Happy Valentines x

Just a quick post today to share the card I made for my Man

I decided on a retro vintage feel for the surprise tag card.

I used Tim Holtz 'vintage love' paper from the 'seasonal stack' and his 'love struck' stamp set. 

I also used the 'love struck' alteration die, distress ink, 'rock candy' distress stickles and glossy accents.
This is the card flat, I did 2 shots as you can see the sparkle of the distress stickles, and the glossy accents I put over the mini blackboard.

You pull the tag and the message appears, As you can see it's not really visible in all lights.
I embossed with distress powder but it faded into the black background, so a covered the whole thing with 'white fire' treasure gold, and then lightly sanded over the top, allowing you to see the message in certain light.

I'm entering this in The 3 Muses challenge as their theme is 'Red'
I hope each and everyone one of you has a wonderful day,
I'll be back tomorrow with my PaperArtsy Challenge piece.
Till then...
Stay Inky

All You Need is Love!

Yippee.. Today you get to see some actual artwork... I've not been the best at blogging lately as I have actually been spending my time making stuff.. I know shock horror!!!
So today I wanted to share with you a piece I made for this months
Artistic Stamper Challenge,
It's been a while since i've joined in so when I saw it was 'Hearts & Flowers' the perfect project came to mind.
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Remember this:

Well I decided I needed to re-purpose it as it wasn't floating my boat any more so I ripped it apart, jiggled it about and came up with this.



I gave the whole thing a couple of coats of gesso, and then a top coat of 'snowflake' fresco finish paint with a a light rub of 'ruby' & 'white fire' treasured gold to highlight the die-cut texture I had added.

I embellished with a selection of fimo pieces that I had made {mini frames and wing}

Several hearts made from 'hearty clay' {which is a very lightweight fluffy airdry clay} which I painted with 'ruby' treasured gold.

And then I finished with a few pins & trinkets.
The inspiration for this piece was from me old young mate Hels who had a piece in the craft stamper a couple of months ago that was inspired by Finnabair.
But obviously i've given it my own twist.
I hope you have enjoyed the art today,
I'll be back again later this week with more as I have a few journal pages i've not yet shared.
Till then..
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Using It Up!

Well so much for a weekend post, not quite sure what happened there, guess time flies when you having fun!!
So if you didn't already know I have taken the pledge to use up the stash I already have.
And while rooting around in my stash I came across a couple of old mags that where heading for the recycling, I decided to have a quick flick through to see if there was anything worth saving, and low and behold there was a set of love/spring papers and some cut out words.
I put myself straight to work and made a few cards...

The hearts are made from Hearty clay {quite an apt name} It had started to dry up.

So that's another thing for the UIU!

The bling got the UIU treatment as those sit around unloved for ages.

And i'm using my Dies too, no point having then if your not gonna put them to good use is there! 

And lastly I UIU'd these mini metal roses i've had for way over a year!!

These are all available via my newly opened Etsy store.
See I got one of the things on my new goals journal page done, and i'm being a good little UIU'er too.
Right I best crack on, things to do you know..
Catch ya soon x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Love is in the air.....

Just a quickie to wish you all a

Happy Valentines Day and to share my cards

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Mine to Him

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& His to Me

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xx Hugz and kisses xx