Simon Says: Anything Goes

An "anything goes" challenge is a joyous two words!
It's the challenge over at Simon Says.

I used several different techniques for this card: applying ink pads direct to card; shrink plastic (tile in the bottom right hand corner); stamping  (stamps by The Artistic Outpost) and trying out my new Nestabilities dies. There's even a strip of alcohol inks!

Spread Your Wings

Spread your wings is the challenge at Allsorts this week. My card features a winged angel, created with glass paints and sprinkled with Stickles glitter. She rests on a background created with citrus alcohol ink and a doily.

Words of Wisdom

Gingersnap Creations wants to hear our words of wisdom. I love this quote from Iris Murdoch. It's a good philosophy to live by!

Soft yellow and white

Soft yellow and white is one of the challenges at Gingersnap Creations. I used Sunshine Yellow alcohol ink for the background and added some texture with Perfect Pearls and paper lace.

Nativity

With the start of Advent today, it's appropriate that the card challenge Winter Wonderland wants to cards featuring the Nativity, Mary and Jesus.

For the backgrounds I used Adirondack Color Wash and sprinkled Doodledug flock (left); for the piece on the right I applied alcohol inks. I love the combination of blue and silver for Christmas.

Gingersnap Creations: Alcohol Inks

Alcohol inks is the Spicy Supply Challenge at Gingersnap Creations. Here is my card:

Chasing Cars

An intriguing challenge at Daring Cardmakers: interpret "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol. I'm sure the meaning of a song is different to everyone but to me the line "forget the world" reminds me of carefree summer holidays, where you literally do forget the world for a fortnight.

My card is multi-layered. The first layer has acrylic and textured paint; the second alcohol inks, with stamping of seashells from the Cavallini set. 

GC85: Hot Beverage

Here is my entry for Gingersnap Creations' hot beverage challenge.Background made with alcohol inks. Stamps used: The Artistic Stamper, Craft Stamper (cup and saucer).

Autumn Glory

The challenge today at Sunday Postcard Art is autumn glory. Here is my postcard:

Stamps: PaperArtsy, Stampington, Stampin' Up! Embellishments: Fancy Pants (felt), Heidi Swapp.
Background made with alchol inks

Gingersnap Creations: Fairies

I haven't posted for over two months and appear to have lost my mojo! I bought vast amounts of stash ready to scrap my recent wedding but still haven't got round to it. In the meantime, here's my entry for Fairies at Gingersnap Creations.

Fairy stamp and brad: Dovecraft. Fairy ticket stamp: Craft Stamper. Background made using alcohol inks.

Alcohol inks

The Lots to Do challenge theme is Alcohol Inks. Here is my fairy card:

Backgrounds

Lots To Do has a great challenge - backgrounds, whether they're collage, alcohol ink, shaving foam etc. Here's my card which has an alcohol inks background. The stamp is by Stampington.

Christmas holiday creations

Theme Thursday wants to see our Christmas creations. Here's a card which has a background of alcohol inks and some tiny jingly bells attached. The reindeer stamp is by Woodware. You may have seen very similar cards in Craft Stamper. I had to try it!

Vintage bathing beauties

What better photo to use than a picture of your mum with her best friend, both aged 18, on Plymouth Hoe?

"Vintage bathing beauties" is the theme at Sunday Postcard Art. My mum (on the right) knitted that bikini herself and recalled that in the sea, it became so heavy she had to be virtually dragged out of the water.

Supplies: various stamps by Cavallini; alcohol inks (background); close friends sticker, K&Co.

Dreams

Thank God It's Friday has a theme of Dreams.

My card has a background of alcohol inks; the stamp is by Inkadinkadoo; alphabet brads by Colorbok, metal heart by Dovecraft.

Chairs

A most unusual theme over at Sunday Postcard Art, Chairs.

Here are my deckchairs. I had a good play with the alcohol inks!

Summer Music

I get very nostalgic for the summers of yesteryear, the beach trips, the wasps and, inevitably in Britain, the rain. So I loved Arty Girlz challenge of "Summer." I let myself have free rein with the paints, first of all using the resist technique with some peel-offs and a wash of Twinkling H2Os; then using alcohol inks on a panel of shiny white paper, cutting it to represent waves and then using dimensional paint for some depth. The vintage image and greeting both came courtesy of the PC.



Over at Cardvaarks, the theme is Music. Again I put the alcohol inks to good use, creating a background panel; the guitars are from DCWV Rockstar paper and the stamp used is by Woodware.

It's A Wrap - and No Patterned Paper

Cards wrapped in acetate, vellum or anything for that matter are the intriguing latest challenge set by Daring Cardmakers.

I made my first Christmas card of the year (gulp) with an acetate wrap of stamped and punched snowflakes. The paper underneath is by Dovecraft and the Seasons Greetings stamp is by Hero Arts: I used clear UTEE to give it some texture.

Meanwhile Arty Girlz latest challenge is to crate a card with no patterned paper. I created the background with alcohol inks and gold stamping.

Wash day blues

The tumble dryer has broken, but J very kindly went to B&Q and came back with washing line, pegs and even a peg bag.

Here he is putting up the line, which has a pulley (not any old washing line).

I got those tiny pegs free with a part work a couple of years ago and have always wanted to use them!

Supplies: patterned paper - Rouge de Garance; tab punch - EK Success; large letters -free, Scrapbook Magazine.

I ordered a couple of Rubber Romance stamps today and some alcohol inks. I bought three the other day to try them for the first time and was well impressed. The only drawback is that you need glossy card and it seems difficult to find glossy white card. I was searching for ages. Eventually I found some A4 sized card on ebay.

Oh - and had a great delivery in the post yesterday! I was the lucky winner on Artsy Girlz in the draw last week for products donated by The Artistic Stamper. A theme plate on Time, with great fob and pocket watches, and some chipboard shapes. The stamp will be fab for all the retro and vintage stuff I'm loving to do at the moment.

An alcoholic background

Latest challenge at Arty Girlz is to make handmade backgrounds. "Get those fingers inky & painted & make a custom piece of paper/card for your design".

This was a good opportunity to try my new alcohol inks. I mixed and merged two colours and then stamped in gold over the top using Art Impressions' serpentine stamp. I then stamped the dress, Inkadinkadoo's My Mother's Dress, and painted it with Twinkling H2Os and a smidgeon of alcohol ink, and added some bling. I cut a heart shape and used a Making Memories frame, and the letter brads at the top are by Colorbok.