Kraft tags with Rogue redhead

I decided to make three quick and easy tags with the quirky new Candy Kisses plate from Rogue Redhead (they have a new website, check it out) The bold simple designs are prefect for simple colouring styles, such as colouring with pencils on kraft card.


I also used the background from the relish reading plate with tea dye ink to produce a soft background image. I did this by covering the image with a torn scrap of post-it note, inking up the stamp and gently pressing the card onto the stamp, to get a faint uneven background. I love this effect as it takes away the starkness of a plain background, yet does not detract from the main image.

LIM ribbon

The theme at Less is More is ribbons and buttons. I made this little scrapling using an octopode stamp I've been meaning to play with for ages along with some Stamp Camp words.

The ribbon is tied with an immovable knot, but I think is too thick for the flower, but it's kind of quirky!

floriculture scrapling

I had a little bit of Kraft card left over, from trimming down a card to a square, so I made this Scrapling from stamps on the floriculture plate from rogue redhead designs. I stamped the sentiment,masked it with torn post-it note, stamped the flower, coloured with colour soft pencils.

Finally, I added a few dots of sepia accents.

final scrapling... for the US host

I couldn't resist making just one more, this time for the US host of the swap, Ali.
All the stamps are from Scrolls Work. I used Cattails, sky and grass.

another scrapling - for the host

I enjoyed making the paintchip scraplings so much yesterday that I decided to make another one. This time for the UK host of the swap, Laura.
As soon as I saw the name of the colours on this paintchip I knew what stamps I would be using. The name is "honey Drizzle" so I had to use Jo's Bee from Stampotique. All of the other stamps are also from Jo's range (available from Happy Daze)
(By the way, have you seen Jo's new range? I'm very excited that she has done a Hallowe'en word stamp... with the apostrophe!!!! It's little things like that that make me happy!!)

Anyway I am entering this for Created by Hand's Yellow theme and Stampotique's Wings Wings Wings theme

Paintchip Scraplings

I have made these for a swap on the gingersnap yahoo group. if you are interested in taking part the details are here.
I have used 11 different stamps to make these and they are all taken from the new Hotpicks range at PaperArtsy.

I trimmed my paintchips so that the names of the paints are left on, as I really like the names.
like this first one "gipsy bloom"

on"heather bloom" I used the film frame and masked it so I could stamp part of the eiffel tower picture inside it. I also distressd the edges of the paint chip with my scissors.

then there's "fragrant cloud"

and "cracked clay"

GC54 - spicy supply : Pencils

The new challenge for today on the gingersnap blog is Pencils. You can interpret this however you want, use images of pencils, or just use pencils as a supply.

I decided to colour this sugar nellie image (which was a subscription gift for Craft stamper magazine) using a very quick pencil colouring method (of course it's quick, it's me, I only do quick!) using derwent colour soft pencils

I have mounted it onto a "scrapling", if you don't know what they are, they are the bit you have left over when you trim an A6 card down to a square, and they make great little gift tags.

If you are interested in this colouring "technique" I have done a tutorial on it which will be on the gingersnap blog tomorrow

p.s. if you visit the craft stamper blog today I have just been officially announced as a member of the Craft Stamper DT