Love Life and Live ~ Steampunk Top Hat & Stand

It's MONDAY!!! which means, we have a new theme set at...

and this week is Anything Goes!!!

WOW my final project as member of this Awesome Team sniff sniff.

I was inspired by these Steampunk Debutante papers.

I had the idea to create a steampunk inspired top hat, using grungepaper, texture fade, cafe perfect pearls (fabulous match to the papers) and gears. The top and brim are cut using ovals nestabilities, and I simply pleated the hat into shape! I can see me making a whole lot more of these.

This is the back of the hat, wish I'd have thought to put the eyelets in before I constructed the hat ROTFL!!! but still, managed and threaded some copper coloured elastic through.

I even lined the inside with fun flock, I mixed a few colours together to get this shade!

The Small easel is the base for the hat stand adhered to a large fragment, adorned with Art Parts and memo pin embellishments, one dangly using Steampunk gears stamp.

I cut flowers from Tattered florals and 3D flowers using grungepaper and the colours were matched using distress inks. So check out the goodies at...

And then why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning projects!!!
THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a beautifully creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Embossing!

It's MONDAY!!! which means, we have a new theme set at...

and this week is Some Embossing!!!


I have incorporated both heat embossing and dry embossing!

The cover to my mini sketch book has been doubled distressed using Victorian velvet, aged mahogany, walnut stain and black soot distress inks. Using a gorgeous texture fade.

The leaf art part has distress stain and clear embossing powder.

The spine has been adorned with an array of different embellishments! All quite meaningful, the leaf back to my natural artist passion, the butterfly to learn to change, the pearl for keeping pure, the lock and key to unlock my skills and then imagination! Phew! far tooo deep for a Monday morning ha ha ha!

I have been holding hoarding onto these scrummy cotton rag art paper for ages it was so nice to make something I might use with them. I've used an old sizzix cheque book die, sorry not sure if you can find it now.



These embellishments are made using clear art film and Tim Holtz kraft resist card!

Then I created inked tabs along the edge using inspirational words.

So check out the goodies at...



And then why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning projects!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a beautifully creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says stamp and Show a Flourish

It's MONDAY!!! which means, we have a new theme set at...

and this week is a Flourish!!!

I've used flourishes in a few ways, some are cut from chipboard using the elegant flourishes die, then applied paint dabber. 

It's a little hard to see I have stamped the swirl from Wendy Vecchi set onto the flowers, using some fabulous Glassine papers.

The frame on the card has been painted with crackle effect. The sentiment is stamped on patterned paper.

Butterflies from this set have been heat embossed onto clearly for art film.

The Maya road cameo has been painted, inked, stamped with this cute set and glossy accents to finish.

So check out the goodies at...

And then why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning projects!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a beautifully creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Metal

It's MONDAY!!! which means, we have a new theme set at...

and this week is Some Metal!!!

Well, my first thought was of Steampunk when the theme was set for this weeks challenge.

I have created a picture frame with the wonderful small easel to help it stand and cut the opening using baroque die.

then with Mocha metal sheet embossed it with texture fades and used Ten Seconds Studio tools to create the decorative edge.

The front had a generous dab of paint dabber burnished in. The frame has been adorned with cut gadget gears enhanced with perfect pearls, a steampunk'd butterfly

plus a whole load of various pieces from Tim's Idea-ology range...

So check out the goodies at...

And then why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning metal projects!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a beautifully creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

 

Simon Says Stamp and Show ~ Torn/distressed edges!

It's Monday, which means we have a new theme at...

and this week is torn/distressed edges!!!

My edges are a combination of torn, ripped, distressed and even burnt effect.

The steampunk theme was inspired by Tim's fabulous Steampunk stamp set and a few of the great sentiments in Stuff to Say set can be found on the tabs and tags.

I've added some splats using distress stain directly onto patterned paper which had some distrezzing, tearing and distress inking.

So check out the goodies at...

Hope it inspires and why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning projects!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a beautiful creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp and Show A Tag!

It's Monday, which means we have a new theme at...

and this week is A Tag!!!

Well, my tag started by stamping Tim's Fabulous flourishes with silver paint dabber, then lots of faded jeans distress ink applied all over.

Inspired by seeing this amazing tutorial over at THE Classroom I wanted to try making a lily, as I don't have the same supplies I used Tim's mini leaf die, looked here for inspiration then coloured using copics.

WOW... I just love that the sentiments from stuff to say fits perfectly into the mini Heart die. I've inked with distress inks and added distress stickles!

Also trimmed a few special words to fit in my bottle top embellishment, I used a gem gear in the base and filled with clear Utee using my fabulous melting pot.

Ok so the back of my tag is a bit of a mess but I have to show the Small Easel die, cut from packaging, LOVE IT, now I can make some more of my angels that can stand, woo hoo!!!

So check out the goodies at...

Hope it inspires and why not pop round to the rest of the team's stunning tags!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
Kim Costello <~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe

Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~

Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a brilliant creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp and Show ~ Favourite Stamp

Good Morning!!!

It's Monday, which means we have a new theme at...

and this week is your favourite stamp!!!

Choosing a favourite stamp was without a doubt the toughest challenges yet!

I really had to think about this one and decided that Wendy's background stamps always impress!!!

Alphabetically art is definitely one of my go to stamps and I have used it on the sides of my hand made box.

But more recently art colors life background stamp really impresses and is on the lid, used with white embossing powder. Everything is sanded and scuffed then all the edges are generously inked with frayed burlap distress inks!

So let me introduce you to the cutie in the gift box, I like to try lots of crafty stuff and couldn't resist one of Jenny's Pattern's. She's a little bunny made form mohair with jointed arms, legs and head.

I've dyed some seam binding with Distress inks and added a Philosophy Tag too.

On her little hat I've made a little flower from Tim's tattered florals die and a yummy Melody Ross button.

The inside of the box is lined with some gorgeous Tim Holtz Crowded Attic papers.

The ornate plate holds triple embossed sentiment covered with glossy accents. Then added more seam binding and sculpture flower.

So find the goodies at...

Hope it inspires and why not pop round to the rest of the team's inspiring projects!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne

Candy Colwell ~ Dan ~
 Kim Costello &lt;~ You're already here

Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe
Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~
Sarah Engels-Greer ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes.

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you have a wonderfully creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)