Christmas is Coming.....

Materials used:-

JGS360 Poinsettia Corner

Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder

Liquid Pearls White Opal & Gold Pearl

Card Candi- Toy Box

Sakura coloured pencils

6" x 6" cream card blank

cream  vellum

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft 

 33 Exeter Road

Exmouth  EX8 1PT

01395 273328

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

It's nearly that time of year again & I know many of you have been doing Christmas crafting for a while now. There are some gorgeous new Christmas stamps from Woodware this year & I've chosen this one from Jane Gill "Poinsettia Corner" to kick off the season. I've firstly embossed the flower corner & the sentiment onto cream card using gold powder & coloured the leaves with Sakura pencils. I then embossed just the flower again onto cream vellum & cut out just the poinsettia flower. Before attaching to the main image I gave the flower some shape by sculpting on the back with a ball tool. Attach with a 1mm foam pad at the centre of the flower. I have edged the image & the card blank with gold powder.Now layer the image onto dark green card before attaching to the card blank. To finish add the green Card Candi & Liquid Pearls to the berries & centre of the poinsettia .

Ribbons, lace & pearls

Materials used:-

LG710 Large Orchid

Dreamweaver Pearlescent embossing paste

FRS259 Curly Butterfly (sentiment only)

Brilliance inkpads

5mm & 8mm s/a pearls

Woodware Doilies & s/a lace

A4 Hairy Manilla card blank
Woodware Ornate Bracket 2" punch

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 272238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

We're rising to the challenge from the ladies at crafty cardmakers  this week & their theme is Ribbons, Lace & Pearls. 

I've chosen a Dreamweaver stencil & the lovely "Large Orchid" which I have pasted with Pearlescent embossing paste for a beautiful pearly look. When the paste was dry I replaced the stencil & added some colour & some more shimmer with Brilliance pearlescent inkpads.

I've used a Hairy Manilla (that name always makes me smile, I always want to say hairy gorilla!)

card blank which gives an aged look. Now you can go mad with the pearls,doilies & lace. The sentiment came from Francoise Read's Curly Butterfly & was stamped onto a label  punched with the new Ornate Bracket 2" punch. Why not pop over to crafty cardmakers & join in the challenge you could win some Woodware goodies. 

Punches

 Materials use:-

3" 2" & 1" Evening Dress 1 punches
2" & 1" circle punch
FRS 169 Little Messages
Perfect Prints- Vivid Dots paper pad 
Floral punchcraft tools
Liquid Pearls Copper
White Organza ribbon
Mark Richards Elements - blue
A5 white pearl card blank
All available from:-
www.woodware.co.uk
Your local Exmouth stockist is:-
Liberty Craft
33 Exeter Road
Exmouth EX8 1PT
Tel: 01395 273328
libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

OK it's official I'm addicted to flowers! I've done it again but just couldn't help myself! Our mission this week is to make good use of these lovely dress punches from Woodware & the frilly skirt of the dress just begged to be a frilly petal!! I began by punching a 2" circle from card to use as the base & to work onto. Then punch 8 pieces from blue paper using the largest punch (3"). Cut away the top of the bodice from each dress & score from the "waist" to the hem to make the dress frill. Edge with a blue inkpad & attach to the circle of card as shown in the photo below. Place the  remaining 4 pieces between the first 4. Now repeat the process using the 2" punch placing the petals in the centre of the first layer. Punch a 1" circle from caramel card & sculpt to give it a domed effect.add some dots of Liquid Pearls

The card blank is a piece of A4 cut in half (portrait) & then I scored about 2" to wrap at the back to re assemble the card.  The background was made from the Perfect Prints pad stamped with a sentiment from Little Messages & add a bow of white organza ribbon.  

As you'll notice I have used the 1" dress punch to make a frilly border along the right edge of the card blank using the same method as for the flowers. To finish I cut some strips of blue paper with the pinking blade of the Fingerguard trimmer & added some blue Elements. Voila-one frilly flower!!

The 3 dress punches

A petal

The first layer 

A closer look at the finished flower

Craft Canvas

 Materials used:-

Woodware Craft Canvas

Stampendous CRR204 PenPattern Light

Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme, Sky & Jade

Green gingham ribbon

Green Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pen

Heart brads

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT 

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

This week we're exploring a new product from Woodware the very versatile Craft Canvas. You can ink it, stamp on it, die cut it, sew it,stencil it, heat emboss it, Frantage it & use some embossing folders with it too- the list is endless. It's easy to cut with scissors or even a trimmer.

I have made a pouch which I intend to house my Kindle when it goes on it's hols but you could use it for your jewels, pencils, bits of ribbon etc. etc. I cut a piece to size & then inked all over with Sky & Jade inks. The recommended ink to use is Crafters by Colorbox but any pigment ink works well (dye inks tend to bleed). When the ink was dry I over stamped using Thyme & one of the new Stampendous stamps "PenPattern Light" which is a gorgeous Zentangle design & I've a feeling will be making many more outings on this blog!  I also prepared another piece of canvas which I used to die cut the flowers. To this piece I added some embellishment  to the pattern with the Stardust pen. After dusting off my sewing machine & stitching the pouch I added some gingham ribbon to the edges (dodgy stitching- I'm not the best at that kind of thing!!) & a button & loop to fasten. Finally I attached the flowers with some PVA glue & some little bows. The canvas won't be sculpted as you would paper flowers so to give them a little character I gave  them a goods scrunching up in my hand. Do check out  this great new product!!