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Materials used:-

FRS 310 Tall House

Brilliance Graphite Black

Tombow pens

Woodware 12 x 12 papers

DL white card blank

Sakura Stardust-pink

Washi type paper tape (Forever in time)

Hemp

Woodware Corner Rounder punch

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

japonica 

 

We're moving house this week & a great opportunity for me to use this great new stamp from Francoise Read which I've been itching to use from the moment I saw it!

First I stamped the house onto a plain piece of white card & water coloured with Tombow pens. I left out the roof, curtains & tops of the trees as I wanted to paper piece these from the Woodare papers.

For the card blank itself I lightly marked the position where the house will be & then made a border with the paper tape. I edged the house piece & the card blank itself with a sky blue chalk inkpad. I then attached the stamped image to the card blank.

Now stamp the "Congratulations" onto some card & cut into a tag shape. "Home Sweet Home" had it's corners rounded & I attached 1/2 a cocktail stick to the back to make a little sign. To finish attach both sentiments using 3D foam tape, add a small bow of hemp to  the tag & don't forget to colour the hearts coming out of the chimney with the Stardust pen.

Japonica Card Making Extravaganza!!!

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Father's Day Gifts

 Materials used:-

Stampendous CRR141 Clock Works

Stampendous NKCRS02 Wired

Stazon Black

Brilliance Graphite Black

Versamark inkpad

Mercart metal sheet -red

Stampendous Aged silver embossing powder

1.5" & 2" circle punches

Tartan ribbon

Peel off 92717 Fathers Day

Woodware pencil box blank

Eyelets

DL card blank

Red & black card

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:- 

japonica





 Time to think of the men in our lives this week & gifts for Father's Day. I have chosen a desk notepad & a pencil box to go with it. The notepad is the same as an easel card but with the pad inside which I have attached to the base. I've printed the Clock works stamp twice onto the metal sheet with Stazon. As the metal is quite soft I've taken a ball tool & embossed the pattern following the stamped lines. This gives a quilted effect & I then cut around the image on one of the pieces. This went onto the front of the note pad; you'll get the idea from the photo below. I've made a band which wraps around the pad & acts as the stop bar for the cover & keeps the paper in place. 



The notepad open

And now closed

For the pencil box I firstly painted it all over with red acrylic paint & then aged it a bit by sponging some black around the edges. I then stamped one of the elements from the "Wired" set. From the 2nd piece of metal sheet I punched 1.5" & 2" circles (this sharpens your punches beautifully- no really it does!!) I also took a distressing file to the edges to give it a distressed look. On all the pieces I've set some black eyelets & threaded some lovely black & red tartan ribbon (Dorothy will tell us the name of this I'm sure!)

The top of the pencil box

The side view with the Father's Day peel off greeting added

 

Father's Day wouldn't be complete without a card so I've taken a plain white DL card blank & stamped all over with Clock Works & Graphite Black Brilliance. I quickly blotted the stamp before stamping to give a faded look & then sponged the edges of the card. To finish I added a bar of metal with the peel off greeting also on a square of metal. One happy father!!

May Sketch Challenge

Materials used:-

JGS Bubble Blooms "Clarissa"

Regular daisy punch

Gingham & Icing Sugar Candis

Mark Richards clear & pink Elements

Hydrangea & Majestic Purple Liquid pearls

Woodware cotton ribbon in pink

Versafine Onyx Black Pearl papers

A5 card blank

Colorbox re inkers

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local  Exmouth  stockist is:-

japonica

 

Another week another challenge- as if life isn't challenging enough sometimes!! Here we have our regular monthly sketch challenge & quite a simple one this time. I have used one of Jane's Bubble Blooms & tried to create a slightly different look. After stamping onto the die cut oval I have punched some daisies & filled some of the larger "bubbles" with those & then mixed in some Candis & Elements. I've stamped the leaves onto a piece of Skagen scrapbook paper, cut them out & pieced them onto the design. If you look closely you will see that the card blank itself is a print that I produced while experimenting with the Creative Palette a while ago. I used Colorbox re inkers & pressed a paper doily onto the ink before pulling my print & got a very pretty result which was good enough to use as my card blank. Down the right hand edge of the card I have cut away a slice & pleated some of the new cotton ribbon from Woodware to give a frilly effect & I've also attached a flat piece to the inside edge of the card. Now to finish just add the sentiment which comes with the set.  

 

Here's the sketch

 



 

Mad Hatters

 

Materials Used:-

Dreamweaver stencil LG671 Hats

Dreamweaver white stencil paste

Woodware Pastel Embossing powder collection

Mini butterfly & daisy punches

Regular daisy, sunflower 1 & kikyou punches 

Leonie Em Ash leaf punch

Inverted corner punch

Liquid Pearls Baby Blue & White opal

Stickles Lavender

Mark Richards Clear Elements

Woodware feathers

Various Candis

White A5 card blank

Stampendous Peel off Friendly Greetings

pink, blue & lavender card

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

japonica

 

The Mad Hatters challenge has been set for Woodware by Gwen of The Stamp Pad from Greenfield, Saddleworth, Lancashire.

 

Gwen’s links are as follows

 

Facebook             https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Stamp-Pad/175102269196824?ref=profile

 

Gwenstampy     http://stamp-pad.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

Papercraft Junkie         http://www.papercraftjunkie.com/

 

Time for another challenge set by one of the Woodware retailers & the theme this month is "Mad Hatters" so I've taken this literally & used this lovely stencil from Dreamweaver. The hats are arranged in a line one below the other on the stencil so I have masked them & pasted them individually. I wanted to add  coloured embossing powders while the paste was still wet & then heat with a gun. You get a great textured effect this way & of course you don't have to wait for the paste to dry. As you can see I have used different shades of card to compliment each shade of embossing powder used & have decorated the hats with punched flowers, butterflies, leaves, feathers etc. For the background of the card I've used the stencil again but just applied inks from a chalk inkpad with a  stencil brush & added a Candi.To finish I've used the inverted corner punch on each "hat" square & have added the peel off greeting & clear Element. What a pity Easter is over for this year they could have been Easter bonnets!! Click onto one of Gwen's links to see what she's been up to!

 

 

What do you use your brayer for??

Materials used:-

Creative Palette from Stampendous

Stampendous NKCRS02 Wired

Stampendous M178 Poppy Stems

Brilliance Graphite Black

Versafine Vintage Sepia

Basil 12 x 12 paper

White scrapbook paper

Pewter brads

Burlap ribbon

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

japonica

How many of us have a brayer tucked away in our crafty drawers which rarely sees the light of day? I know mine didn't until my recent love affair with the Creative Palette by Stampendous. In case you're not familiar with the CP it's great for mono printing.

 

My scrapbook layout this week is my small commemoration to the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. The photos which you see here are of my great uncles (my grandmother's brothers) both of whom sadly did not return. I inherited a big tin of really old & fascinating photos when my father died so it was lovely to be able to use them at last.

 

Anyway I digress! I have printed the background to the photos using the Creative Palette & acrylic paints. When absolutely dry I have over printed  using the "Wired" stamp set which has great textures for this kind of design. The poppy stamp has been used on the piece by Rupert Brooke & it's quite an old Stampendous wooden mounted stamp but is still available in a cling version. As you can see I have torn all the edges & sponged with Graphite black & Vintage sepia before attaching to the green Basil card. The embellishments come from Woodware's pewter brads & the new Burlap ribbon.

 

Here's a step by step guide to how I achieved the background prior to over stamping 

I always place the Palette onto newspaper- I'm so messy!! 

Next add small amounts of acrylic paint
& spread over the entire Creative Palette
with the brayer.

Press some large bubble wrap onto the paint
to remove some of it
 

This is how it will look when you remove the
wrap- work quickly acrylics dry soon! 

Press your card firmly over the paint

Peel the card away to reveal the print

You can add more layers & textures until you are
happy with the result
 

The finished print before over printing, sponging
edges & tearing. 

Bubble Blooms demo at Japonica

 

It was my turn to demo at Japonica today & I was using Jane Gill's Bubble Bloom stamps "Constance" & "Clarissa" but trying to give them a slightly different look. here's what I came up with.

 

I've added some punched daisies, Candis, Elements, yellow Stickles, & Liquid Pearls. the background for the card blank comes from a Perfect Print paper pad "Saffon"
 

Here I've simply stamped straight onto a white linen card blank & coloured with Sakura Gelly Roll Glaze pens adding crystal glitter as I worked.

Lastly this one has been stamped onto black card using a white inkpad & filled with the bright, glittery Candy Bonbons.