Sunday Stampers Week 217 - Weds 8th Aug

Good Morning Friends!

The theme for this week's Sunday Stampers  over at Hels' Sheridan's blog (click the link!) is patterns. Lately I had been making canvases and plaques for my contribution to this challenge, so this week I thought I would make a card for a change...

I decided to make backing paper, forming a pattern with the heart from one of my favourite stamp sets, Wendy Vecchi's 'Love to Make Art' from Studio 490. I also decided that the card would be bright (to make up for all the Sunshine we've been missing) and also with a rustic feel, so hope I've achieved that!

First of all I inked the entire card with mustard seed distress ink, I ran the heat tool over it to make sure it was dry and then using the same ink, I used the heart from the stamp set to form the pattern. I then inked the edge quite roughly all around for the rustic bit!

Next I used the highlighter pen technique, which I found in an issue of Craft Stamper and featured in a card a few weeks ago - stop by tomorrow and I'll include mini tutorial  on this....

I used vintage photo distress ink to colour the hearts. I find with this technique, because the highlighter seems to light up the card, it gives a 'rusty' look to the card. I then stamped the heart three times and cut it out. Then I wound some bakers twine around the hearts and tied a bow on the centre heart. 

The inking process was repeated on the card I used for the butterflies, which were then die cut using the little die from Spellbinders Flights of Fancy set. I used small pieces of card, just enough for the dies and stamped with black archival ink, which I then heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

Before I go...the photo for today in the Photo a Day challenge for August, is glasses, so as that can also mean specs...I took a piccy of mine!:) Surprised it's in focus cos I can't see a darn tuttin' thing without them!

Thanks for stopping by!, I'm going to be visiting all your blogs later today, as some commissions to catch up with on my day off!

Carole X

Sunday Stampers Week 215 - More than Words 26th July

Good Morning Blog Friends,

Today it's time for my contribution to Hels' Sheridan's 'Sunday Stampers' weekly challenge and this week's theme is - More than Words.

Before I talk about my project, I just want to say it's been great to have Hels on Create and Craft for the POTW these last few days. Like many others I was getting very worried at the weekend that there wasn't going to be enough left for Hels' shows, but yesterday, which was my day off, good news, more stock and more shows! So there I was creating my canvas whilst watching Hels on TV! And even better, having rushed home from work on Monday for the 5pm show, I settled to watch and sent in an email. Then my hens decided that there was something in the garden disturbing them, so I had to go out and have a look and missed the end of the show! It wasn't until Susie left me a message on my blog to tell me I'd won the card! So thank you for that and woo-hoo!!! A Hels original is on its way!

Now for the project:

When I read the theme was WORDS, I immediately knew I wanted to use the Sam Poole typewriter stamp from her Vintage Typewriter set which I only recently acquired, but had been on my wish list for a while.

I decided to make a piece of canvas art, so having prepared the canvas, I covered it with this piece of script paper from my stash box. The edges were inked with Victorian Velvet distress ink (one of my favourites!). My idea was words and writing; a writer in times gone by, sitting at a typewriter (although I dare say some still use a typewriter instead of a computer!) with ideas and thoughts flowing into beautiful words, hence the butterflies and flowers.

I'll let you into a secret....when I was in my 20's I wrote a book, a bit of a Jackie Collins set in Hollywood....sssh! Honest! It was never published of course and only read by a few, who did try and get me to send it off, but all 300 pages of it are gathering dust in our box room and as it was all saved on floppy disc, which is long gone, there's no hope except rewriting. Tom said that with the success of '50 shades'  I should resurrect it, but I think I'd rather be crafting! I did eventually get published, after studying film as a mature university student, I wrote a few feature articles for film magazines so that was one ambition sort of met...but no, I'd rather be crafting :)

So there I go off on a tangent again! I stamped and cut out the typewriter and also what I thought was the perfect sentiment from Sam Poole's Art Phrases stamp set. I also stamped the alphabet from the Vintage Typewriter set on to  American seam binding to represent the trail of words from the beauty of nature to the words on the page.

The butterflies are from the Spellbinders Fanciful Flight die set and the flowers are from Spiral Blossom One, Flower Creations and Anemone Flower Topper all inked with Victorian Velvet. I used a paper from stash,which was printed with random words. To finish off I added some buttons, Vintage Bakers Twine and metal button embellishment.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Carole Z X


This is my contribution to Sunday Stampers Week 215 - More than Words

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Study in Silver - 3rd July Sunday Stampers wk 212

Hello Bloggers1


Today's project is my contribution to Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers Challenge and this week's theme is titled Silver Dream Machine and calls for silver creations - so silver it is! A grungy piece of Steampunk....

First of all, apologies for the photo...I just could not get it in focus because there was so much metal and reflection going on, so I hope you can actually see it!


I started with black card and inked all around with Perfect Medium clear to create a frame and then I heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I stamped the dress form in Perfect Medium too on white card and again embossed with silver. The stamps are all from Sam Poole's Steampunk Dreams stamp set by Creative Expressions...I do really love this stamp set! I added a few metal watch parts to the form and then die cut the wings and butterfly (wings) from  Spellbinders Wings of Hope using silver craft foil. A butterfly was then cut from Spellbinders Flight of Fancy. I did actually emboss this with a That Special Touch of... Cog Mask but it doesn't show in the photo unfortunately.


To finish I stamped and embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set.


Thanks for stopping by!

This is my contribution to Sunday Stampers Week 212 Silver Dream Machine

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