Love's Glue Using Stampotique and Dylusions

I love my weekends when I can get all my favourite inks, stamps and pencils out and just get all messy.  Blissful heaven..........

So busy making another card, I love making cards and tags as you get quick satisfaction.  I'm playing a theme just now so same but different blogs....

Ok here it is......

The Stampotique designers challenge have amazing talent on their blog and this week it's a wedding challenge.  Well this is my take on a wedding theme, her dress was only a teenie wee bit pink and almost white and I made the sentiment using a variety of stamps from Dylusions and Lindsay Mason Designs 'Creative Thoughts', which is kinda romantic and cute. 

I used Distress Inks blended together then stamped using some of the same colours and others within the same tonal family.  

These wee cute stamps I have in my stash and I've had for ages and love getting them out for Valentine's and romantic crafting.

I also had to use the stamps from the stamp goddess herself Dyan Reaveley :) Using the heart dangle and button strand. Both the Daniel Torrente heart stamp and the  dangles were stamped with my PITT big brush pen in Pink Carmine and Distress Inks.  The white circles were created using a white PITT big brush pen and Andy Skinner's stamp from the Tempting Textures collection.

My favourite Moth chick was coloured in using my favourite Inktense and Faber Castell watercolour pencils.

And there she is in all her gorgeous glory with a flower waiting to walk down the aisle to the love of her life as he turns round and their fate is sealed forever in 'that glance'.........

Bump, bump, bump..............  Ok back down to earth.

Hope your weekend is full of love and romance and if not there is always wine :)

Pauline

x

Steampunk Fun

How fantastic is Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutante collection.  This is a page of a mini album I am currently making using the amazing Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante paper.

Here I have fussy cut butterflies, hot air balloons and a gorgeous child from the paper.  I also stamped a part of a clock adhered it to black card stock and then onto the page.

The booklet was made using one of the cut-outs from the paper collection and also a stamped key design, which is an Andy Skinner stamp.

Using my hot glue gun I then adhered some jewellery wire onto the fussy cut pieces to join them all together.  Initially I was going to adhere the butterflies to the page but decided later to adhere the balloons, which I did using some pop dots.  This then allows the butterflies to stand off the page and the child to be lifted up to put the booklet underneath.

I then added another fussy cut balloon and cut out some of the stamps and raised them on pop dots.

All the pieces were inked using Black Soot Distress Inks.

All finished.        

Steampunk mini album

I am currently having lots of fun making a mini album using the amazing Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante papers.  They are amazing.  I have used them before but feel my style has evolved and recognised I saw so much more opportunity to create using them.

Page 1. There is lots of fussy cutting, stamping and Glossy Accents.  I used a brad in the ladies hand and added a cut apart from the collection, cut the lady from her manikin base and added the leg then I put them all together and this lets the top half of the lady move.

This crazy lady stands up and her body and leg move.  I made a stand from firm card adhering it to the back of the lady to let her stand.

This was just plain nutty.  I used a manikin template, fussy cut out the eye, lightbulb and butterfly and tied the dress with a chain and charms.  I also added a Basic Grey magnet to keep it closed when the page turns. 

This page I used Adirondack alcohol inks in Pool and Clover to dye the eyelets, added a chain for a necklace and added beads too.

I used the cut a parts to make small booklets highlighting them with both Glossy Accents and a gold gel pen.  I went around the two smaller booklets with the gold gel pen too.  This folded page idea came from Luvleescrappin on YouTube.

This was also silly fun.  I added Glossy Accents to a fussy cut tophat, added a manikin body and fussy cut a sewing machine to add to the leg to represent a foot.  Mad but good fun.