Starry Night for Stampotique SDC209

It is Wednesday so that means a new challenge at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog which my lovely teamie Sam is hosting this week.

She has asked us to repeat ourselves and I have used only one stamp on my make this week, again, and again and again.

I have used one of my favorite stamps Text Star by Jo Capper-Sandon. This is one of the first Stampotique stamps I got and it is one I go for time and time again for a background or a focal point.

I stamped it repeatedly onto my jam jars using black Stazon, outlined it and then filled the shape in with Decoart glass paint. Winding wire around the top to make a handle and to give it a bit of a rustic look.

The full details of the Challenge can be seen HERE. Including details of how to link your items for the challenge and be in with a change to win a $30 voucher to spend on Stampotique Rubber stamps.

Stampotique Rubber Stamps are available to buy directly from Stampotique originals and other on-line shops.

Enjoy the challenge, Carol xx

Witches Brew Altered Bottle

I have really fallen in love this year with these set of stamps by Crafty Individuals CI - 360. I have used them loads, a lot of the things I cannot share on here yet, but I have made this little potion bottle using them.

The basic bottle was altered using Viva Crackle, coloured with alcohol inks, and then lots of chain, glass droplets and other bits and pieces were used alongside the shrink plastic charms.

Carol x

Alice In Wonderland Altered Bottle

The glass bottle has had a layer of multi medium applied to it before a coat of clear viva crackle was added to it, when this was dry I alcohol  inked over it and its given it a lovely aged look.
I did have real problems getting the wire hearts to attatch to it. In the end I had to resort to winding them around the handle, I am not really happy with how this looks and it maybe one of those things I rip apart again to have another go at. It also needs something else but at the moment I cannot see what it is. But as I have been faffing with it on and off for a few days between other projects, and I wanted to enter it into the simon Says stamps and show challenge, and it ends this evening, so this is it for now, warts and all.
The little wire hearts were inspired by something I saw on my friend Julie's blog.

Love Potion #9

Using one of the lovely new Artistic Outpost plates, Apothecary I have altered a bottle to make a love potion bottle.
The bottle was coloured using Alcohol inks. I shaped some of the Filigree corners to fit around the base of the bottle glueing them to hold them in place. Once they were set in place I rubbed some Inca Gold over them.
I added charms, beads and chains to the bottle as shown.
Now for the yummy rubber stamps, I stamped the Witches potion image onto shink plastic, punching a hole and cutting it out just outside of the border before heating it, when shrunk I rubbed old paper distress ink over it. I attached it with a jump ring to the top of the charms.
I stamped the receipt image onto thin cream paper, adding the love potion #9 and the 60c images. I then inked the recipt with a pale yellow ink. I them screwed it up and inked it over the creases using old paper to give it a very aged and distressed look,like it had spent many years in a coat pocket.
Finally I added the love potion #9 image to a small tag to identify the contents of the bottle as it would never do to confuse the potion to win your true loves heart with a bottle of poison.

The Witching Hour

On Alter It Monthly this month the theme has a spooky feel to it.
We had been going to put halloween or Autumn as a theme but were made aware that some people get tired of the traditional themes. So rather than restrict you we are opening the theme out a bit.The month of October will have the theme Ethereal , non-corporeal, magic and/or the supernatural. Use any one of these words or all 4 to inspire your piece. spooky or dreamy.. magical or scary... Wiccan spell or wood nymph .. let your imagination go where it will. This should let Halloween lovers (like Zuzu), do something from that theme and allow those fed up of that theme appearing in October, to do something different.
As ever, it is your interpretation we are interested n seeing..October will be Sponsored by The Crafty Witch A Wonderful craft supplies shop in Dalkeith Scotland called Paperlace who happily also have an Online shop for most essentials and lots of extras. They are offering up an online voucher to the person who's piece most inspired them.