Christmas Banner

I have completed my banner from the challenges set on Ready Steady STAMP over the last 8 weeks and it is now hanging on the wall over the fireplace!

This will be my last blog posting before Christmas so I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas Banner Part 4

The final banner challenge on Ready Steady STAMP this week was to include our chosen colours, a Santa, torn paper, music score and adhesive pearls. I used my Crafty Individuals music stamp and Santa stamp for this one and embellished it in a way I hope matches the other 3! I will put them all together as soon as I can and blog them all together! This was a great challenge over the last few weeks.

Christmas Banner Part 3

Part 3 of the Christmas Banner Challenge on Ready-Steady-STAMP is to use our chosen colours, baubles, cord, organza and dry embossing. I embossed my Snowflake Cuttlebug folder through the Big Shot and cut out some of the snowflakes with a circle punch to make my baubles, I then dabbed them with Gold Dabber and went over them with Gold Krylon. I attached them with gold cord and tied organza ribbon round the cords. I finished it off with embellishments to co-ordinate with my other banners.

Christmas Banner Part 2

The next challenge on Ready Steady Stamp for our banners, is to use our chosen colours, a Christmas tree, eyelets, Cut' n Dry stamping and Kraft paper. I didn't like doing the Cut 'n Dry stamping and don't think I would use it much again, I tried several objects to press my heated up piece of Cut 'n Dry into and eventually settled on a Christmas tree charm, but I am not keen! I used a Technique Tuesday tree stamp and stamp and embossed it onto some Kraft paper, adding embellishments including the eyelets, and edging everything with gold Krylon.

Christmas Banner

The project on Ready Steady STAMP for the next 4 challenges is to make a Christmas Banner, using a colour theme of our choice throughout but the ingredients given each challenge. For this one we had to use stars, glitter or gems, heat embossing and a stamped and cut out image. I have chosed to use brown/gold/red for my colour theme. I used my Stampington stamp for the image, I seem to be using it a lot lately!

Ready-Steady-STAMP Challenge 8

For Challenge 8 on Ready-Steady-STAMP, we were asked to use C for Christmas, Black, Silver and Lilac, Snowflakes, Crackle glaze of some sort and a skinny sized 2" x 4". As I like to make fat book pages for my challenges which are 4" x 4", I had to have a think about how to get a "2 x 4" on that would look OK. I hope I achieved that lol! I used a deer Inkadinkado stamp and HOTP snowflakes and greetings stamps. I used Dusty Concord Distress Ink for the backgrounds, spritzed with water and Silver Glimmer Mist which doesn't show up too well on the photo. The crackle glaze is on the black snowflakes and behind the large silver one which also doesn't show up too well!

Ready-Steady-STAMP Challenge 7

Challenge 7 on Ready-Steady-STAMP is to use Autumn, Brown, cream and ochre, Staples, Hessian and Distress Inks on background. I used the nearest colours I could to make my fat page and used a PSX leaf stamp and Hero Arts alphabet stamps for the word Autumn. This was right up my street as I love doing nature type work! I enjoyed doing my background as I haven't done this technique for a while - I smudged Distress Inks onto a non stick mat and spritzed with water then blotted my card onto it several times to accumulate the ink effect.

Ready-Steady-STAMP Challenge 6

The list of ingredients we have to use this time on Ready Steady STAMP Challenge 6 is - Pink, white and grey, the letter B, a mask on the background, brackets and corrugated cardstock. I think I have got them all on this fat book page I made, using a Penny Black bird stamp, a Tim Holtz mask, some spritzing with a Silver Glimmer Mist, dots with Liquid Pearls and my Slice for the little brackets!

Ready-Steady-STAMP!

Challenge 5 on Ready-Steady-STAMP! is to use 5 ingredients, Green, Buttons, Lace, Flowers and Butterflies, and the PVA resist technique. I have done all of these on my fat page!

Ready-Steady-STAMP!

The ingredients for this week on Ready-Steady-STAMP are to use canvas (I used Claudine Helmuth's Sticky-Backed Canvas), Brown, cream and white (I found it difficult to incorporate white as I wouldn't usually with browns and creams!), the letter A, rain drops (or Glossy Accents), and a scalloped circle. I covered my fat book page with the sticky-backed canvas and inked it with Vintage Photo and Tea Dye Distress Inks. I stamped my Personal Impressions tree onto cream card with Adirondack Rust and clear embossed it, then cut it out and put it on my page - my first attempt at stamping directly onto the canvas didn't come out properly! I cut a scalloped circle with a Nestabilitie die and put it under the Primas and leaf brad. I used white for the word autumn (letter A!) and cream brads. Finally I used Glossy Accents to make drops here and there! I think I got it all!

Ready-Steady-STAMP!

The current challenge on Ready-Steady-STAMP is to use the list of ingredients - use wax paper with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, use some cork, use metal embellishment, use blue, and use a monument image. We also have to stamp. I bought some wax paper having not used it before and put it through my Big Shot with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, ironed it between 2 sheets of white card and then inked over the card with Distress Inks. I love this and will do it again! I had a small scrap of cork from an old QVC TSV - just enough to cut a couple of corners with a Cuttlebug die. The metal embellishments are the Paris and Eiffel Tower, and I stamped the words and a couple of swirls. Hope it is all ok!!

Ready-Steady-STAMP!

The second challenge has now been set on Ready-Steady-STAMP. I made a fat book page again. There is lots of yellow on my page, a stamped sun and the word too, the words are stamped onto acetate, I have used ribbons at the side and the rays of the sun are triangles and the embellishment in the left corner is almost one! I hope I have got it right this week!

Ready-Steady-STAMP!

I came across a new fortnightly challenge blog (thanks Angela!) called Ready-Steady-STAMP. They give you a list of ingredients that have to be included in your work. I really loved making this fat book page as I haven't done this sort of work for a while and it was great to go back to it! The Faux Batik was a first for me - I don't get the iron out very often!