Recipe Tag week 21

Still playing catch-up (and enjoying the play very much): here is my week 21 tag.

Embossed fish (Artistic Stamper) and shiny metal washers covered in glittery nail polish!

The background is sponged with Impress inks, which I also used to colour the fish.

Recipe tag week 20

My first evening's play in ages!

Tag painted with acrylic paints. Clarity tree and camels (unknown source) stamped in black Versacolour and embossed with black detail powder.

I would change the composition if I had to do it again, starting with stamping the camels straight - mind you, I did take a scan of the BG vefore I stamped it so I might well do it again!

Recipe tag challenge - week 19

I was looking for a way to add texture and embossing and remembered my Antiquities inkpads and powders, which give a lovely texture effect with no shine whatsoever. unfortunately the texture does not really come out in the photo so you'll have to take my word for it!

House and background by Paper Artsy, trees by Elusive Images (I think) and sun from a silicone mould taken from an old button.

Recipe tag week 18

I can't believe I'm first this week!

The tree is by Elusive images, and in the background of the Paper Artsy stamp you can see a pagoda which is a kind of house-ish... The stamped text (Paper Artsy) is sort of stripy.

The background is a mixture of Japanese origami paper and joss paper, and the whole merrily mixes Chinese and Japanese influence.

Recipe tag 17

Here is my tag for the week. The (light)house is by Paper Artsy and has stripes, and I have embroidered the light beam. The fish is stamped on acetate and coloured on the reverse with nail polish. Background mask by Tim Holtz and the waves stamp came in an eBay job lot.

Recipe tag: week 16

The flowers are from an Elusive Images set, stamped on acetate and coloured with Brilliance inks. The butterflies are from a Stampington Clearly Impressed set and the background swirls are from Visible Image and stamped in Brilliance Lightning black.

A few learnings from making this tag:

- if you are going to heat-set ink on acetate, check that your acetate is heat-resistant otherwise it will curl. Mind you, that gives a nice 3-D dimension to your flowers.

- if you are going to use solvent-based glue (like Bostik multi-purpose and I expect Uhu) on acetate, check that it does not dissolve the acetate first. Mind you, that does add to the nice 3-D dimension too.

- a dab of stickles can hide a multitude of sins

You have been warned :0)

Recipe tag: week 15

Here is my take on this week's recipe.

The stamp is by Prima, coloured with watercolour pencils and Sakura clear glitter pen on the lady's dress.

The quote is by Inka, and I have inked the butterfly brads with Brilliance to make their wings looks stripy (how desperate can you get...)

Recipe tag week 14

After a bit of a false start, here is my offering for week 14.

I thought I would try out my new Cottage Cutz die, and here we are! The bird and birdhouse are stamped with Sizzix background stamps using Impress inks, and the alphabet stamps are from Craftycat.

The stripes are everywhere - in the background, the leaves and even the bird's wing.

The whole thing is glued with gel medium, and I remembered why you should use a solvent ink if you intend to slop water-based glue all over your stamped creations...

Recipe Tag: week 13

I'm on a roll - and up to date too!

The face stamp was bought on ebay a while back and coloured with chalks as I wanted a soft effect. The quote is by Cloud Nine and the leaves are puched and glued as a wreath (together with a few gems) with gel medium. The background is handmade paper with inlaid leaves which I have had for years.

...and just in case you had not noticed, unlike Sid's, this tag is very green!

Recipe tag: week 12

Still catching up...

Here is my offering for week 12 (face, eggs and gems).

Not very easter-like but I have had this Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers stamp for ages (from a mixed bag in their closing down sale) and this is the occasion to use it! I coloured the tag with Impress inks, stamped the egg box with Archival and lightly painted the eggs with gesso.

The face is Mona Lisa, bought on ebay. The text is gemmed up with tiny crystals.

Did you say I was cracked?

Recipe tag: week 11

Here is my attempt for week 11.

The face stamp is from a Stampattack Twenties set, the square-ish borders are from a Klimt set from Tanda and the magnifying glass is by Clarity.

Tag challenge: week 10

The face is by Grunge Gallery, frame is a Melissa Frances clear stamped embossed in black on green metallic paper. Backgrounds are various hand-made Indian papers with distressed edges. Erm, the eyelet is metal...

Recipe Tags - week 9

Cat by the Artistic Stamper, arrows by Paper Artsy. Hand embossed metal and black text handwritten with a Sakura Glaze. The cat's eyes are made of tiny green gems, and there is a gem on his collar.

Recipe tag - Week 8

The stamps is by Paper Bag Studios, caption by Elusive. Metal arrow using a Papermania stamp!

Recipe tag Week 7

Still catching up...
I do love the stamp, it is so 'complete' that very little needs to be done to finish a piece, and here is no exception. The background is sponged with distress inks (the old ones, I have not bought any of the new ones yet!) and I have gone over the text with a Sakura glitter pen. The brad is a Papermania do-it-yourself with music from a Visible Image background stamp. I tried the plastic domes on top of the brad but the Versafine ink started bleeding into the adhesive; the plastic dome peeled off very easily though and Diamond Glaze did the trick.

Recipe Tag challenge - week 6

I have been going great guns recently and made this tag last night very quickly - then spent forever taking photos indoors with and without flash, and outdoors in the sun and in the shade...

I am still totally undecided as to which best shows the tag so I will show 2 pictures, and beg for help on how to take pictures of pearlescent items to show both the shimmer and the detail underneath.

I made the background by spraying Cosmic shimmer: first lime green, then turquoise blue on a Heidi Swapp tree branch mask. The birds is by Prima and the earth image is by Chapel Road. I just had to add glitter to the bird's crown. Distress stickles were not sparkly enough but Platinum stickles did the trick. To add a bit of texture I stamped a See-D background stamp with Versamagic ink on the right hand side.

The heart uses rock candy Distress crackle paint on top of maroon Cat's eye chalk pad, and dark brown chalk ink on the sides and cracks to age it.

Rolling recipe tag - week 5

I am still trying to catch up! This is inspired by this year's Valentine card to my husband and uses a Stampington heart on metallic card and a Maya Road chipboard key painted with Viva ferro paint - I love the rusty effect that the 'iron' paint gives.

I wanted to make a sprayed background so I took my cardboard spraying box out, and stared at the newspaper which was lining the box: the colour was exactly what I wanted so that's what I used!

Lousy picture though, I should get more organised and take my photos while there is still natural light...

Tag challenge - week 4

How long do you reckon it will take me to catch up with all the lovely submissions and my own tags? Please bear with me while I give it a go...

Here is my offering for week 4: floral stamp (Inkadinkado clear stamp set), text (Chapel Road - love that quote) and red gel pen. The background is paper which came around some stuff I bought from the US, far too nice to bin :o). I sprayed it with Ranger Ink refresher before scrunching it and distressing it with Old Linen Distress ink; the edges are inked with Mahogany. The flowers are coloured with my Sakura Jelly rolls which I bought years ago and still use loads - great value for money when you think how little each of them costs. I glued the paper to my tag using ulta-sticky stix-2 tape as I reckon the Ink refresher does not like being glued and finished it off with German scrap corners from Paper Artsy and a few fibres.

Recipe tag: 3

This is this week's tag. The stamps are from Paper Artsy and Rubbernecker and I just love that quote. I could not help adding a beaming sun and somehow glittery Ice Stickles worked its way into the tag too.

Recipe Tag : 2

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