Design Team Make - "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog" #397 "Tag You're It"

It's time for another challenge on the "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog".  Challenge #397 is "Tag You're It".  This is the tag that I have made as part of the Design Team.  If you have a minute to spare, please do pop over and take a look at the other fab creations by my Design Team colleagues and maybe even enter yourself.

For my tag, I started off by using Dylusions Spray Ink in the shades of "Fresh Lime" and "Squeezed Orange" onto a manilla coloured plain tag.  I then used masking tape to keep a stencil in place and used three shades of Distress Inks with a blending tool through the stencil to create the background pattern.  I then inked the edges in black ink.

Both the stamps used on this tag are by Stampers Anonymous and are from two different sets.  The butterfly is part of "Perspective (CMS213)" and the sentiment is from the "Random Quotes (CMS182)" set.  Both were stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.

Finally, I added white high-light areas using a Signo Pen and a slight gold shimmer to the butterfly spots using a Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

Lavinia Stamps May 2019 Monthly Challenge - Make It Bright (Sample #3)

Every month, Lavinia Stamps has a monthly challenge,   It's a random draw, so everybody who enters has a chance of winning the £40 of vouchers to spend on Lavinia goodies.  

The theme of the May 2019 challenge is "Make It Bright".

As part of the Lavinia Stamps Design Team, we are asked to produce three samples for the challenge.  This is my third sample which I have called "The Moon Call".

I used a background that I had prepared a few weeks back using Brusho in Emerald Green and Gamboge.

I masked off a circle for the moon and added a grey ring for definition using Distress Ink

I stamped the "Spring Trees" in Versafine Clair ink, using the "Morning Mist" for the distant trees and the "Nocturne" for the ones in the foreground.  I then stamped "Maka" the seated wolf in the same ink.

I then created the landscape using Distress Inks and a torn piece of card, I also added some purple areas to the sky to give it a more dramatic look.

Finally, I added some "Mini Slender Mushrooms" to the foreground and added white highlights, using a Signo Pen, across the card to give the impression of light hitting surfaces.

Week 21 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2019

The prompt for Week 21 is "Anniversary".  I've chosen this as it is the week of my 34th wedding anniversary.  It sounds such a long time, but it has absolutely flown.

For my tag, I started by stamping the Stampin' Up ladybirds (Love You Lots set) in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.  I then stamped sentiment, which is by Lavinia Stamps (We may not have it all), and the Stampin' Up "Love You Lots" and the Stamper's Anonymous mini border below the love you lots (Ornate Trims) in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" ink.

I then used a Distress Ink in the shade of "Victorian Velvet" through an Andy Skinner stencil called "Tornado".  I punched a little heart and coloured it in, along with the Lady Birds using a red "Sparkle" Signo Pen.

Finally, I inked the edges of the tag using a couple of Distress Inks.

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Click here for more information about this challenge.

There is also a Facebook Group where you can upload your creations to the weekly albums and chat to others who are taking part.  It is a very relaxed challenge, you just do what you can, when you can.  Hope you will pop over and say hello.  The more the merrier.  Sam x

Visible Image "Creative Chaos" Tag 2

While the Visible Image "Creative Chaos" stamp set was still on my desk, I made this little tag to tie to a bunch of flowers.

It has a background of Distress Oxide Spray Inks in the shades of "Picked Raspberry" and "Iced Spruce".

Using the large flower from the "Creative Chaos" set, I stamped the flower head only onto the tag and then again onto a plain piece of white card.

Using the Visible Image "Go To Words" I stamped the "With Sympathy" as if it were the stem of the flower on the tag.

Returning to the flower head on the white card, I used my Prima Confections water colour paints, I painted the flower in a very pale blue/grey shade.  I then cut the flower head out and inked the edges using a black pen, then adhered it onto the tag over the already stamped flower head.

Visible Image "Creative Chaos" Tag

A crafting friend of mine attended the Port Sunlight stamping show at the weekend and accidentally purchased a duplicate stamp set.  I was more than happy to take it off her hands and had a play with it today making this tag.

I started with a tag with Dylusion Spray Ink in two shades, "Squeezed Orange" and "Fresh Lime".

I then used the "Wilted Violet" Distress Ink through a Visible Image stencil called "Meshing Around", half on/half off on the left hand side of the tag.

I then used the Visible Image stamp set called "Creative Chaos" to stamp the flowers and the sentiment in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink and the dots within a circle in Versafine "Stormy Grey" ink.

On a plain piece of card, I stamped the flower heads, painted them using Prima Confections water colour paints from their "Tropical" set.  I then cut them out and glued into position.  Finally, I inked the edges of the tag in black ink and mounted it onto black card.

Vintage Style Male Birthday Card

There was a fab set of vintage style stamps in issue 70 of Creative Stamping magazine, one of which (the Penny Farthing bicycle) was ideal for this card.

I started by stamping a Stampin' Up "Crackle Paint" stamp to brown cardstock using Versafine "Vintage Sepia" coloured ink, I also inked the edges using the same ink.

Using Versafine "Black Onyx" coloured ink, I stamped the Penny Farthing stamp and the time sentiment below the bicycle, which was free with issue 70 of Creative Stamping Magazine.

Finally, I stamped the Papertrey Ink "Happy Birthday" sentiment from their "Stylish Sentiments" stamp set in Versafine Black Onyx shade of ink.

Visible Image Butterfly Ink Stencil Card

Today I decided to use one of my gelliplate backgrounds I made a week or so back.  

You may remember that I had seen a video link using Pan Pastels through stencils.  Well today I used the first pull image (the one that was a bit blurry).  Here's it is, it's the one on the left of the photo.

I decided to use the Visible Image "Butterfly Ink" stencil.  I used low-tack masking tape to keep the stencil in position on the gelliplate background.

First I ran round the edge of the stencil with a thin point pen (also filled the inky dots too).

Using Distress Inks, in the shade of "Black Soot" I inked the edge of the butterfly drawing the ink from the stencil onto the inside edge/outer edge of the butterfly itself.  

Using a finger dabber, I used Distress Ink in the shade of "Chipped Sapphire" up to the "Black Soot" area.  

Finally, I filled the rest of the butterfly using a Distress Ink called "Wilted Violet" with a finger dabber.  Because  have only lightly inked the area you can still see the gelli plate pattern which I quite like.

I felt the butterfly area needed something else, so I pulled out the Visible Image "Two Tone" Stencil and added some dots using a Memento Luxe ink called "Wedding Dress".  I think the dots just add a subtle additional layer.

Finally, using Versafine Clair ink in the shade of "Nocturne" I stamped the sentiments.  Both are from the Visible Image set called "Somewhere In Time".  I edged the top of the butterfly using a shimmery gold Sakura Gelly Roll pen.