Monday 11 February 2013

Alpha Challenge - E

This fortnight over at The Craft Barn blog the chosen letter for the alpha/dictionary challenge is E.

This is turning out to be a great challenge and altering a book or anything really is such a new technique for me and I'm really enjoying myself!!  All the challenge details can be found over on The Craft Barn blog here.

So for 'E' I didn't have any stamps or anything to do with 'E' so I was really struggling!  But my friend Eileen came to my rescue and lent me these two lovely Elf stamps (not sure who made them tho!)





I started by stamping my two elf images straight onto the dictionary pages in black versafine and colouring them using distress markers.  I then used a versamark pen to colour them both in and also the definition of elf - I then clear embossed all three.  

I then used watered down dylusions sprays in cut grass, fresh lime, london blue and crushed grape all over my page which I applied with a paintbrush and used water to blend.  I used my crackle stamp by indigoblu along the bottom of the pages, stamped in vintage photo, for some texture.  The leaf sprigs around the top of the page are a clarity stamp which I stamped in a puddle of the cut grass dylusions on my craft mat then stamped onto a piece of scrap before adding to the pages.

The pages proved a little difficult to photograph as the clear embossing kept reflecting the light back towards the camera!  

Thanks for stopping by, Claire x

14 comments:

  1. I think the fact that you enjoyed yourself really shines through in these beautiful pages, love those stamps and the beautiful background you created. Hugs, Anne x

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  2. Wonderful, love these little elves. Great coloring,too.

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  3. Those elves are the cutest! Gorgeous background!

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  4. Love these pages and what a great word to illustrate. Beautiful colours you used.

    Love Chrissie xx

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  5. Gorgeous pages Claire. The stamps were just the right size for your book & what great images they are! Luv the doodling around the edges & colour of the background brings it all to life. Fab!

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  6. haha I love your elves!! Great pages! Thank you for joining us over at The Craft Barn x

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  7. This is fabulous. the elves look like they were made for this project.

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  8. Great pages - love your elves and the fact they have books (maybe dictionaries) themselves!!

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  9. awww those are so cute, and I love the colours on the background.
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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  10. fabulous colours... cute elves
    Suzi B :)

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  11. Gorgeous Claire, your page really attracted me, I love the elves and the fabulous colours!
    Val x

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  12. I love these 2 Elves! Fab pages so vibrant and happy.

    MaggieH

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  13. Love those elves and the super coloured background.

    Sylvia xx

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