Doodle Bird

Hello there hope all the presents are wrapped, the turkey is stuffed & you've got the sprouts on by now!!  I've just been making some new samples using Woodware stamps & Stix2 products which work really well together. For both designs I've used JGS385 "Doodle Bird"

Here I've done some paper piecing with papers from some Perfect Prints pads from Woodware onto a cream Stix2 card blank. The paper flowers are from Woodware but I've coloured the centres with a brush marker & filled with hot glue using the Stix2 Hot Melt Glue gun before sprinkling Stix2 Clear Plastic Beads over the glue. The tag is a die cut from Stix2 . 

Here I printed the image, coloured it with brush markers & then cut out the background with a craft knife. I then printed the image again onto a piece of white card, placed a piece of Stix2 double sided adhesive sheet over the top, removed the 2nd backing & placed the coloured piece over the top. I then covered the exposed sticky surface with Stix2 Clear Plastic Beads. I stamped the image again onto Stix2 Self Adhesive Sparkly Acetate & cut out just the bird shape after which I wiped the ink off again.  To finish carefully place the acetate over the bird.

Sketch Challenge 49

Materials Used:-

JGS403 A Touch of Humour

JGS405 Going Around in Circles

FRS288 Doodle a Flower

Colorbox inkpads Artichoke, Banana & Sky

Versafine Onyx Black

White A5 card blank

Glossy Accents

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

So here we are at the last blog post for the year before we all go off on our Christmas break & that's probably what's put gin & tonics in my mind!! It's sketch challenge time too & after all the Christmas designs it was time for a bit of light hearted silliness. The background & strip across the bottom of the design have been randomly stamped with "Going Around in Circles" a very useful set of small stamps & one which I think I will be using a great deal over the coming months. The cheeky sentiment comes from "A Touch of Humour" from Jane Gill & includes 4 other cheeky ones too. I made the lemons from "Doodle a Flower" which has a lot of solid & outline petal & leaf shapes. The dye based Colorbox pads provided just the right blend of bright sunny colours. 

That's all from me for this year,many thanks for your support & may I wish you a very Happy Christmas & a peaceful & healthy New Year. See you in 2016!

Bring on the Sunshine!

Materials used:-

"Sarah Barnard" dye ink sprays from Clearsnap:-

Guava,Tangerine, Banana, Spearmint & Strawberry

JGS273 Wheat

Versafine Onyx Black

Stampendous Detail powders Copper & Rose Gold

8 x 8 pearl white card

Dark pink card for layering

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's theme is "Bring on the Sunshine" & go mad with inks, sprays & masks etc. not a moment too soon I say! I've done another cheeky page for my Stix2 2015 calendar but this theme was right up my street using sprays, stamping & embossing powders. I took a piece of white pearl card & began building up the layers of colour using the ink sprays. Have some kitchen paper handy & blot the excess as you go until you have the right effect. When dry I stamped the "Wheat" stamp over the top with Versafine & then to finish off I sprinkled some of the embossing powders onto the piece & heated form underneath.Layer onto dark pink card & add to the calendar page.

Sketch Challenge 48

 Materials used:-

Woodware 2" punch "Christmas Flowers"

3/4" punch holly sprig

Magenta peel off 90645 "Christmas Words"

Stickles Stardust & Lavender

Mark Richards Rainbow Elements Clear & Black

5" x 7" white card blank

purple & white pearl paper
Silver mirror card 
All available from:-
www.woodware.co.uk
Your local Exmouth stockist is:-
Liberty Craft
33 Exeter Road
Exmouth EX8 1PT
01395273238
libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk 

It's Sketch Challenge time again & my last Christmas offering I think too. I've kept it simple with some Christmas punched flowers this time. I've used simple words from the peel off as the focal point & surrounded them with pearly flowers. As you will see from the photo of the punches used you get 5 different sized flowers from the flower punch which layer together nicely after being given some shape with a ball tool. The holly sprig punch is just the right size to go with the flowers & I've added Stickles to the centres. To finish add the Elements.

Here's the sketch