Playing with Pastels

Pan pastels that is... 

This week the theme over on the PP Challenge Blog is Girly/ Mother's Day and that was just the inspiration I needed to whip up this little creation.

Pan pastels are so highly pigmented and vivid in there colour and work wonderfully over a versamark stamped image, creating a beautifully blended finish.
This is my card for my partners Mum.. I can't share my Mums one as she reads my blog. lol
I'll have to share that one after Mother's Day.
I'm also entering this card in the Simon Says challenge as they also have a mothers day/special girl theme
Thanks for visiting x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Whooooo You Looking At...

Today i'm sharing my entry for this weeks Pan Pastel Challenge
they have the prompt to 'use a stamped image'

I stamped one of the very cool owls from octopode and coloured him with pan pastels, I then stamped one of the new Tim Holtz scroll banners and mounted my owl on top. For the base I used up an old tag that had some inky spill waste on, I then stencilled over the top with more pan pastels and finished off with a mini alpha saying and a bit of sari ribbon.
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On a different note I have just listed a whole bunch of 'CUTE' stamps for sale on ebay, sugar nellie, magnolia etc  to help raise some funds now i'm unemployed so if you like cute or you know someone who does please share the link.. i'll love ya forever xx
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Going Green & Using It Up

And before you think i'm on a eco kick, No i'm talking about the march challenge over at
Inspiration Journal where they have a Go Green Colour challenge.

This was another soak up tag that I decided to work on as part of the Use It Up pledge I took.
 I used a selection of Tim stamps, a bit of trim and some trinkets. Oh and plenty of green ink.
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Thanks for dropping by x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

The Time Traveller.

Today I have something a little different to share..

It's my entry for this weeks Simon Says Stamp'n'Show Challenge

Their theme is 'Bottle It'

I made this, which I aptly named 'The Time Traveller'

   I found a cool alarm clock in the charity shop, got it home and proceeded to gut it.. I now have lots of cool gears for another project.
 Then I set about filling it, As the name suggests I've gone for a travel theme,

 with a map background, compass and of course some messages in bottles, I also rusted up a mini birdcage as it's nice to have a travel companion lol
I had an absolute blast making this and will defo be on the lookout for more clocks to alter.. Watch this space.
Till Next Time
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

12 Tags: March

Ello.. Here I am finally with my Tim tag for March...

All the instruction are on Tim's blog HERE

The only thing I didn't have was the cement looking embossing powder so I used some of Tim's distress embossing powders and that worked pretty well I think.
I'll be back tomorrow with more altered goodness.
Till then...Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

SDC49

Ello Peeps
Today i'm here to share with you a couple of cards I made for this weeks Stampotique Designer Challenge
The brief was to use 'Pink, Purple & Black'
So I set to work with the paints and came up with these..

I even dusted off the sewing machine for the top one to add some pink stitching.

I used MS paints, and found objects for the background, then just added a bit of stamping and the stampotique figures and I was finished.
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I've still got got around to making my Timmy tag..maybe i'll do that today!
Catch Ya Later x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

366 Challenge!

Yep March is upon us already...Only 25 days to my birthday!
{cards and gifts greatly received hehehehehehehehehe well a girl can try can't she}
I had actually forgotten the date till I saw a fellow crafter's 366 challenge page up on FB this morning, so I have spent most of the day working on my page, Having fail after fail I have to say I am somewhat disappointed in my efforts this month, It just wouldn't go right..
I finally decided to give up and leave it where it was as the more I faffed the more it was going wrong,
Don't you just hate days like that!
Anyways enough waffle.. here's the page

I'm not gonna go into how I made the page as I can't remember there are so many layers lol
All I do remember is that I painstakingly diecut 31 mini doilies.

You may be able to tell that the left of the page had black outlines with some of the dots of the doilies coloured in, well I hated how it looked so I slapped a load of gesso over the entire page to tone it down.
Guess today just wasn't a good day to journal.. Oh well, you can't win them all can you.
I also forgot to photograph my feb page, so i'll try and remember and add the pic later.
I'll be back over the weekend with my march Timmy tag.
Till then Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥