Behold Beauty mirror Altered Art

 This is my entry for the Sunday Stamper Challenge at Hels Sheridans blog page "Ink on my fingers" Pinkleart Blog.  This week it is blue and stamping, I don't do much in blue for some reason but it was nice to do something other than pink or lilac!!

Take a charity shop bargain, mirror for 50p and get messy :-)  I found this on one of my rummaging sessions and it is a nice'ish little mirror but it needed work to turn it from boring cream to something prettier.  Cheap objects like this are great for practicing on, after all if it goes wrong it goes back to the charity shop!!  It gave me a chance to try out some of my new stuff and stash bust my old too.  So here is how I did this with as many details as I can recall.

Lol, the downside of trying to photograph mirrored objects

The wood frame is painted in pearl acrylic paints, I tried to get the brush marks to show for effect so a dry brush method on the final coat helps.  I used two colours of pale blue's .

Randon stamping using faded jeans distress ink and with a brick effect and crackle stamp to suggest texture.

The torn paper is two pages from an old flower book, I washed this with a wet  brush with hardly any paint on to hint at colour. Run through the Cuttlebug in a bark effect folder and a flowery one, then did "ink to paper" with distress ink to show up some of the embossing detail.  Tear into pieces and inked the edges with more faded jeans ink and stuck on with wet glue

 Martha Stewart's NEW silicone moulds for the letters made with UTEE, these are great and give great results, the letters come out so easily and they are quite detailed too

Pour UTEE onto Texture tread rubber and use a butterfly cutter, Shape while still warm,  brushed with Mica powder. The other small butterfly is a Martha Stewart mould.  Various die cut leaves and sprigs were dipped into clear UTEE as well as the flowers

 Paper for the flowers is K & Co

 I used Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, Marianne and Crafts Too die's for flowers and leaves. I love the look they have after being dipped into UTEE, like real crystal flowers

 Close up's of the book pages after inking, embossing and tearing
Thanks for looking xx

Hip to be Square challenge entry - Hels Sheridan

 My resolution this year is to enter more challenges, so here I go on the second one. I have done this for the Hip to be Square Challenge on Hels Sheridans Pinkleart Blog

USED

Mountboard

Tim Holtz Ideaology corners, grungeboard letters and shapes, metal and distress inks

Thin metal sheet

flower die

papers and card

Cuttlebug embossing folders

Paperartsy ephemera

Mountboard

Melt Pot, bronze and gold embossing UTEE

Text stamp

Mica - Perfect Pearls

First I cut loads of squares of paper in plain and pattern card and then embossed in the Cuttlebug.  The edges are inked in Fired Brick distress ink. I dipped the letters and shapes into the melt pot to coat them in UTEE, I  love the bubble effect it makes, probably due to the moisture content?  They are also brushed with Perfect Pearls in pink and gold

The flowers were die cut and rolled from art metal, they are easy to make but can get a little sharp on the edges.  Care is needed when removing from the die as it tears easily. Metal corner protectors on each corner for decoration and the close up of the Paper Artsy ephemera border.

A text stamp has been applied to hot utee on stampboard

Quotations mini book

Nestabilities mini album I made as an alternative to a Birthday Card for my friend.

Used:

Plain cardstock

patterned paper Basic Grey

Cuttlebug folders

Nellie Snellen Frame Die

Paper and fabric flowers

Binding ring

eyelets

Cropodile

Ribbons

Colourbox Eye chalks

Blending tool and foam

Grungeboard die cut shapes

Brads

Christmas Scene

I have made a start on the scene for my front entry porch. So far we have trees, houses and snowmen. Keep watching for the end product
TFLxxx

Merry Christmas Garland

Well with the cards all ready to go I thought Iwould have a go at some decorative things for the house. I decided on a garland first for the front porch where I always have an extra tree and I wanted something for the wall there.

Paper - My Minds Eye - Wondeful Winter Glittered Stack
Papermania - Christmas Textured Plain Cardstock Stack
Cricut Cartridges - Winter Woodland and When its Cold Outside

I did not add anything more as the papers do it all and I love the look just as it is.

Letters cut at 3"
Snowflakes cut at 4 1/4"
Cut File

Holy decorated ribbon was just from a Christmas Wrapping section instore

Place Settings and Friends Cards

I wanted to make some of the cups like Donna had done on Cricut forums but not as cards so I designed a cut file to make them into place names and menu cards. I hope you like them. I have not done them to suit a table theme as they will be for tea-time so a variety of colours suit, with the Christmas Crackers it makes a more fun table, had they been for dinner I would have made them the same to co-ordinate with my table,

I made them with a tab and slot so it would make them stand better. The menu ones have the work cut from the front layer for the names I did cut out letters and stuck them on after. Here is the CUT FILE if you want to have a go with the pattern I made.

The papers are Dovecraft, I added some pompoms to look like marshmallows on some of them and used glitter and flakes for "sprinkles". The menu ones have a printed menu inside made in "MS Word" and cut out

I have finished my cards but I couldn't resist making a few more just in case I forgot anyone, its always good to have some spares. The papers are Forever Friends with matching Double Sided card stock, some mirror board and punched snowflakes. I used a free embossing board gift from a magazine to make the greetings.