A photo of Lily

This morning I completed a tag for the Out of a hat creations weekly challenge #61 - 'Use a photograph'. I used to look after a little girl called Lily and I love this photo of her. Unfortunately I don't see Lily anymore but she's never far from my thoughts.

I decided to create a tag and started by cutting a Tim Holtz die cut and a Jenni Bowlin heart journaling card in white card stock and inked both pieces with barn door and festive berries distress ink and then spritzed with Dylusions post box and white linen spray inks.  I added a faux stitch to the edge of the heart and stamped a Prima script before edging both pieces with the black Ranger Acrylic paint dabber.  I cut a heart border and 3 butterflies from Martha Stewart punches and added red ribbon, I used the tiny attacher to hold the top piece in place. I added 3 red clear beads, a Tim Holtz sentiment plus a Stampin'Up sentiment added using 2 Stampin'Up punches.

Thanks for looking!

Tracey x

Wedding Card

I was asked to create an A5 Wedding card for someone at work and the colours I have used are based one the Wedding website the couple created and are white and duck egg blue (I really hope this is what they are continuing through the day!).  I am also going to enter today's post into the current challenge at Frilly and Funkie which is called 'A Time For Weddings' and asks us to use white and one other colour.  Although my card isn't typically vintage I think the additional colour is.

I didn't have any duck egg blue card stock so instead I used a Letraset promarker on white card stock to introduce the colour behind my blocks of white card stock.  I printed the words in grey ink on my computer and the flowers are white Prima paper ones which I again coloured with the promarker and spritzed with the Tattered Angels marshmallow glimmer mist.  I used the Sizzix primitive hearts die, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder and added ribbon and clear gems to add a little more interest.

Thanks for looking!

Tracey x 

Wedding Invites

Last month before my holiday, I was busy making Wedding Invitations for my Sister's forthcoming big day later this year.  To start with I had help from my friend Lynda who came round for an evening and we ran a small production line and Lynda's help was very much appreciated.  I ended up making 21 day and 100 evening invites.  I believe all or most of the invites have now been sent so I thought I'd show you what design I came up with, even this simple creation took quite a while with the numbers involved.  The photo isn't great but the photo of the evening invite was even worse (I really must work on my photography skills)!

I used Papermania plain and textured cream and gold card stock, Cuttlebug stylized flower embossing folder, Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink, Tattered Angels marshmallow glimmer mist, and double sided foam.  The wedding and evening invitation stamps were inherited from my friend Clair who had made her own invites a few years ago and they came in very handy.  I printed the inserts in grey ink on cream paper.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

Eyes Without a Face

My body clock woke me up at my normal working week time this morning so I headed into my craft room nice and early and completed a tag for the Out of a hat creations weekly challenge #60 - Eyes.

I started with a Tim Holtz tag which I spritzed with water and then Dylusions inks in green, orange and yellow, the inks started to run so I let them run down the tag.  Once dry I spritzed the tag with more water and dried again.  I used one of the Dylusions eyes to stamp an edge round the background and then covered the whole tag with Tim Holtz rock candy distress crackle paint and rubbed brushed corduroy distress ink into the cracks.  Next I used a different Dylusions stamp, this time the eyes with glasses, I stamped it 3 times, cut out and coloured with Letraset promarkers and I added glossy accents to the eyes.  I stamped my sentiment which is from a Billy Idol song and has been in my head since the challenge was set on Thursday, I added a black pen edge and rubbed the brushed corduroy distress ink to soften the white card stock.  Finally I added a ribbon.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

'K' is for Kitten

The tenth letter in the The Craft Barn alpha challenge is 'K' and I have chosen the word Kitten.

I started with the usual piece of 6x7 inch white card stock and punched the 2 holes on the correct side of the page so that I can eventually add it my book.  I glued the dictionary page to the card stock and then stamped the kitten, feather and 3 dragonflies before inking the page (excluding the word and definition) with the 3 Tim Holtz Autumn 2011 Distress inks.  Next I placed a Dylusions stencil on each edge of the page and removed the colour with a baby wipe before spritzing the page with water, once dry I replaced the stencil over the areas and added a black line through the stencil before adding a white line inside each square.  I used Letraset promarkers to add colour to the stamped images and as always added the appropriate Tim Holtz alphabet letter and stamped my chosen word onto black card stock.  Finally I doodled around the word and definition and covered with Tim Holtz rock candy distress crackle paint and added black and white pen lines around the page.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

A Postcard from France

I managed to spend some time in my craft room again yesterday morning and one of the projects I completed was for the Out of a hat creations challenge 59 'A Postcard from France'.

I cut a piece of white card stock 6x4 after checking postcard measurements on the Internet and then used various suitable Tim Holtz stamps along with distress inks and water.  To finish the postcard I attached it to a piece of brown card stock cut just a little larger in size.

Thanks for Looking!
Tracey x

'A' is for Adolescent

The ninth letter in the The Craft Barn alpha challenge is 'A' and I have chosen the word Adolescent.

I started with the usual piece of 6x7 inch white card stock and punched the 2 holes on the correct side of the page so that I can eventually add it my book.  I glued the dictionary page to the card stock and then covered the whole page (excluding the word and definition) with water and Dylusions ink sprays in varying purples, pinks and white.  I added Tim Holtz black soot distress ink around the edge of the page and then added black and white lines and added the same around my word and definition before covering it with rock candy distress crackle paint.  I added some picket fence to tone down the colour and stamped the Stampotique prom queen and hanging hearts and coloured using Letraset promarkers.  Next I added the appropriate Tim Holtz alphabet letter and stamped my chosen word onto black card stock.  Finally I covered areas of the page with a Dylusions stencil and removed some of the colour using a baby wipe.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

Hearts and Swirls Picture Frame

Well I'm back from Vegas and finally had a chance to get into my craft room this evening so I've created something for the following challenges:
Out of a hat creations challenge 58 'Picture Frame' (also incorporating last week's challenge 57 'Hearts and Swirls' as I missed joining in).
Inspiration Emporium May challenge 'Don't Quote Me'.

I started with an old frame that I purchased cheaply at a crop and covered it with two layers of Claudine Hellmuth gesso, I couldn't wait for it to dry naturally so I dried each application with my heat gun.  Next I spritzed the frame with Dylusions inks in red, white and black and again dried before stippling with Tim Holtz rock candy distress crackle paint to create the texture.  Once happy with the effect I again heated with my heat gun.  Next I stamped and cut out a Tim Holtz sentiment, plus die cut a Tim Holtz swirl, I inked both with red and black distress inks.  I attached the swirl to the top corner with glue and attached the heart on top with double sided foam.  Finally I added 3 pins behind the heart.

For the inside I cut a piece of white card stock the size of the hole and stamped a background with Stampotique hearts and PaperArtsy swirl stamps.  I spritzed with the Dylusions red and white inks followed by water and dried.  I printed a photo of me with my Mum and Dad and mounted it onto white card stock, I also stamped the same sentiment as above and then added the heart from Tim Holtz on top.  I attached both of these pieces to the background and inserted behind the glass. Finally I added glossy accents to the heart (which isn't dry in the photo).

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

New Beginnings

I am linking today's post to the April challenge at Tando Creative which is 'New Beginnings'.

I was asked to create a Wedding card for someone at work this month, again it is A4 in size to allow everyone in the Company to add their best wishes.  For the project I used cream and gold card stock, a leaf corner stamp, 6 Prima flowers, 3 clear gems, 6 gems, a piece of satin ribbon, a Martha Stewart heart border punch, a Kanban sentiment word card stock strip, a Jenni Bowlin journaling heart (used as a template), double-sided foam, glue, double sided tape and brown ink.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

Circus Clown

I am off on holiday this weekend but being off work today managed to find some time this morning to create a tag for the following challenges:
Out of a hat creations challenge 56 'Circus'.
Inspiration Emporium April challenge 'Marvelous Masks and Spectacular Stencils'
Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge 'Background'

I started by die cutting a Tim Holtz tag and then inking with various colours of Tim Holtz distress inks before spritzing with water.  I covered the tag with a Dylusions mask and removed some of the colour using a baby wipe before removing the mask and drying the tag with my heat gun.  I went round the edges of the faded places with the Tim Holtz picket fence distress marker, then replacing my mask I added a black line inside each of the mask holes.  Next I stamped a strip of stars on my background and added a faux stitch round the edge of the tag with my black pen.  I glued the tag to a white tag and a black tag each cut slightly larger than the first.  Once the background was complete I stamped the clown and cut him out using the Spellbinders lacey circles die.  I added a faux stitch in black pen and then coloured the image with Letraset promarkers.  I added glossy accents to the balls, stars, bow tie, nose and cheeks and attached it to the tag with double sided foam.  I stamped the words 'Circus Clown' on white card stock, cut out and covered with Tim Holtz distress crackle paint and again attached using double sided foam.  Finally I added 3 gems and stapled a piece of material ribbon through the tag using the Tim Holtz tiny attacher.

Thanks for looking!
Tracey x