Fly my pretties...fly!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "fly".  Isn't that a great theme?  So many possibilities for things you can do with it, no excuse for not having a try and you might win a prize!  I decided to combine several winged things into one card, adding wings to the silhouetted figure.

As I mentioned over on the challenge blog, those of you who visit my blog regularly will know that the winged man from the Winged Things 2 stamp set is one of my favourites.  Naturally, when I saw that the theme was "fly", that image popped straight into my head.  I thought that this time I'd give him a rest though, and used the boy from the same set instead.  He was stamped and coloured with Promarkers.

The background is the splatter background from Darkroom Door, stamped twice, once in Gathered Twigs and once in Fired Brick distress inks.  The cupid, on his first time out of the packaging, was stamped and then coloured with Aged Mahogany distress stain, then cut out.

The silhouette figure was stamped and cut out, then the heart was hand drawn with a Ruby promarker and edged with a white pen.  The wings were stamped and embossed with white powder then edged with a black promarker.  I used the same Ruby promarker to colour over the top of the white embossing powder.  I'm stoked to have stumbled across this technique (hey, I'm a slow learner, ok?), it basically means I effectively now have scores of colours of embossing powder, limited only by the range of promarkers I own!

It doesn't show up too well in the photos, but the figures are mounted on 3d foam at different heights for extra interest.

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! 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! :)
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A bit of fooling around for April Fool's Day!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week is "No Rules".  What better day to fool around with some new stash than April Fool's Day, right?  I love "no rules" challenges, it's a chance to sit down and just let your mind wander with no set destination and see where the journey takes you.  It appears that my journey took me to a victorian theatre, at least that's what it looks like to me!  It wasn't intentional, but I think those newsprint scallops look a little like theatre seats and that border strip on the left hand side could just about be the edge of a stage curtain.  You don't think so?  Come on folks, work with me here!  Well, I see it (stamps foot), so there :)

I started out by misting my background with water and then applied splats of distress stain in a few colours.  After drying it I inked up the whole sheet from the Kaisercraft grungy alphabet and applied it as a background stamp.  The Tim Holtz distressed alphabet was inked in the same way and applied to a sheet of white-core craft card which I tore and fixed to my background.  The border strip was cut from part of the Around the Edge stamp set, which I coloured (highlighting parts with a white pen) and fixed in place.

The natty victorian chap was stamped, coloured and cut out, then fixed in place.  I coloured some card with distress stains and then stamped the scallops on top and cut them out, fixing them to my card.  I gave the "seats" and the man a faint grey border to make them pop a little using a promarker.

Finally the whole piece was mounted on black card then onto a white card blank.  As I look at it now, his eyes seem to follow me around the room, and he doesn't look too happy.  If I find out what the problem is, I'll be sure to let you know! :)

Oh, and happy Easter everyone! :)


Supplies I used included:

InLinkz.com

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! 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! :)
Don't forget, Simon Says Stamp have a great Facebook page too!  Check them out here!