Tuesday Taggers Challenge

Well i thought i would have a go at the new Challenge blog 'Tuesday Taggers' .The first challenge is 'new beginnings' ie: home,baby etc
To be honest i havent a clue what i have created.At the time i wasnt in a clean,tidy mood, i was in a messy,slap it on mood.(If you get what i mean)!!!
Anyhow, in the depths of my drawers in my craftroom,i found all sorts of goodies,so i cant tell you what is from where. as ive had them years.The house is chipboard and the tag is from a flower tag book.Perhaps this can eventually be the front cover to a book !!!. The 'Open' embellishment seemed appropriate for the opening of the new challenge blog.


The create embellishment just explains the mood i was in!!!
I can tell you i coloured the flower tag with a distress ink pad and painted the house in adirondack paint.

A Christmas Bauble with a twist.

How to- Step by Step

Firstly what you need are wooden baubles,a photo,utee,and gold ep ,gold dabber paint and a heat gun
Cut out Photo to shape of the bauble and glue on.I then painted the edges with gold paint and put on two coats of clear utee over the photo.
You can also decorate the back.Here i used the clear utee then a coat of the gold embossing powder and stamped into it.Then i added a few embelishments to decorate and threaded the ribbon

A Handmade Christmas gift

A Concertina Book

Here i have used the Starburst stains 'Victorian Bouquet' and Kay Carleys stamp sheet by Aspects of Design 'Daisy Daydreams '

A photo frame,a card and a concertina book.

All three of these i did for a project one weekend.

For the photo frame i painted with adirondack dabber paint raspberry.Then i spritzed with a gold starburst stain to give it a glimmer effect and etched with gold using a gold pigment ink pad.I then stamped with the heart stamps which are from woodware clear stamps.The larger hearts are done with ultra thick and moonglow embossing powders.The one on the left i then stamped into while still warm with the heart stamps and added the wings and crown.The beads are paper beads i made with left over scraps from the starburst stains.

Here i have used one of my favourite stamps from Aspects of Design 'Botanical'.I have used ultra thick and moonglow embossing powders then stamped into it while still warm.The center i have added micro beads.For the background papers i have made using Starburst stains 'Japanese Garden'
This is the concertina book.For this i have again used 'Summer in the Orient' by Non Seq.For this i actually used the adirondack ink pads but then spritzed with a gold starburst stain to give a shimmering effect.

This effect is done using ultra thick embossing powder and moonglow.Then being stamped into with the image while still warm.I just love doing this.The picture doesnt do it justice.