Alpha/Dictionary Challenge 2016

Wishing a belated Happy New Year to all my followers, I have some catching up to do in blogland.

My first post this year is my entry for the Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary challenge. I have always admired altered book page projects but never tried myself, this year I get to play with this idea.

This fortnight Jane has chosen the letter B so opening my book and thumbing through the pages, which took some time as I just love reading dictionaries anyway, I chose Britain.

I used Ranger archival ink in blue violet and red pepper dye ink for the stamped images, adding a little watercolouring around the edges and to highlight the dictionary definition.
Stamps used :
Indigo Blu : Pomp and Pagentry
Papermania : Portobello Road
Clarity Stamps : Britain map

I had fun with this, looking forward to the next letter.

Holidays and Destinations

My August entry for the Show us your Twinchies challenge entitled "Holidays and Destinations, Home and Abroad", is a variation on my last post.
I found some shrink plastic in a drawer in my craft room so stamped the Tim Holtz aeroplane and shrunk it, I'd forgotten how satisfying it is to watch it curl up and then flatten out to a tiny version of the original, a perfect size for a twinchie.

The background is pan pastels blended in purple and blue, I like that combination. I love maps. I collect old Ordnance Survey maps, yes, I love them. The background is overstamped with a section of the Papermania All Aboard - map stamp in coffee archival ink and the aeroplane added so its flying over the Atlantic towards the UK. That's my "home" part of the challenge theme because although it may be fun to go away, its always good to come home.

Songbird

A disappointing start to a Saturday morning to see yet more snow falling here in the South East of England, its supposed to be Spring. I was sitting drinking a cup of tea and thinking the birds must still be struggling to find food and they have eaten everything I put out recently so I ventured out in the cold with some bread for them. The crumbs were intended for the small songbirds but the first to arrive was the magpie closely followed by the pigeon.

For today's project I wanted to get my entry done for the CASology challenge which for this week is "Song". Songbird is the song I chose.
Last night reading Craft Stamper magazine (page 62 March copy) I also wanted to try the faux airbrush technique and enter the Craft Stamper Take it, Make it challenge where you take the technique and make something. Here is my one layer card:

I die cut some card and used that as the stencil. Using a sponge, dab distress ink in Tumbled Glass and a bit of Faded Jeans then stamp the music using grey versafine ink. The bird and Happy Birthday are all stamped in black archival. All stamps used are Papermania, the music and bird are from Urban Stamps Bird Print and the sentiment from Mix N' Match Celebration.

Stay warm and hope you have a great Saturday.

Night

I have been off work for a few days with the cold bug that has been going around and haven't felt a lot like doing anything at all. Yesterday afternoon, feeling a bit more perky I had a go at a Christmas card using my new Papermania Michael Powell stamp as a bit of colouring in on a Friday is always good for you. Yes, I'm feeling a lot better.

The cue card for week #15 at CASology is Night so I will enter my card in their challenge. I love the examples from the Design Team this week and the variety of entries from all the other artists, great stuff.

The image is stamped with black archival ink on white cardstock, coloured with Tim Holtz distress markers and mounted on a square Kraft card. I added glitter accents to the edges of the roofs, doesn't show in the photograph which is a bit disappointing, maybe a bit too subtle. I finally added coloured mini pearls (Doodlebug design inc. Christmas Assortment) for the lights. 

I hope you like this one.