Six White Boomers, Snow White Boomers.......

November 29th 2011

What a great new theme at the Fashionable Stamping Challenge Blog - "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas". Now as you all know I live in Australia and you would think the only way I would get a White Christmas is by dreaming it BUT what you wouldn't know is we have a great Australian Christmas Carol "Six White Boomers" ("boomers" meaning KANGAROOS!!!!) soooooo I made my Christmas card using a fantastic Kangaroo Rubber Stamp I purchased a very long time ago and I stamped out "6 boomers" on metallic white paper and fussy cut them and arranged on my card front.

I've used Copic Markers to colour just the "Kangaroo Paw" Flowers they are holding and I've added a Merry Christmas Sentiment to finish it off. It was a bit hard to photograph the metallic white finish of the card  but hopefully you can still see what I was trying to achieve.

Below is the chorus of the song and if you click here you can see the rest of the words:

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,

Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,

On his Australian run.

I hope you all appreciate my "interpretation" of the Fashionable Stamping Theme created to suit my Christmas "Climate"!!

In Times Gone By

November 10th 2011

The Fashionable Stamping Challenge Blog has a new theme of "In Times Gone By". And as these challenges require "real" stamping and not digis I've made a Gesso Resist Background for my Vintage Style Collage image with rubber stamps. The "Best Wishes" wording is also rubber stamped using letters from an alphabet set.

The "woman" image is from a Dezinaworld collage sheet.

Vintage Stamping

September 25th 2011
One of my favourite "themes" to work with is Vintage and the new challenge at the Fashionable Stamping Challenges Blog is Vintage!

I made this card recently to try out a new stamping technique "Embedded Image" which can be found at the Splitcoast Stampers Site. I haven't done a lot of actual rubber stamping lately so it was great fun to dig through all my supplies and get inky and embossed fingers!!

Everything on my card is rubberstamped - the background has been stamped and sponged with distress inks, the "think happy thoughts" and "Dream Lady" are from a Paper Artsy set I have had for years. I've added a little beaded pin, some tea dyed muslin and a paper flower and brad.

Here's a close up photo of the actual embedded image part of my card which has a swirl stamp for the embedded image:

Fashionable Tag

September 14th 2011

The new challenge at the Fashionable Stamping Challenge Blog is to make a "Tag". And the rules are no digis and only rubber stamps allowed so I delved into my cupboard and found the "dress form" stamp I have used on my tag - company unknown as I purchased it so long ago and didn't make a record - so if anyone can help me out with the manufacturer I would appreciate it!!!! The little "think happy thoughts" sentiment is from a Paper Artsy set I have had for quite some time as well. I really enjoyed making a rubber stamped creation for a change - great to get "inky" fingers!!!