Zoe - Week 6 "Use Fabric/Anything Goes"

Good Morning Lovelies, Happy Subday, I hope your weather isn't too frightful where you are?

So as it's Sunday it's new challenge for Premium Craft Brands we were asked to use fabric in our samples, but as usual you can do Anything Goes!

i found these cute little canvas tags a while ago and hadn't used any and so perfect for this project.

I used the PCB mask with pan pastels for my background, I'd been to DIY store earlier in the week and remembered I'd seen people use those colour swatch strips, so snagged a few in different colours, now I love bright colours and often clash them, I love to experiment with colour, so I stamped this lovely crocus stamp by Paper Artsy onto the strip using Archival Ink and clear EP and heat embossed, I stamped the single one twice and cut them out, I added some highlights with white Gel pen, I coloured my mini tag with Pan Pastels and stamped with Archival, which worked better than I thought lol, I used some canvas type strip for my ribbon which was cream, I coloured that with the same PP as my background, I attached my mini tag with a fixing from Tim Holtz.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you like my tag? Please pop along and visit the rest of our amazing DT projects! Happy days xx Zoe xx

 

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Very exciting news!

Good morning Lovelies! I hope everyone is keeping safe and warm from this deluge of rain and gales that keep appearing? It's nasty I want it to "STOP" please!!!

So as you can see from the title of my post, I do in deed have some very exciting news I'd like to share! Eek! I'm still pinching myself to see if I'm dreaming!! Lol

I've been invited to Join The wonderfully talented and lovely Sheena Douglass's Design Team "The Inkoids" fondly named! I'm a big fan of Sheena anyway and love her designs and I've learnt a lot from her techniques shown on TV, so I'm absolutely thrilled and honoured to join the team! As a celebration I am blogging some of my projects I've blogged before using Sheena's gorgeous stamps, these are some of my favourites!

This first one I made at a fabulous craft workshop run by the lovely and very talented Eileen Godwin

 

 

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit xx Zoe xx

 

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February - 12 Tags or 2014

Hi Lovelies! What a blooming awful day! :( pouring rain, blowing a gale, yuck I hate it! I've been on a course this morning for work, but as it's been so rotten this afternoon I treated myself to a little crafty play, I've made my 12 tags of 2014 today! I'm hoping to do all 12 this year, last year I only managed about 5! So 2 out of 2 not bad eh? Lol

So here it is, of course I've had to improvise as I don't have everything, I used Miri card cut with spellies and embossed then sanded and black soot distress painted and wiped off to create a distressed Lacey bottom! And I only have the rock candy glitter so had to colour heart first then glitter, but I think it looks pretty good!

Thank you for visiting today! Happy days xx Zoe xx

 

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Visible image challenge

Good evening Lovelies! Brrrrrr! It's very cold today, although it has been dry and quite sunny!

I won a free stamp from Visible Image woohoo! I guessed almost the amount of stamps that Mark had hand cut, I guessed 2000! And I had a choice of stamps, I chose the fab "Ripped Fishnet" been looking at that for a while so very pleased I won it! It arrived this morning, I couldn't wait to ink it up. I've used it to make a card for their February Challenge "Love"

Mark and Helen are a fab couple and have a fab business, the stamps are very good quality and totally unique designs.

I stamped using Picket Fence Distress Paint using the ripped fishnet stamp and dried it, then inked over lightly with Worn Lipstick DI, it doesn't really show up on photo but it gives a very subtle texture, I used a stencil and inked through randomly with Worn Lipstick DI I kept the stencil in placed and using their script stamp, stamped through the stencil with black Adirondack, gives a nice random grungy effect, I used ripped fishnet stamp on my die cut heart which I inked with Barn Door DI, and the Love from the set with the roses, and added a bit of the grunge flourish on the other heart!

I hope you like my card, thank you for visiting xx Zoe xx keep warm peeps ;)

 

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Playing with Ryns stamps

Hi Lovelies and a happy Sunday to you, it's been a beautiful cold and sunny day today, perfect day for walking the dog, had a lovely stroll along the seafront this morning with hubby and Ernie, and a lovely play this afternoon!

I've been playing with inks, alcohol inks and Ryns Stamps! If you've not seen any of Ryns unique designs you are missing out!

My tag I used Fiddlehead set, I inked my tag, stamped a script to one side and used Ryns fab stamps in Archival ink Cornflower Blue, I used die cuts to create my embellishments!

I created this Postcard by swishing glossy card through Alcohol inks and stamping using Spiral Set, very simple and a bit different!

Thank you for stopping by today, xx Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - week #5 "Use a PCB Stencil"

Good morning Lovelies! Well it's Sunday which means a new Challenge for Premium Craft Brands this weeks challenge for us was to use a PCB stencil in our project, but we are aware that you don't all have one so for you it's "Anything goes"

For my tag I started by using pan pastels I blended Violet and orange, I sprayed with cheap hairspray to seal it first then inked my stencil (6x6 Inches Keltic) with Versamark, I ran it through my E-Bosser and inked with pewter metallic pans into the de bossed area, I had some white flowers in my stash for ages I coloured the tips with my pan pastels and adhered a pearl in the centers, a die cut swirl and leaves to finish, a very simple make.

I hope you like my tag and feel inspired to join in the challenge? There is a prize for the winner too!

Have a great Sunday xx Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - Challenge #2 February "Lilac or Blue, or both"

Good morning Lovelies, and a warm welcome to my humble blog!

Today is the start of our 2nd challenge over at Lavinia Stamps our theme this month is "Blue, Lilac or both" we have the most amazing and talented Design Team, it's such an honour to be part of it and to use the most amazing Stamps and products which are designed by the very talented Tracey Dutton!

Please make sure that in your project you only use Lavinia Stamps, sadly you won't be included in the challenge if you don't, there is a prize of a whopping £40 to spend in Lavinia Stamps Shop for the winner!

Apart from that, there will also be a "Spot Prize" for February, anyone can enter it, just leave a comment under the February challenge, and at the end of the month, a name will be drawn and the winner will get a £20 voucher to spend in the Lavinia Shop

So here are my samples!

My first card I created using distress stains and a pewter metallic Stain on a craft mat and all smooshed onto the card and dried, very easy and quite pretty, the shimmer from the metallic doesn't show so well in the photo, the stamps I used are the Danedlions, I used them around the edge too, the little birds are a die, and some liquid pearls to add some texture!

My second card I used blender brushes to apply my inks, for a less intense effect it looks more like airbrushing, the trees and little birds are a die, I used Fairy dust silhouette, which I stamped also onto some acetate and glittered the wings, which I cut out and adhered the the fairy, it doesn't show so well in the photo but it really stands out, liquid pearls and glitter dotted about to add a more ethereal feel to it all.

Thank you so much for visiting today, I love reading your comments, have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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