Make My Day ~Michael Powell Rubber Stamp~

 

Over a year ago I spotted the whole Michael Powell range in the shop and was totally in love with it. When I first got in to crafting I used to buy things as I came across them as they were such a rare thing in those days. Now I look at those things and wonder why as they really aren't to my taste at all but are shoved in to some corner somewhere. In reality I need to buy a house in order to sort through what I want to keep and give away as between household items, snail mail supplies and craft supplies my bedroom is something I don't peer too closely at as everything begins to cave in due to the amount I've accumulated. In some cases I know I've forgotten things due to them being stored in a box somewhere.

 

Well its come to a point where we have quite a few craft sections in shops and one craft shop that I know of. For me though the bonus is having a store partically on my door step that has a well stocked craft section. So now as I need things I will go and buy them rather then buy them and have them sitting around. As I mentioned I loved the Michael Powell Range but I knew I wouldn't use a lot of them items so just admired them, fell in love all over again and walked away... sigh! However when I went this week I noticed these rubber stamps sat in the sale section and couldn't help but snap two up to offer on the blog as I had planned to make and offer something every week of my holidays on here but life just happens sometimes unfortunately.

 

So if you would like these rubber stamps that are big (appropriate for A6 size- printer paper folded in to 4- and bigger)

 

Please shout

Make My Day

in the comment section!

Good Luck!

This is on its way to
Madeline

Make My Day ~Its a Mystery 3~

I have been sorting through my craft supplies and have come to realise that I have a lot of things that I have either bought, got given but really have no use for or have quite a bit of it. I've decided to stick it all in a box and to offer it up to one of you to receive. Like it says its a mystery what you may receive so if you want to take a gamble and receive these items....

 

Just shout

Make my Day

in the comment section!

 

(Please leave a way for me to contact you!)

 

Good Luck!

I decided to choose 2 people
Beth.F
and
Lipton Tee

Make My Day...Wishing Spring was in the Air...

I think I have a craft supply eating monster in my room... no not me! I'm serious, every time I put something down and look for it I can't find it and I've got about 2 strands of hair left on my head... of course I woke up this morning to find those so called missing items so I guess the monster coughed them up. Now I need it to cough up my nieces cooking set that I bought her but nope not for the pair of us to cook with but so I can use her rolling pin on my fimo that I had hoped to craft with for today... grr... please turn up soon where ever you are.

I want to say thank you to all of you so far who have claimed my items as you've got my craft juices flowing again which is a good thing but also a bad thing in that I now keep seeing craft things that I supposedly need. In many cases I haven't bought anything (yeah!) but in some I have (oops!).... one of the things I did buy yesterday was some decoupage craft sheets. I've always loved decoupage but found them such a pain to cut out so I could seriously kiss the guy/girl who invented the pre cut stuff... it makes life much more simple. The problem with the other not precut sheets was that they were the most ridiculous designs with little strands of hair to cut around or the the streams of a flower were just straight lines... I'll stop waffling and show you what you can shout make my day for....

This sheet gives you the chance to make 2 cards so I made the other one too to show you what you can do with exactly the same equipement but in a different style. This one I did make first but decided to give you the chance to receive the one above. I'll send this one to a friend whose birthday I forgot... terrible I know!

This is probably the typical style someone else would have done this but they would have maybe have added the greeting card underneath the picture.

This is now on its way to a child on

Make My Day...The future comes one day at a time...

I've removed the first postcard that I made like this and I can happily say that I made this one in my first attempt and it looks so much better then the last one... even though technically its exactly the same thing.

I started this time by stamping the cage and the text as I decided that if I made a mistake I wouldn't have put loads of effort in first. This is something I'm going to have to remember in the future as it works so much better.

I then used 1 shade of yellow and 2 shades of blue distress ink to create the background.

I used pages from an old book about guillotines so don't read the words too carefully, I just thought it was better used this way.

I decided it needed a little something more so added buttons which now means I need to make an envelope to go with this postcard.

I finished it off with the lines and backed it on to black card.

I hope you like this enough to shout make my day!

This postcard has gone to Teresa

Make My Day....Chinese New Year Meets Valentines!....

February always brings along a few more festivals for people to celebrate... just not this person but never mind I can still join in this way.

I decided to make 2 bookmarks to make your day and I really hope they do...

Well we might as well stick to the theme of red which has a hint of black...

I have so much origimi paper that I often think its a shame that I don't get to use it as the colours and styles are amazing. I'm glad I finally got an opportunity to do just that with the background.

I next added the white flowery background which makes me crave summer.

This lady I cut around and stuck on top of the flowery background. It looks a little plain so I added the red borders.... if it wasn't a bookmark I would have added all kinds of embellishments and ribbon but its already has enough layers. The only thing that annoys me is that this lady is blurred but the quality was like that when I bought it, only in the shop it wasn't so obvious due to their lighting etc... Still its fun to work with them.

Next stop is valentines day which is still a week away but I actually made this first and then realised it was Chinese new year this week... but its nice to get double the treats right?

I started with my heart rubberstamp which basically looks like the top half of this bookmark. I still think that top part is missing something but I don't know what... I really hate that feeling.

I used my paper punch for the hearts, stuck the white card on to red card as it needed a little something so the border works nicely. It still looked a bit bland so I used a gold gel pen around the edges. Its times like this that I wish I had an embossing kit but I just think I have way too much craft stuff already without adding more.

If you would like these bookmarks, just start with 'make my day' and I will see you next week to let you know who will receive it.

These are now making the day of someone in Germany!

Make My Day....If I was KING for the day....

In my last make my day I wanted to use something other then rubber stamps which resulted in me finding that I had mostly girlie images or cute character images so it meant the men missed out as they were not willing to surprise their wives, girlfriends, daughters, nieces, friends.... I don't blame them as I'm too selfish to share too. So I decided to do a second round today and try and make a more male type card. I'm actually curious to know how many men actually read my blog... maybe you'll be willing to come out of the wood works just to comment on this one as I only know of 2....

Men and Women can try and claim this postcard though :)...

My title on this one on my flickr is 'If I was a king for the day postcard 007' move over James Bond my kitty is out to get you... he looks mean enough I admit!

You can't tell on here but I've used sandy coloured paper for the cat and gold card for the hat. I used watercolour crayons to colour him in but they turned out to be such a mess :(.

Kings always have a medallion to represent them.... Don't they?

I used the Fibre Art Stencils which a friend sent me for Christmas or my birthday... I can't remember but I have used them a lot and love them.

To finish it off I added the black lines which to some may look like a mess but I always like them as it adds a little edge to a plain piece of work. I backed it on to greeny/gold card.

Some other ways that I have used the stitching, for some reason I can't seem to find one where I've used the stitching above but I have used it a lot of times as I like it a lot.

I forgot to say start with 'Make My Day' and I'll randomly select someone on Wednesday!

This postcard has gone to
Bruce Johnson

What would you get up to if you were King or Queen for the day?

Make My Day....Dance with me!....

I've spent another great Saturday afternoon crafting and here's what I've come up with for make my day... I hope you like it enough to try and claim it for yourself.

I started with this picture which is from the internet but I don't know which website as someone sent me it. I then choose the backing paper to go with the image...

I think she looks quite blokish... which put me off a little but her dress was so inspiring.

I did get all my lace ribbons out but it just felt like they weren't right despite her dress over flowing with it. I remembered I had a pack full of about a million doyles so used that and like it so much more.

I then got a needle and wound the wire around it to create this springy effect. The beads are some that I've had for a long time and got through a swap and they fitted in perfectly.

Finally this flower... I sat for far too long wondering what to put in this corner, I tried paper flowers, words etc... but then I decided to continue with wire and made this flower. I've never made flowers like this before so it took a lot of attempts but finally with the help of a needle I created this. I'm really pleased with it and it doesn't put me off that the petals are different sizes.

The idea of make my day is to comment that you'd like the postcard... start with make my day, that way I can tell the difference between the person claiming it or just commenting. If a lot of you comment that you'd like one of my items then I'll use a name generator. I will let whoever gets it know on a Monday evening (evening in the UK that is). Remember you can claim for someone else if you want me to send whatever to them...

Some other ways that I have used wire... these photos are of ATCs (Artistic Trading Cards)

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Make My Day....Only time will tell!

Well since many of you voted that you'd share your address with me and would take part in claiming whatever I make... I decided to get crafty today and get the ball rolling.

 The idea of make my day is to comment that you'd like the postcard... start with make my day, that way I can tell the difference between the person claiming it or just commenting. If a lot of you comment that you'd like one of my items then I'll use a name generater doda.  I will let whoever gets it know on a Monday evening (evening in the UK that is). Remember you can claim for someone else if you want me to send whatever to them...

 So this time I've started with a postcard which actually turned out to be quite a pain since I decided to use a stamp but only half the image came up but I only had that one piece of coloured card. I tried maybe 5 times more to just get the text on the background right and in the end I gave up and stuck with this one so I hope whoever receives it isn't to critical of my mess. For me though its more or less how I wanted it.

This is the front which I used white card, text stamp (which I can never tell which way up it should be), a paperartsy flower stamp and the clocks are from Cherry Pie Art Stamps. The colours are distress inks and water colour pencil crayons.

The back which isn't yet complete as I need to find a black pen from somewhere.

Here are some more images

I wish I had a stamp of a face as it would have looked great having half the face on this part of the card with the clocks.

The reason I want the face in the other photo is because of the man in this one. Doesn't he look a bit creepy.

If you have any suggestions of themes I can try creating with, just go to my sub headings under my banner, click on Make My Day and leave your suggestions in a comment there.

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