Craftytrog's Inky Adventures

I’m taking part in a house swap on Hels Crafty Angels, and here are my little houses. They had to be ATC-sized, plus a roof, made with thick card, and with lots of ink, stamps, mixed media etc on them. I used harlequin basic grungeboard for my base, which I painted with acrylic dabbers. The stamps I used are Chintz background by The Artistic Stamper, pierot plate 1 by PaperArtsy, Art tickets by Invoke Arts, and Crafty Individuals – CI207 & 208. I used distress ink for my stamping, and added ribbon, feathers, jewellery bits and a game piece.

Here is an ATC I made for an art-themed swap. All the stamps are by Stamper’s Anon. I white-embossed the ‘Art’ part of the ‘Artist’ stamp from Regal Findings, then stamped the corner from Soulful Journey and part of a stamp from Tattered Elements, in black, in the corners. I added a couple of brads, edged the card with gold krylon, then matted it on black card.

This one’s for Uncle Bob, who’s not been too well lately. The image is by Crafty Individuals, and I stamped it onto CI patterned paper. This is a great trick I learned from Jean Hardy of CI, that saves having to colour an image in, and it looks great too!

Here are some photos I took at a birthday party for Andrea. There’s a couple of good ones and a couple of bad ones, but I just had to post them all!

I’m taking part in a paper bead swap over at UKStampers, and here are my efforts! It was nice to get my melt pot out again after so long! I started off with some clear UTEE, and added some that I’d coloured with some oregano AI, but my pot was on for about 4 hours, so the UTEE ended up a bit brown! I quite like that though!

My friend Karen commissioned me to make a card for her husband who keeps chickens. I used some Elusive Image stamps that I bought last year, knowing they would come in handy one day. I used basic grey papers with a rustic feel, and doodled some stitches around the edges. It took a couple of days to come together, sometimes you have to step back a few times, but I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.

Here are a couple of valentine cards made for commissions.

I have a little paper round, and today, for the first time since it snowed, I was able to drive out to the village and deliver my papers. I’m so glad I took my camera with me, as this is what I saw!! I guess it’s so cold, the eskimos are moving here!

This is my entry for this week’s Lots To Do Challenge and Arty Girlz Challenge. Firstly, I used alcohol inks to make my background. Then I made the ribbon flower by using running stitches along the edge of the ribbon, then gathering it up and stitching the ends together, and I sewed a pink button to it. The button border, heart and word are all Elusive Image stamps, and the stitch border is by Hot Off The Press.