Stampman ATC Swap - The Look

Another month, another Stampman ATC swap. This month's theme is THE LOOK. I just had to use this stamp of my mum as a young girl, I think it fits the theme perfectly. I inked up an ATC, stamped the image in black, then added the words and covered the whole thing in 2 layers of clear UTEE, it makes the colours so much more vibrant. I used a similar technique on one of the other 2 ATC's in this set, again the pictures wouldnt upload the right way up, I think this is a serious problem with the blogger software and needs to be addressed. Why cant they just add a 'rotate' function, after the pictures are uploaded you can rotate them whichever way. It would make such a difference.

I have also received my TIME Atc's from last month's swap, it's great getting little pieces of art in the mail, always makes my day!

Stamp your own family......

I must have mentioned before that I love having photos made into stamps. It started off with a photo of my mum as a child, it's a really pretty picture and it works really well as a stamp. So now whenever I get my hand on more old family photos I try turning them into stamps, although not all photos work. They should be good quality ones, professionally done pictures work well.

So I found a photo of my grandad that works too and here is 2 cards I made recently. Inspiration for the green/blue one came from craft stamper magazine and the other card is using the same layout.

CPS Challenge entry....

Another week, another CPS sketch and this weeks sketch I really liked. I had a reason to get my brand new Martha Stewart doily lace punch out, yippie. Works fab with the pics of mym mum as a child I think, what do you reckon?!

Fantasy - My Sir Stampalot Challenge Entry

This is my entry for the Sir Stampalot Challenge, the theme is fantasy. I've used a stamp I had made up from a photo and one half of the wings of one of the Tim Holtz stamp sheets. And the imagine stamp is from Catslife Press (love their stamps!).