Industrial Grunge On A Saturday

I've been getting into industrial grunge with Tando Creative alterables. Elaine has lots of fabulous Alterable items in Quixotic Paperie that are great fun to play with!

I love getting a little messy with paints so this is the perfect make for me with painted jute and grunged foil!

Easy to do, cover some card with kitchen foil and emboss with an embossing folder through your die-cutting machine. 

Fun bit, add black paint! Messy!

Wipe off most of the paint to give the grunged look.

You can do anything you like with the Tando Creative items, paint them, cover them with papers all sorts of things. I've added texture with Golden Molding paste on mine and then painted it with acrylic paints.

Finishing by adding a dollop of red paint and Glossy Accents to the two top hearts.

If you are into birdhouses then check out the Tando Creative ones - so cute! 

Enjoy playing!

Kim

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Itty Bitty Christmas Decoration

A Christmas Decorations for you today and I've been playing with my melt pot and paints to make this little fellow. It makes a lovely vintage tree decoration I thought?

I've used the Unity Itty Bitty Joy stamp which you can get over at Make The Day Special. The Itty Bitty stamps aren't small as the name suggests this one is just under ATC size (2.5 inch by 3.5 inch)

I would love to see your Christmas Decorations! Let me know if you have any on your blog and I will pop by to take a look.

Thanks for popping in today.

Kimx

Tea's Up! Bring The Biccies

I drink a lot of tea, love the stuff so I usually have one or two of these around the flat:

What to do with all that lovely cardboard? What to do? What to do? Oh I know! Make jewellery!

Of course and it fits so perfectly with The Altered Element's theme this month which is:

Recycle

I've made a little bezel pendant from my tea box and re-purposed a safety pin as well for extra recycling-ness!

If you look closely at the pedant you might be able to spot some embossing and I've used Acrylic paint to give it a metallic look and extra texture with a lighter colour smoothed into the embossing. I added a layer of glossy accents in the centre and a touch of Tim Holtz Ranger Rock Candy crackle paint on the raised edges.

The chess and bingo pieces are from the Creative Expressions Vintage games stamp kit and have been coloured with Tim Holtz Range distress inks. 

The safety pin has been distressed and then sealed with Mod Podge. By the way you can get lovely brass chains and bits and pieces from the Vintaj Natural Brass Co. section at The Altered Element if you haven't found it already.

Oh and I would like to thank my model Mini Manikin! 

Enjoy your day. Catch you later.

Kimx

The Altered Element Magic Circle

Hi folks, I have my last DT make for this Month's Enchanted Challenge over at The Altered Element blog. I have a loose interpretation of the challenge for you! Bear with me :) Ok so if you think Enchanted and think of a magical interpretation, then side step to Magic as a subject and slight of hand tricks then you have the inspiration for my make today - which I have called 'Magic Circle' LOL! Ok so it is a little loosely based on 'Enchanted' - I did warn you!

I've used stamps from two of the Creative Expressions stamp sets: Vintage Games and Vintage Aviation. I've also been heavy with the old Rangers Tim Holtz Distress inks for this one!

Ooo and some exciting news - I was picked as a Ginger Gem over at Gingersnap Creations for my Neutrals Plus One challenge entry! Thanks Guys you made my day!

Have a wonderfully magical Saturday!

Kim

Make The Day Special Sale And Gingersnapping!

Hey Guys, I've gone all distressed for my make today and I've used a stamp from the Unity Key to Joy kit with a sentiment from the Unity Life Becoming kit, two of my favourites Unity stamp kits. 

You might be pleased to know that Emily currently has a special offer on these two kits as well as on a number of the other big Unity store kits in the Make The Day Special shop! Wahoo! Today is shopping day!

My make was inspired by two challenges over at the fabulous Gingersnap Creations blog. The inchies are from the Gingersnap Creations challenge GC71 and the colour combo is from the Gingersnap Creations neutrals plus one other colour challenge GC72.

You will also find this card in my Etsy and Folksy shops!

Thanks for popping by folks!

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Unity Key to Joy kit; Unity Life Becoming kit

Inks - Archival coffee; Various Ranger Tim Holtz Distress inks;

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Golden Soft gel

Other - Calico; Corrugated card; Eco Green Acrylic Paint; Bondaweb

The Greeting Farm Notebook

Fancy a nice Sunday afternoon walk in the park? Well Anya and Ian did! It is the front of a notebook I made for the recent The Greeting Farm Altered Notebook challenge. I've had the digital stamps of Autumn Anya and Ian for ages and have wanted to use them since I got them but time and other projects always got in the way until now!

You can't get these as digital stamps any more but don't despair you can now get them as lovely mounted rubber The Greeting Farm Stamps in a fabulous kit with sentiments, Quixotic Paperie has them ready to find new parks to walk through! The papers are from the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love mini deck.

You might be interested in some new products at Quixotic Paperie? Elaine has been busy and there are lots of new yummies over at the shop. 

A brand new and gorgeous 6×6 paper pack from Memory Box is in stock – it’s called TINSEL.  Now also in stock are Marianne Designs paper pads and Creatables dies!  Basic Grey and Graphic 45 restocks have arrived, and the Belles ‘n Whistles Changeabelles collection is in stock!

PLUS there is a super sweet Whimsy Stamps preorder on – they are releasing some adorable new stamps by Meljen Designs!

Enjoy your Sunday walk!

Kim

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 41

Quixotic Paperie Challenge DT make to show today and this week the challenge was thought up by the lovely Emma and is:

How Does Your Garden Grow?

All about adding flowers and / or leaves to your make. 

I decided to go on a bit of a steampunk / punk / emo  theme for my make this week using the wonderful The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Eric available over at Quixotic Paperie. I've matched him (her?) with the gorgeous Graphic 45 papers from the Halloween in Wonderland and Christmas Past packs. 

The papers were fun to distress and I 'rusted' a silver chain, safety pins and brads to embellish the make. The leaves are cut from a book page and I lightly glazed them with the Viva Decor Walnut Gloss Pen. 

The cogs are light card painted with acrylic paints. Got some more close-ups:

Showed a lot of details today! Think I quite like how this one turned out LOL!

Before I go just a quick mention of the new special stamp from Elizabeth Bell at SCACD. Elaine has her on Pre-order for delivery in a couple of weeks.

Have a fabulous Emo Wednesday.

Kim

Materials:
Stamps -  The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Eric; Studio G alpha
Inks - VersaFine Onyz Black and sepia
Colouring - Prismacolour pencils; Sansodor
Papers - Graphic 45 papers from the Halloween in Wonderland and Christmas Past
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue; Double-sided tape
Other - Chain; Safety pins; Brads; Acrylic paints; Book page; Viva Decor Walnut Gloss Pen; Seam ripper; Mask

Key To My Joy ATC

I thought I would do an ATC today, I haven't done one for ages and I do enjoy making them! For this one I have used the lovely Unity Key To My Joy stamp kit available over at Make The Day Special. I've also used the wonderful Black and Red colour combo inspiration from Gingersnap Creations.

Hope you have a day through of joy.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Unity Key To My Joy

Ink - Archival Black; VersaFine Onyx black

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Scissors

Another Mixed Media Card

Some more playing with texture for my make today. For this one I've painted some calico, ripped out book pages and torn up packaging. I love getting messy! For the focal point of this piece I have used the gorgeous stamps from the July Unity Store Kit Key To Joy available over at Make The Day Special.

I did think that the butterfly and sentiment worked nicely together, what do you think? If you take the music notes on the butterfly as the 'Master Key'? Is that pushing it?

Well hope you have a musical day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - July Unity Store Kit Key To Joy

Ink - Versamark sepia; Distress ink Vintage Photo

Colouring - Neocolor crayons

Usual Suspects - Golden Heavy gel; silicone glue; Bonda-web; Scissors

Other - Calico; Acrylic paint; Book page

Looking For Some Summer Sun

My card today is a plea to the Summer weather. It seems to be a bit all other the place at the moment, so I thought a card to the weather might help!

As you can see I am going through a bit of a corrugated card and painted fabric phase at the moment! The stamps I've used are from the wonderful Unity Adventures in Happiness store kit which you can get from Make The Day Special.

Hope you have a day of sunshine.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Unity Adventures in Happiness store kit

Ink - Archival black

Usual Suspects - silicone glue; Golden soft gel

Other - Thread; Calico; Acrylics; Corrugated card; Glitter glue