Love Shack Baby!

It's Friday afternoon as I write this with a cup of tea in hand, no biscuits though *sigh*. I've packaged and sent off a commission this morning and had planned to spend the rest of the morning and the afternoon writing it up, but I so don't know where the time has gone. I did manage to get my DT work for…

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Mapping Out Peace With Gesso

Hello fellow Artinators how are you doing this week? Long time no see. Yes, it has been a bit of a busy old week here and as usual those plans for blog content got somewhat pushed as deadlines loomed.  But I do have a make I can share with you today. It is a DT make for Creative Expressions using the Heartfelt Ornamental…

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Key To My Joy ATC

I thought I would do an ATC today, I haven't done one for ages and I do enjoy making them! For this one I have used the lovely Unity Key To My Joy stamp kit available over at Make The Day Special. I've also used the wonderful Black and Red colour combo inspiration from Gingersnap Creations. Hope you have a day through…

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Voting Day In The UK

OK, question for you: is there a limit to the number of blogs you can follow? Every time I blog hop, I find more wonderful blogs I want to follow but today I got an error message saying that I had exceeded my limit of 300 blogs and needed to 'un-follow' some before I could add new ones. Shock. Horror! Well, as…

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Enjoy The Journey

An ATC this morning and this one draws inspiration from the May challenge over at the Graphicus Blog, which is all about Travel and the colour Blue. They have a fab prize up for grabs but you need to get your entry in by the 31st May! Details: I've used distress inks and a brayer to colour the background paper which was…

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Christmas ATC Swap

Katy from Craft Stamper put one of her ATCs up for a swap on the magazine's blog and I was lucky enough to be drawn from the hat :) So here is the ATC I sent her, and if you have not seen it already go check out the lovely ATC I got in return from Katy. The background was made using…

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What Happened to Wednesday?

I seem to have lost a day. I honestly thought it was Wednesday today. Oops. So I think that this ATC is particularly apt for me today. This one is for Think Monday, Think ATC, which this week has a watches theme. Materials: Paper - Kaboodle Doodle Inks - VersaColor Pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain; VersaFine Sepia Stamp - Studio G alphabet…

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Stone Inchies Make An ATC

So to continue my Inchy quest I have used them in this ATC for the Think Monday - Think ATC, which has a 'Stone' theme this week, as by luck should have it I have some stone-related stamps. Materials: Stamp: Paper Artsy Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks; Stazon; Tattered Angels Gold Glimmer Mist Other: Cardstock; Stone button; embroidery silk The lovely folk…

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Tickets to Ride

This week's challenge on Think Monday - Think ATC is 'tickets'. So I've made this ATC from some train tickets, screwed up and coloured with alcohol inks. The dot texture at the top was made with sticky dots removed from the card and then the blank spots were wiped with the alcohol ink. The tag was made from metal and again coloured…

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Children ATC

Here is a children theme ATC for Lots To Do Challenge. I kinda love the pink gingham with the turquiose ink colours.

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Dreaming ATCs

A new week and a new ATC. The theme this week from Think Monday - Think ATC is 'Hands'. So this week I've continued my Indian Dreams-themed ATCs using a hand as the main image, I expect I will at some point put up the other ATCs in this series :) The background is coloured with blue and pink ink pads using…

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