My First Ever House

There is a new swap on Hels Crafty Angels where we will be making houses to swap and then we will have our own little streets - what a lovely idea! Anyway, I was a bit nervous about joining in cus I'd never made a house before! I designed my own house template and then went from there. The first one I made went straight in the bin, it was really awful! Eventually I made this one, which has got the distress inks peeled paint, broken china and a touch of worn lipstick dabbed onto the background and I then went round the edges with my copper leafing pen. I used this lovely stamp from The Artistic Stamper as the main focal point and added a grungeboard crown to him. I then found this hand which was part of another stamp which I thought would be fun to put in the roof and looks like its trying to nick his crown!!! I really enjoyed making this house but I'm not sure about what to do for the next nine!!!!!!

Paper Artsy Tags

I really enjoyed this months Hels Angels swap theme which was Paper Artsy. I used various distress inks, daubers and glossy accents to get the effects, some went a bit wrong but I liked the way they turned out anyway so that was fortunate :)

Another wonky one!

Well tonight I have been making my tags as part of the Hels Angels January tag swap which has a Tim Holtz theme. I didn't think I would be able to join in with this one until I discovered that a stamp I bought at the weekend was actually a Tim Holtz one - what a stroke of luck!!!

Anyway, I created a tag shape and covered it with antique linen distress ink, then I used a dotty image and made a background, I went round the edges with my peeled paint and then stamped some swirl designs top and bottom and added my Tim Holtz stamp in the middle (yes I stamped it wonky again!!). I finished off by making a hole with my cropadile and pulling some thread through and finally attached 3 beads.