Make a Moo or Two – Vintage Love

I’ve ventured over to Make a Moo or Two this week for their Vintage Love challenge.

Vintage Love Moos

Background is a wash of walnut ink. Postcard images from Summerset Studios image CD. Collections border stamped in Brilliance Galaxy gold. L O V & E stamped in sepia ink, by Basic Grey. Various heart punches (who would have thought I had so many!?!). Found text. Cards edged in Adirondack Espresso.

These are the first Moos I’ve made this year – I had forgotten how fun they can be. I find the best approach is to use the length, as there isn’t much width!

Keep crafting,

Michelle

Make a Moo or Two – Cats

This week, over at Make a Moo or Two, the theme is cats (so, I guess, it’s “Make a Meow or Two”!).  These have been done with limited resources, as I went away for the long weekend and only took a few things with me.

Stamp set from All Night Media (I think!) with Brilliance Graphite Black ink and Faber Castel pencils.

Happy creating!

Michelle

A Moo or Two – Brown, Beige and Cream

I’m getting the hang of these Moo cards! I took too long for last weeks Spots and Stripes, so I jumped straight into Brown, Beige and Cream for this weeks Make a Moo or Two challenge. This wasn’t too challenging as I do a lot of vintage pieces with these colours; the challenge was not to use a metallic (bronze or gold) with them.

Border stamp from Collections Victorian Sheet #3. Embellishments also from Collections. Images from Art-e-zine and the flicker group (I’ll add the link when I can find it!). Ink is Espresso Adirondack and Sepia.

Happy creating,

Michelle

Blue Background

I had two challenges ahead of me that needed a blue background – the Make A Moo or Two Beach theme and the 4×4 Friday Mask theme. So I decided it was time to get the paints out again.

I started with two A4 sheets of white card. I added some Jo Sonja’s Sapphire to a pallet. Using a dry brush, I started criss-crossing randomly around the page. Then I added a little water to the paint and continued criss-crossing all around.  The painted got watered down some more and the process repeated. When the page was nearly all blue, I used the remaining paint, not much more than coloured water by now, to fill what white was left. Go carefully here; adding too much water will start your nice criss-crosses to run and loose definition. Leave to dry.  If the sheet warps too much, let dry and then sit under the phone books for a day.

Once dry, I stamped with an array of stamps that suited my theme; Autumn Leaves Swirls, Stamp Oasis French text, All Night Media motif and Blockheads backgrounds for these sheets.  Brilliance ink was used with Graphite Black, Moonlight White and Platinum Planet (silver). Once the stamping is complete, this usually defines which way is “up” for the sheet. While the swirls are stamped randomly, the text is always stamped horizontally. Again, leave to dry.

There you have it – my method of how to create your own backgrounds. I have since cut mine up for the 4×4 Friday Challenge and into Moo size cards for the Make A Moo or Two challenge.

Have fun creating!

Michelle

Make A Moo or Two – Beach

This week was my first go at a challenge from the Make a Moo or Two blog. A “Moo card” is similar to an ATC but measures 28mm x 70mm – quite small. The aim of this format is to use the length rather than the width.

Blue background created by me. Instructions on how I made the background can be seen here. Images from Art-e-zine. Text from my old-fashioned font set. Edged in silver Krylon pen.

Michelle