a card for a change!

The theme on passion for promarkers this week is 'music'. I don't have a stamp directly related to music so I had to think a little more outside of the box.
This is my first attemp at an easel card and it isn't too bad even if I say so myself! I covered the card in a piece of sheet music and then went over it with weathered wood distress ink. The image is coloured with promarkers.

The two butterflies are more of a purply colour but the camera seems to have turned them pink!

Overall I think it's darker than I anticipated but not a bad effort I guess.

Ally

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Fly away home

The challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show is 'things with wings'. I've made an ATC for this one with a cosmic shimmer background, overstamped with a flower background.
I 'found' this die-cut butterfly in my odds n sods box. I have no idea where it came from but fits beautifully.
I've stuck her on using sticky pads so it stands out.

Hope you like it?
Ally
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Monogram Tag

Morning everyone. It's very wet here today, in fact the downpour woke me during the night it was so heavy!
The Tag You're It challenge this week was 'monogram'. I covered my tag in cosmic shimmer paper (that makes a change doesn't it?) and then used some scraps with a martha stewart punch to make the borders, which were then layered with lace.
My initials are cut from grunge board and coloured with distress inks. I then stuck some mulberry roses on with silicone glue.

Hope you like it!

Ally

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I got the music in me

Over on Sunday Stampers this week the theme is "music". I decided to use a postcard for this one. The back is covered with a piece of sheet music and then inked with antique linen distress ink and vintage photo on the edges.
The flowers were cut from a template on my bighot and coloured with weathered wood and bundled sage. They were given a little sparkle with rocky candy tickles and secured with a brad. The frame at the bottom was also cut with my bigshot but I really don't seem to have that many sentiments or sayings stamps so this was the only one that I could find that vaguely fitted.

There's a piece of rafia at the bottom just to finish it off.

Hope you like it

Ally

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Time Flies

I told you yesterday that this months theme over on The Stampman is "time". Today I've made mine to send off. The background are cosmic shimmer sprays with a stamped clock face from Paperartsy. I then printed and cut out an old pocket watch image and just coloured it with a distress ink.

This was then stuck on using foam pads to give the card some depth.

Hope you like them.

Ally

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Back from holiday!

So I'm back from my lovely holiday. We went down to Minehead again (we like it there) and lazed our time away. We had lazy days and late nights, swam lots, read lots, drunk lots (!!!) and ate lots. Diet starts now - hmph.
In my postbox when I got back were these 3 lovely ATC's. I told you about the ATC's that I sent in on a previous post, and these are the beautiful 3 that I received back. I'm really pleased with them.

Next months theme on The Stampman ATC swap is "time". I'll be entering and maybe you will too.

Ally

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Quotes swap

Over on UKS I entered an ATC quote swap. I've just had some beautiful pieces of work back (and I'll blog those after my holiday), but I thought I'd show a couple I sent out. I'll post some of the others as well at later dates, but here's 2 to be getting along with.

The backgrounds are made from sprayed cosmic shimmer mists which is then stamped on top. Collage image printed and cut out as well as the quote.

Hope you like them

Ally

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