Octopode Factory - Wings

Evening all, or should I say morning, a late night here and I'm sharing a post that should have gone up yesterday but I just have not been near my laptop for a couple of days.
 It's time again to start a new challenge over at The Octopode Factory and the theme this fortnight is 'Wings'. Simple huh?  basically we want to see any style of craft project but you must include wings somewhere on your piece.
 I have used Lily's Tell Tale Heart image from her Edgar Allan Poe set and this was my starting point for the tag. The heart was coloured with Copic's and clear embossed.The wings were also coloured with Copic's and were cut with one of the Tim Holtz dies.Heart with wings I think.
The tag was painted with Decoart acrylic paints, and the circles were stamped, also with paint. The initial colour was too light so I gave the whole thing a wash of Decoarts Traditions Phthalo Blue this is a translucent blue and added depth and a richness that helped match the heart.
I also stamped a script stamp from The Artistic Stamper with black archival ink. The 'Fly' was stamped with versamark ink and embossed with some Frantage powder, I also went round the edge of the tag. I finished the tag off by giving it a couple of coats of embossing powder.
As always we would love to see you join in the fun over at The Octopode Factory. And remember you do not have to use an Octopode Image, Of course we love it when you do and if you do your name will go into the prize pool twice. x
Thanks for stopping by xx

Guest Designer - Simply Steampunk Challenges

Welcome back and thanks for stopping by again, It's been one busy month over here at Speshink ;)

A while back I was asked to be a guest designer for Betty's Steampunk Challenge blog.

This is the piece I did for Simply Steampunk Challenges  and Betty of Simply B Stamps, Betty has the rights to sell these beautiful line images by 

Abigail Larson.

This is part of the Zodiac set but there are lots of images in this style so well worth having a look.

I have made a 6''x 6'' page for my fat book and have used the Leo image. The page has been cut from mount board, stamped with a cover the card stamp and embossed with black Powder, I have used distress inks to colour the back ground.

The Leo Image was coloured with copic's, fussy cut and clear embossed twice, she was then glued to the background.. A couple of eyelets were added and a couple of fancy brads.

De StempelWinkel and Fun With ATC's CAS Atc

Morning all, A quick post today as Im feeling rather pooped, man flue has taken hold ;)

Double duties today, this is one of two CAS style Atc I have made for De Stempelwinkel

 and this one is also for the challenge we have just started over at Fun With ATC's, the theme being Clean And Simple.

More details about the ATC's are on the De Stempelwinkel site xx

thanks for stopping by.

Ill be back soon hopefully feeling a little better xx

I would like to enter this into the challenge over at the Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Blog their theme is Retro/Vintage.

Sunday Post Card Art - Guest Designer - Transport.

 

Well it's still Sunday, Just ;)

I was asked a little while ago by the very talented Mandy of Mandys Magical World Of Art if I would like to host over at Sunday Postcard Art the theme being Transport. Of course I said yes and new exactly what I wanted to do straight off the bat.

I knew I had to use the truck image from Paper Artsy, I am a big fan of the old American pick ups and have not used this for a while.

To enter you can can use what ever style of crafting you like, it just needs to be post card sized, 4''x6''

I cut some 300gsn card to size and mounted it to some chip board to give it some sturdiness.

the truck was stamped first and colour added using the distress pens, I then cut a mask and stamped the Tim Holtz location stamp over the top in blue archival ink.

I added the fireman from De StempelWinkel  and again masked him so I could add the speedo from the Paper Artsy set, I also added the spark plugs also from the same set.

a couple more Tim Holtz stamps and some distress inks for the background and then it was ready for a couple of coats of Embossing Powder.

To join in the fun head on over to Sunday Postcard Art  and just enter a link to your postcard in the comments section.

Thanks for stopping by as always, your comments really mean a lot x

De StempelWinkel - Gelli Print Wall Hanging.

Well my feet are hardly hitting the ground this week, things are busy busy busy, my proper job is crazy busy building a deck,laying a base for a new shed, getting plenty of top soil shifted for some new turf and I am also chasing my tail getting ready for the big Ally Pally show this weekend.

This is one of the samples I have made that I'll have with me, for a full look head on over to 

De StempelWinkel.

Thanks for stopping by, If you make it to the show this weekend drop by and say hi xx

The Octopode Factory - Pink And Green

  I hope you are all geared up for a good weekend? As always a great big thanks for stopping by.
 Today we are back over at The Octopode Factory and starting our new challenge, the theme this fortnight is Pink And Green.
We want to see any type of craft project as long as it is based around our theme.
 You do not need to use an Octopode Factory image but if you do your name will go into the prize draw twice, and of course you can enter more than once x

For my project I made another page for my Dyan Reaveley Journal.
The image I have used is the Zombie Doll and she has been printed out on to 300gsm card and coloured with Copic's and clear embossed.
 The background has been created with Decoart Products. I base coated the page with some green acrylic paint and used different colour acrylic paint for some stamping, I used one of