Arrrgh Matey!

I made this fun little card using the sketch from the current Retrosketches challenge.

 

Spaceman!

I was a very lucky person last week and received quite a few cute stamps from a friend (thankyou x).  Couldn't resist getting some of them inked up quickly, including the pirate yesterday and todays spaceman.  I teamed him with my fave papers at the moment (from Tiger- love this circle one as you can colour it (not sure it is designed for that, but I think it works) to suite the project.

The card follows the layout of this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge and I will also enter it into this weeks Passion for Promarkers (embossing) challenge.

 

Pirate Matchboxes

I think with all the ATBs that I have been making lately, I got the urge to have a go at altered matchboxes again too. This duo is made from part of a cereal box!

 I first made a masterboard stamping the skull and bones background in black ink.  Next came gloss varnish though a stencil, followed by flicks of green, blue and white acrylic (wiped back with a baby wipe).  I did the same on an old book page for the inside of the box (to hide the side of the cereal box which had writing on).

 I cut out and scored the match boxes, stuck in the inner 'lining' (book page) and assembled.

 The stamps (background and image) were a recent gift (thankyou Clare).  I saw matchboxes decorated with the head on the top and body in the drawer ages ago and always wanted to give it a go.  This image is perhaps a little big for it though, hence why I made a 'duo' set.

 The image has been coloured with promarkers and I added a few finishing touches of staples, stars and gems (treasure!).

Must have another go sometime.  Really enjoying this 'arty' stuff :-)

ATB V- flowers

This is the last ATB for a while, I promise!  The block is the second offcut that I mentioned yesterday and it was prepared in a similar manner.

 This time I painted some book pages in acrylics and used them to make three torn flowers (button centres).

 I wrapped wire round the screws to make 'leaves'.

 I'm quite pleased with the result and I can wholly recommend ATBs to anyone who wants to try something different.

 

ATB IV- robot!

OK I may have gone a bit mad with ATBs but I wanted to experiment a bit.  Dad had two offcuts of wood from DIY that I pinched.  This is the first one.  The wood was sanded, coated in gesso and then white and navy acrylic (in that order).  I sanded back some of the blue paint before stamping in Staz On..  Next were some random dots and splodges of gloss varnish to act as a kind of resist before a layer of silver paint, wiped back.
I drilled some shallow holes and screwed in the screws before adding a bit of washi tape decoration and inking the edges in black.  The buttons were glued on or attached with wire.

 

ATB III

My third ATB and I went with card again. This time slightly smaller (4cm side for the cube).  The card was actually an offcut of a masterboard I made last year using Paperartsy stamps (Clare Llyod;s and a freebie that I was given) with acrylics and black staz on.

 The cube was assembled with washi tape (both structural and decorative!).

 I added some Tim Holtz word stickers, doodled in pen and covered in a little gloss varnish to finish.

Think it works quite well as a creative mojo prompt :-)

First Christmas card of 2015!

Oh dear!  Its bad that it is nearly November and this is only the 1st Christmas card that I have made this year.  Luckily I have a stash left over from past years so it not so bad. 
For this card I used a DigiStamp Boutique image and the layout from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge (very good sketch for using off cuts of paper I thought!).

 

Monster Birthday

I love DigiStamp Boutique monster images and printed this one off last week while browsing my hard drive.  The card follows this weeks Retrosketches layout.

 

Spooky monster

I made this Halloween card for two little boys.  I just hope that it isn't too scary for them.  To me the monster (a Digistamp Boutique image) is friendly, giving a hug with his outstretched arms, but maybe that is just my weird interpretation!

The card follows this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday layout.

 

Halloween witching

I saw this purple and orange cat paper in the pack I have from Tiger and knew I had to try it with a Halloween card.  The layout is from last weeks retrosketches challenge (oops a bit late!) and the image is an old Pollycraft one.