Tim Holtz Stamps

Good evening Lovelies! I had some free time today and thought I'd make a card for a challenge in a FB group I'm in, the theme is "words" I thought I'd make a male card, although I guess it could be female too as it has butterflies on it.

I used Tim Holtz stamps Distress inks the splat is a TH layering stencil which I used Picket Fence distress paint through, the stripes and dots are also his stencils which I inked through, it's layered onto some card which I scored and gilded, this technique I picked up from Eileen Godwins workshop at the weekend. Thank you for visiting xxx

 

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Zoe - Week 49 "All about Card/paper"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope everyone has managed to come out of the shocking weather unscathed? Phew! It was pretty rough, my heart goes out to those poor people that have had damage to their homes or injuries.

I can't believe I only have 5 days left until we fly out to Canada to have Christmas with our beloved daughter! I'm so excited. We are having 5 days in NY too :D to stay out the way as my daughter has to study for exams, I've never been to the big apple so it's a dream come true for me, and seeing it at Christams time is just so "wow"

So onto this weeks challenge for Premium Craft Brands the theme this week is "All about card/paper" so basically you can make what you like with any theme the only requirement is that it is ALL made of card or paper, so that includes all embellishments too! Here's what I made.

 

Your probably wondering "why 3"? Well I made 1 each for my three baby girls that have all been adopted, I keep in touch with them and always send cards and gifts for Xmas and birthdays. I made them all slightly different in design, very easy cards, I used the beautiful Linen texture card from Papermill Direct it's beautiful with Pan Pastels, I think it's classy and gives a beautiful texture when coloured, I coloured the backgrounds Ultra Marine Blue, Violet and Violet shade pan pastels and sprayed with cheap hairspray to seal, I cut an aperture and raised on sticky pads for dimension and added My embellishments and some liquid pearls with glitter here and there, I'm sorry the third pictures lighting is terrible.

I hope you like my samples and feel inspired to join in? Remember we offer a prize too for the winner which is picked by the Radom thingymadjig! Plus we pick a top 3, have a great weekend, keep warm, keep safe and keep crafting lol! Xx hugs, Zoe xx

 

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Just a couple of Christmas makes

Good afternoon Lovelies, well it's a bit of a wild and windy day today, cold, but dry and quite bright actually I like this sort of weather, it's quite refreshing!

Anyway I've been busy finishing off getting my Xmas gifts wrapped ready to take out to Canada next week! Eek! Next week can't believe it :) so excited to be seeing my beautiful Daughter for Christmas. I had a last minute card to make for our lovely neighbours, don't know how I managed to forget them? :/ and then my Mum asked for a card for her friend, then I made my tags for the gifts, so it's been a productive crafty day so far!

Here's what I made for my Mum to give her friend, I used Visible Image Santa stamp and Stampendous Postcard stamp, coloured with Coloursoft pencils and DI, bit of glitter and red liquid pearls. Hope she likes it?

I've entered this into the Visible Image Challenge

Here's my card for our neighbours, Jofy stamps, simply love em!

 

 

Just a couple of the tags, didn't want to bore you lol! Used a houndstooth background stamp with red Archival on Kraftcard, the second one I didn't add enough pressure but I liked how it turned out and thought it would be a good one for a man, a bit more distressed looking, I heat embossed with Gold Stampendous fine detail EP I love that EP it's fab, the bottom one is a stamp by Penny Black and the top one is by Indigoblu! Thank you for visiting, keep safe and warm xxx

 

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Zoe - 21st Challenge "Use old stash"

Good morning Lovelies! How's everyone's Christmas preparations going? Mine is all sorted, we are going out to Canada for Christmas to spend it with my gorgeous daughter and her Boyfriend, we've not seen her for 2 years, as she is back at Uni and not earning she's been unable to come home, and me with my job doesn't make it easy to just go away either, so Yippee! I just can't wait, boy I'm ready for it too, it's been a traumatic couple of months for us.

So onto our challenge at Rhedd and Rosie's which is being sponsored by our lovely Moira. She's offering this fab prize to winner

 

Its an anything goes challenge so you can make anything as long as you follow our theme which this fortnight is "Use Old Stash" so here's what I made, I hope you like it?

It's a 6x6 kraftcard base, my background I created on some Tim Hotlz Craft resist card stock which I've had for years, I used the reverse side. I stamped this fab background stamp that's part of a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 set with picket fence Distress paint, I then inked over with Distress inks in various colours and a stencil used to just create some more texture, I then used Gold Texture Paste through this gorgeous Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stencil, added some very old gold gems again I've had lying around fro years. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz Chit Chat Sticker, I love these little things.

I hope you feel inspired to join in? Thank you for visiting, have a great day xxx

 

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Zoe - Challenge #48 "Use metallics plus one other colour"

Good morning Lovelies!

It's Sunday which means a new challenge for Premium Craft Brands we were asked to make something using the fabulous Metallic Pan Pastels and add one other colour!

Here's my tag, I've used versamark ink to stamp the script to the side and then dusted over with Phahlo blue tint Pan Pastel, I sealed with cheap hairspray and then stamped again using versamark ink and dusted over with Pewter Pan Pastel metallics the icicles and script are Andy Skinner stamps the trees and sentiment are from Creative Expressions! Thank you for visiting today xx Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - Challenge # 10 "Anything Goes"

Good morning Lovelies!

Wow! 1st of December already, where has the year gone!

Whoop whoop! Not long now until I see my baby girl :D, I'm spending Christmas with my beloved daughter Ashley and her boyfriend, they live in Canada, I can't wait, it's been 2 years since I saw her last, it's going to be wonderful, very cold and hopefully a bit of snow? Would love a white Christmas, we are spending the first 5 days in New York as Ashley has end of term exams and will be studying and really doesn't need the distraction. I'm so proud of her, she will be 30 in March and made the brave decision to go back to Uni for 4 years to do a nursing degree.

Right! enough of my waffle, it's the start of a new challenge today over at Lavinia Stamps, our theme this month is "Anything Goes" you can do whatever you like as long as you use The wonderful Lavinia Stamps in your project, plus, you could win a whopping £40 in vouchers to spend on Lavinia products! Wow! That's an amazing prize!

So here are my DT samples!

My first sample I used my brayer, and then a sponge to create the ground for my little houses, I love these Zentangle stamps, I added some liquid pearls and glitter for some extra pizzaz!

 

My second card is a very simple one, I used Pan pastels, then lightly drew a circle and stamped around it using the "Mistletoe" added some liquid pearls and bobs ya uncle!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I love reading your comments, don't forget to join in xxx

 

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Zoe - December Challenge - "Christmas"

Good morning Lovelies! It is with a heavy heart I'm announcing that this is my last challenge as a member of the DT for Crafts Galore! :( I've loved my time with this talented team, but I am a DT member to 4 other challenge blogs, 3 of which are companies. I'd like to thank Debbi Powell and the rest of the team for having me, such an honour!

So the theme this month is........... Yep you guessed it "Christmas" lol here's my sample!

 

I used the fabulous "Big and Bold" background stamp by Chocolate Baroque, I heat embossed using gold fine detail EP by Stampendous, then I coloured it in using a Q-tip and distress inks, very simple but rather effective I think? I hope I've inspired you to join in? Here's the link have a great day xxx

 

 

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