November Sketch Challenge

Materials used:-

Stampendous HMCR07 Deck the Halls

JGCL 562 Christmas Greetings

"Christmas Post" paper pad by Craftworks Cards

Frantage Hunter Green embossing powder

Shaved Ice, Pearl Mica flakes &  Halo glass glitter

Brilliance Graphite Black

Versamark inkpad

Sakura coloured pencils

Detail clear embossing powder

8" x 8" card blank



Glossy accents

All available from:-www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

 

 It's sketch challenge time again & another chance to use one of the cheeky Housemouse stamps from Stampendous. This one is called "Deck the Halls".

As you will see from the original sketch we have 2 ovals on a square card. I realised that I didn't have either a punch or a die which would give me a large enough oval to do my mice justice. You can over come this by die cutting the largest shape & then measuring out the same distance all the way around the shape & joining up the dots. OK so you won't get the crisp outline that you would get with die cutting but this can be disguised as I have done with the luscious Frantage products.

The images have been stamped with Brilliance & coloured with Sakura pencils. I then covered the entire image with Versamark  & embossed with clear powder for a lovely glossy finish.

The background comes from the lovely vintage papers from the "Christmas Post" pad which is an 8" x 8" pad so perfect for entirely covering my card entirely. To finish I've added a "bow" & "ribbon" made from one of the other papers in the pad & added some Glossy Accents to the baubles on the paper to make them really stand out.

 

Here's the original sketch

 





November Crafty Cardmakers Challenge- Paper Piecing

  

We are pleased to be playing along with the Crafty Card Makers this week, the challenge will be open on their blog for two weeks. If you would like to play along with us please check the Crafty Card Maker rules then use the link on the Crafty Card Makers Blog to add your card or if you are not a blogger yet you can e-mail your card as usual to Dorothy@woodware.co.uk  and I will post it and add it to the Crafty Card Makers Blog.

 

 

Materials used:-

FRS249 Patch Reindeer

Craft Works Card paper pad PP002

"Christmas Post"

Woodware Fancy Twine

Versafine Onyx Black

Woodware Jingle Bells & Wobbler

Brilliance Starlite Silver

Stickles Silver & Christmas Red

Sakura Gelly Roll pens  

Micron pen

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

 

We're joining the ladies at craftycardmakers for their monthly challenge sponsored by Woodware this week & their theme is paper piecing (not to be confused with paper piercing which is a different animal!)

I've chosen Patch Reindeer from Francoise Read as this is just begging to be pieced. I've used papers from the Craft Works paper pad which has some lovely vintage papers to chose from. Simply select 3 papers which will work well together & stamp the reindeer onto each also onto a plain piece of card to act as the base to assemble the cut pieces. Now cut the pieces & stick them to the base. When complete cut out the whole reindeer & highlight the heart & holly with a Sakura pen.

The dark red A5 card blank has been randomly stamped with snowflakes & a sentiment & Brilliance Starlite Silver from the stamp set & given some sparkle with silver Stickles. I've used a panel from the paper pad at the left hand edge, stamped one of the sentiments from the set & wound some Fancy Twine & Jingle Bells around it  before attaching to the card. 

Rudolph himself has been mounted onto a "Wobbler" which really gives a fun effect. To finish I've stamped the sentiment onto a tag shape & cut some of the holly sprigs from the paper pad  to add to the corners of the card.

 

Pop over & see what the design team at craftycardmakers have been up to

 

 





 

 

 

 

Treasured Memories- November's Retailer Challenge

 Materials used:-

JGCL 555 Hours Fly By
JGCL556 Kind Hearts

12 x 12 papers Paris 5 (25675) &

Bremen spotty papers (pink & green)

Basil (pink) 

 Silver pearl
S/A lace, doilies
Liquid Pearls Petal Pink & Flamingo
Stickles Frosted Lace
Organza ribbons ivory & baby pink
Narrow pink satin ribbon
All available from:-
www.woodware.co.uk
Your local Exmouth stockist is:-
www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

This week it's our monthly challenge set by one of the Woodware retailers & this week we have our lovely friend Christina from A Maze of Memories. With Christina being the queen of scrapbooking I just had to design a scrapbook page this week. Of course almost all scrapbook pages are full of "Treasured Memories" which is Christina's theme.
I have used a lot of punches & one of the new 12 x 12 double sided papers "Paris". The sentiment comes from "Hours Fly By" Jane Gill & the sweet little rose bud comes from "Kind Hearts".
The thing about scrapbooking is that you can just go where the page takes you with a combination of stamping, punches & embellishments. I'd not done any for a long time & I'd forgotten how addictive it can be!! I can feel a scrapbook coming on!!

 Here are all the Woodware punches I used

Travel

 

Materials used:-

Stampendous stamps:-

CRP144 I Love Paris

CRW075 London

CRR138 Calligraphy Sampler

CRV138 Life Path

CRR167 Lion Crown

CRW087 Navigateur

CRP184 Grapes

Cream shrink plastic

Brilliance Graphite Black

Versafine Vintage Sepia

Sakura pencils

Pewter brads

6" x 6" ivory linen card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

Travel is our theme this week & as Cilla would say I've used a lorra, lorra stamps! Time to re visit some of the favourites I've used over the past year or so & all of them very suited to the theme.

So shrink plastic.....you have to use Stazon for stamping on it. Or do you?! Anyone who knows me knows that I hate Stazon with a vengeance, I did get out my pad for this but it was too dry, no re inker, blah, blah, blah oh what a shame!! So you can use Brilliance too but it will take a time to dry I usually leave it over night but if you're really careful in your handling & don't want to colour, the shrinking process will dry the ink. Sorted! I can't believe how all my pieces stamped perfectly the first time  (I was short of shrink plastic so didn't hold out much hope of this happening, you know how it goes!!) & even more amazed when they all behaved in shrinking too! Phew! I just added a little light colour to the images after with some Sakura pencils. 

I stamped the card blank all over using the Calligraphy Sampler & the rest you can see for yourselves from the picture. The use of the old map for the photography was courtesy of Mr Frosty & which I think looks pretty cool but don't tell him I said that!! Bye for now see you next time!  

Circles, circles

Materials used:-

 FRS305 Bethlehem

1" circle punch (yellow)

Versafine Onyx Black

Stampendous Detail Clear embossing powder

Brilliance inkpads

Water colour paper

Silver Card Candi

Pink mirror card & navy card

A5 cream hammer card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

Our theme for this week is just "Circles" which covers a variety of options but the first which will pop into many minds is the use of punches- or at least that's what popped into my cold & cough  fogged mind!

 I've chosen "Bethlehem" one of the new Christmas  Singles stamps from Francoise Read which I think is just delightful. Start by taking a piece of water colour paper & emboss the image using Versafine & clear powder. Then colour wash the whole image with a selection of the lovely pearly shades of Brilliance inkpads. Leave to thoroughly dry. Next emboss the image again onto a piece of rich cream card. I then punched circles from the painted piece (heart in mouth moment!!) & then mounted this on top of the cream piece with some DS foam pads, making sure that the art work lines up.

To finish, layer onto first the navy card adding the punched out pieces & then onto the pink mirror card before attaching to the card blank. Add the silver Card Candi for a starry twinkle & a small s/a gem to the star on the cream circle.

October Sketch Challenge

 

Materials used:-

Dreamweaver stencil Scarecrow (LG686)

FRS254 Curly Leaves

Dreamweaver matt white embossing paste

Tombow pens

Detail clear embossing powder

Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves

Card Candis

1" oak leaf punch

A5 card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

 



Time to get the Dreamweaver stencils out this week for the October sketch challenge. I've been looking for an excuse to use this cute scarecrow & with the season of harvest/autumn/Halloween upon us I thought he fitted very well. I pasted him onto brown card (pop over to the Dream team at Dreamweaver http://www.dreamweaverstencils.com/  if you aren't familiar with  embossing with pastes &  stencils or have a look at my Blog hop week a while ago). When completely dry I coloured with Tombow pens, however  these do not dry on the embossing paste so to over come this simply cover the image with clear embossing powder & heat to seal in the colours.

For the card background I have stamped with some of the lovely leaves from the "Curly Leaves" set from Francoise Read. I've used a Kaleidacolor pad (Autumn Leaves) which suits the design very well & the sentiment also comes from the stamp set as do the acorns on the strip behind it. To finish I've layered our little scarecrow onto orange & dark red card & added some orange Card Candis with some punched oak leaves for that real pumpkin feel. Happy Halloween.  

 Here's a closer look at the scarecrow

 

The original sketch

October Retailer Challenge- Monotone Christmas

 

Materials used:-

FRS Twig Tree

Stampendous Detail White embossing powder

Brilliance Graphite Black

A5 white linen card blank

black & white card for layering

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Woodware stockist is:-

www.japonicadevon.blogspot.com

 

Time for a challenge I think & we have one this week from another of the Woodware Retailers, Janet from craftrange. Monochromatic designs are one of my favourite themes especially for Christmas - well I'm a Pisces I don't make decisions too well!!

 

I've chosen to use one of the new Christmas designs from Francoise Read "Twig Tree" which lends itself very well to the white embossing technique. The most important thing to remember is to give the black card a good wipe with an anti-stat bag to remove any marks which will cause the white powder to cling where you don't want it to i.e speckling. Now simply ink up your stamp with clear embossing ink & off you go- simples!!

I have embossed some hearts (just one of the cute little buttons & icons which come with the stamp set) & cut them & mounted them onto the tree with 3D foam pads.

I have used one of the sentiments from the set to produce a very simple background on the card blank. To complete the design matt & layer the image onto the black & white card before attaching to card blank.

 

Now pop over to Janet's blog at http://craftrangedotcom.wordpress.com/  to see her monotone design.