Only Cards at That's Crafty Challenge Blog

Hi Everyone

It's a busy That's Crafty day today, we have the start of our new Challenge fortnight  HERE with the theme

'Only Cards' 

and That's Crafty are appearing on Hochanda today with the launch of some fabulous new Autumn and Christmas MDF, Greyboard, Stamps, stencils & paints there are loads of new fabulous stuff. If you can't get to watch the Shows on Hochanda SKY channel 663 or Freeview 85 today you can watch them online as part of their catch up TV or you can find them on the That's Crafty website in the 'What's New' section. 

Anyway, back to our 'Only Cards' challenge

My card uses a Lost Coast Design stamp as my central image. My background is from a paint scraped masterboard I made. Onto a seperate piece of the same masterboard  I stamped her using the Stamping platform to allow me to paint out the flesh parts with Paperartsy blush paint and then stamp the detail back in, I then  cut her out.  I then added stencilling to the back first with the circles in black archival ink and then with white acrylic for the leaves which is a Dylusions stencil. I then out lined the white with a black fine liner pen. Sentiment is from one of Dylusions fabulous quote stamps, stamped onto white card and cut out to add to the card.

There are some fabulous card from my Team mates HERE to offer you loads of inspiration. Also don't forget if you join in with us you could be the winner of a £20 voucher to spend online at That's Crafty.

Hopefully we will see you over there and thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Love, Peace & Happiness for That's Crafty

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It my day to share some art over at That's Crafty blog and for this weeks post I have a trio of ATC's 

For all the details just pop over Here 

As always, thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Bad Idea's

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Hope you are having a lovely weekend so far. I keep walking in and out of my craft room,  in between doing other things, hoping that I will get smacked in the face with Mr Mojo, no such luck so far. I have forced myself a little play, and it is a little play, this has to be the fastest and simplest card that I have ever made but I just wanted to play with the new die fromTim Holtz, 'claw marks'. 

All stamps are Katzelkraft stamps.

They don't get much more clean and simple than this!! 

thanks for popping in and if you do see Mr Mojo, point him in my direction.

Thanks

Love

Amanda X

Rock On Girlfriend

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Hope you are all well, I have been having another play with the latest Badass monthly subscription stamps, you will find the details in my previous post Here if you are interested in signing up.

I have been forced to redecorate a wall in my lounge as I have had a new fire fitted this week, so inbetween coats of paint drying I have been away in my craftroom.

Background was a gelli print that I die cut the swirls out of (Sheena mixed media die) and then behind the cut outs I added some stamped card (the die cut pieces saved for anther project).

I then stamped round the edges a little with one of the Badass stamps and stamped the rock chick 3 times onto card and cut her out. A little colouring with Copics. Stamped words are from a couple of stamp sets from my stash. 

Hope you like it and I now have to go and clean up the lounge.

thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Rock Chick

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I have just received my first set of stamps having just joined the Badass Stamp club by ArtChicks Studio who are based in the Netherlands, you will find all the details Here if you fancy signing up. You sign up to receive a set of club member stamps and having received this first set I am not disappointed and I love the fact that you don't know what you are going to get. 

Here is a card I have made with this months set 

My background is a series of strips of paper that I used to clean my brayer on. Once I laid out the strips I then added stencilling to them. I then stamped the girl, coloured her with copics and cut her out. The little skulls were stamped on and the Rock Chick sentiment heat embossed and edged in white Posca pen. All those stamps were on this months members set. The Do Epic Shit was from July's Badass set that I got from Facebook and also the reason I signed up for more.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good day, I have an afternoon at the dentist to look forward to..... Not!

Love 

Amanda X

The Governor for That's Crafty

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Just to let you know I am over at That's Crafty Blog for my usual Tuesday slot.

For all the details just pop over HERE

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day

Love

Amanda X

Dream Big

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I hope that you've all had a lovely weekend, it's absolutely pelting down with rain here in the north west of England, definitely a staying in day! 

I have a card to share today but I am not sure I am happy with it but thought I would share it non the less.

As is with a lot of my makes at the moment I have used a gelli background and stamped the Stampendous elephant using my stamping platform, painted it out and then stamped over the top again to put all the detail back in.

Background has then been stencilled using several stencils from my stash and some I had forgotten I had!! Dream Big has been stamped using Tim's foam alpha stamps. I then went round the letters and the elephant with a black fine liner pen, I think around the letters it was a stage too far. 

Thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Anything but a card for That's Crafty Challenge Blog

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I'm here today as it's the start of a new challenge fortnight over at That's Crafty Challenge Blog and our theme for the next 2 weeks is

"Anything but a Card"

For my 'Anything but a card' piece I have used one of the That's Crafty MDF shrines, this one is ATC box sized. 

To decorate the front I used a piece of kraft card that I gelli printed onto, I added detail to the print by using one of Carabelle studio Printing stamps this one was Ronds. The inside I painted using the same colours into an ombre effect. Before I cut the print and added it to the front of the shrine I added some stitched detail with a sewing machine. 

One I had glued it to the front I trimmed it to fit and then added torn tissue paper, paint splashes and paint rings, lastly I added one of Alison Bomber Paperartsy words stamps.

The flowers are some of the new greyboard bit and pieces these are from the small funky flowers set. 

Painted with red acrylic paint I then laid tissue paper behind and filled the gaps with glossy accents and trimmed the tissue when dry. I then made stems for them using rusty wire and drilled holes in the base to feed the wires though.

Stamping detail inside the box are all using That's Crafty stamps.

Front piece added to the box is a Carabelle studio stamp. 

We would love it if you played along with us this fortnight and share with us your anything but a card make, to further inspire you the team have created some fabulous pieces which you can see HERE.

Also if you enter you could be the randomly chosen winner of a £20 online voucher to spend at That's Crafty online store.

Thanks for stopping by

love

Amanda X

I Do Weird for That's Crafty

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Just a quick post telling you I'm over at That's Crafty Blog for my usual Tuesday post

I'd love you to pop over HERE for all the details

thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Lonely Girl

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I have another make today that uses a stamp that I haven't inked for ages, the stamp is 'Lonely Girl' by Dina Wakley and is probably one of my all time favourite stamps. 

Background was I gelli print that I over stencilled and doodled with a white Posca pen. Chevron stamp is from Darkroom door which I had forgotten I had so that had it's first inking. Sentiment is from Unity Stamps. Some mark making with paint and some fine liner edging finish it off.

Have a fabulous weekend whatever you are doing and thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Follow Your heart for That's Crafty

Hi Everyone

just to let you know that as it's Tuesday I'm over at That's Crafty team blog with my regular weekly make.

for all the details just pop over HERE

Thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X

Grunge at That's Crafty Challenge Blog

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Our new fortnightly challenge theme starts today over at That's Crafty Challenge Blog and for the next 2 weeks we're looking for anything

'GRUNGE'

For my Grunge piece it's all gone rusty using Seth Apter Paperartsy Fresco colours.

This is how it all started

It all started with a piece of corrugated cardboard and I ripped off the top layer in places exposing the corrugated bits. I die cut the word code from mountboard  substituting the e for a 3. I then gave it all a coat of gesso. I then tore up the piece and added it to an 8" x 8" that's Crafty MDF board. I then gave it all another coat of gesso. Onto that I then started by building up the paint colours the first layer was applied with a brush to give it a covering I then started adding alternate layers of some of the Seth Apter coloured Paperartsy fresco paints, all these were added with cut up pieces of washing up sponge as it adds real texture.

Onto a separate piece of thick white card I sponged on the paint again but slightly changed the final effect. This is the piece that I die cut both the Maze and rectangle die again from Seth Apters Spellbinder die range.

Here you can see the effect and texture that the sponge gives to the paint. I also added some stencilling using an Andy Skinner stencil. To the maze die I added the washers that I had rusted with rusting powder, laid on book pages and filled with glossy accents and left to dry. When dried I trimmed the paper off and glued them to pieces of rusty wire to come out from the maze. The centre is the top from an old tap given a slight paint treatment.

That's my interpretation of grunge as a little bit of inspiration, and we would love to see yours by joining in with us over on the challenge blog. As always, our prize is a £20 That's Crafty voucher for one randomly chosen entry. 

You will find all the details and more Grungy inspiration from the rest of the DT HERE

Thanks for stopping by

Love

Amanda X