ATC365 Challenge - #10 - SHELTER

Hello again! How are you all? It has been a busy day so far. I am making a secret thing at the moment! Don't tell anyone! 

It is day 10 and the idea generator gave me the word SHELTER. Does it somehow know that it is very windy here at the moment? Gale force 10 according to the shipping forecast. Shelter from the wind is required. Keep safe everyone. x

Anyway, as I am trying to look for positive things I decided that I would take it to be sheltering from the sun. I love this stamp, well I love the whole set that these images are from. It is by Crafty Individuals. It is stamped onto a piece of Brusho ombre card using black embossing powder and enhanced with bleach. Hope you like it? 

Off to a committee meeting in a minute at The Coach House, our local visitor centre-cum-meeting place-cum-coffee shop at the abbey just round the corner from my house. Minutes will be taken and village matters discussed!

See you tomorrow for my next ATC in the journey. Wonder what word 'Gen' (my nickname for the generator) will throw at me?

Happy days! Kim 

Number #9 - GRAPES - My ATC365 Challenge

This is going well, at least I think it is. It is my personal challenge and so I suppose I would be biased! Early start today, I have a few appointments to attend today. 

Right, the lovely random word generator which I use gave me GRAPES this morning. A few minutes later I pulled these 2 stamp out of my stash and came up with this.

The 2 stamps are freebies and I can't remember which magazine but it was published a while ago. I like the way I was able to use both these stamps in this ATC, I mean they fitted well on the card don't you think? 

The original card was coloured with Brusho paints. I then used the Visible Image Bronte Script stamp sprayed with water to repeatedly stamp over the whole page. This caused some of the Brusho colour to be transferred as I stamped again and again giving this tone on tone effect.

The vineyard image was stamped directly onto the ATC and the bottle was stamped onto another piece of the same card before mounting onto the card using a dimensional glue. I had bleached the colour away on the grapes, glass, around the frame and the chateau image.

I like the colours in this as they reflect warmth and harvest which compliments the images and theme.

Right then, another day done and a new word tomorrow. Happy Days!

Day #8 of my ATC365 Challenge - MEASURE

So happy today with this ATC! It features ONLY stamps from Visible Image. As I am on their Design Team I was looking forward to being able to use just their stamps on one of my ATCs so I could promote them. I know, I have no shame! Here we are then, my ATC for the word MEASURE.

When the word measure popped up from the generator I instantly thought of the lovely tape measure stamp that Visible Image have in their collection and then the numbers, a pocket watch, and the word Time all made their way onto the ATC! 

The background card had been coloured with Brushos and I first stamped the pocket watch using bleach. I then used black embossing powder on the stamped images. A bit more bleach hi-lighting and there we are! I have to confess I got really excited when I found that the numbers fitted exactly onto the ATC. Did they plan that? I will have to ask.

Right, off to do some housework - urg!

Come back tomorrow for more.......please?

Happy days!

ATC365 - Day #7 - SORRY

No, I am not saying 'Sorry' to you, but that was the word that the random word generator gave me. I very nearly hit the button again but I stuck to my guns and headed off to the craft room.

#007/365 - SORRY

On my way there I was pondering my collection of sentiments and phrases as I was pretty sure that it was going to be a quote ATC. Of course there are the sympathy stamps but I didn't fancy using one of those. I know lots of crafters find it hard to use sympathy stamps other than when the need arises. Anyway, I came across this sentiment which I felt fitted the brief well enough! I will try not to be too

tenuous but sometimes you have to think outside of the box right?

I started with a remnant of paper which I had coloured with Dylusions inks and stamped with bleach using one of the incredibly versatile Visible Image stamps featuring hand writing. They have 2, one is the Bronte Script and the other is from the Revolution set. I am pretty sure this one is the latter. The flower is a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine, perhaps a couple of years old now but still very 'now' in design. All stamped with black embossing powder. I also used water to draw some of the ink out from the paper in the flower to make it stand out more.

OK, so a whole week done now, it is still exciting me and I see no reason to give up! 

See you all tomorrow! Happy days!

ATC365 - #6 - ANGEL

Way back in the mists of time, I used to frequent a pub call The Angel. Nothing special, just the place where us students used to gather for quiz nights and the like. The reason I mention it is thinking about this pub is the way I remember how to spell ANGEL. One of the students wrote an invitation (no Facebook/Twitter in those days!) which was then photocopied 100's of times, for the end of term party being held in the function room of said pub. Unfortunately they discovered too late that they had spelled it Angle.  They were horrified to realise their mistake but it has served me well all these years as an aide memoir.

So, my ATC today is a beautiful photo-real stamp that I bought on eBay. I have no idea of the maker of this one so if you have any idea maybe you could let me know.

#006 - ANGEL

The phrase is one I printed off onto some cream coloured paper. I use cheap rough paper as I like the texture it has. It is like an old book page. I have also used the Harlequin stamp from Visible Image to fill in the open space. 

I am putting the ATCs I have made so far into an album and it is looking quite colourful already! I can't wait to get to #365 and then sit and look back at all of them. Long way to go but it is such an enjoyable journey so far!

Happy days! xx

ATC365 Day 5 - RAINBOW

Gotta love a rainbow! I have a Pinterest board dedicated to rainbows. If you fancy dropping by, HERE is the link to the board. If you looked then you can see it only has pins of what I call proper rainbows. None of the blurring between colours, just the traditional colours.

Having said that, the piece of card I used for this ATC isn't the sort of rainbow that would make it onto my board! Good job the word 'rainbow' is featured in the sentiment. It means you can ignore the background if you don't find it 'rainbow-y' enough!

I used a great stamp of the most amazing water droplets by Ryn Tanaka, the incredibly versatile grunge polka dot from Visible Image and a sentiment from Creative Expressions.

I make large A3 painted backgrounds every now and then to have in stock ready for further decoration. This was coloured with Brushos and I used the Visible Image polka dot stamp with plain water to 'lift' some of the colour away. This scrap comes from a background I did for a Visible Image DT project. I stamped and embossed the droplets and sentiment in black and added some white hi-lights.

Right, must dash, I have a mountain of paperwork to catch up on!

Happy days! xx

Marvellous Monday with Visible Image

Crash! Bang! Wallop!

 I have well and truly landed in 2015! I have a positive mind set, a list of projects in my head and I am full of beans!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR
to you all, let's make 2015 more awesome than 2014 and get creative with our
Visible Image stamps!

I am kicking off my Marvellous Monday Visible Image projects for 2015 with something that I started in late November and only finished just before Christmas. It didn't take me that long but 'other things' got in the way! Anyway, it is a book and it features 3 of the Express Yourself stamp sets I was given to use prior to their release. As soon as I saw the designs in digital form as they were being created I knew I was going to make this book!   I do love my job!  

There are of course all 12 of the stamps from the 3 sets in the Express yourself range, (click on the image below to link direct to the web-shop) and  I have decorated each page with other Visible Image stamps. I am going to leave you to find them! See it as a voyage of discovery, an education, rather like London cabbies learning 'The Knowledge'. Let me know if you can't find any and I will point you in the right direction.

  

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See you next week for another Marvellous Monday and in the mean time enjoy your week, get crafty and show us what you have been up to!

Happy Days!  Kim J