Distressed Note pad

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I have altered & Distressed this cheap black notepad for the lots to do challenge, which this week is distressed.

I used Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Walnut Stain, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo inks, Gold dabber, Clear rock candy, Grunge paper & grunge elements.

Thought I might as well put his TSV to good use!
But I did drop the wet notebook on my lap, so I hope rock candy comes off in the wash!

Canvas

I have to confess, I had made this ages ago, but never done anything with it, it just sat in my craft room.

So this is my entry for this weeks challenge.

Thanks for looking!

Word Challenge

The challenge over on Lots to do Challenge blog is to use a word. Sorry the word is not very exciting! I used an old mint tin. I found some die cut chip board letters which I stuck onto the lid. Then covered the whole tin in self adhesive metal, which I have never used before, so it's a bit rough round the edges. I then used alcohol inks to decorate the tin, I finished using a gold leaf pen to highlight the letters better.

Thanks for looking.

Art

The theme on Lots to Do challenge blog this week is "Art", so I made this canvas.
Background is various acrylic dabbers, then I used a swirl stamp round the edges.
I then used the tissue paper technique, which can be found on the technique zone blog. I seem to struggle with this, as I always seem to get creases when doing this, but on this occasion, I think it adds to the style of the theme!

Gesso

Hope I'm not late for this weeks challenge over on the lots to do challenge blog!

The theme this week is to use GESSO in your work.

I made an atc, with various images stamped onto it, then glossy & crackle accents to finish it off.

In Stitches

This is my attempt at this weeks challenge over on Lots to do challenge blog.

I made a fat page.

The background is the shaving foam technique.


I then added stamped images of flowers & leaves & coloured in with H2O's.

I hope you like it!

Christmas

It is Andreas turn this week to set the challenge on the lots to do blog. I made a canvas, which was covered in red acrylic paint, then snowflake peel offs added & finally a FF image 3d onto it.

Canvas

It is Ang's choice this week & she has chosen Canvas.

Here is mine!
Red acrylic paint for the background & then various stamps. I had done this a while back, even before we had all chosen our themes.

Quoations

It is Hilda's choice of theme this week over on the lots to do blog challenge, & her theme is "quotations". I chose to do an arch, & used one of my Tim Holtz stamps.
The first one I had made, I done some more stamping around it, but it took away the main focus, so I threw that in the bin & just focused on the main image.
As they say, "less is more" & it applied in this case.

Envelope art

I'm so sorry I'm late doing this, it's just been so mad in my life.
Anyhow, this is my envelope for Andrea's choice for the blog last week!

Remembrance day challenge

This is my canvas for this challenge, set by Ang. I painted the canvas red, then added some gold & then added my image, then used mod podge afterwards.

Black & white

Alison has chosen this weeks challenge over on the lots to do challenge blog & her theme is black & white.
I made a fat page, which I used the opaque white staz on with various stamps.

Nature Challenge

OK, confession time. I was on the phone to Andrea, & I had to come up with with my choice of themes on the spot, as I had forgotten all about it! So, there I was, looking round my office for inspiration & I glanced over to my canvas & chose the nature theme for this weeks challenge over on Lots to do challenge blog.
So, here you have it!
Hope you like it & can join in this week!

Stone

This is my effort for the stone challenge theme on lots to do this week.
I covered the arch in stone coloured inks then used my 4 stone stamps, again, in stone like colours, I then used embossing powder to create texture to them.

No stamping Challenge

Over on the lots to do challenge blog, the challenge is "no stamping"! I bought the large decoupage kit form QVC this week & so far I have made 10+ cards with it, & so I thought I would use this as my entry!

Vintage challenge

Over on the Lots to do challenge blog, the theme this week is "vintage". I made a fat page with the background of shaving foam, then used stamps over that. I found some vintage looking images from CI & mat & layered onto gold mirri card then 3d them. Finally, I used my gold pen round the edges.

Red & white

The scan is awfull on this, so it's not showing how it really looks:(
This is my entry for this weels challenge, red & white.
I used red ink for the heart stamp & then highlighted with a white pen.

Week 26 Challenge piece

This week it's Hilda's turn to choose the challenge & it is numbers.
I have made a skinny with dabbers background & Tim's number stamp, as I hadn't used it!

Week 25 Challenge piece

This weeks challenge has been set by Ang & she choose to do a "recipe" & I really enjoyed doing this one!
Hope you can join in with us!

Week 24 Challenge piece

Over on the Lots to do challenge blog, Steph has chosen this weeks theme as "your name". I made it so long ago, that I have forgotten what I did! I know it's a tag, with a meaning of my name, which is officially Margaret, which I hate by the way, but I couldn't find the meaning of Mags! I think I used acrylic dabbers for the background!