Week 7 - Craft Barn Alpha Challenge

Week 7 of the alpha challenge brought us the letter R to dabble with all things inky. My starting point is always what new stamps have been living in my craft room without a smattering of ink ever touching them. Heike gave me a set of Kanban ruler stamps at last years Cardmaking Paradise meet up at the Craft Barn Extravaganza and this was a great opportunity to use one of them. Thanks Heike.

I'm old enough to remember buying exercise books at Woolworths and that they always had lots of information about weights and measurements and tables printed on the back. These facts and figures used to fascinate me and I found a copy on line from the Beamish Museum which transported me back to the 50's. I extracted the linear measurements from the document for this atc and layered it over a distress ink background stamped with splatters. The ruler was stamped onto a piece of wood veneer and I found my inchworm on the web and coloured with Distress Ink.

 

ATC Recipe

Card/Paper

Anna Marie Designs super smooth super white printer card

Xerox Colortech+

Blue card

Stamps

Spatters - PaperArtsy  MN72

Ruler - Kanban  - Measurements - A56003

Inks

Distress Inks - Spiced Marmalade, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain

Versafine - Onyx Black

Other

Wood veneer

Brads

Inchworm and measurement table from the web

Definition from my old school dictionary!