This is an interesting, and insightful challenge posed by Michelle this month. Looking back, I can’t believe it’s been 15 months since I started taking part in the Street Team Crusades. That was the turning point for me, artistically. Each challenge provided a new adventure, a new experience, a little more confidence and then last [...]
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“Peace” is this week’s theme at GA and I knew straight away that I wanted to use my “Birdie” stamp in lieu of a dove, to symbolise Peace. I chose some green and silver handmade paper (as I am trying to use all the stash I have laying around…) for the background and all the [...]
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I really enjoyed my voyage of discovery last year when I started joining in with Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusades. It opened my eyes to a lot of new artistic possibilities and created a few demons too – a slight obsession with handcarving stamps, for instance – *grins*
I also ‘met’ new people and took [...]
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I wrote that long post yesterday about what a month September had been and then went on to carve those 2 stamps and make a coffin ATC for Created by Hand – what a neat challenge that was!! I used a couple of collage images, cut one out and did a gel transfer to make [...]
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Weekend Taggers are such lovely people, I can’t not join in!! This week the theme is ‘Our House’ and I have made a ‘House of Cards’ tag, because often in our house, that’s how it feels… we daily juggle so many causes, hopes, ambitions and emotions, it all feels as tenuous as a house of [...]
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That prodigious German stamping pair – Heike and Sandy – have started another challenge blog, aimed at testing us with techniques… #1 is to ‘distress it’! No problem there then! I have used fired brick distress ink on a crumpled bookpage, spritzed and ironed, for my background. I seem to be in humorous mode at [...]
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Julie & Crissi have got another super challenge over at Artygirlz this week – ‘Triangles’! I have made a most peculiar (for me), card for this one and I’ve used my own handcarved stamp on the ‘hidden’ tag!! Woohoo – I’m addicted!!
Here’s the tag…
I know you can’t see the word very well because the background [...]
Filed under: Cards, NGS artgroup, challenges, rubber stamping, vintage | Tagged: Crafty Individuals, handcarved stamps | 16 Comments »
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