Another great challenge over at jffchallenge.blogspot.com
The subject this week is  ” Mixed Media ” or in my case mixed up and confused media ! What’s a girl to do ? As I keep saying I’m a novice three months only in your world and am all over the place, but I’m having fun which is why I LOVE  those gals at Just for Fun. Theirs was the first challenge I did and they were so positive with their feedback that this is my third attempt . So thanks for that.

My little offering is something I want to develop on (not that it’s a new thing) stamping on wood but it was my first time.

This piece of wood measure approx 5 x 6 inches and is used here in Greece for Holy paintings using mainly gold leaf . I stamped both front and back using Crafty Individuals stamps. On the first one also stamped part of the image onto card and matted it and adhered it to the block which I then attempted to dab with my dabber ( well what else ) using cats eyes paints and when it started getting out of hand I stopped dabbing . This is where my imagination deserted me so I left it like that !

The second one is plain old black ink from Ranger a bit like my stamping really.( Plain )

For anyone who is reading my blog for the first time don’t be put off by these images I have better one’s  ( I think ) further down………..

Marie x

Love is in the Hair or air anyway mines a bit of both.

I stamped my background with SU little flowers wheel in old olive, the picture is from  the House of Three as is the butterfly  cut using my Silhouette machine which I edged with cats eyes turquoise ink and finished with some velvet ribbon .

Hope you like it.

Marie

                                                        Fly me to the Moon

After coming across yet another lovely blog tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com they have a great challenge try it on Tuesday and the theme is ” Inspired by a Song ” I knew straight away what my song choice would be. Fly me to the moon by ‘ Ole Blue Eyes’. I have been waiting for ages to use this Stamp by Crafty Individuals,  I stamped the image onto vellum and placed it on card stock which I had previously dabbed with Ranger broken china distress ink to make it cloud like ( Well it looks cloudy in my house honest ) Oh hang on my glasses need cleaning ! Glossy accents on the stars with a bit of glitter , don’t usually do glitter but seemed appropriate. I matted it onto black card and then onto Colour Cor ‘ dinationations black card stock which I passed through my texture boutique sanded it and dabbed sliver ink on top. Phew ! goodness me it’s nearly as tiring describing it as it was doing it ! I enjoyed it though and hope you do to.

Mariexx

Firstly please ignore the background ! This time of night ( 12.30 ) I just can’t find a good spot to take a photo, mind you cant find one in the daytime either, so it’s leaning up against a picture frame which of course is visible. I spend ages making the thing only to ruin it with my non existent camera skills, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it ! This is taken with my iphone ,for some reason my scanner works intermittently , it has the final say in what I  post, and my camera takes a worse picture than my phone !

Excuses, excuses I here you say but it’s true I am technically challenged , I have all the gadgets but I don’t know how to use them ! So for those doubting Thomas-es you are quite welcome to visit me here in Greece to see my stuff up close and personal. This tag is for kardkrazy.blogspot.com tag Tuesday and the theme is postcards.

I used once again Crafty Individual postcard stamp ( I do love them does it show ? ) with an image from their mini book people and places , then stamped randomly with more of their postmark stamps and used Ranger brushed corduroy distress ink together with Stampin Up soft suede and tempting turquoise. The paper flower is also stamped with CI script and distressed  ( a bit like myself at this time of night !)

Marie

When I think of Paris I always think of romance first and foremost (and then food ) So I really liked the theme over at pinkleart.blogspot.com Sunday Stampers Challenge.
I used a script stamp from Crafty Individuals which I inked all around using Stampin  Up crumb cake and pretty in pink, I added a couple of images from Crafty Individuals Mini Book People and Places which I matted onto pink paper.

Hope you like it

Marie

I thought this challenge would be easy as I had a lot of stamps that had the word two on them, all of which are Crafty Individuals my favourite stamps, but oh no it seems like having too much choice is not always a good thing.

The challenge this weeksundaypostcardart.wordpress.com is double take so here is my version.

I used Crafty individual paper from their lovely glossy mini books and used the same image in stamp form. I stamped it with versamark and then embossed with Ranger distress powder in Aged Mahogany and used my blending tool with various colours once again from Ranger distress range.  Oh and nearly forgot the key, Used my Silhouette to cut it out then stamped all over with what was left on the old blending tool.

Hope you like it.

Marie

For those of you that have read my profile you will know that I own a jewellery shop in Thessaloniki Greece. For those of you that haven’t read it well now you know ! It’s a busy time for us as we have a lot of exhibitions to attend ( or my husband does at least ) I stay at home and man the ship and the shop and the dogs and well you ladies know what I mean.

This week didn’t have much time for crafting due to the manning of the ship etc but tried to get around to all my favourite blogs and take part in a challenge or two . The nice part about this card making and crafting to do is that I have been able to incorporate it into my window displays and am getting a great response from my customers and some weird requests to boot , it certainly adds a new dimension to it.

It’s carnival time here in Greece and as usual the weather has turned from lovely spring weather back to autumnal misery you can set your watch by it ! it’s the same every year !. As soon as carnival starts so does the cold. My youngest son went out yesterday wearing a cardboard box ( well actually two ) one for the head and one for the body and a pair of ten denier tights , mine not his and a pair of trainers, oh what a vision. It was freezing ! but then at sixteen you just don’t feel the cold do you ?

All of this is my big “segway” as they say in radio land or at least they used to when I was a kid into why I’m posting an autumnal tag when you lot seem to be besotted with spring, butterflies and fairies !

For anyone who cares its my trusty CI script stamp ( yet again ) with Ranger distress inks and the leaf is SU, embossed with Ranger embossing powder.

Hope to get some crafting done tomorrow , until then Ta Ta xx