Autumn Walk Hanging

Here is my make for a couple of  September challenges at two of my favourite places which I haven't managed to play at for too long.  Craft a Scene and A Vintage Journey
As I'm touring in Norfolk and Lincolnshire as we speak I had to make the little grey cells work hard as I  only had very limited supplies with me.   Edit: I'm Home  now. I tried to post this while away gave up after wifi signal was so poor wouldn't let me upload anything!!!!  I have emailed my entry to Craft a Scene but will now add link there hope this ok with them.

The stamp I have used is a Sheena Douglass stamp from her new Country Christmas set so it is meant to be a winter scene...... so to alter the look I first inked up some white  card with distress inks (I never leave home without them) in  autumnal colours, dried marigold, rusty hinge and mustard seed, stamped in archival black and coloured in the couple with distress inks and water....... mown lawn and rusty hinge, also adding extra colour where needed.  I like it when a stamp can be used for more than it was designed for makes me use them more.
I also had a some spellbinders die sets  in the "van" left from another trip......no wonder I can't find anything. ?......... :))  I cut lots of leaves in white card and also orange green and kraft which I inked before taking out of the dies using same colours as before.
I cut up a piece of packaging and embossed a Kraft piece of card with a bark effect embossing folder going over the embossing with vintage photo and rusty hinge to highlight the bark effect, which I then stuck to the packaging to make my hanging sturdier.  The black card was cut using spellbinders and main image was attached to this.  I also found some string after a rummage in the "van" and used this as my hanging loop and also tied several strips into a knot and frayed them out.
I was pleased how my hanging turned out having limited supplies certainly makes you focus more and  proving a stamp isn't just for Christmas lol.

Thanks for looking


Ingredients
distress inks mown lawn, dried marigold, rusty hinge black soot mustard seed.
stamp Sheena  Douglass
Archival black ink, Kraft card and various colours of card for leaves
Spellbinders dies

 

Butterfly flourish

Hello  everyone
It has been several months since I last blogged I can't believe how the time has flown by, I hope you have all enjoyed the summer and the beautiful weather we have had, we have spent a lot of time traveling in our Motorhome started in Ireland in May for 3 weeks ish, then back home for a while and off we would go again ............it's great now DH has retired  He is not sure how he had time to go to work ha ha!

I have missed joining in with challenges although I have popped in from time to time when I have had WiFi connections.   Today I am back for  Challenge 13 at A Vintage Journey  how could I resist this one  " A little touch of Tim" ATC.
ATC's are my favourite things to make especially using my TH stash.

I started with Kraft card and cut out  an ATC using  Tim's Sizzix die which includes the corners, I picked one of  the ATC sized stamps I had in my TH stash and stamped onto white tissue with Archival Coffee ink.  This I stuck onto the craft card with glossy accents and ripped the tissue around the card, love the edge effect this method leaves, I went around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink (my fav) next I gathered up some bit and bobs from my bit box, burlap, corrugated card, and a piece of lace all had been left overs from other projects, next I rummaged in my box of Tim's hardware and came across this flower which for some reason which I don't remember has had the petals bent :(  but hey ho waste not want not is my motto so a further rummage I found this small knob which I added to the centre, added a metal leaf and glued everything together with glossy accents (wonderful stuff!!)
Lastly I added chitchat stickers to my ATC (edges vintage photo).  I chose these words as they say the reasons I love to make ATC's

Thanks for looking hope I didn't ramble too much....... it's nice to be back blogging :)