Calendar book: before and after

Hi dear visitors, today I'd like to show you an altered calendar book. I found an A5 size one in Eason for 2.99 and thought it would be a great idea to "restyle" it a bit.

That's how it looked before:

I covered the book with Basic Grey Ambrosia papers using Claudine Hellmuth Muliti Medium in matte. Them to tone down the colours a bit I brushed it over with some CH gesso with a wet brush and with a papertowel I clean up the excess. Decorated with a chip piece from the same collection, doily and black lace. The silk flower is from Papermania and coloured it with Promarkers. I used the multi-medium to stick everything down for stronegr result.

This was a quick project for today :D

Later I'll try to upload a photo from the back, but at the moment Blogger doesn't let me.

I hope you like it,

Thanks for visiting,

Winter mini - Octogon mini tutorial

Hi, back with a video tutorial on how to make the Winter mini I did for the TWS Swap.

This is my firts ever tutorial, I hope it is easy to understand.

If you decide to give it a try, let me know, so I can have a look,
Thx for visiting,

Steampunnk ATC Swap

Hi everyone, I am a very bad blogger recently, I had nothing to show you till now. I am working on several mini-album projects, but none of them were ready to show.

Lately I have taken part in many swaps, one of them was a Steampunk ATC. Since the deadline was yesterday, I decided to publish it today. The Swap was organised on Splitcoaststampers.

 

 I sent 10 nicely wrapped ATC-s. Here they are:

 

Stamps are from PaperArtsy and the man with the unbrella is a digital image. I used lots of distress inks and some TH die-cuts and masks.

I am entering this one to Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge - Masking.

I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by,

Happy 2011!!!

Hi everyone, seems like Christmas was far too busy to do any blogging. BUT I am back with a mini to show and with goods news.

Start with the good news. I was reading the Scrapbook magazine #51 and SUPRISE my LO from back in May was in it. This one is the one:

I didn't think that they liked it, cos it was sooo long ago. Anyway I am happy and it is a good closing of the year.

Onto the mini:

I took part in TWS swap over at Life is a {Scrap}beach, the theme was: winter. Here is a little video to show you how it turned out.

I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by,

on the 6th day

Hi everyone, I'm back on the 6th day with two tags: #3 and #4.

I know I am far behind everybody else, but I am just not able to do one tag every day, need some improvement in the organisation skills area.

Anyway, here are the tags:

Tag #3

 

Since I had no tissue tape at all, I had to find out something. I got my simple masking tape and stamped on it and it worked out OK. I am not totally satisfied with the tag though, I don't like the flower, cos it's too big, I tried to make it smaller, but the tape was too wide.

Onto the 4th one:

But I like this one a lot, I used Pink Paislee paper and this Santa with the list is my fav. I used some liquid pearls in silver instead of the bling. I also tried the stamping on the facet, but It didn't turn out that nice, maybe because of the Stazon inkpad, I'm not sure. So I covered it with some alcohol inks and stamped the snowflakes on to it.

I am off to work on tag#5 and #6 I might be back today with the results...

TFL,

2nd tag

Hi everyone, seems like I'm one tag behind, but I'm definitely having fun. I haven't got any reinkers so, I couldn't try the "good to know" technique, but I tried to make something similar. This is it:

I used the mini festive stamps and a bird charm. I think I like this one better than the first one. Let's see what tomorrow will bring.

Something else:

I managed to finish the first batch of Christmas cards, in numbers: 11. I didn't go too far with the design, stamping and a bit of ribbon. I saw this stamping technique in the Craft Stamper magazine.

 

That's all for today, be back tomorrow, hopefully with two tags.

TFL,

1st tag of Christmas

Hi everyone out there, I hope you're all OK. Here in the snowy Ireland (LOL) life got a bit slower than usually. Even my class in college got cancelled due to the bad weather. So I stayed in and made the first tag of Tim Holtz's 12tags of Christmas.

I haven't got the dies he used but I didn't mind. I tried to get inspiration and use the techniques he did. So this is what I came up with.

For the background I pressed inkpads onto the craft sheet, spritzed with water and place the tag on it (you know how), I repeated this  a few times. Then I tore a little piece of paper to mask out one corner of my tag and stamped over with the music notes background stamp. I also stamped and embossed some pine branches on the corner (pine needle distress ink& clear embossing powder).

The ornament: Embossed some cardstock with CB dotted folder. Covered it with gold acrylic paint, sanded and applied some distress inks, just exacly the way HE did. Then cut pieces and adhered them onto another sheet of paper. I cut the shape out with scissors. After inking the edges iIcoverd the whole piece with rock candy crackle paint. I placed a little bow and pearl on the top.

Banner: stamped and embossed the sentiment onto the groungepaper piece which I covered with gold acrylic before. Distressed the edge with TH distresser and inked with walnut stain. Then folded into the shape, adhered with hot glue.

Pop over to the Crafty Alley ning network where we share our tags and I hope to see yours.

I'll be back tomorrow with another tag, can't wait till morning so I can see tag #2 on his blog.