The Stamping Queen ATCS

I received some lovely goodies for the design team challenge at The Stamping Queen this month.
I couldn't wait to get started!

I am slowly building a bit of stamp collection and mostly the ones i buy are background ones or text/alpha ones that i will get multiple uses from.

When i first saw this stamp, i must admit i panicked a bit :)

How was i going to do 4 different stamps using that one image?I didnt want them to look all the same... [i hate making 2 of anything the same, comes from my days of making 200 wedding charms a day for two years LOL]
Its such a cute image. He has such a pretty face doesnt he? To start with, that's where i went with it...........i turned him into zetti girl!

I had loads of fun designing different do's and playing around with eyes etc...

IN-D-VID-U-AL

Catwalk Queen

Then i multiple stamped the image so i ended up with a filmstrip and painted with my new aquabrush [oh why didn't i get one these before, its fabulous!] and water soluble crayons. The background is tissue, painted and gessoed by La Lucy and ...

Memories

and

and....

You cant its see it very well on here, just a bit o' sparkle on the bottom... i bought an embossing pen and used some 'stuck on you', [powder glue, you heat melt it] Once its melted, i rubbed on some stampee foil that looks like water. Place it b/w paper and run it though your laminator. When its cool, rip it off and it leaves the foil where you embossed. I saw it demonstrated at the Stitches and Craft show on Thurs but that will be a later post! The whole background is all shimmery...



I was on a roll now and had some fun turning the film strip into a window, which led to this...

My Place

Masking tape background, gessoe, watersoluble crayons and then cooked it [unintentionally] and it bubbled.... happy accident as it looks like sandstone, here's a shot before i cut the window out...


No matter how i photoed or scanned these they turned out quite dark. It is more a honey color in real life. I christened my new Alpha Plus markers [from my family for my b'day, they are a cheaper version of copics] for the climbing rose bush.

This whole process has made me look at stamps in new light and they were lots of fun to alter....

Some of the other lovelies Barb sent me I've used for a shabby chic swap...




Images here and here....
Text words here...
Kath's lovely lace background and Jan's sweet flowers....

Remember to be in the draw for these and the other 8 Atcs, you need to be a customer at The Stamping Queen this month.....

Cant wait to see what the others do :)

Christmas in July....

so here's my July dress, 99% recycled.

lovely vintage music sheet from Jenny, gold lame from old earing and then.... i received this really ugly tassel for my birthday. It had big chunks of glue and really horrible plastic parts. I was about to donate it to the op shop when it hit me...pull it apart as the rest of it is nice. So I've used the braid,cord and beady bits!

Just got to find a use for the fringe now....and Jenny there will be no discussion in the tea room, dont want to upset anyone ;)

This is probably the quickest one to date....

Party, party party....




and this atc i made for a July swap, i couldnt wait to use this fun stamp from The Stamping Queen. The background is oil crayons over gesso and i colored him in with gel pens.


Gosh why do the weekends go so fast?

Its nearly Monday again AAARRRGGGHH..

I am off to the stitches and craft show in Melbourne on Thursday so that should be fun.....

May Dressups...

I am finally getting caught up with my dress ups. I've loved making them but sometimes it takes a while for inspiration to strike :)
In May, we took Luce to an equine college that she wants to attend next year.
Oh My, what a beautiful campus! They have weddings there so i will leave it to your imagination as to how lovely it was. I didn't take a camera unfortunately. It was autumn and all the trees were brilliant golds, oranges and reds.
This has been ticking away in my head for a while sooooooo.......


Chocolate wrappers painted with alcohol inks. It looked bit plain so it got a little necklace too...

I love the way the foil actually looks veiny like leaves...
Its a dull old day today so my pictures are a bit dark.
I have finished July's dress but am printerless for Junes at the moment. I'm just about caught up YEY!! Ive rescued the wardrobe too and am working on that as well....

At Craft, Merry's lovely sister Heather was visiting. Heather has been away with us on numerous retreats so it was nice to see her again. When we went to Bacchus Marsh in March, she brought these beeea-utiful fabrics and has made this huge quilt top [her own pattern]. She's used every skerrick of fabric that she purchased too! I like the addition of the ric rac in to break it up too.
This my kind of quilt, i just love these fabrics....

Another long blogging break , truth is i have been really busy with work and pretty tired so have just spent minimal time on the computer as possible. I think i need a holiday but the the thought of going back to such a backlog of work after two weeks holidays just puts me off, specially as I'm just catching up.

No news of Fletcher, although we did have a false alarm with a dog answering his description brought into a pound the other side of Melbourne. A whippy friend who happened to live about 100 m from that pound went to investigate and just as he about to ring and say 'i think its him' the owners turned up :( good for them tho ......

I also had my Birthday......another reason i was away.... had something on just every night that week, lots of fun but was exhausted by the end of it or maybe its turning the dreaded 50 that had something to do with it....I got very spoilt by work, friends and family and its sort of been the birthday that keeps going on and on. I think its done and dusted now!!
I shall leave you with some lovely photos of the some of the lovely art work at the Frankston foreshore
I just loved these sculptures by Ann Ross called Lost and Found.

Love the way the sand fills and washes over them , changing them daily i would say.

And i didn't strategically place the leaves , nature engineered that one...))











And these beauiful mosaics by Loiuse Lavarack called Night Line...






And thank you all too for all your lovely comments too, they mean a lot......i really do appreciate them.... jenxo