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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
It's taken me a long time to get round to it but last month I was really taken by surprise by a lovely group of stampers. I'd been chatting to one of them and had shared how I was feeling when Mum and Dad left for New Zealand. To my surprise, a few weeks later an envelope popped through my door containing a load of fat book pages, complete with O rings and covers (left blank for me to decorate) to cheer me up!! I've just had a good look at it for the first time, really, with Stamp Camp and lots of other things which have been going on and I've put it together. Duh! Should have scanned or photographed it first :( It's really lovely and has a variety of artwork in it, but the best thing of all is that it was sent with so much kindness and thoughfulness. I'll do my best to get some piccies in the next week or so and upload it. Thank you, ladies. It really did (and does) mean a lot to me! You can see the girls' work here, at Lots to do Challenge Blog.
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Just stamped some ATCs - phew! Thought I was never going to be able to do that again, even if they are very simple :)
Used Adirondack pigment inks (Lemonade and Watermelon) and Versafine, with stamped Krylon Gold pen over the top (on right). The darker one is embossed.
Friday, 11 July 2008
Well, it doesn't just seem like ages since I stamped, it IS ages, but tomorrow we have our first workshop for two months - excluding Stamp Camp, that is, when we did quite a few :) It's an all day workshop, too, with one group going with Lynne and one with me - repeating what we did the last time, which is why I still haven't stamped - aagghh!! It's already on the website from a while ago, I think, but I'll post a couple of pics here now.Thursday, 10 July 2008
Just one more for tonight - the resident robin, who's become very friendly of late, followed by my favourite song thrush, who I was thrilled to be able to photograph.Why do they call me Scruff? Or Scrubaduff? Or Scruffbag?????
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We may well call him Scruff, but isn't he gorgeous? And look at that leg......... Trouble is, I think he's trained us, rather than the other way round. If we go out and call his name, he arrives in a few seconds and looks down at us from the extension roof, bad leg hanging over.
This is my favourite baby blackbird and she (I think it's a 'she' cos her tail's not darker than her body as some of them are) has NO fear! I worry for her for that reason, but I do enjoy it when she comes to visit. We were feeding the birds meal worms, saving them for our old friend, Scruff, but one day she found them and ever since then has come back to the back door, coming into the house or into the garage when the door's open. She's so entertaining. I'll post my favourite piccies of Scruff in a moment.
I've been playing, but not with stamps - shame on me! I bought a new camera just for Stamp Camp and am a little more than obsessed with playing with it to find out what it can do. I'm seriously impressed so far for a point and click cheapo camera, I have to admit. So here are a few of my recent efforts.
I'm still alive - honestly! Here are some of the clocks made by some of the Stamp Camp attendees - excellent work. These were all created with Adirondack Pigment inks and Gesso, using Grunge Board elements as stencils. We coated them with fixative, then put them through the Xyron, with repositionable adhesive, so they'd just wipe off, ready for the next person to use. This was my first (and only) play with Adirondack pigment inks and I have to say I love them. I've used mainly dye inks for the last few years, apart from the odd play with chalk inks and Brilliance, so it was a real pleasure to have something which blended so well and so easily. The inks flow on canvas and on paper and only need to be quickly blasted with the heat tool to make them permanent. Isn't it great to see how much variety there is? I love it when people all do the same project but the results are totally unique.
If you'd like to see more of the photos from Stamp Camp 2008, you can see them here. Artwork can be seen here, though I have more to upload.
Monday, 30 June 2008
I know, I know - I dropped off the face of the earth for a few weeks and went AWOL.
My parents announced that they'd be leaving for New Zealand within one month and I fell apart. I knew they would be going at some point and I really thought I was prepared for it, but when it actually happened, it was the worst emotional time I'd ever experienced in my life. Worst of all, they left on 30th May, just two weeks before Stamp Camp, so I had to try to 'get myself together' very quickly or cancel the whole event and let 69 people down. I didn't do very well and cried most of the day before, but I had a LOT of help from some fantastic friends - you know who you are! Thank you.
Anyway, thought I'd get the ball rolling again and post my Clocks from Stamp Camp - this was one of my classes and those who took part produced some fab work - see the photo! I'll post more of the projects other people did in the next couple of days.
Friday, 2 May 2008
Been making sample cards for the upcoming show (Port Sunlight) so thought I'd share some of the fun ones here - someone else's idea, I might add - I don't have much imagination at the moment :(Lots of 3D elements, which my scanner doesn't like, as you can see from the Charleston girl card, but they really are fun to make and fun to look at. Haven't finished yet, so will upload some of the others when I finish them. Stamps are I Brake for Stamps and the card fronts are made with Cuttlebug Embossing folders. Images coloured with Tombow markers.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
These are the insides of the books, though I had to lay them down to get the photos, which isn't ideal. Not much light around at the moment, I'm afraid.....Thursday, 6 March 2008
Been working on Saturday's project for a few days and have finally decided on this. This is only the cover as I'll have to photograph the inside - the stamping is quite simple as we have to make it all in two hours and the construction is quite complex as it's a flag tag book. I like the way this one has turned out, as the concertina part is much wider than the ones I've made in the past and it makes it far more stable, so it's more suited for adding photos, etc.
I've used Distress inks with the Colorbox Stylus tool, which was a nice change, as I haven't used that for ages. Sad really because it's a very useful tool and we all need our own custom stamps at times! I also used the Ink Applicator from Ranger, which I can't recommend highly enough - it makes such quick work of sponging colour and you can get the shades and blending really easily. I used Distress EP on the Memoirs stamp, which is something I rarely use and never really liked much, but I thought it would work better here. Haven't distressed it yet, though - will do that when I go downstairs, where I'm going to put together another book, ready for decorating tomorrow as another sample.
Made something else along the way, which I changed my mind about using, but I'll post a pic when it's scanned cos I love the way the colours have turned out.
Sunday, 2 March 2008
I was late with the February Romance ATC swap (wot? No surprise???) so I had to do these very quickly. I've used backgrounds I'd already made.
........ so I made a distressed card with lots of ink, embossing, gesso and acrylic dabbers to create texture!
It's Mother's Day and my Mum likes pink, so I made a pink card. I also had a birthday card and a Get Well card to make, so I made some simple, pretty cards today.
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