Sugar Nellie Stamps

This was a special offer from Sugar Nellie - this was a quick card I made just so that I could practise colouring them in.  Used a small card (4 by 4 inches) and some backing from Kanban (cannot remember what it's called right now.....).  I have just seen Pat Frank's card using the same stamp on the Sugar Nellie website and now want to have another go at it, using more colours and lot of embellishments!

Paper Artsy Stamps

Cannot believe how long it has been since I posted..... I seem to have got out of the habit of taking photos of things!

I bought these stamps at the new opening of the Craft Barn (moved to Nutfield - lovely new shop, and a really good food shop and a place to eat on the site, too).  I was following a design in Craft Stamper magazine - I thought it looked fine, but now I have taken the photo I think I should have sprayed the distress inks with water first.  I was planning to make a few, so that's my plan for the future.

Imagination Crafts stamps

Using quite an unusual stamp for me - one made with decoupage in mind (really not my kind of thing!).  Fortunately it's quite easy to do - only 3 layers in the whole thing.  The one with primroses at the top I did in a class in the Craft Barn - the one with crocuses I did myself when I got home.  We were practising using Copics to colour with - the top one used the colours the teacher had (all of them!) and the bottom one uses my limited colour palette.  Kept the bottom one opened out to show you the stamping on the spine.  I think they make really nice cards for Mother's Day or Easter.

Sugar Nellie Stamps

I was testing out my Copic Pens with this card - only used grey to shade the bear and a pale lilac (I think) for the girl's outfit.  Then I used glitter glue (Stickles - Star Dust) over her hat and around the card.

Calendar

I did this with a tag book from the Everything's a Pound shop (at the NEC) - split it up to get 4 calendar backgrounds.  I used Distress Stain on the tag, a torn up book page with Distress Stain on too, used the stamp from Craft Stamper magazine and used a dyed ribbon to finish.

Notepads

Now that I can get pictures again, I have quite a bit to catch up on!  These are the other 2 notepads I did for stocking fillers at Christmas - the one on the right is done with Clarity Stamps.  For that one I used coloured inks to stamp with on each page (for all the others I stamped in black).

Tim Holtz stamps

This is the other stamp in the set...  For some reason I couldn't get pictures on to my website for the last few weeks, but it seems to have sorted itself out now.