Distress tags inspired my Leonie Pujol - in the flesh!

On Monday, I was on my way to the supermarket and had to pass the craft shop, I wasn't going to go as I'd been to the Leigh Craft Show on Sunday, but something drew me in, lol. As I walked through the door I recognised a voice - no other than Leonie Pujol off Create and Craft, she was setting up to do a demo! Turned out to be demoing my favourite Distress Inks and having completed my set of inks on Sunday I was really pleased.

Not had chance to go to anything like that before as I've always had my little girl with me but she was at preschool for the day, so I made the most, abandonded the food shopping and sat and watched for two hours. I had to drag myself away.

She is such a lovely friendly lady, had a laugh and chat with everyone made some lovely samples, said how much she is enjoying it on Create and Craft, so different to the "other" side, lol.

Anyway, here's some tags I made using a few of Leonies for inspiration

A couple of cards and not a Tilda in sight!

I've been trying to make some cards that are a bit different from the usual cute characters as I'm going to see if I can sell some through the local farm shop/cafe, being in a rural village thought flowers and countryside might go down well.

Joanna Sheen poppy stamp masked with Prima Script stamp coloured with Prisma's



Ducks over water with distress background



This one is my sample for next week's craft club project - Paper Piecing

Little Claire image "Blissful" with Papermania Capsule collection

Vintage collage

I made this in two stages the ideas both coming from Craft Stamper which I absolutely love now. The frame is a photo mount which I have covered in Viva Decor texture paste then stamped an image into. Next it's been covered with various colours of Adirondack acrylic paint dabbers and some Perfect Pearls to give it some glimmer. Added the Tim Holtz grunge flower and heart. It then sat on my desk for a week or so as I didn't know what to do with it until I saw a Vintage Collage in this months issue.



I've used various stamps, techniques and Distress inks making up little squares adding some of the fab TH embellishments to finnish it off. It's going up on the wall by my desk, hope you like it as much as I do.

Crafty Cardmakers - Distressing

I am loving my Distress inks at the moment after buying some Ink Dusters and quite a few inkpads. I've since bought some Tim Holtz embossing powders and perfect pearls and love them and been hunting suitable stamps.

The challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers is distressing so I'm entering this one, it's my first proper attempt at Distressing and I'm really pleased with it.



I love the TH postcard stamp which he uses on one of the You Tube demo's and couldn't believe it when there was one on ebay and won I it. It's a really big stamp but stamps perfectly.

Also used

Kay & Co paper
Script stamp by Prima
Sentiment stamp by Creative Expressions

Everything has been distressed with Brushed Corduroy and Tea Dye.

CraftyCatz - Card and a Tag

This has been sat on my desk in bits for a couple of days, I started with the tag, dabbling with my new Ink Dusters and Distress Inks, I then added some leafy stamps with little birdies and an Inkadinkado sentiment which were in a great big box of goodies I won before Christmas then didn't know what to do with it until I saw the challenge at Crafty Catz "a Card and a Tag" so there was my answer.





I made a pocket fold card, the paper has been in my drawer for ages, possible Basic Grey, added some embossed American Craft cardstock with swiss dots and some eyelets with raffia from the Garden section at the Poundshop.

It just need something to finnish it but I didn't know what until my Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die landed on my doormat. I used a page from an old book and added distress inks, glimmer spray and distress stickles.

Distressed Gorjuss Girl

After seeing a fab demo on Create and Craft for a change decided to play with my distress inks properly.

Stamped the Gorjuss Girl, plus another which I then cut out to mask the original so I could stamp the background over the top. Coloured her with Distress Inks. Sponged round the edges using a make up sponge (thought I`d try this before buying some Cut & Dry foam). Stamped a corner with Versamark and embossed with gold also embossed the edges.

Papermania papers, added some faux gold stitching to border.

I`m quite pleased with it for a first attempt.