Inkurable orange

This is a card I made for the Inkurable Stampers 1st birthday challenge to use their signature colours of orange, black and white. As I made a crazy patchwork background I'll also submit this for the Saturday Workout blog. After glueing the scrap pieces, I toned them down with gesso.

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Stamps: Paper Artsy Wings 2 and Backgrounds 2; Stampington Latin Parchment

Inks: DI Fired Brick, Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade; VersaFine Onyx Black; DI Refill Tea Dye; Versamark Pen

Extras: Gesso; Perfect Pearls Bronze; Precoloured scraps; PP by Provocraft and Scenic Route; Photo Anchors and brads; Paper Cellar Lace Tape; Gold EP

Soot Impression

I made this for the Inkurable Stampers theme of soot stamping, and the Lots to Do theme of wings.

I coloured up the glossy card before burning it just to see what happened - it works well. The stamp I used consists of delicate brush strokes so the image is less distinct.

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Stamps: Simple Expressions The Orient; Time to Stamp For the Birds and Birds of a Feather

Inks: Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea; StazOn Ultramarine

Extras: Glossy Card; Candle; Ribbon and fibres; Hairspray; Feather; Tag Punch; Black Card; Brayer

Life Journey

The Art Creations challenge this week is to use this vintage image. I added a challenge from Inkurable Stampers to use a puzzle piece, which I cut out from Grungeboard.

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Stamps: Invoke Arts Pens and Nibs; Stampington Venezia Correspondence and Loose Leaves

Inks: VersaMagic Key Lime, Hint of Pesto and Sea Breeze; Versamark; DI Antique Linen, Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo

Extras: Detail Gold EP; Vintage Image; DarkRoom Door Wordstrip Venetian; Grungeboard

Message of Christmas

The Inkurable Stampers theme for December is scallops, and the Lots to Do theme is Christmas. Here's my angel with 3 great Christmas definitions: Faith, Peace and Love.

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Stamps: Darkroom Door Little Dreams and Christmas Reindeer

Inks: Adirondack Latte, Stonewashed and Slate; Versafine Onyx Black; Versamark pen

Extras: PP by Basic Grey and Darkroom Door; Clear EP; Black Paper; Pop dots

Tim Holtz stamps swap

This is the atc that I made for a swap Sarah Schwerin at Inkurable stampers was hosting in October. I have now received the swaps, and am thrilled with them. I love the way Tim's stamps are so versatile.

In reading order the atcs are by (me), Damaris (USA), Katrina Thomson (Aus), Gail Smith (Aus), Marnie Didlick, Elizabeth, Genevieve Payne, Sarah Schwerin (host) and Rhiannon Riddell
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Stamps: Tim Holtz Nature's Moments


Inks: StazOn Saddle Brown; DI Antique Linen, Scattered Straw, Tea Dye and Aged Mahogany; DI refill Antique Linen


Extras: Paper Cellar gems; Perfect pearls Bronze

Angelic Praise

I am so disappointed with the photo of this card. No matter what I did with the camera I couldn't get the colours close enough to the original card. I couldn't scan it as the bottle top might have scratched the surface of the scanner. Never mind! Click to enlarge for more detail.

The Saturday Workout challenge is antique paper, and I have based it on a Christmas theme with the addition of a bottle cap and beads (which I placed in the bottle cap) for Inkurable Stampers.

The music/words paper is from a really old music book that was in the bin at school, so I 'rescued' it! I then aged it more with distressing inks, spritzed on a craft mat.---

Stamps: Stampington Angelic Host and Latin Parchment

Inks: DI Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Old Paper and Antique Linen; Archival Black; Watercolour pencils

Extras: Diamond Glaze; Vintage paper; Bottle top; BB purple card; pale yellow beads

Black Crow

This is an atc I made on a spooky theme for Inkurable Stampers. I find crows spook me, with their flapping wings and terrible cawing.
I wanted a soft border, so I sanded the edges and sponged with distress ink.
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Stamps: Time to Stamp Birds of a Feather; PaperBag Studios Addison

Inks: Alcohol Inks Butterscotch, Terra Cotta and Pearl Mixative; StazOn Saddle Brown and Black; DI Black Soot

Extras: Glossy Card; Sander

Just clowning around

I made this atc for a challenge on a new site for me - Inkurable Stampers. Isn't that a fab name - just about sums me up! The theme is men. This is also the theme for a swap on LtD forum.

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Stamps : Paper Artsy Pierrot 1 and Mini 23

Inks : DI Spiced marmalade, Fired Brick, Mustard seed and Dried Marigold; Archival Black; Versamark

Extras : Detail Gold EP; Red Brads