Clarity Challenge...Anything But A Card

Well its been a little while since I entered and have made this one on the last day!
Anything But A Card - well that took some thinking and searching and eventually came up with this little project - up cycling a jam jar in to a tea light holder and decorating it with the Wee Fairy Folk - finished off with jute twine which I plaited for a handle and then attached with more twine around the neck of the jar.
The tricky bit was stamping the images on to glass and embossing them - first go was no go - so went back to a Barbara Gray tried and trusted method of dusting with talc first - versamark and then fine detail black embossing powder. As the jar was hexagon shaped I had a steady surface but did find the jar got very hot so it was slow progress around each side!

Hope you like it!

Fabulous Fan with Clarity Flouribinda

This is a card I made during the summer last year. The fan is made out of kite folded watercolour paper and stamped on using Clarity Stamps Floribunda stamp on a homemade ink pad inspired by Barbara Gray. This card was an absolute pleasure to make and am pleased to say that my crafting friends reproduced it during a workshop with their own designs. Hope you all like it xx

 

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Time Flies

I made this card for entering in to the January Clarity Blog challenge....Things with Wings.

The background of the card is made with the cog stencil brushed through with caramel adirondack, outlined each section with antique linen. Next I stamped the wrought iron Tailors Dummy, masked it off and then inked the wings of the Blue Tit in full flight . Each wing was inked separately and placed either side of the bodice. I then used spectrum noire pencils and added colour, fussy cut the whole thing out I then die cut some cogs, clock face and clock hand s in gold mirri card and glued them to the background and using a brad put the clock hands on. Finally I stamped the small watch,coloured those in to match and glossy accented the faces. The dummy and watch faces were stuck on with foam pads. Finally I layered the finished piece on chocolate card.

Great fun to make - hope you like it!

 

 

 

 

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Tree's .....blog challenge.

Silver Birch Trees

  I am entering this into December's Clarity Blog Tree challenge.

I have used the Clarity Birch Tree stamp and the pointillism set to create the bands of colour and words from the word chains. I have coloured the trees with pro markers - cool greys 1&2, the trees were stamped in slate grey adirondack, and the pointillism was made using lettuce and butterscotch.

Hope you all like it!

Fairy Door

A while back I was asked to make a Fairy Door, so after a bit of research and YouTube watching I came up with this.  I made this one for a friend, adorned it with moss, flower pots, flowers, a milk crate and a tiny post box.  The whole thing starts of as branches found in the woods, a piece of wood I already had and large lolly sticks. The rest is imagination, glue and varnish !

Top Five!!!

Well get me!!! I made Top 5 on the November Challenge at Clarity with the title of Travel!!
How proud am I on a scale of 1 to 10!!

I made a little suitcase - on the front the intention was to be battered and worn with stamps from around the globe - inside were sweatshirts - one from paris, one from rome and one from monaco! Coupled with a paris drop back and a cycle to create the illusion of travel!

So - although this took me quite a while to complete am feeling very chuffed with myself!!!

First One

I have yet to put any of my cards on this blog…not sure any of them are good enough yet!

So as a first blog…Please link up to Barbara Gray's blog…its inspirational and easy to follow…xx