Pirate Captain

This adorable stamp is Little Pirate designed by Samantha Rawlings and originally available from Sweet Pea Stamps, who have sadly closed up shop. I stamped the image onto white card, coloured her in using Promarkers, then mounted the image onto a piece of blue card and a piece of silver card.

I cut a piece of the same blue card to use as the background and used Versamark ink to leave the watermark tentacles on either side of the image.

I just couldn't resist the quote from Margaret Atwood as this card was for my Mum, she might be a Granny but she's not an adult.

Victoria and her octopus

I had some fantastic stamps a while back and have finally had the chance to use them on a card. May I introduce Victoria and Otto from the brilliant Brian Kesinger.

This steampunk card was made for a friend of mine who has very similar taste to me so I knew she would love it.

I stamped each image onto white card and gave each image a wash effect colour using distress ink, then mounted them onto purple card.

I cut a piece of the same purple card slightly smaller than my card blank, then a piece of green slightly smaller than that. I stamped the tentacle onto each side of the green card using Versamark and embossed with clear powder, this made the image slightly darker than the background card without overtaking the whole card.

After sticking the two pieces of card to my blank I placed the stamped images in the centre so the tentacles appear to be slithering out from behind them.
Next I cut two Cheery Lynn steampunk corners from white card using Versamark ink and metallic brass WOW embossing powder to create the metal effect.

On the top right hand corner I stuck three metal cogs and on the bottom left hand corner I stuck two metal cogs and three paper flowers.

For more adventures of Victoria and Otto you can visit Brian Kesinger's website here

Wicked

This is actually my second attempt at the Wicked Witch from Visible Image's Wizard of Oz series, she's brilliant but I really struggled with her skin. The first one I did had really dark green skin but I just didn't like the finished look.So I decided to lighten her skin a little and I was quite pleased with the outcome (although these pictures don't do her justice).

I stamped the witch onto white card and coloured her with Promarkers. I then stamped the fireball onto red card using Versamark and embossed it with orange Wow powder, I then used an embossing pen to colour the inside of the fireball to emboss using yellow Wow powder.

I created the background using several mica sprays and stamped the small flying monkeys onto it using grey Memento ink.

Finally I stamped and embossed the 'Beautifully Wicked' words onto card and mounted it onto black card.