DragonsDream TIO#42 - Acetate and Alcohol

Where to start on this one ... ah yes - alcohol.

My stamp is called Finger Food by Stamps Happen. I bought this stamp on first sight as it made me laugh out loud. I love the fact that the lady is like one of Beryl Cook's larger ladies and that she is trying to be delicate and ladylike whilst scoffing all the cocktail olives and yet failing miserably.

The background is made with alcohol inks and the stamp has been embossed in white on acetate and fixed over the top. To finish off I have added an acetate heart and a few confetti foil glasses as a border. The sentiment is one that my lady should take to heart but usually ignores! The purple tinsel ribbon continues the party theme.

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CD Sunday Challenge - Girl Power

I know that this image is not exactly what the challenge is all about but it seems to me that this sort of "power" has been mighty successful over the years!

The image and backing paper are from Pandora's Box by Gwyneth Windsor. There are some really unusual images and topics on this CD and I think I will use it quite alot more in future. I decoupaged the bathing beauty and cut two nestie shapes and cuttlebugged them with the "You" embossing folder for mounts. In keeping with the retro look I made a border using an MS deep punch and completed the look with an irregular folded card.

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #16 - Fly the Flag

I was very lucky enough to win twice on Crafty Anns Blog Hop this week! First from Kym's blog and secondly from Crafty Ann herself! Absolutely amazing! One of the downloaded sheets from Ann were these lovely pale blue roses. As I live in Scotland I thought I would enter the football theme with a Scottish Saltire colourscheme. Unfortunately the national side did not qualify for the World Cup - but what the heck!

I hand cut the circles after drawing around a saucer and a side plate. Very scary. The backing paper is from a CD by Docrafts and the sentiment is by Elusive Images. I put gold glitter in the centres of the flowers and gold embossed the words.

This card looks very grand in real life and I will be giving it to a very grand lady later in the year.

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Bah! Humbug! Challenge #21 - Acetate

I love using acetate and particularly enjoy painting it. Photographing it is another matter and I apologise for the picture quality.

My stamp is from the Winter Collage collection from I Brake For Stamps and is a fallow deer. I have painted him and his decorative borders in reinkers and Diamond Glaze and mounted it onto scrunched up foil to give depth and reflection, (too much when taking the photo!) I cut an aperture and stamped the Lavinia Stamps trailing vine around the edges. The sentiment is by Elusive Images.

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Rainbow Lady's Challenge #106 - Faces

Yikes! I don't have any stamps of faces (or so I thought). In fact, when I started looking I had loads to choose from.

I have this lovely brick wall stamp (I Brake For Stamps) and wanted to have people peering over the top looking at something. The something was the man riding the penny farthing bicycle (Elusive Images). The people on the wall are the top half of a group of cyclists (Elusive Images).

The wall was stamped in various shades of DI's and aqua painted and the main images stamped in Versafine.

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DragonsDream Tag It On #41 - Steampunk Influences

This is yet another first for me. I had to look up "steampunk" to find out what it meant. I had a fair idea from Frankie's lovely sample but it was a totally new word for me!

I gessoed and mat gelled a piston diagram (Graphics Fairy) to the tag and then overstamped it with a background stamp of cogs and clocks (Creative Expressions) and clear embossed. At the bottom of the tag I stuck on a thick layer of Iron Ferro paint and pressed a few cogs into it for texture. When it was dry it was brushed with copper Perfect Pearls. The edwardian man (Elusive Images) was overstamped in black Archival and the metal hardware added. The words are computer generated.

To finish I added a metal D ring.

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Gothic Arches Challenge - Openings

My friend Frankie from DragonsDream Tag It On is this weeks guest host on Gothic Arches and so I thought I would have a go. I have never done an arch before and have seen very few so this is very much my interpretation of "Openings".

I used masks to colour the scene and then painted out the walkway or stairs with water. I drew freehand (shock, horror!) the handrail and stamped a small Clarity tree to show hope in such a bleak landscape. The brilliant sun draws the traveller onward and upward to better times.

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