Stamp Your Story ~ inspired by Jennifer.

I was totally inspired by Jennifer's card on Monday's blog post at Hero Arts.  I don't have any Hero Arts Ink Daubers but do have Distress stain daubers... so thought I'd see what they look like done, using the technique

Yep they worked!!!!  I did get a bit carried away using a variety of distress stain colours.  I then used one of the lids and some Walnut stain distress ink to make some circles which I filled with a stamp from "Brush Strokes" as well as stamping the word Graffiti.  I added the sentiment from "It's your day" set and used some orange distress ink to colour the words. 

This was quite a fun card to make and really quick too.  Love using my new Hero Arts stamps.  

Mini Album box class

Warning.... picture heavy post

Yesterday I went to class run by Scottie Crafts.  It was a mini album box. Something quite outside my comfort zone...

I sat next to my friend Sue (aka Scrumplecrunch) I haven't seen her for ages, so I was happy to be sitting with her.  And of course, the class was right up her alley.  She gave me lots of hints.

Our box started life as a Cricut cartridge box which was gesso-ed for us to use.  It got covered with sticky backed canvas and some muslin and textured paste we used with a handmade stencil, cut from cardstock with a Tim Holtz brick die.

We also made a few tags to put in our box, using a variety of background techniques using Distress inks, stains and paints.

so here's a few photos

This first one is the box gesso-ed awaiting the finishing staining/painting

and here it is finished

and a view of the back and sides

And here are the tags.... some ended up double sided, some single sided.

(Entered this tag into the challenge at A Blog Named Hero)

All the tags used Distress inks, stains, paints, as well as some with texture paste, and other embellishments.  The printed sentiments are on acetate which I painted the back of, so the words could be seen.

I had an awesome day and finished off the box today with the stains and paints.  A big thanks to Wendy for a great class and to Janice who helped her out. 

Hope your weekend was a much fun as mine!