Showing posts with label Take a Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Take a Word. Show all posts
Monday, 27 August 2012
Take a Word - Clockwork
I created this card for this week's challenge at Take a Word which is CLOCKWORK. The face is a stamp from Lost Coast Designs that I stamped with Stazon ink. Then I coloured the card with Fresco Finish paint. The swirls around her face, her legs and shoes are coloured with Stream Adirondack ink. The clock is stamped on a piece of felt.
The text in the background is a Paperartsy stamp: Time is a dressmaker specialising in alterations. I stamped it with Hey Pesto, one of the new translucent Fresco Finish paints. When it dried, a shadow effect appeared around the text, which I like very much!
Monday, 20 August 2012
Take a Word - Tattered
This week's challenge at Take a Word is TATTERED. I cheated a little, the only thing tattered in this ATC is the colour that I used for the face and the label: Tattered Rose.
For this ATC I tried to use distress inks on a glossy card. It works really well, and gives a nice colour.
Monday, 13 August 2012
Take a Word - Wings
This week's theme at Take a Word is WINGS. Searching my stash for anything with wings, I found a piece of BasicGrey paper with a bird. I used it as the background. The globe in the background is a stamp from Stampers Anonymous.
The lady is a chess piece stamp from Lost Coast Designs with additional dragon wings. The word "Wings" is made from metal and coloured with Paperartsy Fresco Finish paints. These paints gave a matte finish, so I sanded it a little to let the metal shine through.
Monday, 6 August 2012
1927 Bicyclist
I joined an online workshop, called Composition for Collage, presented by Claudine Hellmuth. In four weeks she will show us some techniques for creating better compositions. This card I make as our homework for the first week.
The 1920s bicycles ad is from the course downloads. The man on the old bicycle is a stamp. All other elements are from a vintage dessin paper stack.
This card also fits for the MEMORIES challenge of Take a Word.
Monday, 16 July 2012
Take a Word - Moon
This weeks's theme at Take a Word is MOON. Searching google for some moon images, I came across an image with two cats in the moonlight. Now I knew what to create. The birds and the tree are Stampers Anonymous. The houses and the wall the cats are from PaperArtsy. The lady stamp is from Stempelbar. The cats is a Magenta stamp. I used Adirondack dye inks to colour the card.
Monday, 2 July 2012
Take a word - Music
This week's theme at Take a Word is MUSIC. Not a difficult theme, but I could not decide what the main element would be for this card. Searching through my stash of embellishments, I found a lot of things that I have not used for a long time...
In the end, I chose a Memory Glass (Ideaology) and an image from Crafty Individuals. I painted the Memory Glass with alcohol inks, and wrapped it with Foil Tape (Ideaology).
The background is coloured with Fresco Finish Paints (PaperArtsy). The music score is a mask from Ideaology.
Monday, 25 June 2012
Take a Word - Insects

This week's theme at Take a Word is INSECTS. This is of my favourite themes!
The butterfly is stamped on a piece of fabric and coloured with Fresco Finish Paints. We learned this technique during the ArtsyCrafts event (see previous post). The card itself is very simple. A piece of design paper, some distress inks, and some PaperAtrsy stamps.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Take a Word - Dreams
Monday, 14 May 2012
Take a Word - Peacock
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Take a Word - Black bird
Monday, 23 April 2012
Take a Word - Numbers
Monday, 16 April 2012
Take a Word - Time
Monday, 2 April 2012
Take a Word - Egg
Monday, 26 March 2012
Take a Word - Hats
Monday, 12 March 2012
Take a Word - Green
Monday, 5 March 2012
Take a Word - Masculine
Monday, 27 February 2012
Take a Word - Mail
Monday, 20 February 2012
Acetate arches
Monday, 13 February 2012
Take a Word - Old-fashioned
Monday, 6 February 2012
Take a Word - Coffee
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