Dreamweaver Blog Hop- Day 1

Yes! It's that time of year again! The time when we inspire crafters on both sides of the "pond" with a mix of both Dreamweaver and Woodware UK* products for the holidays! Six days, SIX, of beautiful, elegant, merry, cute, artsy, and craftsy projects to have you heading out to your local stores or internet sites to buy these goodies immediately!

Of course, there will be prizes as well. Three prize packages will be given to three commenters during this week's posts on the team's blogs, including five stencils and one nested die set. You can have an opportunity to win these goodies by leaving some holiday sweetness for each team member posting each day, to be one of the three winners for the week. Here are the team members that are inspiring you today:

Dream It Up!

Woodware UK

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Pam Hornschu

Lyn Bernatovich

Gill Wilson

Francoise Collection

Here's my first contribution to Blog hop week

 

Here we have the "double glitter technique" which is a lot of fun & produces some great results. I've used LX7016 Season of Joy. Cut a piece of card & a piece of double sized adhesive sheet to approximately the same size as the stencil. Peel off one side of the sheet & attach to the card. Use a natural soap to rub over the back of the stencil km in -this makes it easier to remove from the sticky sheet. Peel off the other side from the sheet & place the stencil over the top. Add ultra fine gold glitter & shake off excess. Carefully remove the stencil & cover the remaining sticky surface with Crystal glitter. Replace the clean stencil & add some colour using inkpads & a 1/8" stencil brush.Trim & layer onto dark blue card & attach to a 5" x 7" card blank. I've added some punched gold holly leaves using Woodware's 1" holly punch & some 5mm Glitterdomes.

For a stockist near you contact Woodware Craft Collection in the UK and Notions Marketing in the USA.

Woodware Retailer Challenge- A Midsummer's Day

 

Materials used:-

FRS254 Curly Leaves

JGCL575 Delightful Verse

Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder

Brilliance Pearlescent Jade, Thyme & Lime

Memento Pear Tart

Stickles Gold & Lime

Wobbler

6 x 6 white linen card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

This week our retailer theme has been chosen for us by Teresa of Philpotts they are an online store with a lovely website and blog which is peppered with inspiration you can find them at Philpotts.com and don’t forget to visit there blog PhilpottsBlog you can also find them on Facebook.

 

It's time for a challenge from one of the Woodware Retailers this week & the theme is "A Midsummer's Day". To me the summer is at it's peak when all the flowers are in full bloom & the leaves are shimmering on the trees- but I guess that's the gardener in me coming out again!

 

I've chosen summer leaves as my theme  using the Curly Leaves set from Francoise Read. I've embossed the leaves using Detail gold powder onto a piece of card & painted with the 3 brilliance inkpads to give a gorgeous shimmery effect. Now cut them out & set aside while you prepare the card blank. I've folded this gatefold style & I've stamped the acorns & sentiment using Pear Tart. I've sponged around the edges using Brilliance Thyme. Attach the 2 smaller cut out leaves with 3D foam pads & the larger one I have attached using a "Wobbler" which gives great movement. To finish I've stamped the sentiment  from Delightful Verses inside the card & added some tiny dots of Stickles on the leaves & the card blank itself.

Masking

Materials used :-

Georgina JGS186

Magenta K0416 Fern

JGS901Birthday Textbox

Brilliance Onyx Black

Sakura Gelly roll glaze pens

Shocking pink polka dot ribbon

Berry narrow organza ribbon

2" label punch

A5 black card blank

All available from :-

www.woodware.co.uk 

We're doing great things with masking this week which is an easy technique that can produce some impressive results. Many stamp sets come with a mask included where appropriate (Stampendous) but it's easy to produce your own too. Just stamp the image onto a piece of card & cut out. Choose which image is to be your focal point & stamp. Now use the mask to protect this image while you stamp around it. The other images will appear behind it now. I've used Sakura pens to colour the flowers & I've let the colours bleed into each other while still wet. The foliage comes from a Magenta stamp & I've overlapped the printing here & the different Sakura colours over each other produce some different results. I've printed the Birthday Textbox onto a piece of card & then punched a label. To finish add the ribbon & tie the label to it, attach to the card blank.

Summer using mixed media

Products used:-

JGCL 574 Just Right For You

Stampendous CRS5034 Cottage Rose

Dreamweaver LJ825 Jungle Leaves

Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme & Olive

Tombow pens

Stampendous Crystal embossing powder

Micron pen

Mark Richards Clusters s/a gems

Stickles Xmas Red, Orange Peel & Lime

8" x 8" card blank

Black & lime card to layer

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk 

The theme this week is "Summer or Body Beautiful- Mixed Media". I've chosen "Summer" (there isn't anything beautiful about my body!!!)

I've chosen the Stampendous "Cottage Rose" which I have stamped onto a piece of card which I created a while back while I was playing with my Tombows & some rock salt. Lay down some colours from the pens onto a blending mat, spritz with water & press a piece of card onto it. While the colours are  still very wet sprinkle some rock salt  (or table salt) on top & leave to dry- you'll get some great random results.

After printing the rose I did some Zentangle designs onto some of the petals & parts of the leaves. This gave the rose a tattooed effect I thought. The words come from "Just Right For You" a great stamp set to suit any occasion & for scrapbooking too. I then covered the whole piece with crystal powder & heated to give a glazed sparkly effect.

The card blank was completely covered with a piece of lime card which I had stencilled using the Jungle Leaves & Brilliance inkpads.

To finish attach the rose to the card blank, add  some of the "Clusters" & some dots of Stickles to the Zentangling.

July's Sketch Challenge- Skinny Vase

Materials used:-

FRS304 Skinny Vase

JGCL574 Just Right For You

Tombow pens

Brilliance Graphite Black

Stardust Stickles

Purple Nailheads

A5 peach card blank

All available from:-

www,woodware.co.uk 

We have another challenge for you this week in the form of Woodware's monthly sketch. Earlier this week I was playing around with my Tombows  & a blending mat. Just lay down some colour from the pens on your blending mat, spritz with water & press a piece of card down onto it giving it a wiggle to move the colours around. Now sprinkle some rock or table salt over some patches & leave to thoroughly dry. You get some great random results & the discarded coloured salt is useful for shaker cards- just store in a jar!

So I've used a piece of my salty card & printed the Skinny Vase onto it with Brilliance. The colouring was also done with Tombows  & highlighted with Stardust Stickles. The "Happy Birthday" sentiment at the top is one of the lovely fine greetings which comes with the vase set. I've used Jane Gill's "Just Right For You" for the  panel & as the name suggests this great set has a sentiment which is just right for everyone.  As you can see I've stamped the little butterfly & coloured & cut it out to add to the greeting. I've added the finishing touches with some purple Nailheads. 

Here's the sketch why not enter this month's challenge.



Leave me a comment if you have a minute! Please!!

Woodware Retailer Challenge- The Poppy....as we remember.

 

Materials used:-

FRS228 Field of Poppies

Perfect Prints paper pad- Dusk

Brilliance Graphite Black

Tombow pens

Chalk inkpads

Black & red polka dot organza ribbon

Woodware s/a Ladybugs

Black Stickles

Glossy Accents

White 5 x7 card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

 

Our July Retailer is Linda who runs LLinda’s Craft Shop in Laneham, North Nottinghamshire. LLinda’s is a shop full of inspiration and with regular paper crafting workshops. Linda is one of the talented bunch that qualified as Certified Dreamweaver Teachers earlier in the year. Llinda’s Blog will give you a glimpse of the goings on in the shop. You can find workshop details, directions and much much more on LLinda’s Website. As this is an important year of remembrance the theme that Linda has chosen is The Poppy….as we remember

This week's challenge takes me right back to Mallorca again as the island is awash with poppies in May & I just adore the sight of them. Here's my take on the theme & for it I have used Francoise Read's "Field of Poppies". I started by doing some "direct to paper" onto a piece of flat white card with some chalk inkpads & then stamped over this using Brilliance Graphite Black. I also stamped onto one of the lovely pages from the Perfect Prints pad & cut the poppies out. I coloured the rest of the image with my trusty Tombows before cutting out & layering onto black & red card. I then attached to the card blank & stamped the sentiment at the bottom. I gave the poppies some sculpting before sticking them to the image using some 3D foam pads. I gave them a nice glossy finish with Glossy Accents & set aside to dry.To finish I added some ribbon & the Ladybugs, lastly some tiny dots of black Stickles at the centres of the poppies. 

Be sure to pop over to Llinda's blog & website to see what she's been up to.... oh, you could leave me a comment too, please!!!

Card in a Box

 

Materials used:-

Francoise Read peel off 98535 Ice Cream Sundae

Dreamweaver stencil LJ801 Paint Splats

Memento Angel Pink

Brilliance Graphite Black

JGS324 In the Frame Ditties

Sakura coloured pencils

Textura 6" x 6" paper pad (Tropical)

1" Balloon & Heart punches 

Glossy Accents

Sakura Gelly Roll pens (clear, white & Stardust pink)

A4 cream card

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

japonica

 

These "Card in a Box" designs are all the rage at the moment & featured everywhere you turn so we just had to try them didn't we? Now before I start I'm absolutely useless at describing how to produce anything "mechanical" so I'm going to give you a link which will point you to a very useful tutorial if you don't already know how to make the basic shape.

 

Here it is:-  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/popupboxcard/

 

I know I cheated but if I'd tried to guide you through it you'd be just as wise at the end & scratching your head & saying "Eh?" So...!

 

 As you can see I started by covering the lower panels under the flaps of the box with some stencilled card mounted onto a darker contrasting paper from the Textura pad . I passed the  Dreamweaver stencil through my Cuttlebug  (lightly spray the card with surgical spirit first, you'll get a much crisper result! Honest!!) I then brushed the embossed card with ink from the Memento pad in all 4 directions (the Embossed Strie method).

 

Next I placed all the peel offs onto some cream linen card & coloured with pencils. I love the texture you get from linen card & pencils. Now cut out all the pieces & mount the tall glasses onto the flaps which I covered with pink paper.  Add the peel off words, cherries & hearts. Stamp the sentiment onto cream card & add the 4th tall glass before attaching to the back of the box. The banana splits were mounted onto strips off acetate before arranging in the inside of the box. The punched balloons were given a little shape with a mat & Character Shaper before mounting among the desserts in  the same way. To finish add some Glossy Accents to the cherries, highlighted some areas with Sakura pens & added some punched hearts for good measure. Throw in a couple of straws- Knickbocker Glories all round!!

 

A closer look at the top of the box

Just to prove that it will fold flat & a look at the stencilled panels

Here's a look at the beautiful creation that my friend Jan (Jaaponicajan) made for a gardening friends 70th birthday last week. Isn't it gorgeous?!