A new technique, to me!

 

Tuesdays play

Had a fun morning with Kathy today. Kathy is great and showed me some new technique. This is the things i made after she had gone home, The last picture is using my new spritzer and loved doing it.
 I also used distress inks,Dusty concord, Black soot. Vintage Photo.
 Mustard Yellow, Squeezed Lemon, Crushed Olive.
 Alcohol inks. Pink Sherbet, Sail boat Blue, Sunset Orange, citrus.
 and on the blue and pink swirl archival ink. Just love those colours, Magenta Hue and Stone washed

ATC's and angel cards

Hi there

I really like making ATC's and it uses up all the scraps of card that we all seem to be left with. I love messing with inks and you can get some lovely affects with them.

 I have a few cards that are from Hunkydory and have then just waiting to be made into cards. I was given some Angel toppers and I thought they went well with the cards, 

Materials used:
Dusty concord, Shabby Shutters.
Tea dye, Festive berries and again Dusty Concord, Distress inks,
Two Gorjuss stamps coloured with pro-markers.
 Two stamps from a set I recieved free with a magazine.




And another

Materials used:
 Hunkydory card stock
Angel topper.

And yet another

Materials used:

Hunkydory card stock
Angel topper.
Love topper


And finally

Materials used:

Hunkydory card stock
Angel topper.


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latest cards ....

Hi there

Had a couple of birthdays last week so thought hard about the cards, I had a male card to make for brother in law so went with the lighthouse

Materials used:
                           7 x 5 deckle card stock
                            Lighthouse stamp.
                            StazOn Jet black ink pad,

And another piece

Materials used:
8 1/2 x 5 1/2  card stock
Floral stamp by clear Impressions [from the Rural spring collection ]
Stazon ink pad



And, finally .... another using the retiform technique

Materials used:
7 x 5 Deckle card stock,
6 1/2  x4 1/2  white card stock
small piece of orange card
Salty Ocean and Squeezed Lemonade Distress inks.
piece of Christmas ribbon.
A collection of small stamps



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my walk

Morning

I went for a walk yesterday and took my camera. I went  to a lovely place near here called Streamside walk. It is longer than I walked yesterday and one day soon I hope to walk the rest of it. These stepping stones are large and I walked over them. The birds were singing and it was lovely






 

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"Retiform technique "

Hi readers,

A pal of mine mentioned the "retiform" technique which has been popping up in blogland ... this pal mentioned it was fun, easy and a great way to use my small stamps - she wasn't wrong - check it out....

An easy technique and fun as well

Materials used:

1.  6 1/2 - 4 1/2 Card snippet
2. Post it's - for masking
3. Distress Inks: Spiced marmalade and festive berries
4. stamps that i have had from lots of magazines 

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My Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday and have to say I was not looking forward to spending it alone, I had arranged for Sueinstroud to come round and we would spend the day crafting and go out for something to eat. Sue and I went to Wyevale and had a snack.

 

We  were then just sat, chatting and there was someone at the door. It was KathyK, I was surprised to see her. I turned out that Sue knew Kathy was coming but left it was a surprise for me, It was a lovely thing that they went to the trouble of making sure I was not alone for my birthday, I would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU for everything to both of you. It was a lovely thing to do and I had a lovely birthday.

 

Kathy brought a project with her for us all to do, We made a tag each and I know it will not be the last time I do this. If you want to see the process we followed then it's detailed on Kathy's blog. I have some pictures to share below. 

Kathy and Sue, working on the project?!?!?!

Kathy ....being a grown up - NOT!

Kathy's image (left) and Sue's (before treating with walnut stain) on the right

The tag I made

Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you again, Sue and Kathy