A Cup of Tea for My Valentine

Good morning ladies, hope all is well in blogland today.  The CASology Challenge this week is "DRINK" so here goes, do I have Tea, Coffee or something stronger?  Thoughts of Valentine's day spring to mind so here goes.  This card is also for the CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge so I used the set sketch and here is what I came up with.

 

As this was for my hubby I used a beige card to make it more masculine, the papers are Pink Petticoat "Old Fashioned Girl", the stamp was a freebie with a mag.  I mounted the papers onto red card and added a computer generated sentiment.  The stamp was embossed with clear embossing powder to enable easier colouring as the card was quite soft, the cups were coloured  with a crimson promarker and the flowers highlighted with a white Pen-touch pen.  The white pen looks OK on the card but when photographed in detail it looks a bit messy, not sure if I will use it again, maybe practice makes perfect!

I now have a cute little Valentine for him indoors, hope he likes it.

Calling Time on an ATC

 

Calling Time on an ATC" is the theme at Artful Times Challenge Blog.  I have been clearing up my craft room and trying to use up all the scraps of card I have accumulated over the year so this is a great challenge.  I spent a day with my trusty Sizzix  machine cutting out tags and ATCs and some other bits and bobs, they are now in a tin ready for use (if I remember they are there!!).

 

The background was created with distress inks in fired brick, scattered straw, I added the diamonds with a PaperArtsy mask using dried marigold distress ink.  I stamped the image (one of my Christmas presents, PaperArtsy Clocks 1) using black Stazon and highlighted the wings with a little bleach.  I coloured a piece of card with Distress inks and stamped out the sentiment and cut it out to fit the ATC.

Changing colours and adding a photo to the clock face and metal distress stain I put together a second ATC. 

Would have loved to do some more but time is a little short at the moment, I have a list of challenges I want to enter so lots of cards, tags and other things to get on with, poor me lol..  I am also joining another design team in February Crafty Bloggers Network Blog, a fab site for you crafty ladies check it out.

"C" is for Going Round In Circles!

 

Here we are with another letter for the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge, the letter is "C".  For any of you blogland ladies who don't know about it let me explain.  The idea is to alter a dictionary, or use a dictionary to produce an ATC, Art Journal, or something of your choice, a letter is given every two weeks, and the challenge will run for the full year.  Check it out by clicking the link above.

I had Circus in mind as I have some lovely circus type stamps but found the word appeared right at the bottom of the page and over onto the next page, so had to think again.  Looking at the same page I picked Circumnavigate.  Searched through my boxes of stamps and found an Aspect of Design Nautical set, ideal for what I wanted.  I went on line and found a little info on Francis Drake, the info on Magellan the first person to circumnavigate the globe was too long winded.

Firstly I circled the chosen word with black ink.  The page was coloured with distress inks in broken china, scattered straw and tea dye in a random fashion, using a glimmer mask (tattered traveller) and broken china ink I added the stencil detail  The stamps were stamped using black Stazon ink and coloured with distress ink in tea dye.  The little bit of historic detail was added and a letter "C" which had been stamped with the script stamp.

Another dictionary page finished, I will have to work on a bookmark for this page as I did with my first, but this needs some more thought, rope came to mind but it may be too thick, the brain cells are still working on it!

Thank all you lovely ladies who commented on my first page, I look forward to seeing what you all come up with for the letter "C".