Button Pin up!

Well I didn't keep up my "stamp everyday keeps the doctor away", but I have to confess my computer has been playing up, and work got in the way! However I found time last night to make a little pinboard from a recycled piece of corkboard to enter into the Gngersnaps Spicy Supply challenge. Here I painted the board in Tattered Rose Crackle paint, and then added distress inks to it, to make it look old. I did stamp very lightly on one side with one of Tim's stamps, and added a scan of a picture from the most wonderful isssue (1932) of Good Needlework magazine. If you would like the picture , let me know and I will email it to you.

Then I added ric rac (aged to look old with distress inks ) to the edges. The buttons were glued on top of Prima Flowers and then attached to drawing pins. I have several sheets of Junkitz stickers and matching frames left from a couple of years ago, and they fitted perfectly.

I do hope this fits in with the challenge, and thank you for letting me take part.

Happy Buttoning!

Somewhere over the Rainbow

This is the title of the song that Hels has used for her Sunday Stamper Challenge this week. I love bright colours as most of you know, and so this challenge just screamed at me.. do something! I found my Colorbox large multi-coloured inkpad and brayed the the background onto one of my chipboard tags. However in my hurry I split my hot steaming mug of coffee and cream all over it, the desk, and the floor, so had to start again! Doh!
The dots stamps featured alongside the stitches and solid Stitchels too! All stamped in Archival Cobalt and Cranberry. the final touch was a Creative stamp, and best of all, a bird from a tangled necklace found in my DD bedroom ( please don't tell her, she will kill me! lol). The Flowers are Prima, (such lush flowers) on the website next week with some new products when I get time to load them up!

Thank you Hels for the challenge, tired as I am, inking and stamping always makes me feel better :)
Have a very Creative Day!