Scrapwest Blog Celebration

Over on the Scrap West Challenge Blog this week, our challenge was a Blog Celebration. For this we have to demonstrate a technique. I love image transfers and this is my demo of how I do it.
Equipment needed is a brayer (rolling pin or the back of a spoon will do). Gel medium of your choice, I have used Daler Rowney Matt Impasto Gel, a photocopy or printout of your chosen image and paper to transfer it onto – I have used a music sheet.



Step 1
Squeeze gel onto your finger tip and spread like butter completely over your image.


Step 2
Place image face down onto your paper and burnish with brayer for about 2-3 minutes, ensuring the paper is completely stuck down. Leave for 3-4 mins.


Step 3
Lift a corner of the paper up with your nail and check image is transferred. You should then be able to remove the backing paper off the image.


Step 4
You may have to dampen the image with a baby wipe and gently roll the remaining pulp off with your finger tips.


Step 5
When all the backing paper is removed I rub a second coat of gel very lightly over the image to seal it.
Eazy peazy!!!


If you wish to leave a comment on my blog I will raffle this piece off next Friday. Thanks for playing.

A Gift for a Lady

I recently came across a lovely blog by a lady called Carol, her blog is on my fav links. She makes beautiful pieces with felt and clay and some other gorgeous pieces of work you should have a look at. I was inspired to try my hand at making some felt and this was my first effort. Ok, so I have a lot to learn, I have since made lots of scraps and have an idea where I'm going wrong but that I also need to buy lots more wool LOL. The wire and beaded heart is one of which I taught at a class at Crafteire this year, they are addictive.
I made this brooch for a lovely lady who came to my rescue last week in Dublin. The hotel I was booked into with my sister and some friends gave our room away and we were literally stranded. This is my gift for her and I hope she will like it =0)TFL.

DCM Photo

Photo Finish
This weeks Dare is set by Tracie (Bondgirl) and is titled Photo Finish....


This week I want you to make a card for any occasion but it must include a photograph somewhere! The photo subject can be people, items, locations, flowers, absolutely anything so get snapping. Dont forget to check copyright if you are using someone elses photographs in your art work.

This is a picture of my sister and I am going to give this to her as a birthday card next week. I dont think she has seen this photo of her in more than 20years.

TMTA - Tags

This week's challenge is to use a tag on your ATC - mine is titled 'Hope'



For Momiji
The background was made using a resist technique. The image was stamped with versamark and clear embossing powder was added. I then brayered the ATC with Bignjuicy ink. When this was dry I placed a piece of copier paper over the image and ironed off the embossing powder, you will see it lift off onto the copier paper. It gives a lovely resist effect.

Birthday Card

This was Anjie's birthday card. I used a Paper Whimsy image and transferred onto linen. This was layered onto black card embossed with a cuttlebug plate and coloured with gold shimmering mist, then layered onto Basic Grey papers stamped with stampington swirls.

Hanghing swap

I made this as part of a 'Hanging Swap'. I love how it turned out and was delighted to send it to Debbie. The background is coloured with Shimmering mists and some stamping and collage added to it. I love the saying at the bottom and it always inspires me.
Use the talents that you possess, for the trees would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

DCM - All Checked Out

This week's challenge on Daring Card Makers is All Checked Out: I hope you enjoy the challenge and have a go!!!! The Challenge details are below:
For my dare you can choose any theme for the card BUT it must incorporate 'Checks', whether it be gingham paper or ribbon or squares, any thing really as long as it incorporates some kind of shape with 4 equal sides.......

This is my contribution this week with a lovely gingham ribbon.

Scrapwest Challenge - Friends

Hi girls - I'm hoping this works as I have it timed to load. The background to this is the lovely Old World Stack from DCWV. It is sprayed with H2Os Shimmering Mist in gold and stamped with a script stamp and Tim Holtz swirl. The main image in cream is metal foil, embossed, painted, and distressed. I love how it turned out. I have my usual image transfer on cream linen and a lovely poem which I found in the old book Sabrina gave me - 'Little Folk, A Magazine for the Young' dating back to 1892. The poem reads as follows:

Stand Together
Fierce and strong the wind was raving -
I seem fighting with it yet-
When, the hillside steepness braving,
Two wee lassies there I met.

How could children face such weather,
With whole trees uptorn around?
Why, they firmly clung together,
And contrived to keep their ground.

And I thought life would be smoother,
And its hours not spent in vain,
If folk stood by one another,
Sharing nobly toil and pain.

Little People, stand together,
Kindly, bravely - that's the way;-
Not alone in bleak March weather,
But through life, dears - come what may!
Isn't that lovely!

DCM - Pockets

Oh this challenge has got me frazzled. I have lots of little pockets but none suited what I wanted to do. This picture is different irl as I have coloured the page with H2Oz shimmering mist in gold and it isn't captured on the scan. The tag in the pocket reads 'Where do you hide your dreams?' I love the serene image of the lady. Bakcground is made using gesso as a resist on a sponge, then distress inks added, some rub-ons and shimmering mist.

Nominated

Thank you Sharon for nominating me for the Rockin' Girl Blogger for which I now have to nominate a further 5 people to receive the award too.
This idea originated from Roberta Ferguson. It works like this ... you have to give her credit, put up the badge and finally, add 5 other rockin' girl bloggers to the list.
My chosen bloggers are:

Audrey
Jackie
Elaine
Kaz
Zuzu
=0)

Sister's Birthday Card

I made this tonight for my sister's birthday, hopefully it will reach her in Australia before the 24th - If you read this Bee its on the way =0)

TMTA - Asia

The Challenge over on Think Mondays - Think ATCs today is 'Asia'. I made this ATC with another image transfer, this time using gesso as the medium which is harder work that the medium I normally use, the image is not very clear but I like the finished effect on it. It is stamped with an Inkadinkadoo stamp, a chinese fortune cookie text added and some mulberry paper to the bottom. =0)

DCM - Visit to the Haberdashery Department

This weeks challenge at DCM is Haberdashery - make a card using items you would find in a haberdashery deptsuch as ribbons, buttons etc. Sewing may also be used but not as the haberdashery element, the theme was free. I used a gel transfer image onto linen with gold stitching on the side. I enjoyed this one :0)

Scrapwest Challenge - Scrapwest

This weeks challenge is the scrapwest gang - this piccie taken by Kirsty Wiseman at Crafteire in Tullamore this April. Talk about a quick jump on the grasss - and all for a piccie :0).

Scrapwest Challenge - City LO

I dont know how I forgot this one but the challenge last week was a City LO. I made this mini DLO which was piccies I took in Paris earlier this year. I distressed them a bit and then added a lot of beeswax so the images are not that clear.:0)

Think Monday - Think ATC

Faces is this weeks challenge - some gorgeous work already posted on this site. This one is done on a black background with Bronze shimmering mist sprayed on it, it doesn't really show on the scan. The image is from art-ezine and a partial hero arts stamp at the bottom. TFL.

Wednesday Stamper - Buttons

Yeah - I have achieved what I had set out to do. I have used part of the Stampington cliff floral stamp along the edge and the embossed corners are rubbadubbadoo feathers plate. The centre piece is scrap paper coloured with walnut ink, distress inks and then vaseline rubbed in places, it is then painted with acrylic paint and when dry the vaseline is rubbed off to give the peeled paint effect. This is layered onto 7 gypsies paper - which I really like and its the only sheet I have of it. As you can see the glue is still not dry under the buttons :0) Cute as a button is written onto the cork buckle. Hope you like it.

DCM & TM-TA

Woohoo - managed to get some time to combine both Daring Card Makers 'Beady Eye' and Think Monday - Think ATCs - 'Children' challenges. I stitched the beads along the side of an image transfer onto K&Co paper. Distress inks used to colour the dresses and flowers, Hero Arts Dream & Discover stamp and edged with my now over worked and dying krylon pen. Why not take a trip over and have a look at these challenge sites and have a play ;0)Go on - you know you want to......................

Wednesday Stamper - Hats

I'm very late doing this week's challenge but sometimes life gets in the way. I think there is something missing with this but I cant get it the way I imagine it to be. The face image is on a piece of laminate with gold leaf backing on the flower. This image is then placed onto an alcohol inked background which has a script stamped in white and blue. Other stamps used in the background are Stampers Anonymous and Inkadinkadoo. Background paper is DCWC Old World Stack. The gold embellie is a piece of tyvek which I love to use but this piece was rescued from the bin.Oh and a purple glitter witches hat added as the final piece. TFL. Promise to do better next time :0)

Scrapwest Challenge - Summer Sizzler

Yet another challenging challenge for me. This week is summer sizzler. Not too sure about it all but its been a busy week - that's my excuse anyway. Will hopefully get back on track next week (I think that every week LOL)