Take 3.....

Well I've finally finished my project for Compendium of curiosities.....phew!!! Mr. T Holtz makes it look so easy, well he is the master of inkyness. I suppose had I had the pearl instead of using every shade but for the base coat the task may have been easier. This weeks challenge is Agate Grunge.....Hmmm after 2 attempts my final try was the frame for the image and rather than just use 1 of the samples I thought I'd use them all, hence a multi coloured project with added bling.

Challenges

Compendium of Curiosities......Alchohol ink Agate Grunge.

Simon Says Stamp and Show.......grungeboard

Thanks for taking a peek

Alchohol inks...argh

Well for the past couple of days I've been playing with alchohol inks.....I really struggle with this medium but I'm determined to master them, so after my class on saturday I started with this project when I got home....when I started this I had no idea what I was doing, I punched out several flower shapes from the Tattered flower die from Tim Holtz with acetate and dabbed away with a few shades, then for some reason I thought I'd put some metal through a textured fade folder, again from TH and then decided to paint the metal with various shades of ink......what a fiddle (used a Q Tip), so I went to bed having had enough for the night. I find it frustrating when things don't go right so instead of slinging it in the bin a good nights sleep  usually does the trick. Next morning with new determination I continued colouring in the panel.....at this point it was too bright so I rubbed in black acrylic paint to make it more aged looking. The acetate coloured petals didn't show up so I layered them inbetween flowers cut from print inked with Dusty Concord and Victorian velvet. The background canvas again has been inked with alchohol inks with gold added to get some bling.  I blame Linda from L3 studios for all this as she made a card for the Drunken stampers blog and she had me laughing about boozed up monkeys helping her make it.....the challenge by the way is dry emboss and paint.

Challenges

Drunken stampers.....dry emboss and paint.

Have a great day

hugs x

Wall hanging...

Today I've spent a lovely day at LB Crafts, painting and crafting, using Tim Holtz tattered floral dies, metal and alchohol inks.....I'm starting to feel more confident with them now. This is quite a large wall hanging using acrylic paints to paint and blend the background. Photographs don't do it justice.

Have a great weekend

hugs x

Hot Chocolate

Gosh its been cold today at work, we have to have a door open so you can image its been a bit cool to say the least so this mornng I got a hot chocolate to take into work with me, so it seems appropriate for todays posting as quite a few challenges this week are hot chocolate related, I have used a sugar nellie stamp for this one and the papers are papermania the pink one being from the new forever friends collection I've entered this card into the following challenges:
Moving along with the times.e as well as following the sketch the theme is also love
cute card Thursday can include new stash...papersCharisma Cardz have a colour theme using brown,Pink cream and toffee.

Fab n' Funky........anything goes.
Quixotic have the theme of hot chocolate either as an image or colour scheme.
Simon Says....hot chocolate again either the image or the colour scheme
ABC challenge......L is for Layering
Everybody art have the theme of favourite colour combo.....any thing with pink.
Spoon full of Sugar have the theme of hearts on your card...pockets and pearls in the corners
Think thats about it quite  a few challenges again ......... thank you for taking the time to look as well as your comments

Hugs from Daniele x

working progress finished

Detail of the metal on the sides of the frames.

I think I've finally finished my project that I started on boxing day, I picked up a ten second mould from the sale at LB Crafts yesterday and mananged to produce an arch shape to put on the top of the frames then I restuck the lace on top of them I am going to enter this into the challenge at Ink on my Fingers as they have the theme of ....Faces, and being as there is a ladys face in the little frame I think that this qualifes.

New Year card

Happy New Year to everyone and here is my card didn't put new year as a sentiment but my card is about your dreams for 2010, the image is from Lili of the valley painted with sakura pens....these stamps are sooo sweet.

I have entered this card into the following challenges who have the theme of a new years card Everybody art,Stamp with funThe theme at Cupcake craft challengeis a time for celebration. Over at Rosie Dees they have a free theme as do Creative card crew they also have a DT call.The sketch I followed is fromCreate4fun.Lili of the Valley have the theme of new year as do Cute card Thursday

Just had to enter this card in the challenge at Charisma Cardz, they are celebrating their 1st Birthday today and they also have a blog hop on so........Happy 1st Birthday Charisma challenges and a happy new year to you all                                                                       

Hugs from Daniele x

Christmas Tilda

This card started out for one challenge but kinda evolved into a card to be entered into a few challenges so Magnolia Down Under is where I started with, following their fab sketch then the theme at Just Magnolia is Distressed, so I distressed the edges with Shabby Shutters and Aged Mahogany,Everybody Art has the theme Distressing as well , Creative Inspirations theme is new stash or old stash, bit of both going on here as the papers are new and the stamp is last years Tilda.Quixotics' second challenge is Stitches, I love adding machine stitching and this time I've added a double row of stitching on the centre panel as well as around the edge of the card and finally Creative card Crew want you to add Doodles.

A Spoon full of Sugar

I love it when you can enter a card in a few challenges and this weeks sketch at Spoon full of Sugar fits the bill just nice because over Create Card Crew the challenge this week is to use scallops,Everybody Arts challenge is to use shapes or punches and finally Cute Card Thursday want a charm included on the card, hopefully this card meets all of those criterias....yay!!!

Everybody Art

Trying out different techniques and styles, I love the stamps from Crafty Individuals I also put some Tim Holtz rock candy on the stamped image to get the crackle effect, its quite a nice effect espeially just dabs of it instead of covering the whole image.

Joint Effort

The image has been coloured in with watercolour crayons by my daughter who pinched some of my stamped images that were waiting to be coloured (she calls it grownup colouring) so I pinched the coloured image back and made the card. I have entered it into the following challenges One Stop Craft Challenge as the theme was teddy bears, I followed the sketch from Everybody Art, I love this sketch and will definately be using it again and lastly I also entered it into Secret Crafter Challenge as it was entitled "one for the girls" very girly card with pink and lace and it was made by 2 girls lol........

Everybody Art Challenge

Part One in the trilogy- the tag was a skull die cut that I triple embossed and stamped torn paper to match the CD card.