My fourth and sadly final piece as visiting artist for gingersnap creations!gorgeous greens!

Hey there ,
Well here I am with my fourth and sadly final piece as visiting artist at gingersnap creations. I have been chuffed to bits to have this fab opportunity and want to thank everyone at gingersnap for having me along!!
Anyway the challenge this time is gorgeous greens, I loved this so here she is:

I love using greens in DI range, and always wonder why I don't do it more often!!I started by creating the background. I coloured the card with shabby shutters,peeled paint, forest moss and broken china...Then I stamped the text from Wendy Vecchis set botanical art...this is a gorgeous set....!!!
The middle section is Tims tissue wrap coloured also in greens, then the last piece is coloured in same inks and stamped with the flower design.
The flowers were made from grungepaper using the large flower from flower power set from The Artistic Stamper....even if they do look a bit like cabbages!!???

The clock is the one and only Tims weathered clock die coloured with DI and then I added some fab gilding flakes in variegated green from craftynotions.

The butterfly is from the same stamp sheet and some gilding flakes and a pen nib added.
The sentiment is from Tim holtz set boundless flight and I love this sentiment.

Why don't you pop over to gingersnaps and see the fab dt work and maybe pop in an entry yourself,
Thanks again to gingersnap creations for having me, I have loved it!!!!
I am entering this for the following competitions:
butterflies @ http://fashionablestampingchallenges.cottagecrafts.ie/
use 2 of something @ http://panpasteluk.blogspot.com/
use 3 from list...monochrome,metal,handmade flower,distressing @ http://desertislandcraftschallenge.blogspot.com/
distressed @ http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/
things with wings @
http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/
Thanks for stopping by and for all your kindly comments
Have a fab fun and inky day
Hugs Trace x
see previous post for woyww!and some more 3-d roses!!!how hooked am i!?

Woyww#138,what has happened here then?!

Hey there,
Well it is that time of week where we wander through craftiness courtesy of our ultimate hostess Julia...so here is my desk, I mean bomb site, I mean desk!!!

thought it might look better form this angle, but er..no!!!

Well moving swiftly onwards from the mess that is..
 thanks to everyone who stopped by last week, apologies if I didn't get round to you all ..I am on a mission this week!!!!!
my desk shows my weekend craftiness and still stands in this state!!but boy did i have fun and can't wait to share the finished piece soon!!!
For all of you saw the cabbages, I mean flowers last week....I have worked hard and improved I think so here are some more...

I hope you will agree , these are far better flowers and far less like the cabbages, i mean flowers from last week...however i  will be back later with my last and final post as visiting artist for gingersnap creations and you can see where the cabbages I mean flowers from last week ended up!!!!

Make sure you hop across to Julia to see all the fab crafty people...and I am off to get desk hopping!!!!a woman with a mission!!!
have a fab inky day
hugs trace x

dt piece at anything goes, theme for the one I love..

Hey the bloggers,
Well it is challenge time over at anything goes again and this time the theme is , for the one I love also there is a fab prize of £20 from indigo blu

 http://www.indigoblu.com/

Quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs – all made in England. IndigoBlu stamps have been featured on Create and Craft a few weeks ago.

so here is mine:

Make sure you pop across to lynnes @ craftden for all your crafty goodies and to Anything goes challenge to seethe fab Dt pieces and maybe pop in an entry!
So here is what I did:
I started with a limited palette as this theme is definitely not in my comfort zone,I started with a brand new set of darkroom door stamps....some DI in vintage photo and antique linen.
The background was made by colouring with DI and then over stamping with script and the postcard word stamp.The main image was stamped in DI onto pre coloured card using DI and cut n dry foam.
The roses were made using grungepaper , as were the flourishes which were over stamped in script using aged mahogany DI.

The little love letter was the script stamped onto white paper and lightly coloured then rolled and tied.
The sentiment is stamped in a two tone cosmic shimmer embossing powder and held in a Tim memo pin.
Finally, another melt pot play produced the heart,....i melted utee, then used a craftynotions mould which i had brushed with cosmic shimmer pigment..then poured the utee into the mould, left to cool and there she is...a fab heart embellishment!

hope you like the card ..found this a hard challenge, so why don't you hop over to anything goes and challenge yourselves and pop in an entry!you may even bag the prize!!!

I am entering this for the following challenges:

vintage @ http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.com/
eyes for sunday stamper..@ http://craftuscrazy.blogspot.com/
The Look of Love..as song title Dusty Springfield...@ http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/
distressing @ http://craftyourdaysaway.blogspot.com/
love @ http://drunkenstampers.wordpress.com/
love @ http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/
love is in the air @ http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/
love @ http://craftuscrazy.blogspot.com/
thanks for stopping by, your kindly comments mean a lot!!!
have a fab fun and inky day
hugs trace x

oops sorry, wrong button..you will have to wait till tomorrow!!!

Sorry wrong button, you will have to wait till tomorrow...
SORRY!!!!

do you believe in fairies?!!

hey there,
well today is a tag, and the starting point was the Try it on Tuesday competition of , fairies...they have a DT call at the mo too..So here she is, not so much the usual me, but here she is:

I didn't have any fairy stamps but love making tags so went with this fab stampotique girl and some beautiful butterfly that I used as wings from The Artistic Stamper. I started by making a DI background using stormy sky, faded jeans and dusty concord, spritzing, and drying, adding more colour and spritzing again.When totally dry i added embossed details ..sparkle holographic splatters and silver swirls..i love these...I also added some little silver stars
I stamped the girl onto the bacground so I didnt have to cut out herhair!!!then again onto white card.

The wings and her dress were painted using DI.Once dry i glued on the wings and then added the girl...i left her white as i love the contrast.

The sentiment is from the net and i coloured this using DI and added a silver star pin for a wand.
hope you like her...!!!

I am entering this for the following competitions:
do you belive in fairies @ http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/
embossing @ http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
open , plus fairy @ http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/
things with wings @ http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/

thanks for stopping by, your kindly comments mean a lot!!!I love them!!!
thanks also to all the people that have chosen to follow my journey!!thanks
have a fab inky day!
hugs trace x

Seeing red but in a good way!!!!

Hey there bloggers,
Well here I am again with a piece in red for the stampman, I wanted to make a small dimensional piece and have a plaŷ, So here she is:

I started with some crowded attic paper from the one and only Tim, which I coloured using fired brick and aged mahogany DI.I covered a small square arts part with the paper and inked edges with aged mahogany.Once dry I stamped a script over the pre coloured paper, again using aged mahogany.When dry I added a Tim flourish stamp, in gold dabber down the right hand side..I coloured a scalloped part in the same way to add to bottom, sanding in places and adding some gold dabber .
The flourish is coloured in fried brick .

The flower was made using paper coloured in same way as background and cut from stamped images using large flower stamp from The Artistic Stamper.I used a tutorial found here from Hels to get the hang of these fab flowers and boy am I hooked!!! I then spritzed with perfect pearls heirloom gold.
The little bottles are filled with glitter and glass pearls coloured using alcohol inks in a bag and smooched around!!I alos coloured the little heart pins!

I added a few more idea-ology and stash bits and voila!
Thanks for stopping by, your kindly words mean a lot!
I am entering this for the following competitions:
red @ http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/
gold for sundaystampers @ http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/
try something new ,the flowers @ http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/
valentine @ http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/153-valentine-theme.html
something new@ http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/01/wow-it-feels-like-forever-since-i-have.html
make your own flowers @ http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/
love is in the air @ http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/
'love'@ http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
have a fab fun and inky day
hugs trace x

my third proud piece as visiting artist for gingersnap, it's a wrap!!

Well hey the bloggers,
Here I am again with my third and sadly penultimate piece as visiting artist for
gingersnap creations.This time the challenge was to use some favourite papers, if you stop by here often you will realise my favourite is White,that I can colour myself...but my new found all time fab favourite has to be the one and only Tim's tissue wrap. it is amazing!!!I love love love it!!! So here is my piece a fully functioning pen box:

I started with a blank pen/pencil box which I painted with neutral paint and then covered using fab tissue wrap...this stuff is so fab and so versatile, love it!!!So I covered the pencil box in multi medium and applied pre cut pieces of tissue wrap to cover sides, back, base top etc I then set aside to give the multi medium plenty of time to dry.
Once dry I stamped stampotique splatter randomly using black soot DI.
The flower was made by covering grungepaper in tissue wrap, stamping out flower from The Artistic Stamper flower forms set, inking with black soot and pumice distress inks, I then shaped and dipped into wax in my melt pot, when dry I then spritzed with perfect pearls, and blasted with my heat gun...this catches some of the mica in the wax,then leave to cool.To finish the flower I added a fab idea-ology Tim button, a new pressie from Santa!

The letters are grungeboard, inked and spritzed. I added some pens nibs, a little Tim bottle , which I added a few drops of black alcohol ink into, and a type charm with some old book text in.

Hope you like what I have done with my favourite paper, make sure you pop over to gingersnap creations to see the fab DT work and why not pop an entry in yourselves!

I am entering this for the following competitions:
anything but a card @ http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/
anything goes @ http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/
something new @ http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/
metal@ http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/

See post underneath for woyww#137 and the finish of those grungepaper  roses!
Have a great inky day
hugs trace x