Journal Page

This is one of the pages for a journal I am still working on and I am including some old family photos taken with an old box camera I had. Most of these are photos that no one else has, so I am making journals for gifts. I used a new cut and emboss folder that I just got yesterday from Cherish The Thought and made doors to show parts of the photo. I am very happy with the result.
This shows the photo with the doors open. The decoration above the door is part of Tim Holtz style label embossed with Tim Holtz Damask Texture Fades embossing folder. and sponged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Creative Escape Journal

Well here it is, the 5.5 X 8.5 journal I mentioned I had all ready to distress. I have done the distressing with the Distrezz-it-All tool on both the page edges and the chipboard covers. I used a chipboard tag with brads to form part of the title and the word journal is rubber stamped on watercolour paper, cut with a Nestabilities label and embossed with clear embossing powder. The piece is coloured with Fired Brick Distress Ink. I used Memento Rich Cocoa ink to rubber stamp Hampton Art Passport/Woman Collage near the binding edge. The piece of branch from my yard is stitched on with jute cord. I glued a silk flower in the lower right corner and included one of my faux postage stamps. The binding edge is punched with the Zutter Bind-it-All and tied with torn fabric, lace and ribbons. The top fabric is dyed with beat water and the bottom one with coffee. The back cover has a chipboard Sizzix die cut flower covered withvarious papers. "This belongs to" is from Cornish Heritage Farms Ledger Me rubber stamp set and ny name is the signature line from "Follow your dreams" quote stamp from Quietfire Design. I love this journal even better than "Cherish Every Moment". I guess that will last until the next journal. For now it's time to start filling some of these pages.

Oct ATCs

I've made some ATCs today and here are a couple of the ones I've titled "Pumpkin Search". I used a digital scrapbook paper for the background and added the larger footprints from the same digital kit. The pumpkins are mounted on cardstock and the edge rubbed with Vintage Photo distress ink. The number 1 is stamped with Ancient Page coal black. I edged the card with Tea Dye distress ink and then applied Distress Stickles spiced marmalade to the front edge. On the second card I punched holes and added a wire and bead hanger.

ATC July Butterflies

ATC July Butterflies
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

I used white cardstock and stamped the Quietfire Design stamp then used cosmetic sponges to apply Distress Inks. The butterflies are stamped with purple dye based ink and the cardstock was trimmed 2.25in x3.25in and mounted onto a 2.5in x 3.5in dark blue cardstock.

Some ATCs

Earlier this week I played with rubber stamping some ATCs and colouring the image after stamping. The first ATC on the left is coloured with blending chalks and sprayed with workable fixative. The other 2 are coloured with Distress Inks. The "Dance of the Butterflys Collage" stamp is from Paper Inspirations and the "Memories" stamp is from Laundry Line. The Dance was stamped with pigment ink and heat embossed with Pearl lustre Hematite and Memories was stamped with Fired Brick Distress Ink. The final touch was a rinestone on each butterfly wing. I haven't tried colouring in rubber stamped images before, but I am happy with the results.

"Tea" Fat Book Page

I recently finished my contribution to a collaberative book project with members of the Vancouver ATC Group on the theme of tea. For my pages I used tea dyed Distress ink on the paper, then glued images from paper napkins with matt medium. I added a bit of rubber stamping and a small piece of knit lace. There is also a few beads glued to the Lavender napkin image. I made an extra copy just in case so I was able to use it to tip into my assorted paper Zutter Journal. The holes were pre-punched so I wove some ribbon and used brads to hold the page to a cardstock tab in my journal.


This is the back of the page with more rubber stamping and an old coupon from coffee and tea products. The page forms a pocket for a "tea bag" tag with the other "T" technique used.
You can see this journal in my Flickr Photos.

Distress Ink ATC

This weeks Created Byhand Challenge is to use Distress Inks. I started my ATC by spritzing watercolour paper, crumpling and rubbing Antique Linen Distress Ink, I then ironed the paper flat. I cut a piece of pink cardstock to an ATC size and stamped the heart flourish and flourishes from some quote stamps (Quietfire Design) with Walnut Ink Distress Ink. I layered the watercolour paper, a cast paper from a heart rubber stamp onto the pink cardstock with mini brads.