More fun with Sue

Front cover


Carol and I went to The Stamp Attic yesterday for another class with Sue Roddis. This time we did Faux Metal (or Forks Metal as we kept calling it, lol).


We covered card with foil, ran it through a Cuttlebug to emboss or deboss, and then added black paint .....which was then wiped off. Next came the Stazon inks, applied with fingers - I'm still trying to get that off!!

All the extra bits were made by colouring blobs on to a piece of shiny card in a Playgroup kind of way, and then stamping and cutting out the images. Finally, the pages were joined with ribbon to form a small book.

Much mess was made, and great fun was had....Thanks a million Sue, will miss you when you go to Khazakstan (OMG!!)













couple of pages close up



Inside







The finished book.

A Class with Sue Roddis

I thoroughly enjoyed making this at the weekend - it was at a class run by Sue Roddis at The Stamp Attic. Called Up My Street, we made three chipboard house shapes which we covered with ripped up book pages. There followed a happy afternoon splatting them with Distress Inks and spraying with water and getting in a complete mess - what fun!! The houses were then joined together and a kind of fence added on the back.

I think I started off with some kind of colour scheme, which then got lost, because the wonderful thing about Distress inks is that they all go together anyhow. I added a few bits of metal, and a feather - loving the Stampotique stamps, they're completely barking mad......




























Some of the stamps got scribbled on along the way....

Dream Canvas

Made this 14 x 10 canvas at a brilliant class yesterday, at Lin B's shop LB Crafts. We got extremely messy with paper, paint, wood filler, more paint, wax, metal, and yet more paint and had a lot of fun!









The 'DREAM' letters were cut from doubled up card stock, gold embossed and waxed.

'BELIEVE' tags were covered in adhesive metal, and then we added paint, alcohol inks and got messier and messier!
When I got it home, I added a 'Craft Room' sign, a tag that was lying around, and a little 'Keep Out' tag - not that anyone will take any notice, I'm sure.
All in all, my idea of heaven, and I can't wait to go to the next one.