My inky travels along life's rocky road

Saturday 1 October 2016

Dictionary Challenge - X


Well the letter we have all been dreading had to come up at some stage but that is not why I am sneaking such a late entry into the Craft Barn's Dictionary Challenge. For once I knew which word I wanted to do but I have had family staying with me and crafting has had to take a back seat. Regular readers will know that I am also taking part in an alphabet ATC challenge on the UK Stampers forum and had made 3 different 'X' ATCs for that recently. I had sort of figured out which 'X' word to use for the Craft Barn challenge at that point. My word is 'Xenophile' - the opposite of Xenophobe. I love finding out about different people, countries and cultures and so it seemed an apt word for me to use.
I started with some patterned paper from Papermania called 'All Aboard' but sadly it was not long enough to cover my page so I added a strip of another paper from the same range. The join was covered with some decorative tape with a travel theme and the quote 'we are on the way - life is like a journey waiting for us to find all the good things'. The main image is by Hampton Arts, stamped in Sepia, coloured with pencils and cut out. The landmarks were all stamped on tissue paper, cut out and stuck onto the background - this is a really good way to add stamped images if you are worried about ruining your page with a badly stamped image. Most of the images are by Katzelkraft with the Taj Mahal by Judikins and an unknown oriental image. I added some other small tickets/tags from the Papermania set and a Tim Holtz hotel stamp.

9 comments:

  1. I must be a Xenophile, because I'm attracted to people and places from other parts of the world. I love how you used all those stamps, and I agree that tissue is a great way to add images, especially for someone like myself who doesn't stamp well at all. Yours are perfect!

    Sometimes real life gets in the way of crafting, but this is an incredible entry, even if you didn't have a lot of time to create it.

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  2. What a wonderful travel page, great stamps too.

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  3. Great page, lots to look at! xx

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  4. Another xenophile here! So glad you were able to sneak some crafting in and complete this fabulous piece of art. So much detail and lots to see

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  5. Fabulous entry, so much to see, with some lovely images.

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  6. Fabulous word and wonderful page! I love it! xxx

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  7. Lovely page - thank you for joining in The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge xx

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  8. A great travel collage piece with so many different stamps used on that page. Lovely page.

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  9. A wonderful travel collage and I love the splash of brighter colour the tissue tape brings to the page.

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