sunday postcard art guest host

I was very excited to be invited to be guest host at Sunday Postcard art this week. After much thinking I decided on the theme "Hobbies and Pastimes" . I thought that this would be a nice challenge to start the year with as it's when we often think about taking up new hobbies, or maybe we had something for Christmas which sparked a new interest. Of course it doesn't have to be your hobby, it could be just a general hobby.

there's so many themes that could be included, such as crafts, sports, dance, cinema, reading, cooking, music, photograpy..... the list goes on and on. I hope you enjoy the theme and I look forward to seeing the entries.

Don't forget all entries must be postcard sized (6"x4"), but apart from that, anything goes.

I chose to honour my other favourite hobby: knitting, with this lovely image from Hampton art (I think) I plan to give this to another knitting friend as a card.

Scary Fairy!!

I love this theme at sunday postcard art, and as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what image I wanted to use. This fairy from scrolls work is about as non-scary as you can get, but I thought I'd Hallowe'en her up a bit!
I have coloured her with with Coloursoft pencils and a blender pencil.
The crows, Shaylee, and Netting are all Scrollswork stamps available from Happy Daze. Old English Hallowe'en is one of Jo Capper-Sandon's Stamps from Stampotique, als0 available from Happy Daze.

sunday postcard art : jasmin again!!

The theme at sunday postcard art is insects so I had to play with one of Jo's new Bee stamps, so of course I had to play with Jasmin again, I don't seem to be able to resist colouring her in, she's so gorgeous, and she works so well with flowrs soft that I had to use some of that again...

I have added some stickles to the bee's wings, but it's hard to see on the pictures.

the edge is done with a martha stewart border punch.

Jo's stamps are made by stampotique and available from Happy Daze in the UK.

This is my second post today, check out the post below as there is a link to the forever friends challenge where there are amazing goodies to be won!

Time for Tea

The theme at sunday postcard art is "Time for Tea". I knew straight away that I wanted to use this new Mabel Lucie Atwell stamp of the mad hatters tea party from the artistic stamper. The gingham bunting is made with the gingham background stamp from the artistic stamper, but I hand drew the triangles (that's about the extent of my drawing capabilties- dodgy triangles!!).
I have edged the card with tumbled glass distress ink, and decoupaged the bunting and teapot.

The effect of the scratching is where I tried to remove some stray ink, but I liked it so I added some more, lol

sunday postcard art :cupids

Happy Valentine's day!!
I decided to take part in Sunday Postcard Art's challenge, using stamps from PaperArtsy.
I love this stamp, and it's probably one of the largest stamps I own. I enjoyed combining this ink and the dog stamp with some of the more doodly stamps from the squiggly ink range. This is one of the things I love about Paperartsy, they carry such distnctly different ranges, yet they still work together so well.
The wings and words are from a winter wonderland plate, the small heart is from a christmas fairy plate, and the large heart is a mini.
The ribbon is also from PaperArtsy
The Cupid background paper is Basic Grey

sunday postcard art : time

The theme at sunday postcard art is "time" the perfect opportunity to use the new Ink and the dog clock stamps from Paperartsy (I absolutely love that cog stamp- which is also available as a mini). The paper is also paperartsy, from the rum and raisin pack (yes I know they are supposed to be for christmas, but there are plenty of scrummy papers in the pack which are suitable for non christmas too.)

The clock is painted with a layer of rock candy distress paint, which I ran over with blue ink once it had crackled, The edge of the paper is coloured with black soot distress ink. I have finished the piece with some ribbon and a gem.

sunday postcard art : Fish

I made this quick postcard (6x4) for Sunday Postcard Art, using this little fishing boy mini from PaperArtsy, the other stamps are all from a paperarsty frames plate

Seriously, What are the chances?

Can you believe I posted a wizard of oz piece yesterday and the challenge at sunday postcard art today, is "somewhere over the rainbow"
Well I just had to get my new wizard of oz plate from the stampsmith out again!!
I made the background by rubbing distress inks onto a non-stick sheet, then spritzing with water abd putting the card onto it. it came out much more vibrant than I expected!
I have also put this on the stampsmith blog

Alice Postcard

I couldn't let the Alice theme at sunday postcard art go by without something.My first thought was to do a really simple piece with Alice on an Alice in wonderland book page, but I just kept adding to it. Most of the bits on this piece are things I found in the pile of rubbish on my desk

gothic arches sunday postcard and an Inka Sale

The theme at Gothic Arches is pink and brown and the theme at sunday postcard art is Once Upon A Time, so I combined these two challenges to make this arch/postcard. The piece is postcard sized, but folds to form a card.

The gorgeous collage image and stamps are all by Inka. And on the subject of Inka Stamps I am pleased to announce the following Sale for the month of March.

Inka Stamps is proud to announce that we have a new design team member Cynthia Powell! To celebrate if you put Cindy in the message to seller box on the check out order form you will get a 30% refund within 24 hours. If you are ordering snail mail you can just deduct the 30 % off qualifying merchandise.

This offer is not applicable to prize awards, items already on sale, grab bags and items on the "Vintage found items and mounting supplies" page at Inka Stampstheme

sunday postcard art

The theme at sunday postcard art is chairs. I have this image from Inka which reminded me of grabbing the last chair at musical chairs, so that is the theme I went for. All stamps are by Inka

circles postcard

The theme at Sunday Postcard art is to make a 6"x4" postcard with the theme circles. I have used circles on the background by stamping with water onto a distress ink background with a ringer stamp and stamping in distress ink as well.
I have combined this with the lots to do challenge "in stitches" by stitching some circles with string. The base of this piece is corrugated cardboard.

The main image (from Inka) is on vellum, hence the various ways it is attached to the background.

santa postcard

The theme at theme thursday this weel is santa and the theme at sunday postcard art is winter wonderland. I've combined them in this postcard, which I have then mounted onto a 5x7 card. I know I should be working on the batch cards, but these ones are much more fun.
The collage image and stamps are by Inka (I've used the marble fleck stamp again, I see a recurrent theme coming on!)
The stitching on this is real as is the gingham fabric.

grungy postcard?

The theme at sunday postcard art is bicycles and the theme at saturdays workout is "can you be grungy?".
Now, I'm not exactly sure what grungy means. I used to think it meant muddied, distressed, collagy type thing, but it seems to have developed a new meaning of using circly bits on your work. I'm confused.

well I needed a bit of an antidote to all that prettiness of the gothic arch challenge, so I decided to have a go at grunging it up a bit!
So I hope this counts as grungy. I also hope it counts as a bicycle postcard, because strictly speaking it's a tricycle (it's okay I've just checked, tricycles are allowed)!!
I've even taken the photo in a grungy place, on my back step, as it was the best place to get the last of the natural light.

The image is by Inka and I have distressed it by scrunching it, sanding it and inking it. I've used sequence waste, ringer and newpaper clippings stamps all from Inka.

I've been a bit of a challenge addict today, but I think I'm done for the day now, the light is fading and the bulb has gone in my craft room and I'm too lazy too change it!

let them eat cake!

The theme at sunday postcard art this week is Cakes. Well isn't that just perfect, with these new Inka stamps to play with. I have used Miss tart, tea room,tea goddess and the torn stamp (which is not a new one).
I have also been playing with Joanne's technique for making paper flowers from the inspirational tips and techiques. what a fantastic technique. I shall be using it a lot!!

the main background is watercoloured, and then I've used some patterned papers as well.