Hey Mona!

Well I've impressed myself with this one, I think it's definately one of my better attempts at an inky project. This is for this weeks Sunday Stamper challenge, the theme is green. I inked a plain white card with Adirondack ink pads in lettuce and meadow and smudged the colours in with a baby wipe. I the used a green Versafine inkpad to stamp Mona and the creativity saying. I then cut a piece of acetate to fit the front of the card and coloured it with alcohol inks in meadow, lettuce, oregano and a touch of silver. I used the green Versafine pad to add my final Tim Holtz stamp onto the acetate and clear embossed the image. I attached the acetate with two green brads. I really like the effect.

My First Bind-It All Project

Well I finally got round to using my BIA and I've been really impressed with the results. My first project was a book for a friend of mine who's birthday I am very late for. I decided to use my K-Ology Addison papers as I has plenty of bits to co-ordinate. For my front cover I added Prima flowers and a chipboard initial.





Inside the front cover I used my Crafty Individuals hope stamp for the first time and used my Dawn Bibby stamps and a velacetate (what an awful word) sentiment on my first page.




For my second page I use an Addison Grand Adhesion and chipboard letter and some of my favourite dragonfly brads. For my third I added more Prima flowers.





For my fourth and fifth pages I used some new stamps I'd bought, as you can see I substituted the R in art for an Addison chipboard letter, and I must say I'm loving my Hero Arts etched flower stamps!




More Dawn Bibby stamps on page 6 and another gorgeous dragonfly brad and then a chipboard flower on page 7 which has been coloured with my Adirondack paint dabbers





My final page has another of the quotes I've been using and also a stunning face stamp which is another new buy of mine. On the inside of the back cover I used a Beach Bum stamp to add a quote from Picasso!

My back cover is similar to my front with another quote used. I'm really pleased with the way this book turned out and I hope the recipient likes it. You may have noticed her name spelt out in the pages of my book! I'd love to hear your comments on my first BIA project and I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it xXx

P.S. I apologise if the pictures are in the wrong order or if the page looks a bit wonky but it looked fine on preview and goes belly up when I publish!!!

Walk like an Egyptian

I have recently discovered the wonders of Egypt and Tim Holtz's alcohol inks so I thought I'd try them both together. I made this fat book page using Adirondack ink dabbers on the background and added an Egyptian stamped image on alcohol inked gloss paper. For once I was quite impressed with my own efforts!!