Altered Frame.......Sewing Room

A Happy New Year to you all, unfortunately the new year has not started well here as I have been really poorly with a heavy cold/flu so today I thought I would look around blogland as I haven't been near the computer since Christmas and found  The Stampman  are running their 3rd Annual Award.  All you need to do is present you favourite crafting project of 2011, this was an easy choice for me as my fav project is an altered frame Vintage Sewing Room click here for full details.  This project is hanging proudly on my wall.

Hope to be back soon if I can shake this awful bug

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Christmas Decoration..........

Inspired by 12 tags -Day 1

While I was making my tag here for Day One of the 12 tags from Tim Holtz I also made this Christmas decoration using some of the techniques for the tag, as I don't have the pine cone die yet  I improvised with a spellbinders die.... the one that cuts in a swirl and makes a flower.... I cut this  in glassine paper and made  as the pinecone instructions on Day 1 of 12 tags and the other I cut from the tattered flower die using the 6 petal one and made a flower or open pine cone.... go with which ever it looks like to you......or maybe it doesn't look like either lol!!!

 Foliage was cut using festive greenery alterations die Main shape was alterations die ornamental....... and  cut in grungeboard background is cut from TH core'dinations paper stack which I rubbed over some white paint and then removed while wet in places and stamped snowflakes(TH) and embossed in white. Hope was cut with alterations die and glittered in silver lastly I added stickles to the outside edges.
I am linking this at The Stampman Challenge - Create an Ornament

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NATURE and SWIRLS

I have made today's card with a Nature theme which will fit in with the Sunday Stampers challenge for this week. I also took some inspiration from the article by Joe Firth-Young - Painted Mini Book in the April Craft Stamper Mag for main image and put my own spin on it.  First I painted gesso over a book page which I stuck onto card and left to dry overnight - I know how patient was I!!!! lol. Then DI inks shabby shutters, dried marigold, scattered straw were used for the background, I like the look this gives where the page is showing through but by painting first the text is pushed into the background; this was then cut with Nestabilities die, stamped with Organic Grace stamp set from Stampin' Up! in black.

Now I always seem to reach for swirls when I'm making backgrounds and as Curls and Swirls is the current  Stampman Challenge  I reached for my swirls stamps by Creative Expressions for the background piece of card, firstly I stamped in Cajon Craze Ink SU same colour as the card  and over stamped a smaller swirl and embossed in gold, swirls were added to the bottom strip also.  The flower was cut from book pages with the tattered flowers Die TH and inked in same DI's before spritzing with water and scrunching up and leave to dry if you have the time or use heat gun which is the way I went, lastly I rubbed over embossing ink and used .gold embossing powder  I love the way this technique makes the flower look very shabby.

Thanks for looking and don't forget if you pop over to my blog please leave a comment it's nice to hear from you

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