TurniCraft

Having a play...

2009-04-26T11:45:00.003+01:00

Having bought some new stamps last week at the Ally Pally show from Stampscapes I had a little play with them yesterday and this is the result. I used Stazon Mustard, Pumpkin and Black Cherry ink pads for the background and black Versafine for the stamps and dark edges.

For a first play I am quite pleased with the result.

Linda's Alphabet Challenge - B

2009-04-05T15:38:00.003+01:00

B is for Boat (it should have said boats, but ran out of space!)

The images are from Tanda Stamps and the letters are Tim Holtz foam stamps - I coloured it using distress inks watered down.

Not the best Fat Book page ever, but inspiration isn't great at the moment.

Some cards I made recently

2009-03-28T20:52:00.005Z

Just thought I would share a few cards I have made over the past few months as I haven't update my blog in a while.

Linda's Alphabet Challenge - A

2009-03-28T20:21:00.003Z

A is for Africa, or possibly even Animals of Africa. I have done a Fat Book page using stamps from Tanda Stamps and using Versafine Vintage Sepia and Library Green Archival inks.

It's Christmas!!

2008-07-26T17:55:00.004+01:00

Well ok, not quite. But I have made a start on my Christmas cards. Thanks to Linda Luckin's fab stamps I was able to get a bit of a 'production line' going by stamping the same image six times and then colouring each one in at the same time (all the reds together, all the greens together etc.). This has meant that I made six cards in one afternoon/evening and have made a start on toppers for ten more.

Taster of the toppers still on the production line:

Envelope Challenge

2008-05-17T00:09:00.003+01:00

Craft Swap Forum is two years old. To celebrate Simon set a challenge. We were put into teams of 6, each team was given a theme and each person had to decorate an envelope and insert to that theme.

My team - Three's A Crowd (Team 3) had the theme of 'Childhood'. Here is my envelope:

And here is the insert. I wanted to make it like a baby's rattle, so have done it as a 'shaker' card.

My Time to Craft Challenge - week 3

2008-02-25T21:10:00.006Z

"Things with Wings"

This is my humble offering for this week's Time to Craft Challenge - Things with Wings. I used various colours of paint dabbers to do the background on the tag and then just stamped up a collage of winged images for the foreground - using a combination of stamps from PaperArtsy and Artistic Stamper.

Altered Heat Gun

2008-01-17T15:59:00.000Z

Having seen other people on the Craft Swap Forum showing off their lovely 'altered' heat guns, I thought I would have a go at mine. I used Bottle, Cranberry, Red Pepper and Mushroom alcohol inks. This is the result.

First Bind-It-All project

2008-01-11T19:56:00.000Z

I haven't added anything to my Blog for a couple of months mainly because I haven't created anything worth blogging.

Using my lovely Bind-It-All I made this book for my friend and work colleague to thank her for all the friendship and support she has given me over the past 20 years. A simple 'thank you' card just didn't seem to suffice, so I created this book. The main technique I used was stamping, and each page represents a theme: the journey we have taken, the times we have spent together, friendship, the fun and laughter we have shared, the changes we have seen and the future (which is very uncertain for me at the moment work-wise).

I think she liked it!

Thank you Caroline.

Trick or Treat

2007-11-02T10:11:00.000Z

The challenge (on the CSF) was to create a 'trick' and a 'treat' which would be sent to two other people who were also involved in the challenge.
The fronts of the two cards were very similar, but in the trick card the card actually opened up the wrong way round (part of the trick) and had lots of spiders inside. The treat opened up as a card should do, and inside was a bookmark as a little pressie.

For Cardmaker85

2007-10-15T14:31:00.000+01:00

This is a Fat Book page I made for a very special lady who is ill in hospital at the moment. I hope that the book we are preparing for her (courtesy of a very kind person on the CSF) will go some way to cheering her up.

I used Flower Soft for the first time. I had done the page but thought it 'lacked' something and then my eye fell on the pot of pinky Flower Soft I had bought a couple of weeks previously. Edging the page with that has just finished it off nicely.

Linda's dragon stamp

2007-10-13T21:35:00.000+01:00

Here are two fat book pages using the same stamp (one of Linda's fabulous designs).

Using peel-offs as a template

2007-10-13T21:07:00.000+01:00

This was another card I made using the 'peel-off as a template' technique. This time I created the background to the card instead of making it the focal point. The colours are a lot more subtle as I used chalks instead of inks.

The main focus of the card was done using 3D peel-offs stuck onto card and then coloured using Sakura pens and a water brush. Unfortunately you don't see the subtle glitter effect from this photo.

Cards suitable for men

2007-10-12T16:20:00.000+01:00

These two cards are suitable for men - always difficult to make cards for!

I got the effect by putting a peel-off sticker on the paper, then used inks directly over them - using a few colours to get a bit of contrast. Then I removed the peel-off sticker which left the outline on the page.

Teddy Bear Fat Book pages

2007-10-12T15:36:00.000+01:00

I was very behind with my Teddy Bear Fat Book pages and had run out of inspiration. Then my friend Linda from the Craft Swap Forum designed this lovely teddy stamp (available here) and in a rush I managed to make all 7 of the pages I had left to do.

Unfortunately the scans don't really do these pages justice, but I thought I would just show a taster of what they look like here.

Scrapbooking mk2

2007-10-12T14:27:00.000+01:00

This is the second scrapbooking page I have made. It is of course again of Emily Kate, the elephant I adopt.

I hope eventually to do a page for each year I have adopted her (but may take some time!).

Scrapbooking

2007-10-12T14:20:00.000+01:00

I decided to do my first attempt at a scrapbooking page. It seemed logical to start with the elephant I adopt - Emily Kate. I have been adopting her for the past five years or so and as I receive an updated photograph of her each year and also a certificate it seemed a shame just to put them in a drawer. So... here is my first attempt at scrapbooking!