real life" people like, lol.
It may be quick but it satisfies three of this week's challenges: buttons (crazy amigos); Fabric, the gingham is fabric (artygirlz) and ribbon (created by hand).

The stamp is from craft stamper magazine (the one I cut the wheel off) and the baby boy stamp is by onefourzero. I made the scalloped edge just by attaching punched circles. I was going to add some stitching too, but I ran out of time.

DOn't forget to enter the draw for blog candy in my last post, and watch out for more blog candy coming this weekend.

Jackie's birthday card

I made this card for Jackie's birthday, amd on a quick trawl of the challenge sites I've found it fits three of the current challenges!
1. Theme thursday, the theme is hats
2. Arty girlz, the theme is a hint of pink
3. Created by Hand, the theme is fancy paper.

The girl is Erica from Inka stamps (look! she's not holding anything, I've been guilted into giving her little arms a rest) ,the hat is also by Inka. The "fancy paper" is my favourite papermania set- retro floral. This card all came about because I wanted to play with the circle cutter I bought back in march and hadn't used. I love it!
The dress and hat are stamped onto the same papers as the background and cut out.
I think you can tell from the photo that the main card is acetate. I am starting to get the hang of photographing acetate cards!

craft stamper free stamp July 2008

I bought my copy of craft stamper this week and I thought the free stamp looked really useful, and although I'm really busy this week with no time to play I found a few minutes to make something with it.

The stamp is a frame with a flower in it. The frame is great as the aperture is an inch square perfect for housing an inchie, or as in this case an Inka inchie collage image. The flower is really pretty too, so I stamped that onto patterned paper twice and cut out. The whole thing then reminded me of a little window, so I decided to mount it onto a little house.

As I have used a face in the window I have decided to enter this into this week's Artygirlz challenge as the theme is faces.

tag on acetate card

I was reorganising the challenge links in my side bar today , and browsing all those challenges left me totally inspired, so here's a piece combining
Saturday's workout - resist
Created by hand- Tags
Artygirlz -wings

I started off by doing a versamark resist on the background using a background vines stamp, and pale colours of ink to brayer over it. I covered so much of it up though, you'll have to look carefully to see it.
All stamps and collage images are by Inka