Take One Stamp

The challenge on 12 Months In View today is to take one stamp and find different ways of using it.

I took a large piece of paper and cut it into 4 equal pieces that I knew would fit into my journal.

For the first technique I stamped with Embossing Ink onto the paper. I'm not sure whether you can see the image!

I inked over it with Distress Inks but found that I hadn't really got the embossing ink juicy enough on my stamp so the image didn't show up very well.   I sprayed the paper with water and dried it.

There was a faint image from the stamp so I thought I would use it as a shadow.I stamped the image again using Distress Ink and put it slightly to one side of the original.

For the second image, I put Distress Inks randomly on to the stamp and then misted it with water before stamping it onto the paper.

For the third technique, I stamped the image with the embossing ink and then used Pan Pastel to highlight the image.

 

For the last technique, as I don't own one of those rainbow ink pads I did lines of colour using distress ink.

I stamped the image with embossing ink and put clear embossing powder over and heated it with the heat gun.

When it had cooled I inked over the whole paper with Black Distress Ink and then wiped off the embossed part.   I forgot that embossing powder will stick to Distress Ink if it isn't totally dry so there is added speckle!

I inked round the edges of the papers and stuck them in my journal.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Recycling Challenge

On 12 Months In View today, Joanna has given us a tutorial on recycling a CD. Here's my take on the challenge.

I found an old CD.

I decided to the use the stencilled newspaper from last month's technique challenge.

I covered the written side of the CD with Gel Medium and stuck the paper down and smoothed out as many of air bubbles as possible.

I cut off the excess and left it to dry.

When it was dry I cut round the CD.

I decided to cut out the hole in the middle and then cover the back of the CD in the same way as the front.

I cut through again and then added ribbon.

I found some chipboard butterflies and a piece that looks like sticks and painted a thin coat of gesso over them.  I sprayed the butterflies randomly with 3 colours.  I stuck the sticks diecut onto the CD with Glossy Accents and then attached the butterflies.   I put a small amount of glossy accents on each butterfly and spread it across the ink to make it shine.

I found some fabric embellishments which I painted pink with Spray Ink and a brush. (The spray wouldn't work!).  I attached the flowers to the back with Glossy Accents and then put Stickles in the middle of the flowers and left it to dry.

I hope you enjoyed today's challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.


Bernice

April photo

On the 12 Months in View challenge blog I challenged everyone to take a photo of the same place every month.  Preferably at the same time and the same day so for example the 5th of every month.

This was my photo for March - taken of my back garden from my bedroom window.

The idea was that by the end of the 12 months we would each have a record of the monthly and seasonal changes to the view we take.

At the time of the original challenge, who knew in the UK that winter would return rather than SPring arrive.   Here is today's photo.

You can see that Roger has cut down the bedraggled Pampas Grass and that the snowdrops recovered well from being under 6 inches of snow for a week.

In the bottom left hand corner you can just see the crocus in the lawn that also survived the snow.

Hopefully next month we will see some change.  After all they have promised that the weather WILL warm up - but not for at least a week.