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Sunday, 31 January 2010

Tag challenge week 2


I kept the same shape and theme so I can put them on a ring.

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Recipe Tag : 2


Here is my offering for tag 2: tiny buttons and glittery pom-poms.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Rolling Recipe Challenge Week 2


Rolling Recipe weeks 1 and 2




Here's my effort for the first week. There is glitter on the dandelion head - honest!

Rolling Tag Recipe - weeks 1 & 2



Here are my first 2 tags for the challenge. The red one is for week 1 & the blue is week 2.

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Rolling Recipe Week 2

Stamped flowers, button middles and two glittery flowers! Got it together eventually!

Monday, 25 January 2010

Recipe Tag 2


Stickles on the shawl & shrink plastic buttons.

Recipe Tag 2


Well the tag is copied from January's craft stamper (I said it all looked so do-able at the time!) and the glitter isnt showing up well but the writing is glitter embossed on one of the strips.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

Rolling recipe tag week 1


Here is mine - the glitter is in the yarn and on the flower, bit difficult to see!

AnnM

Rolling Recipe Tag 1


Here is my entry, bit late but I have started crafting again after a bit of a block ! Instructions on my blog as usual.

Saturday, 23 January 2010

Tag recipe week 1 - Craftyhazelnut

It's quite a while since I joined in the UKStampers challenges, but thought that, as it's a new series, I'd try to join in.

So here is my first tag made to recipe 1:

I decided to incorporate the Leonardo stamp that I had for Christmas (I used it before here).

I chose a piece of beige cardstock that had a texture to it and brayered it using a couple of Ariondack rainbow ink pads. I then added a little distress tattered rose (I've discovered this needs to be re-inked or replaced), sanded it a bit and then stamped my image and heat embossed with black detail. I only had cream lace, so I brayered that a bit and then added strips of stickles gold - I wasn't really keen on adding the glitter, but it was in the recipe, so I thought I ought to!

I had to take the photo at an angle because otherwise the black embossed areas reflected the flashlight too much.



Rolling recipe tag 1


Here is my offering for this week - quick and easy as I am busy making houses :o)




The background is sponged Distress inks and Clarity ruler stamp. I bought the lady Imagepac stamp on ebay ages ago and gave her a lace skirt from a scrap. I coloured her shoes, top and hairpiece glittery red with Sakura pens and gave her a black Stickles belt.

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Rolling recipe tag

My tag for the rolling recipe challenge. I did cheat with the lace effect edge, rather than real lace!! Hope that's okay... some glitter spots to the medallion central image adds the required bling!

Rolling Recipe Challenge

Vintage lace, stamped pansies and stickles!

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Rolling recipe challenge no 1


Recipie tag challenge 1


I stamped the flower used real lace and glitter glue in the centre of the flower.

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Recipe tag challenge No.1

Here is my tag, the lace is from a scrap piece from my wedding dress, the writing at the bottom says: Queen Anne's lace. You can't see the glitter very well on this photo.

Monday, 18 January 2010

Recipe tag cahllenge no1


Here's mine... Tim's stamp, paper lace and distress stickles.

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Recipe Tag


Coloured some paper lace with ink. The glitter (on the flowers) doesn't show up too well.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

C for Child Tag


Yes Ok I KNOW it's really late but after a lot of scrapping I just wanted to do stamping and colouring in!

Friday, 1 January 2010

Twelve days of Christmas: Day 12


Here is my entry for the Twelfth and final day. The main stamps are by Creative Expressions and the backgrounds are various Imagepac stamps I bought at shows. I used watercolour pencils to give vibrancy to the main character, and highlighted the sun with Jelly Roll glitter pens.

Just as I thought this was me done with the challenge I decided to bind all the pages into a book so I need to create a couple of cover pages - more on this to follow then!


Thursday, 31 December 2009

Twelve days of Christmas: Day 11

Entries are coming thick and fast now!
Here is my take for Day 11, using an Alice in Wonderland stamp from Stamp Attack. I have had the set for ages, love it but the stamps are not that easy to use...

The background is a clear stamp from Visible Image, with an Anna Griffin border top and bottom. I have glued coloured crystals for the music notes and hand drew the stalks. The corners are metal cut-offs from a project I finished recently and were just too pretty to throw away!

Days 11&12




All done!

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Day 10


10 Lords a Leaping! with the help of a Zetti stamp.

Twelve days of Christmas: Day 10 by Nattywoo

Finding an image for the Lords was easy: I have always loved this Paper Artsy stamp and the gentlemen are very Lord-like and so perfect for this. Making them leap was another story though...
Here is my attempt, using squiggles from the Stamp Bug as springs. The cogs in the background are from Paper Artsy too.

12 days of Christmas: Day 8

I am now in catch-up mode!


You know you have too many rubber stamps when you go through your animals wondering what you can use as a substitute for a cow and realise you have three different cow stamps (OK, one of them turned out to be a bull...).



The girls image is from a company called 'Blue Cardigan' which seems to have ceased trading. If anyone knows where to get their stamps please let me know! I extended the wires with a pen, and hey presto! The flowers/grass are Art Impressions and the cow came from a job lot on eBay eons ago. Background is sponged Distress inks.




OK, this one was quick and easy. Since the beginning of this series I have been meaning to use these Invoke Arts dancers, and the Prima tassels border just begged to form the curtain.

You cannot really see it on teh scan but the main dancer's outfit is enhanced with glitter pens. I will add a shadow for the main dancer as she looks a bit silly floating in mid-air - I did not realise until a moment ago!








Friday, 25 December 2009

Merry Christmas Everyone


Just wishing you all a

Very Merry, Inspirational and

Creative Christmas !

Have a fantastic time with your loved one's, be full and happy.

Sid (on behalf of UK Stampers Forum)

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Creative Design (CD) Swap Slideshow



Here is the slideshow of all entries for this swap. They were superb, give yourselves a pat on the back for being so creative !

Sunday, 13 December 2009

12 Days no 7 & 8

7 swans a swimming and 8 maids a milking!

12 Days of............Day 8


Here is my Day 8 entry for the Sunday Challenge. Instructions on my blog as usual.

Sunday, 6 December 2009

12 Days of............Day 7

Here is my entry for Day 7 of the sunday challenge. Instructions will be on my blog as usual.

Day 7: Nattywoo


The stamp is by Inka, and the background is a collage of napkins from a swap years ago, and anaglypta swatches.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009