Eileen's Allhallows Workshop

Hi everyone.

This is the first opportunity I have had to tell you about the fantastic workshop I had with Eileen Godwin at Allhallows.

We had a fabulous day, with great inspiration from Eileen.

Card 1

Using the white side of Centura Pearl card stock,

I used distress inks to blend the background.

I removed the roller from a brayer and wound torn strips of cheap masking tape around the roller before snapping back into place.

I misted the brayer heavily with water and rolled it rapidly over my distress ink background a few times, and dried it with a heat gun.

I added some more ink through a stencil.

Finally I  stamped the images, Studio 490 stamps from Wendy Vecchi.

Such fun to do.

Card 2

Distress inks blended background on the card.

Flick water over the background and dry with a heat gun.

Draw an oval shape on to the background in pencil as a guide, and stamp with small foliage or flower stamp around to make the wreath using various colours of distress inks.

The Love was cut from Quickutz dies. 

 The butterflies are punched.

Card 3

I used three colours from the Citrus inks range.

I added small amounts of ink straight onto my craft mat and swiped the card through the inks to get a beautiful effect.

The leaf images were stamped in various colours of Archival inks.

The Clarity Dream stamp was also stamped in Archival ink.

FABRIC ATC's

Today I thought I would tell you about my next attempt at ATC's.

The second theme was FABRIC

I found the background material in my vast stash and decided to take the Hippie road.

The beetle and surf board are stamps I bought from Stamp Addicts. 

The images are coloured with pro markers and the trim is glittered.

The flower is punched and a gem stuck in the centre.

The VW on the peace atc is a Kanban stamp which I had to shrink to fit onto the atc.

Coloured with pro markers and bumper is glittered.

The windows are glazed with Diamond Glaze.

The wording was stamped with Clarity Letterbox kit and shrunk to fit and the flower is punched.

The VW camper on the ban the bomb atc is by Little Claire Designs and again had to be reduced in size as it was to large to fit on the act.

I again coloured it with pro markers and glittered the bumper.

The Flower Power image was found on the internet and I cut it out and glazed with Diamond Glaze.

I called this set Summer of '69 as it gave me the feeling of Woodstock, peace and love.