Forgotten Friday 21- Steampunk Tag

Hi Folks, it's Friday again, phew what a week! It's been really hectic, but thankfully, I've recovered from my migraine. Before I show you what I've made this week, I'd like to say that the winner of my giveaway, was Sue.

This week, I have chosen to use some unused stamps from The Artistic Stamper. I bought these a while back, but just forgot about them. I coloured a tag with Distress inks, and stamped a sequin waste stamp, and large cog background across the tag, leaving the middle of the tag clear.

I then stamped the large and small flower, the leaf and the butterfly onto some sticky backed canvas, which I coloured with Distress Stains. I then cut these out and stuck them onto grungepaper, and coloured the reverse of the grungepaper too.

I added an ideology cog to the flower, and a spinner to the butterfly, before sticking them to the tag. I then just added some green ribbon to finish off my tag.

Why don't you take a look through your stash, and see what you have that is forgotten or neglected lying around. Make something with it during the week, and add a link in my comments. I'll pop along to your blog to take a look.

Thanks for stopping by today, Judith xx

Floral Tags

Hi folks, I've been making a couple of pieces for other people recently, and thought that I'd share them with you.

The first one is a tag that I made for a swap on the Graphicus Guild. The theme was New Beginnings, and I chose the theme of Spring for my tag. I embossed a swirl design in white pearl embossing powder over my tag, and then blended Distress Inks in blues and greens all over the tag. I made a flower, using a Nestability Die, and some Artylicious DP. I coloured the back of the paper with Distress Ink, before scrunching the layers, and fixing them together with a large brad. I used a Marianne die to punch out the stem for the flower. I stamped out a large butterfly with Stazon ink, coloured this with Distress Inks again, and painted key areas with bleach, to highlight them. I added a Tim Holtz fragment to my sentiment, and a steampunk butterfly charm to finish the tag, on a piece of chain taken from a cheap necklace. 

My second make is a Birthday card for a friend who comes to my card class. She is a French teacher, so I chose to make my background paper from pages torn from a French poetry book. I stamped an Elusive Images rose over the top, and coloured this with Inktense pencils, to give a faded vintage look.

I ran my tag through the Tim Holtz postcard embossing folder, and coloured it with Distress Inks. and made my flower with left over paper, colouring that with Distress Inks too. I also edged the cream Prima leaves with DIs. A piece of cream lace and an Elusive Images sentiment complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by today, and any comments you leave are very much appreciated, Judith xx

Bah Humbug Stencils

The Challenge on Bah Humbug this week is to use stencils on your Christmas cards, either as a background, or main feature. I have chosen to use this lovely Dreamweaver stencil of winter trees as a background for an Elusive Images reindeer. I have chosen an Artylicious Christmas paper in Green with a lovely swirly snowflake pattern all over.

I inked through the stencil with Distress Inks, and then took a  clear Stardust pen down the left hand side of each trunk and branch to represent frost. It's hard to see in the photo, but it's very shimmery.

I've used one of my favourite Elusive Images sentiments to complete the card. I added a little bit of purple, (my favourite colour) in there for good measure, as the snowflakes on the backing paper are actually purple. It was refreshing to work with an unusual colour palette for a Christmas card.
Pop over to the Bah Humbug blog to see what everyone else has been getting up to. Thanks for popping by, Judith xx