The spooky heart card

I'm not long back from a few days spent staying with my friend Hels.  Apart from enjoying her wonderful hospitality, it was fun to do a bit of crafting using someone else's stamp collection for a change!  This card is one of the things I made while I was there.

The background is a piece from the "paint palette" page in Tim Holtz's Crowded Attic card stack.  I used my finger to rub white acrylic paint on it, making it thicker on the left edge and thinner as I moved right, until the paint stopped around 2/3 of the way across.  I then applied Fired Brick distress ink around the edges.

The central heart was stamped and masked, then the other two hearts were stamped.  All 3 were coloured with a red promarker and I dripped alcohol ink blending solution onto the central heart to make it's colour bleed out.  I masked off the area around the heart and stamped the image onto it.  The phrenology head was coloured yellow (somehow - I forget what I did, lol) and then Fired Brick was sponged onto it.  The eyes were highlighted with a white pen.  Elements were edged with a warm grey promarker and the mat was coloured with the same pen.  That's about it!  I didn't realise it was so complicated until I sat down to type this, lol!

That's the way the money goes...

The theme for this week's Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "anything goes".  I've had this MDF house moneybox for a few weeks now and thought this was the perfect piece to make for this challenge.

I covered the box in papers from the Kraft Resist and Crowded Attic collections by Tim Holtz, and then stained them with Antique Linen and Forest Moss Distress stains.  Panels from other Tim Holtz card stacks were placed in bookplates and memory frames and used to embellish the front of the house.  I rounded the whole thing off with a plaquette number and a word key!

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

Gingersnap Creations - "Office Supplies" Challenge

"Office Supplies" is the theme over on the Gingersnap Creations blog this week. After completing the configurations box that I blogged here I had 3 of the small boxes left, which I thought would be perfect for this project.

I started by joining the 3 boxes together with my ATG gun, then covered them with paper from the Tim Holtz "Crowded Attic" card stack, finishing off the edges with Tissue Tape. I pierced 4 holes in the bottom and inserted large chrome brads to act as feet. I added 2 metal handles to the front and filled the compartments with office supplies (of course!). The tickets were from the "Lost & Found" card stack and the vintage eyeglasse came from the Artistic Stamper. Click one of the images for a larger view.

Pop over to the GC blog to see how the other DT members have interpreted the challenge - go on, you know you want to! :)