Traditional Christmas

Materials used:-

JGS459 Traditional Tree

Bruynzeel coloured pencils

Peel off Sparklers

White Spotty organza ribbon

Mark Richards "Glitterdomes" (5mm)

A5 white card blank 

white card for layering

2" label punch.

All available from :-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth Woodware stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

Traditional Christmas... what does that make you think of! Santa? Bethlehem? Reindeer?
The thing that popped into my mind is "the tree" so I chose the lovely new set from Jane Gill. There are 2 sizes of trees & the one I've used here is the larger of the 2. This was quite a quick & simple card but I think quite elegant in it's simplicity. The top layer has been embossed with a snowflake embossing folder & then the french window die cut into the centre of it. I stamped the tree with dark green ink & coloured the pot with a pencil. I then positioned it behind the window using 3D foam tape & "decorated" it with peel off Sparklers. I've been a bit sneaky with the sentiment which has been stamped onto a punched label. The sentiment comes with the stamp set but is in a horizontal line so I masked each word with stencil tape & printed individually one word above the other. To finish I added a double organza bow & a Glitterdome in each corner.

Under the Sea- Crafty Cardmakers Challenge

Materials used:-
Peel offs:-
94273 Francoise Angel Fish
90549 Susan Pickering Rothamel - Words
Dreamweaver Color Solutions Cosmo Pink,
Iceburg,Citron & Gold Star
2.5" & 0.75" circle punches
Dutch Dobadoo Mask "Wavy Stripes"
Dutch Dobadoo Pearlpen- gold
Sakura Stardust pens
Textura Cardstock pad "Tropical"
Stickles Stardust
5 x 7 card blank
All available from:-
www.woodware.co.uk

  Your local Exmouth Woodware stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

It's time to join the ladies from Crafty Cardmakers for their regular challenge & the theme this week is " By or Under the Sea".  I've pulled out the peel offs this week & I'd forgotten how nice they are to use apart from just for sentiments. Firstly I took some acetate & dropped various colours from the Dreamweaver Color Solutions which are alcohol based & dry quickly on acetate. I placed another piece of acetate on the top & gently moved the colours around so that they blended into each other. When dry I placed my fishy peel offs where I wanted them & cut out. To create the background on the card blank & place the mask in various positions & gently dusted some blue ink with a large stencil brush.The fish were mounted onto the punched circles with some clear 3D pads & then I added the sea plants & bubbles to form rocks to the background & coloured with the Sakura pens. To finish I added the punched circle bubbles which were given the Stickles treatment, the peel off words & used the pearl pen to highlight the fish.

Pop over to Crafty Cardmakers to see what their design team have been up to!

    

You Can never Have Too Many Gems!!

Materials used:-

FRS620 Mosaic Tree

FRS033 Patched Three

Mark Richards products:-

Rainbow Elements Black & Clear (8mm & 5mm)

Citron Elements (5mm)

Crystal Sticker- Stars

Gold Nailheads

Clusters Pearl Blue & Citron 

Bruynzeel coloured pencils.
A5 white card blank
Yellow & dark blue card for layering.

 All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth Woodware stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

Our challenge this week is that you can never have too many gems & bling! Well can you?! 

I've certainly ended up with a very glittery Christmas tree. I've used one of the new stamps from Francoise Read  "Mosaic Tree" & coloured with pencils. If you're ever in the mood for some therapeutic colouring in then this is the stamp for you! I've cut it out & mounted it with 3D foam pads onto a  coordinating background  using one of the new "Patched" stamps from Francoise. Then came the fun part- go mad with all the gems!  

Black & White

Materials used:-

FRS618 Love Collage

Dutch Doobadoo Mask Art "Geometric Tiles" & "Wavy Stripes"

Colorbox Art Screen "Bloom"

Dreamweaver die DD003 "Leafy Branch"
Artemio 100001095 "Dotty Alphabet"
Chippies "Hearts & Flourishes" & "Paisleys"
Royal Talens gesso white & black
Colorbox Crafters inkpads "Night" & "Stone"
Metallic Wax Patina - silver
Natural Burlap trim
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

We have a black & white theme this week & I've been itching to use this canvas for quite a while now so I've gone for a mixed media project. Woodware stock a wide variety of quality artists box canvases from Royal Talens but this one is a flat canvas & came from my cupboard of curiosities where it has been languishing for a while. 

I started by giving the canvas a coat of white gesso & when it was dry I glued on the Chippies. I gave the whole thing another coat of gesso & left it to dry  thoroughly. I then took the Bloom mask & spread the black gesso quite thickly over it. I left this to dry overnight as there are some very thick areas which give great texture. Next I took the 2 Doobadoo masks & using a stencil brush I applied some "Stone" Crafters ink to form a random background over the canvas & the Chippies too. "Love Collage" & the letters are stamped onto some white tissue paper, torn around the edges & then applied to the canvas with PVA glue. I glued the burlap trim onto the corner of the canvas & this was given the white gesso treatment too. I die cut the leaves from some black card & then passed them all through an embossing folder to give some texture.  As a finishing touch I gave some areas a light touch of the Metallic Wax Patina & the metal rose came from an old necklace. I'm really pleased with the result  & enjoyed putting this together.

Sketch Challenge 53- Happy Shoe Day

Materials used:-

JGS476 Glamour Shoes

Woodware circle punches 2" (blue) & 2.5" (pink)

Perfect Prints pad "Heat"

Stickles Lavender, Silver & Stardust

Mark Richards Elements Black Rainbow 5mm & 8mm

A5 white card blank

Silver, pink & purple card

Crafters black ink pad

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth Woodware stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

It's sketch challenge time again & I'm using one of the new season's Woodware stamps designed by Jane Gill. Who doesn't love a pair of glamorous shoes like these but I must admit that wearing a pair of heels like those now fills me with dread. To think I'd used to quite happily teach for 6 hours at a time in 4 inchers!! Happy days! But I digress! To create my design I printed the image 3 times, twice on the silver pearl card & once on purple. I then cut out the whole image to use as the base from the silver card & parts of the shoes from both colours. The main part of the shoe (which I've dotted with the Lavender Stickles) I passed through a dotty embossing folder to give some texture. Then simply piece the shoe parts together & glue in place. I've attached the image to the background using some 3D foam pads to give some dimension. The background of the design is made up of the paper  from the Perfect Prints pad & the pink card which has been printed with one of the 3 sentiments which come with the stamp set. Another of the sentiments has been printed onto the purple punched circle & layered onto the silver punched circle. To finish I've added dots of the various Stickles & the Mark Richards Elements.

Here's the sketch