Showing posts with label TSQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSQ. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

An Art Pin

Oh man this was sooooo much fun to create :)
as mentioned in an earlier post I recently purchased some Super Sculpey. Well I've been busting to use my stamps with it, and this is just my MOST favourite stamp at the moment!
it's one of the Gorgeous stamps from the Darkroom Door Stamp DDRS027 Artist set
Barb has got this gorgeous stamp at
Seriously this particular type of sculpey is amazing to work with, it's soft and imprints beautifully as you can see in this photo.
I inked my stamp with Versa Fine Onyx Black Inkpad, and stamped it into a piece of rolled out sculpey, trimmed it and baked the scupley as per the instructions.
then I brushed Gesso over it and wiped it off with a damp rag (I did this about 5 times till I got it just how I wanted it to look)
Next I drilled a hole - I told you this stuff is amazing, you can drill in it without it cracking or splitting (I was careful ofcourse) and attached the old key at the bottom.
The letter G at the top is a Rusty Pickle Alpha Brad, I simply trimmed the back of the brad off with my old scissors and glued it on.
And there you have it!

Thanks for looking everyone :)
I hope you are all having a great week!
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Friday, June 19, 2009

My Beautiful Friend.....

This is a 6 x 6" collage which I will turn into a card
for one of my dear friends,
lots of layers and elements blended together
~ a bit like friendship really....
I used lots of lovely pieces from
The Stamping Queen to create this piece.
you can see the Collections Elements transparency at the top, german scrap, ribbon and rhinestone trim, the backing is a collage of Collections Elements Printed Paper
I had a piece of Collections Elements Dictionary Strip in Kraft left over from my dtpack, and used that as part of the backing collage also along with some Collections words
I used my newest stamp also This lovely 'Parisian Label 196' by Art Declassified, & added a few rub-ons over the top :)
I also used Collections Chipboard frame, Image & Vintage Buttons.



Have a Simply Wonderful Weekend Everyone :)
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

1...2...3 an art pin

Here's a quirky little Art Pin I have made using some of my Design Team supplies from
and a few of my other bits and pieces I had floating around in my collection ;)
The Base for the pin is an old wooden domino and that charming gentleman is from Darkroom Door Photo Booth sheet, he is actually with another chap in the photo, but he is easy to separate from the other chap with a pair of scissors making him the perfect size to put on the domino.
The Image & the little hat and word are sealed with modpodge (or pva glue) and then a layer of Royal Coat Dimensional Magic is applied over the top, I love that the little red dots fill up with the dimensional magic, but you can still feel they are hollow.
I used Collections Elements Dictionary Strip in Kraft for the words on the side of the domino and on the wooden tape measure at the top. One Side reads
'Made of unrelated things joined together'
& the other side reads
'objects made of pieces fitted together' :)

I also used ~ a piece of wooden builders ruler, beading wire, seed beads no.5, jump rings, and a vintage typewriter key.


Have a Delightful Week everyone :)
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

We love you Grandad....

This card has just been published in
Australian Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 15 No 1

(appologies for the scan, but I do love the way they have photographed this card
and I haven't got the card at the moment to photograph).

I used a few of my Favourite The Stamping Queen Stamps on this card
Queens Dresser Drawers Pensive Philip, Paper Artsy At Home Plate 3, Large Gears Stamp,I also used Creative Imaginations Journalling Frame & my Glimmer Mist in Graphite.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
I'll be back soon with some new creations I'm working on :)
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

When I fall in love.....

I have had a lovely time once again playing with my design team pack from
This is a little wooden hanger (7 1/2" long)
I used a Chipboard Tag to make this hanger, and used Mod Podge to adhere all of the layers together, I gave the piece a subtle look by brushing Gesso over the top and wiping it off before it dried, then sealed the finished piece with more Mod Podge. Then a very light brush with Kindy Glitz to give the piece a hint of whimsy...(although the glittery Kindy Glitz isn't very visible in the photos)
I used ~ Designs Galore VB012, Collections Elements Baroque Papers, Collections Elements Dictionary Strip Kraft C0637, Basic Grey Fruitcake Fibres.
& from my own little stash ~ Cosmo Cricket Sticker, Rub-ons, Vintage Buttons, wooden tag.

I hope you all have a truly delightful day :)
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Inspire - an art doll....

I've had some Beautiful pieces in my Design Team kit from
I particularly love this Printed Acetate by Collections
and I really wanted to create an art doll with it.
Well her she is
~ Inspire ~
I placed the acetate over the top of a 'raw' chipboard dress form and sewed it in place.
the Wooden Flourish is glued to the back and then sandwiched between the front dress form and another which gives this piece a lovely substantial feel.
here's a little tip for you when sewing Acetate onto chipboard ~
take a piece of scrap paper, using double sided tape tape your piece of chipboard to the scrap of paper, cut your acetate piece a little larger than your chipboard shape (my shape was the manican) Place your Acetate over the top of the Chipboard shape and tape the edges of the acetate (remember you cut it larger than the chipboard shape) to the scrap paper.
this holds everything firmly and stops it from slipping while you sew.
Once you have sewn your acetate to the chipboard shape, you can simply remove the excess scrap paper & acetate from the edges.
If you'd like to see the other pieces created by
The Stamping Queen Design Team
we'd love you to check out our blog :)
TSQ Design Team Blog
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

A Mother's Love.....

gave us a double challenge this month, to use some Design Galore images & base our themes around Mothers :)
So I have made this 8 x 10" Collage to fit inside a 'Box Frame'
I just need to paint up the frame this week ;)
then I can post it off to my Mother
(of course the surprise is now ruined, as I'm sure she'll read this post before she gets the parcel... sorry mum! but it will look even better when you receive it in the frame...lol!)
I used lot's of lovely TSQ supplies -Designs Galore Image, Collections Baroque Papers, Collections Vintage Transparency, Collections Dictionary Strip, Collections Heart, Kaiser Flourish, German Scrap.
And a few bits and pieces from my own stash - Prima Flowers, Rusty Key, lace, buttons, butterflies, computer generated words, sewing machine & Cosmo Cricket paper.

Love You Mum ♥

Have a Delightful Week Everyone :)
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

{10}

This is my final piece for
Design Team challenge for this month
it's been heaps of fun playing with the
Darkroom Doors Robot Montage Sheet
heee....heee.... I know my little man will laugh out loud, when he sees this little robot peeking out of the number 10!.... I still can't believe he is going to be 10 at the end of this month!
I have used the German scrap as a stamp again, on the collage background, then sprinked it with black embossing powder, the German scrap wheels were metallic gold and parts of the gold come show through the black embossing powder nicely....You can also see I have lightly sprinked the same embossing powder onto the chipboard numbers, before I sewed them on.
I used ~ Darkroom Doors Robot Montage Sheet (for the robot and the 'fabulous' word), German Scrap Wheels sheet , Catslife Press 'Open Here' Stamp
extra bits and pieces are ~ Old Dictionary Page, Basic Grey Printed Paper, Chipboard Numbers & Brackets, Making Memories Noteworthy page, computer generated words, Versa Color Cardinal Ink Pad

Hope you are all having a Fabulous Week
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

You are Out of this World.....

This is my Third piece for this months Design Team Challenge
using Darkroom Doors Robot Montage Sheet
You can't help but love these little robots
they are such fun to play with :)
See the little wheels I have stamped onto the tag ~ I haven't used a stamp at all
I actually used German Scrap!
I used the Wheels sheet
I cut a strip, and inked it on the front with Versafine Onyx Black and then pressed it onto the tag, I love the 'rough' stamped image it gives :)
I used - Darkroom Doors Robot Montage Sheet (for the robot and also for 'Out of this world'), German Scrap- Wheels, Catslife Press-Open Here Stamp, Luggage Tag, Versafine Onyx Black ink pad. extras- wooden gear by The Porkchop Show, twill,brad, rub-on wings,and bling :)

Lots on in our home this week,
we have an 8th b'day party
and Grandparents visiting :)

♥ Hope you all have a Delightful week ♥
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

A little birthday badge....

This is my 2nd piece for
using our challenge piece
My little lady is turning 8 next week, and I thought this little Robot Lady from the montage sheet was the perfect Starting point for a little Birthday Badge for her to wear on her big day.
The Base of the Badge is a Tim Holtz Clearz Tilez,
I mod podged some printed paper onto the tilez then Cut out the Robot lady image, sanded the edges and separated the layers a little so that the image was a little thinner to use. Then adhered the little robot lady to the printed paper using Mod Podge. I trimmed and sanded the edges of the printed paper around the edge of the Tilez. Then I applied some rub-on flowers & the Number and added a little computer generated 'today'. Then gave the top a coat of Plaid Royal Coat, which gave it a lovely High Shine and protective layer.
Have a happy day everyone :)
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Dude You are so Awesome....

This month The Stamping Queen has given her DT
the challenge of creating with
The Darkroom Door Montage Sheet from the Robot Collection :)
so it's bound to be a fun month of creations from the team!

I made this little 'affirmation' sign for one of my sons to hang in his bedroom, like most boys he's mad keen on robots and all things that mechanical :) I used ~ Darkroom Door Robot Collection MontageCollections Elements Chipboard Arrows, Luggage Tag, Collections Elements words (cut up to spell 'dude') Glimmer Mist - Red Velvet & Graphite, Versafine Onyx Black ink pad.and extra bits were wooden gears from Porkchopshow, text paper, gears stamp, brads, brass jewellery findings, letter rub-ons, and my sewing machine :)
Have a Lovely weekend everyone :)

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Roses are Red....

This is my final piece for our Design Team Challenge of using
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
this month at The Stamping Queen
It's been great having a theme, and working all month with it.
Layers seem to be a recuring theme in my art
this bookmark is no exception
Take the little 'moo' sized centrepiece
it started with a piece of printed paper, sprayed with Glimmer mist, Vintage Image added, German Scrap trimming the top, sentiment stamped and added, Transparency added over the top, Backed with Velvet and all stitched together.
I used ~ Collections Elements Vintage Wallpaper, Collections Elements Transparency, Collections Elements Vintage Image,Kaiser Wood Flourishes, Melissa Francis Vintage transfers,
Paper Artsy Young Love 4 Rubber Stamp (Roses are Red), German Scrap,
extra's ~ velvet, vintage lace, basic grey printed paper, bling :)

I was asked the following question in my comments by Deb (the junkin' yaya)

Hi Gillian!I have just received my goodies from glimmer mist and am anxious to try them. I still am having a hard time understanding how all the 'water mist' can do a stencil without showing water spots everywhere? I have watched her videos...but, any good tips? It appears it is going to be how you really hold the bottle and how you spray it?thanks...

Hi Deb, this is what I found worked for me ~ I put some scrap paper down on the floor, then my piece I want to spray, shake the bottle well just before you start spraying. Spray using a sweeping motion from a standing position start off by spraying lightly and build up your spray as desired. If you are using a Stencil remove your stencil as soon as you finish spraying. and leave your piece to dry for a minute or two on the floor.

I found when sitting at the desk I was too close to the piece I wanted to spray and I did get larger spots from the spray, and I think you are right the angle of the bottle does seem to alter the effect you achieve when spraying your Glimmer Mist. I hope this helps a little Deb :)

A Big Thank you to all the people who have stopped by,

May your week be Blessed ♥

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

I'm all a quiver...

Ok....well I am totally hooked on Glimmer Mist!
This is my next project for our monthly challenge at
My beloved and I are coming up to our 17th wedding anniversary :)
so with this in mind I created this little piece, it's a little 'hanging thing'....
For this piece I stamped my PaperArtsy Stamp, then masked the stamped image and sprayed the Glimmer Mist over the top. The Masking left the couple lighter than the Background thus making them stand out.
this picture shows up the effect of masking the stamped image.
Supplies Used were - PaperArtsy Urban Snapshots Young Love 4 Plate, Collections elements Chipboard Luggage Tag, Kaisercraft Wooden Flourish - Corners, Glimmer Mist-Graphite, Bling, Brass Jump rings and Ring, wooden gears & typewriter key, Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad, Computer Generated words.
the little wooden gears & typewriter key were purchased from porkchopshow
Hope you are all having a lovely week :)

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Monday, February 09, 2009

Dream A little Dream......

I'm still having a lovely time using my 'Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist'
I made This ATC (artist trading card or ACEO)
using the Background I created with the Glimmer Mist you can see in the below photo
the original Cardstock was a creamy pale lemony/green (I know...I'm not that good at describing colours...lol!) and I placed a piece of cotton lace over the cardstock, then sprayed with Graphite Glimmer Mist.
Then set to work building my collage :)
I used ~ My newly created Background, Collections Image, a tiny scrap of Collections Printed Paper,German Scrap Border, Collections Transparency (that is the POST CARD piece), Melissa Francis Vintage Transfer (love how that makes the image look like a Cameo), Darkroom Door DDRS009 Little Dreams (for the 'dream a little dream' sentiment), lace butterfly, versa fine ink and my sewing machine :)
My Heart Goes out to All those effected this week by the Devastating Bush Fires that are currently Raging in Australia, so many people have lost their lives and many more have lost their homes,
You are not far from my thoughts and in my Prayers x

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Before you know it.....

The Stamping Queen now has a
New Design Team Blog
You can see it HERE
were each month the team is given a 'challenge'
for the month we will make items weekly that fit that challenge
The Challenge for this month is to use the Product
we each got to choose the colour we wanted to work with, so I chose 'Graphite'
which was a lot of fun, as I've never used Glimmer Mist before and now know I'll be using it VERY Regularly!!! I love it :)
I made another little house, I am totally hooked on making them at the moment and used a bunch of some of my new TSQ bits and some I've had for a little while.
i used ~ Clearly Impressed M4747 Home Element & M4745 Rock and Roll Stamps, Melissa Francis Vintage Transfers, Paper Artsy Kids Plate 5 (for the before you know it verse), German Scrap, Collections Elements Vintage Wallpaper Printed Paper, Chipboard house, vintage image & word, Label Holder, and Glimmer Mist Graphite.


You can see in this last picture, that I sprayed the text from an old book with the glimmer mist, and not only did it antique the page it also gave it that wonderful 'glimmer'

if you have a little spare blog time, pop on over to TSQ Design Team Blog and see what the other girls have used their Glimmer Mist for :)

♥♥♥ Hope you are all having a Lovely week ♥♥♥

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