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Lincoln, United Kingdom
I'm a mum to a 14 yr old. i started cardmaking a good few years ago after watching QVC. I fell for the "It's much cheaper to make your own" line and have never had a penny to my name since. I've recently tried to steer away from my usual cut and stick technique and try to be a bit more adventurous.
Showing posts with label Fat Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fat Books. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2008

It's Here in black And White


Here are a couple of examples of the fat book pages I've made for the black and white list on Craftswap. The first page was made by stamping a flourish stamp from Dimensions Fourth
onto white hammered card, I then clear embossed the image. I added the wording with my Dymo then popped on a few clear adhesive stones. The second page has a Hampton Arts face stamped onto the hammered card then the word art stamped and clear embossed, I finished the page off with some Prima flowers in the corner. Both pages were stamped with black Versafine ink pads. They're simple which i think works well for this list.

She's a Lady


This is one of the pages I made for the ladies fat book list on Craftswap, I stamped my Hero Arts lady in Versafine vintage sepia onto some cream hammered card and matted it onto some cream/bronze checked paper then popped it all onto a cream hammered card page. I added some Prima flowers that I attached with brads as I love Prima, they're just so useful. All my pages were made in the same way for this list but I used a few different Hero Arts ladies on them.

Friday, March 21, 2008

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.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

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.


Friday, October 19, 2007

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!!