Goooood Morning everyone! A big welcome to my newest followers, thank you so much for joining me and I hope I continue to provide you with some inspiration from week to week.
Apologies for my absence this weekend, I would normally have been here on Sunday with my Totally Tilda post and hopping through your blogs leaving some love, but my lovely daughter was visiting from London this week as she was delivering some training in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, so my free time was spent with her instead of crafting and I had a mad rush to catch up with makes this Sunday.
Anyway on to the reason I'm here today, and that's to share my inspiration post for
La-La- Land Crafts, I'm soooooo enjoying my guest spot on their design team, this first month has been SO much fun, and lucky me I have another month to go!
The theme this week is Dies Galore, not a difficult one for me, I do love me a die or several!
Now I have to say that the photos are not the best, I love the way this looks in real life but it honestly does not photograph well, I tried different sorts of lighting, positioning etc and this was the best I could manage , it's such a shame. Anyhoo, enough whining and let's get to sharing, poor as the colours are.
I decided to take a bit of a Gothic twist to
Steampunk Marci here and used these fabulous papers from Prima, from a 6 x 6 pack called Cartographer, they were just perfect with the maps and hot air balloons and stuff. I decided to go with the whole sepia and black colour scheme and just added some red for a pop of colour. I've popped the links to items from stockists in the UK at the end of my post.
I wanted to keep the whole vintage sepia look going so coloured her up with my copics in Ws, using E30 for a sepia 'wash' and R59, 46 and 20, for some red accents to match in with the background. Unfortunately the colours are not really showing quite right in the photos, and Marci is looking a little green in the face, I wonder if she's airsick? lol
Obviously lots of dies for the theme, I used the following La-La Land Crafts dies:
I also used some smaller gears cut with a Cheery Lyn die, and some metal cogs from Hobby House.
This phot will give you a better idea of the layers, I thought this looked pretty good in a deep box frame and I'll be finding space for this on my wall somewhere. I've had these brads that look like screws for a long time now, but I cannot remember where I got them from, just that they're by Tim Holtz.
The sentiment is from a Steampunk Travels set by Whimsy Stamps. It's cut with a Whimsy slider die and I popped a couple of small rolled roses on either side to cover the slider holes.
For those of you wanting to make a framed picture like this, the frame is from Ikea and they also do it in white. It has a glass front, I just took that out for the photograph to avoid the glare.
Well that's all from me today, don't forget to pop over the the
Blog to see the rest of the team's makes, they are really terrific, fabulous and creative use of dies.
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Take care and I'll see you here tomorrow with my regular Dies to Die for post. : ) x x
