Bookmarks XL (40): Asteriskflakes

I was so frustrated trying to make that dang vintagey bookmark work that somewhere during the process I stopped and made this: a nice simple stamped and embossed happy winter snowflakey thing with my brand new set of TPC Studio "Winter Activities" stamps. It was inky and blue and demanded no lace whatsoever. It made me happy.

The set comes with plenty of little snowflakes. They aren't intricate -- they're your basic six-pointed asterisk shape -- but I appreciate the quantity. I smooshed them as randomly as I could onto an acrylic block and inked and stamped them as a whole several times over the bookmark, using the block at different angles and often stamping over the edge. I think I achieved a much more random-but-good-coverage look this way than if I had been stamping with just one snowflake over and over again.

Skis and snowflakes and a dotty shimmery border. There's even an asterisk on her hat! What more could you ask for? (Okay, you could ask for a non-smudged snowflake on the upper right, but as this was made to get away from a fussy project, I was not going to fuss about it.)

I'm entering this bookmark into the following challenges:

• Stamp and Create: Winter Wonderland
• J & C Creations October Challenge: Contemporary Christmas
• Rogue Redhead 16: Go Dotty (polka dot embossed cardstock as the backdrop, and for that matter these snowflakes are fairly dotty too)
• Party Time Tuesdays #87: Anything But a Card
• Deep Ocean Challenge #36: Anything Goes

Supplies:

Bookmarks XXXVIII: Join the Dance

Look, I know we've seen this fairy a lot lately. She showed up in a Saturday State of the Stash post, and then again on my worktable.

Well, now she gets a post (and a bookmark) of her very own.

Now, one of the great things about this stamp is that she isn't at all seasonal. She'll look great among snowflakes, falling leaves, flowers, fruit, whatever you like. In this case, she's a autumnal fairy, joining the dance of the swirling fall leaves. (They are leaves, but not to scale, and stamped all over each other -- I was going more for the impression of a lot of leaves than a crisp image.)

She was stamped in Eggplant, which of course is quite purple, but on the orange background it seems to have lost most of the purple and become a sort of dark rust -- and it's not just the photo, it looks like that for real. I wonder if it actually changed color or it's just one of those optical illusions where your perception of color is affected by colors around it?

This bookmark is made of 100% scraps! The scrap on which I originally stamped the fairy is a remnant of Popsicles in the Park, the scrap of copper cardstock is left over from Copper & Chartreuse, and the shimmery red backing piece is the other half of the backing from To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

For the life of me I can't figure out what earlier project created the brown scraps, but you can see it on my desk yesterday: it definitely wasn't a full sheet of mat. Maybe I cut some off for a project and then decided it didn't work? So somewhere there should be another scrap, the other part of the paper...

I'm entering this bookmark into the following challenges:

• Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 87: Things With Wings
• Use It Tuesday Challenge #41: All About Fall (made with 100% scraps!)
• Visible Image: Inspired by Autumn
• Great Impressions: Fall
• Simon Says Stamp and Show: Rustification (all kinds of rusty reds and oranges here...)
• Party Time Tuesdays #87: Anything But a Card (bookmark)
• Deep Ocean Challenge #36: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #35: Anything Goes
• Crafts & Me Challenge 105: Anything Goes
• Divas by Design Challenge 56: Anything Goes
• The Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge #4: Anything Goes
• House of Gilli: Anything Goes

Even though I haven't used any stamps from the companies kindly sponsoring all of these challenges -- well, if I've entered but not used your stamps, it means I haven't got any and would like to win some!

I'm also linking this up to DL.ART's October Linky Party.

Supplies: (the little strips of brown leafy paper are from DCWV's Autumn Melody matstack, which doesn't seem to be for sale anywhere linkable)