Attitude Is Everything!

Yet another index card! Yet another Stampotique stamp - one of my oldest ones this time! She's called Jill and has proper attitude!!! Acrylic paints as a base and lots of stamping with Archival Black and Kaisercraft clear stamps.

Enjoy the sunshine! JulieD x

Herbert Hare's First Outing

Had my eye on this Stampotique stamp since I saw the new release designs on Kassa's Facebook page - fab, eccentric character! I've used Distress Crayons to colour him and the background - these are a great product and quick and easy to use.

Hope you like him - with his inside out ear - as if he wasn't quirky enough! JulieD xxx

Monster Love

Once I got started with index cards and my Stampotique collection there was no stopping me! Hope you like this one with two of Kira's monsters - Artichoke Monster and Goat Monster, don't they make a lovely couple?!

Have a lovely weekend. JulieD

My Stampotique Index Cards

Well Kassa's new Stampotique stamps have really wowed me - Cecil is udderly eccentric!!! Here's my first play with him…

There's a sparkly crystal 'bindi' between his eyes and the paints used are the fabulous Amsterdam fluorescents.

More creations with my Stampotiques soon! Julie xxx

ps Another three arrived in the post this morning - just can't get enough of them!

Who Says I Only Do Dark and Grungy...

I've loads of stuff I want to blog at the moment but I'm going to start with this ever so funky little house that I've finished today instead of doing the housework (tut tut...)

 I started it a while ago by painting and spraying the house then adding texture paste to the roof and painting that blue when it had dried - I also started choosing and stamping characters to live in my world of colour - they are all Stampotique and are stamped in Archival black then sprayed generously with Dylusions, Colourwash and Perfect Pearls Mists - even the patterning on the letters is Stampotique - from Angel Boy's wings!!! Most of the decorating has been done today - it's totally out of character but I loved creating it! The little bouquet started out white and got a good spraying and the lightbulb at the top is an Idea-ology one which I coloured with purple alcohol ink. I'm entering it into The Stampotique Challenge (Colourful theme) and Simon Says Stamp and Show (Anything Goes theme). Hope you like it - it certainly cheers me up! JulieD x

Moth Fab - With Added Glitter!

I always say that my Stampotique girls are my favourite stamps but hardly ever get to use them so when I decided to enter the Stash Buster Competion on UK Stampers, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get them out! The remit was to use glitter and the prize is stuff from The Stamp Pad. Here's my creation:

I'm not a regular user of glitter but this was fun! Hope you've enjoyed the autumn sun. JulieD

eye of the beholder ...

This month on the fabulous UKStampers forum we are doing a postcard swap with the theme of 'Beauty' - this is my interpretation:

I'd been wiping colourwash ink up off my craft mat with a piece of red card and I've used that as my background then stamped two of my favourite Stampotique girls in plum archival, stamped a few flourishes on the background then given it a kraft card base (just to make it a bit sturdier as it's being posted 'naked') and finished it off with a stamped title. Gorgeous! Just goes to show, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder as I adore these two characters!!  I think I might cheat and laminate this before adding the postage stamp as I don't want them getting wet! Hope to blog again later. See you then! JulieD

Sunny Days Postcard

Here's a postcard I have sent for a swap. I really enjoyed creating this and it makes me look forward to summer! I love these Stampotique girls! I've used Olivia, Sheer and Karin on this one.

The background is created with various blue and yellow shades of Distress Inks, sequin waste, an Art Impressions stamp and some Lakeland background stamps of dots and dashes. I've also used a Viva Decor stamp for the 'Postcard' word, a clarity stamp for the postage stamp and my trusty Hero Arts alpha stamps for the title. The 'beach' is a crumpled piece of sandpaper and I've used some gilding flakes in the corner for a bit of extra detail.

Hope it makes you smile!

I'm off to pack my craft tote for a weekend of crafting and fun on the Stamp Pad crafty retreat.

JulieD

Hope, Heal, Happiness ATCs

I'm back again with another installment from my crafting life!

I only discovered ATCs a couple of years ago and for a long time made them and kept them - hence my husband's terminology, AKCs (Artist's Keeping Cards)!  Last year I started joining in with the Craft Stamper monthly swap and more recently have been involved with the UK Stampers forum monthly swap - kindly organised by Sam!

These are from last month's swap - entitled Hope, Heal, Happiness where the parameters were to use one of the words on each ATC. These were made during a period of intense back pain through a fug of medication so I have kept them very simple this time!

For my first ATC, I used a magnetic rubbadubbadoo stamp from the Classic Impressions set (I need to hone my photographic skills!) on a background coloured with various blue shades of Distress Inks, the word 'hope' stamped and glazed with Glossy Accents and a thin ribbon down the right hand side.

My Heal ATC has a musical notes background created with a Judikins stamp on a card coloured with pale pink Distress Inks and the word 'heal' stamped in black Ranger Archival ink. The flower image is from Paperartsy, stamped in black Archival ink on a background of darker pink/red Distress Ink.

My third ATC for this month is 'happiness' and is created using one of my favourite stamps - she's called Karin and is one of my extensive collection of Stampotique stamps - gorgeous isn't she?! She's coloured  using Distress Inks, and stuck onto a painted red background.

Hope whoever received these enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the three I got back!

Going to get some beauty sleep - off for a crafty weekend organised by Gwen at the Stamp Pad tomorrow - can't wait!

JulieD x