Craft Stamper's April Take It - Make It Challenge

Servus and welcome back to the new Take It - Make It challenge over at Craft Stamper!

This month we want to see

 "Bottles" 

 at the center of your makes. 

This was the perfect excuse for me to buy the lovely Crafty Individuals stamp set with the poison bottles to use it on this tag:

To achieve more depth I layered and stacked the stamped and cut out bottles with sticky foam pads.

The "Danger" sign was stamped with DI "barn door" and given two coats of clear UTEE. Then I mounted it to my tag together with a cut to size piece of burlap paper.

The background was done from a colour copy of some old chemists notes I found at the flea market. I blended it with some DI pumice stone and sprinkled some water droplets on it. I also sprinkled it with some drops of watered down Distress ink "gathered twigs" (using a fine detail brush) and stamped some faux mug prints in several spots.

I repeated the red colour with the ribbon and one of the bottles' labels to make all my elements "bond" with the design and added a simple card enforcement ring to place emphasis on the worn and aged paper look of my tag.

Hope to see you join in Craft Stamper's Take It - Make It challenge soon! There's a prize to be won too! ;)

Hugs and happy crafting,
Claudia xx

A Last Minute Valentine for the Take It, Make It Challenge at Craft Stamper

I guess I just had to do "my version" of a project with a heart....in answer to the floods of red hearts around and before Valentine's Day.

As we don't celebrate it, it does not mean a lot to me honestly. My HB brings me flowers every now and then anyway and tells me that he loves me quite often - and whenever he feels he needs to. So we don't need a special date for this...and as he is a mathematician (and therefore quite stubborn), he would never ever do it on Valentine's Day - even if it were important to me - , because everybody else does AND because he was TOLD TO by some collective habit and special date. (Do I have to mention that we don't celebrate mother's day at home either?)

As I recently joined the Craft Stamper Design Team I also am free to conbribute to the wonderful Take It, Make It - Challenge which is hosted monthly by the lovely Trish Latimer!

This time "repeat stamping with a small stamp" is the theme and it is a lovely way to create gorgeous patterns which can be used on a large variety of projects.

I used one of the 15 "Ornament & Floral Designs" stamps from Rico Design I once bought and almost forgot about. I stamped with DI "barn door" and "embossing ink" and heat embossed my three rows of hearts using Ranger Ultra Fine clear embossing powder. Then I blended the whole tag with DI "black soot" and wiped back the colour from the clear embossed hearts.

After that I die cut the thread spool and the tailors puppet (using the Sizzix Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers dies I recently bought at the large Sizzix Sale for about four Euro!) from light brown manila card and blended the edges with "gathered twigs" DI.

To create the heart I first drew and then cut a shape from heavy card and gave it a coat of white Distress crackle paint which I coloured red (using some Distress paint) after it was dry. Then I rubbed in some "black soot" DI to make the cracks more visible and gave the shape an outline with a black china ink pen.

I die cut two labels and stamped red frames on them. Then I stamped my saying onto the labels after I had cut them to size.

For a finish I added some self adhesive black lace ribbon at the bottom and a moustache on top of my tag. Done!

I hope you like the tag and will join in this month's Take It, Make It challenge over at the Craft Stamper blog soon!

I also enter this tag to Tim Holtz' "12 tags of 2014". 


Hugs and happy crafting,
Claudia x