masking digis using spray ink

 SUCKING AT EGGIES PART 1

print out the digi and the cut out a mask from copier paper

 place the mask over the digi and secure, I put a stone on the top and spray away. Add masks but be really careful with spraying water as this can make the inks run (see the dots on the eye of the purple grumpie.

have a white cat come far too near the spray

once dry the digis are ready to colour

Dylusions stamps were then added

I used digis - Dilly beans - heart monster and smeared ink lil grumpies - stumpie.
The rubber stamps were dylusions.
the inks sprays were the wonderful Dylusions sprays and the mask was a craft mask which I reversed as if gave that off balance madness to the proceedings.
I am entering this to the following challenges:
Dilly beans -anything dilly goes
cards in envy - make your own background
Eclectic Ellapu - anything goes

tootles
EE

wave ravaged shore

Greetings,

This is my entry to Quoth the raven challenge which is anything poe goes. The ATC is based on the poe line "Wave ravaged shore". The main image is a photo that I took then  converted using photoshop elements, I then added the skull and raven from Itkupili, for that authentic poe look.

Tootles
EE

bags and boxes

I have been playing a round with paperartsy crackle glaze, bags and boxes. The jigsaw pieces were stamped with a Kaisercraft stamp, the first tag is with a visiual image stamp and finally the whimsey stamp is a mind eye stamp which I have corrupted!

tootles
EE

Try it on Tuesday challenge

 

Dearest Minions, 

Greetings and salutations, this is my DT piece for the latest TIOT challenge which is feminine and fancy. This was a difficult one for me as I had real issues with the stamp I was trying to use which would not work. So frustrating, I ended up using distress ink and spraying it with water, I really like the effect it caused. I later found that Staz-on works really well on these stamps but that was AFTER I made the card. 

 

The flowers have tiny cogs and wheels from watch parts glued in their centre, using glossy accents to fix them. The background of the card is stamped with roses with a water misted stamp and distress inks then I stamped over a Tim Holtz script stamp in a style that I hope looks like letter paragraphs. There is also a tiny bit of lace on the bottom of the image. I am also entering this to:

Dilly Beans: for Mom

Simon Says stamp: Happy mail

Fashionable stamping challenges - anything goes

Please do enter the challenge, I love seeing the inventive designs that crafters come up with.

Tootles
EE

Lemur feeding

Dearest minions,

Here is my entry to this weeks less is more challenge, I'm getting it in a bit late, I am also entering it into:

A little bit crafty - use kraft
the Artistic stamper May challenge - Words
Fahionable stamping challenges - sentimental

but I also wanted to write about a excellent experience I had recently. I fed Lemurs! it was excellent. Linton Zoo has a programme where for £10 per person you can go into the Lemur enclosure and you can feed them by hand.

a black grape for ME?!

 

 

 

 

I was able to stoke one, the fur was so thick and soft. I can not recommend it enough. If you are in the area, Linton Zoo is well worth looking into.

There is also a very good educational talk about Lemurs, all the profits go to a Lemur programme. (They do also have other animals at the zoo.)

massive and happy, he's a love machine and the tiny results are in the hot house

nom nom nom

you can stroke my feathers but NO Dr WHOOO jokes

Tootles EE

what NOT to say at interviews

Morning,

This is my entry to the Smeared and smudged challenge of Freakie Freebie, never one to resist a loin cloth, here is my flowery fae. I am also entering him into:
Dilly Beans - Flowers
Octopode Factory challenge - Flowers
CRAFT Challenge - land of make believe

Tootles
EE

Inventors -TIOT Sarah E Goode

Greetings,

This is my design team piece for the lastest TIOT challenge which is inventors. I triedx to look up some female inventors and found only 28 on wikipeda. I was stunned, however women could not have patents in their own right for centuries, when it was legal even then it was really hard for a woman to have the invention in her own name.

So for Sarah E Goode (1850 -1905) to be one of the first Afro American women to have a patent is a massive achievement in it's own right. Sarah invented the cabinet bed which folded into a cabinet that could hold staionary and other items when not in use. She and her husband owned a furniture shop and found that their customers did not have space. Hence the quote.

Best Wishes
EE