Black and White Affirmation Stones

I have previously done a set of these in colour, some one saw them and wanted a set in black and white so here they are. If you want to see my coloured ones they are on my original blog post here.

Carol xx

Celebrating Alice

As anyone who knows me well will know I do love to make things with an Alice In Wonderland theme.  

So to celebrate the release of Alice Through The Looking Glass I have used some of my Alice themed rubber stamps from Stampotique to make a tag.

I have also used Roc's great cups in my background and an all time favorite stamp of mine Daniel's Hearts.

I am planning to go and see the film this weekend, I am sooo looking forward to it.

Have a great day, Carol xx

Birthday Flowers

I used

Circles Cube
Carol's Flower (small)
Happy Birthday

This week at the Stampotique Designers challenge Kristen has asked us to use circles on our projects.

I have a card to share with you this week and I discovered that Carol's small flower seems to fit very nicely inside the Cubed Circles.
So I used these on my card and added a simple greeting, finishing it off with a doodled border to tie in with the flower theme.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the randomly drawn prize of a $30 gift voucher to spend on rubber at Stampotique Originals can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Carol xx

Scribbles and Doodles Art Journal Page

 I used

Nina Angel

Corner Sun

Seaweed

 Learning to Fly

I cannot believe another week has passed by, a friends husband gave us his thoughts on why time seems to go faster as you get older, and he reckon it is all to do with the dither factor, you dither over things as you get older for 5 minutes whereas before it was just bam you did it, so 12 dithers a day is one hour, over a week its 7 hours and in a month it all adds up to over a day, as he reckoned your brain doesn't register the dither, it just thinks it is doing things in the same time frame as before !! So there you go before you know it it's christmas again.

So Bam it's Wednesday and time for another Stampotique challenge, this week hosted by Arwen. Her theme is scribbles. I have lots of scribbles on my journal page, actual scribbly scribbles and doodled scribbles as my border.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the randomly drawn prize of a $30 gift voucher to spend on rubber at Stampotique Originals can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

Big Hugs

I used

Agatha Flower
Agatha Text #1


This week Claudine is hosting the challenge at the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog.

She has asked us to make something with our Mum's in mind.

My Mum died last year and I miss her so much and I would love to be able to pop round and see her for a cup of tea and a hug.
She loved her garden and when I was younger, I would get home from school and she would always be out tending the garden. So I have incorporated flowers and Hugs onto my card this week.

Using Agatha Flower as my main image, and the Big Hugs quote from the Agatha Text Stamp.

Finishing my card with a doodled Border, colouring my drawn flowers to co-ordinate with the Flower that Agatha is holding.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the randomly drawn prize of a $30 gift voucher to spend on rubber at Stampotique Originals can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

On The Peg Penelope

I thought I would share the make I have in the June Issue of Craft Stamper Magazine, which is out to buy now.

I dismantled my peg and painted it using bright colours, dry brushing and a variety of stencils to build up my background. Once this was dry I directly stamped my background and used coloured pencils and a white pen to add detail to it. I reassembled my peg.

I stamped my images and quote and then coloured these with my pencils, cut out and glued them down.

I poked a hole in the bottom of the peg and wrapped wire up and around it, adding beads as I went holding them in place with a dot of glossy accents, securing it at the top of the peg.

I added the photo clip to the top of the peg and layered the flowers around it as shown, I added some coils of wire as I thought it needed a bit of balance.

I used the following stamps

Penelope 

Concentric Squares Block 

Happy Happy 

Carol’s Flower (small)

I used Stencils from the Dinky Range at That's Crafty

My paints are from DecoArt 

Thanks for stopping by 

Carol xx

A Happy Camper

I used

Topher
Hat Cube
Happy Camper Text
Banner

This week at the Stampotique challenge blog Corrie is hosting the challenge, She has asked us to make a card with a masculine theme this week.

When I was younger we always used to go camping for a few weeks in the summer holidays, it always seemed to rain and be very windy and my dad always used to wear this very old hat, we used to call it his holiday hat.

As Father's day is in June I thought I would get ahead (see what I did there, Hat...ahead, I am so amazing lol) and make his Father's Day card.

So poor Topher is having to wear a tatty hat with flags blowing from it. We used to have flags along the front of our tent.

The card is finished with a quote and a quick doodled border.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the randomly drawn prize of a $30 gift voucher to spend on rubber at Stampotique Originals can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

Birds on a Wire

I used the following stamps

Crow Line
Kate's Doodles Cube
Circled Circle
Barcode Text #2

Woo Hoo it's is Wednesday again and that can only mean it is time for a new challenge on the Stampotique Designers Blog.

This week Kristen has chosen the theme of a TV show or Movie inspired project.

I have a film that has a particular memory for me from when I was young and being a little bit bad.
When I was younger we lived in a house that had a large glass door on the living room and you could sit on the stairs and watch TV through the door. I used to creep downstairs when I was supposed to be in bed, sit on the stairs and watch TV.
One night Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" was on, I was only about 8 and I remember it scared me so much that I screamed and gave the game away and I had nightmares for ages afterwards.
I have used the film as the inspiration for my Tag.

My Background is done using my Gelli Plate and DecoArt Media paints before adding details with stamping and Gesso.

My birds on a wire are stamped directly onto my tag with black archival ink, my quote was stamped onto the margin of a book page and then stuck in place. Adding some Crackle Paint through a stencil that I coloured with Media Paint.
Finishing with a couple of wiggly lines of machine stitching.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the randomly drawn prize of a $30 gift voucher to spend on rubber at Stampotique Originals can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

Prompt Tags

I used

Little Friends
Kate's Doodles Cube

The latest challenge for Stampotique has been chosen by Kathi with the theme of "crack me up"
she has asked us to use crackle on our make and to give it a humorous theme.

I am in the process of making a tag book, this is intended to give me a bit of an prompt book for stamps and techniques that I love to use.

I have added a tag using the challenge this week as a prompt to use crackle on my projects. I mixed my DecoArt media Crackle paint with some fluid media acrylic to colour it before applying trough a stencil as the last step on my tag.

These are some tags that came on some clothes, they are lovely heavy grey card so I gave them a couple of coats of Gesso as a base, it is the direct stamping onto the gesso that gave my main image the worn look that it has in the photo, I was not sure about this at first as on the plain white tag it looked just badly stamped, but once I added in my colours and other stamping I liked the worn look of the image. Adding a smudge of colour to the dresses with my colouring pencils just seemed to finish it off.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

One Little Flower

I used

Carol's Flower - Large

Living is not enough

This week for the Stampotique challenge  Arwen has challenged us to use only nature in our makes, no Humans or Animals.

Now I did not realise how hard this would be, I kept thinking " add a bee or a butterfly" but I couldn't !!

So I have a journal page with flowers. I used it on my Gelli plate first of all to make my background.
I then stamped it in gesso on the page, then finally stamped it onto another Gelli Plate background before cutting out the flowers and adding sticking them in place.

I added a few more dribs and drabs with paint and pencils before adding my quote because in the end all I did need for this page was one little flower.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

A Foxy Tin

I used the following stamps
Foxy
Word Collage
Kate's Doodles Cube
Oodles of Doodles

It's Wednesday so that means it's time for a new challenge at the Stampotique Blog. 

This week Valerie has chosen the theme of "what's old is new again" and has asked us to recycle or re-purpose and older item.

I have recycled a small tin that used to hold mints.

I went for a journal theme on my tin.

I first gave it a coat of chalk paint to cover the paint on the tin but also to give my paint a bit of tooth.

I then dry brushed  my 3 colours of paint onto the lid and sides of the tin, added my background stamping with black archival ink. Then used a Dinky stencil to add gesso to the lid.

I stamped Foxy onto white paper and coloured him with pencils before cutting him out and sticking him down.

I then dragged some lines onto the top of the tin using blue paint and an old store card. Finally adding a word from the Word Collage stamp to the top right of the tin lid.

I sealed it with a coat of DecoArt Satin Varnish.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

It's all about Birds

I used

Betsy

Agatha Text

Nellie is the hostess for the challenge this week and has asked us to use birds or bird related items.

I am totally in love with "Betsy" so I just had to use her again for a quick card this week. 

Teaming her with the Get Well text from the "Agatha Text" stamp all randomly coloured to make a soft style card to cheer up anyone who is feeling a bit under the weather.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

Luck of the Irish

I used the following stamps

Penelope
Pencil Circles
Hat Cube
Kate's Doodles Cube
Vic
Every Dog Text
Circled Circle

Jackie is our hostess for the theme this week on the Stampotique Challenge Blog.

She has chosen St Patrick's day and wants us to show the luck of the Irish in our projects, a four leaf clover, lucky rainbows, or anything that makes you think of Ireland.

I have used a hat that is typically Irish shaped, I have coloured it green, my washi tape also have four leaf clovers and rainbows on it.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Stampotique New Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

Today Stampotique are doing a special "Leap Day Blog Hop" in order to announce the wonderful new Stamps from Stampotique Originals

This is also your chance to win some random goodies - we will be drawing TWO winners from TWO of the designer's blogs for a $30 gift certificate for the Stampotique online store.

You will need to hop all the way through and visit and leave comments on each designer's blog in order to win.

The Latest Release can be seen HERE

I used

Gloria The Goat

Agatha Text

Kate's Doodle Cube in the Background

Oodles of Doodles

You should have arrived from Coby's Blog and if you didn't, you may want to start the blog hop from the beginning at the Stampotique Designers Blog .

Your next visit in the blog hop is Sam's Blog.

Don't forget to comment on each blog to be entered into the random draw for one of the Two gift vouchers  from Stamptotique Original Rubber Stamps.

I hope you have a lovely day and enjoy the hop.

Carol xx

Spring is in the Air

I used the following stamps

Giant Daisy
The Earth Laughs in Flowers

I am hosting theme this week on the Stampotique Challenge Blog.

Because it is nearly spring here in the UK I have chosen the theme of
"Spring is in the Air" and asked you to use a flower or flowers on your project.

I have a journal page to share with you for the challenge. I like to journal on a black background in bright colours as it really makes it all pop off the page.

This is a fairly simple page done with finger painting and a couple of stencils, adding Jo's lovely Daisy as my main focal point.

Finishing it with a quote that always makes me think of spring as I think flowers are the Earths way of being pleased that winter is finally over.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Don't forget the blog hop for the new release of stamps is still on and two lucky people will win 2 randomly drawn prizes, details can be seen on the blog hop post HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

SPA Mad as a March Hare

I am the hostess at Sunday Postcard Art this week. 

I choose the theme of "Mad as a March Hare"

My little post card features Herbert Hare from Stampotique, he is from their latest release and one of my favourites at the moment.

Do pop on over the the SPA blog to join in the challenge this week.

Have a happy day, Carol xx

30 Minutes or Less

I used

Betsy - from the latest Release which can be seen HERE
Happy Bird-day

Sue has given us my favourite kind of challenge this week over at the Stampotique Blog.

To make something in 30 minutes or less.

I know we all can all make those big eye catching, wham bam pieces, but sometimes it is nice and very relaxing to make a quick item and for me this is usually a card, I  often make a pile of these, stamped and ready to do when I am in the mood for a bit of colouring.

I have a very quick card for you. I stamped it all directly in black archival ink, added my doodled border and then took it downstairs to colour while I watch TV.

I do love this bird, it makes a nice bright card for a spring Birthday. I did add a few more splatters to the edge of the bird with black pen to fill out the background in the empty space.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

I hope you have a lovely day, Carol xx

Being Square

I used the Following Stamps

Froggie
Concentric squares block
Strung
Color Her Soul

This week on the Stampotique Challenge Blog, Corrie has chosen the theme of Squares, and she has asked us to use squares in any form or material on our projects.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

I have a journal page with lots of square things on it. I only recently discovered the strung background stamp on the Stampotique website, but it has become a firm favorite of mine, as it is so versatile and I love to colour in the little hanging squares, bit of a kid I know, but who cares !!

I angled Froggie's head a little bit to try and give her a bit more attitude, I doubt any of Daniel's stamps really need more of that, but you know me, never a less is more type of girl.

I really enjoyed having a good play while doing this page and I even managed to leave some white space, I am sure if you tilt your head like Froggie you can see it !!

Happy crafting, Carol xx