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Monday, 10 August 2009
Ruby Wedding Anniversary Gift
I have been working on this book for days - my original plan having been scuppered when the promised scans of photos did not materialize.
(Click on photos to enlarge)
We are going to a Ruby Wedding Anniversary party and I wanted to make a nice keepsake book for them - with photos taken over the years. It wasn't meant to be I guess, so I had a rethink and decided to make a book that all the family and friends could leave messages in.
I made some thick acetate covers for the outsides - which I embossed along the top and bottom edges - which I hope might protect the cover pages from mucky fingers.
This book is about half A4 size. I coloured all the flowers with a copic marker,
Ditto their initials, frame, and numbers, so that they all looked like red velvet and matched. The little vintage lace flowers are the same colour as the ribbon, which I mounted on plasterers joining mesh which I cut in half lengthwise. The remnants of which I used with the ribbons to tie it all together (No pun intended)
The inside covers of the front and back pages have the same paper as the front and back covers - and with personal messages on them so I won't show you those.
I cut all the pages into large tags.
One side of each inside page is stamped with a pattern etc with a blank 'plate' to write a message on. Below are just a sample of some of the pages there are too many to photograph and blog.
The reverse of the stamped pages have all different stamped images - with blank spaces for the messages. I used Tim Holtz stamps from Happy Daze
In between every 'pair' of pages is another with a poem on it.
I embossed some of the poem pages to add texture and interest- but each is the same colour 'ties in' with the overall theme
Not to everyone's taste - but I am an old romantic at heart
That's it - finished - a bit like marriage - 'For Better Or For Worse' - I tried my best.
After finally completing, after days of hard work and many aborted pages and ideas, I showed it to my husband just before he went out, and his parting words to me were...................
'I'm not being funny, and its nothing to do with your book, but I don't think that people who are having a good time and are drinking or drunk would be bothered with signing a book'.
(Anyone know the number of a quick locksmith!)
(Click on photos to enlarge)
We are going to a Ruby Wedding Anniversary party and I wanted to make a nice keepsake book for them - with photos taken over the years. It wasn't meant to be I guess, so I had a rethink and decided to make a book that all the family and friends could leave messages in.
I made some thick acetate covers for the outsides - which I embossed along the top and bottom edges - which I hope might protect the cover pages from mucky fingers.
This book is about half A4 size. I coloured all the flowers with a copic marker,
Ditto their initials, frame, and numbers, so that they all looked like red velvet and matched. The little vintage lace flowers are the same colour as the ribbon, which I mounted on plasterers joining mesh which I cut in half lengthwise. The remnants of which I used with the ribbons to tie it all together (No pun intended)
The inside covers of the front and back pages have the same paper as the front and back covers - and with personal messages on them so I won't show you those.
I cut all the pages into large tags.
One side of each inside page is stamped with a pattern etc with a blank 'plate' to write a message on. Below are just a sample of some of the pages there are too many to photograph and blog.
The reverse of the stamped pages have all different stamped images - with blank spaces for the messages. I used Tim Holtz stamps from Happy Daze
In between every 'pair' of pages is another with a poem on it.
I embossed some of the poem pages to add texture and interest- but each is the same colour 'ties in' with the overall theme
Not to everyone's taste - but I am an old romantic at heart
That's it - finished - a bit like marriage - 'For Better Or For Worse' - I tried my best.
After finally completing, after days of hard work and many aborted pages and ideas, I showed it to my husband just before he went out, and his parting words to me were...................
'I'm not being funny, and its nothing to do with your book, but I don't think that people who are having a good time and are drinking or drunk would be bothered with signing a book'.
(Anyone know the number of a quick locksmith!)
Friday, 7 August 2009
Recycled Metal
After seeing Sara's tutorials on her Time for Crafting site I decided to have another play with metal and came up with this.
I have made this for the Lots To Do Challenge Blog this week - to make something out of recycled stuff.
You can't get more recycled than this! It is meant to look old and grungey.
It is made totally out of a tomato puree tube.
I opened it up, washed it, flattened it, and cut out some petal shapes. Then I used a bit of the tube that I hadn't roughed up - and glued it behind to make the blue petals, and bent the tube over at the back to totally enclose it. Punched hole with my Cropodile, added rivets to secure it and make it strong - and a bit of old flower arranging wire I found in my 'rubbish' when I was clearing out.
The 'seeds' I wrote backwards on the front of the tube with a biro, and then kept going over it - the gold is the inside of the tube - and I roughed that up with some sandpaper.
It is a label for my seed box!
I have made this for the Lots To Do Challenge Blog this week - to make something out of recycled stuff.
You can't get more recycled than this! It is meant to look old and grungey.
It is made totally out of a tomato puree tube.
I opened it up, washed it, flattened it, and cut out some petal shapes. Then I used a bit of the tube that I hadn't roughed up - and glued it behind to make the blue petals, and bent the tube over at the back to totally enclose it. Punched hole with my Cropodile, added rivets to secure it and make it strong - and a bit of old flower arranging wire I found in my 'rubbish' when I was clearing out.
The 'seeds' I wrote backwards on the front of the tube with a biro, and then kept going over it - the gold is the inside of the tube - and I roughed that up with some sandpaper.
It is a label for my seed box!
Painting with purple
I have been working up my allotment every day this week, and thank goodness for rain, so I have an excuse to stay at home and play.
Not much to show for it though as I am struggling to make a book for a Ruby Wedding Anniversary party, so I decided to take some time out just to play with purple!
I am still on my slow cardmaking journey - so very basic beginners work, but I did have fun experimenting with colouring, not only the Gorjuss stamped image, but also the flower, and vintage lace.
So long as I have some fun - then I am a happy bunny, as being retired, this is just playtime for me - no pressure!
Not much to show for it though as I am struggling to make a book for a Ruby Wedding Anniversary party, so I decided to take some time out just to play with purple!
I am still on my slow cardmaking journey - so very basic beginners work, but I did have fun experimenting with colouring, not only the Gorjuss stamped image, but also the flower, and vintage lace.
So long as I have some fun - then I am a happy bunny, as being retired, this is just playtime for me - no pressure!
Monday, 3 August 2009
Play day today - experimenting with ink
I purposely stamped the birds and the quotation in grey as I wanted the tree to be the prominent feature.
I was trying to capture the heat at the end of the day in Africa - I wish I had bought that TH plate of rubber stamps which had the elephant on it!
Friday, 31 July 2009
Playing with clear stamps
Well these are the stamps I was talking about in my previous post. Clear stamps, which I didn't really mean to buy - and then wondered why I did.
I have been practicing colouring with inks, layering with inks, and generally just playing around.
I got better as the afternoon wore on! These are little tags which will go out with swaps etc. I might not have the holes in exactly the right places - but I need more practice.
These are more colourful in real life - not sure why they look a bit wishy washy
I liked the colours I managed on this one - and it is on very textured thick card - think I might have messed it up with the dark medallion flowers on the bottom - but again, I was trying out all these different stamps.
The colours on this one are much nicer in real life and they blend from dark to pale.
The sentiment stamp is the only rubber one I used and is from CHF and the bird is a free one which came with my magazine. This is the first time I have used it - and I rather like it - but horror of horrors - it tore in half when I gently peeled it off the acrylic block. None of the others did - and they were all clear and just stuck themselves to the block as this did. It is such a shame as I really like this little bird once I had seen it stamped. I have never had that happen before !
I had fun inking this one - over white red lined paper. The lovely butterfly image came for a Crafty Individuals book - its really nice.
Last one of the day - again this is richer and deeper colours in real life.
Didn't I get a lot done!
Off to put my bantams away as it looks like rain - and to tidy up my studio. I do like everything put back in its place so that I can start a new day with a clear-ish table.
I have been practicing colouring with inks, layering with inks, and generally just playing around.
I got better as the afternoon wore on! These are little tags which will go out with swaps etc. I might not have the holes in exactly the right places - but I need more practice.
These are more colourful in real life - not sure why they look a bit wishy washy
I liked the colours I managed on this one - and it is on very textured thick card - think I might have messed it up with the dark medallion flowers on the bottom - but again, I was trying out all these different stamps.
The colours on this one are much nicer in real life and they blend from dark to pale.
The sentiment stamp is the only rubber one I used and is from CHF and the bird is a free one which came with my magazine. This is the first time I have used it - and I rather like it - but horror of horrors - it tore in half when I gently peeled it off the acrylic block. None of the others did - and they were all clear and just stuck themselves to the block as this did. It is such a shame as I really like this little bird once I had seen it stamped. I have never had that happen before !
I had fun inking this one - over white red lined paper. The lovely butterfly image came for a Crafty Individuals book - its really nice.
Last one of the day - again this is richer and deeper colours in real life.
Didn't I get a lot done!
Off to put my bantams away as it looks like rain - and to tidy up my studio. I do like everything put back in its place so that I can start a new day with a clear-ish table.
Night Owl
I am not usually a 'night owl' but couldn't resist this one.
You know how it is - you go to an online site to buy one thing in particular, then when you get to checkout it says - if you spend x more you get free postage. So I end up getting little 'x's and then wonder what I am going to make with them
So today I am looking through my drawer of 'extra' stamps - which took me over the free postage threshold and trying to ease my guilty conscience by using them.
I love the latest grungy looking Tim Holtz sentiments stamps, so used one of those, with the owl, and created a night scene by using a CB embossing plate, colouring it, then flattening it - to create the shadowy leaves, then embossing it again to create the raised leaves.
It's just a bit of fun - not a work of art. After all the 'serious' stuff of joining in the Cornish Heritage Farm challenges which I did enjoy - I have decided a bit of messing about and experimenting time is called for.
You know how it is - you go to an online site to buy one thing in particular, then when you get to checkout it says - if you spend x more you get free postage. So I end up getting little 'x's and then wonder what I am going to make with them
So today I am looking through my drawer of 'extra' stamps - which took me over the free postage threshold and trying to ease my guilty conscience by using them.
I love the latest grungy looking Tim Holtz sentiments stamps, so used one of those, with the owl, and created a night scene by using a CB embossing plate, colouring it, then flattening it - to create the shadowy leaves, then embossing it again to create the raised leaves.
It's just a bit of fun - not a work of art. After all the 'serious' stuff of joining in the Cornish Heritage Farm challenges which I did enjoy - I have decided a bit of messing about and experimenting time is called for.
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