Some Bunny Loves You? - Friday 15th February

Hi Friends!

Firstly, welcome to my new follower and thank you for joining me in my tiny corner of blogland. I'm getting excited now..one more follower and I'll be making that candy draw!

My lovely blog friends...I promise this is the last you will see of these bunnies on my blog.... for at least a few weeks:)!!! You know how much I love this stamp!

I wanted to make a card with them for the Crafty Individuals challenge on the theme of friendship...

Some Bunny Loves You....but where are the bunnies?

So...the theme of the challenge is For My Friend and I decided to mix up this stamp with the sentiment from the other Crafty Individuals Alice Palace stamp set 'Favourite Ducks', just as I did on the photo frame in an earlier post. This is a simples design for a card, with a hidden  tag message or present, such as a gift token. Something to share between friends perhaps? 

I used a polka dotty kraft card and folded it in half, sealing it on one side and along the bottom, leaving one end open. The edges of the card were inked with Fired Brick.

The heart is die-cut on kraft card (with a bunting pattern) using Spellbinders Classic Hearts: I stamped the sentiment from the Alice Palace Favourite Ducks stamp, using archival black ink, which I heat embossed with clear powder. Then I inked the edges to match the card. I punched three holes in the side of the heart and added various ribbons.

 So, here are the bunnies! I stamped them (Crowned Bunnies stamp) on plain Kraft card, again with black archival and heat embossed. I gave the crowns a touch of colour with yellow promarker. Then I tore all around the edges and inked them. The little hearts are 3D foam hearts, by Scrapbook Adhesives (from Christine Emberson's Amazon shop), which I dusted with a peach mica powder to colour with a shimmer.

I then stamped the words friend and love on some seam binding, which I attached to the end of the tag and finished with a little button. The tag is then inserted in the card to be pulled out and revealed by the recipient.

I have made this is enter in Crafty Individuals 'Friendship' Challenge.

Crafty Hugs all,
Carole X

What's the time Mr Rabbit? - Monday 21st January

Good Morning Friends!

As promised yesterday, here is my first clock!

It is a very simple design...to be honest I wanted to see how I got on with it, if I enjoyed it..and the answer is that although I'd primed it during the week the entire clock, using the simplest of designs took me a morning and I loved it!

The  MDF clock and mechanism comes ready for you to decorate as you wish - when I first got it I gesso'd it with Claudine Helmuth gesso and once that had dried I gave it a thin layer of white acrylic paint. My final touch after that was to take some blue acrylic, put some on a  dry brush, but then get most of it off straightaway, then swipe it in small strokes randomly over the clock. This barely shows but gives in more of a vintage, worn look.

The numeral stamp set, also with cogs and a rose stamp is made to accompany the clock, but whilst I used the numerals, I chose different stamps for my design.

I stamped the numerals and the little decorative strokes with flitterglu (from Indigo Blu) and then covered with gilding flakes.When I opened my gilding supplies box, I had a very tiny amount of Yorkshire Dales left and some Autumn Blaze, so I mixed the two together. It was a good job I watched Kay from Indigo Blu demoing this from CHA last week, because I had never noticed that on clocks with Roman numerals, the VI is always upside down - I even checked it with a clock we have! So I didn't stamp upside down by mistake, in case you were wondering!

For my design I wanted a quote and I  also just had to use this Crafty Individuals Bunny Stamp that was on my desk for another project. The quote I chose is from a stamp Indigo Blu and I thought it was pretty fitting for a clock, as it refers to not wasting a moment of our time. I used Stazon ink for my stamping.

I am definitely going to make some more of these - this one is going to my craft room wall, but I have ideas for a Steampunk one, an Alice in Wonderland design.....can't wait! What do you think?

Thanks for visiting!
Carole X