4x4 friday : wings

The theme at 4x4 friday is wings, so I decided to use this cool steampunk image from Scrolls work stamps, along with the quote and firework stamp also from Scrolls Work.
Although this card is actually 5x5 I masked off a 4x4 section and stamped within that, then roughly freehand drew around it.
I wanted to create a multicoloured stamp effect so I used an adirondack rainbow pad in wildflower which is supposed to be yellow, red, green and blue, but I have had it so long that the colours have all merged to create more of a brown effect. However I like it and think it works well with this image.

4x4 friday a boy and a bird

If, like me, you are thinking "hang on didn't 4x4 friday stop ages ago?": you are right. This is a new 4x4 friday challenge and it looks really good. This week the challenge is a boy and a bird. it's strange but I actually have very few boy images.
strange why? 1) because I have thousands of stamps, so by the law of averages, quite a few of them should be boy stamps.
2) I have 2 sons so you'd think I'd collect boy stamps.

Anyway, this boy was taken from a much larger "family values" stamp from the artistic stamper. I have also used some Stitchels stamps and a word stamp all from the artistic stamper.

getting in a mess!

The theme at step outside your box saturday is "Take Chances, Make Mistakes and Get Messy!!!!" and the theme at 4x4 friday is orange and yellow.

so I decided to mess about with orange and yellow acrylic paints. I then decided to have a go at an acrylic paint image transfer. I am always put off doing this as if (or in my case when) it goes wrong, it's a waste of a perfectly good image. but I decided to take the chance and make mistakes if necessary and I made this. The image is by Inka, the transfer didn't go that well (I just don't have the patience to let it dry!!) but I decided to go with it anyway, highlighting the main image with the ringer stamp, and acrylic paint. I also used a swish stamp and some collage words from Inka.

another double challenge

This week's challenge on wednesday stamper is "fish". I found this image at a flea market in spain earlier in the year, and this was the perfect opportunity to use it.
The fish stamp is by Paper artsy.
I received this flourish die today, so I thought I would combine the challenge with 4x4 friday, the theme there is "flouirsh". I decided to use the flourish to hang the piece.

double whammy

This week's theme on wednesday stamper is mulberry paper. I have a drawer full of this stuff, because I never use it. I bought it when I first started cardmaking, and I thought it was "the biz" but it's amazing how quickly you move on. I decided I would take the wednesday stamper challenge, and see if I could make something good with it, but I'm still not convinced. I've used 4 different colours of mulberry paper. I water coloured onto the white, just to see how well it took water colour.

the main stamp is innovative stamp creations and was the first unmounted stamp I ever got (I was given it by Jo, a long time ago) and today is the first time I have noticed the little birds on it in the the bottom right hand corner. so as this weeks 4x4 friday theme is birds I thought I would take that as my inspiraton for this piece.

anyway off to put the mulberry paper back in the drawer.

4x4 friday - woman

I was really excited by the new challenge, 4x4 friday. I love doing square pieces (1x1, 3x3 and now 4x4) so I couldn't wait to give it a go. I've made this one into a little hanging.

I've done two pictures to try to show the black embossing of at its best.