V for Victory!

Here is my entry for the Craft Barn's Alpha challenge.....

After playing with Dylusions inks for all the previous evening.......I knew straight away what I wanted to do....and luckily I happen to have a dictionary for such a purpose just lying about....!!

And what better letter to start with than V.....so the obvious choice for me was V for Victory as it is almost my name!

The biggest challenge I had was trying to hold the pages open as it won't lie flat......and even more so trying to take photos!! (so excuse my inky fingers in the shot)

Here is what I did......I sprayed pink and yellow Dylusions........then stamped swirls round the edge with purple archival ink. I used Dylusions blue/purple on a separate page and drew a V with white gel pen and then cut that out and stuck it down, then drew on some silver circles, highlighted the word with white gel pen and wrote on Victory in silver pen, and then used a small lid to stamp gold glitter circles that I think you can only just about see in the photo.....

Here is the link:
Craft Barn Alpha challenge

Christmas things...

Here are some things I can post now Christmas is over.

I painted and decorated the Noel frame (Paper Artsy fresco paints are lovely!) and some tiny little bells that I've been wanting a use for since I got them....

And I made an album for my sister and brother in law......based on Centerparcs! Here are some of the pages....I made the backgrounds with a variety of inks and paints in a green/brown theme and then I chose a theme for each page and cut out the photos and added some words etc.

Let It Snow!

Well here is this years Christmas cake.......a plethora of snowflakes.......I bought some new snowflake cutters for the job and they worked brilliantly! Best of all I got to cover it all in edible glitter......lovely :)

Another card

Here is a card I made.....I created a Dylusions background.....I started out intending to make something pink but ended all all orange and red instead.....but I was really pleased with the colours I ended up with. I then just stamped on some random stamps and then used a lid to apply some glitter and then used Distress inks to create the Happy Birthday in matching colours and stamped on the greeting. Obviously couldn't finish the greeting off without some Walnut Stain distress ink round the edge and a bit of ribbon on the bottom!

Nitrogen

Finally finished Nitrogen for my elements pages. Had a bit of a leakage of pink from the next page......but once it dried it looked OK! It's just fun spraying Dylusions inks pretty much everywhere.....!! The photo has a bit of reflection because I used some metallic glaze.....but this one is just a bit crazy over all!

Happy Birthday Lee!

Here is this year's birthday cake for Lee. I am hoping it is obvious that it is a circuit board, and it turned out way better than I thought.......very pleased with the edible metallic paints I bought and also made good use of some liquorice allsorts, dolly mixtures and strawberry laces......whatever will I do with the rest of the packets hehe! Oh and the cake underneath is a Madeira cake yum yum!!

More Christmas Cards!

Here are my final lot of Christmas cards.......with the robin on the mushrooms being my favourite card this year. The robin is a Little Claire stamp, the mushrooms are dylusions coloured with distress inks, perfect pearls and some glitter, and the snowflakes are a Tim Holtz stamp embossed with white embossing powder and the robin was coloured with distress inks too....using a cut n dry nib; and little bit of fake snowy stuff that I forget the name of.

The penguin card is using distress stains and inks, I forget which set those stamps are from, and I went round the edge with perfect pearls.

The next one I created a background with gold paint and I can't remember if it was metallic glaze of shimmer mod podge, then I stamped the snowflakes and added some ribbon and cut the greeting out using a nestability.

The final one was simply a shape cut out on the cricut and some background paper, another snowflake with glitter on and a greeting.