Industrial "M"

Hi

So excited today I have been invited to join  A Vintage Journey  as Guest Designer for the current challenge Industrial.  It is a great honour to be asked to share my inspiration for this challenge amongst a very talented Design Team, and this technique is one of my favourite Tim techniques and it was great fun to revisit.

I have had this "M" in my stash forever and it has been waiting for me to " do something" with it and this challenge really did seem ideal, so I gathered together foil tape, paints, and embossing folders to cover the letter, Sizzix Dies, Idea-ology bits and pieces and more paint were added together to make the flower embellishments. To see more please visit A Vintage Journey blog for more details on how this transformation took place.

Thank you  for inviting me to  travel along with A Vintage Journey sharing my inspiration for the Industrial Challenge.

I would also like to play at

Creative Artist Challenge 11 - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft  February Challenge - Anything Goes
That Craft Place Challenge- Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes /Wet or Dry Embossing
Crafty Boots Challenges - No Stamps Allowed
Love to Create Challenge 4 - anything goes mixed media
Altered  Eclectics - Anything Goes

'till next time

Sparkly Wall Art

Over at A Vintage Journey the challenge is Baby your a Firework.  The challenge had me scratching my head a little (well a lot actually lol) eventually I made a piece of  wall art which I love to make and I used my all time favourite die Umbrella Man, his umbrella is protection so the fireworks don't ruin his hat.........it is a scary place here inside my head.........that was my thought process anyway.
After searching my stamps to find anything that might resemble fireworks I decided on this Star stamp which is from Tim Holtz Christmas Set, just use imagination and think fireworks and it works......

I have used distress inks -  chipped sapphire, seedless preserve and dusty concord for the background on white card.  Fireworks (stamp from Tim Holtz Christmas collection) stamped in versamark and embossed with various EP colours - fine detail gold, white twinkle and golden ocean. This photo shows the sparkle a little.

 

Umbrella Man die cut with black card I used silver pebeo guilding wax over him and also the word Vision which was cut from Stacked Artful Words die Tim Holtz.  The artful tag also had the wax treatment but unfortunately this doesn't show up in the photo very well but has given an aged look to it instead of being so shiny.  I mounted my finished piece onto thick board hanger is twisted wire.

Sorry bad photo tried to focus on the words and lighting is not good today but you can see sparkle!!

I really had fun making this project thank you Vintage Journey for stretching my little grey cells.




I would also like to play at

Mixed Media World  Anything Goes
Altered Electrics        Anything Goes

Two Hearts

Hello and welcome to my newest bloggers thank you for following me and I hope you enjoy popping in.
There are several challenges that caught my eye and inspired me this month which I would like to join in with and I will list them below,  so today I am sharing a card I have been working on for the last few days which dabbles in mixed media something I am fairly new to and always learning mostly by experiments that don't always work lol, but hay ho that's crafting and that's what I love about it. 
I apologise for the photo's but the last 4 days have been grey and overcast dreadful for photography and to get these I had to balance the card onto a large plant in the conservatory.

 

I started with a 6x6 piece of paper from Tim Holtz paper pad vintage shabby which was a pale greyish colour I covered this in picket fence distress stain to lighten the colour next using a Stencil I applied texture paste and left to dry, now as you know I am not the most patient of people  and hate to wait so this part of mixed media - playing the waiting game is hard for me  .....soooooooo I got some other craft stash out and made some backgrounds..............much better than  doing h*******k while I waited don't you agree lol. Sorry I am rambling back to card or else we will be here all day.........texture paste dry I then dry brushed the paste area with Adirondack paint lake mist, when dry this and other parts of the paper were painted with clear rock candy distress crackle paint I also applied paint and crackle to one of my hearts which I die cut from corrugated card with a Sizzix die (very old have had it years). My second heart cut from card was covered in  brushed pewter distress stain using distress ink pumice stone around the edges. Distress inks (as before) were added to all the crackles on my wall and heart, also distress ink pumice stone was added to the distressed edges of the main paper which I tore and curled first.  Tissue tape was added to the paper and the heart, chit chat stickers were added to my "wall" firstly the edges distressed with pumice stone.

sorry about the colour in this photo

 

Next step I made my card blank in white card and stamped the lovely distress corners one of my fav stamps from the Tim Holtz visual artistry collections range of stamps , using distress markers in the same colours as above inks and the spritzer tool these were added in various places on the card edges also onto the main paper, I also added some black soot very liberally. This done the main paper was attached to card blank and I added very small buttons to the burlap flowers and added knots of twine, the wooden word "love" was distressed with tea dye distress ink and an Idea-ology metal tab (precious) was added beneath the heart.

 

again sorry for the greenish tint on the photo really wish the sun would shine here soon!



 

Phew hope you managed to stay with me through this long post, as I mentioned at the beginning several challenges inspired me to make this card,  I really enjoy the challenge of mixed media which I am always nervous about but have come to the conclusion the only mistakes are learning curves lol.

The challenges which inspired me are

 New to me The Mixed Media Card Challenge #8 Love

 A Vintage Journey Tic Tac Toe  - Ribbon/twine / Die Cuts/Stains

Artist Trading Post  Exchange February Challenge- Love is in the Air

 Craft Stamper Magazine Make It Take It Challenge February - Stencilling

Thanks for looking. until next time




Ingredients
Tim Holtz
Distress Inks/distress markers pumice stone, tea dye, black soot. Distress stains picket fence/brushed pewter. Paper pad, Idea-ology, Distress crackle paint clear rock candy, Tissue tape, Stamps Visual Artistry Collections, Spritzer, chit chat stickers, Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabber lake mist.
Others
Sizzix die, texture paste, wooden word, burlap flowers, small buttons, twine, hot glue gun, Stencil Tando , card

Wall Art

Drips and Drops
Hi
Country View Challenges February challenge is Drips and Drops so yesterday I had a lovely day playing in my craft room and getting very very messy I have ended up with several backgrounds for other projects as making Drips and Drops didn't turn out quite as I thought,  It really was a challenge to get a result I was happy with, by the end of my session I really was up to my elbows in paint and messy stuff it was great.

The background I finally decided on was made with Alcohol Inks on glossy card, throw in my favourite man and some of my favourite Tim Holtz stamps and this was the result..........

Umbrella Man was die cut twice and layered up to give more dimension all the stamping was heat embossed with ultra fine black EP. 

I mounted the picture into a black card frame which also got the Stamping and EP treatment the grey border was a little pale so I painted this with pewter distress stains...much better.

Hope you have enjoyed looking at my project and thank you for popping in ......

Eeeeeeeeeek!!!!!

Hello bloggers hope you are all well and happy in your crafting, once again I have been absent from my blog mainly due to decorating omg! it took ages putting everything back and we just made it before I went down with a really rotten cold......hey ho sure sign winter is around the corner :(

Anyway enough chitty chat and on with my make today which is for A Vintage Journey Challenge 17 - Halloween - To Die For.   Needs to be heavily influenced by Tim, use at least one die and Halloween.
Well I was clapping my hands with delight when I saw the challenge (in between coughing and spluttering with cold.....)  but what better way to make me feel better.

 I have a new (new to me) toy to play with and I love getting inky so all I needed was the cold fuddled brain to kick in. It did eventually and here is what I made.....

My new toy is this fabulous lantern die from Tim  which I have been drooling over for a while and a rummage in my bit box came up with the black spiders web (netting). Black spider was another Tim die cut from black packaging ( I really really don't like spiders eek) I only bought this die because I adore the Candle lol.  The lantern was cut from card which was a light brown and  inked within an inch of its life with vintage photo and black soot distress inks to age and dirty the lantern.  The spiders wove their webs around the lantern even inside and hung about to scare me!!  I cut the word EEK and 31 from Tim Holtz Seasonal Salvage Stickers backed them on black card and stuck them in place.  The Bird is a Tim stamp which I stamped with black soot onto same card as the lantern cut out and then inking all the edges with black soot.  Lastly I placed a light inside. 

Hope you like my make and it is Scary enough for the challenge..........it scares me lol!

I have had a fabulous time playing with my new die and have so many ideas going around in my head for future makes.........just need more crafting time...........

'till next time
 
Ingredients
Tim Holtz:
Sizzix dies; Seasonal Salvage Stickers; Distress Inks,
other
Card, black netting, battery light

Butterfly flourish

Hello  everyone
It has been several months since I last blogged I can't believe how the time has flown by, I hope you have all enjoyed the summer and the beautiful weather we have had, we have spent a lot of time traveling in our Motorhome started in Ireland in May for 3 weeks ish, then back home for a while and off we would go again ............it's great now DH has retired  He is not sure how he had time to go to work ha ha!

I have missed joining in with challenges although I have popped in from time to time when I have had WiFi connections.   Today I am back for  Challenge 13 at A Vintage Journey  how could I resist this one  " A little touch of Tim" ATC.
ATC's are my favourite things to make especially using my TH stash.

I started with Kraft card and cut out  an ATC using  Tim's Sizzix die which includes the corners, I picked one of  the ATC sized stamps I had in my TH stash and stamped onto white tissue with Archival Coffee ink.  This I stuck onto the craft card with glossy accents and ripped the tissue around the card, love the edge effect this method leaves, I went around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink (my fav) next I gathered up some bit and bobs from my bit box, burlap, corrugated card, and a piece of lace all had been left overs from other projects, next I rummaged in my box of Tim's hardware and came across this flower which for some reason which I don't remember has had the petals bent :(  but hey ho waste not want not is my motto so a further rummage I found this small knob which I added to the centre, added a metal leaf and glued everything together with glossy accents (wonderful stuff!!)
Lastly I added chitchat stickers to my ATC (edges vintage photo).  I chose these words as they say the reasons I love to make ATC's

Thanks for looking hope I didn't ramble too much....... it's nice to be back blogging :)

Trick or Treat......and a little bit Spooky

Hello bloggers sorry it has been so quite over here but somehow "life" seems to have got in the way of my crafting time and I cleaned out my craft room too and have hardly had chance to play in there......... anyway today I just needed some me time and to play with stash I "found" while clearing out my room of stash, so with Halloween  and a few challenges  in mind I have made this......

 

 

Tando Creative Challenges for October is "Spook It" so starting with a Tando Mini Print Tray I "found" in the bottom of a draw seemed a good place to begin, I painted with black paint and when dry I brushed with gold Distress stain.  Using IndigoBlu stamp set Hocus Pocus I stamped several images onto orange stripped paper. Using Tim Holtz Bingo embossing folder and black card I embossed and cut out No. "31"  and cut the big spider with Tim Holtz Alterations die...(I hate spiders) eeek! we have a lot coming into the house at the moment..............

 

 

 

 

Spell bottles were filled with coloured sweet wrappers (yep I keep everything)..... purple, green, and orange, "Spells" was stamped onto card swooshed with distress inks (from my bit box). Stamps are a miniature alpha set, not sure of make. 

 

 

Pumpkin is another "find" and is soft foam I rubbed vintage photo distress ink over it and black soot around the edges, an Idea-ology pin was used to attach a Halloween Sticker (TH) , more stickers - Trick Treat were used at the top of the tray , also I stamped the bird onto orange card.

 Phew I think that's  all it is harder to explain then to make lol, I really enjoyed getting all painty and inky and covered in glue...such fun

 

I will also be playing at

 

Country View Challenges Something Spooky

 

Anything But A Card challenge 28  Colours orange and black

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog Spooky

 

Ali-Craft challenge #5- Halloween

 

Thanks for looking 'till next time, 



Wall Hanging

Over at PaperArtsy blog Alison Bomber has been sharing her gorgeous art and the challenge is to make something inspired by Alison's pieces now I have been lurking over at PA blog for some time and for some reason have never joined in so this is a first  for me......  here is my wall hanging totally inspired by Alison and PaperArtsy stamps.

Firstly I found some corrugated card packaging and striped down some of the paper then dry brushed gesso over......meant to so some photos but got carried away with the project and forgot.....oops sorry!!
Next I distressed the main piece of card with tea dye, pumice stone distress Inks. I used PaperArtsy Stamps HP1009 and HP1205.  The flower was stamped in Adirondack Esspresso and coloured with distress ink tea dye this way some of the colour from the background also showed through giving a nice shaded look which I liked I also added some pumice stone watered down around some of the bottom petals to make the flower "pop" lastly I added embossing powder to the flower centre, next I stamped the grasses and birds  in pumice stone several times across the bottom and used vintage photo around all edges.  The sentiment which I love was stamped in Espresso and embossed with Wow embossing powder and I distressed with tea dye, cut out added a clipboard clip.

Now at this point I was happy with the way everything had come together but something was missing and try as I might nothing came to me so I slept on it and bright and early this morning I had a flash of inspiration.... to use some stencils...... yes that's better!  I then  mounted this onto my corrugated board added a wire hanging and dah dah.... finished and only in the nick of time so I had better get over to PaperArtsy blog and post or I will miss the deadline.

I would also like to play at Crafts-Too Challenge You where the main theme is Texture and Twist 1
How would you describe your style.......mine would have to be vintage grungy shabby chic anything that lets me get messy while I'm crafting.....I can do cute and do sometimes but my heart lies with vintage and grungy.

Artistic Stamper - Autumn
Country View Crafts - Layers
Crafts-Too Challenge You - Texture and 6th Sept-20th Sept Twist1

Thanks for looking
'till next time


Ingredients
PaperArtsy Stamps HP1009 AND HP1205
Inks Distress Inks ~Addirondack,
Ideaology clipboard pin
Embossing powder Wow
Stencils Studio 490
Gesso

Oh I do Love to be beside the Seaside..................

.......Oh I do love to be by the Sea.......

Hello crafters and a special hello to my new followers and for all the lovely comments from everyone who has stopped by my little crafting space, thank you.
Today I want to share a Summer Hanging I have made........I thought as summer seems to be absent I would try and create some of my own to hang in my little crafty room, and Crafty Individuals challenge for June is Sea Sun Beach and as I have just bought a new stamp Crafty Individuals CI-284  it would be rude not to play there don't you think lol. 

This stamp set includes two beautiful images, bunting and words, I have used One whole image and parts of the others in this project.  The inspiration for my hanging was a background, one of many I have waiting to be made into "something" using Distress Inks onto water colour paper. From this I cut out a tag Tim Holtz die dry brushed gesso over the top and wiped away.  Background for the hanging is corrugated card dry brushed with cloudy blue and pink sherbet paint dabber Ranger and wiped off before dry, lastly a light coat of  white gesso, I distressed the edges of this and the tag and inked with vintage photo distress inks.
The lovely beach girls were stamped in Adirondack Ink-Espresso onto the bottom of the tag, stamping onto water colour paper you get a great distressed image.

The photos of the four girls faces is from the other image on the stamp sheet and I cut them out and added the photo strip....I love the effect it has created.....

I found another piece of background which had the same colours and a great effect looking like peeled paint I over stamped in espresso with a crackle stamp , stamped the words  inked the edges with vintage photo and added the clip and the  wish tag which I left hanging loose,  I brushed over these first with cloudy blue dabber and wiped off again. Also the lovely bunting  "Life's a Beach" is another stamp from CI284 which was stamped onto same background and cut out.

Sorry about the crooked "wish" sign in the photo - just noticed it!! It is hanging straight in rl honest!

 



The lace and rickrack came from my mothers sewing box along with some other fabulous bits and pieces and I couldn't resist using it on this project.

A lovely project to make and I enjoyed getting painty and inky.....hope Summer takes the hint......lol.

I would also like to play at the following challenges, it is rare that I make something and it fits several challenges at one time lol.

Fashionable Stamping Challenge -  Something New -  (Stamp Set )
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Challenge Stripes ( Stripes on the corrugated card; hope it fits)
PanPastel Challenge -  Lots of Layers
Sunday Stamper - Writing
Make My Monday - Create a scene

Products Used
Stamps : Crafty Individuals Stamp plate CI284; Sheena Douglass (crackle stamp); Tim Holtz:
Sizzix  Tim Holtz Tag Die, Film strip; Idea-ology pieces
Distress Inks: vintage photo, picked raspberry, faded jeans; Adirondack Espresso;

'till next time
happy crafting

Bird Tag

Hi I really enjoyed making my altered block (my last posting) Here while I was away with bits and pieces I had taken with me, I am home now and as I was unpacking my limited crafty stash I took
with me I spied some more interesting bits in the bag  and hurried off to my crafty room and created this tag..........everything except the ticket and pearl eye are from the bits bag.....

The tag in the bag is what caught my eye and was already embossed so I lightly dusted this with pan pastels, flower TH tattered flowers the book print petals was only half a flower which I placed at the side of the tag and added a smaller flower cut from purple paper scraps of music paper were inked in Dusty Concorde, netting added and small flower  (from my Alpha dictionary challenge HERE) Bird had been cut in craft card and I also inked with dusty concord (bottom) and vintage photo around edges I also found an embossed wing in brown which really pleased me, ticket was stamped(creative expressions) in dusty concord and inked with vintage photo.  I am really pleased again with the finished project and had great fun, it really didn't take me very long to make................ it just shows you really shouldn't throw anything away..........put it in the bit box lol!!

I will be joining the following challenges with my tag

Out of a Hat Creations - challenge 63 tickets

PanPastels UK challenge Blog - challenge 23 anything goes

Country ViewCrafts - challenge #4  Die Cuts    ( 2nd entry)

Sunday Stamper week 261 Purple Haze

Thanks for looking 'till next time

Altered Block

I am still away and working with limited crafty bits, among the things I bought with me was a bag of bits and bobs from my "bits" box which included die cuts and bits of this and that.......we all have them ..yes!!

There is a challenge running at  Country View Crafts for June calling for us to use Die Cuts.....I have been meaning to play along here for a while just seemed always to run out of time so today I sat in the sunshine and played with all the bag of bits and bobs I had bought with me, along with a small wooden block which was packed thinking "I'll do something with this while I'm away" thought going through my head........ enough waffling here is what I came up with  post is a bit picture heavy and some are not so good light in Motorhome not so good for piccy taking!!  :-)

Front........I started by adding pretty papers from Crafty Individuals to the block and sanding the edges and inking with vintage photo, I added a little piece of torn music paper(tag is hiding it), tag is diecut sizzix I think inked edges and music paper and a little piece of  embossed co-ordinations which I sanded, and a piece of bird which had been cut from Tim Holtz cage and bird from a metal embossed sheet which looks like I have added alcohol inks too, lastly added pearl, this was tied to the cage with strips of netting .

Back....another cage was added to the back and another die cut bird which has been cut from paper and inked music paper and a piece of embossed metal again tied at the top with netting, I had two cages and 2 and a bit birds in my bits bag, along with the small flower which is part of the Tattered Flower Die TH.

Top ..........I had various pieces of the larger tattered flower cut from book pages and also grunge paper which had been overed in inks and paper and inks so I assembled these into a large flower, the centre piece was made by wetting and scrumpling several together and left to dry then I inked all the edges showing.

 

Sides................Last two photos thanks for staying with me...........I added two strips of embossed foil TH folder and sanded them, you can also see the papers and  inked edges.  I had lots of fun playing and creating this today and had no idea where it would lead when I started which is great fun for me... thanks for the challenge and I will be back another day  to check out all the other entries as my power is running low again

 

I would also like toplay at Tando Creative challenge - Numbers

 

Die cuts used TH tattered flower, bird and cage, small tag Sizzix

 

By till next time

 

Frosty Christmas..................

Hello everyone long time no blog.....I won't bore you with all the reasons just to say life has not been
to kind to me and mine just lately needless to say no crafting mojo!  I have however managed to make a few Christmas cards for my nearest and dearest and would like to share some of them here and also join a challenge or two as I have missed playing along.
So out came my Spellbinders, Embossing Folders and Tim Holtz stash and this Christmas card was born.......

Card blank was stamped  around the edges with the crackle stamp from TH Mini Holidays 4 plate and Embossed using white embossing powder, then edges were inked with faded jeans DI and also a little pearl paint from Adirondack Acrylic Paint dabber was added around the very edge of the card.

Main Ornament was cut from silver mirri board and run through an embossing folder, this was a bit bright for me so I sanded it and then rubbed some of the pearl paint over and wiped off again when nearly dry, the 25 was embossed with another white and silver combo powder, the main panel was embossed with the same harlequin embossing folder and faded jeans DI applied to the raised areas.

Spellbinders dies were used on the side border and the mirri board behind the sentiment which was from the same TH set as before, I then covered this with Creative Expressions micro beads.......which give a frosty look , ribbon was dyed with faded jeans DI and crumpled, and snow flakes added, lastly I added a few faux pearls with pva pearl and distress stickles to the edge of the main ornament.

Inside of  the card was stamped with crackle stamp and embossed in white, greeting in Chipped Saphire DI. snowflake stamp faded jeans.

I am playing at the following challenge

Joanna Sheen Challenge  - with Love at Christmas
Happy Daze Design Team - December Challenge ...In the Bleak Midwinter

Recipe for my card

Stamps - Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Holidays,
Dies Tim Holtz Alterations Dies-
Mini Snowflake;
Mini Reindeer & 25 - Movers and Shapers
Carved Ornaments #2
Distress Stickles;
Spellbinders
Iron Works Accents;
Creative Expressions
Clear Micro Glass Beads
Double sided sticky tape sheet,
Pearl PVA
Embossing Folder
Darice - Harlequin
Embossing \powder from my stash unknown make
White
White Twinkle
Snowflake stamp FREE with Craft Stamper Magazine

Till next time

CHRISTMAS TAG!!!!

On a rainy wednesday what better way to spend  the morning than playing in the room of craft and getting inky.......I had a great time making this tag.

I was inspired by Studio L3 Challenge 19 - Kraft Resist  which is following Tim Holtz book CC2 pop over to Linda's and take a look at Tim's Video there.
Sunday Stampers challenge - Green.  Yep I think I can safely say my tag is green lol
 I haven't played at either challenges in a long time so it has been great to be able to join in again.

Tag photo was taken this way as it was the only angle that showed up the resisit on the paper, light isn't great as weather so dull

you can just make out the words down the side which say Christmas Carol. I cut the festive greenery with a selection of papers from the colorcore Distress Collection and sanded, lace from my stash.

 

A fun technique to do and I have now officially made my first item for Christmas 2012......yikes!!!!

Products used Tim Holtz Kraft Resist card;Distress Inks vintage photo, peeled paint, crushed olive, Dies, Festive Greenery, Candlelight Fright, Distress Stickles rock candy, frayed burlap, white and orange acrylic paint

'till next time

Vintage Shabby Tag

A very wet and windy day here today the rain is beating against the windows and the wind is howling around the house.....not nice so nothing for it but to spend the day in my little room of craft....Yeh  I have been getting inky and messy  and my room now looks like a disaster zone but I have had a great morning. :-()

The piece I want to share with you today is inspired by the challenge My Mojo Monthly  and  my fabulous tin of buttons rescued from Mums house as described in the last post HERE (click if you want to read the last post), so I won't go over the story again but just to say after another search in amongst the buttons I was inspired to make this tag complete with 3 gorgeous buttons, and some lace which is also old, not sure where I got it has been living with me for so long. 
The Challenge at MMM for April is Tagology....now I love tags and have not been around to play here for sooooo long and I know the deadline is soon so I just had to play today, pop over to the blog...... the interview with Dan is fab and Sarah has some amazing art to show you.

Firstly I apologise for the photo .......it is so dark here like winter!
To make my tag I went rummaging in my bits and pieces box of saved treasures, you know bits of card and stamping that never quite made it and also card I save from packaging because I just can't throw it away......(now you know why my room is a mess!!) and of course "the button tin" throw in some Tim Holtz products and hey presto my tag was born. The dress part of the form was cut from Sticky Back Canvas (Claudine Hellmuth) which I painted with Pink dabber and smeared some White Distress stain over the top when dry lastly distressed the edges,  the stand was inked with Tea Dye DI strips of cream and brown lace were gathered around the form for the dress, I added some bakers twine to the waist and a button..... The Tag base was made with recycled packaging which I swiped pink dabber over and also white distress stains, stamped over with a script  and other stamps from TH, I will confess to a mistake at this point.......well more like a near disaster, for the corner I stamped in versamark and instead of picking up the embossing ink I poured over perfect pearls instead......well a happy accident because I loved the sparkle....shame the photo doesn't show it up.....believe me its there ..rofl. The oval background was a piece of embossed brown card (in my box) I swiped over DS white (can you tell yet that I love this stuff) and distressed the edges. White flower button is mounted on top of a brown one inside the stamp from TH sewing plate. Lastly ribbon and lace were added to the top of the tag.

I am also linking this tag to..............The Stampman Challenge Sabby Chic or Distressed this is the second piece for this challenge but I havn't played there either for so long and I love the challenge theme lol hope it is alright to enter again, also at The Artistic Stamper blog the Challenge is Ribbon and Lace so I am linking there again too... these challenge are right up my street ......and I have missed playing.....Pop over to all the blogs there is some lovely art to see.

If you are still with me....Thanks for looking, 'till next time

Filled with Love........

.............. is the theme at the Craft Barn Blog for February's AJ page we have been asked to fill hearts with the things we love, instantly I knew I would fill my hearts with Stamping, Embossing and Distress Inks. My first love has to be Stamps and I will never forget how impressed I was with heat embossing when I first saw a demonstration in my early years of crafting (18 years ago..) and this has never left me, also dry embossing was a thing I loved to do but with a light box this was not a quick job, then along came machines embossing folders and the rest is history as they say so quick and so effective now, couple these with Distress Inks.....hooray to the King of Grunge Tim Holtz and I am in heaven.  So to my page the background was covered with pool paint dabber which I dragged across randomly and filled in with distress ink broken china, this was then stamped with text and butterflies and the paint lid dipped in pool paint, with a piece of corrugated card which I inked with white and yellow paint I stamped lines in various places, and made splodges with  picket fence distress stain.

Background for my journal  heart was broken china DI stamped with dried marigold, I find writing journaling in my own hand difficult....but I did it!!

Dry embossed heart on background of DI's and

Background DI stamped with TH stamp and embossed with cosmic shimmer embossing powder. 

I have had a great morning getting inky and painty making this page, hope you enjoy looking!

Blogger was not playing nicely and it has taken forever to load these pics.....I very nearly had given up!!!! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh blogger!!!!!!!!!!!

need a cup of tea now to unwind....... Thanks for the challenge hope there is another one next month pleeeeeeeese :-)

.'till next time