Week 10 - Craft Barn Alpha Challenge

And breathe! Life is still full on with regular trips down to London but I think the end is in sight with the house almost cleared. Trouble is a lot things especially crafty bits seem to have found their way home with me! Thank you to everyone who left comments for me on Week 9 and it shouldn't be long, with luck and a following wind, before I can go on weekly visits to your blogs to see what you've all been creating.

Week 10 brings the letter K and my chosen word Kindred was dictated by this uninked PaperArtsy stamp in my collection.  Hooray, I'm back on the un-used track! Well, actually, it might have been used before as it was second hand but it hasn't been used by me - until now. I've assumed the kindred spirits pictured in this image are all authors - Ann Bronte, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth Gaskell. If you know better, please let me know.

 

ATC Recipe

Card/paper

Xerox Colortech+

Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby 

Copier paper

Inks

Victorian Velvet Distress Ink

Cosmic Shimmer Mist Rich Gold

Versafine Onyx Black

Stamp

PaperArtsy - Buttons Plate 4

Other 

Computer generated words - Typewriter font

 

Apologies

UPDATE: temporary but legible layout now in place!

I know reading grey on black is difficult and black on black is impossible!

My background has disappeared and I can't put it back because my layout is so old that such options are greyed out in new "super" blogspot. I have my computer man working on it.

Week 9 - Craft Barn Alpha Challenge

Thank you to everyone who has visited my blog and left comments: they are very much appreciated. Time is at a premium at the moment dealing with my late mother's estate and travelling down to south west London to clear her house. Hopefully I will be back very soon firing on all cylinders and able to visit your blogs.

At least I did manage to find a few minutes to relax body and brain and make my week 9 atc for the Craft Barn Alpha challenge. For the second week running I didn't use any new stamps that have been languishing in my craft room for far too long but I'm sure I will be able to rectify that shortly! I used the highlighter pen background technique shown in Paula Whittaker's article in August 2012 Craft Stamper magazine and the dress on the petulant looking little girl has been paper pieced.

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ATC Recipe
Card/Paper
Xerox Colortech+
Dress paper - Helidot Creative Paper DOPGR-Willow
Inks
Orange highlighter pen
Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Dried marigold
Versafine Onyx Black
Ranger archival Jet Black
Copic markers
Stamps
Crafty Individuals - CI-277
PaperArtsy Squiggly Ink Tops & Tails 3 SITT3
Other
Definition - photocopy of dictionary
Computer generated words - Kidprint font