Saturday 6 April 2013

R is for... Craft Barn Challenge

Hi all

I am continuing with the Craft Barn Challenge, and I must catch up on those I missed at the beginning of the year, but here is R.

R is for: Raven, Return, Regal, Ribbon and Rubberstamping, and also for Red!













I cut my base card which a pearlescent gold/bronze colour, so that it would fold out, whilst still fitting in the binder I have made up for these challenges.


I stamped up the arrows on Nenah solar white, and cut them out. 





I cut a piece of Clarity's Theuva card, and coloured it with distress inks, then stamped it with the lovely Raven.  When I stuck it down I left a gap, so I could insert a tag with the Ribbon and Raven definitions.  I have opted for the architectural definition of Return - a part of a building that forms an angle with the facade (but thinking about the fold out part of the card - OK so it's a bit tenuous!!)





The lovely lady is a Christmas Stamp from Lynne Perella, but I cut off the fern fronds surrounding her to make her less seasonal.  She looks incredibly Regal to me!  But I had to add a Crown, which is gold embossed.  I carried a little of the gold embossing into her head-dress.  The background is of course Rubberstamped using wood grain (could it be Rosewood??), and a few more Ravens.




Materials:
Stamps
Stampendous - Raven background
Katzelcraft - Woodgrain background
Lost Coast Designs - A murder of crows (same family as ravens...!!)
Stampers Anonymous - Mini Ornates Crown
Prima Marketing - Journalling Stamps Arrows
Paper Artsy - LPC016 Believe Lady

Inks
Distress Inks - Weathered Wood, Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberry, Fired Brick, Tattered Rose, Black Soot, Distress embossing ink
Versafine - Imperial Purple, Crimson Red
Adirondak - Cranberry
Stampin' Up - Poppy Parade

Other stuff
Ranger Queen's Gold embossing powder
Red Ribbon from stash
Wooden letter R (coloured with Festive Berries Distress stain)

14 comments:

  1. These are lovely Ruth. I love how you have given the seasonal stamp more life too!!

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  2. ooo I have that LP stamp too, its gorgeous isn't it? I am loving what you have done here and you made flaps & tags...YAY!!!!

    Karen from The Craft Barn x

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    1. Ooo err, missus! Always a one for a flap, that's me!! :-)

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  3. Very fun! And that's such a wonderful Raven stamp too! Great job for the letter R!

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  4. What a wonderful selection of R's.

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  5. OMG!! Are you saying that I missed the opportunity to get a 'nice R's' pun in!!?!?! How remiss of me... thank you Scrapmate, for allowing me to pick it up now! :-)

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  6. Great selection of Rs!! Love your pages!

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  7. My goodness what a great collection of R words. Particularly like the raven.

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  8. This is awesome. I love how many R words you have referenced. Gorgeous backgrounds and fabulous stamp choices. Love the tag idea.

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  9. Fabulous pages, great "R" words depicted and wonderful stamps used love the raven.

    Sylv xx

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  10. Gorgeous pages. Love the stamping and especially the way you framed one of the pages.

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  11. Amazing pages sweetie, I love the interactive elements, beautifully done. Lol, I'm not coveting your gorgeous stamps at all tee hee, LP has to be one of my fave stamp designers too.
    Hugs x

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  12. wow!! That's a lot of Rs!! well done
    Thanks for playing with us.
    Izzy

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