Food Glorious Food

This week I was asked to set the theme for the fat book challenge and seeing as this will be a weekend of over indulgence I decided on using food as the theme. Mine are both really simple, the first on I used spotty paper edged with a spotty ribbon, drew a cupcake on the paper and coloured it in with my Sakura Glaze pens and added my wording with the Dymo.


















The second I used an image cut out of a food magaizine as my main feature, added some K&Co Neopolitan stripe paper and some omre spotty ribbon, the words are simply peel off stickers and I added a few pink and chocolate coloured brads to make the background a bit spottier.

Ladette To Lady

I joined in The Sunday Stampers challenge for the first time today, the theme is Laydees so I decided to use my new lady stamps and went all out and dug out my Stampbord ATCs. The ladette ATC I wanted to look a bit rough around the edges unfortunately it was a bit rougher than I intended. The background is a little too dark and I think I singed my embossing powder!! However I'm really pleased with my Lady ATC it's much softer. On both ATCs I used Gold mixative and Caramel, Ginger and Latte alcohol inks to colour the stampbord and edged them with a Pale Gold Krylon pen. I stamped the Rubber Stampede images with a Vintage Sepia Versafine inkpad and clear embossed, they both had Dymo words added and the Lady ATC was finished off with a red Sakura Glaze pen. I loved this challenge and hope to join in more in the future.

Across The Counter Swap

At my local craft shop, The Craft Room, a few of us decided we'd like to swap ATCs. We call ourselves Across The Counter and have a different theme each month. This month's was butterflies so I've had a play with my new flower stamp and an old butterfly one. I inked the images in black Versafine and coloured them in with my Sakura Glaze pens (can't believe I've never used them before now) and inked round the edges with a pink Brilliance ink pad. It's simple but I quite like it.

Easter Fat Book Challenge

As well as the ATC challenge I also managed to join in the Fat Book challenge, this fortnight's theme is Easter. I inked my page with a Brilliance sunflower yellow ink pad, I then stamped my chick and flower, they are from Imaginisce, they are very inexpensive but I did struggle to get a perfect image with them, however once they're coloured in they look great. I used my Sakura Glaze pens to colour the images and am really pleased with the result.

I also used my new stamps to make some ATCs for Lesley's 3 for 3 stamped ATC swap. On this ATC I used my glitter Sakura pens. I've never used Sakura pens before and I was really impressed. I made another 2 versions of this ATC using the Glaze pens and also the Souffle pens.

Florrie's Challenge Week 99

Well for the first time in ages I joined in Florrie's ATC Challenge, the theme this week is purple so I dug out my purple versafine inkpad and got to work. I used my lady in a hat stamp added a Prima flower, inked the edges of the ATC and decorated with purple sticky ribbon and some purple adhesive gems. Hey presto!

It's been a while

I've not updated my blog in ages although I have been busy crafting. Unfortunately I've managed to lose my new digital camera and now my scanner has stopped working too so I can't add any new images, it's a real pain but hopefully I can fix my scanner soon, as for the camera I continue to search high and low!