IF YOU WANT SOME FUN

pop over to Heather's blog and join in this months ATC challenge - Victorian men and pink.
One of the comments on my woyww post this week suggested that this really was a challenge. I must agree. I was so out of my comfort zone with this one as I have never really been a fan of Victorian stuff and definitely not men's cards etc.. However, not one to be beaten I've given it a go.

This one arose from my 'naughty' side. As you can see I stuck a man's head on a 'cheeky' Victorian lady and made it into a simple burlesque show.

I used a couple of nestabilities to cut the frame and acetate for this card. I alcohol inked the acetate to give it a pink hue. The rest speaks for itself.

A bit of grunge for this one. I used Tim's paper from his shabby vintage stash, his swirl stamp and distress inks. The dictionary paper is from the page Tim gave me at his workshop in February. Nothing complicated again except I used wax over the image and added a sprinkle of beadazzles whilst it was melted - not an easy task believe me.

It was a fun challenge despite the subject, so why not have a go yourself. You may just be surprised at what you can create.

MEN IN PINK AND WOYWW

Morning all. A late start for me today as I slept for England last night. Not had many good sleeps lately so I think tiredness caught up on me. Anyway, I'm up now and here is my workdesk this morning.

Victorian men and pink is the theme for Heather's ATC challenge this month. Simply email her and let her know you want to join in. You simply have to make 3 ATCs with the theme by the end of the month. They can be different or all the same, it doesn't matter because it's all a bit of fun.
I haven't had a look at our leader's desk yet as the web connection was playing up after all the rain last night. So I had better pop over to Julia's and see what she, and others around the world, are up to.

COMPETITION CANDY

Pop over to Andy Skinner's blog - link here - http://andyskinnerorg.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-time.html
for the chance to win some wonderful new competition candy.
Andy is a Personal Impressions stamp designer and creates magic. His stamps are a delight and the new ones form part of the prize along with some of Lindsay Mason's new stamps and lots and lots of other goodies, including Ranger.
The competition runs all April and the winner will be announced on 4 May.

2.75" x 2.75"

That's how big this canvas is:

It isn't going on the tag, that is there to show you how it turned out after mopping up the spare ink from the other day. The canvas is the first one I've used which is so small - and I've got a couple even smaller!


I painted it all over with trad. tan Studio paint then used dusty concord distress stain all over including the edges. How quick a job these stains make, just brilliant.

I then used a lolly stick to 'splodge' some Indian coloured Terra over parts to give some depth and interest. I dried it sparingly with a heat gun before rubbing purple and gold metallic rubbing wax over it. I then gave it all a good spray with heirloom gold perfect pearls. Had to let that dry in the sun as I wanted to keep the droplets.

The flower is one of the ones I made when we went away the other week. Matches perfectly. I mounted it onto the small cog which I cut from grungepaper and coloured with the dusty concord again. The leaves are cut from paper using an MS punch.

Just look at the lovely sparkle from the perfect pearls spray.


To finish off, I added some seed beads and a bit of purple stickles.

What a fun little project. I've decided to use it as a centre piece for a large card. I placed it onto a fancy piece of paper I had previously punched using an MS round the edge punch, and placed the whole thing into the middle of an 8"x8" card. It looked super. Having said that, the card was white and it needs a cream one. So that's what I shall do.
Thanks for looking.

SWEET BIRDIE ALCOHOL INK TAG

by Ranger Ink.
I saw this gorgeous little project on Tuesday whilst zapping around the net and just had to have a go at it.
This is my version

I used a Hero Arts stamp, Tim's bird from his Caged Bird die, the dictionary page from Tim's workshop, a couple of stamps off packages from abroad, a key from an old clock found at a car boot sale plus other bits and bobs.

It's a really easy tag to make although a bit fiddly in parts, but I liked the use of alcohol inks for the background as opposed to distress inks. I think it's really cool.

The little bird could have looked better, but I kept to the menu of colours and he turned out quite colourful I think. No idea of his species though!
Great fun and quick, which gave me time to pull more of my hair out on these questions of Linday's. There is one that has really got me and no matter how I go about it (which includes bribery, searching the PI website, looking through dictionaries etc) I cannot think clearly for the answer. The worse bit is, I just know it will be staring me in the face!!!!!